128: Chapter 128 The Shameless Bloodlocked Beast

From the moment Xu Qin entered the blizzard's range, he had been keeping a close eye on the durability changes.

Now, he could finally rest easy.

"Continue. Full speed ahead."

Boom!

The Floating City plowed through the vast, white blizzard.

Fifteen minutes later.

Tian Ming suddenly spoke up.

"Master, I can clearly sense its aura now."

"It is approximately 800 meters away."

Xu Qin looked up ahead.

But outside the shield, he couldn't see a thing.

It was all snow.

He could only rely on the mini-map to confirm the direction.

When the Floating City entered within two hundred meters of the ice coffin, the blizzard suddenly vanished.

Just like that, the Floating City arrived in a circular, windless zone with complete ease.

Crack!

The ice crystals on the exterior of the shield fell off.

Standing on the Watchtower, Xu Qin finally saw the ice crystal sarcophagus at the center of the storm.

Runes on the surface of the sarcophagus emitted a dim, dark purple glow.

"A pure-blooded undead, this is the real deal," Xu Qin couldn't help but praise.

He lowered his gaze to look at the ground around him.

He saw that beneath the frozen earth, tens of thousands of bone fragments covered the entire circular area.

"Holy crap! Why does this scene look so familiar?"

He looked up again at the lines of undead text on the front of the sarcophagus.

Tian Ming translated from the side.

"Master, these words mean: 'I sleep here for eternity.'"

Quite a scene, isn't it?

After hearing this, Xu Qin couldn't help but laugh.

"Sorry about that."

"I'm here to disturb your rest."

He turned to look at Tian Ming.

"Is there any way to open this coffin?"

Tian Ming slowly shook his head.

"No, it can only be forced open."

"But doing so will activate the sealing runes on the sarcophagus, triggering a backlash mechanism."

"The thing inside will enter a berserk state the moment it wakes up."

Xu Qin pondered for a moment upon hearing this.

"If there really is no other way, then let it be berserk."

"I didn't come here to reason with it anyway."

He opened the command panel and quickly browsed his currently available forces.

He ultimately selected the tank-type Bone Beast.

"Use the tank Bone Beasts as meat shields to first figure out the opponent's abilities."

Xu Qin finalized his plan.

"Then use the Undead Lichs' group healing to stabilize the health bars."

"Finally, use the Ranged Troops to control the damage output."

"If the opponent is very strong, I'll have the Dragon Bone spit."

"I just need to grind its health down to below 5%."

"Then I'll go and activate the recruitment order."

Xu Qin looked at Tian Ming.

"Tian Ming, have Man Niu take one thousand tank Bone Beasts down there. Smash the coffin open first."

"Yes."

Hum!

The Floating City slowly descended, hovering fifty meters above the ground.

The Combat Readiness Platform hatch opened.

Man Niu gripped the soul-eater halberd and was the first to jump down.

One thousand five-meter-tall tank-type Stitched Bone Beasts formed into a phalanx and filed out along the landing ramp.

They trampled over the ten-thousand-year-old bone fragments on the ground and walked toward the sarcophagus.

When Man Niu approached within thirty meters of the sarcophagus.

Hum!

All the purple runes on the surface of the sarcophagus suddenly lit up.

Immediately after.

Boom!

A burst of cold air erupted from the bottom of the sarcophagus, instantly freezing the frozen ground within twenty meters into a deep blue sheet of ice.

The three Bone Beasts at the front even had their ankles frozen solid.

But they didn't stop, pulling their bone legs free.

Crack!

The ice layer shattered.

Man Niu stepped forward, raised the soul-eater halberd, and slashed down at the front of the sarcophagus.

Bang!

- 6090!

Cracks spread from the point of impact in all directions.

The second strike.

Bang!

- 6325!

The cracks widened.

The third strike.

- 6681!

Crack!

The entire sarcophagus split open down the middle.

Deep blue cold mist surged out from the crack.

Snap!

A skeletal hand reached out from the crack.

The hand gripped the edge of the sarcophagus and pushed with force.

Boom!!

Half of the coffin lid was sent flying, soaring over two hundred meters before crashing into the ground.

Bang!

The ground shattered upon impact, creating a three-meter-deep crater.

Seeing this, Man Niu retreated three steps.

The Bone Beasts behind him also stopped in their tracks.

Xu Qin stood on the Watchtower of the Floating City, looking into the sarcophagus.

As the white cold mist dissipated.

A humanoid figure walked out of the sarcophagus.

It was composed entirely of deep blue bones, with its joints encased in a layer of translucent ice crystal armor.

Its head was a massive horned skull, with two clusters of ice-blue soul fire burning in its eye sockets.

In its left hand, it gripped a four-meter-long bone greatsword.

Ding!

The command panel popped up a message.

[Neutral Undead unit detected!]

[Name: Winter Sovereign (Neutral · Legendary)]

[Level: ?]

[Attack: ??]

[Defense: ???]

[HP: ??/???]

Hiss...

Xu Qin gasped.

Everything was question marks again.

Just like with that Ancient Spirit Giant Python from before, the panel was blocked.

But after the initial shock, a smile appeared on Xu Qin's face.

"Very good, it's a [Neutral Undead], it can be recruited."

The next second, the Winter Sovereign fully awakened.

Its pair of ice-blue soul fires shifted downwards, looking at Man Niu and the Bone Beasts.

Then.

Boom!

An ice-blue shockwave erupted from its body.

Within a fifty-meter radius, all the Bone Beasts' movements instantly slowed down.

Ding!

[Winter Sovereign casts "Eternal Frost Domain"!]

[All units within range: Movement Speed -80%, Attack Speed -60%!]

"Another domain type?" Xu Qin frowned slightly.

But before he could issue new orders, the Winter Sovereign struck first.

It gripped the bone greatsword in its left hand and slashed horizontally.

Bang, bang, bang!

The five tank Bone Beasts at the front were struck by the blade.

- 1540! - 1540! - 1540! ...

The HP-locking passive triggered.

The five Bone Beasts were sent flying backward.

After sliding over a dozen meters on the ice, they all managed to regain their footing.

"Whew! The HP-lock is awesome." Xu Qin breathed a sigh of relief.

The Winter Sovereign looked at those "un-killable" skeletons, raised its greatsword again,

and then stabbed fiercely into the ground.

Boom!!

Ice-blue energy erupted from the tip of the sword, forming a forest of ice spikes with a thirty-meter radius.

Countless ice spikes shot up from the ground, piercing through all the Bone Beasts within range.

- 1540! - 1540! - 1540! ...

Still HP-locked.

"Very good."

Xu Qin nodded confidently.

No matter how high your attack power is, the single-hit damage cap is 1540.

To kill one tank Bone Beast, it takes at least seven hits.

And the Undead Lichs' group healing restores 540 points per second, which is 5400 in ten seconds.

As long as the Undead Lichs are healing from behind, the Bone Beasts are effectively unkillable.

"Tian Ming, control the distance of the Undead Lichs. You must keep them at least fifty meters away to heal."

"Yes."

One thousand Undead Lichs floated out of the Floating City and dispersed in an arc fifty meters away.

Dark green healing auras lit up.

The health bars of the Bone Beast front line began to steadily recover.

The Winter Sovereign swung its sword three times in a row, discovering that these bony things in front of it simply couldn't be killed.

Just as it prepared to swing its sword again, Xu Qin had already issued new orders.

"Ranged Troops, move up."

"Chuan Yun, Tietang... low-intensity output."

"Only five hundred people firing per round, do not focus fire."

"Grind it down slowly for me."

Chuan Yun and Tietang acknowledged the order.

Five hundred elite Skeleton Elf Archers flew out from the platform and formed a formation one hundred meters away.

The first volley of arrows rained down.