Chapter 161: Deya, the one feared by everyone

"The Immortal King!!"

"That scary monster is coming!"

"Run! He'll kill us all!"

"Bone dragon, the bone dragon is flying down!"

"..."

In the city of Berwick, exclamations and screams were heard again.

A huge bone dragon streaked across the sky, pale flames burning in its eyes, and the loud roar of the dragon echoed in the city.

Most of the people in Berwick welcomed Ives and Duke Frederick's soldiers when they attacked the city again.

As a living human being, no one would like those undead creatures that are only left with skeletons or even whose flesh has rotted away.

When Deya's undead army attacked the city, all the city residents were in despair.

They thought that the evil necromancer would massacre the entire city and turn all the living people into undead creatures.

They are afraid of this, they are scared, but they dare not resist.

However, things did not develop as the city residents had expected.

Although the evil necromancer captured the city of Berwick, he did not do anything to the residents of the city, allowing the city to continue operating as before.

However, Deya himself was not a qualified lord, and he did not implement policies such as fighting the local tyrants and dividing the land, eliminating the nobles, and giving preferential treatment to civilians.

Because Deya knew clearly that this approach would never work in this world.

Productivity is there. If we don’t solve the problem of productivity, all policies will be rootless and will not last long.

In addition, there are extraordinary people in this world who can defeat an entire country alone. The theories from another world may not be applicable here.

Deya himself is not a reformer or a politician. Compared with the pursuit of mundane power, he wants to pursue extraordinary power more.

As long as there is strength, power will naturally become a subsidiary.

So during the time that Deya ruled Berwick, he neither made the city better, but also did not make it worse.

But for ordinary people, they would rather accept the rule of Duke Frederick than the rule of a necromancer.

Few people can stand it, encountering undead creatures all over the streets as soon as they go out.

This is human nature.

When the residents saw the Duke's army attacking back, they all came out of their homes happily to celebrate and welcome the Duke.

But who could have thought that the evil necromancer was not dead at all. He once again rode the terrible bone dragon and came back to wreak havoc!

The people who took to the streets ran home and into houses in panic.

The Duke's army also trembled as they looked at the undead dragon flying across the sky.

Today, Deya has left countless legends throughout Susetsatani.

Something like he's covered in pus, his body is rotting and stinking, he likes to sleep in a coffin and hang out with disgusting undead creatures, and so on and so forth.

These rumors were naturally spread by people from the King's faction. They described Deya as such a horrible monster, which would not only make people hate him, but also make people hate the army of the Parliament faction.

What kind of people can be good if they can accept an army of necromancers like this?
Especially since Deyatha actually led the army of the undead, captured city after city, and turned the living into the dead, which solidified his title as the Undead King.

But while the public was resisting him, this kind of propaganda also brought a benefit.

That is, everyone was afraid of Deya. When Deya's figure just appeared, the morale of the entire Duke's army almost collapsed.

No one wants to be an enemy of such a terrible person, and no one wants to be turned into that immortal creature.

The soldiers fled crying, but Deya never showed mercy when facing the enemy.

The bone dragon spewed out strong acid dragon breath.

The dark yellow sticky dragon breath fell on the ground, corroding the house instantly.

If someone is accidentally contaminated by dragon's breath, their flesh, blood, and bones will quickly melt, and they will eventually turn into a sticky substance similar to slime.

Others who saw this scene were even more terrified, and deeply hated their parents for not giving them two more legs, which was why they could run so slowly.

In the city, there are not many of Deya's undead army left.

He brought that batch of high-level undead spirits to the World Memory. There was no prompt when they left the Memory, so that batch of undead spirits were left in the Memory and not brought back.

Deya is in a very awkward situation now. He is a lone commander with only a group of more than 10,000 low-level undead under his command.

Although for Deya, as long as he is given some time, these troops will be replenished and even stronger than before.

But right now, the number of undead legions he can control is limited.

But Duke Frederick's troops did not know this. After seeing Deya, they were so frightened that they lost all will to fight and began to flee in all directions.

The Ringwraith Knights were summoned out again by Deya to gather the few remaining undead troops, so that these undead creatures, which had been like headless flies, had a backbone again and could better exert their strength.

"Wall of Souls!"

Deya made a magic gesture and pointed his finger. An illusory wall several meters high and hundreds of meters wide rose up a hundred meters ahead.

Countless wronged souls are hiding in the walls, making horrible noises and showing their fangs and claws.

Some people did not stop and rushed into the wall. In an instant, they were caught by the wronged souls and were torn apart and eaten away amid screams.

Seeing this, the others stopped immediately.

But behind them, a bone dragon was flying low, and its huge body stirred up a gust of wind, which blew the soldiers standing on the edge of the wall into the wall and completely devoured them.

The bone dragon's body flew over the wall without suffering any damage.

This spell has no effect on undead creatures.

Deya had also used magic to transform himself and Mavis's forms long ago, so that they would not be affected by his own magic.

He set up several soul walls in empty areas of the city, turning the city square into a giant maze.

The Duke's soldiers could only run around in the maze, looking for a way out.

"Suffocating Sands!"

Deya once again cast a five-ring spell, and a strong sandstorm blew up with Deya as the center.

When the sand blows over a person's body, it will rush into the person's mouth and nose, blocking the person's respiratory organs and causing death from suffocation.

At this moment, Deya was like the emperor of the desert. He expanded the range of the suffocating sand to the surrounding areas of the soul wall.

In just over ten seconds, more than two hundred people were killed by his consecutive five-ring spells.

A mage, as long as he can cast spells, is always the most efficient person at killing.

If any other five-ring professional were to kill two hundred combat-capable soldiers alone, it would take a lot of time and he might even suffer serious injuries.

"These soldiers are much weaker than expected. They don't seem like frontline soldiers, but more like cannon fodder filling the line."

The bone dragon flew into the air again, and after killing some of the Duke's soldiers, it flew in the direction of Elvis.

Mavis also stood beside Deya. She stood very steadily to prevent herself from falling while the bone dragon was flying.

Hearing this, she asked, "Why do you say that?"

"Their fighting spirit is too weak. I didn't use any large-scale fear spells. Even if I'm said to be evil, they wouldn't dare to fight me."

Deya raised his brows: "...Remember when I attacked this city, what did the defenders do when facing my 100,000 undead army?" Mavis thought that the defending army at that time really fought to the death with Deya and wiped out Deya's tens of thousands of undead legions.

Especially the troops defending the city, led by a six-ring cavalry general, had a very high fighting spirit. Even though they suffered heavy casualties, they were still fighting desperately with Deya.

Under normal circumstances, in this kind of battle in the cold weapon era, as long as the army's casualties exceeded a certain percentage, the army might collapse immediately.

But there is extraordinary power here after all, and the cavalry general's various extraordinary abilities are prepared for this.

Especially the six-ring cavalry general, who has the extraordinary ability to calm the morale of the army, which is similar to the halo spell.

Under the leadership of cavalry generals, some armies were able to maintain strong combat effectiveness even when suffering more than 50% casualties.

It is said that cavalry generals above the eighth ring can make their troops fight to death.

The Cavalry General isn't very strong in one-on-one combat, but he is simply a complete killing machine.

"Lord Ives!"

A low-level mage standing beside the chief court mage, Elvis, shouted in fear when he saw Deya swooping down on a bone dragon.

The reputation of a man is like the shadow of a tree. These low-level mages are already afraid of Deya.

Especially when they saw the bone dragon with terrifying dragon power and the killing carried out by Deya himself, these mages who did not have much combat experience also trembled in their hearts.

"I saw it... Don't be afraid, just follow the method I told you before. That necromancer who doesn't even have the sixth ring is nothing to worry about!"

Ives said calmly, comforting the mages around him.

After hearing what he said, the other wizard members of the Crescen Incantation also calmed down.

Elvis, wearing a red robe, stood on the roof of a house.

The giant dragon, which was thirty meters long, gently waved its rotten bone wings and slowly landed on the tall building opposite Elvis.

The bone dragon's four claws grabbed the top of the house. Fortunately, the bone dragon's weight was not as heavy as that of a giant dragon, so the house did not collapse directly.

"Roar----"

The dragon's eyes burning with flames looked at Elvis, and the giant dragon opened its mouth and let out a roar that shook the air.

The strong wind blew, causing the corners of Elvis' clothes to fly up.

"Mr. Ives, we meet again. The last time we met was in the palace of His Majesty the King."

Deya stood on the dragon's head. He looked at the court wizard in front of him and said with a chuckle.

As soon as he finished speaking, Deya pointed at Elvis.

Ivis immediately felt that one of his spells had failed.

[You used the fourth-level spell 'Dimension Anchor']

Deya had learned this fourth-ring spell a long time ago, just to use it in fighting against mages.

A wizard with strength exceeding the fifth ring, especially one from the school of conjuration, must have mastered teleportation spells.

Even when facing enemies above the sixth ring, these mages can quickly escape once they realize they are no match for them.

Unless these mages are given tracking spells in advance, such as some skills of the Wanderer, it will be very difficult to find them.

Besides, these spells can easily teleport dozens of kilometers, so even if you can track it, you may not be able to catch up.

The reason why mages are so powerful is because their various abilities are too troublesome.

And 'Dimension Anchor' is a spell that prevents movement into another dimension.

Elvis never expected that Deya, a mage of the necromancy school, especially one with a low level, could actually cast spells from the protection school. That's why he didn't react in time and was directly anchored by Deya!

This made Elvis deeply jealous.

Because this means that Deya has an extremely high talent in magic, which is why he can master spells from other schools when he is only at the fourth or fifth ring!

"It's been a long time, Deya Cavendish. The wooden box in your hand contains a doll, but it is something from our Cressian Curse Ceremony!"

Elvis looked at the wooden box in Deya's hand with fanatical eyes.

If he had known earlier that the puppet he was looking for was in there, he would have killed Deya in the palace!
"You mean this? There is indeed a doll inside it. I got it from a wizard after I killed him."

Deya smiled and picked up the wooden box and said that he no longer needed to hide now, some things would be known once others knew them.

"Deya Cavendish, give me that puppet. He is of no use to a necromancy wizard like you.

As long as you give it to me, there will be no grudges between us, and I can even help your parliamentary faction to fight against the king and those dukes together!"

Elvis is a man who can take it or leave it.

Deya's mysterious abilities made him wary, especially since Deya also had a powerful teacher.

If he wasn't forced to do so, he really didn't want to be an enemy of Deya, even if he was a seventh-ring and the other party was not even a sixth-ring.

As long as he can get that doll, as long as he has the opportunity to make further progress, he doesn't mind turning his enemies into friends, or even joining the enemy.

"You are such an admirable person, but unfortunately, I cannot promise you this."

Deya sighed and said.

The other party did not clamor to kill him, but chose to resolve the issue peacefully. This deep thought and cautious attitude are worth learning.

"It seems that our talks have failed."

"The talks have indeed broken down, Lord Ives."

"In that case, since you have chosen this path, then die here. Do it now!"

Ives growled.

He and the dozen or so mages beside him cast a spell at the same time.

Deya had also made preparations long ago and was about to let the bone dragon directly activate his mythical power. No matter what spell it was, in front of the seven-ring bone dragon with mythical power, it could be defeated by force.

Unless the opponent also calls in a dragon.

Mavis was also ready to stir up fate at any time.

But Elvis and his men did not use any attack spells, but each summoned a construct.

"Those are?"

Deya looked at the summoned constructs in surprise.

Each construct actually has the strength of six rings, and there are even a few seven-ring constructs among them!
In particular, constructs are generally carefully crafted by mages and have absolutely powerful combat capabilities. I'm afraid this is also Elvis's trump card.

But these constructs were definitely not made by Elvis himself. If he had such ability, why would he come and snatch the puppet from his hand?

These constructs are different from ordinary constructs. They are small, finely crafted, and each one is in human form.

If it weren't for the fact that these constructs have no extra expressions on their faces, one would even doubt that they are living humans.

And Deya only knows of one person who possesses this technology, and that is Abel Duval, the puppeteer from five hundred years ago!
Looking at these works that are suspected to be the legacy of Abel Duval, Deya had a strange look on his face.

He thought of the chance he still had to get the Abel Duval Puppetry Experience Card, and felt that Elvis was truly unfortunate.

You've really hit a wall!

Deya originally thought that it would take some effort to kill this seven-ring mage, but after seeing the opponent's trump card, Deya felt that the battle should be over soon.

(End of this chapter)