Considering the presence of ground forces, their pace through the mountains was sluggish, and Bayou was not anxious.
Her current objective was not Aman city.
Within Aman City, the youngest son of the Firebeard clan leader, Zhao Man, lay languidly in a lavish palace.
Two dwarf women attending to his feet.
Their faces bore reluctance, for they were not his maid servants, but rather the wives of two civilian dwarves, forcefully abducted due to man's infatuation with their appearances.
Should they disobey, the group of noble dwarves outside awaited them, and their husbands will be placed in peril.
My lord, we have located the group of foreign entities in the Bayan mountain range.
A dwarven soldier burst in abruptly just as Man was about to erupt in anger.
The news instantly lit up his face with delight.
With a swift kick of his feet, he sent the two kneeling dwarven women tumbling to the ground.
Man stood up, revealing an unexpected height of one, 65 m, towering half ahead above the dwarven soldier before him.
His fair complexion made him appear distinctly undwarlike.
Deploy the troops immediately.
No foreign races shall be permitted in the rear of our territory.
I will annihilate them.
The utter silence from the previously dispatched scouting party had infuriated Joe Man.
With no major powers in the vicinity, only an alien race could have achieved such a feat, my lord.
Their forces consist of the undead, those repulsive creatures.
No wonder our elite warriors vanished without a trace.
If it's them, it's no surprise.
Prepare for several days.
Have a batch of soul damaging enchanted gear crafted at once.
Man swiftly devised a countermeasure.
Though the undead had long vanished from happiness, the clan's archives still preserved the terrifying legends of their continentwide rampage a millennium ago, along with detailed records of their weaknesses.
Earlier, had suspected an alien race.
Now, he was almost certain.
He dismissed the clan's legends as exaggerated.
What was there to fear from such lowly creatures as the undead? With the right methods, they pose no threat.
Meanwhile, Bayou had led her forces to the outskirts of the White Rock Mountains.
50 meters ahead stretched an endless expanse of Emerald Grassland.
Bayou halted the march and addressed the three specters beside her.
Report on the three nearest dwarven strongholds as you command your majesty.
Only 20,000 undead troops against 20,000 dwarves and a siege at that.
The numbers are insufficient.
No matter if it's not enough, we'll simply summon another wave.
This was precisely why Bayou had advanced ahead.
If the specters could scout Aman city, they naturally knew the locations of the surrounding dwarven fortresses.
Each fortress housed around 3,000 dwarves.
Three would total nearly 10,000, allowing Bayou to summon 20,000 undead.
Destroying three would enable her to dispatch two necromancers and a lich separately for greater efficiency.
The necromancer summoning spells hadn't reached intermediate level yet, preventing specific unit selection.
As for the lich, it could only summon skeletons.
Why you didn't mind? She couldn't possibly visit all three fortresses personally just to summon aerial units.
That would exhaust any queen against 3,000 dwarves.
A single king tier entity was enough to crush them.
Bayou sent only these three without even additional undead support.
She waited with her forces.
Tonight would be sleepless.
A full night's march lay ahead.
Little ice required 4 hours of full speed flight to cross the snowy mountains.
For ground troops, 10 hours would be the minimum.
The distance to Aman city exceeded even that crossing.
A night's march was no exaggeration.
The sole advantage of the undead lies in their boundless endurance.
Although the dwarves and the orcs do not possess infinite stamina, they can still withstand a night of strenuous marching.
After all, their role is merely to manage the aftermath.
The task of besieging the city falls to the undead.
Bayou harbors concerns about the existence of a teleportation array within Aman City while simultaneously hoping for its presence.
The downside is that news of the attack on Aman City would undoubtedly reach the chieftain of the Firebeard clan, which poses a significant threat.
Conversely, the advantage is that Bayou could instruct the dwarves to replicate the teleportation array, thereby facilitating troop movements.
Without such a mechanism, Bayou would be compelled to leave soldiers stationed at Aman city, severely limiting his own capabilities.
It is untenable to have to march a day journey for support, only for the undead to arrive and find the opportunity lost.
Chapter 184.
The creation of undead the necromancer.
Following the spectre's guidance, transformed entirely into a ghostly form and swiftly soared towards the target.
Half an hour later, the necromancer arrived above the dwarven fortress.
Although it was daytime, the necromancer remained in his spectral state, unnoticed by the dwarves below.
With a wave of his wand, he unleashed a blue fireball, a standard attack of his.
In an instant, the necromancer's figure became visible in the air due to the initiation of his assault.
By the time the dwarves at top the walls reacted, it was too late.
The necromancer effortlessly tore through the protective barrier, which was merely of commander level.
The patrolling dwarves were taken back and immediately sounded the alarm, prompting all dwarves within the fortress to spring into action.
The dwarf leader quickly ordered the lighting of signal fires in an attempt to relay information.
However, before the dwarves could reach the high platform, the necromancer obliterated the signal tower with a single strike.
The dwarves on the walls hastily adjusted their cannons and crossbows, aiming at the necromancer in the sky.
As the fuses burned down, a resounding boom echoed through the air.
The cannonballs and arrows were unleashed simultaneously.
Yet, the necromancer deflected them all with his bone shield, emerging unscathed.
Descending slowly, the necromancer landed in the heart of the fortress.
The faces of all dwarves pald.
Even the leader clutched his weapon tightly, wearily regarding the necromancer.
In an instant, the surroundings transformed into a hell of bones as the dwarves were pierced by bone spikes.
Collapsing in agony, only the dwarf leader narrowly escaped the immediate onslaught of the necromancer's domain.
The domain.
The dwarf leader gasped in astonishment.
But the necromancer would not grant him a second chance.
Countless bone spikes erupted around him, and ins snaring him firmly.
His armor crumbled before their might.
His weapon fell to the ground, and the rapid loss of blood drained the vitality from his being.
A commander level fighter stood no chance against a king- level foe.
From the corpses of the dwarf slain by the necromancer, undead began to rise, both aerial and terrestrial.
The necromancer obliterated every structure within the dwarven fortress, including barriers and forges.
Regrettably, no blueprints dropped from the destruction.
Rather than summoning the corpse of the dwarf leader, the necromancer grasped him with his bony hand and lifted him into the sky.
With the undead fully summoned, the necromancer commenced his return.
Given the extraordinary circumstances, Bayou was not one to covet trivial gains, thus choosing not to decompose the bodies.
The necromancer detonated the ammunition depot, utterly annihilating the dwarven fortress with the bodies incinerated alongside it.
Meanwhile, the Lich took a more direct and brutal approach.
In terms of power at the same level, the Lich surpassed the necromancer, not only due to a higher potential, but also because it wielded an additional capability.
The lich did not turn invisible.