Dawn.
When the first light of dawn came on, Lion City was still fighting a fierce battle.
Countless undead souls are still surrounding Lion City, even climbing on the city wall like ants.
These originally sluggish walking corpses all became energetic and energetic after the golden light lit up. Not only were they powerful, but they also seemed to be more flexible than living people.
But fortunately, they have no siege equipment, no superb skills, and no decent weapons-these undead were just ordinary civilians buried in the ground during their lifetime, and they were not warriors.
The attack launched by these chaotic walking zombies is not very organized, Lion City can definitely defend it.
So far, no undead has been able to successfully climb the city wall. After all, the soldiers in the city are among the best in the entire continent.
The city wall is basically covered with broken limbs and broken arms.
But there were too many undead, and the soldiers in the city couldn't rush out.
At this time, an unusual troop arrived outside the west gate of Lion City.
This troop was small in number, only about two hundred people, all wearing uniform half-covered helmets, with only their snow-white chins exposed.
They all look like women.
They all wear cyan armor. The armors all look old, but the obvious Snake Worship Cult texture and delicate embossed marks can still be seen.
That mark is a poisonous snake stretching its body among the cloud patterns.
"Fear Legion... that's Maltis and Adder Vanguard..."
The well-informed Ramon whispered.
This guy has very good eyesight and can see clearly from three hundred meters away.
Everyone was stunned, and then they all frowned.
None of them have seen Maltis, but they have all heard of the Fear Legion - meeting Fear Legion at this time is definitely not a good sign...
"Li Ang! Li Ang is on her horse!"
Wendy suddenly shouted excitedly.
Her focus is always just Li Ang.
And Maltis is also looking at Wendy carefully at this moment. Under the half-covered helmet, her eyes are the same rich purple as Wendilf.
After watching it for a while, Maltis suddenly laughed silently.
She raised the sword in her hand and pointed it at Lion City.
There was a panic on the city wall, and the leaders of each knight order began to nervously mobilize their troops.
Fear Legion is famous. It is said that each Adder Vanguard has the fighting power of Twilight Knight, and the most important thing is that they are probably immortal and must have terrifying power - everyone can realize that they must be undead.
Because the messy undead outside the city did not attack them...
Those undead undead without weapons are not scary, no matter how many they are, they will not pose much of a threat, but if there are two hundred Twilight Knight level super masters mixed in, it will be completely different...
The horror shown by Vendathir in Kewen Village is still vivid in my mind. Imagine two hundred Vendathir appearing on the battlefield at the same time...
Everyone was heartbroken.
"How come... they are killing those undead?!"
Wendy suddenly screamed in surprise.
With Risadiran here, Wendy doesn't need to arrange troops. She keeps staring at Maltis - to be precise, she keeps staring at Li Ang.
But she saw that Maltis himself was walking slowly towards Lion City, while all the Adder Vanguard rushed into the undead group and began to kill them...
"I'm afraid it's just to kill the walking zombies blocking her way..."
Risadiran turned around and took a look.
Sure enough, those undead souls did not attack Maltis. They were unconscious and kept surrounding Lion City, so crowded that nothing could pass through them.
And those Adder Vanguard are only arranged in two rows, seemingly just to cut a passage for Maltis close to Lion City.
Maltis is slowly approaching Lion City, less than 200 meters away from the city wall.
She kept staring at Wendy, as if there was no one else in her eyes.
Wendy is also standing on the city wall and is condescending. This distance is already within the range of Wendy.
Wendy picked up the bow, but hesitated. She didn't know whether to release the arrow.
She realized that Maltis had been staring at her, but he didn't seem to be hostile?
She was the leader of all the archers on the city wall. She did not move, nor did Noldo Guard and the Silver Mist Rangers.
"I am the garrison general Maltis... Child, what is your name?"
At this time, Maltis suddenly spoke, and it was obvious that he was talking to Wendy.
The voice was hoarse, but it sounded kind and kind, and there seemed to be a hint of joy.
"I... my name is Wendilf... can you put Li Ang back? How is he doing now?"
Wendy was a little panicked, but she could feel that Maltis did not seem to have any malicious intent, so she quickly tried to see if she could rescue Li Ang.
"Wendy... Is this the Li Ang you are talking about?"
Maltis pointed to Li Ang lying on the horse's back. "He should be considered dead..."
"What?!"
Everyone on the city wall was stunned at the same time.
Although everyone was mentally prepared for this, it was still difficult to accept the result.
A line of tears fell from Wendy's eyes. She stopped talking, raised the bow in her hand, and aimed at Maltis.
"Child, you shouldn't point your bow and arrow at me... As Sindar, you shouldn't feel sad for the insignificant human beings. You should follow me..."
Maltis completely ignored Wendy's bow and arrow, and still spoke to Wendy gently.
Wendy didn't respond and shot an arrow directly.
Noldo arrows went straight to Maltis's head.
But Maltis just raised his hand casually, and this condescending arrow was actually caught by Maltis with his hand...
This is a guy more powerful than Lord Aldarian...
Wendy dropped the bow and took out a grenade from his waist.
But as soon as she lit the grenade fuse, she suddenly heard a faint voice.
"Damn... I feel so dizzy..."
The voice of Li Ang?
Wendy looked up.
Li Ang is covering his head and rolling off Maltis's horse.
He rolled to the ground, sat up reluctantly, shook his head, and looked around, looking like he had just woken up.
"Li Ang!"
Wendy shouted with joy.
"Wendy! Throw it away!"
Risadiran beside him also screamed in horror...
Wendy is still holding a lit grenade in his hand, and the fuse has basically burned out...
Wendy hurriedly threw the things in his hands down the city wall.
It only took a second after the shot was fired, and the grenade exploded in the air before it could even hit the ground.
It just happened to blow up a few undead that were climbing the wall...
"Awakened magician? Hahaha, Sindar is indeed not destroyed!"
Maltis's voice was even more surprising. "Wendilf, kid... follow me!"
"Obviously Wendy can't get out. There are so many undead beings blocking her, how could she follow you..."
Li Ang, who was sitting on the ground, seemed to understand the current situation under the explosion of the grenade, and complained in time.
"You actually woke up so quickly?... Who the hell are you?"
Maltis looked at Li Ang, a little surprised.
"Let's kill these walking zombies quickly..."
Li Ang covered his head and stood up.
He was not too panicked, because the moment he woke up and rolled off Maltis's horse, he saw water droplets on the lower edge of Maltis's helmet from under it.
Those are water droplets condensed in the helmet from the breath exhaled from the mouth and nose.
Li Ang himself often wears a full-face helmet or a half-face helmet, so he is very familiar with this situation.
And this situation means an obvious fact - Maltis is neither an undead nor a non-human being like Fallen One. She is still alive and needs to breathe!
As long as she is a living person, even if she is Sindar Elves, there is nothing to be afraid of.
At the same time, he also felt that Maltis might be completely out of Kavala's control - what she just showed was not at all like being driven by someone.
Maltis looked at Li Ang, then at Wendy on the city wall, raised his sword again, and rushed towards the undead under the city.
But this time, the Adder Vanguards who originally lined up in two columns also dispersed to both sides and began the real killing.
Of course, maybe this isn't considered killing - the undead outside the city are already dead bodies, so this can only be regarded as cleaning up these unclean things.
Like mowing grass, rows of undead were decapitated and fell to the ground.
Outside Lion City, a clearing was quickly opened up.
These undead would not attack Maltis and Adder Vanguard, and did not fight back at all. They even showed no reaction when their heads were chopped off by Maltis - as if Maltis's troops did not exist at all to them.
Similarly, they did not attack Li Ang, as if Li Ang was also their kind...
Li Ang has no fighting power now and has not gone up to join the battle - there is no need to join the battle. Maltis is directly in front of him, and the two teams of Adder Vanguard are on his left and right sides, both of them are slashing wildly. Li Ang, who is protected in the middle, looks like the boss of the Fear Legion.
Maltis is killing the undead outside the city. This seems a bit incredible. What I thought was a strong enemy has turned out to be an ally now?
The soldiers in the city were stunned for a while. It was not until Maltis cut an open space near the city gate and Sir Roland shouted "breakout" that everyone responded.
The city gate was opened, large troops left the city, and Adder Vanguard, cooperating with Maltis, began to clean up the walking dead.
At this time, to the north of Lion City, more than ten miles away, 'Ulrich' wearing a suit of golden armor was slowly moving towards Lion City.
With the 'help' of the Fear Legion who would not be attacked by the undead, the undead outside Lion City's west gate were quickly cleared away, and all those clinging to the city wall were stabbed down.
"Li Ang, are you okay?"
Wendy took Noldo Guard outside the city, but still cautiously kept a distance from Maltis.
But Maltis didn't show any hostility, she just didn't want to come into contact with humans - probably she truly regarded humans as inferior creatures from the bottom of her heart.
However, she maintains a somewhat friendly attitude toward Li Ang.
"I don't know either... but I'm sure, at least I'm alive."
Li Ang was not sure if he was okay. He originally thought he would die, but after being in a coma for a night, he miraculously came back to life.
But he could feel that his condition was a little abnormal - it could be said that he was back to normal...
It's a paradox, but it's true.
He lost the slow heartbeat of Noldo Elves and returned to his original state... the state when he was a pure human being before he was saved by Wendy.
Moreover, he lost the powerful perception gained from the void.
He can no longer feel the movement two miles away...
It's as if everything has returned to the way it was when he just left Mistveil City.
"You died once, and then you were resurrected and controlled... just like me..."
Maltis looked at Li Ang and said, "Az Dahaka's Holy Light Illumination can make the living die and the dead resurrect... And you and I, we have died once, so you, like me, return to our original appearance..."
"Do you know that you were once controlled by Kavala?"
Li Ang looked at Maltis. At this time, Maltis had taken off his helmet, revealing his fair face.
The face is very delicate and beautiful, but it looks sharp.
She should be a soldier, and she looks a lot like Vendathir - her fighting ability and personality are probably similar.
"I know. He was the one who found me in the first place and forced me to sign a soul agreement. He wanted to completely control me, and he needed my magic... or in other words, he needed someone who could cast spells."
Maltis nodded and replied, "I have been controlled by him for three hundred years, and now I am finally free... So I have to thank you, human being, I know it was you who brought Az Dahaka to me - although you don't know what it is, you did actually save me..."
Maybe it was because she was a little grateful to Li Ang, or maybe she wanted Wendy to know some history, so Maltis told her own story.
Maltis is the high-ranking lord of the Sindar Empire, an archmage, and the last garrison general.
At that time, the civil war in Sindar Elves was already very extreme, with countless elves dying every minute and every second.
After the rebels clearly gained the upper hand, Sindar Empire launched a 'Holy Light Illumination Plan'.
The plan is to implement a desperate counterattack.
They created some ultimate weapons codenamed 'Az Dahaka'.
If this weapon is released, it will kill countless living beings, but at the same time, it will also resurrect those who have just died.
Life is also a kind of energy, and any energy is subject to a certain law of conservation, and the same is true for magic or Divine Art.
As long as there is life, there will be death. This kind of weapon exchanges the death of the living for the resurrection of the dead.
This is an exchange, essentially a reciprocal exchange of energy, which is completely different from ordinary magic. Otherwise, even Sindar Elves would not be able to create such a weapon.
Since this is a forbidden technique that requires a huge price, no one dared to use it before - only powerful mage can use this thing, but the mage himself is a living person, and he will die if he uses it, so who dares to try it?
Originally, the Imperial Army was prepared to let the general, who was already in a certain death situation, come to the battlefield when a large number of his own troops were killed by the rebels when they finally faced defeat...
Then, the enemy will die and our own people will live - wouldn't the situation of the war be completely reversed?
Maltis is one of the generals responsible for implementing the ultimate weapon. Her duty is to always be prepared to sacrifice for the empire.
But what is unexpected is that something went wrong with this ultimate plan before it was actually implemented.
Before the final battle began, many 'Az Dahaka' were detonated in advance - this thing is unstable and requires Noldo blood to maintain stability. Once the storage environment is not suitable, it will easily misfire.
The unexpected outbreak of this kind of "flammable and explosive items" caused a series of explosions covering the entire continent. As a result, a large number of magicians died instantly, were resurrected instantly, and then died again...
Who can bear this, so the magic power in Sindar Elves's bodies was stimulated, resulting in various terrifying magic power fluctuations...
As a result, both sides were completely wiped out before the decisive battle even started.
Various violent surges of magic triggered endless storms, which lasted for hundreds of years in the Vengdarian Continent.
The entire continent was completely destroyed.