42: Chapter 42 Undead Catastrophe? No, this is a fully automated attribute ATM!

A stinking gale, carrying rotten meat scraps, slapped hard against Qin Ji's face.

That rusted butcher knife, as wide as a door, screeched through the air, only three inches from the top of his head. The Giant Abomination's single eye flickered with a cruel red light, as if it already foresaw the scene of this tiny human being split in two.

"Good chewiness."

Qin Ji swallowed the last bite of jerky. There was no ripple of emotion in his purple-gold pupils, only respect for the food and... contempt for his prey.

Thud—!!

The dull impact made the surrounding gray mist vibrate violently for a moment.

The expected scene of flying flesh and blood did not occur.

That butcher knife, capable of cutting through steel, was actually caught by a slender, fair palm!

Qin Ji held up the multi-ton blade with one hand. The black-red soil beneath his feet instantly cracked, his legs sinking half a foot into the ground, but his spine remained perfectly straight, like Mount Buzhou propping up the heavens.

"Quite strong. Is this the Land of Oblivion's welcoming gift?"

Qin Ji's lips curled up slightly, and his palm suddenly exerted force.

Crack!

The teeth-grating sound of twisting metal rang out. That thick, fine iron butcher knife actually had five clear finger prints squeezed into it by his hand before shattering into pieces!

The Giant Abomination's simple brain circuitry clearly couldn't process the information; it froze.

But Qin Ji did not freeze.

"Since you're here, leave your attributes behind."

Boom!

Qin Ji threw a backhand punch.

There were no fancy techniques, only the venting of pure, ultimate power. The wind from his punch compressed a visible vacuum channel in the air, smashing hard into the abomination's belly, which was stitched together from countless corpse pieces.

Squish—

It was like a hot knife through butter.

Qin Ji's entire right arm pierced straight through the abomination's massive body. The terrifying force exploded inside it instantly, churning those rotten organs into mush.

[Killed Rank 45 Rotting Abomination (Elite)!]

[Plunder successful! Obtained Physique +80!]

[Triggered "Greedy Grasp"! Extra passive skill fragment obtained: Rotting Physique (1/50)!]

The massive corpse collapsed with a bang, dissipating into a sky full of black light spots.

Qin Ji shook the foul blood off his hand. As he watched the golden numbers floating on his retina, the red light in his eyes flared up.

"An elite mob gives 80 points of Physique?"

When he killed those Rank 20 City Guards in the outside world, each one only gave 10 points. This place is simply heaven!

However, this was only the beginning.

Ka-ka-ka...

With the abomination's death, it was as if some chain reaction had been triggered. The originally silent wasteland suddenly became restless, and the black earth beneath his feet began to churn violently, as if countless earth dragons were turning over.

One by one, pale skeleton hands burst from the ground, followed by skulls, torsos, and rusted weapons.

Looking out, the entire Land of Oblivion instantly turned into an ocean of white bones!

Dense Soul fires flickered in the gray mist—how could there be only thousands? That scalp-numbing sound of bone-on-bone grinding converged into a tsunami of noise, enough to make any trypophobe die on the spot.

[Warning! You have disturbed the sleeping Undead Legion!]

[Current area monster density: Extremely Dangerous!]

"Extremely dangerous?"

Looking at the overwhelming sea of skeletons surging toward him, Qin Ji did not retreat. Instead, he excitedly licked his lips and pulled the tome of death, which radiated an ominous Aura, out of his bag.

"System, do you have some misunderstanding of the definition of 'danger'?"

How is this an Undead Scourge?

This is clearly an all-you-can-eat buffet waiting to be harvested!

"Roar—!!"

Hundreds of Skeleton Soldiers in the front row charged forward, waving their bone sabers.

Qin Ji did not use his heavy sword. Instead, he held up the tome of death with one hand. Its pages flipped wildly in the windless environment, and an obscure, ancient, and majestic death fluctuation instantly spread out.

In this world filled with the Aura of death, the power of the tome of death was amplified to the extreme!

"Undead revival? No, I want you to... self-destruct."

Qin Ji snapped his fingers.

"Corpse Explosion!"

Buzz!

The Soul fire in the eye sockets of the Skeleton Soldier at the very front suddenly turned from blue to red, and then—

Boom!!

Its skeleton instantly exploded, and countless bone fragments shot out in all directions like shrapnel.

Every bone fragment carried Qin Ji's insane Spell intensity bonus, nailing themselves hard into the bodies of the surrounding companions.

-45000!

-45000!

-45000!

The chain reaction began.

The moment the shattered skeletons died, they triggered the Corpse Explosion effect again.

Boom boom boom boom boom—!!!

Brilliant fireworks of death bloomed within the sea of skeletons. The originally aggressive charging phalanx was like a line of toppled dominoes, instantly cleared out in a massive area.

[Killed Rank 25 Skeleton Soldier! Plunder successful! Obtained Strength +2!]

[Killed Rank 25 Skeleton Soldier! Plunder successful! Obtained Strength +2!]

[Killed Rank 25 Skeleton Soldier! Plunder successful! Obtained Strength +2!]

...

The System notifications flooded the screen like a rapid-fire glitch, and the dense golden numbers above Qin Ji's head converged into a golden river.

"Awesome!"

Qin Ji couldn't help but let out a long howl.

The feeling of watching attribute points flow in like water was more refreshing than any top-tier massage.

But he soon discovered a problem.

There were simply too many skeletons, and their refresh rate was incredibly fast. Often, just as one area was cleared, more would surge out from the darkness in the distance.

Moreover, as the battle continued, higher-level undead creatures began to appear.

Whiz!

A bone arrow burning with eerie green ghost fire pierced through the mist, shooting accurately toward Qin Ji's forehead.

Qin Ji tilted his head, and the bone arrow flew past his ear, nailing itself into the withered tree behind him and instantly corroding a large hole in the trunk.

"Skeleton Archers? And Mages?"

In the distance, several huge fireballs came whistling toward him.

Qin Ji frowned slightly and did not choose to tank them head-on.

Although his defense was invincible, it wouldn't feel good to be hit by these endless crowd control skills and treated like a sandbag.

He had to find a "bottleneck spot."

His gaze quickly scanned the surroundings, finally locking onto a massive, half-collapsed black tomb.

The tomb had only one narrow entrance, making it easy to defend and hard to attack. Furthermore, with his back against the mountain wall, he wouldn't have to worry about being flanked.

"Right there!"

Qin Ji's figure flashed. Braving the rain of arrows and Spells, he crashed through the blocking skeleton groups like a human tank and rushed directly to the tomb entrance.

He turned around and drew his sword.

The legendary heavy sword, abyssal fang, which he had snatched from the Divine Court Guild Leader, was stabbed heavily into the ground in front of him.

"No passage here."

Qin Ji stood at the entrance, one man holding the pass.

The following scenes became extremely brutal and monotonous.

Any skeleton that wanted to attack Qin Ji had to squeeze through that narrow entrance. This resulted in them having to line up to meet their deaths.

Qin Ji didn't even need to move much; he only needed to mechanically swing his sword and release skills.

Sweep!

A group of skeletons shattered into dust.

Corpse Explosion!

Another area was cleared.

During this process, Qin Ji discovered a phenomenon that pleasantly surprised him.

Whenever a Skeleton Mage with an elemental attack (such as Frost or Poison) hit him, although it could only deal a forced "-1" point of damage, it would trigger a special attribute plunder mechanism.

[Attacked by Frost Arrow! Triggered Resistance Adaptation! Frost Resistance +1!]

[Attacked by Corrosive Poison Mist! Triggered Resistance Adaptation! Poison Resistance +1!]

Qin Ji simply deactivated his magic shield.

He just stood there, letting those weak Spells smash against him. While he swung his sword to harvest lives, he also enjoyed the pleasure of his resistances skyrocketing.

This was just like how that ill-fated original Qin Ji was spawn-camped and slaughtered, but now Qin Ji was the one blocking this crowd of undead at the door, killing them while letting them "massage" him.

Ten minutes.

A full ten minutes of high-intensity slaughter.

The broken bones in front of the tomb entrance had already piled up into a small mountain. Qin Ji had to use his foot to kick the bones away every once in a while to avoid blocking the path for the subsequent skeletons coming to their deaths.

His Strength attribute had already skyrocketed by a full 2000 points!

This was equivalent to the total attributes of an ordinary player leveling up 200 times!

Just then.

An Aura several times more terrifying than the previous abomination suddenly rose from the back of the skeleton sea.

The originally frantically surging skeleton crowd suddenly quieted down and automatically split to the sides, opening a path.

A skeleton lord wearing tattered robes, holding a white bone staff, and with purple Soul fire burning in its eye sockets slowly floated over.

[Undead Archmage Kael (Lord-Rank BOSS)]

[Rank: Rank 50]

[HP: 8,000,000]

"Humble living being... you dare... desecrate... the peace of the dead..."

Kael's voice was hoarse and piercing, as if two rusted iron plates were rubbing together.

It raised its staff, and the surrounding temperature instantly dropped to the freezing point.

"Frost Nova!"

Boom!

A deep blue ice ring exploded with it as the center, instantly spreading to Qin Ji's feet.

Qin Ji's legs were instantly covered by thick ice, and a "-1" damage number floated above his head.

"Frozen?"

Qin Ji looked down at the ice on his feet, then looked at the BOSS in the distance chanting its ultimate move, a look of pity for a fool appearing on his face.

"If it were half an hour ago, this move might have made me pause for a second."

"But now..."

Crack!

Qin Ji simply lifted his leg lightly.

The ice that was enough to freeze steel shattered instantly like low-quality glass.

During this half-hour of "mob grinding," his Frost Resistance had long since stacked to an outrageous degree. This level of freezing was no different from washing his feet with cold water.

"Since the BOSS has shown up, it's time for the main course of this buffet."

Qin Ji drew his heavy sword and crouched slightly, making a starting pose for a sprint.

The next second.

The ground exploded.

Qin Ji's figure disappeared from where he stood, leaving only a wave of bones overturned by a sonic boom.

The Undead Archmage Kael didn't even have time to release its second Spell before it saw a massive fist enlarging rapidly in its field of vision.

That was... violence pure enough to crush all Laws!

Rumble—!!!

The massive explosion echoed throughout the entire Land of Oblivion.

The dust settled.

Qin Ji stood with one foot on the shattered skull of the Undead Archmage, casually throwing the bone staff, which had snapped into two, into his bag. He tilted his head slightly, looking toward that still-boundless darkness in the distance. His purple-gold pupils shone brightly under the dim sky, just like a primeval Vicious Beast that had just tasted blood, gazing coldly and greedily at this world that was about to be completely hollowed out by him.