Chapter 88: Hellish Warhorse

  I'm truly amazed by this undead magic, although there are many other magics that summon servant spirits, but looking at this one, what a cool mount it is, those purple flames, the green soul fire, and the skeletal undead warhorse composed of white bones, this is the beauty of death, no other mount can be as terrifyingly beautiful.

  "This undead warhorse is a hellish steed that only our high-ranking undead mages can summon. With this mount that doesn't need to eat or drink, you'll be able to travel quickly across the continent. The hellish steed runs much faster than ordinary horses, almost three times as fast. Try it out and you'll see for yourself. Moreover, this horse was originally your mount in life, so it will coordinate with you very well." Raylo said.

  I nodded in great satisfaction and said: "Not bad, not bad, it's just that the appearance is a bit intimidating, it's too eye-catching in crowded places."

  Lei Luo smiled and said, "I'll teach you a method that can send it to the world of the dead when not needed, and summon it out only when necessary."

  I nodded, turned around and took out a dark magic wand from the storage ring, handed it to Lelou and said: "This magic wand was used by a great undead wizard named Kachi. He died with my teacher in a duel, I don't have much use for it, so I'll give it to you as a gift. We can consider ourselves friends now. To be honest, I didn't really want your reward or anything, sending the message was just on the way."

  Lei Luo took the magic wand with a surprised look, examining it carefully and excitedly said: "This is the famous Death Spirit Wand, I've heard of Katch's reputation, this is indeed his magic wand, what a great thing! Compared to this, the things I gave you seem somewhat insignificant." He thought for a moment, as if he had made a big decision, took out an old book with a sheepskin cover from his pocket and handed it to me, saying: "I know you're a magician, you won't dedicate your soul to the god of death, but this book is a collection of undead magic suitable for magicians to learn and use. Take it and study it, inside there's a spell on how to summon the white bones of dead creatures as your mount, if you master it, in the future when you're lucky enough to encounter the remains of a giant dragon, summoning a white bone dragon as your mount is also possible."

  Upon hearing Lui's words, I happily accepted the book and put it in my bosom, saying: "In that case, the magician Alec is your friend. If there's anything you need help with in the future, you can come find me."

  Rai Luo also happily waved the magic wand in his hand and said, "Well, if you need me in the future, the undead magician Rai Luo will appear before you!" After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and shook hands with me, we looked at each other and smiled.

  Leilo summoned a hellish warhorse, mounted it and said to me: "Alick, I'll go first, the town is in your care now. Your reinforcements will arrive soon, you must hold on."

  I nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'll try my best."

  Lei Luo also nodded and turned away, Hell's war horse treading on purple flames departed.

  I turned around and looked at the Hellish War Steed that was quietly standing there, belonging to me. The horse seemed to sense my gaze, lowered its head, and rubbed against me. A purple flame passed through my body, but I felt a chill without temperature - the ghostly flames were indeed different from ours.

  I patted the war horse's neck with my hand, and the war horse sniffed at my palm with its bony skull, just like it used to lick my palm with its tongue when it was alive.

  I patted it apologetically and said, "Sorry for not being able to save your life, but now you can still serve me as before, are you willing?"

  The horse nuzzled me warmly, indicating that I should ride on its back. I turned over and rode onto the back of this warhorse, which was emitting a purple flame-like smoke all over its body. The horse let out a long whinny and galloped off with me on its back.

  The scenery on both sides quickly retreated backwards, and the speed of the hellish warhorse was indeed several times faster than that of an ordinary warhorse. The journey took almost half a day on the way here, but it only took less than two hours to return, and soon I saw a simple defensive wall built around the town.

  As I arrived at the wall, I was just about to shout for someone to open the door when a feathered arrow suddenly shot towards me. I was greatly startled and spurred my horse forward in a sudden leap, barely avoiding that feathered arrow.

  "Hurry up and shout at the people on the wall: 'Don't shoot arrows, don't shoot arrows, I'm Yalik, not a necromancer!'"

  Several people immediately poked their heads out from over the wall to take a look, and instantly someone shouted: "It's really Alex coming back, hurry up and open the door, let him in."

  The gate was soon opened, and Sam and the mayor both came out to greet me. I followed Lilo's method and recited the incantation, sending the hellish warhorse into the world of the dead, before exchanging pleasantries with Sam and the others.

  Sam led me through the gate and then asked, "Alec, where have you been? We were worried about you. And what's with the terrifying mount you're riding?"

  "I vaguely said:" This is a mount that someone else gave me, nothing much." To change the subject, I asked: "By the way, how's the situation in town?"

  The town mayor replied on the side: "The wall was barely built, but now the problem is that we don't have enough strength to keep the town watertight, and there are far from enough people."

  I nodded, handing some herbs I had collected along the way to Sam and said, "Let's do this, I'll go ahead and brew some wound medicine from these herbs. As for other things, we'll think of a solution later. We've done what we can, now all that's left is to pray that the troops arrive on time. Otherwise, even with defensive walls, we won't be able to hold out for long."

  As we were speaking, a guard ran over and said to the mayor: "Mayor, a large group of zombies has been spotted not far from here, coming in this direction. You'd better take a look."

  We nodded and walked towards the temporarily set up watchtower, climbed to the top of the tower, we used a specially made monocular telescope to look far away, a large group of zombies were walking in this direction, the scene was magnificent, making people extremely shocked.

  I sighed and said, "There's no other way. I have a friend outside hunting down the undead-making necromancers, he also notified the imperial army to come reinforce, but all of this takes time, we must hold out here until the crisis is resolved." Mayor, tell them to prepare for battle, I'll go make some more healing potions for everyone."

  The bell in the town rang out again, and all those who could fight picked up their weapons and stood on the wall. With the help of the mercenaries, the fighting force was reasonably distributed, although I still saw many townspeople's hands shaking as they held their weapons.