27: Chapter 27 Instant Kill of Thirty Elites

More than a thousand undead were arranged in a marching formation, stretching nearly two hundred meters from front to back.

The young man was stunned.

This wasn't a small squad.

This was a regular army.

"Th-this much military force? W-well, that works too!"

The young man thought to himself.

Although he couldn't make them fight to the death, as long as he himself wouldn't die, it would be fine.

Just as he was thinking this, the sound of footsteps behind him grew closer.

Thirty Scale Lizards had already caught up to the flank of the army.

Seeing this, the young man gritted his teeth.

"Damn it!"

"No more detours!"

He dove straight into the ranks of the undead.

"P-please... excuse me, make way, let me pass!"

"Thank you everyone, thank you!"

"May you all get rich."

He led the eleven Elven Archers, squeezed through the gaps between the Undead Minotaurs, and ran to the very front of the line.

And the thirty Desert Scale Lizards that were about to catch up... they didn't care about any 'no-combat' zones.

They were monsters, not lords.

Driven by their hunting instinct, the three Scale Lizards running in front lunged directly at the Undead Minotaurs bringing up the rear.

*Puff!* Fangs bit into the Minotaur's bone armor.

-22!

The second and third followed closely and lunged.

-22!

-22!

The Undead Army was under attack!

Tian Ming stopped in his tracks.

He turned slowly.

His ghostly blue soul fire suddenly flared up.

The third rule.

"If the opponent actively launches an attack, counterattack decisively!"

The rule was triggered!

Tian Ming raised his bone staff.

Eleven hundred clusters of purple soul fire pulsed in unison!

"Counterattack!"

*Boom!*

The Undead Army turned in perfect unison.

Tian Ming stood in the center of the formation, bone staff held high.

The ghost fire in the skull at the top of the staff surged.

[Death Wither!]

A dark purple force field spread out, covering a radius of fifteen meters.

It instantly engulfed seventeen Scale Lizards.

The movements of these elites visibly slowed down.

But Tian Ming didn't stop.

He immediately unleashed his second skill.

[Wither!]

Dark purple ripples spread out.

The defense of those seventeen Scale Lizards plummeted from 16 to 9.6.

With both debuffs stacked, they couldn't even run; it was as if they were stuck in a quagmire.

"Awoo...!!!"

Fifty Undead Minotaur Chieftains swung their hammers simultaneously.

Bone Hammer Shock!

*Bang!*

The first Chieftain's hammer smashed onto the head of the nearest Scale Lizard.

-26!

Stun!

30% chance, successfully triggered!

The Scale Lizard's head tilted, and it froze in place.

But immediately after, the second hammer followed.

-26!

Stun!

Triggered again!

Third hammer.

Fourth hammer.

Fifth hammer...

The fifty Chieftains attacked separately, and each hammer had a 30% to 40% chance to stun the target.

As fifty hammers fell in succession, over a dozen of the thirty Scale Lizards were left standing there.

They stood there taking hits.

They couldn't move at all.

No choice, their heads were a bit dizzy.

At the same time, sixty-three Undead Sand Jackal Leaders issued a War Cry.

Army Attack +3!

Immediately after, the battle roars of the fifty Minotaur Chieftains also rippled out.

Army Defense +4!

Enemy Defense reduced by another 10%!

The Scale Lizards' defense, having been reduced to 9.6 by Wither, was then reduced by another 10% by the battle roar, leaving only 8.6.

Meanwhile, the Undead Sand Jackals rushing up now had an attack power that had reached 36 after layers of stacking.

*Swish!*

-24!

This was hitting a Scale Lizard that had activated its 10% scale armor.

Even an elite monster with 150 HP couldn't withstand six claws.

Within six claws, they would definitely die!

What was even more terrifying was that these thirty Scale Lizards were being surrounded and beaten by over a thousand undead.

There were at least ten undead standing around each Scale Lizard.

Three seconds later.

The first Scale Lizard fell.

Immediately after, the second.

The third...

One by one, they fell.

A few Scale Lizards tried to fight back.

But their attack power had long been reduced to the extreme by layers of negative effects.

And the Minotaurs had 95 HP and high defense.

Therefore, one bite could at most deal fourteen or fifteen points of damage.

But that was only one bite, because before the second bite could be unleashed, they were brought to justice by the seven or eight Undead Sand Jackals surrounding them.

Ten seconds later.

The last Scale Lizard was hammered to death on the spot under the continuous Bone Hammer Shock of seven or eight Minotaur Chieftains.

The battle ended.

From the moment Tian Ming raised his bone staff to the moment the last Scale Lizard fell, this perilous elite encounter and counterattack lasted no more than 15 seconds in total.

*Ding!*

[Battle Victory!]

[Calculating loot...]

[Target Killed: Desert Scale Lizard (Elite) Level 8 x 30]

[Basic Drops:]

Scale Lizard Skeleton x 30

Soul Energy + 2400

Scale Armor Fragment x 60

Meat x 150

elite soul core x 3

[Talent 'War Gift Level 6' triggered!]

[All loot quantities x 7!]

[Final Gains:]

Scale Lizard Skeleton x 210

Soul Energy + 16800

Scale Armor Fragment x 420

Meat x 1050

elite soul core x 21

[Battle Rating: S (Crushing Annihilation, all elite-level enemies wiped out, zero combat losses)]

[Talent Upgrade Progress: 19 / 1000]

[Hero Tian Ming Level Up! Level 7 -> Level 8!]

[Command Limit Increased: 1100 -> 1200]

[Attribute Increase: Attack +3, Defense +2, HP +30, Mana +50]

Tian Ming retracted his bone staff.

His ghostly blue soul fire returned to calm.

Then he lowered his head and glanced at the thirty Scale Lizard corpses on the ground.

He raised his staff.

[Legion of the Dead!]

*Click-clack!*

Fifteen corpses stood up, transformed into Undead Scale Lizards, and joined the ranks.

[Undead Scale Lizard · Tier 1 (Elite)]

Attack: 46 (+5) (Physical - Bite/Assault)

Defense: 21 (+4)

HP: 175 (+15) / 175

Loyalty: 100 / 100 (Eternally Loyal)

Morale: None

Traits:

Death Bite: Bite attacks deal 4 points of Shadow Erosion damage (ignores defense) and leave a laceration wound on the target, lasting 8 seconds. Marked targets take 15% increased damage and have 15% reduced movement speed. Stacks up to 2 layers on the same target.

Undead Scale Armor: Reduces physical damage taken by 15%. (10% when alive. After becoming undead, the scales and bones fuse completely, resulting in hardness higher than the original ecological state.)

The Liches stepped forward to collect the remaining corpses and put them into the transport cart.

Then Tian Ming turned around and led the army to continue forward.

On the other side.

The young man, who had run more than a hundred meters away, realized that the commotion behind him had disappeared.

He stopped, bent over, and panted heavily.

The eleven female Elven Archers also stopped.

They were all pale, and those who were injured could barely stand.

The young man straightened his back and looked back.

In the distance, that Undead Army... had actually turned around and continued logging.

The young man was stunned.

Huh?

Finished?

Those were thirty elites!

They could take out an Elven sister in two bites.

Wait.

He narrowed his eyes and looked carefully at the ground in the distance.

It was clean.

"No way..."

The young man swallowed hard.

"They really killed them all?"

With a look of existential doubt, he led the Elven Archers and cautiously walked back a few dozen meters.

He observed the Undead Army logging from afar.

Their movements were orderly, and their efficiency was extremely high.

*Hiss...*

Thirty Level 8 elite monsters, they just dealt with them as easily as stepping on thirty ants?

A layer of cold sweat broke out on the young man's back.

He had just... used this group of undead as a shield?

The target he wanted to divert the disaster to... was this army?