The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 889: Lich Lordling

Karl shrugged. ”In that case, you do the healing thing. I brought you a healing tree as well. A Monarch Ranked Green Dragon Cleric with the Epic healing ability [Tree of Life].”

Then he turned to the group. ”Cara, Rae, youʼre with me. Everyone else, spread through the defenders in pairs. Watch each otherʼs backs and letʼs make the Dragon Gods proud.”

Thor bugled happily, and the defenders cheered. Tessa hopped up on his back, and Thor began to expand as he cancelled his shrinking abilities and activated his area holy damage spells.

With [Behemoth] and [Brutality] both active, Thor was even larger than Opheliaʼs Titanic Dire Bear form. The pair of them towered over the battlefield, dwarfing even the largest of the Wrath Demon Clanʼs warriors.

Then Thor activated [Bestial Raiment], the trusty armour skill that Karl used for daily fashion, and his already near impenetrable scales were covered in thick plates and layers of chain mail.

Against any other army, that sight alone might have been enough to break their morale, but the Undead knew no fear, and they continued their charge unabated.

Tessa wielded her spear, but she was using it as a conductorʼs wand. She directed the armies nearby to spread and let Thor through, while she enchanted weapons and granted the defenders Holy Armour.

That made the Demons laugh, while the Orcs cheered for a warrior with a sense of humour.

The Lich Lord was floating above his armies, driving them forward, so Karl did the same and stepped up into the air.

Any Totem could walk on the mana flows, but Karl was still an Overlord, and the sight caught the Lich Lord off-guard.

Karl smiled at the undead mage as he took out his bow and fired a [Poison Arrow] coated in [Void Blast] and [Nullify] at the undead leader.

A wave of the mageʼs hand brought up a black misty barrier, and the Lich Lord turned away toward the undead closest to the Orcs.

But the arrow punched through the barrier, sacrificing [Nullify] in the process. Then [Void Blast] exploded as the arrow touched his barriers, and the Death Knights below him were thrown to the ground.

”No ignoring me. I will continue to poke you until you take this seriously.” Karl warned.

[Rae, take out the knights first. Theyʼre probably a power support system.]

Cara was giving the Lich Lord a strange look.

[I have his box. It smells like him. See?]

She dumped a bone covered coffin on the ground for a second, and the Lich Lordʼs eyes flared with magic and rage before she took it back.

[Well, itʼs not ignoring us anymore.]

Karl ignored Caraʼs smugness, and fired off a volley of arrows toward the Lich Lord.

Magic exploded in the air as the undead leader realized that Karl could bypass only a single layer of barrier. Throwing multiple spells at the arrow stopped them with ease, but Karl was happy to keep attacking, and he only had to fire one arrow for every two spells.

The whole battlefield began to change as Remi activated [Apocalypse] at the same time Hawk used [Firestorm] and [Hellstorm] on the undead horde, creating an extra layer of fiery blizzard to go with the multiplying tornadoes.

The stronger undead hacked at the blizzards with skills, collapsing them, but the orderly charge was no more.

{I am going to rip your very essence from your body.} The Lich Lordʼs voice echoed in Karlʼs mind.

Karl smiled and equipped the Haint Claw.

”Funny, I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how much of a benefit I will get from the soul of a Lich Lord?” He asked as he hung the Blade of Champions from his hip in the sword hanger created by the [Bestial Raiment] armour spell.

Inky black explosions rocked the air around the Lich Lord as Cara split [Void Blast] into a dozen smaller explosions all around the Lich, and the ground under them shook from the aftershocks.

[Void Blast] had directly become a Totem Ranked spell when Cara advanced, and didnʼt suffer from the damage reduction that a Totem would normally enjoy against an Overlord Ranked opponent.

But a Lich Lord was not an average magic user, and even with Caraʼs attempts to [Nullify] his defences, he was still throwing up defensive spells as fast as Cara and Karl could launch attacks.

Rae was already finished with the ten Death Knights who were closest to the Lich Lord, and their bodies were in her space, just in case the Lich Lord tried to resurrect them.

She wasnʼt clear on what they could do, but it must be some sort of Necromancer, to be leading an undead army.

While the three-way battle between Karl, Cara and the Lich Lord filled the sky with explosions and flashes of light, Thor was on a rampage through the skeletons.

[Consecrated Ground] was even more effective against the Skeletons than it had been against the Wights, and the ones closest to him were effectively crippled before he even charged into them.

On his back, Tessa held her spear high with a Darklight Host flag attached to it, periodically pointing into the crowd to [Smite] a large group of skeletons who were giving the defenders trouble.

Nachtia and Hawk were flying overhead, bombarding the undead army through the storm, while Remi approached with her bodyguards and Karlʼs, as well as a group of Lizardmen who werenʼt bothered by the terrain of her [Naga Swamp].

Even the butterfly was in on the fun, creating armies of demonic warriors that charged at the skeletons, causing them to turn away from the real enemy, only to have the illusions vanish an instant before contact.

Then, she disguised the vortexes as stone pillars, and made the battlefield look like a ruined city.

The Skeletons couldnʼt understand that the pillars were still flaming vortexes with an illusion over them, and they stopped avoiding them. That led to them being sucked in, and the vortexes spawned their reduced power clones.

They attacked the new ones, but ignored the ones hidden as stone pillars, which made the butterfly laugh hysterically. Stupid skeletons were great entertainment.