The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 908: Surrounded

Zombies poured from the portals in an unending wave of rotted flesh, immediately turning the air fetid in an unnatural way. The magic of a black dragon was that of death, but it had a sense of finality to it, almost a lethal cleansing feeling.

But the zombies in this group were powerful. Almost all Overlords, and they had a half dozen Totem Ranked Necromancers with them already.

That was not a good sign for a battle that was just starting.

There were three Totems with the group right now, leaving them outnumbered two to one. However, Karl had a good feeling about this fight. Rae had been learning all sorts of fun new things lately, and there was a good chance that one of the beasts would trigger [Skill Master 5] soon, and advance a skill by a Rank.

Even one more Totem Ranked attack skill would be a huge boost to their combat abilities.

The Necromancers had spread themselves evenly around the village, but were hanging back behind the undead horde, guiding its progress while ensuring that there would be no escape from the ambush.

Priestess Delilah sent a message as she flapped her wings and took to the sky.

{Kindly cast that most wonderful defensive spell again. I am going to deal with the Necromancers.}

Karl chuckled as he cast the full suite of buffs over the three Totems. [Impenetrable Bulwark], [Limited Invulnerability], [Brutality], [Haste], [Terrorize], and [Sharpness]. Then, just for fun, he cast [Behemoth] on the ancient red dragon, bringing her overall length close to ninety metres when stacked with [Brutality].

It was impossible to miss the rapidly expanding red dragon as she circled the battlefield, even if she wasnʼt glowing red with divine favour. And that was precisely what the Priestess was after.

The looks of absolute terror on the faces of the Necromancers when the massive dragon came for them were priceless. Karl could see that they were ready to flee the moment that they saw the dragon double in size, but they managed to hold together long enough to start shouting something through the portals.

Most likely begging for reinforcements.

The first gout of dragon fire turned a human looking Necromancer to ash instantly, and Hawk made a note of the trick for future reference.

[She is using holy magic on her flames, and the Necromancers are coated with Unholy power.

Itʼs almost like she doused them in acid before setting them on fire.

Itʼs beautiful.]

The two Necromancers closest to Delilah began to bombard her with spells as the undead horde slammed into the shield wall, sliding the soldiers backward nearly a metre before the second rank hacked down enough of the zombies to stall their momentum.

A horn blew, and the demons sent out a wave of attacks that shredded the front ranks of Undead, and gave the shield wall time to return to their positions. It was all very methodical and practiced, a direct contrast to Karlʼs team, who were just happily throwing skills into the horde.

Or summoning golems into it.

Rae was particularly proud of her new [Army of the Dead], which had made a dozen Overlord Ranked zombie spiders for her, each about the size of a house cat. They were built much like Rae was at that size, and their sharp legs showed no mercy on the undead horde as they pushed forward with the group of Golems.

They were headed for the spot where Delilah was fighting the Necromancers, with the intention of forcing a clearing in the horde so that Rae and Cara could move to engage.

They had been instructed to hang back at the start of the fight, and they were enjoying destroying zombies, but they really wanted a Totem Ranked kill for the day.

It wasnʼt fair that the Dragon got to have all the fun.

Delilah wasnʼt going to be the only one killing fun stuff for long, though. Through the portals, the zombie horde was being replaced by a wave of skeletal knights in piecemeal armour, carrying swords and buckler shields.

Then, spectres began to arrive, floating above the melee.

Karl changed his focus to the spectral undead, as not all combat skills could harm them. Void Blast had no problem damaging spiritual beings, and Hawkʼs Ghostfire was similarly effective. But the regular flames of the demon army didnʼt touch them, and that was the primary elemental attack of most of the wrath demons.

For the first few seconds, the spectres didnʼt understand the threat posed by the arrows, and simply assumed that they would fly through their bodies. But while the [Poison Arrow] base spell wouldnʼt do anything to them, the [Void Blast] was truly devastating.

Fortunately, there werenʼt many, and the Spectres were mostly cleared before the skeleton knights made it to the front lines.

The skeletons crashed into the shield wall in a cacophony of steel on steel, then the rank behind began to climb over to leap into the defenders.

”Charge!” Commander Daleth ordered, and the shield wall abruptly separated as the Demons pushed forward, toppling the skeletons.

”Thatʼs our signal.” Karl announced, letting Rae and Remi loose on the battlefield.

Rae called her Golems back to herself, along with a fresh set of zombie spiders to clear a zone in the battlefield.

Remi followed Karl as he vaulted off the wall and into combat. Between them, they had a rather considerable number of guardians, as well as the pair of Dire Bears that Karl had chosen for golems.

Tessa, Ophelia and Dana were working together, with Thor using [Bulwark] to bulldoze a path for the army to move into the undead horde.

The Totems werenʼt trying to close the portals, or at least, they werenʼt trying to yet. They wanted the undead to send as many of their forces to this location as possible so that they could deal a devastating defeat to the Bomgon hordes and not have to face them again tomorrow.

The way that Priestess Delilah was going through the Necromancers, it didnʼt seem too farfetched that they really would crush the Bomgon army here. She had already killed four of their Totem Ranked leaders and mutilated their bodies beyond resurrection.

Only two more Totem Ranked invaders remained, and the dragonʼs superficial wounds amounted to no more than small damaged sections on her scales, which were already mending themselves.