BXBX NOVEL Chapter 169 Undead Scourge (2)
Western Area of the Human Continent, 8th Floor of the Tower, 5 Days later.
The borders between the Western Area and Northern Area was barred place, filled with cold and emptiness, nothing else and nothing more. Most of the outposts were empty because, during the five days that the Khaos Chapter was on a journey to the place, the Human Brotherhood withdrew even most of the remaining soldiers that were still in the place.
When that happened, it only confirmed Yvraine's thoughts that the people who founded the Human Brotherhood wanted to escape. The logical conclusion, considering the situation they were in because there was no salvation for the Human Brotherhood as it was right now.
Their capital of the Selangrad was right now being supported by everything that the Human Brotherhood had in their disposition, which left them even more vulnerable than before.
And as Samiel thought, the Demon mainly ignored them... or rather, it would be appropriate to say that they were ignored by the forces of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe who were operating in the Central Area, though the Star-Moon Coalition Army was periodically sending forces to disrupt their supply chains to the Selangrad or ambush the reinforcing soldiers that were heading towards the Selangrad, while personally not intervening in the battle, bur rather letting their competitors in it alone.
Through long discussions and decision-making, it was decided that they would be advancing as one. When Samiel would be laying siege to the cities, Dharzug and Yvraine would remain with him, practically helping.
Juulius was of no importance in this because, as his sworn knight, it was his duty to never leave his liege alone even for a second unless it was dire circumstances or they were in a safe place, which right now they certainly weren't.
Dharzug was a perfect heavy hitter and tank; he could tear his way across the entire battlefield and would do a splendid job during sieges of cities. As he was extremely strong even for the Silver-Tier standards, he could tear through the city gates like nothing, especially here where everything was practically built with ordinary materials or materials with minimal magic in them, so they were not that sturdy or resistant against attacks.
"How far are we from the nearest pinpoint?"
Yvraine asked because they had been walking already for several hours and searching for the right spot to release my Undead Army. This, while seemed absolutely useless, had some merits in one thing, which was, if the Undead Army was released in a location where Samiel wanted, he could instantly start harvesting souls and lower the probability that the news of the Undead Scourge would spread fast.
Of course, even a few days here was something worth it because each day, the Undead Scourge would spread carnage and death, which would mean thousands, if not tens of thousands of souls, for Samiel, so that was certainly an optimistic prediction.
"We are going to the Grand West Mountain... it is the regional capital with a population numbering hundreds of thousands; that would be the place where we would start the Scourge."
Samiel answered with an equal portion of cheerfulness and malice as he was thinking about the number of souls that he would obtain with this. Hundreds of thousands? Perhaps several million if he was lucky?
Who knew, but one thing was certain, that this was going to be a good time for him. Certainly, a large part of the souls would be used as an offering to his God and the Outer Court as a form of sacrifice, so he could obtain their divine favor.
What would remain from the souls he obtained would be then what remained would be divided between the needs of his Higher Undead and him. Ashimer and Negash would use some part of the souls that he would obtain either to strengthen themselves or to strengthen the Undead under their command.
Both of them had a large number of Undead under them, especially Negash, so his need for souls was much higher. He had many Undead that needed to evolve because most of his Undead were either at the Steel-Tier or the peak of the Iron-Tier.
"Dharzug, you will rush and break the gate... we are not sneaking around or anything... this will be a brutal frontal attack, easy and straight, hitting them fast and hard."
Samiel stated, to which the huge ork grinned, unleashing his fangs in their full glory, while two felines, Tytos and Nefertari, were walking side by side with them; only Tytos looked a bit interested in the fight because it stemmed from his nature as White Tiger.
He was a combative magical beast who loved to combat and fight, tearing through his enemies and eating their corpses; that was the way of life of the White Tiger species. Meanwhile, Nefertari looked pretty much disinterested in this, though she certainly would be fighting because if not, she won't be getting snacks from her hooman, and that was a big no-no.
After traveling for some time, they finally arrived at the Grand West Mountain City which was their targetted destination where the Undead Scourge would start.
Grand West Mountain City was located directly below the Grand West Mountain; the person who was giving names out here was not that creative. Still, the Grand West Mountain had every reason to be called Grand because it was an enormous mountain located among smaller ones, as it was clearly empathizing its big size among the small mountains and hills around it.
Beneath the huge mountain was like a beacon in this entire plateau, Samiel saw the city, which was ironically named Grand West Mountain City. From what Samiel could see the that the city was huge, with a population numbering more than one hundred thousand at least. Though it was clear that the majority of the inhabitants were ordinary humans and Samiel didn't feel anyone of significant power was present in the city.
"This is indeed perfect..."
Samiel muttered as he summoned both of his Higher Undead, Ashimer and Negash, who appeared behind him. Ashimer was like usually clad in his armor, while Negash looked like every other Lich or Necromancer, with a very long hooded pitch-black cloak but wearing some gauntlets on his arms, legs and spiked armored shoulder.
"Formation is standard head-on, Dharzug; you will be leading the army and smash the gate, with Ashimer and me immediately after him with Negash and his Undead Army at the tail, leading the Undead to the city."
Samiel put the strategy on the table; everyone followed his orders, Juulius and Yvraine would be taking his side and act as swords during the attack, as they would be participating in the vanguard together with Samiel's Undeads, as he was controlling several hundred Bronze-Tier Undead whom he hardly cultivated with all of his resources and effort.
Soon enough, thousands of Undead were lined up behind Samiel and the company; everyone got into a formation. When they were in the vicinity of the Grand West Mountain City, the city guards finally noticed the incoming Undead Army. Even from a distance, Samiel could see that everyone up there was absolutely panicking because they didn't know what to do.
With a heavy majority of their military forces sent to the capital of the Human Brotherhood, only a small contingent of the City Guard remained here. Those who remained here were the expandables, meaning either old, weak or absolutely unusable City Guards that were of no use in real combat.
If not for that, they would certainly be sent to a real combat situation, not left here... that made sense. So amidst all of the panic that was right now taking place atop of the walls, because there was no clear chain of command and nobody knew what to do, the Scourge reached the gates as a big ork with a savage expression erupted with a greenish wave of Mana as he gripped his waraxe and slashed at the gate.
The moment Dharzug's waraxe "da big choppa" landed on the gates of the Grand West Mountain City, the entire city gate shook violently, and soon enough, countless cracks appeared around the entire construction. At first look, Samiel was surprised that the gate still stood in one piece, but seconds later, Dharzug hit the gate once again, this time with even greater strength, as parts of the gates flew apart.
On the third hit, the entire gate was smashed apart, as Samiel's Bronze-Tier Undead started poring inside like a flood, attacking terrified guards that looked at the incoming Undead Scourge with dread and fear in their attacks, many of the more weak-willed ones already started escaping, but there was no escape from the ferociousness and hatred of the Undead.
Especially the vanguard, which consisted of the strongest ones who were Samiel's own; after them were the Undead which were under the control of his first Higher Undead, Frost Death Knight Ashimer and only in the third layer were the Undeads under the control of Elder Lich Negash.
The skirmish between the city guard and the Undead was a short one, because most of the City Guards were only at the Steel-Tier with some of the newer recruits, as they appeared to be, were at the Iron-Tier. So the Undead Vanguard made short work of them and soon enough started advancing further into the city while killing everything that moved.
Yvraine and Juulius were protecting Samiel while he was using Level 3 Ultimate Ability Winter Ruler to freeze everything that he saw and at the same time, he was also harvesting souls, as his soul count that he obtained was increasing by tens every minute and it was only getting faster and faster.
Because nobody was in the vicinity of the Grand West Mountian City, Samiel could harvest the souls as he wished without any hindrance. Normally when he was completing missions on the Human Continent, he couldn't do it because there was a very high possibility of being spotted by someone and the skill of harvesting souls was too unique just to miss.
Right now, all the powerful people who were watching the play were looking straight at the capital of the Human Continent, Selangrad and thus, the other areas of the entire continent were without privy eyes, giving him more freedom to do what he wanted.
Samiel advanced through the city, with Yvriane and Juulius by his side while coordinating his Undead that were directly under his control. At the same time, he was unleashing an enormous frost wave on the entire Grand West Mountain City as the temperature started dropping tremendously.
Most of the citizens here were only at the Iron-Tier. There were countless who were only Level 1s, so if he started freezing the entire city for some time, he would be able to kill all of them with little to no effort. At the same time, his Undead would secure the city, trapping everyone inside it so nobody would be able to escape.
Juulius and Yvriane were basically only standing guard in case someone powerful enough to threaten them was hiding in the Grand West City and their sole task was to protect Samiel and Negash, because the two of them were controlling the Undead Scourge that was wreaking havoc through the entire city.
Meanwhile, Dharzug already parted and headed directly to the City Lord's mansion, probably in hopes of finding some worthy opponent whose skull won't be smashed in one hit, though everybody doubted that he would find here someone that strong.