The following months Adolf concentrated totally on cleaning the outer ring, at first he fought alone, none of the burned knights that he resurrected helped him even a little, apart from information they never got involved in any fight.
But the more they saw him fight, the more they were amazed, usually human beings or any intelligent race instinctively seek not to be hurt in their vital points, it was a basic instinct rooted in the depths of any living being but Adolf was different, he stripped himself of his meat and used his bones as a weapon during a fight.
He didn't care about anything other than finishing off the enemy in front of him no matter the cost.
Originally the burnt knights when they heard that he was pseudo-immortal took it as a joke, but when they could see how his head was severed from his body and his heart was shattered, his thoughts totally changed, but that it was also very strange for them.
According to their knowledge there were only four races that could claim the title of being "immortal", these were the liches, vampires, wraiths and spirit kings, but for each one to be immortal one or more conditions had to be met.
In the case of the Lich, as long as his phylactery is intact, he will be immortal, but when it breaks, the Lich will lose both his immortality and his powers.
For the vampire it would be his heart, a vampire's heart was extremely resistant to all kinds of physical and magical damage, his heart was also the source of his power so if it was damaged the vampire would weaken.
A wraith was a soul corrupted by grudge that existed in the physical world thanks to an object/person used as a medium, they were immune to physical damage and had a great resistance to magical damage but since the medium always gave off an evil aura it was easy to discovering was the easiest immortal race to deal with.
Last but not least are the spiritual kings, they are the blessed children of a specific element, in the spiritual realm they are almost invincible but when they manifest in the physical realm they cannot bring their true body with them, this makes them significantly weaker than in the spirit realm while unable to freely use their immortality.
But the burned knights quickly noticed something, Adolf was not a Lich, a vampire, a wraith or even a spiritual king, no matter the damage his body suffered he would just recover before returning to combat, no matter if the wound It was in his head or in his heart, Adolf didn't care about any of that, even once they could see how almost his entire torso was completely destroyed but he still recovered without further ado.
They were totally unaware of what race Adolf was, no immortal race had such abilities.
For his part, Adolf was a pureblood vampire and his weakness was his heart. When it was damaged, the statistics and certain abilities decreased proportionally to the damage received, but thanks to the fact that Adolf was a pureblood, he could regenerate his heart with the time, that's clear if it wasn't thanks to the [Chaos Bugs], thanks to them his pseudo-immortality was greatly strengthened.
While Adolf was looking at the landscape in front of him, immersed in his thoughts, he heard a series of footsteps that were approaching him. Turning his head, he saw a Rhyfel knight walking towards him.
"Young leader, there is a matter that needs to be taken care of."
Adolf looked at him for several seconds before finally answering.
"What happened?".
"All of Rhyfel's knights that lurked in the outer ring have joined our ranks, only the soldiers that are positioned atop the walls are missing."
"Stop beating around the bush, get straight to the point."
"At the command, it is impossible to go up to the top of the walls since the archers would quickly shoot us down with their arrows but that is only the beginning of the problem, we do not have any means to go up, besides to open the doors that lead to the ring In between we must eliminate the archers or it will be almost impossible for us to activate the mechanism while defending ourselves from a hail of arrows".
"I see, so you're saying that I need to take care of the archers first so I can open the gate, right?"
"That's right".
"Catch as many goblins as possible, they have to be alive, even those who have died will do but the condition is that they have to be still fresh, then take them as close to the wall as possible, from that moment on I'll take care of it." from the rest and you only have to worry about opening the doors and stray arrows."
"Understood, I will pass on the orders immediately."
Adolf asintió y se alejó en una dirección aparentemente aleatoria, el caballero Rhyfel lo vio alejarse y sacudió la cabeza, a pesar de que era un good leader and comrade in arms as a person left a lot to be desired.
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After several hours of work and preparation, everything was ready. Adolf looked approvingly at the large number of live goblins in front of him, there were at least four dozen, maybe five dozen, but they weren't just living goblins, there were also a large number of corpses. cool goblins.
Rhyfel's knights looked at Adolf doubtfully, they didn't have the slightest idea why he asked them to capture as many goblins alive, thanks to their meager strength they wouldn't even give enough time to open the wall if they were used as meat. cannon, they simply couldn't understand what the young man in front of them had in mind.
Adolf for his part ordered that all the goblins be thrown so that they would die at the hands of the archers, quickly and with doubt his order was fulfilled, without waiting a large number of arrows fell on the goblins like raindrops, but in comparison from these the arrows that fell brought a great destructive power in them.
The goblins died without being able to put up even the slightest resistance, it was all a one-sided massacre by the archers on the walls.
Those goblins who were lucky died instantly but there were many others who did not have that luck, the arrows did not manage to end their lives immediately and instead caused fatal injuries, the goblins had to agonize while they saw how those who caused this hell watched everything from a safe place.
The blood flowed as if it had no end and accumulated forming a large pool, the more goblins died the larger the pool of blood became.
Several minutes passed in which the only thing that could be heard was the sound of the arrows flying before hitting a goblin that might or might not let out high-pitched, miserable shrieks before dying, abruptly the bows stopped shooting arrows.
The place where the goblins were supposed to have been was only a large puddle formed from blood and pieces of shredded meat, there was not even a part of any corpse that was intact.
Adolf looked at the large puddle before extending his hand and speaking in a soft voice, almost whispering but with unquestionable firmness.
"[Bloodbending - Blood Shield]."
Along with his words the blood that remained motionless began to move as if a ball was being pulled by something invisible, it quickly gathered in the air as a large sphere of blood before spreading out while flattening, in a few seconds the blood. I form a large shield.
Rhyfel's knights stared at the shield in astonishment and disbelief as they recognized the skill Adolf used, [Bloodbending].
As they understood, the progenitor of vampires could manipulate blood as if it were child's play, he/she had the greatest control of the life of a living being, but his "descendants" could not do the same, so who imparted two [Blood Creation] [Blood Control] skills to them, they were weak and imperfect versions of the [Blood Manipulation] that was the epitome of blood laws.
But they also knew that both creation and blood control had been lost forever since the progenitor of vampires never gave them to his descendants again, so they wondered how Adolf had managed to get his hands on that ability.
For his part, Adolf had beads of sweat running down his forehead, he felt extremely tired from using his [Blood Control] ability to create something so big, but unfortunately the blood could not solidify to create something even more resistant, he could only use his mana as a means to maintain the shield.
"What are you waiting for? The doors will open quickly!"
Adolf shouted when he saw that none of Rhyfel's knights moved, his voice quickly brought back to reality the knights who moved with great speed to open the doors, the archers at the top of the wall seeing that they entered their range of As they began their assault, a shower of arrows rained down on Rhyfel's knights but before the arrows hit they were caught in Adolf's blood shield.
The arrows that hit the blood shield either got caught or bounced back and fell to the ground, the shield though not solid still possessed great defensive capabilities.
Even when he was on earth, Adolf once read about a substance that when something with force and speed hit it, it became "solid" and prevented it from being traversed, but when something without force and speed hit it, it penetrated without problems.
From that, Adolf was inspired and created that shield with a lot of effort and study, but nothing would have been possible if the [Ruler of the Underworld] hadn't given him various hints for unknown reasons.
Adolf wiped the sweat from his forehead as his eyes looked at the system window that indicated his mana.
[48/380]
[12/380]
Gritting his teeth without delay he stuffed several low-quality mana stones into his mouth, almost immediately he felt his mana overflowing again but with the speed with which he recovered it was still depleted.
Adolf felt his heart bleed as he watched months of saving mana stones just disappear, but having no other way to quickly recover his mana swallowed his grievances and regrets.
While he was immersed in his thoughts, he heard a great noise at the same time that a tremor struck the place, his eyes went to the door and seeing how it slowly opened, he was filled with relief but quickly concentrated, he knew that this was a critical moment in which he could not allow himself to lose concentration for even the slightest moment, if that were to happen all the effort he had made up to now would have been in vain.
Every second that passed felt like hours to Adolf, sweat quickly covered his entire body as he felt his head begin to spin and for the first time in months he felt nauseated, but despite all that he continued to maintain the shield of blood without hesitating in the slightest while continuing to devour manastones.
His body began to yell at him to stop for a few moments to rest, but Adolf didn't hear the desperate screams of his body and continued to devour mana stones to maintain the blood shield.
If Adolf were alone, he could open the door and reach the fear ring at the cost of several deaths, but it was not only him who had to cross but also the Rhyfel knights, he could not allow himself to lose so many Rhyfel knights at the same time. That would be a loss from which he might never recover.
'Come on, come on, open up dammit already.'
As if the world responded to his thoughts, the door was fully opened and all the burned knights quickly crossed without being shot by the archers, the archers had the task of not allowing anyone to enter but their task was not to shoot the residents of the intermediate ring.
That was the reason why they didn't get shot even if they were close to the walls, of course, the outer ring wall was an exception to that rule.
Seeing how all of Rhyfel's knights managed to cross successfully, Adolf stopped holding the blood shield and began to run, a rain of arrows fell on him and destroyed his body, but thanks to his regeneration he immediately returned to his best condition, the dizziness and malaise also disappeared.
The archers constantly fired arrows to try to stop Adolf's advance but no matter how many times they destroyed his body he would regenerate again, but that didn't mean that Adolf could take as long as he wanted, on the contrary, he couldn't sustain that level of regeneration for as long as he wanted. a long time.
His muscle mass was quickly consumed by the [Chaos Bugs] to heal his body, but they were also not alone in the work of healing Adolf's body as [Semi-Perfect Regeneration] was also playing an important role, but compared to [Chaos Bugs] that used muscle mass to heal wounds [Semi-Perfect Regeneration] used mana.
Thanks to those two abilities Adolf could maintain that insane regeneration rate for some time, but when his mana or muscle mass bottomed out it would be the end of him.
With much effort Adolf closed the distance between himself and the door that led to the middle ring, at this point he was completely naked.
Panting heavily Adolf walked through the gate and was officially in the middle ring, the archers at that moment also stopped shooting and everything was quiet again.
While he was panting, trying to normalize his breathing, Adolf checked the system messages.
[Thanks to the skill [Mana Devourer] the user's mana stat has increased]
[Mana 380 ----> 400]
[The skill [Blood Control] has leveled up]
[Level 3 ----> 5]
[User fragmentation rate has increased]
[Fragmentation rate 20%/100%]
Reading the messages, Adolf's expression couldn't help but change from satisfaction to disappointment.