Zombies poured from the portals in an unending wave of rotted flesh, immediately turning the air fetid in an unnatural way. The magic of a black dragon was that of death, but it had a sense of finality to it, almost a lethal cleansing feeling. But the zombies in this group were powerful. Almost all Overlords, and they had a half dozen Totem Ranked Necromancers with them already.
That was not a good sign for a battle that was just starting.
There were three Totems with the group right now, leaving them outnumbered two to one. However, Karl had a good feeling about this fight. Rae had been learning all sorts of fun new things lately, and there was a good chance that one of the beasts would trigger [Skill Master 5] soon, and advance a skill by a Rank.
Even one more Totem Ranked attack skill would be a huge boost to their combat abilities. The Necromancers had spread themselves evenly around the village, but were hanging back behind the undead horde, guiding its progress while ensuring that there would be no escape from the ambush.
Priestess Delilah sent a message as she flapped her wings and took to the sky.
{Kindly cast that most wonderful defensive spell again. I am going to deal with the Necromancers.}
Karl chuckled as he cast the full suite of buffs over the three Totems. [Impenetrable Bulwark], [Limited Invulnerability], [Brutality], [Haste], [Terrorize], and [Sharpness]. Then, just for fun, he cast [Behemoth] on the ancient red dragon, bringing her overall length close to ninety metres when stacked with [Brutality].
It was impossible to miss the rapidly expanding red dragon as she circled the battlefield, even if she wasn't glowing red with divine favour. And that was precisely what the Priestess was after.
The looks of absolute terror on the faces of the Necromancers when the massive dragon came for them were priceless. Karl could see that they were ready to flee the moment that they saw the dragon double in size, but they managed to hold together long enough to start shouting something through the portals.
Most likely begging for reinforcements.
The first gout of dragon fire turned a human looking Necromancer to ash instantly, and Hawk made a note of the trick for future reference.
[She is using holy magic on her flames, and the Necromancers are coated with Unholy power.
It's almost like she doused them in acid before setting them on fire. It's beautiful.] The two Necromancers closest to Delilah began to bombard her with spells as the undead horde slammed into the shield wall, sliding the soldiers backward nearly a metre before the second rank hacked down enough of the zombies to stall their momentum.
A horn blew, and the demons sent out a wave of attacks that shredded the front ranks of Undead, and gave the shield wall time to return to their positions. It was all very methodical and practiced, a direct contrast to Karl's team, who were just happily throwing skills into the horde.
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