Chapter 172: The Army of White Walkers
"Have they finally come?"
About two hours after the other nodes encountered attacks, the gargoyle finally brought back the latest news.
The enemy for this wave of attacks had arrived.
However, the number of enemies was a bit chaotic, and the gargoyle, unable to speak, could not detail their numbers, only providing an estimate.
Nearly ten thousand!
Regarding this news, Gu Xi was speechless.
He hadn't expected that when the enemy finally came, they would come in such large numbers.
This number clearly indicated that two waves of enemies were attacking together.
Although he was puzzled by this situation, since the enemies had arrived, Gu Xi had to fight.
Standing on the city gate tower, Gu Xi struck the ground heavily with his Cold Wind Staff.
"The enemy is in position. Everyone, prepare for battle. This time there are many enemies, so we can't stray too far. As required, the zombie troops will move first, forming up fifty meters outside the Necromancer Ritual Array.
The skeleton archer units will follow behind.
Other units will split to the sides, moving quickly. Prepare now.
Leaders, come to me to collect food and strengthen your elite troops' combat power."
Saying this, Gu Xi pointed towards [Rotten Endless Food Basket], signaling his subordinates to act.
However, after arranging his subordinates, Gu Xi also couldn't help but touch his own stomach.
Ever since Luna went to Victoria City, no one had taken care of Gu Xi's needs.
Forget about sending mana-enhancing drinks like Green Ghost, even food had not been delivered.
Gu Xi was now extremely hungry.
And the items from [Rotten Endless Food Basket] could only be consumed by the undead.
This left Gu Xi rather speechless.
However, he didn't dwell on this for long.
Previously in prison, he had eaten rat meat; if there was nothing to eat, he just went hungry.
This wasn't much worse.
After this battle, he could find an opportunity to return to Aridowei City for some food. For now, he had to deal with the enemies first.
While Gu Xi was arranging his subordinates, the White Walkers' army had already appeared on the other side of the horizon.
From a distance, Gu Xi finally understood what the gargoyle meant.
This time, it was truly hard to count the White Walkers.
In the nearly ten thousand-strong army, there were over twenty completely different eerie species.
These mixed troops made the entire army look like a ragtag group.
And their leaders didn't seem to manage this, each with their own thoughts, only focusing on charging forward without any intent to organize the troops.
Such a chaotic formation naturally made it difficult for the gargoyle to estimate their numbers.
In fact, not only the gargoyle, even Gu Xi could only make a rough estimate of nearly ten thousand.
As for their strength, Gu Xi couldn't discern much.
"Zombies with spears, get ready. When the enemy gets closer, prepare to attack."
After some thought, Gu Xi made the decision for this battle, a frontal assault.
With Gu Xi's order, the Death Incarnation in the sky also landed on the city gate tower, tilting its head to stare at the approaching White Walkers.
At this moment, a group of the fastest-moving White Walkers had already approached the Necromancer Ritual Array.
Standing on the city gate tower, Gu Xi saw some arrangements within the White Walkers' army.
There were nine White Walker leaders in total, three of whom were at the forefront.
What caught Gu Xi's attention most was a woman in a cheongsam holding a paper umbrella. Unlike normal people, her skin was as blue as the sky, with red hair and eyebrows.
A white-furred baboon skin draped over her shoulders.
As she walked forward, a layer of ice appeared on the ground beneath her, and many snowflakes even fell on her paper umbrella.
When she was about fifty meters from the zombie troops, she raised her paper umbrella high.
"Weather Change! Heavy Snow!"
At her command, her feet quickly froze, and then the cold wind spread out from her center in all directions.
Even Gu Xi on the city gate tower felt snowflakes falling from the sky.
This was a weather-type spell.
Gu Xi looked at the falling snowflakes, speechless, and his estimation of the White Walker leader rose a bit.
Why didn't he have such a leader under his command?
At this moment, two of the three White Walker leaders at the front also made their moves.
One of them, covered in frost, with shriveled skin and gray-white hair, had a huge hole in his chest covered by a white baboon skin tied like a bandage.
He held a spear made of ice crystals.
As the woman released the snowflakes, he leaped forward, stepping on the snowflakes to rush ahead.
Clearly, he intended to bypass the front lines and directly confront Gu Xi.
The other one was slowly dragging a black coffin with an iron chain, with the white baboon skin covering the coffin, making it unclear whether the coffin or the White Walker leader wielding a rapier was the main body.
Dragging the coffin, he moved faster and faster, leaving the trailing White Walker soldiers behind, until he reached the front of the zombie line.
Before the zombies could react, this White Walker leader swung his hand horizontally, and the coffin that had been trailing behind him crashed into the zombies.
The zombies had already received Gu Xi's order not to panic when encountering the enemy, but to follow the procedure and thrust their spears.
So even when the coffin came crashing into them, they acted as instructed.
But they didn't expect that the coffin was extremely strange; merely touching it caused the zombies to lose their souls and fall lifelessly to the ground.
This situation made Gu Xi think of one possibility.
The greatest nemesis of necromancers.
Soul Stealers.
This was a class not very powerful but highly specialized.
Their main feature was the ability to extract souls from summoned undead.
Meaning, if a necromancer used summoned skeletons to fight them, it would be a disaster.
Fortunately, this class was weak in other aspects and could only extract souls from summoned undead, leaving naturally occurring undead and living beings unaffected.
Hence, few chose this class unless they had a strong animosity toward necromancers.
Gu Xi hadn't expected to encounter such a class here, leaving him momentarily stunned.
While he was distracted, the White Walker with the ice spear leaped over the snowflakes and reached the city gate, aiming directly at Gu Xi on the tower.