nashuaworldcup Chapter 269 Ghostly Claws
Chapter 269 Ghostly Claws
The will of the undead belongs exclusively to the Forsaken...
The more powerful the Forsaken are, the stronger their will to resist the Lich King's soul control; no one wants to be a puppet, whether in life or in death.
Lorraine has already experienced the awakening of the will of the dead three times.
Each time it activated in dire straits, but this fourth time he didn't encounter any greater danger. His right eye rune rejoiced as he devoured Yurev's vengeful spirit on Wolf Island. The new skill he gained seemed like a gift from Death.
This time, they encountered an unremarkable human woman who, on the verge of death, unexpectedly unleashed a powerful vengeful spirit.
Indeed, a woman's resentment is more terrifying...
This is the teacher's humble opinion. Lorraine herself felt a sense of despair and sorrow regarding the birth of the banshee...
The new ability is to transform into a banshee, whose body has been infected with a plague. He contracted the undead plague, and his weakened body couldn't withstand the bandits' further torment, collapsing before Lorraine. When he rose again, he was a ferocious, vengeful spirit floating in mid-air...
Ghosts transformed from human women are quite common; weeping female ghosts can often be found in abandoned huts.
In the plague-stricken lands to the north, ghosts roam freely...
However, the conditions for transforming into a female demon are quite demanding.
The strength of the soul, the degree of desire for life, the time it takes for resentment to fester...
Lorraine instinctively tried to control the vengeful banshee that Alisa had transformed into. With just a thought, the banshee pounced on the bandits who were running in terror around them. Despite being a transparent, floating spirit, her claws easily tore apart the nearest, heavily armed bandit...
A large amount of bandits' blood splattered on Eileen's face, and her eyes were filled with fear.
Eileen gained a deeper understanding of Lorraine's abilities!
Her initial gratitude turned into fear. Eileen recalled the scene when they were still enemies, when Lorraine fought Tule for the first time, controlling a skeleton beast to fight against zombies.
Just as she was surrounded and worried that she couldn't face the attack of dozens of bandits at the same time, Eileen stared blankly as the little girl transformed into a vengeful ghost and tore at the Syndicate members who had hurt her before.
Elisa's first target was Baron Vadus.
She seemed most impressed by Vadus, tearing apart the guards in her way and charging straight at the Mediterranean Baron...
Vadus, true to his syndicate leader status, had seen it all. He grabbed a round shield and a short-handled axe to fend off the banshee's claws, rolling and dodging to avoid a fatal blow. He even circled behind the banshee and brought down a vicious chop...
The female demon cried out in pain, letting out a chilling, ghostly scream.
Her body seemed to be able to be hurt by swords and blades, so Lorraine quickly urged her to dodge as well.
......
Since it was probably her first time controlling the banshee, Lorraine felt that the banshee's movements were stiff, floating in mid-air with an unstable lower body, and fighting with her fingernails, like a woman grabbing and pulling, which seemed to lack power.
But the banshee herself could tear a living person apart with a single attack, so why does it seem clumsy when I try to control it?
"Oh, I see..."
"What do you know?"
"Skill!"
"Netherworld Ghost Claw!"
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The skill was unleashed, and Vadus instinctively raised his small round shield to block. Then, with a single blow from the demonic claw, the wooden shield shattered, severing Vadus's forearm in the process. Terrified, Vadus staggered back, shouting in pain, "Kill them!"
Then his henchmen attacked from all directions... There were quite a few of them, armed and masked.
Vadus ran headlong into his underlings.
Then she crawled into the tent, looking left and right as if searching for something. Lorraine stopped pursuing and tried to continue directing the banshees to fly around and slaughter the bandits who surrounded them.
The fear state will be lifted once attacked, and it lasts for fifteen seconds, which is not long. The Banshee only killed the two closest people.
Vadus, as the leader, was quite capable; his leather armor was reinforced with protective gear and iron plates, barely withstanding the banshee's basic attacks. Without using any special abilities, the banshee's attacks were generally weak; they truly felt like a woman's shoveling and tearing, and if you tried to take them head-on with your own flesh and blood, it would feel like being slashed by a scythe...
......
Lorraine originally planned to use other methods to get away with it, and he wasn't afraid of being discovered, as he had a backup plan.
He had been thinking of making good use of these bandits to replenish his troops and make up for the huge losses in the battle by the lake, but he didn't want to make too much of a fuss to avoid attracting attention.
The teacher said that this kind of infiltration operation must be discreet and kept out of sight.
Keep your eyes and ears open! Plan your route in advance... otherwise, if you get surrounded, you're almost certainly doomed... two fists can't fight four hands, and even a hero can't withstand a crowd... many ants can kill an elephant.
The slightest negligence could lead to utter ruin...
This experience comes from the teacher's countless lessons learned from repeatedly resurrecting and rescuing corpses: one only has one life among apprentices, so one must be careful in everything.
Even if the enemy is weak, we can't underestimate them. This afternoon, I was beaten up by a man and a woman, an old man and a young boy, by the lake... Mages are fragile, their lives are vulnerable. The first rule for undead mages is to calculate distances and plan the aggro route carefully...
"Pull the monster?"
"Hey, when you're fighting, focus on your movements. The second preparation is to avoid getting distracted..."
"No, I remember you said the first rule last time wasn't this one..."
"Hey hey hey, stop chatting, get out of the way... bomb!"
.......
No sooner had the teacher finished reminding him than Lorraine saw Vadus, enduring the pain of his severed hand, emerge from his tent in the distance. Ignoring the fact that Lorraine was surrounded by many Syndicate members, he threw something directly in Lorraine and Eileen's direction.
Smoke was rising in the distance.
Only when I got close did I realize it was a hand grenade.
Old-fashioned goblin grenades...can be bought from the black market in Booty Bay. They're goblin-made, not very stable...but incredibly powerful...
The bomb exploded, instantly killing the four bandits in the middle of the scene. Lorraine was tackled by a dark figure and slammed to the ground... Looking down, she saw Eileen, her hands bound... her back was badly mangled...
Lorraine was surprised that Eileen would save him, and she also didn't expect that the bandit Vadus would go into the tent to find a grenade to throw at him.
The power of a grenade lies in the fragments that follow the explosion. Most of the fragments from the impact landed on Eileen, who was already injured and seemed to have collapsed... She appeared to have lost her fighting ability.
Lorraine was a bit of a simpleton, and to make his acting more realistic, he actually tied Eileen's hands behind her back, making her look like a hostage...
They thought that by adding disguises, they could get through smoothly.
Unexpectedly, her plan backfired, and Eileen was almost killed first... But by using her agile movements, she quickly approached Lorraine and saved him instead.
......
That's a joke. While the Syndicate may be bandits, they actually operate with a strict military discipline. They've undergone rigorous training in secret, and most of them are indeed regular soldiers from the former Kingdom of Alterac...
"You are all going to die!"
Lorraine, who had fallen to the ground, roared angrily, showing no mercy.
The headless, armless zombie transformed from the corpse of Lin Zilier rushed towards Vadus. Lorraine roared, "Corpse Explosion..."
A green halo exploded, its power no less than that of the goblin iron bomb thrown by Baron Vadus... Accompanied by a green, poisonous mist of corpses, even those dozen or so people who came into contact with it slowly collapsed...
A large crater was left in the ground...
The tents were leaning precariously, and various miscellaneous items were scattered on the ground, including gold, silver, cloth, and jewels. There were also many unexploded bombs and gunpowder...
Lorraine used Oridon's corpse as a living bomb, directly eliminating Baron Vadus.
Baron Vadus was blown to smithereens, leaving only his severed arm and broken shield nearby. Thus, the two most trusted lieutenants of the Duke of Syndicate, Lords Oridon and Pirenold, and Baron Vadus perished together.
The bandits, now leaderless, were still heading this way from afar, having heard the continuous explosions.
Those nearby were running away in all directions, fleeing in terror.
The previously orderly campsites suddenly became bustling with activity, and torches flickered.
If someone were scouting from the sky, they would see a death knight hacking and slashing his way through the mountains, with more zombies and skeletons rising up along the way—a new tide of the undead was forming once more...
An alternative form of purification has been achieved...
In the middle of the mountainside, the female demon screamed as she chased after her fleeing enemy.
Only Lorraine frowned, examining Eileen's back injury... Around them were ten vengeful spirit puppets he had long ago placed hidden among the Syndicate members, guarding all sides...
They all look exactly like members of the Syndicate, but anyone who gets close will be instantly shredded...