Chapter 693
While Antoril and Uzzah were engaged in their battle of pursuit and escape, a new enemy had appeared on the battlefield.
In all seriousness, it wasn’t a complete ‘enemy’ that had appeared. Rather, it was a single strange head!
It was the head of a lich carved out of semi-translucent magical crystal.
This crystal head wasn’t very large, but it was extremely clear and crystalline.
Prismatic lines shone from a delicate and gorgeous magical crown upon the head, while two odd rubies were inlaid within its empty eye sockets, hiding the glow of its crimson soulfire.
When the jaw of this head started moving up and down to speak, Greem could very clearly see its teeth were not actual teeth. Instead, they were teeth that had been individually carved out of magical gemstones with ferocious might.
It was through the use of these powerful magical gemstones that the lich’s head was capable of fighting its enemies without the use of any chants. It only needed to click its jaws, and the magical gemstones that had been set into a magical sequencer would rapidly activate, launching a ferocious barrage of spells to exterminate the enemy.
According to Greem’s understanding, even the weakest liches of the multiverse were Third Grade creatures.
Did undead like liches have any weaknesses?
They did– their soulfires!
One could even say that all undead had only one fatal weakness and that was the soulfire hidden deep within their skulls. Many undead had evolved durable skulls that rivaled even the finest of steel to protect this soulfire and avoid themselves being killed with a single strike.
The liches that stood at the very top of undead creatures undoubtedly went the furthest on this route.
They used the most precious and sturdy magical crystals in the world to create a perfect home for their soulfires. This crystal skull might seem like it was forged from thin crystal glass and was immensely frail, but its magic and physical resistance was shockingly high.
Take the beginner Fourth Grade Lich Luke for instance. The crystal skull it had crafted for itself was immune to all magical and physical attacks below Third Grade. Even attacks above Third Grade had to be concentrated to a single point and repeated multiple times to have any hopes of breaking through its head.
The lich did not fear large-scale elementium attacks such as the one Uzzah had just unleashed upon him!
Lich Luke drove its crystal skull toward Uzzah’s side, enduring her mad retaliations as it did so, before using an instant-cast Horrid Wilting to render the Dark Witch unconscious.
It was then that rows of death knights stomped out of the few tunnels behind Third Grade Lich Anders. Judging from their intimidating presence, they were all Second Grade undead.
Greem had utterly given up now!
Even without Alice stopping him, he would have run into this army of death knights after he forced the Third Grade lich away from him with his Flame Fiend of Terror.
Greem had great confidence in exterminating a single death knight in under fifteen minutes if it was a duel. After all, casters could use teleportation spells in a fight against enemies with brute strength, then proceed to wear away at their defenses with offensive spells.
Even if he was dealing two death knights, Greem had a reasonably high chance of winning with all his aces put into play. If there were three death knights, Greem would have no choice but to turn and flee.
However, judging by the situation before him and the squads of death knights that continued to march out of the tunnels, they numbered a total of twenty-one.
An army like this wasn’t something that a mere Second Grade fire adept like Greem could deal with!
Under Alice’s hinting, Greem had no choice but to unsummon the Flame Fiend and surrender.
After they were caught, these undead slowly marched Alice and Greem them toward the depths of the underground after they had been caught.
Greem could sense that, for some reason, these undead treated Alice with more priority and emphasis than they did Uzzah and Antoril. The Fourth Grade lich grabbed Alice after binding her with Hold Person, then flew ahead of the rest of the undead into the underground.
Meanwhile, Greem, Uzzah, and Antoril were personally brought to a temporary camp by Lich Anders and its undead army. Greem saw countless intermediate and high-grade undead there, along with massive undead armies.
If these undead were allowed to swarm to the surface, the forest elves might not be able to keep their positions as the masters of Garan!