Players on adventures and hunting ground spotted the Undead army and raised the alarm in Morata.
It was a huge event for the novices and merchants.
The church knight from Freya order was dispatched right after they were assigned to Morata.
“Looks like the church knight is moving out to hunt Undeads.”
“Lu’s order and Freya’s order jointly commissioned an Undead-hunting quests.”
Parties hunting in Morata joined priests and the paladins on the quest.
In the lord’s castle, a punitive force was organized to eliminate the Undeads.
There were weak skeletons among the enemies so anyone over level 30 could participate.
“Let’s go have some fun.”
“Let’s beat those Undeads!”
For novices, this was a good event and they could get a lot of experiences for participating in a large-scale suppression.
450 units of the paladins from Freya’s order gathered.
These holy knights were unbelievably strong compared to Morata’s knights.
Because they do not belong to a city or a village, not even the lord can give them orders.
They only fought for the church when there was a religious crisis or a threat from monsters.
Additional 840 men joined from Lu’s priests and Freya’s priests respectively, to fight the Undead army.
The manpower was somewhat excellent but there were over 3,000 priests in the punitive force comprised solely of ordinary players.
People with priest class in Morata participated in this quest as it could increases their faith.
Those who were busy or on some quests rushed toward the battlefield.
“Yay, Undeads!”
“God, I love the Undead.”
Priests were filled with joys when they saw all the Undeads.
Priests came fast, almost at the same time as paladins, riding on horse to engage the Undead first. There were many other priests in the punitive force who would come later.
Because of the fairly high reputation compared to other cities because of the Goddess statue and the Grand Cathedral, tens of thousands of players chose to become Freya’s priests.
It became the reverse with them advancing on the Undead Legion!
Paladins were mobilized, along with players with class like mercenary, warrior, magician, summoner and bard to joined the punitive force and defend against the invasion from the Undead armies.
Compared to the high-level players across the central continent, their overall average level wasn’t very high.
This was due to the high number of novices starting out in Morata every day.
Due to such advantage, Morata became one of the greatest city next to other metropolises.
Early players of Morata had memories of their village being silent and secluded but now, even in the middle of night, merchants were camping out in every square.
Anyone could feel that the village was changing day by day.
Fifty thousand men in the punitive force came early!
It lacked the manpower compared to the two Undead armies, which was approximately over sixty thousand.
But being camped on the hill they had geographic advantage over the battle.
Their morals were striking high with area-of-effect blessings from the priests.
Zaffran, who was assigned as the captain of the punitive force for this quest shouted loudly.
“Let’s defeat theses Undeads invading our new home, our land!”
“Attack!!!”
Paladins, the punitive force, and the Undeads charged each other.
More players in the punitive force were arriving continuously and the Undead Legion were flowing with Undeads.
The war between two armies, had finally begun.
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Polon obtained information from the Hermes Guild.
-Necromancers were summoned by an unknown force and are now fighting for the Undead Legion as Undeads.
Even Necromancers from their guilds were aligned with the Undead Legion.
They had great talent filling in several occupations in the guild but unfortunately, the Necromancer was a recently created position.
The Necromancers who were part of their guild didn’t even have high levels and their hunting speeds was slow. They were currently still stuck at the rank of High Level Skeleton.
Zabrin : Seems like every Necromancers in Versailles Continent have been gathered there.
Zabrin reported all the information through the guild’s long distance communication channe.
Polon, knights, magicians and rangers in the army including the executives of the Hermes Guild could listen to the report.
Zabrin : I’m seeing every famous Necromancers such as Jeanne or Bohram.
Polon : What is their current quest?
Zabrin : I’m not so sure but they are continuously on battles related quest for the Undead Legion.
Zabrin felt good reporting in.
In Hermes guild, they were given full support if they thought it was necessary.
Not to mention the guild providing good equipment and hunting grounds, they even provided troops for quest and other needs.
If he achieve something this time, he just might be able to participate in a hunting party that was above his current rank!
Since he reported that with his current rank he could not join the other Necromancer who advance further then him on the quest, any help from the guild would be huge help for Zabrin who wasn’t even level 300 yet.
The only reason Zabrin joined the Hermes Guild was the greed of receiving support to easily level up.
Zabrin : If you need any kind of information, I’ll look into it. I’ve made many Necromancer friends so I should be able to get any information you want.
Polon : It would be nice if you can create some influence among the Necromancers.
Zabrin : Ok, I’ll try. But the most famous and strong Necromancers got promoted to higher rank and is fighting some place close by. Unfortunately my level is low and I cannot follow them right now.
Polon : Can you wear equipment for magicians?
Zabrin : Yes I can. It’s much better if it’s a cursed item.
Skeletons and ghost could were able to wear equipment without any race limitation.
For example, a cursed item that reduces life and increase mana, could increased both for the Undead.
For Zabrin the cursed items were much better off.
Polon : Whatever you need, you will get it. But you must provide daily reports and inform me immediately if you hear anything important. Any information on Weed takes priority.
Zabrin : You can trust me. As a member of Hermes guild, I will not let you down.
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After coming back from the trip, Weed reconnected and was at the canyon where the Undead Legion was situated.
With successful promotion to Death Knight, he was placed in the canyon for battle.
DING!
· Garrison of Kilizar
Ø The Undead Legion have great faith in your abilities.
Ø Having succeeded every mission so far, the Undead Legion expect you to annihilate the enemy in Kilizar canyon.
Difficulty: B
Restriction: Undead Only
The difficulty went up drastically.
Luckily 33 other Necromancers including Jeanne, Otem, Bohram, Harien, Gruzed, Varenna and Goshu came before him.
As they were magicians or summoners before becoming Necromancers their level was already high.
Jeanne would have leveled up many times after becoming a Necromancer and her current level was presumed to be about level 408.
Because each individual had different stat and skills, it was difficult to assume one’s level just from the number of Undeads one could summons.
Also taking into considering the possibility that they were hiding their true power, it’s was much more complicated.
Varenna revealed her level to be 390 and considering her enormous mana consumption when summoning and casting black magic, Jeanne had to be at least level 408 in comparison.
‘No wonder they are considered as one of the best Necromancers.’
Weed acknowledged the Necromancers standing before him.
Not only were they excellent in controlling their Undeads, they didn’t hesitate using their perfect skills in battles.
Weed chose a class with direct combat skills while in comparison their class specialized in summoning Undeads.
Death Wizards and Death Witches!
The other players chose class as wizards and witches.
To control the Undeads, corpses need to be raised up and enhanced before battle began.
Also all kinds of curses need to be cast on the enemy, weakening, slowing and confusing them.
Necromancer was a very busy occupation, exploding corpses or summoning guards to defend them.