Chapter 148 - 148: 91. Manual Task
Translator: 549690339
On the ground floor at the entrance of the staircase, Noland Lee leaned against the door, peering into the castle hall with one eye through the crack.
The crystal coal lamps on the ceiling were extinguished, making the hall completely dark and oppressive.
The undead poison fog had risen to a height of two or three meters above the ground, pouring into the stairwell through the gaps in the door.
All the night guards who did not have time to put on gas masks fell to the ground, lying on the marble floor of the Castle Hall, lifeless.
However, they did not rest.
As Yog passed by these victims, he activated the ritual array’s magical power. He turned all these recently deceased people into walking dead under his control.
By the time he left the castle hall with his torrent of followers and headed for the chaotic outdoors, there was not a single person left in the hall, not even a corpse.
Noland Lee looked down at the ground, his gaze directed towards Yog’s dormitory.
To stop Yog from forming his army of the walking dead, the ritual array in the dormitory must be destroyed.
Theoretically, Yog could use all the corpses within 30 meters centered on his dormitory, which was about the range from the third underground level to the third aboveground level of the castle.
Noland Lee didn’t want to meddle in Yog’s affairs.
He only hoped that the other party could draw attention away from himself.
Noland Lee withdrew his gaze, turned around, pushed aside the undead poison fog in front of him, and walked up the spiral staircase to the second floor.
The ground floor stairwell had windows with transparent glass installed.
Noland Lee stopped at the stair corner, poked his head out from behind the window, and looked at the scene outside the fortress, squinting his eyes slightly.
“It’s rare for it to rain in this damn place in the Suffering Borderland…”
Since becoming a Sin Soldier, Noland Lee had been stationed in the Suffering
Borderland for more than half a month, and this was the first time he had seen
a armzne.
Raindrops fell from the dark clouds above, passed through the spreading undead poison fog, fell to the eaves, flowed down along the smooth steam pipelines, dripped onto the ground, and flowed into sewer pipes.
Just during the short time Noland Lee stopped to observe, the rain rapidly intensified from a light drizzle to a torrential downpour.
The howling gloomy wind whipped up the rainwater, hitting the window glass in front of Noland Lee, splashing up black water droplets like blooming death water lilies.
“Black rainwater…” Noland Lee locked his gaze on the oddly colored raindrops and threw out his Deconstruction technique.
[System Message: You are about to launch the Deconstruction technique on “Abnormal Rainwater.” It is estimated that 170 Energy Points will be needed to reach a 100% Degree of Deconstruction.]
Noland Lee glanced at the system text, becoming more vigilant.
This rainwater must come from the “Abnormal Dark Clouds.”
No doubt, the Undead Cult had used a long-hidden trump card to destroy the Legion Fortress.
“Time is running out; I’d better get moving.”
Just as Noland Lee was about to leave, he suddenly froze in his tracks, then clenched onto the window frame, staring intently at the street outside.
The gunshots from inside the Legion Fortress were mainly coming from areas outside the walls.
Although Noland Lee couldn’t see outside the walls, from the density of the gunshots and the frequency of the firelight flashes, the soldiers defending the city seemed to be fighting the undead army surrounding the fortress.
Yog was leading his own walking dead troops down the street and encountered many panicked soldiers.
As expected, his actions caused chaos. His walking dead were considered enemies by the Imperial Soldiers and were cornered on the street before they could even leave the city.
However, Yog and his walking dead were not killed by the soldiers.
Because, within half a minute after the rain intensified, a large group of undead creatures covered in black contaminated water violently broke open the manhole covers and crawled out of the sewer pipes.
The bodies of these undead creatures seemed to be made up of rainwater. They appeared fragile, as if they could disintegrate at any moment.
With each step they took, large drops of black contaminated water fell from their bodies, making them a little smaller in size.
But the next second, the black rainwater falling from the sky merged into their bodies.
Their bodies swelled up in the blink of an eye, becoming stronger and taller.
As they shed black water from their bodies and absorbed water from the rain, their size and appearance barely remained stable through this continuous process of growth and decay.
The appearance of these undead disrupted the battle situation within the fortress.
The attention of the fortress’s garrison was focused on the undead army outside the city, and they did not notice the unusual situation inside the fortress in time.
It wasn’t until the soldiers heard the gunshots on the street, wiped the rainwater off their faces, and turned their heads to look at the city that they found the undead army wreaking havoc on the streets and fighting with the city’s soldiers.
“Where the hell did these guys come from!”
“Quick! Ring the alarm bell! Send an alert to the other soldiers in the city!”
“Ding ding ding-” The soldiers on the wall pulled the rope hard, ringing the alarm bell hanging overhead.
More soldiers were awakened by the ringing of guns and alarm bells. They
rushed to put on their uniforms and entered the battlefield armed..
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