495: Build a line of defense

Soon, Su Han's unconsciousness seemed like a signal, a forbidden signal that broke the delicate balance.

The Soul fires in the eyes of the powerful Undead creatures lurking in the distance suddenly intensified!

The Chaos pressure that made them instinctively tremble was rapidly fading, replaced by the sweet scent of more alluring 'vitality' and 'energy' emanating from the unconscious human.

To these Undead, born after the apocalypse and craving all living existence, Su Han at this moment was like a walking divine medicine, containing unimaginable power. Even devouring a trace of it could lead to astonishing evolution for them.

"Roar!"

A skeletal mammoth, its body broken but its frame exceptionally robust, clearly a giant beast in life, was the first to let out a silent roar. It raised its massive trunk, made of pale white bones, its Soul fire flickering wildly, and charged first!

Its hooves trampled the scorched, broken earth, emitting dull thuds. Each step made the ground tremble slightly, and its speed grew faster and faster, like a moving mountain of bones, rushing towards where Su Han had fallen.

"Protect the Master!"

The Undead Mage shrieked hoarsely. He immediately and gently placed the unconscious Su Han behind a relatively intact broken wall.

His gaunt fingers moved rapidly, and his staff, inlaid with black gemstones, struck the ground heavily.

"Rise! My servants! Form a defensive line!"

Buzz!

The ground cracked open, and dozens of Skeleton warriors, clad in broken armor and wielding rusty swords, crawled out. Their eyes burned with eerie blue flames, and they quickly formed a sparse bone wall in front of the Undead Mage.

At the same time, he frantically drew out the residual death Qi from the ground, condensing it into two flickering vengeful spirits that let out shrill screams and circled nearby.

However, this hastily assembled defense line appeared so fragile in the face of the surging tide of Undead.

Following closely behind the skeletal mammoth were a flood of decaying corpses and skeletons. They varied in form, some human, others of different races or even beasts, but all were now driven by greedy instinct, surging forward madly.

Piercing shrieks also came from the sky, as several flying creatures, reduced to mere skeletons, like deformed Dragon whelps, swooped down, their target directly Su Han!

"Jie—!"

A vengeful spirit met a diving bone bird, passing through it. The Soul fire in the bone bird's eyes immediately dimmed considerably, and its movements became sluggish, but more bone birds had already flown past.

The Undead Mage pointed his staff, and several pale bone spears suddenly shot out from the ground, impaling a decaying corpse, but more Undead instantly swamped that gap.

The skeletal mammoth had already charged! It completely ignored the tiny Skeleton warriors, its massive bone hooves stomping directly down!

"Crack! Crack!"

A series of grating, bone-chilling sounds rang out. The seven or eight Skeleton warriors at the very front were instantly crushed to powder, turning into a pile of bone dust on the ground.

The bone wall defense line was easily torn open with a huge gap.

The Undead Mage's expression changed, and he chanted rapidly. A thick death shield appeared in front of him.

Boom!

The skeletal mammoth's trunk, like a giant bone whip, swept across and slammed heavily into the death shield.

The shield fluctuated violently, instantly covered in cracks. The Undead Mage grunted, his body shaking violently, and he staggered back a few steps, a trace of black blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

He was only skilled in summoning and control; his own defense was not outstanding.

More Undead poured through this gap, rushing towards Su Han behind the broken wall.

It was at this critical moment!

The Chaos source power, instinctively circulating within Su Han, seemed to sense the strong external threat and the host's extreme danger, and suddenly became violent!

It was not under Su Han's control, but a deeper, self-preservation mechanism belonging to the power itself!

"Om..."

An invisible yet incredibly terrifying ripple suddenly spread out with Su Han at its center!

The first few decaying corpses and skeletons to come into contact with this ripple had their movements instantly frozen. Then, their bodies, like sand sculptures weathered for tens of millions of years, silently began to crumble, disintegrate, and turn into the finest ashes that dispersed, leaving not a trace behind!

That grayish, deathly power, autonomously permeated!

Immediately after, a thin layer of golden-red flames suddenly 'whooshed' into existence on Su Han's body surface, without any warning!

These flames were not intense, yet they carried a terrifying will to incinerate all things and reduce everything to nothingness!

A ferocious ghoul, covered in black Qi, was charging the fastest, its claws about to touch Su Han's clothes.

"Chhh—!"

An ear-piercing sound like a red-hot iron plunging into ice water rang out.

The ghoul's claws vaporized and disappeared instantly upon contact with that thin layer of flames!

The golden-red flames, as if alive, surged upwards, instantly spreading over the ghoul's entire body! (End of Chapter)