Chapter 85: Attack of the Undead King(Part 12)
"Damn it! This is exactly why I wanted to keep him away! Wait...he won’t unleash his flames so freely if I summon my forces close to his allies, he told them to stay back before attacking just now," Realized the Undead King, before he rapidly shot towards the others, swerving and weaving across as they unleashed a barrage of Spells at him, leaping forward as Raven fired a fierce blast of flames down towards him, while thinking to himself, "I have less than a thousand undead creatures left now...there’s no point in being conservative anymore, I’ll summon every last one of them here!"
"Shit...!" Exclaimed Jules, as the Undead King summoned all his remaining forces into the area.
The creatures rapidly spread out and shot towards her and each of The Irregulars, forcibly splitting them up.
A massive eruption of purple flames burst out, wiping out several of the creatures, but with the others in the midst of the enormous swarm of undead, Raven held back on his flames, to avoid burning his friends, as well as Jules.
Flashes of light, telekinetic blasts, powerful explosions and waves of flames burst out all around the area as the others fended the undead off, cutting them down rapidly.
Raven flew up with a grimace and began targeting the airborne undead creatures, trusting the others to handle the ones on the ground as he fired out a barrage of swirling fireballs at the flying creatures.
"Damn it, there’s just way too many of them...and is it just me, or they moving better than the ones I fought earlier? Hm, maybe the Undead King is able to control them more effectively the closer they are to him...either that, or the more we reduce their numbers, the less his focus is split up and therefore the better he’ll be able to control the remaining ones," Surmised Raven uncertainly, as an undead Wyvern evaded his flames and shot towards him with a fierce roar, several other of the flying undead Monsters converging in on him from multiple directions in unison.
As he zipped across the air to evade them and unleashed more flames, he scanned the area below, trying to catch sight of the Undead King, who had blended in with the crowd of summoned undead...his assessment was accurate, in regards to why these creatures were moving and fighting more effectively than the ones he’d encountered earlier.
The Undead King had started with an army of about twenty thousand undead creatures, which had then been reduced to about fifteen thousand following Raven and Celia’s assault on the Death Zone.
And while those forces had inflicted significant damage to the nation, their numbers had been decimated, thanks to the efforts of the First and Second Squads in the locations outside of the Capital, while The Irregulars had heavily contributed to wiping out a large number of the undead forces in the Capital.
The undead creatures were mindless beings with no will of their own, and with the sheer number of the forces that the Undead King had gathered, it was all but impossible for him to control all of them.