MTL - Custom Made Demon King

"Finally out of the desert!"

When the scene in front of him was no longer the dull and monotonous yellow sand, but a decaying Populus euphratica forest appeared, Roy knew that he had reached the edge of the death desert.

Sure enough, not too far after crossing the Populus euphratica forest, a smear of green began to appear on the horizon, and towering mountain peaks appeared farther ahead. The terrain was different from that of the desert, which made Roy look very relaxed and happy.

Although they were only on the road at night, Roy and the others traveled through the desert of death at a very fast speed. They covered thousands of kilometers in just over ten days.

The number of undead troops controlled by Cassandra has increased a little. The reason is that on the way, they found two tombs of ancient warriors and gathered some skeleton soldiers and ghosts. The number could have been more, but very Unfortunately, while traveling at night, some low-level undead accidentally fell into the quicksand and could no longer get out.

What now appeared in front of Roy and the others was a huge mountain range with a fairly high altitude, and some white snow marks could be seen on the top of the mountain in the distance. The vampire count Giovanni pointed to this mountain range and said to Roy: "Your Excellency Osiris, after crossing this mountain range, you will be able to enter the territory of Iofol. Earthquakes occur frequently in the territory of Iofol. There are many active volcanoes. The demons who came to the surface detonated these volcanoes and A city was built on the volcano. Originally, there were some humans and other races living in Eofol, but when the demons ruled here, those aborigines either fled or turned into demon cultists and joined the demons. Don't be surprised if you see humans in Eofol's land at that time."

Roy nodded, and he didn't find it strange. In fact, he had come into contact with these so-called demon cultists a long time ago. It can be said that these demon worshipers are often the initial way for demons to enter other worlds. If they hadn't tried to summon demons , it is impossible for demons to discover their world...

"Another thing to note is that we may encounter outposts and fortresses of other races along the way!" Giovanni continued: "Four years ago, during a sudden lunar eclipse, Sheogh's demon army came out in full force, almost The world was destroyed, so after temporarily repelling the demons, all the races on the mainland were very vigilant against the demons on the border of Eofol. They built strong fortresses on their respective borders close to Eofol. The movement of the demons, to prevent the sudden invasion of the demons, and secondly, to provide help for possible counterattacks in the future..."

"In other words, there are a lot of troops hoarded in these fortresses?" Roy asked.

"Yes!" Giovanni nodded solemnly, "Except for the dark elves in the dungeon and our necromancers in Horace, the rest of the races are almost all established in all directions on the border of Eofol. The dark elves have left the fortress because they have allied themselves with the demons, and we Helaishi because the demons have no interest in us undeads at all!"

Having said that, Giovanni shrugged his shoulders, that expression...it's hard to describe.

In fact, undead have always been disliked by all races in this world. For many races, death is sacred, but necromancers resurrect the dead and stand up again. This is a kind of blasphemy in their eyes. The Necromancers of the Kingdom of Raish did not want to build fortresses on the border to monitor the demons, but the problem was that other races simply did not allow them to do so, and kept suppressing and crowding them out.

This is the reason why Giovanni disagrees with Arantier's ideas. He is not a fanatical believer of Asha, so he can't figure it out. Since the undead are so unpopular, why does Arantier keep posting it? , by destroying demons to "please" other races? The demons are not interested in the undead, so wouldn't it be fine for the Helaishi Kingdom to just sit and watch other races fight with the demons?

Julie was listening to Giovanni's narration at the side, and at this time also interjected: "You mean, we may encounter fortresses of other races along the way?"

"It's not a possibility, but a certainty!" Giovanni said: "Because each fortress will regularly send out patrols to strictly check every passage to prevent the demons from running out. These patrols have a neat lineup, not only ground troops, There are also air units, it is impossible to get past it."

"If you can't get past it, then just fight it!" Roy said indifferently: "Do you think I brought these undead troops just to be melon-eaters?"

Giovanni was stunned for a moment, he didn't get the stalk of Roy's words, but he still understood, so he nodded, took out a rolled up map from his waist, opened it, examined it carefully for a while, and said: " From the map, if we go all the way in the direction we are going, the first thing we will encounter is the fortress of the Kingdom of Bradaka. If our direction is a little west, then we will encounter the fortress of the elves. Relying on the Desert of Death, supplies are not easy, so the two strongholds of these two races have always been watching and helping each other, and there are trade exchanges between them."

Roy also took a look at the map and found that the two fortress cities on the map are actually separated by hundreds of kilometers. In other words, Roy can completely knock down these fortresses one by one, but since The two fortresses kept watch and helped each other. Roy guessed that their cities might have set up space portals for each other. Once attacked, troops from the other city could quickly arrive through the portal and resist the attack together.

So if you really want to attack the city, you should control the portal in the city as soon as possible.

But the location of the portal definitely needs to be investigated. Roy turned his head and looked at the people around him, but found that there was no good candidate. Needless to say, Roy himself is a demon. Once he appears, he may be far away It will be discovered and the alarm bell will be sounded. Julie is a fallen angel again. The black flame wings on her back can be seen at a glance, and she cannot pretend to be an angel to sneak in. As for Giovanni, a local native, it may be possible, but The nearest fortress is the Kingdom of Bradaka, and those mages are no different from vigilance against undead, just like vigilance against demons.

After thinking about it, Roy raised his hand and turned it over, and saw many big eyes with little devil's wings appeared in his hand!

"Go!" Roy waved his hand, and the demon eyes created by him immediately flapped their wings and spread out like a bat swarm, and gradually became invisible during the flight, and then headed towards the direction of the fortress. go.

After releasing the devil's eye for investigation, Roy waved his hand and said, "Let's go, keep going!"

The next thing is to go all the way across the mountains. The undead army controlled by Cassandra has this advantage. There is no morale at all, and they will not be tired. There will be no delay when marching in the mountains.

When he turned over the top of the mountain and was about to go down, Giovanni saw a large forest at the foot of the mountain below, so he reminded: "Lord Osiris, pay attention! There may be many animals and plants in the forest. It is the eyeliner spread by the elves, and this kind of forest is often the place where elf rangers with long ears like to patrol. I am sure that there are definitely elves in this forest, because those weak mages are very annoying. Trekking through mountains and rivers, they prefer to let elf rangers patrol these forests instead of them. If they are found on the way through the forest, elf rangers will quickly pass on the news, and the fortress will be prepared by then, and maybe They will send troops to attack us first..."

"But we can't avoid it..." Julie looked at the area of ​​the forest below, and said, "Unless we detour for hundreds of kilometers!"

Indeed, the area of ​​the forest is too large, and the edge cannot be seen from a long distance. Not only can there be various insects and birds singing in the forest, but also a few large flying creatures can be faintly seen in the sky above the forest. That might be a young green dragon, Pegasus, or a flamingo, these are all common creatures living in the elves' territory.

"Don't be so troublesome!" Roy grinned and said, "Out of the desert, some methods can be used!"

Leading the troops all the way down, Roy stopped when he was finally a kilometer or two away from the edge of the forest.

Giovanni looked at Roy in confusion, and didn't know what he was going to do, but at this moment, Roy took out Frostmourne, then stabbed the tip of the sword into the ground, and half knelt while holding the hilt down.

Seeing his posture, Julie immediately understood what he was going to do, so she hurriedly greeted Fat Tiger and Cassandra, telling them to retreat a bit.

Although Giovanni didn't quite understand what was going on, he also retreated a little out of vigilance.

And Roy was half-kneeling on the ground, surging magic power poured into Frostmourne, the runes on the sword began to light up gradually, and the skull eyes on the jaw of the sword gradually emitted blue light, a powerful A cold airflow began to gradually form, centered on Roy's body, and continuously spread out.

Where Roy was, a large black frost appeared on the ground, and the covered ground was condensed into a smooth ice surface. However, the ice surface did not spread out too much, and it was only within a few hundred meters near Roy. That's all.

Giovanni, who watched this scene from a distance, was inexplicably horrified. He raised his head and looked into the sky, because he could feel the cold air emanating from Roy's body being continuously injected into the sky!

After the powerful cold air entered the high altitude, it immediately caused a huge change in the climate above the forest. Under the influence of the cold air, countless water molecules began to condense, gradually forming large thick clouds. The coverage area of ​​these clouds is It was so huge that it almost included the entire forest.

With the magic amplification effect of Frostmourne, Roy doesn't even need to lower the temperature too low, it is enough to affect the climate within hundreds of square kilometers. of the animals noticed...

At this moment, there are three patrol troops of elf rangers in this forest. Each of them is small in number, but they are quick to move. When they were sitting on a routine patrol in the forest, they found that the forest The animals in the forest suddenly panicked, and they either ran away or hid one by one. Even the emotions conveyed by the plants were full of uneasiness.

"what's going on?"

The patrols with longbows on their backs looked up blankly one by one, and saw the dark and low-hanging clouds above.

"It seems... is it going to snow?" an elf ranger was not sure.

"Are you kidding? It's snowing!?" Another elf ranger next to him said in disbelief: "It's still summer!"

"But such clouds are like clouds when it snows!" someone replied.

However, as if to confirm their guess, a black, crystal-clear snowflake fell from the sky first. An elf ranger subconsciously stretched out his hand to catch the snowflake. The snowflake quickly melted and turned into a drop of black dew.

"Damn it! It's really snowing!" Seeing the continuous black snowflakes falling down, the elf rangers shivered.

This kind of black snowflakes reveals strangeness everywhere. When the snowflakes fell, those green plants and grasses withered quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye. The elves and rangers also realized that something was wrong, because no matter what No matter how you look at it, this is not a normal weather phenomenon!

"We are under attack, escape here immediately!" A ranger captain said decisively: "Go back to the fortress of Bradaka and report the situation here to them!"

However, it was too late at this time, the elves couldn't even tell where the attack came from, let alone who the attacker was, and no matter how agile and fast they moved, it was impossible for them to escape the entire forest in a short time range to go.

The black snow fell bigger and bigger, and fell faster and faster. After only five minutes, a thin layer of snow had already gathered on the top of the forest, and the rest fell on the ground through the gaps between the trees, causing the forest to also fall. Messy dark spots appeared!

The rangers running in the forest kept moving forward in the black snow, but they ran less and less energetically. The black snowflakes on their bodies made their bodies gradually feel itchy and painful. I couldn't help stretching out my hand to scratch it, and it was very likely that the skin would be dripping with blood.

Under the effect of the barren virus, the skins of the elf rangers began to fester, and they began to vomit non-stop, unable to run anymore.

"Where is the enemy..." An elf ranger fell down in despair, and before he closed his eyes and died, he yelled these words unwillingly.

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Twenty minutes later, Roy pulled out Frostmourne and stood up, but what was displayed in front of everyone was just a withered forest covered in black ice and snow...