Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone-Chapter 565 - 396: Fully Equipped Skeleton Battle Group? Soul Power Surge! (Part 2)

Chapter 565: Chapter 396: Fully Equipped Skeleton Battle Group? Soul Power Surge! (Part 2)

The Skeleton Centurion, with its simplistic tactical intelligence, was utterly baffled by the battlefield environment.

Time ticked by, and the skeleton horde drew ever closer.

When the distance between them was just over a hundred meters, Fang Zhou gave the command.

The dozen or so Giant Shield Skeleton Warriors on the outer layer simultaneously thrust the bottoms of their Skeleton Tower Shields into the ground. They crouched down, bracing for the first impact from the enemy horde. The Great Sword Skeleton Warriors and Long Spear Skeleton Warriors stood at the ready.

Under Fang Zhou’s command, his Skeleton Archers unleashed a vast Arrow Rain from over a hundred meters away, targeting the opposing Sea of Skulls! Arrows fell like raindrops, tearing through the night sky with the stench of death as they pierced the enemy ranks.

At the same time, Fang Zhou continuously unleashed Death Energy Slashes, spraying them toward the surging Sea of Skulls. With each swing, a razor-sharp Air Blade erupted from his weapon, slicing through his enemies’ bodies.

Fang Zhou’s choice of battle position was undeniably clever. The location not only effectively negated the lethal threat of the enemy’s Skeleton Archers but also did nothing to hinder his own ranged forces. The steep corpse hills on both sides formed a natural barrier, making it difficult for the enemy archers to find suitable firing angles. Meanwhile, Fang Zhou’s archers could fire from multiple directions, giving them an absolute advantage.

Furthermore, the Arrow Rains and Death Energy Slashes were not aimless. Under Fang Zhou’s command, his limited number of Skeleton Archers were divided into three squads. Each squad focused its attacks on a single target—the Skeleton Centurions and Skeleton Chiliarchs within the Sea of Skulls.

Together, Fang Zhou and the Skeleton Archers could obliterate a Skeleton Centurion with nearly every volley, reducing it to charred, desiccated bone. Arrows rained down, penetrating the enemy’s skeletons with crisp cracks. Under the onslaught of the Arrow Rain, some Skeleton Centurions were pierced in multiple places, collapsing into piles of shattered bones. When all three squads focused their fire, even the stronger Skeleton Chiliarchs were crippled in a short amount of time.

And so it continued. By the time the Sea of Skulls crossed the hundred-meter distance to clash with Fang Zhou’s forces, more than ten Skeleton Commanders had already fallen to the focused fire of Fang Zhou and his Skeleton Archers.

BOOM!

The two hordes of skeletons crashed into each other.

"Death Tornado!"

"Blood Blade Tornado!"

At that moment, Fang Zhou and Olaf erupted simultaneously. Two dazzling Light Blades sliced through the air, carving into the pale Sea of Skulls. They annihilated waves of Skeleton Warriors, instantly clearing a small patch of ground on the battlefield.

While Olaf continued to unleash skills to support the horde, Fang Zhou himself leaped forward, his powerful strength and agility attributes bursting forth! Leaving a deep footprint in the ground, Fang Zhou soared through the air, clearing over ten meters to plunge deep into the Sea of Skulls.

"Ring Slash!"

BOOM!

The Corpse Long Spear slashed out. A gleaming sharp blade sliced through the air, bisecting all skeletons within a five-meter radius.

Fang Zhou sprang up again, charging toward the center of the Sea of Skulls. Now nearly four meters tall, he towered over the two-meter-tall Skeleton Warriors like a juggernaut.

Once. Twice. Three times!

Each leap carried him over ten meters. With every jump, he drew closer to the Skeleton Centurion at the heart of the Sea of Skulls. He repeated this maneuver again and again. By his seventh dive into the sea of bone, Fang Zhou was only a dozen meters away from the Skeleton Centurion.

Just one final leap was all it would take.

The Skeleton Centurion was no fool. Though its intelligence was low, it wasn’t so arrogant as to be disdainful. When Fang Zhou landed for the seventh time, an invisible wave of soul energy emanated from the Skeleton Centurion. All the nearby Skeleton Archers turned to aim at Fang Zhou, including several Mutated Skeleton Warriors armed with longbows.

As futile as a mantis trying to stop a chariot. The thought flashed through Fang Zhou’s mind.

He charged a Skeleton Chiliarch with the force of thunder. With a single slash of his spear, empowered by the full might of his 100 points of Strength, he decapitated the Chiliarch before it could even resist. Then, seizing the headless body of the Skeleton Chiliarch, Fang Zhou used it as a shield and soared into the air for the eighth time!

At that same moment, the skills he had just enhanced to their absolute limit with Extreme Enhancement all erupted at once.

"Death Tornado!"

BOOM!!!

A series of deafening explosions echoed through the air as a rain of charred bones fell to the earth. Terrifying Light Blades burst forth, exploding like fireworks among the Skeleton Archers.

Indeed, for his eighth leap, Fang Zhou didn’t charge the Skeleton Centurion now just within reach. Instead, using the Chiliarch’s body for cover, he plunged into the midst of the Skeleton Archers.

Compared to the Skeleton Centurions, who were better at commanding and self-preservation, these Skeleton Archers posed a much greater threat to Fang Zhou. Their ranged attacks could easily penetrate defenses, strike him accurately, and inflict significant damage. However, Fang Zhou’s strength and agility had reached astonishing heights, rapidly turning the tide of battle.

As his Death Energy Burst, a Death Tornado exploded like an awakened ancient beast. Brilliant Light Blades, like the brightest stars in the night sky, wreaked havoc on the battlefield with devastating force. Empowered by Fang Zhou’s extraordinary Strength and Agility Attribute, this area-of-effect skill, originally designed to clear weak mobs, now displayed unprecedented lethal power.

Almost at the instant the Death Tornado bloomed, dozens of Skeleton Archers were torn to pieces by this unstoppable force. They didn’t even have time to scream before they were annihilated by his attack.

From the moment Fang Zhou leaped for the eighth time to the moment he landed, the whole process took but an instant. Yet in that single moment, the Skeleton Archers that posed the greatest threat to him had been completely crushed. Although more Skeleton Archers were constantly pouring in from the rear, the immediate threat had been neutralized.

The Skeleton Centurion, the commander of this battle, hadn’t even had time to react effectively. Now, even the attempts of the few Mutated Skeleton Warriors beside it to interfere couldn’t change the impending showdown between it and Fang Zhou.

"ROAR!!!"

With a deafening roar, an invisible wave of soul energy spread across the battlefield. Witnessing its subordinates suffer such heavy losses, the Skeleton Centurion’s soul burned with fury. It roared, issuing commands to the nearby Mutated Skeleton Warriors. They immediately responded, wielding their bone weapons and charging toward Fang Zhou. Simultaneously, the Skeleton Centurion gripped its Bone Saber tightly, its eye sockets flashing with the light of vengeance as it charged determinedly toward him.

For a high-level skeleton like the Skeleton Centurion, this was an unbearable insult. An enemy had single-handedly penetrated deep into its Skeleton Army and critically wounded numerous Skeleton Archers. This shame could only be washed away by destroying the enemy and extinguishing their Soul Fire.

A distance of a dozen meters was no obstacle for these Mutated Skeleton Warriors. But as they charged forward, Fang Zhou once again showcased his incredible Combat Techniques.

He leaped into the air again, soaring right over them—and over the Skeleton Centurion as well—to appear directly behind it.

"Deadly Strike!"

A ghostly blue Light Blade erupted instantly, like countless sharp blades carrying an icy chill as it slashed brutally into the Skeleton Centurion.