The Rise of the Cemetery

Just as Tom was staring at the gap in the iron fence full of horror, a distorted and strange figure had appeared behind him.

When he heard the movement, he just turned his body around, and his eyes met a pair of scarlet and fanatical evil eyes.

What a hideous, vile and frightful monster it is!

Its shape resembles a skinned Hydralisk. It has a pointed and narrow triangular cone-shaped head, a withered and strong snake-like body, and a short and thick snake tail trailing behind. Where the original arms were, there appeared two huge sharp jointed limbs similar to insect creatures.

In an instant, Tom's body was paralyzed, and the great panic made it impossible for him to even move a little finger, and he stared at the other party with his mouth wide open in horror.

A sticky, wet and wriggling cocoon was stuffed into Tom's mouth, and before he could struggle to refuse, the cocoon

The greater fear made Tom break away from the numb gaze. He half-kneeled on the ground, digging his throat frantically, trying to vomit that terrible thing out. It's a pity that except for a few mouthfuls of foul-smelling putrefaction, nothing was spit out.

At this time, weird guys in black robes also appeared on the field, and behind each black robed figure were three or four terrifying servant corpses. From the strong and tough skin and quick and sensitive movements of these minions, it can be seen that they are all elite plague minions.

The black-robed men gathered in front of the venomous Hydralisk, and after a strange exchange like the cry of frogs, they walked into the winding tunnel of the sewer, which extended in all directions.

These plague messengers will serve as the advance team of the plague army, responsible for spreading the terrible plague toxins to every inch of the land in Iron Forest City, and building another terrible plague army for the great lady plague.

And the venomous Hydralisk with the most outstanding combat power under Lady Plague brought a group of plague elites to raid the wizard tower, paving the way for the plague army to enter Iron Forest City. As for leading the way, it was Tom, a local aborigine who knelt in front of Lord Hydralisk and bowed his head.

After being drilled into the body by the "rotten heart corpse", the lonely and helpless scavenger boy Tom no longer exists. The one who survived instead of him was Torris, the new rot sac host.

As a new type of plague creature recently bred by Lady Plague, it can perfectly parasitize in flesh and blood creatures and control everything in the opponent's body. This makes them perfect candidates for sleeper spies.

Of course, their best flesh and blood hosts should undoubtedly be those wizards with various extraordinary powers. But today, in order to get familiar with this underground passage extending in all directions as soon as possible, Hydralisk had to use a rot sac host on an ordinary boy.

After all, Iron Forest City is a core city run by the East Tallinn Wizards Association for thousands of years. There are many powerful wizards hiding in seclusion, and all kinds of wizarding facilities are readily available. Although the plague creature can penetrate into the city through a gap corroded by the highly poisonous Hydralisk, after all, it is limited by the site and cannot continuously transport troops on a large scale.

And from the moment the Hydralisk opened the gap, Tataring, the wizard in charge of monitoring the whole city, has issued the highest level of alarm, and the cleaning team led by the wizard will soon seal the entrance and exit. Therefore, under the command of the Plague Maiden's remote control, the first batch of people entering the sewer were not selected powerful plague creatures, but a dozen plague emissaries who spread death.

Due to their refusal to offer their final loyalty to the witch god, a loose organization like the Tallinn Wizards Association in the East has no "legendary wizards" who have been transformed from life to death, so their highest combat power is the great wizard at the peak of the holy rank. This is also a kind of helplessness.

As long as the overall world power of the wizarding world is not improved, wizards will not be able to enter the legendary realm through normal perception and meditation, and the peak of the holy rank is the highest threshold for their life development. Only those saint-level wizards who have given up the glory of wizards and the tradition of wizards pursuing freedom, and kneel at the feet of wizard gods, can be promoted to "legendary wizards" by wizard gods in a special way.

According to preliminary estimates, there are no more than a dozen hidden legendary wizards in the Northland Witch and the Silver Alliance that have legendary wizards, and all of them are the core combat power of the opponent.

However, the "legendary level" obtained through dedication of souls also has huge flaws.

The first is the limitation of lifespan.

Consecrating the soul and forcibly promoting them are not the orthodox ways of wizards after all, so the transformed "legendary wizards" have legendary attack methods, but they do not have the realm and sublimation of legendary wizards. Therefore, many life extension rituals, bloodlines, and spell transformations that only orthodox legends can bear cannot be applied to these legendary wizards.

Since the soul has never crossed the threshold of the distance between gods and mortals, the bodies of these legendary wizards are still the pinnacle of mortals.

In the world of wizards, a great wizard of level 9 can survive for 600-900 if he doesn't care about the life difference of the main body. And a great wizard at the peak of the holy rank, even if he exhausted all the rarest and best health-preserving resources, he could not exceed the limit of 1,500 years. (Of course, undead transformation and elemental transformation are exceptions.)

And a true legend who has crossed the threshold of legend is often a terrifying old monster with a lifespan of two or three thousand years. This kind of huge life accumulation over thousands of years has also caused the huge difference between the legendary powerhouses. An old legendary powerhouse is enough to crush many novices who are just entering the legendary rank.

In the entire multiverse, the reason why the legendary lich is so terrifying lies in the huge difference in strength formed by the accumulation of time and life.

The second is the lack of magical means.

Due to the closedness of the wizarding world, coupled with the lack of legendary species, this resulted in almost no legendary means after level 20.

Without the thousands of years of exploration and accumulation of a large number of legendary predecessors, this kind of extraordinary magic method would not have appeared in their souls out of nothing. Most of the legendary wizards in the wizarding world now only raised one of their best 9th-level witchcraft to a legendary level, and did not really possess legendary wizardry.

According to the level of spells common to all planes, a 19th-level great wizard can only use 9th-level witchcraft, and a 20-level holy-level wizard can use higher-level holy-level witchcraft, that is, tenth-level witchcraft. And the real legendary technique should be at the eleventh level.

But the legendary witchcraft used by the legendary wizards in the wizarding world is only between the tenth and eleventh ranks.

It is precisely because the Eastern Tallinn lacks the kind of legendary wizard that the Plague Maiden fears, so she brazenly launched a strong attack on Iron Forest City after asking for Karthus to no avail.

Although the plague army has a huge number of creatures, it does not have a strict and sophisticated army structure, and its appearance is more similar to some Zerg with amazing fecundity. Everything about strategy and tactics can be ignored, just use your own special means to attack the enemy blindly.

The advantage and special means of the plague army are the overwhelming but invisible plague spores and virus-causing bacteria. Just like the abyss demons like a world of blood and fire, plague creatures only like to fight bravely in an environment full of plague spores and virus-causing bacteria.

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Screaming witchcraft sirens sounded one after another.

The old wizard who was in charge of dispatching troops in the wizard's tower was already pale.

These damned plague creatures are running around in the sewers like dirty, vile rats. In less than three quarters of an hour, the probing witch formations densely distributed throughout the sewers sent back alarms of the discovery of alien life one after another.

The old wizard felt dizzy when he thought of the all-round connection inside the sewer.

As a last resort, the wizard's tower could only forcibly seal the key nodes in the sewer, cut off its internal communication with a thick secret door, and then began to organize the wizards of the major families to go in and eliminate the plague creatures.

However, the initial encirclement and suppression did not go smoothly. Feedback from various places has slowed down the progress of the extermination. There are even bad situations where the wizard team was culled by the opponent in some areas.

Those lowly poor ghosts and vagrants who usually beg for a living underground have now become the targets of the plague transformation, which made the opponent increase hundreds of cannon fodder out of thin air. In such a narrow and filthy environment underground, even powerful witchcraft cannot be performed, otherwise more than ten tons of gravel and rubble would fall from the top of the head, and the first person to be killed would probably be the wizard himself.

After several unsuccessful attempts, a large number of wizards escaped from the sewers, and instead sent numerous flesh polluters, witchcraft puppets and other magic creations into the sewers to wipe out the plague creatures scurrying around.

In the dark and dirty sewers of Iron Forest City, countless plague creatures and magical creations of wizards fought and chased everywhere, turning the entire tunnel world into a bloody battlefield.

Although the various blocking measures and coping strategies of the wizards are very correct, they still can't stand the pervasiveness of the plague creatures.

Soon, the surface of Iron Forest City, a slum where the refugees gathered, also showed symptoms of plague infiltration.

A dozen or so plague emissaries lurking among the refugees entered the city long before the wizard blocked the sewers. They escaped the wizard's capture and ran into the slums to spread plague spores wantonly.

Countless human beings infected with the plague spores and undergoing the transformation of the plague rolled and screamed in pain on the ground, constantly hitting the surroundings with their bodies and heads to vent the unspeakable severe pain. Their bodies and limbs have been distorted into various inhuman forms, and large ulcers and abscesses appear on the body surface from time to time, the whole scene is shocking.

A very few people with good physical fitness completed the body transformation in the shortest time, turned over and crawled on the ground, and threw down one by one of the same kind that was still intact with a predatory movement that resembled a wild beast, and gnawed wantonly.

Countless miserable human beings who could not resist fled around in a daze, looking for any place to hide.

Soon, jaw-dropping tragic scenes appeared there, and panic, despair, and wailing enveloped the entire block.