#2024 - Assemble
Several Holy Court paladins hurried in from outside the camp to report to him.
"Commander, our patrol team deployed outside the Forest of Bewilderment has discovered an anomaly. A large number of zombie groups have appeared in the Forest of Bewilderment area, seemingly gathering to break through to the periphery."
Huh?
Gulanchi raised an eyebrow.
Are they really here?
"Immediately mobilize the troops for joint defense! Take me over there to take a look!"
"Yes!"
Gulanchi immediately followed his men to the periphery of the Forest of Bewilderment, where the anomaly was reported, looked up, and immediately frowned.
Figures flickered within the Forest of Bewilderment.
It was too dark to see clearly, but he could be sure that there were at least tens of thousands of zombies lurking within.
Zombies spread out from the Forest of Bewilderment, covering the mountains and plains.
So many?
And they are all pure zombie legions?
Gulanchi looked at the distant forest, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
"Attack!"
With an order!
Swish! Swish swish swish!!
The Holy Court priests in the back row of the defensive line cast holy incantations one after another.
Dense beams of holy light overflowed, bombarding the rows of zombies swaying out of the Forest of Bewilderment in front.
"Boom! Boom boom!!"
Suddenly, patches of holy power exploded in the zombie groups!
The zombie groups within the range of the holy incantation explosions were immediately blown over.
The first wave of the zombie groups' offensive was contained.
Gulanchi frowned.
It seemed that they occupied an absolute advantage.
But...
In fact, the effect of holy attacks on zombie creatures was far less than he expected!
These zombie creatures...
Something is wrong!
Their resistance to attacks seemed to be more than twice as strong as yesterday!?
The Holy Court team priests felt this even more deeply.
They had been dealing with these strange zombies for the past two days. Two days ago, a direct hit from a holy prayer beam could completely eliminate a zombie creature.
But today it seemed impossible.
Even if they were hit head-on, with the holy flames burning all over them, they could still struggle non-stop, barely crawl up from the ground, and rejoin the battle.
Only a subsequent holy prayer directly supplemented could completely kill them!
Not good!
Gulanchi suddenly realized that the team's output ability was somewhat unable to keep up!
More terrifying than this was the number of zombie groups!
Unlike the small-scale attacks they had received in the past, this time there were too many zombie creatures!
The holy prayer bombardment could cause area damage, but at the moment, it could only scatter the zombie groups in front, temporarily repelling them a short distance, and could not completely defeat them!
Not to mention that there were still dense zombie groups constantly pouring out of the Forest of Bewilderment behind.
It was like an endless stream!
Even more frightening to Gulanchi was that the zombie groups' battle line was unusually long. They kept pouring out from the periphery of the Forest of Bewilderment, covering a range of nearly three or four hundred meters!
Relying on the remote team to consume them like in the past was completely impossible today!
"Follow me!"
Gulanchi raised the holy long sword in his hand high and shouted: "Charge! Kill this group of undead!!"
"Charge!!"
The melee paladins shouted and immediately followed Gulanchi, rushing forward and charging towards the zombie groups!
In an instant, large swaths of zombie groups completely submerged the paladin team.
There were too many zombie groups!
And they were too tanky!
Even Gulanchi had to spend more than ten seconds to deal with a zombie!
Not good!
As the battle deepened, Gulanchi's mood became heavier and heavier.
Don't look at the zombie groups' low defense ability, a sweep of his holy area attack would take down a large area.
But their health was terrifyingly high!
He swept more than a dozen times in a row and didn't see any zombie being completely eliminated!
The effective damage caused by his team entering the zombie groups was extremely limited. Instead, they were unknowingly surrounded by the zombie groups.
If they continued, they would probably be completely surrounded by the zombies and fall into a dilemma.
"Retreat!"
Gulanchi immediately called for the player team to slowly retreat and keep a distance from the zombie groups.
He raised his head, and in front of him was a vast expanse of endless zombie groups.
Compared to just now, the number of zombie groups had not decreased in any way, but had increased more than tenfold!
And the number of zombie groups was still increasing!
Dense zombie creatures poured out of the Forest of Bewilderment, with no sign of stopping!
Big trouble!
There were too many!
Even if these zombies stood still, it would take a lot of time to purify them!
"Quick! Immediately mobilize manpower, we need support! Try to avoid a head-on confrontation and find a way to lead them away!"
"Understood!"
At the same time, in the Forest of Bewilderment, everyone was observing the battle situation in the distance.
Fang Heng nodded secretly in his heart.
After the vampire bloodline evolved to the highest stage, the strength of the zombie creatures had also been greatly improved!
The most obvious was the zombie's terrifying self-healing ability!
In this way, the success rate of the plan would be even higher!
This wave was not a loss!
Li Qingran and the undead camp players present did not know what had happened. They just felt that the zombies had become tankier and their life recovery speed was faster!
In addition, the zombie creatures' agility and strength attributes had also been slightly enhanced.
It was just that these enhancements were not obvious compared to the recovery ability.
Li Qingran even felt that even if they directly relied on the zombie groups to rush over, it would be enough to give the Holy Court a headache for a while.
The other undead camp players who followed also felt terrified when they saw this scene.
Had Fang Heng's realm master's strength reached this level?
What made them feel most terrifying was not the individual strength of the zombies, but the overall number of zombie groups!
The endless stream of zombie groups was still being transferred from the Ghost Tower!
"Senior Sister Qingran, I'll leave this to you for the time being. If there are any emergencies, we'll contact you through the survival radio."
"Okay."
Li Qingran nodded, watching Fang Heng leap into the air, transform into a bat form, and fly towards the distance.
In the battlefield ahead, Gulanchi led his men and the Holy Court paladin teams who had quickly rushed to gather with the zombie avatar groups, pulling them apart.
He found the weakness of the zombie groups' slow movement speed and maintained a safe distance, fighting and retreating.
But...
Gulanchi felt more and more that it was tricky.
He had tried several times to divert the zombie groups' attention, but all failed.
Obviously, the zombie groups' attack route was being artificially controlled!
From this direction, continuing forward...
Could it be...
A layer of cold sweat overflowed from Gulanchi's forehead, and a terrible thought suddenly arose in his heart.
Canwood City!
The undead's target was very likely Canwood City!
