Helmut stood at the entrance of the cave, staring at the white ice above his head in a daze. After a while, he sighed, and then withdrew his gaze.

Helmut is a member of the Lich who stayed behind in the lair of the Eternals, and is also the leader of all those who stayed behind.

Among the four lichs who stayed at the same time, he was the oldest.

Originally, they wanted to join other lichs in participating in this decisive battle that would ultimately determine the fate of the immortals.

But Edwood ordered a few of them to stay, firstly to serve the high priest of the undead who was seriously injured.

The second is to cope with the worst case scenario.

If the lichs do not win against humans and are unable to stop humans from advancing, then they and other lichs will be responsible for covering up this last lair of the immortals, so that even if humans win, they will not be able to find the high priest of the undead.

, leaving the last glimmer of hope.

When the time comes, they will use explosive crystals to blow up the ice above their heads.

Reaching the top of the canyon, tens of thousands of tons of huge ice blocks like roofs will pour down, completely burying the canyon hidden under the ice cap.

In the extremely cold weather of the wilderness, the collapsed ice will freeze as hard as steel within two days. A pickaxe can only knock out a white dot on the ice.

As a result, even if humans find the location of this cave, it will take at least several years to dig it out.

In the past few years, the High Priest of the Undead has been able to recover most of his injuries. Even if he cannot launch a counterattack immediately, he can at least protect himself.

Of course, the result of this is that the few of them left behind will also be frozen in the cave.

However, as an immortal race, they do not need any food supplies, and they have lived alone for hundreds of years. Even if they are frozen for a few more years, it is just a small fragment in their long life.

And oneself.

As long as His Majesty the Divine Throne recovers from his injuries and regains his magic power, the world in the future will definitely be dominated by the Immortal Clan~!

But...but this is the worst plan after all.

Therefore, ever since Edwood led his army on the expedition, Helmut and the remaining liches have been waiting at the entrance of the cave, staring at the ice cap above their heads, looking forward to their triumphant return.

For the cold and selfish lich, this kind of expectation is extremely rare, and has never even happened before. Helmut only vaguely remembers that hundreds of years ago, when he was still a human, he felt a little nervous when dating his lover.

similar.

Time passed minute by minute as they waited anxiously. In the early hours of the morning, the ice cap above their heads was still pale and there was still no movement.

Helmut and the others gradually became heavy-hearted. The longer time passed, the slimmer their hope of victory became.

If no one returns by daybreak, it means they have completely failed.

Helmut's heart was filled with mixed feelings.

Various scenes kept appearing in his mind: one moment, the lichs on the expedition were all annihilated, another moment, thousands of priests and mages rushed into the caves, and another moment, the lichs returned victoriously...

The remaining lichs also had different expressions at this time. Some were silent, and some were sighing. Others were still unwilling to give up, staring at the ice cap above their heads without blinking, hoping.

The next second, the undead war fortress can appear...

Just when Helmut was anticipating various results in his mind, a lich suddenly shouted excitedly: "Someone is back~!"

Helmut suddenly looked up.

I saw a black dot speeding towards me against the white background in the sky.

Then it grew bigger and bigger, and finally turned into a dark pyramid-shaped war fortress~!

It reached the top of the canyon and then slowly descended.

Compared with the deep and long canyon, a lonely war fortress looks very small, but it is very eye-catching.

The remaining lichs nervously watched the landing war fortress, guessing the outcome of the war in their hearts.

Helmut stared at the war fortress and murmured: "It will be good to come back, it will be good to come back..."

When someone comes back, it means they may have won.

The war fortress quickly dropped to a height of only a few dozen meters. At this time, someone asked in a worried voice: "Why is there only one? Where are the others?"

Helmut couldn't help but was shocked and reacted.

He hurriedly raised his head and looked around, but he couldn't find any other war fortresses at all.

Sure enough, this is the only war fortress that fell through the ice cap~!

In the past, when returning from the battle, more than a dozen war fortresses would land one after another at the same time, and huge roars would echo in the canyon, making it extremely lively.

Helmut's mood suddenly sank again: Only one came back, which is not a good sign. Did all the others die in the battle?

At this time, the war fortress flew carefully through the canyon under the ice, and finally landed in the open space in front of the cave.

Helmut narrowed his eyes unwillingly and continued to patrol under the ice cap for another week.

But all the dust around the war fortress fell, but no one saw the war fortress following behind.

After the landed war fortress stopped on the ground, Helmut and the lichs looked at each other, and then they all flew over impatiently.

They eagerly want to know the news of the war. Even if they fail, it is better than waiting dryly like now.

But when they arrived at the war fortress, they saw that the door had not been opened for a long time. A trace of doubt flashed in Helmut's eyes - although he didn't know what happened, it was obviously abnormal.

Just when he couldn't help but want to fly into the war fortress and take a look for himself, the gate of the war fortress made a muffled sound and then slowly opened.

Immediately afterwards, several lichs wrapped in black robes slowly walked down.

Helmut immediately stepped forward to stop them and asked anxiously: "What was the result? Did we win? Why is only one of you back? Where are the others?"

As he spoke, he looked at the other person carefully, and saw that the leader's black-robed man had his hood pulled down very low, completely covering his face, making it impossible to see his appearance clearly.

However, he didn't care about this, basically all lichs had this kind of surname.

The main reason for this is not to pretend to be mysterious, but because there is too much rotten flesh on the face, so they all subconsciously choose to cover their faces - although the lichs don't care too much about appearance, after all, they once

As a human being, we still have some sense of beauty and ugliness deep within our hearts.

The leading man in black robe stopped, was silent for a moment, and said in a hoarse voice: "Yes, we have won. To be precise, we will win soon."

The remaining lichs suddenly let out a burst of excited cheers and were extremely excited.

Someone put his hand on his forehead and shouted repeatedly: "I know it, I know it, it is impossible for the immortal to fail."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, fate is still on our side after all."

"..."

Helmut also breathed a long sigh of relief. He had always regretted that he could not participate in the decisive battle. When he suddenly heard the news of victory, Helmut felt that his phylactery was shaking with excitement.

At this moment, he even had the urge to cry. For the lich who had lost his life and feelings, this was simply a miracle.

He suppressed his excitement and said: "Just...are you the only one coming back? The battle was very difficult, wasn't it?"

"No, of course not." The leading man in black robes let out a dry laugh and said, "The others will be back soon. They are cleaning the battlefield. We are back to report the good news to the high priest."

All the lichs couldn't help but glance at each other, and they all saw the disappointed look in each other's eyes.

Helmut immediately cursed these lichs in his heart for being despicable and selfish. As soon as the crisis of the war was lifted here, these bastards started fighting among themselves again, hoping that others would not be left unscathed.

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At the same time, he couldn't help but sigh for a while: It turns out that there are other people alive. Really, if only one came back... uh, no, if they fight the enemy and lose both sides, they all die in the battle.

OK~!

But they did not say these words. Instead, they tried their best to put smiles on their faces and shouted: "Go quickly, His Majesty will be very happy when he hears it. You guys are really lucky. I'm sure

You will be rewarded by His Majesty the Divine Throne."

As they spoke, they moved out of the way.

The leading man in black robe laughed lowly, lowered his head and walked forward slowly.

Helmut looked at the figures of these lichs and sighed, the Eternals finally passed the biggest crisis of their clan in two thousand years.

They won, the future is still theirs, and the dark magic will finally win.

Although their strength was greatly reduced, they lost the Semitic tribe, and lost the service of the Dark Mage, but as long as they are given enough time, under the leadership of the Undead High Priest, the Eternal Ones will surely rule the world again.

The thing that Lichs don't lack most is time. They can wait patiently for the opportunity in hundreds of years.

And human beings, no matter how powerful they are, will eventually grow old. Only when they are powerful enough to reach the realm of demigods can they achieve immortality like the High Priest of the Undead.

The innate advantages of the immortals will never be matched by those lowly races that use their bodies to move around.

Helmut even began to plan the future strategy in his heart. First, they would use the Dra Zerg to clear out the humans on the Island of the Dead, and then spread the Dra Zerg out to contain the power of humans.

After the High Priest of the Undead recovers from his injuries, he can fight back to the Semitic tribe and rebuild the glory of the Eternal Ones.

When the time comes, we must give those wallflowers a hard look and let them know the price of betrayal.

After this battle, Edwood's status as the number one lich will no longer be shaken. Helmut decided to have a good relationship with him. Number two and number three people didn't dare to think about it. He would be satisfied if he could be number six and number seven.

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Helmut watched the few reporting lichs walking toward the cave, feeling secretly envious and thinking to himself: A bunch of lucky bastards, I wonder what God will reward them.

These people must be Edelwood's cronies, right?

Otherwise, this fat guy wouldn't be able to get his turn...
To be continued...