88: No matter how powerful you are, Lu Chen will kill you without hesitation!

Lu Chen exerted all his skills, determined not to let any of these "interlopers" who popped out today escape!

He would keep every single one of them as his sacrifices...

Stepping stones for his Rank advancement!

Lu Chen was struck by a bolt of Heavenly Thunder Burst.

The bone armor condensed from Undead Magic instantly developed cracks.

Electric arcs erupted into intense sparks between the plates of bone armor.

In an instant, Reggie also drove his thunder beast forward with sword in hand, charging right in front of Lu Chen!

He raised his hand and delivered a heavy, powerful sword strike.

This strike carried the weight of majestic thunder.

The flashes of lightning and rolls of thunder were incessant!

"Well met!"

Lu Chen gave a loud shout.

The more he fought, the more excited he became.

His Battle Intent rose unceasingly!

He raised his bone saber and parried the incoming lightning blade!

Several lightning knights followed closely behind, joining the fray.

Lu Chen neutralized all of their fierce and relentless offensives.

Lu Chen suddenly noticed that the Moves of these knights were exactly the same as Reggie's.

It was as if they followed the same attack patterns as Reggie, or rather, they were Reggie's Incarnations; whatever Reggie did, or whatever action he controlled them to perform, they would follow suit.

This kind of Clone really piqued Lu Chen's interest.

Lu Chen thought of a plan and withdrew all of his Flame Demon Fire.

Immediately after, he channeled his Power of the Undead into the blade!

He stabbed the blade into the body of a lightning knight.

The Power of the Undead flowed upstream along the blade; the corroded lightning knight suddenly self-destructed.

As the lightning knight exploded, Lu Chen discovered that these knights—Incarnations of thunder—actually had things like mechanical parts inside their bodies.

The exploding lightning fragments were like shattering crystals; these mechanical parts, mixed with magical debris, splashed all over everyone.

Lu Chen realized something was wrong!

He suddenly remembered another characteristic of Western magic: they were extremely fond of Fusion with technology to enhance human strength.

They even conducted many inhumane human experiments to modify the human body.

Their innate magical talent was inferior to the East's comprehension of nature.

So, they often resorted to theft, plagiarism, and starting from technological Fusion.

It seemed those rumors were all true!

It really was cyber-magic.

The bone saber in Lu Chen's hand became even swifter and more fierce.

His mind did not stop, nor did his hands.

Killing even one was a gain.

He could devour their power.

He would extract the Souls of those who had them, and for those without, he would directly absorb their magical power.

This was truly a profitable business.

Moreover, these were all food items that delivered themselves to his door.

There was no reason not to eat!

Seeing this, Shelley's willow-like brows furrowed as she said, "Everyone be careful. These aren't normal phantoms; they should be phantoms whose Souls have been modified. They were once living people, just modified into this state by someone."

"To use your Eastern cultural terms, living people have been refined into Magic Treasures—and it's the Souls of living people at that. Be careful, don't let their Souls erode you!"

The greatest offensive capability of undead-type things...

...and the point that makes them most difficult to guard against...

...is that they possess the ability of Soul erosion.

Shelley's warning was undoubtedly correct.

Once one was hit by Soul erosion, it would be a huge problem.

"They really are cyborgs," Ning Xiwei muttered, wiping the magical debris from her cheek. She manifested her magic circle, and through it, she saw a series of chains rotating in her pupils; behind the chains were the images of these lightning knights!

—Found it!

Ning Xiwei hurriedly shouted to Lu Chen, "Little Skeleton, their energy cores are at..."

"—The third metal bone of the left ribs!" Lu Chen and Ning Xiwei said in unison.

Ning Xiwei was slightly stunned.

She hadn't expected Lu Chen to be able to see it.

It was truly a bit surprising.

So she began to feel somewhat shocked.

She hadn't expected the Little Skeleton to have such ability.

This was her own specialty—being able to see a person's magical patterns.

She could even see through the flow of a person's magical power like X-ray vision.

Even the magic circles she specialized in were for this kind of purpose.

The goal was to be able to give the enemy an unexpected offensive strike at the critical moment.

But why could the Little Skeleton see it with just the naked eye?

Ning Xiwei began to feel a bit strange in her heart.

Could it be that the Little Skeleton also possessed the magic she had?

For a moment, a significant amount of curiosity arose in Ning Xiwei's heart.

At the very least, there was one point: the Little Skeleton's origin was still so mysterious.

Ning Xiwei had a general conjecture in her heart.

But she still needed the Little Skeleton to tell her personally.

However, those matters would have to wait until after they left the Secret Realm.

At this moment, Lu Chen took the lead in the battle.

He charged close to a lightning knight.

At the same time, he shouted to the Flame Demon-formed Ignis, "Redhead! Help!"

"You're the redhead! This Young Miss's name is Ignis!"

Ignis complained, but at the same time, she coordinated with Lu Chen's attack.

She swiftly lashed out with the flame whip in her hand.

She helped Lu Chen attack from the right side.

In an instant...

...the fire whip and bone saber simultaneously pierced into another knight's chest, and Lu Chen followed the same pattern, directly using the Power of the Undead to make the body explode!

Then Ignis used her whip to forcibly drag out the magical heart—a heart that was a Fusion of electronics and magic, still beating like an electronic device.

This thing was actually still beating?

Lu Chen couldn't help but feel disgusted looking at this thing.

As expected of Westerners.

A bunch of barbarians.

To Cultivate magic, they had to take the Evil Path.

It was truly disgraceful and utterly disgusting.

Reggie's expression remained unchanged. He seemed surprised that Lu Chen and the others could discover such a secret, but he didn't show much emotion.

He simply tore open the silver armor on his chest, revealing a rotating Thunderstorm Core inside his chest cavity!

It was a mass of thunderclouds.

More accurately, it was a heart-like object wrapped in lightning.

This thing contained incredibly powerful magical energy.

Even this single magical heart alone gave off the feeling of being Rank Eight.

Just how much power was this?

When Lu Chen saw it, he felt like he was about to drool.

If he could eat this thing...

...he would definitely be able to reach Rank Seven.

This guy must be eaten.

At the same time, Ning Xiwei and the others also launched a coordinated attack against Shaven.

Because of Ning Xiwei's sudden breakthrough...

...three Rank Five experts were continuously besieging Shaven, a Rank Seven fellow.

This made Shaven feel that things were a bit tricky.

Because the magic of that priestess among the three girls actually had a restraining effect on him.

This was a very bad sign.

The most fatal point was, hadn't that fellow Reggie been criticizing him earlier?

Now, isn't he also unable to deal with even a single Skeleton Soldier?

That skeleton is called Lu Chen?

A name never heard of before.

If he had been a powerful expert in life and was summoned as a Heroic Spirit after death...

...then he could understand it.

But as for a name like Lu Chen, no one had ever heard of it.

So this made Shaven very curious.

It seemed this was just a summoned creature that looked like a Skeleton Soldier.

Except this Skeleton Soldier was now a Rank Six skeleton.

It looked like a Magic Swordsman who practiced both magic and martial arts.

A Magic Swordsman Skeleton Soldier?