I became a legion lich

247 Death knight

The Death knight appeared above the head of one of the trolls before the last one could understand what happened and pierced one of its eyes with the black spear. A blast of darkness was released inside the troll’s skull along with a curse and the zombie horse kicked its face away, stone fists descending on the troll a second later.

Inside the death knight’s ribcage, there was a teleportation crystal big enough to almost occupy his entire interior and he had been carrying the crystal since he started advancing, just waiting for the proper moment to teleport.

The evolved trolls were almost immortal as long as they were in contact with the ground and even having the brain destroyed would not be a fatal wound, but the curse that prevented the circulation of mana prevented regeneration and with half of the brain rotted, the troll dropped dead.

The death knight moved on to the next target before the troll’s body started to fall, but those around had already recovered from the shock and his hands were already starting to regenerate, although it would still take a few seconds for it to fully recover.

“Die!” The troll that was attacked threw its body back to get out of the death knight’s reach, at the same time using its still regenerating arm as a club to try to crush it.

The zombie horse leapt in mid-air, surprising the troll and dodging the blow by inches before kicking out the arm and propelling itself towards the troll’s head. There were enchanted horseshoes on the zombie horse’s hooves that conjured platforms of mana so it could move through the air.

The death knight lunged with his shield and slammed it into the troll’s face, the impact knocking the troll off balance to the ground.

Before he could recover, the death knight hurled the spear hard through the troll’s nose, ripping it all the way to the brain and killing the troll with the same method as before. The death knight had already understood that the only way to kill the trolls was to destroy the vital points with his spear and activate the curse to inhibit regeneration.

The death knight fell to the ground along with the troll as he reached out to draw the spear back, but a stone club hit him from above as he grabbed the spear. The zombie horse jumped up to hurriedly dodge, but the fist still crushed half of its body together with its hind legs, knocking the death knight down.

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Such an injury wouldn’t be enough to kill a zombie, but the horse wouldn’t be able to fight in its current condition.

The death knight rolled as he fell to mitigate the impact and scrambled to his feet, blocking a second blow from the troll with his shield. The two remaining trolls surrounded the death knight and kept hitting him to try to crush him.

Each strike was strong enough to create a crater in the ground and although the undead successfully parried, its boots sank into the ground with each strike. The death knight waited for an opportunity and attacked in the brief interval between the trolls’ attacks, throwing his shield aside and firing as fast as possible with his spear.

He ran across the legs of the evolved troll, which was too slow to react to his movements and tried to stomp the undead, but the latter was faster and slashed both ankles in a side slash with his spear.

The troll fell forward with his arms on the ground and the death knight jumped on the troll’s back and impaled him in the back of the head. He used his maximum drilling skill and thrust the spear as far as he could into the troll’s neck and twisted before pulling, shattering the neck vertebrae and paralyzing him from the neck down.

The death knight tried to impale him again to finish the troll, but noticed that the last troll had finished regenerating and punched his own companion with all his might in an attempt to kill him.

He leapt as high as he could and the fist connected with the paralyzed troll’s face a second later, the force behind the punch great enough to decapitate him in one blow. The death knight did a somersault in the air to regain his balance and position himself in the air, hurling the black spear into the face of the last remaining troll.

The evolved troll normally wouldn’t have felt threat from such a small weapon, but after seeing three other trolls as strong as him die in a single blow, he didn’t dare take the attack head-on and turned his face to the side at the last second, the black spear missing his face and hitting his shoulder muscles.

The spear sank a third into the troll’s shoulder and did barely any damage, but the death knight didn’t care. He pointed his hand at the spear and activated the ability to draw it in, but the spear was stuck inside the flesh and refused to come out.

Instead of pulling the spear, he was drawn to the spear and flew towards the troll. The troll tried to smack it with the opposite arm to drop it like a fly, but the death knight drew his spare sword that he carried at his waist with his free hand and cut off the troll’s hand using the weapon break skill.

The sword exploded against the open palm in a shower of lead, darkness, and muddy blood. The explosion also slightly pushed it off course, but the death knight still managed to grab the spear shaft with one hand for balance and kicked out with both feet, pushing the spear shaft into the troll’s back the blade as remained trapped in the flesh.

The death knight stepped on the shaft of the spear and used his weight to bring it down, tearing into troll flesh. The blade left a deep cut from the troll’s right shoulder to his waist, muddy blood spurting out like a waterfall.

Despite the severe wound in the back, the troll still tried to turn around to squash the death knight, but the latter was faster, circling the troll to continue after him.

He destroyed the troll’s tendon with a swift thrust, knocking the already off-balance troll. With a swift leap, the death knight reached the falling troll’s head and impaled the back of its head, before leaping away and letting gravity do the rest of the work.

As the troll fell, the spear was driven deep into the skull and impaled its brain.

After confirming the death of the evolved troll and that there were no more enemies nearby, the death knight turned towards the zombie army, but the battle was already over as well.

Many zombies had been destroyed after the demihumans discovered the weakness of the zombies’ formation, but that only lasted until the lichs finished casting their spells.

A circle of darkness surrounded the zombies and evolved demihumans, raising a pillar of darkness that turned the demihumans to ash and healed all zombies that were not yet completely destroyed.

The death knight realized that the last demi-evolved humans fighting the army were about to die and decided he didn’t need to interfere, preferring to retrieve his weapons.

Despite being an undead slave of Louis, he had a certain ability to think and make decisions on his own, as long as he did not interfere with the orders he received from Louis.

Unlike undead like Drake and Simogo, who were mindless and used only their brute strength, undead like death knight and elf lich had commanding roles and needed to be able to think and make use of every skill they had. in life, so Louis allowed them a little more freedom compared to the mindless zombies.

“Looks like we finished just in time.” Louis muttered, looking away from the demihumans being turned into mummified corpses and looking at the barrier.

The other half of the invading army that had been blocked off was fiercely attacking the barriers even now, their fury and intensity only increasing upon seeing the demihumans on the side inside being killed.

The barrier had gilded by now and despite being covered in cracks that only grew in size, it would still last for a few more minutes.

“Lower the barrier, it’s not like it’s going to last long anyway.” Louis ordered the masters of magic while snapping his fingers in anticipation.

“We can still buy the barrier some time for the army to reorganize. Many zombies were destroyed and those who were healed still need to retrieve their weapons and resume formation.” One of the masters of magic suggested it, but Louis denied it.

“No need. My zombies have already taken a lot of damage and the lichs are starting to run out of mana, so they won’t be able to handle a second round. This guy and I will handle it.” Louis pointed at himself and the adult drake that had remained still until now.