Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 729 - 68: Obtaining Another Baron Experience Card and Facing a New Legendary Level Enemy

He immediately introduced: "Night Wanderers are the main undead force in the northeastern foothills of the Hesse Mountains, in the middle of the Gray Mountain Range. Almost every human and dwarf settlement has a story associated with them: some stories tell of a friend’s friend daring to peek from the window as the Night Wanderers pass by, and thus disappearing. They gather other roaming undead into their ranks, empty graves, plunder battlefields, and then return to the mountains with a mixed team led by Jasper."

"This kind of thing happens almost every year, when both moons shine as crescents, a place at the foot of the Gray Mountain Range will crack open. Old Jasper will drive out from there in a cart, and the large bell on his corpse cart summons the dead to his side, no matter where they lie. Accompanying him is a team of Corpse Demons—ancient warriors who died even before the Sigmar era. They march together along the winding roads of the Empire, passing through towns and settlements, adding their dead to the horde."

"The dead among the Night Wanderers come in many types. Most are zombies, coming from those rudimentary graves serving the smallest human settlements. The ranks of the Night Wanderers also include many skeletons, drawn from battlefields always located just beneath the Empire’s lands. Under the incessant call of the bell from the corpse cart, creatures from forests and farms stagger forward on the flanks, while the abominable corpses from mass graves (mass pits), made up of those stripped of the dignity of a final resting place, guard the rear."

"Unlike war gangs formed by the living, which see declining numbers over time, the undead grow in strength the longer they remain unchecked. Once the strength of the Night Wanderers approaches the limits of a war gang, they will return to the Gray Mountain Range unless something particularly enticing—like a newly emerged battlefield—draws their attention."

"Unlike tribal war gangs, the undead have almost no organizational structure. They do not tend to maintain specialized scouts or ambush teams. Instead, Old Jasper forms the center of the Night Wanderers, and his paranoia means that the more powerful undead always stay closer to him, while his flanks and rear are more likely filled with stragglers and newcomers."

Su Li couldn’t help but click his tongue; the longer an undead war gang remains unchallenged and unchecked, the stronger its power becomes. It’s almost unimaginable how many Night Wanderers war gangs Jasper has under his command.

You should know that the undead who desecrated the Ancestral Holy Tomb of the Gray Rock Clan were just one war gang of Night Wanderers, which Demster, this Divine Chosen Knight of Mole, with numerous high-tier directly affiliated attendants, only managed to cleanse after fierce battle.

And Jasper has countless Night Wanderers war gangs under his command. If he were to truly mobilize them all, it would be a genuine existential crisis in the truest sense.

It would likely require the legendary lords of humans and dwarfs, commanding a joint army of the two races, to defeat his vast Sea of the Dead.

And this does not even account for Old Jasper’s influence, for most Night Wanderers are roaming corpses constrained by his black magic ability, and the connection of black magic is not stable. Only those powerful monsters centered around him are truly the main force and elite of the undead boosted by his black magic energy.

Whether an army has a legendary-level commander makes an absolute, world-of-difference impact on its combat effectiveness.