LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 74: Your most loyal subjects have come to see the Queen
With so many beasts tonight, leveling up should be a breeze, and with the addition of the beast from Chi-Chi's side, Alex's level could rise by at least two.
A level 1 Commanding beast was easily taken down by Alex, who is now a level 2 Commanding herself. With the enhancement from her scythe, she faced almost no pressure.
It's just that she used up a bit too many Mana Points, but for the sake of resolving the battle more quickly, it's understandable.
Right now, outside Chi-Chi's castle, with John's help, handling the beast tide has become incredibly easy. Even the second, more intense wave of the beast tide, which only brought some beasts from the Dark Forest, posed no challenge at all.
Chi-Chi, of course, knew that if it weren't for Alex, she would have been killed by the beasts by now. Several Red Blood Gorillas were also not idle; they were outside helping Alex's troops fight, and although their impact was minimal, at least they felt involved.
In Sophie's castle, Sophie anxiously watched a group of dwarves, clad in armor, fighting the beasts outside.
Just as Sophie had guessed, her castle was surrounded by mountains, posing no real danger, so the beast tide was just the basic level, without even a single Commanding level beast.
Due to its remote location, the number of ordinary beasts in this tide was much fewer than that faced by other Lords.
But the dwarves are not undead; many of them died in battle despite wearing armor.
They were originally refugees, having suffered oppression and hunger before fleeing here.
Sophie provided them with food and drink, and they only had to work eight hours a day. Being a wise race, they felt respected by Sophie here.
These commoners didn't care about extraterrestrial visitors; they only knew that the human woman in the castle behind them had helped them in their most difficult times. Now that she was in trouble, these dwarves were ready to risk their lives to protect her.
Sophie watched the brave dwarves fall one by one in front of her, feeling indescribably sad, but she was too weak to help.
This was a cruel battlefield, and Sophie understood that a Lord like herself couldn't survive without relying on others.
The beast tide was just a way to force out Lords like her, and being forced out meant death.
Meanwhile, similar scenes were unfolding around the world.
Beasts rampaged through the gates of castles, leaving only corpses of troops inside.
"No!"
A beast tore a Lord into pieces, and at that moment, the castle began to fade as if it had never existed.
Except for the remains and bloodstains on the ground, there was nothing to show that a great battle had taken place here.
As the castle vanished, the beasts also came to their senses and began to wander back to their own territories.
At the Lava Volcano, Lord Cain of the Flame Spirits had successfully destroyed a salamander lair before the beast tide arrived.
He had also reached the Commanding level, mastering an ability to transform himself into flames, allowing for rapid movement and immunity to physical damage.
Compared to mages who control fire to cast fire magic, the flames seemed like an innate ability of Cain, making it more intuitive for him to use than for mages.
Simply put, while mages control fire, Cain himself is fire.
The Flame Spirits did not disappoint, and during Cain's extermination of the salamander lair, they collected several hundred Essence Shards. Cain summoned all his troops, and several Flame Spirits also broke through to the Commanding level due to the experience gained from destroying the lair.
They transformed into ten-foot-tall, floating fire giants.
Under the attack of the Flame Spirits, the beast tide turned into roasted meat. Even the beasts on the Lava Volcano posed no challenge for Cain.
On the other side of the Frostwind Snowy Mountains, Lord Lucian of the Draculas also found the beast tide easy to handle, with over two thousand vampires overwhelmingly crushing the beasts.
Lucian's top vampire general, Lester, had absorbed the bodies of fifteen hundred werewolves and reached the level 4 Commanding level.
He was currently battling a Commanding level Flame Demon Wolf that emerged from the Frostwind Snowy Mountains.
The Flame Demon Wolf, like the Frost Sprites, was active only at night in the Frostwind Snowy Mountains, spending most of the day in caves.
Fortunately, there were caves near Lucian's snowy mountain, and the night's beast tide had successfully summoned them.
This was the first time Lucian learned that in such harsh and cold conditions of the Frostwind Snowy Mountains, there existed Flame Demon Wolves that used fire magic.
Although called Flame Demon Wolves, they were not in wolf form but rather in werewolf form, with red fur and black limbs, a black cloak over their heads, and their bodies covered in faint flames.
The Flame Demon Wolf was at level 3 Commanding, and it struggled a bit against the level 4 Commanding vampire.
But at that moment, the Flame Demon Wolf had lost its rationality, its claws continuously spewing flames, scorching the surrounding vampires and causing widespread destruction.
The vampires had once slashed through the Flame Demon Wolf's skin, but like a mummy, it bled not a drop.
Even though the Flame Demon Wolf had double attributes at night, the vampires were also nocturnal creatures, similarly enhanced at night.
Even so, the level 3 Flame Demon Wolf still firmly entangled the level 4 vampire, giving the vampire no chance to kill it alone.
Suddenly, a huge black cloth appeared above the Flame Demon Wolf, enveloping it completely.
Instantly wrapped up, the Flame Demon Wolf's body burst into huge flames, but the black cloth was unaffected.
Soon, the flames on the Flame Demon Wolf gradually extinguished, and it was tightly bound, unable to move.
The black cloth was Lucian's weapon. The level 4 vampire seized the opportunity and directly killed the bound Flame Demon Wolf.
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Alex wielded her scythe, reaping the lives of the beasts as their numbers dwindled and the undead grew in number. The beasts, no match for the undead army, were increasingly on the defensive.
Suddenly, from behind the beasts, a black bird-like creature swooped low and fast towards Alex. Fighting at night without night vision was a disadvantage for Alex, but upon hearing a warning from a necromancer above, she instantly activated her left eye, enhancing her senses.
She immediately detected an approaching creature and, using her night vision, saw it clearly: a muscular humanoid body with a dog's head and a pair of black wings granting it the ability to fly. Its entire body, including its skin, was black, and it wielded two objects resembling a scepter and a magic wand—likely its weapons.
In an instant, the black dog-headed bird creature attacked, and Alex's scythe burst into flames, illuminating the surroundings.
With her heightened senses, Alex deftly dodged the bird creature's attack. Upon seeing Alex's left eye up close, the creature regained its clarity, stopped its attack, and a look of shock appeared on its dog face.
The scythe swiftly struck the bird creature's body. Strangely, the flames on the scythe were completely absorbed by the creature, and the wounds inflicted by the scythe began to heal. Alex felt the creature's aura strengthen slightly after absorbing her fire magic.
What was this creature? It was Alex's first encounter with such a bizarre being.
The bird creature, still in a dazed state, sensed the noble aura and power emanating from Alex. It immediately landed and knelt on one knee before her.
"I have seen the Queen, my apologies for the offense, please punish me, Your Majesty!" it said, bowing its head even lower.
What? What was happening?
Alex was baffled, not understanding the situation at all.
Seeing that Alex harbored no intention of blaming it, the bird creature's dog head seemed to relax. It quickly flapped its wings and flew up, its eerie voice echoing across the battlefield, "The Queen has emerged, the undead race shall unite, submit swiftly!"
A commotion arose from behind the beast tide; one by one, dozens, then hundreds of bird creatures flew from the rear.
Not just in the sky, but even on the ground behind, there was disturbance. Alex, through her left eye, saw these ground-crawling creatures: humanoid, with legs like pig's trotters, hunched backs, but walking upright on two legs, their hands large claws, their bodies covered in fungi.
Before they even reached Alex, she could smell the foul odor emanating from them, due to their bodies being covered in fungi and their flesh highly decomposed, with bits of meat even falling off as they moved.
What were these disgusting creatures? They were nearly as numerous as the dog-headed bird creatures.
Both types of creatures approached Alex, seemingly sensing the aura she emitted. The disgusting creatures immediately knelt on all fours, and the bird creatures also landed and knelt.
"Your most loyal subjects have come to see the Queen," they declared.
Wait, Alex realized something. Only the undead would refer to her as "Queen," combined with the bird creature's words and its strange abilities.
So, these disgusting creatures and the group of bird creatures were all undead!
Eldoria had other undead beings, but from the bird creature's words, it seemed they had been scattered.
It wasn't that Alex was the only one summoning undead race troops, indicating that there were no other undead beings on Eldoria.
There were others, but not many, mainly because there were too many types of undead. These native undead might have once been glorious, but now, for some unknown reason, they had fragmented and were fighting each other, their status essentially at the bottom of Eldoria's hierarchy.
According to the bird creature, the undead race once had a king, and after his death, the undead race fragmented into several smaller factions.
"Kill all these beasts!" Alex commanded the more than two hundred undead who had submitted to her. These creatures immediately turned against the beast tide, attacking the surrounding beasts.
Alex teleported to the top of the wall, sheathing her scythe. The beasts had stopped appearing. Alex glanced at the time.
00:45
In another fifteen minutes, these beasts would likely be slaughtered by her undead army.
Alex still didn't know what races these two types of undead were. She accessed the system dashboard to check.
[Destroyer]
[Race: undead race]
[Loyalty: 100% (Never Betray)]
[Life Tier: Commanding level]
[Level: lv2 (can be increased by killing enemies)]
[Health Points: Undead trait, immortal as long as the soul fire burns]
[Mana Points: 100]
[Strength: 65]
[Stamina: ∞]
[Agility: 70]
[Maximum Growth: Emperor level]
[Active Skill: Magic Devour]
Magic Devour: Absorbs magic to strengthen oneself, initial mana at 0, when Mana Points reach 100, can advance and release the skill again, magic explosion.
[Passive Skill: Magic Immunity]