Chapter 233: Mischief I

The whole area of Alabaster Fortress became covered in ashen haze that inhibited vision and hearing. The adventurers below the walls could not hear the commands of those atop the walls. The hearing of everyone affected by the haze is limited to someone about two meters away from them.

The sight is inhibited by the haze while the groaning of hundreds of people echoing in the haze inhibits the hearing. The adventurers and soldiers below the wall could only fend for themselves. The odd thing is that there were no enemies attacking them just reduced vision and disoriented hearing.

All the groaning suddenly stopped and a bone chilling laugh echoed all throughout the haze. The soldiers and adventurers who heard this laugh all ha a tingle in their spine. Along with the tingle in the spine is a sharp reduction in stats.

[All your stats have been reduced by 20%. If you die, you have an 80% chance to become an undead.]

This system message caused panic and terror to those who has read it which means every player there. The players in the fortress are not only those below level 100 but also those above. There are even players from the top guilds mixed in so that their top brass would know what to expect.

Suddenly, faces that are pale in white that resembled that of the white mask of the masked undead showed up. It is not just one location but numerous masks appeared at every location in the haze. The mask would either be beside someone, above someone and some even manifested right in front of those below the walls.

The masks at first had no expression but suddenly it formed a mouth. The masks all over the haze that each adventurer and soldier could see suddenly formed into a creepy smile. Suddenly, screams of pain erupted all over the place.

One adventurer became curious and looked behind him but that was his mistake. The soldier behind him is actually impaled using a rusted spear by something. This something is like a copy of the masked undead that they bombarded earlier before except it had that creepy smiling mask.

The adventurer though should not have looked back because it only made himself scared. When he turned his back to run, a creepy smiling mask is already in front of him. He did not notice it but a blade is already piercing his chest that is now heavily bleeding.

The adventurer or player did not become particles of light but instead turned into an undead. His form became devoid of blood as he looked like a dried up corpse. The masked undead that pierced the adventurer's chest then slid the blade off.

The adventurer's corpse then fell to the ground but it also rose back up. The risen corpse' eye sockets glowed in a red light and now it became an enemy to its allies. This happened all over the Alabaster Fortress that the forces of the fortress is now only half of its glory while the undead became 50% stronger.

It did not take long for the foot soldier NPCs died to the onslaught of the undead but it was not only below the wall that is attacked. Above the fortress wall is an undead knight with armor made of darkness that is now facing the fortress commander.

The fortress commander is already riddled with wounds while his loyal knights are now undead that are just watching him getting beaten by the undead knight. It seems that despite being undead, the undead knight still has values of honor to face off the fortress commander by itself.

"You have done well human to face me despite being weaker than I am. I will gladly add you to my ranks as a death knight." The doom knight stated in a low dark voice.

"I do not know whether to be please or disgusted by your offer." The fortress commander replied.

"Do not worry. I will surely make you into a fine death knight like your loyal retainers." The doom knight replied.

The fortress commander did not reply as his face looked extremely enraged by the remark of the doom knight. The fortress commander could only lament their lack of preparation. The fortress commander's eyes landed on the corpses of the priests that were the first to fall.

Despite the holy attribute spells of the priest hitting the doom knight directly, there is no visible damage to even the armor of the monster in front of him. The bodies of the priests did not become undead because of the remnant holy energy that is remaining in their bodies that prevents them from being corrupted.

The fortress commander deciding that he can no longer do anything but fight to his death. He took out a potion vial and drank it. The doom knight tried to break the potion vial when it felt its contents but was unable to do so. The potion that the knight commander drank is actually holy water that would prevent the dead from becoming an undead.

"Such a shame." The doom knight stated as it charged towards the fortress commander.

The fortress commander tried to parry the strike of the doom knight but he was clearly outmatched. The doom knight swiped its spear horizontally and sliced at the neck of the fortress commander. The exchange of the two was swift and it ended with the head of the fortress commander separating from his body.

"It is do.." The doom knight is about to utter but a loud explosion suddenly sounded.

The doom knight looked towards the sound of the explosion and saw a swirling black hole on the horizon. The black hole is sucking all the undead that spawned and even the masked undead being generated. Even the haze is being sucked inside the black hole.

"Demons" The doom knight uttered as it left down from atop the walls and started its search for the source of the spell.