As soon as the female grand duke of Helon Duchy left, the previously dispersed dense fog once again slowly converged. The clear sky was covered in ink, turning it pitch-black to the point where one couldn't even see their own fingers. The soldiers of Helon Duchy, who were doing their utmost to push the magic cannons, couldn't help but scream in fear.
Within the inky darkness, an erratic shadow moved unrestrainedly. Unsuppressible mournful cries of alarm rang out wherever the shadow passed. These mournful cries of alarm would abruptly stop as soon as they started. The soldiers who had wandered back and forth between life and death many times quickly understood what it meant when these cries abruptly stopped.
All sorts of unreconciled howls were isolated by the darkness. The thick black fog concealed the cruelty of the massacre. When the fog truly dissipated, there were over forty corpses on the ground. Every corpse had been killed by a sharp weapon piercing through the nape of their necks.
A total of six magic crystal cannons, five meters tall and six meters long, shone brightly after the fog dispersed. These magic crystal cannons were made from magical silver and all sorts of strange metals. Their barrels were engraved with profound and cryptic miniature magic arrays. The silver-gray magic crystal cannons were abnormally heavy and definitely couldn't be easily moved.
Specks of black light flickered as if the light of the stars had appeared at the same time as the scorching sun. Heavy and stiff bodies appeared one after another beside the magic crystal cannons. Sixty zombie warriors divided themselves into six groups and carefully guarded the six heavy magic crystal cannons as they pushed them down the bare mountain.
It was indeed very difficult to push the simple and unadorned magic crystal cannons up the mountain. However, it naturally didn't take too much effort to push them down from halfway up the mountain. The six magic crystal cannons that had been pushed up the mountain with great difficulty by the Helon Empire's soldiers didn't even take a tenth of the time it took for the sixty zombie warriors to push them down to the foot of the mountain.
Of course, these incomparably large and expensive magic crystal cannons weren't only guarded by a few dozen laborers. Only a few soldiers in charge of guarding the cannons were still shrouded in the dark fog and hadn't walked out. At the foot of the mountain, the thousand or so soldiers who had painstakingly delivered the magic crystal cannons from the Helon Duchy immediately realized that there was a problem when they saw the magic crystal cannons that had just been pushed up quickly slide down. The ones pushing the cannons weren't their own soldiers either.
Before the thousand-odd soldiers could react, the ground at the foot of the mountain suddenly split open. Along with a rumbling sound, a total of six extremely expensive Magic Crystal Cannons rolled into the suddenly split open ravine one after another. The deep crevice was so long and deep that even after the six Magic Crystal Cannons fell into it, they didn't make any muffled sounds.
The sixty zombie warriors who had completed their mission disappeared into thin air one after another under the flabbergasted gazes of the soldiers in the back of the mountain. Only the deep marks left behind by the magic crystal cannons proved that they had indeed existed.
"Captain, what … what should we do?" The junior captain looked at the senior captain eagerly. His brain was sluggish as he stared at the gully that was constantly healing, and he asked in a dry voice.
"Inform the Duke! Six Magic Crystal Cannons are worth six hundred thousand gold coins. If we can't get them back, our lives will be over! " The senior captain had a terrified expression on his face. He had originally planned to flee this place regardless of everything. However, when he thought of Grand Duke Helen Tina's ruthlessness, as well as his parents in Helon City, he stayed here like a boulder, already prepared to die.
While the two of them were talking, the gully that had suddenly split open in the ground actually miraculously healed after devouring the six hundred thousand gold coins worth of magic crystal cannons. All of this was unimaginable before their eyes, and the shock it brought to them actually temporarily diluted some of the fear in their hearts.
In the sky above the bald mountain, Helen Tina, who had returned empty-handed, once again returned to Grand Duke Benedict Sackville's side. The phoenix's feathers fluttered in the wind, causing Helen Tina's figure to appear even more beautiful and radiant.
"What happened? Nothing unexpected happened, right?" Although Benedict was already middle-aged, his elegant and erudite noble temperament, in addition to the charm of a mature man, had a fatal attraction to ordinary women. Benedict, who had hunted countless women, looked at what was perhaps the most difficult prey to obtain in this lifetime and calmly inquired as usual.
"He's escaped. It's an evil necromancer." Helen Tina revealed a reserved smile. She wasn't stingy with her smile as she spoke in a slow and gentle tone.
"So it's just a cowardly necromancer. Hehe, an insignificant character who doesn't affect the overall situation shouldn't have any effect on our plans." Benedict made this judgment with a peace of mind. He didn't express any further opinions on the matter and casually asked, "When can the magic crystal cannons arrive? I really want to quickly see those despicable invaders fall apart under the bombardment of the magic crystal cannons."
"They're already halfway up the mountain. They'll appear soon. I spent a large amount of money to purchase these six magic crystal cannons from the Brut Merchant Alliance. I've already tested their power a long time ago. You'll definitely see fresh blood blossom like fresh flowers." Helen Tina, who had tried to destroy a small forest with a single cannon shot, already had a picture of the enemy's flesh and blood splattering in her mind. Helen Tina, who had walked through blood and fire until now, was similarly filled with anticipation.
"Lord … Lord Duke, it's bad, it's bad!" The junior captain at the bottom of the mountain ran over while stumbling, shouting loudly with a terrified expression.
"What is it?" Helen Tina's brow furrowed. She was very displeased in her heart and shouted unkindly at the junior captain who had disturbed her mood.
"All six magic crystal cannons are gone?" Although the junior captain was terrified, there was nothing he could do. He could only stammer out the truth with fear in his heart.
"Wha, what?" Helen Tina, who had fallen from the peak into the abyss, felt a bit dizzy for a moment. She couldn't adapt to this sudden contrast at all and didn't realize that her shrill voice was contrary to her usual elegance.
"Some zombies pushed the six magic crystal cannons down the mountain, and then a ravine suddenly split open in the ground, swallowing all six magic crystal cannons. After the cannons disappeared, the ravine healed and the ground became flat again. That's the truth!" The junior captain lowered his head and quickly described what had happened. He didn't dare to raise his head to look at Helen Tina's eyes.
An enormous fireball shot out and the raging flames immediately submerged the junior captain. Helen Tina's face was covered in a layer of frost amidst his mournful screams. She once again flew towards the back of the mountain on her fire phoenix, her anger soaring to the heavens. The fire phoenix danced gracefully in the air and sparks shot out. Benedict was certain that the soldiers in charge of escorting the cannons were going to be in big trouble.
"Lord Duke, what should we do? Do we still need to firmly guard this small mountain?" As soon as Helen Tina left the bald mountain, a military officer with a straight back and gloomy expression beside Benedict Sackville immediately asked in a deep voice.
Benedict Sackville shook his head and the elegant and calm expression on his face disappeared. With a calm face, he shouted, "Without the magic crystal cannons, this battle is purely a waste of military strength. We naturally can't do such a strenuous and unrewarding thing. Let's go, we'll immediately withdraw from this bald mountain. You only need to notify Ka Ba of Helon Duchy. I think he'll know what to do."
Nodding his head, the military officer didn't waste any more words and directly left Benedict Sackville's side. He continuously issued orders to the high ranking officers under him to retreat.
Benedict Sackville was indeed pursuing Helen Tina. However, Benedict Sackville had the wonderful idea of swallowing up the entire Helon Duchy. In essence, Benedict Sackville was still a duke who only cared about profit. He wouldn't waste his own strength for the sake of his pursuits.
When Narsen Duchy's army was ordered to retreat, the soldiers of Helon Duchy that Helen Tina had left seemed to realize that the situation was anything but reassuring. After some negotiations, Ka Ba, the commander of Helon Duchy's army, cleanly issued the order to retreat. Under the rain of arrows, the soldiers of Narsen Duchy and Helon Duchy that were defending the valley quickly dispersed like a tide.
The battle that was in full swing dissipated just as quickly as it started. The battle stopped after three thousand corpses were left on the bald mountain and at the foot of the mountain. The two opposing duchies, who had waited for the soldiers of Helon Duchy to leave the city with great difficulty, saw these people neatly withdraw from the mountain. Under the command of their leaders, they circled around the mountain and chased after the Narsen and Helon Duchy.
Apart from the corpses all over the ground, there were only three hundred soldiers from Etman and Bonton Duchy who were cleaning up the battlefield and collecting the remaining supplies.
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye and the majority of the troops had left the bald mountain. The three hundred soldiers who were cleaning up the battlefield suddenly felt as if the day had turned into night. The sky was covered by a thick layer of dark green clouds. The remaining soldiers who were collecting supplies from the corpses looked up at the dark green clouds in the sky, full of doubt.
All the weapons and armor had been gathered into five large piles. The three hundred soldiers who had just completed their mission suddenly discovered in horror that the bodies of the soldiers who had just died were slowly wriggling within the dark green clouds of death. They stood up in grotesque shapes.
Three thousand corpses were scattered in all directions. Once they all stood up, they immediately surrounded the three hundred soldiers who were cleaning up the battlefield. Under the effects of the necromancy demons, the three thousand corpses didn't take long to transform the three hundred soldiers into existences similar to themselves.
Under the control of Han Shuo's evil power, the three thousand zombies that had been resurrected with sluggish expressions lined up neatly and headed in the direction of Helon Duchy. As the spellcaster, Han Shuo arrived at the place where Benedict Sackville had just been. Using Troda's memories, he successfully entered the underground and obtained the inheritance that Troda had prepared for his mistress and child.
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