Building the Strongest Undead Empire from Scratch

The sound of the gargoyle's shattered body reached Alex effortlessly, and she immediately looked in Sienna's direction.

In the night, Alex could only see a small black dot rising into the air, gradually enlarging, and the sound of the flute becoming clearer. Soon after, the griffins hiding behind Sienna also soared into the sky, revealing dozens of them.

"You dare to attack first?" Alex scoffed. She hadn't even gone looking for her, yet she had come running over.

"What?" Sophie was still confused, following Alex's gaze and also vaguely seeing dozens of small black dots flying towards them in the sky.

As Sienna drew closer, she chose to stop playing the flute and prepared for battle. The beasts below, no longer controlled by the flute's sound, began to scatter and no longer engaged in the pointless fight with the undead.

With a wave of her hand, Alex summoned all remaining gargoyles and the dispersed destroyers to converge in the sky.

As Sienna approached, Alex, with her superior vision, could clearly see the creatures in the night sky—griffins.

Alex was familiar with griffins, having killed one before. The griffins' flying speed was not slow, making them a good match for the gargoyles. Although Alex had over five hundred undead on her side, most were specters, which, being incorporeal, were better suited for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering.

Specters, although also part of the air force, were too slow for this battle, so the main force was left to the gargoyles.

Of course, Alex never considered the possibility of losing; she deployed the gargoyles to use their speed advantage to prevent the enemy from escaping.

Even though most of the undead here were specters, Alex had hundreds of gargoyles, more than enough to handle the dozens of griffins.

Sienna, flying over Sophie's castle, only then realized that hundreds of gargoyles had suddenly appeared in the air around her, nearly three times her number.

But Sienna was not panicked. She had seen the griffins engage with the gargoyles and knew these gargoyles were not strong; sometimes, numbers alone do not guarantee victory.

"Attack!" Sienna commanded the griffins. After dealing with them, her next targets were Alex and Sophie below, whom Sienna had noticed early on.

Countless wind blades formed at the griffins' talons and shot towards the surrounding gargoyles. The scene Sienna imagined, where the gargoyles were directly sliced apart, did not occur.

The gargoyles remained unscathed, absorbing the wind blades!

Seeing that the creatures could absorb magic, Sienna immediately abandoned magical attacks and opted for a melee tactic with the griffins engaging the gargoyles.

With similar sizes and strengths, it was clear the gargoyles were more formidable. Sienna's previous assumption of their weakness was merely due to a level advantage.

Gargoyles were also highly agile in the air, easily grasping the griffins' necks or wings with their hands, while the griffins' talon strikes had no effect on the gargoyles' hard bodies.

The griffins' proudest magic was also completely ineffective against the gargoyles. If not for the presence of three Commanding level griffins among them, and only one among the gargoyles, the battle would have ended sooner. No griffin could defeat a gargoyle of equal strength alone.

"What kind of creatures are these!" Sienna looked distressed, riding her griffin in circles in the sky, battling these gargoyles.

As time passed, Sienna noticed her griffins dwindling in number, while the gargoyles maintained their initial count. Sienna clearly remembered that she had personally killed several gargoyles.

Her weapon, a black whip capable of mid-range attacks and enchanted with magic, was very powerful.

Below, Alex appeared very relaxed, showing no intention of assisting. She noticed Sienna wearing a pointed mage hat and dressed in a black mage robe, with various pendants hanging from her chest and hat brim, holding a whip while riding a griffin. The outfit was quite strange.

"Should we go help them?" Sophie asked worriedly. Without Alex's help, relying solely on the dwarves to deal with the griffins, she would have been defeated long ago.

"You're right, we can't play anymore. It would be troublesome if she escapes later." Alex said seriously.

"Ah?" So that was it. Sophie had been anxiously cheering for the gargoyles, fearing they couldn't overcome the enemy, while Alex was actually worried that the enemy might escape?

Sienna was just within the range of Alex's magical attacks. As Alex observed the battlefield from below, she prepared to intervene.

Above, Sienna thought the two Lords below were very weak, good-looking but useless, unable to fly or attack from a distance, otherwise they would have joined the battle by now.

Alex activated her right eye, which also enhanced perception and strength among other passive abilities. She seized the moment when Sienna, riding her griffin, dodged a gargoyle attack and entered Alex's magical attack range.

Sophie, still curious, saw Alex just staring at the sky. She even had a ridiculous thought—was Alex trying to kill someone with her gaze? Could that work?

But the next moment shocked Sophie. She saw a light emanating from Alex's right eye, and then the wings of the griffin Sienna was riding began to freeze.

Not good! The griffin, in pain and with one side frozen, lost balance and began to fall. Below it, the ground surged with huge ice spikes. If the griffin fell on them, it would undoubtedly be impaled.

The griffin, being a Commanding level creature, immediately launched wind blades at the ice spikes below, following the trajectory of the blades as it fell.

Boom— The griffin crashed heavily onto the ground, shattering the ice spikes and sustaining many cuts, bleeding profusely.

Sienna looked disheveled but was unharmed thanks to the griffin's protection. She caressed the griffin beside her, her palm glowing green, and the wounds on the griffin's body visibly healed.

Sophie was still confused, not understanding how the griffin flying in the sky had suddenly fallen. When she turned to ask Alex for an explanation, she found that Alex had already disappeared from her side.

Ah, where did Big Shot go?!