The Rise of the Cemetery

(Thanks to Nanshanhuo for his great reward and support, and will make up for it in return)

As a strong protector, the Necropolis is obliged to provide security for the Principality of Novis.

Then the practical significance of this verbal promise is that the Necropolis will contain and repel the attacks of the necromancers in the shortest possible time, and save the Novus people who are on the verge of life and death to the greatest extent.

As a protected person, the Principality of Novis must declare the suzerainty of the Necropolis to the entire continent.

This is tantamount to establishing the relationship between the Necropolis and Novis as a sovereign state and a vassal state in the name of legal authority.

On this basis, the rulers of the vassal states are not allowed to proclaim themselves emperors; when the old king dies, the new king must notify the suzerain state and obtain a document recognizing the new king’s ascension. trade); when necessary, the suzerain country can intervene as a mediator in disputes between two dependent countries or within the country.

Of course, as the first human country to fall to the Necropolis, Novis enjoys complete autonomy, and its domestic politics and military are not affected, but its external diplomacy is completely dominated by the Necropolis.

Although the Great Cemetery gave Novis full autonomy in the country, in order to ensure its own influence, it selected three small territories within 50 miles in Novus as garrison camps. One is the current Thunder Fortress, the other is the stone tower of Dayan Village where Li Xun lived for more than a year, and the other is located near the northwest coast of Novus.

In this way, the three territories chosen by the Great Cemetery are respectively located in the only throat that runs through the Aveli Mountains in the east of Novis, Li Xun's old base in the southwest, and somewhere in the northwest. The finished glyphs of the three territories covered Novus within the radiation range of the cemetery garrison's combat power, so that some ambitious guys would not be prevented from making unforgivable mistakes.

As for the army formed by the Principality of Novus, to be honest, it was not taken seriously by the Great Cemetery at all. The entire Principality of Novis is militaristic, at best it can pull up 300,000 troops, most of which are infantry regiments. The Knights who could really pose a threat to the Necropolis had no more than 20,000 people at all, and they were destined to be mainly ordinary cavalry, and less than one-tenth of the knights who really possessed fighting spirit.

Counting on such a secular army, it may not be a problem to deal with other human countries, but compared with the large-scale cross-plane forces without borders such as the Undead Council and the Great Cemetery, the two are not in the same order of magnitude at all.

So when it comes to war, the Necropolis does not lack the strength of the Novus army at all, and it is not afraid of any troubles caused by the entanglement between the Principality's army and the Mage Association. If you really want to be aggressive, the Great Cemetery can open a portal at any point in Novus at any time, and send nearly a million elite cemeteries over.

It can be said that as long as there is an area where the cemetery sentry hides, the large cemetery will not lack the soul beacons needed for precise teleportation. On the contrary, the only shackle that restricts the large cemetery from engaging in such operations is the amount of dead energy hoarded in the cemetery city. It can be expected in the future that the Necropolis will inevitably cross the Elven Continent to fight against the Zerg. At this time, requisitioning the dead energy reserves of the Undercity for more than two years is equivalent to depleting the war potential of the Necropolis ahead of time in disguise.

And the reason why the Skeleton King must pull the forces of the Principality of Novus to complete this war against the Necromancer is to put a layer of legality on the Great Cemetery, and from then on it will become a local country that can compete for the dominance of the plane. power. Otherwise, in the eyes of all Klein's local forces, the Great Cemetery will always be a foreign invader, and it can be compared with the Ahn'Qiraj Zerg, except that one is a big threat and the other is a small threat.

If you want to take root in a main plane, you can only try to integrate yourself into it, instead of always thinking about destroying all the natives of this plane like the Ahn'Qiraj Zerg, and building a single plane with only Zerg.

Negotiation and discussion are difficult. Almost every detail and every doubtful point requires repeated consultation and dispute. But how can Novus have such ample time in the current situation? Therefore, the Skeleton King represents the Great Cemetery, Katie Ernie represents the Mages Association, and Grand Duke Garr represents the entire Novis nobles. The three parties confirmed their mutual affiliation, and simply signed an offensive and defensive alliance agreement, and this magnificent "cooperation" ended The form of the magic contract is finalized.

And after getting the paperwork they wanted, the heroes of the cemetery, whose eyes had turned blue from the suffocation, swarmed out of the portal. Holding up banners one after another, they led their own luxurious team and flooded into the territory of Novus like a tide.

Knights of the Ebon Blade, the flag is a black battle flag with "Frostmourne" printed on it, the leaders are Alsace and Scarface, with 2,000 members, mainly composed of death knights and high-level undead knights.

The Knights of the Ebon Blade also has a ghoul servant army with a number of 5,000, led by the ghoul king Hogus and the elite predator Red. Their task is to cooperate with the Black Blade Knights in combat, and to be responsible for logistics, maintenance, guerrilla and other war support work. And their banner is a giant ghoul claw.

Although the doomsday team led by Fiddlesticks is relatively small in number, there are only a few hundred people. But they cooperated tacitly and had many means of warfare, making them a daunting and terrifying team. And their battle standard is a fist clenched tightly together.

In addition, there are the cyan battle flags of the zombie army led by the corpse king; the skeleton battle flags of the bone magic troops led by the forgotten mage; ;The shadow demon gathered a group of high-ranking cemetery mercenaries to fight the shadow battle flag; the corpse troop led by the mummy Blue fought the silver shroud battle flag; the plague lord army led by the butcher fought the iron hook guillotine The bloody battle flag formed...

A high-spirited cemetery hero, a team of indomitable cemetery teams, and a scarlet battle flag fluttering in the wind... For a time, there were more than 30 active groups in the entire Novis Principality, each with their own unique characteristics. Featured Graveyard team.

The Skeleton King commanded an army of more than 300,000 cemeteries, and faced the surging sea of ​​undead from the front. The two sides collided firmly in the northern part of the Flower Language Plain where Pierpont was located, and one after another shocking battle broke out.

On one side is the undead sea composed of more than 3 million undead cannon fodder, and on the other side is the real cemetery army composed of more than 300,000 cemetery elites. There seems to be a huge difference in the numbers between the two sides, but when the war breaks out, the strength shown by the cemetery side is enough to make all those watching the battle frightened.

In fact, at the beginning of the war, the sea of ​​undead that necromancers introduced into the territory of Novus has soared from the initial 4 million to more than 5 million, and this number is increasing crazily every day. But with such a huge sea of ​​undead, the Undead Council lacks enough core strength to control them. Therefore, a considerable part of the undead cannon fodder has been completely scattered, and they have become scattered soldiers who have no one to control and only know how to act according to instinct.

So seeing the large cemetery gathering troops to attack, the necromancers also hurriedly began to gather their combat power, but the newly subdued undead were so difficult to drive. Therefore, after 2 days of painstaking work, they managed to gather together the more than 3 million undead in the front, and started a battle with the needlepoint of the big cemetery.

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The small town of Joselu.

This is a remote town surrounded by mountains and rivers.

The small town is located at the foot of the Aveli Mountains, with a meandering and clear river passing through the side of the city, with beautiful scenery, it is a good place for leisure and vacation for the rich businessmen and dignitaries in the surrounding area.

But to this day, this place is also besieged by a wave of undead corpses rushing over.

When this wave of undead corpses first came, the number was not huge, only about 2,000 people. Compared with the 40,000 residents in Joselu City and the 700-odd city guards, it did not form an overwhelming numerical advantage. However, there is a mid-level necromancer hidden in this wave of undead corpses, who swindled and killed a group of more than 4,000 people organized by Lord Joselu on the bank of the river.

Since then, the gates of the small city of Heselu have been closed tightly, with bows and crossbows densely covered, and they never dare to step out of the city.

And after killing the small town's vital forces, the tide of undead corpses has swelled to nearly 5,000, and finally has the strength to launch a day and night siege to the small town.

In the southwest corner of the small town, zombie skeletons with surging heads crowded together, slowly but firmly climbing towards the top of the city in a way of stacking a human wall. The small town was not high, but the city wall of eleven or two meters couldn't stand the gnawing and digging of the tide of corpses. It only took less than two hours to build a mountain of meat leading directly to the city wall.

During this period, the defenders at the top of the city never stopped attacking with bows and arrows, and even many brave soldiers desperately stabbed down with spears and spears. It's a pity that the physiological structure of the undead is doomed that they are not afraid of the attacks of crossbow arrows and sharp weapons like humans. As long as the soul fire in the hard skull is not extinguished, even if you shoot a skeleton into a hedgehog, it will still continue to climb up unconsciously.

Zombies, on the other hand, had a layer of tough and thick carrion protection, and their ability to resist blows was ten times that of skeletons. Therefore, although the human defenders at the top of the city fought hard to attack and destroy, the mountain of corpses on the side of the undead was still slowly built.

For the densely piled mountain of corpses, the only means of attack on the human side are the oil cans and torches thrown down wildly. Only the raging fire can stop the undead's offensive for a short time. It was by this method that Joselu's defenders barely prevented the zombies from ascending the city.

However, the small town's reserves of tung oil and vegetable oil were only a small amount after all. After the humans in the small town searched the whole city and couldn't find anything, the mountain of meat full of howling zombies finally reached the city wall.

Zombies and ghouls staggering up to the top of the city became the biggest nightmare for the defenders of the small town.