Wizard: This witcher is neglecting his duties.

Chapter 281 The Powerful Fallen Mage

"The enemy's body is very tough. Be careful with the force of your sword strikes, and don't let your sword get stuck."

After slashing the zombie once, Wayne's two-handed sword didn't stop for a moment, and he went on to behead two more zombies.

Then he discovered that the zombie he had first cut in half had not stopped moving. Its upper body was still holding a weapon and was crouching, seemingly trying to chase him from behind.

The two who were beheaded, however, had already lost all trace of their actions and had reverted to corpses.

After discovering this phenomenon, Wayne shouted to Letor and the others behind him:

"Note that piercing attacks are ineffective; their heads must be removed from their bodies."

At this moment, the advantages of him serving as the vanguard immediately became apparent. With his strength and insight, he could easily grasp the basic characteristics of the enemy upon first contact, thus avoiding unexpected dangers due to misunderstandings.

Once all four witchers had rushed forward and used their superb swordsmanship to slow down the enemy's advance,

Margarita and Keira, standing behind the two, had also completed their preparations for casting spells, each using their own preferred magic.

The female principal had a relatively calm personality. She used a large-scale fire spell directly on the rear of the horde of corpses, covering most of the horde, wanting to test the corpses' fire resistance with the scorching flames.

Kayla is not good at using offensive magic directly; she chooses to use dispelling magic, which is commonly used when fighting undead and ghosts.

This magic can use chaotic magic to expel the enemy's soul power from its body. However, this magic is difficult to use on living beings and was developed by sorcerers specifically to deal with undead creatures.

After the two spells landed on the horde of corpses, the difference in their effects was quite obvious.

The fire magic ignited the clothes on the corpses, scorched their hair and skin, turning them into burning torches, but it did not significantly affect their movement.

However, Wayne estimated that after being burned by fire magic and having their moisture evaporated, their bodies would no longer be as hard as they were at the beginning, which would reduce their defensive capabilities.

The dispelling magic had an immediate effect. After being hit by the white light emitted by Kayla, the zombie collapsed instantly, as if its soul had been extracted, and lost its ability to move.

Clearly, what controls their fighting is not their physical bodies, but their souls influenced by the power of hell.

Unfortunately, dispel magic can only be used one-on-one, and warlocks have not yet developed group dispel magic, so Kayla's casting speed is not fast, and it is even slower than that of a demon hunter who uses swordsmanship.

After encountering Lord Wayne, Letho and his companions had all their equipment upgraded. While not exactly divine weapons, they were certainly high-quality and valuable. With the strength of these witchers, they could easily sever the heads of these zombies.

After a few minutes of fighting, when the number of corpses had been reduced by a quarter, the Fallen hidden among the corpses could no longer sit still. They emerged from the gaps in the corpses, and some of them rushed towards Wayne and the other demon hunters. Instead of engaging in close combat, they used throwing weapons such as stones, daggers, and short axes to harass the demon hunters from the outside.

Meanwhile, another group wanted to take the opportunity to bypass the witchers at the front and attack the two sorceresses standing behind them.

Wayne suddenly had an idea and said to the other three Viper School witchers:

"You guys deal with the smaller monsters, I'll handle these undead monsters, I've got a good idea."

Without a second thought, Letho and the others immediately withdrew from the front of the battlefield and returned to the two sorceresses, clearly confident in Wayne's abilities.

Wayne then used his superpowers, taking three North Wind Bombs from his pouch and throwing them into the horde of zombies in three different directions.

boom! boom! boom!

A blast of cold air swept across, scattering ice shards everywhere.

Just as he had predicted, the zombies, whose bodies were already stiff and frozen like corpses, were immediately enveloped by the cold air. A layer of frost formed on their bodies, slowing their movements and eventually freezing them in place.

The effects of ice are clearly more effective than fire, and the North Wind Bomb remains as useful as ever.

Letho and the others were also very fast. Their swordsmanship was limited when dealing with the thick-skinned zombies, but it was very effective against the small and agile Fallen. Almost every sword strike hit the enemy's vitals, and they killed all the Fallen who rushed up around the sorceress.

The Viper School, like the Cat School, is a school that excels at fighting humans, and these little monsters pose no challenge to them.

After several North Wind bombs were dropped, about twenty zombies were frozen solid. Wayne didn't continue throwing bombs. Instead, he gathered magic in his left hand and cast an Aard sign. The powerful impact shattered the frozen zombies into pieces of flesh. The effect was very obvious, almost like the Bone-Piercing Aard in the game.

Having learned from Wayne's example, Margarita immediately changed her approach. She waved her hands and chanted an obscure incantation, and a large amount of chaotic magic began to condense under her control.

Suddenly, dozens of cone-shaped ice blocks, resembling ice spears, appeared out of thin air above the heads of the zombie horde. These ice spears, carrying an intense chill, shot out from the sky and struck the zombies behind the horde, freezing them in place.

With the battle at this stage, the subsequent work became simple. Before these zombies regained their mobility, the witchers either used the Aard sign to directly destroy the frozen corpses into pieces, or simply used their steel swords to cut off the zombies' heads.

In about twenty minutes, Wayne and his team wiped out a total of about 140 to 150 monsters.

Unfortunately, despite using several Northern Bombs and consuming a lot of magic, the corpses had no loot whatsoever except for some coins left behind before they died.

This made Wayne feel like he had lost out.

It wasn't that he cared about that small amount of money, but it also made him realize that the idea of ​​getting equipment and artifacts by killing monsters in the Diablo world was basically impossible.

In reality, it's impossible for monsters to carry various potions and equipment with them.

As for the coins or other valuables stained with blood and rotting flesh on these corpses, neither the sorceress nor Lord Wayne had the mind to search them. Even Letho and the others who wanted to search the corpses were stopped by Wayne.

Lord Wayne made no hesitation, promising each of them two thousand orens after the commission was completed. This extravagant spending stunned the three Viper School witchers who had just escaped poverty.

In the original story, Geralt risked his life to help King Foltest save his daughter and only received a bounty of three thousand orens. Wayne's mansion in Vizima's wealthy district is worth only a few thousand orens. This reward will definitely be much higher than the actual amount that should be given.

After dealing with the first batch of monsters, Wayne and his companions did not linger. After a short rest, they continued their journey.

However, what they didn't know was that just four or five minutes after they left, several monsters that had been hiding not far away quickly returned to the place where they were fighting.

These monsters resembled ordinary Fallen, but were larger, stronger, and wore rather ornate robes, with more prominent demon horns on their heads.

Unlike ordinary Fallen Ones, these Fallen Ones all carried a skull staff made of some unknown material, and they could communicate in a strange, incoherent language as they walked.

Once these special Fallen Ones arrived at the corpses, they picked and chose among them, moving to the relatively intact ones. They then began to wave their skull staffs and chant incantations in the language of another world.

Soon, under the influence of their spells and magic, the relatively intact corpses began to reassemble, pieced together, and stood up again, reverting to their previous state as walking corpses.

And all the smaller Fallen Ones who were killed were resurrected without exception.

Only the twisted, glued marks on these monsters' bodies indicate that they were monsters that had been killed and then resurrected.

These uniquely shaped Fallen, wielding staffs, are actually elite members of the Fallen race, Fallen mages skilled in using the power of hell.

After these hell mages completed their resurrection rituals, the monster horde, which had been wiped out by Wayne and his group, returned to a size of nearly a hundred and began to roam the mist under the command of these mages.

This was only because many zombies were blasted into pieces by Wayne's Aard sign. Otherwise, if it were mercenaries who used swords to kill zombies, these Fallen mages could even resurrect all their members, plus other killed mercenaries, making their ranks grow larger and larger.

It is precisely because of the existence of these fallen mages who have mastered hellish magic that the number of monsters in the mist has increased significantly compared to the past few months, and the corruption of hellish power has become increasingly severe.

Even if Wayne is lucky enough to discover and kill the Fallen mages hiding far from the horde of corpses, as long as the Fallen mages in the mist are not wiped out and the corpses of these monsters still exist, they can still find an opportunity to resurrect their companions.

(End of this chapter)