As the green mist within the barrier was steadily consumed, the priests gradually began to falter.
They could only expend their own essence to maintain the "Plague Barrier."
But this thing was extremely limited in its ability to kill undead. It often took a vast amount of plague power to kill only a few of them.
As time passed, the priests suffered as well. Some bled from their noses, some from their ears, and some from their eyes.
One priest collapsed, leaving a gap in the barrier. Undead poured through the opening.
Then the second priest fell, followed by the third, the fourth...
In the end, the Plague Barrier failed completely.
The undead surged beneath the city walls.
Most low-level undead could not fly, but they could climb.
Bone claws dug into cracks in the stone, one piled atop another as they crawled upward like ants.
The Church Guard erupted against these monsters as well. They stabbed with spears, hacked with blades, and burned them with fire.
Spears and swords were not especially effective against skeletal undead, but these Church Guards were quite strong and could directly shatter bones.
They smashed one apart, and ten more climbed up.
They hacked apart ten, and a hundred more climbed up.
They burned one swath, but countless more followed behind it.
The commander drew his sword and shattered a skeleton that had climbed onto the battlements. Another immediately crawled up beside it.
He shattered that one, and two more climbed up.
He shattered the two, and four more climbed up.
They could not be killed! There was simply no end to them!
And the Church Guard was not infinite. Some undead had already climbed onto the walls and engaged the Church Guard in close combat.
Even more troublesome were the Wraith-type undead. They