Building the Strongest Undead Empire from Scratch

Chapter 151: Offer your souls to the great Queen of the Undead

The necromancer, following the coordinates provided by the specter, transformed into ghost form and swiftly flew towards the target.

Half an hour later, the necromancer arrived above the dwarf fortress. Although it was daytime, the necromancer remained in ghost form, unnoticed by the dwarves below.

The necromancer waved its staff, releasing a blue fireball, a standard attack.

Instantly, the necromancer's form became visible in the sky.

By the time the dwarves on the wall reacted, it was too late. The necromancer easily shattered the Commanding level protective barrier.

The patrolling dwarves were shocked and immediately sounded the alarm, mobilizing the entire fortress.

The dwarf leader ordered the signal fire to be lit, attempting to send a message.

But before the dwarves could reach the tower, the necromancer destroyed it with a single blast.

The dwarves on the wall quickly adjusted their cannons and crossbows, aiming at the necromancer in the sky. As the fuses burned down, the cannons fired.

Boom!

Cannonballs and arrows flew, but the necromancer blocked them all with a bone shield, emerging unscathed. The necromancer descended slowly, landing in the center of the fortress.

All the dwarves turned pale, even the dwarf leader gripped his weapon tightly, eyeing the necromancer warily.

In an instant, the area transformed into a bone hell, with dwarves impaled by bone spikes, writhing in agony.

Only the dwarf leader narrowly avoided the initial domain attack.

"Domain!" the dwarf leader exclaimed, but the necromancer gave him no second chance. Bone spikes surged around him, binding him tightly. His armor was no match for the spikes.

His weapon fell to the ground, and as his blood drained rapidly, he lost his life.

A Commanding level had no chance against a Monarch level.

From the corpses of the slain dwarves, various undead emerged, both airborne and ground troops.

The necromancer destroyed all the fortress's structures, including barriers and furnaces. Unfortunately, no blueprints were found.

The necromancer didn't summon the dwarf leader's corpse but grabbed it and flew into the sky.

With the undead summoned, the necromancer began returning, leaving the corpses behind. In these special times, Alex wasn't greedy for minor gains and didn't bother disassembling them.

The necromancer detonated the ammunition depot, obliterating the dwarf fortress and incinerating the bodies.

Meanwhile, the lich took a more straightforward approach. In terms of raw power, the lich was stronger than the necromancer, not just because of its higher potential but also due to its additional abilities.

The lich didn't bother with stealth, flying openly to the dwarf fortress.

The dwarves noticed the black-robed skeleton in the sky immediately.

The dwarf leader ordered all dwarves to prepare for battle.

As the lich released its Domain, the fortress's shield shattered instantly, and the cannons on the wall froze solid.

The dwarf fortress began to tremble, freezing outward from the lich's center.

The dwarves, confused, were soon impaled by flying bone spikes. They might have dodged, but their legs were frozen to the ground, rendering them immobile.

Skeletons rose from the lich's domain, finishing off the surviving dwarves.

The dwarf leader, gripping his war hammer, struck at the lich standing silently on the ground.

The lich blocked the hammer with a skeletal hand, then froze the dwarf leader entirely.

A massive ice spike emerged beside the lich, piercing the dwarf leader and killing him.

The lich also destroyed the fortress's structures but was luckier than the necromancer.

The lich picked up a blueprint from the ground, a high-level Furnace design.

Using Skeleton Magic, not summoning magic, the lich didn't have the double summoning effect.

Looking at the three thousand skeletons, the lich seemed dissatisfied.

The lich flew into the sky, conjuring two red orbs in its hands.

The three thousand skeletons below disintegrated, their bones floating into the sky, swirling around the lich and coalescing.

The remaining soul fires on the ground merged, and every group of ten formed a single flame.

The bones assembled into bone dragons, the soul fires igniting in their eye sockets.

The lich had the power to create these bone dragons because their souls were sacrificed to it.

Other Skeleton Soldiers' souls were sacrificed to Alex, so even with Skeleton Magic, the lich couldn't control them.

The lich's potential was Emperor level, but currently, it was only Monarch level, so the bone dragons it summoned were also Monarch level at best.

These bone dragons were inferior to those summoned by the Barracks.

The lich continued casting, adding abilities to the bone dragons, making them more than mere skeletons.

The bone dragons' horns emitted a chilling aura, and their claws glowed faintly blue.

The bone dragons inherited the lich's abilities, their breath becoming frost breath, and their claw attacks gaining weak soul damage.

Three thousand skeletons were transformed into three hundred frost bone dragons, now flying in the sky.

The massive mana expenditure left the lich drained.

"Offer your souls to the great Queen of the Undead."

The lich's raspy voice echoed as it conjured a blue light in its hand, the souls of the bone dragons.

With a chant, the lich dispersed the souls, ensuring they weren't bound to it.

If the lich died, the bone dragons it created would vanish.

The lich, riding a bone dragon, led the others back, destroying the dwarf fortress along the way.

The two necromancers and the lich completed their tasks. The necromancers returned to Alex first.

The lich, having spent time reshaping skeletons, hadn't returned yet.

Alex smiled at the Commanding level dwarf corpse the necromancer brought back. She hadn't instructed them to bring corpses, so only one necromancer did.

Understanding the necromancer's intent, Alex's left eye glowed, and a large gray magic circle summoned a Commanding level bone dragon.

Alex dismounted her griffin, standing on the bone dragon's back. The Commanding level bone dragon flew faster than a griffin of the same level.

"How considerate, bringing me a mount," Alex remarked.

Alex now had a Commanding level bone dragon, while Sophie took the only remaining Commanding level griffin.

Alex, now mastering mid-level summoning magic, could specify the type of undead she wanted to summon. However, these high-tier undead didn't benefit from the double summoning effect.

"Oh my god!"

At that moment, Alex saw the lich returning, followed by hundreds of bone dragons. Alex's own bone dragon count had never reached such numbers, and the lich had brought her three hundred at once.

She had been pleased with the necromancer's thoughtfulness in bringing her a mount, but the lich's surprise was on another level.

Alex recognized that these bone dragons were summoned using the lich's Skeleton Magic, making them different from the bone dragon she was riding.

But for her undead army, these bone dragons were top-tier combatants.

After all, Alex's bone dragons and zombie titans were too large to pass through the portal.

Her undead army had now grown from 20K to 33K.

With these reinforcements, Alex's confidence soared. Taking Grimstone was now a certainty.

The lich also handed Alex a high-level Furnace blueprint, a valuable find.

"Move out!"

Destroying the three dwarf fortresses had taken two hours. They needed to hurry to reach Grimstone before dawn.