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Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 326




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Chapter 326

Pope William’s Light of Angels covered the entire continent . Hundreds of thousands of people looked up to the sky in fear and admiration . There had been many wars against necromancers, and every single war caused immeasurable damage . No one wanted to be alive to see a war against necromancers .



Light magic was the natural enemy of death magic, and Priests of Light would always be the deciding factor in how long the war would last . Without Priests of Light, necromancers might have already won the war . The importance and contribution of Priests of Light were undeniable . This was why the Church was able to gain respect and support in such a short amount of time and grow to be one of the largest religious organizations in the world .

Priests of Light were often treated like saviors during these wars . However, after centuries without a war against necromancers, the Church had become lax in its selection of priests . Some priests believe that they were saviors even though they had never fought in a war and should be respected and feared because they were the ones who kept the world safe . Without a war to display its power, the Church could not expand as quickly as before . This war could be the key to expanding the Church .

Sentient beings were not afraid of in-fighting, because whenever they are facing a common threat, they will band together against it . No matter where a man’s loyalty lay before, when he faced a common threat, he would trust and fight alongside all the other men against the threat .

This was because a common threat presented a common fear . No one wanted to become a zombie, even though a zombie’s lifespan was longer . Sentient beings were afraid of death . They were afraid of disappearing . The most important thing to a man wasn’t his life . It was his thoughts, his memories, his experiences . If these things could be preserved, no one would be afraid of death .

Those who chose the path of death magic feared the same thing . Every necromancer wanted to become an arch-witch because an arch-witch’s lifespan was longer than any other sentient being .

That night, the entire world stayed wide awake . Those in power found themselves busy like never before . The Holy Mountain where Pope William resided was even busier . Ambassadors from every nation flocked there trying to get help from the Pope and to seek out potential allies .

Like everyone else, Anfey did not sleep either . He was even more nervous than most people because he knew that he had already made the necromancers his enemies . He knew that the necromancers must be furious about his part in defeating Annunciata . If the necromancers really did want to hunt him down, he had nowhere else to run . He couldn’t fight against a political machine, and the Necromancer Union was one to terrify every single political machine .

The first major news arrived at dawn . General Augustus of Blackania City arrived at Blackania City through a transmission portal and took control of the city . Scarlet of Shansa Empire led her army away from the border and sent a messenger with a peace treaty . When facing such an enormous threat, wars were not acceptable .



Other news arrived soon after . Necromancers began to mobilize their members . In the past, necromancers would all band together and form a single, massive army . This huge army would sweep across the land, killing and pillaging as it went . The necromancers knew that the entire world was their enemy, and dividing up would mean defeat . However, this strategy had a major flaw . Creatures created with death magic move very slowly . Whenever people heard about necromancers, they would resort to scorched earth tactics . They would take everything they could and burn everything they couldn’t, leaving nothing for the necromancers . Then they would flee the scene .


To fight against necromancers, people would form small teams and employ guerrilla warfare . Mages and priests were the most important part of these teams . They can kill many more zombies in a short time . Then the team could flee the scene knowing that the necromancers were too slow to catch them .

After a few months, the necromancers would be too weak to pose a major threat . Then the nations would amass a great army and attack the weakened necromancers . This was why the necromancers could not gather large armies the way they had done during the first war .

The necromancers tried a similar tactic by sending a few necromancers into a large city to scout for information and ambush the people . However, powerful people were everywhere during those wars, and they could recognize necromancers at a glance . The necromancers could not get out in time and would be killed . Slowly the necromancers realized this was not the best tactic .



This time, however, the necromancers had picked a brand new tactic . They divided up their numbers, sending smaller groups of necromancers to dozens of different locations at the same time . One such battlefield was at Tumen Commercial Union, where there was little military defense and high traffic . Another was located in eastern Shansa Empire, another in northern Ellisen Empire . One was in Transverse Mountains, where the necromancers had already attacked a handful of mercenary groups . Another was in Greenwich, a small kingdom on an island offshore, and communication from the kingdom was lost .

Soon, the third piece of news arrived . Yolanthe had ordered the release of Shansa soldiers . Shansa Empire had already paid reparations and hadn’t caused that much damage . Maho Empire had been delaying the release of prisoners, but now it could delay no longer .

This order made the situation in Violet City more difficult . Anfey and Urter were still in the middle of exploring the labyrinth . They couldn’t send their own people into the labyrinth to die .

More news arrived at noon . The empire had ordered its more experienced soldiers and generals to communicate with each other and figure out a plan against the necromancers .

The necromancers’ new tactic was much more effective than their old one . When the necromancers occupied a new city, they would split again and head off to new locations . It was a fast and effective way for them to spread out throughout the entire world .

The old tactic was out-dated . Humans only had so many top level powers, and there were hundreds of battlefields . Top level powers needed to work together when fighting necromancers . If a master swordsman or an archmage die at the hands of necromancers, the necromancers would have an invaluable addition to their army .

Scorched earth was out of the question as well . Too many villages were caught off guard by the necromancers’ new strategy and couldn’t escape . The necromancers were not dangerous in small numbers, which gave people hope . People thought perhaps they could defend their homes and families . However, the death toll was very high, and the necromancers’ army grew with each death .

In the past, the necromancers had focused on the armies . This time, they avoided army camps at all cost . They focused on the weaker cities and villages . Against a large army, a small team of necromancers would be wiped out in minutes . Now, the necromancers’ army had grown too great .

The most terrifying thing was that none of the creatures created by the necromancers were afraid of the sun . Even the weakest skeleton could step into sunlight with no problem . Pope William had already sent out a warning and an example . In the past, a Holy Light spell from a Priest of Light could kill several dozen zombies . In a small village in northern Ellisen Empire, the spell had injured those dark creatures but did not incapacitate them .



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