Chapter 424: Undead Army

Noshir cast his eyes down to his feet. He did not forget that there was a huge hidden space under the tower.

In the years when Catheric was not resurrected by Melkor, the Moonrise Tower was not completely abandoned. Perhaps it was by chance, or for other reasons. In short, after the Mind Flayers drove their Nautilus warships from the outer astral plane to the land of Faerun, they took a fancy to this tower.

Since then, the Mind Flayers have established their own community under this tower. They recuperate and grow in the darkness. If nothing unexpected happens, this group of Mind Flayers only needs to develop for a period of time. They rely on the psychic technology left in their hands from the Mind Flayer Empire era, that is, more than a dozen Nautilus shell ships to dominate the entire Northland.

But unfortunately, these guys were unlucky enough to run into Keselik who had resurrected and wanted to retake his base camp. The disputes and battles between the undead and the mind flayers dragged down the development of both sides. It was not until the evil thought came with the crown of Karsus some time ago and put the crown on the head of the main brain that Keselik became the master of the Moonrise Tower again.

‘The power of the mind flayers should not be underestimated, but both sides experienced a war some time ago. In that battle, both sides must have consumed a lot of power. At least the mind flayers must have suffered losses. After all, they were the losers, and even their main brain was controlled by Keselik and his gang. This is a very dangerous signal. ’

‘With the loyalty of ordinary mind flayers to the main brain, once the war fails to the point where even the main brain is threatened, there are probably not many ordinary mind flayers left. Maybe the ten mind flayers that the master and his team encountered before were all re-cultivated by them during this period. '

'As for the losses on Kesrick's side... well, after a closer look, it seems that many of the undead on both sides of the hall have limbs that are not coordinated. These undead should have suffered serious injuries before. Maybe the undead I see now are the combined undead that were reassembled by Balthazar after the war. '

This possibility is very high, but for Noshir, this is not a good thing. After all, the advantage of the undead is that they become more and more, and it is also very easy to replenish them after the battle.

Noshir can be sure that these undead must have been scrapped more than once during the process of Kesrick and Xie Nian joining forces to deal with the Mind Flayer, but now look at it, as long as these skeletons are not broken to the point that they can't be put together, it is not a loss at all.

As long as you clean up the battlefield after the battle, and then use the undead spell to fight and connect, you can instantly create a large group of new living combat forces.

‘So, if you want to deal with the army of undead, the most critical point is to kill their leader first. Balthazar is the chief necromancer under Keseric, and killing him can be said to be the highest priority. Although Keseric is the chosen one of Melkor and has the power to revive the undead, he is not competent as the chosen one of the god of the dead. ’

He is not a professional necromancer. Even resurrecting ordinary undead requires him to consume the divine power given to him by Melkor. There is no doubt that this is a very wasteful move. As long as the undead army participates in the war, both the enemy and himself will suffer heavy losses. If he needs to personally consume his strength to restore the undead in every battle, he will be dragged down by himself before long.

After all, before Keseric fell, he was a general. His duty was to command the whole army, not to do logistics. Keseric would give these tasks to Balthazar, who specialized in necromancy. But if Balthazar died...

'I remember that guy's laboratory was upstairs, but now this tower is more than 2,000 feet high, and this guy's location has become uncertain. It is unlikely to find his laboratory in a short time. In this case, let's search the bottom floor first. '

Noshier flapped his wings and flew up. The space in the hall on the first floor was very ample. The interval between the floors was more than ten meters high. Such a large space was enough for Noshier to fly. He bypassed the dense skeletons in the hall and flew over the first half of the hall on the first floor.

Yes, there were obviously thousands of undeads blocking here, but these undeads only filled the first half of the hall on the first floor of the Moonrise Tower. In the center of the hall, a stone wall blocked the way of these undeads. There was a seven-meter-high and five-meter-wide door frame on the walls on both sides of the stone wall.

Relying on the shadowing ability of the Shadow Demon on his belt, Noshiel entered from the door frame on the right, and saw the majestic throne made of stone at a glance, but at this moment, there was no trace of Keseric on the throne, and the God of the Dead was not here.

So Noshiel looked around again. On both sides behind the throne, there was a spiral stone staircase. The two stairs were also the only way to the upper level, but Noshiel didn't want to go up directly for the time being.

He moved his eyes to the left and right. The hall in the back half of the Moonrise Tower looked much narrower than the front half, but this was because the designer divided the back into three independent spaces. In addition to the place where the throne was placed in the middle, there was an empty room on each side.

Noshil remembered that in the game, if you go to the right, you can find a staircase leading directly to the underground cell, and on the left, you can meet a drow pharmacist. The pharmacist in the game can provide several very good potions, but in this timeline, the pharmacist is definitely not here, so Noshil plans to explore the area on the right first.

Just as Noshil approached the room on the right, he suddenly heard a noisy sound coming from that room.

First, a series of sharp giggles were heard, followed by the roar and whimper of wild beasts, and the sound of something being overturned and something heavy falling to the ground.

'...It's a gnoll. '

Yes, it's definitely a gnoll. That kind of laughter and movement is the most recognizable thing about gnolls. Noshil had encountered this kind of monster in the wilderness before, and his voice was very familiar to him.

‘Gnolls… Ordinary gnolls cannot survive in the Moonrise Tower, but I remember that Xie Nian really likes these bloodthirsty beasts and even thinks they have a unique beauty… Tsk, I really believe in Baal. These gnolls must be Xie Nian’s pets, which means…’