Bell Zombie (Timeless)

The Bell Zombie is a zombie encountered in Terracotta Mausoleum as a minion spawned by and supporting the Belldozer during the bossfight. He has a broken bianzhong that he carries in his arms, and each of the bells serves as armor ; if a bell is shot, it will summon another minion nearby to attack
==Appearance and origins==
This zombie is in all cases a male, and wears a large tunic, with mostly blueish and white colors ; his head is topped with a small hairbun, generally at the back. In his hands, he carries the broken remains of a bianzhong, with the ornated bronze bells loosely attached to sticks, which are either strapped to his body or directly hanging from his shoulders or his mouth.
He is based on a typical bianzhong player from the later Han Dynasty ; the bianzhong itself is a complex chinese instrument made out of series of bronze bells hanging from parallel sticks.
==Attack Patterns==
Due to the bells denying any large movements forward, regular attacks will be done by swinging fast from the left or the right, dealing low damage. Seldom, he may instead lean backwards a bit, and then suddenly slam with the bell players that are forward, dealing more damage and most importantly knocking back significantly the person hit
==Strategies==
This zombie, unlike most minions, is generally an important threat by himself, not because of his stats, but mainly because of his ability to flood the terrain with more and more enemies if attacked ; attacking only with weapons able to ignore the bells is recommended if you cannot manage large crowds of zombies
Such efficient weapons include polearms such as the Ge and the Ji, which are able to use their axe-like blade in order to easily strike behind the bells and hit the zombie to deal large amounts of damage, but also the Qin Bow and the Qin Crossbow, which are very precise and can allow you to aim between the bells to kill him.
Zhuos work too, altough less efficient, and Torches can be used set on fire elements of the environment in order to burn him.
In a melee combat, the Bell Zombie isn't particularly fast, nor very strong, but his bells can take a hit to protect him and summon another zombie, meaning you have to be careful. Holding against regular attacks is quite easy, but if you see him lean backwards a bit, quickly roll out of the way to avoid taking the damage from this more powerful attack. You can also use this at your advantage, and when she is recovering, quickly get behind her exposed back and kill her with whatever weapon you have.
If you cannot avoid hitting the bells, try to attack always at the spot where you destroyed them, so you can hit her directly without risking to create too much zombies
==Trivia==
*At some point of his developpement, he was gonna attack with bells attached with strings to his hands, but this was changed to avoid incoherency with his clumsyness
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