The mont that Hawk and Nachtia headed for the wagons, the Undead changed their tactics. They imdiately stopped pushing forward, and all five Lich Lords moved to encircle the small supply convoy in a defensive periter.
That alone would have made it incredibly obvious what the source of their unusually potent power was, even if soone hadn't already guessed, but it raised the more important question of what could they do about it?
Karl and Cara had managed to keep the Lich Lords from bringing their area barrier back online, but Hawk was having no luck trying to get attack spells into the convoy that they were defending.
[We need to learn the trick to their casting speed. I want to be able to throw spells that fast.] Remi noted as she adjusted the position of her totems.
[If anyone can figure it out, it's you. But maybe we will get lucky, and they'll have a Grimoire or sothing on them, and you can stock up on spells after we win this fight.] Karl suggested.
Remi began plotting new and innovative ways to make the Lich Lords vanish without destroying the caravan, just in case there were good things in there to loot.
But that was not actually too difficult, wasn't it?
[Cara...] Remi began.
[On it. Butterfly, a little help?]
Cara vanished, and Karl doubled down on the counterspells so that the Lich Lords didn't gain any headway while the Void Badger did what she did best.
For a mont, everything was coated in a black mist as Nachtia passed overhead and unleashed her breath weapon on the Lich Lords. That was Cara's cue to move.
Everyone was distracted, and she was invisible, so she went directly for the core of the Lich Lords' formation, aiming for the supply wagons.
The Undead were giving everything to protect them, even calling back their armies to defeat the special forces group. But the stealthy badger simply pranced past their defences and began searching for the treasures.
[Food, why do they need food? They're all dead. Spare bones, bodies, weapons. Oh, there we go.] Cara narrated as she searched.
The final wagon contained a large glowing gem locked within a tal box that had swung open the mont that Cara used [Nullify] on the lock.
[Yoink!]
[Yoink?] [Karl, it won't move. I can't even take the full wagon into my space.] Cara complained.
[Then I guess we just have to deal with the Undead first. Unless you're willing to blow it up.]
Cara considered her options for a half second. On one hand, a huge shiny stone. On the other hand, it was a stone that she couldn't keep.
[Void Blast] solved that dilemma rather easily.
The wagon vanished in a mushroom cloud of stored energy, and Cara retreated to her space for a half second to avoid being caught in the epicentre of her handiwork. The taphysical blast shook Karl's brain, and dropped most of the nearby Demons to their knees.
Even Remi was dizzy from the blast. But standing right next to the destruction, the Lich Lords were completely out of it for the last half second of their lives, before Hawk and Nachtia swooped in to blast them to pieces.
However, luck was not on their side today, and the mont that the Lich Lords' power failed, the bodies of the undead mages faded from sight, returning to whatever safe point they had designated as their fallout shelter in the event of an untily death.
Worse, the Undead Horde that they had brought were still fighting, even if it was mindlessly without the Lich Lords there to guide them.
The plus side was that without guidance, Thor and Tessa were absolutely wrecking the zombie horde in a rolling wave of crushing gravity and holy lightning.
Using [Blockade], one of Thor's new racial abilities, with [Gravity Slam] and Tessa's spear made for a brutal charging attack.
The [Gravity Slam] knocked everything over, then the wall of lightning swept them all up and pushed them forward in front of Thor, while Tessa launched Holy Spears into anything that looked like it might still move.
With that tactic, they were scooping up entire segnts of the undead army, and pushing through them like a bulldozer with its blade down, driving forward and depositing the mulched bodies to the side.
"Well, that's not terrifying at all." Delta joked as he saw the tactic that the massive behemoth was using.
"Just wait until he realizes that he can use it like a flapper wheel, and tilt the walls down on them to crush them as he passes by." Karl agreed.
Thor laughed in Karl's head. [We tried that. The Undead just get pounded into the ground and then dig themselves back out.]
That was sothing that Karl should have expected. They were Overlord Ranked undead. Expecting them to be less durable than compacted grassland soil was a bit too optimistic.
The new weapons appeared to be a big hit with everyone in the group, and even Remi was enjoying her newfound bonuses, even if she wasn't going all out with the area spells today.
Just being able to keep up all her other spells at once, including both types of totems and a constant barrage of [Chain Lightning] was enough to keep her happy now that she knew the undead weren't hiding any good stuff among the supply carts.
She had collected the few remaining bits of the stone that Cara had destroyed, just in case they were useful, but nothing else in the whole supply caravan stood out to her.
It appeared to be nothing but spare parts for making more undead.
The army unit was forcing the Undead into an ever tightening circle as they crushed the disorganized force, and Karl simply watched and made ntal notes as their years or decades of training showed him the most efficient way to completely surround a disorganized enemy.
It was a work of art, and with Thor's [Bulwark] holding one side, it was as good as driving them up against a cliff. The hapless undead couldn't even effectively damage the Lightning wall, as without the Lich Lords to give them directions, the skeletons and zombies didn't think to use skills, and the smarter Undead had been the first ones eliminated.
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