156: Chapter 156 I'll wear you down!

"How cowardly!"

Xu Qin looked at the minimap, the corners of his mouth twitching.

He saw Klax shield twenty heroes in front of him and retreat to the rear of the army.

"Dragon Bone!"

Dragon Bone hovered above the battlefield, awaiting orders.

"Forget about that mantis, go demolish his buildings."

"Anti-aircraft towers, shield towers, barracks, level all of them for me."

"Yes!"

Dragon Bone changed direction, leading seventy-six Bone Dragons straight into the depths of the enemy territory.

The beams of the six anti-aircraft towers locked on once again.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

-28,000! -31,000!

Dragon Bone didn't dodge at all.

It dove straight down, its massive bone claws slamming directly onto the first anti-aircraft tower.

Boom!

The tower shattered.

Immediately after, seventy-six dragons swarmed forward, splitting up to dismantle the towers.

Six anti-aircraft towers cleared in ten seconds.

The shield towers were even more fragile, shattering with a single tail swipe from the dragons.

Watching the buildings being destroyed one by one, Xu Qin turned his head to look in Klax's direction.

"As for you..."

"Since you like running so much, I'll drown you with mob units."

It was rare for Xu Qin to lose his temper.

It wasn't because the opponent was all that strong.

Rather, this guy's fighting style was disgusting, the kind of turtle strategy he looked down upon the most.

"Back in the day, I dared to tank wild boars face-to-face!"

"With such a huge advantage at the start, don't you know how to pressure with your heroes?"

Standing inside the Floating City, protected by the Python Emperor, Xu Qin couldn't help but gesture and point.

"Want to swallow my territory? Yet you hold back..."

"Fine, I'll let you see what it truly means to go all out."

He opened the command panel,

and issued a unified command to all newly resurrected primary undead...

Hunt down Klax!

...

On the other side of the continent.

Klax led his remaining troops in a frantic retreat.

His twenty heroes were divided into two rows to cover the rear.

The One-Eyed Giant stood at the very front, wielding a stone pillar and swinging it fiercely.

Boom!

With a single strike from the giant's club, a dozen or so skeletons were directly swept away.

Boom! Boom!

A dozen or so skeletons self-destructed simultaneously.

-2,100! -2,100!

The One-Eyed Giant's health instantly plummeted by over twenty thousand.

Before he had time to retreat,

the skeletons behind surged forward once again.

Seeing this, the Spider Demon hero spat out a large area of sticky silk, attempting to block the skeletons' Charge.

But the range of the sticky silk was limited, only gluing a dozen or so skeletons in the front row to the spot.

However, the skeletons in the rear simply stepped on their heads and continued charging.

The Spider Demon hero was overtaken by the skeleton soldiers and had to raise its hand to counterattack.

Then...

Boom!

-2,100!

-2,100!

Wave after wave of explosive shockwaves

hit him completely.

The Spider Demon's health pool wasn't thick to begin with,

and after taking six or seven consecutive explosions, it was directly blown to death.

"Another one bites the dust." Xu Qin looked at the battle report with an expressionless face.

The One-Eyed Giant was surrounded by over seventy skeletons.

He frantically waved the stone pillar.

Every strike could smash a patch of them to pieces.

But every time a patch was shattered, it triggered a wave of explosions.

-2,100! -2,100! -2,100!

Twelve seconds later,

the One-Eyed Giant's health bar bottomed out.

His knees went soft, the stone pillar slipped from his hands, and he crashed heavily to the ground.

Seeing this, the remaining heroes instantly panicked.

Klax sent out an Iron-Spine Lizard hero to cover the rear.

This hero directly raised his shield to block, but did not attack the skeletons.

He wanted to use defense to stop the Undead Army's attack.

But these skeletons directly circled around from the sides and closed in again.

Then...

Boom, boom, boom!

The lizard hero was blown to pieces on the spot.

Klax watched this scene,

his compound eyes reflecting patches of explosive fire.

Xu Qin controlled the Floating City, following Klax.

The remote deployment from the descent platform and the air drops from the Combat Readiness Platform never stopped.

A sea of skeletons surged forward overwhelmingly.

Immediately after, continuous explosions rang out.

Around Klax, the number of heroes rapidly decreased from twenty to five.

The more they killed, the faster they died.

Xu Qin stood on the Watchtower, watching coldly.

"Do you know what despair is?"

"It means the harder you struggle to resist, the faster you die."

...

Three minutes later.

Only the last two heroes remained by Klax's side.

The two heroes stood back-to-back in front of Klax,

blocking the surging Undead Army.

But the number of skeletons was simply too great.

The ground was densely packed with them everywhere.

Boom, boom, boom!

Serial explosions swallowed them both.

Klax stood alone in place.

He raised his triangular head and looked at the slowly approaching Floating City above his head.

At the bottom of the Floating City, white skeletons were still continuously falling down.

Clang!

A message popped up on Xu Qin's command panel.

[ Enemy lord 'Klax' has initiated a request to submit. ]

[ Do you accept? ]

After reading the prompt, Xu Qin directly clicked [No].

"Accept my ass!"

Then he opened the command panel.

"All units listen up, hack him to death for me!"

Xu Qin had long since checked Klax's attribute panel.

A level 61 lord, his defense wasn't low, and his health pool was even fuller.

But it didn't matter.

Although the Undead Army had low attack power, they couldn't withstand the sheer numbers.

A hundred skeletons surrounded him, each slashing once.

Even if each slash only did a few points of damage, a hundred slashes would add up to several hundred.

If you kill them, they explode;

if you don't hit them, they will scrape you to death.

This was the most humiliating way to die.

Not being killed in one hit by a powerhouse,

but being slowly worn to death alive by the lowest-tier mob units.

Klax seemed to realize this as well.

For a moment, he didn't know whether he should strike or defend.

Bones from all directions pressed down upon Klax's carapace.

-14!

Klax cleaved it in half with a single slash.

Boom!

-2,100!

The second,

the third,

the tenth.

-14! -11! -16! -14! -12!

Klax's health bar was slowly dropping.

Finally, he could no longer bear it and began brandishing his scythe.

Every batch of skeletons he hacked to death would trigger a round of explosions.

Boom, boom, boom!

His health dropped faster and faster.

Xu Qin sat on the bone throne, crossing his legs as he looked at the battle report.

"If you had just stood still, you might have lived a few minutes longer."

Klax obviously couldn't hear these words.

Struggling desperately in the sea of skeletons, he was ultimately completely swallowed up.

Three minutes later.

On the minimap, that golden dot flickered a few times before going out.

Clang!

[ Battle victory! ]

[ Territory contention battle ended! ]

[ Lord 'Klax' has fallen! ]

[ Tallying spoils of war... ]

[ Battle Evaluation: S (The lord annihilated all forces of a high-tier lord using low-tier troops; tactical execution was perfect) ]