"Commander Zhang! You're sending our brothers to their deaths in vain!" Qin Ming was so anxious he was jumping up and down.

"To die? That is the fate of us Great Xia soldiers!"

Commander Zhang turned around, pointed at the endless black abyss in the distance, and roared with bloodshot eyes, "If any terrifying beasts really crawl out of that damned cave, we, as soldiers of the Great Xia army, should be at the forefront! Even if we have to fill the gaps with our own bodies, we will stop them here!"

"Look behind us!" Commander Zhang grabbed Qin Ming by the shoulder and pulled him towards the city. "We're only a few dozen kilometers from Donghai City! Just a few dozen kilometers, Brother Qin!"

Commander Zhang's voice trembled slightly, but was filled with determination: "In Donghai City, there are tens of millions of unarmed civilians! Our parents, our wives and children! If we leave today, what will happen to them?! Who will stop these monsters?!"

"We cannot retreat under any circumstances! Not even a single step!"

Commander Zhang drew his longsword, turned around, and roared at the thousands of terrified soldiers behind him: "Where is the spirit of the Great Xia army?!"

"Fight to the death! Fight to the death!"

Thousands of soldiers, covered in mud, roared in unison, their voices shaking the heavens. Their fierce and indomitable spirit actually diluted some of the oppressive atmosphere in the sky.

Upon hearing this, Qin Ming's lips trembled slightly, but his words of advice remained stuck in his throat, ultimately turning into a sigh.

Looking at the group of resolute soldiers of the Great Xia Dynasty before him, he felt an indescribable respect and chuckled to himself, then stopped trying to dissuade them.

It was at this moment.

"Thump...thump...thump..."

A dull, muffled sound emanated from the depths of the collapsed cave.

Immediately following was the extremely desolate and ancient sound of horns.

"Waaah—"

Accompanied by horns, a dense cacophony of battle cries erupted as if from the depths of hell, sending chills down one's spine.

"All troops, form ranks! Prepare for battle!" Commander Zhang roared, his eyes wide.

All the soldiers quickly cocked their guns and reloaded, and various heavy weapons were set up again, their dark muzzles fixed on the entrance to the abyss.

Then, under everyone's tense gaze, pale, skeletal hands gripped the edge of the abyss.

One by one, skeletal warriors, wielding rusty swords and with ghostly blue flames flickering in their eye sockets, slowly crawled out from the depths of the cave with stiff yet orderly steps. They exuded a strong aura of death and decay, and their numbers instantly reached several hundred, with more still pouring out.

"Fire!"

Commander Zhang had just raised his hand, but hadn't even had a chance to shout out those two words completely.

Suddenly, something unexpected happened in the sky!

"BOOM—!!!"

The strange purple lightning that had been rolling in the dark clouds was suddenly provoked and struck down without warning!

It was a dense, purple thunderstorm, like a torrential downpour!

Purple lightning, carrying an irresistible law of destruction, struck the skeleton warriors who had just set foot on this land!

"Sizzle—Bang!"

There was absolutely no room for resistance. The skeleton warriors struck by the purple lightning didn't even utter a scream. Their hard bones were instantly melted by the violent energy upon contact with the lightning, ultimately turning into fine dust that filled the sky!

A gust of wind blew by, leaving nothing behind.

This time, the ghostly blue flames in the skull's eye sockets were completely extinguished, eliminating the possibility of endless resurrection that they had previously experienced inside the ruins!

Everyone remained in a defensive posture, frozen in place.

"What...what happened?" A company commander stammered, swallowing hard. "They were struck by lightning and killed?"

Qin Ming was also filled with disbelief. He stared wide-eyed at the bone powder scattered on the ground, his mind racing.

These purple lightning bolts would actually attack the skeleton warriors that crawled out of the ground.

Moreover, the accuracy was so high that it did not harm the surrounding Xia soldiers in the slightest!

This is definitely not a natural phenomenon! 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Is the purple lightning in the sky being manipulated by someone in the dark?"

Who is it?

Could it be the Lord?

Before they could think any further, the tremors in the abyss intensified once more.

"Click click click..."

The sickening sound of bones grinding together came like a tsunami.

More and more skeletons crawled out of the ground like a tidal wave bursting its banks!

At a glance, there was a dense sea of ​​bones, numbering in the thousands!

In the very center of that army of thousands of skeletons, a massive skeleton warrior, clad in tattered dark gold armor, rode a huge skeleton warhorse engulfed in ghostly flames, leading the charge and stepping out from the crowd!

The skeleton warrior wielded a three-meter-long, blood-red sword, his arrogance reaching its peak.

He raised his long sword high and let out an extremely arrogant, earth-shattering roar.

"My king is born!"

"All realms submit!"

"Who can stop us, mere ants?!"

The sound transcended time and space, carrying immense pressure, causing the distant Great Xia soldiers to cover their ears and show expressions of pain.

However.

The next second.

"boom--!!!!!"

From the clouds, a massive purple lightning bolt, more than ten times thicker than before, descended from the sky with terrifying heavenly might that could destroy the world, striking the head of the skeleton warrior who was still striking a pose perfectly!

"Snap!"

There wasn't even a fraction of a second of stalemate.

The imposing and arrogant skeleton warrior, along with his skeletal warhorse, didn't even have time to utter a last word before they were vaporized by the divine punishment of this purple lightning!

Not even a bone fragment was left; it was completely shredded into the finest powder!

Immediately afterwards, a vast expanse of purple lightning spread and exploded wildly among the skeleton army.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The same was true of the thousands of skeleton warriors behind him who had just ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ climbed out of the abyss and were ready to wreak havoc.

The dense purple lightning locked onto each target, and wherever it passed, all the skeletons were reduced to dust and vanished without any ability to resist.

All of this happened so fast that it even felt absurdly comical.

Thousands of skeletons were instantly killed, generating an extremely violent fluctuation of law energy.

"Back off! Lie down!"

Commander Zhang roared at the top of his lungs.

The violent energy surge created a storm that nearly blew the Great Xia warriors off the distant high ground.

Everyone had no choice but to scramble and crawl away, barely managing to stay upright by lying on the ground.

When everything calms down and the storm subsides.

Outside the abyss, all was calm again, with only a thick layer of white ashes remaining on the ground.

Commander Zhang slowly got up from the ground and brushed the dust off his military cap. He raised his head with lingering fear, his gaze fixed on the strange purple lightning that was still churning in the sky but had not struck them at all.

He swallowed hard, his eyes filled with awe and shock at the unknown.

"Such terrifying power..."

Commander Zhang turned his head and looked at Qin Ming, who was also stunned, and muttered to himself, "Vice President Qin, whose work is this?"