prynovel Chapter 424 Bone-Moving Away from the Mountain, the Unstoppable Corpse Clone
Chapter 424 Bone-Moving Away from the Mountain, the Unstoppable Corpse Clone
Chapter 424 Bone-Moving Away from the Mountain, the Unstoppable Corpse Clone
After slaying the first skeleton archer, the dark red blade of light continued forward, relentlessly cutting down the second, third, and fourth skeleton archers along the line.
This near-infinite splitting will only stop when all enemies within the range of the light blades have been killed, or when the resulting split light blades are no longer sufficient to kill all enemies!
This is Death Whirlwind, an absolute god-tier skill for clearing out enemy troops!
On the city wall, the Ark's attack was as swift as lightning.
Under the Ark's dense and sharp attacks, the skeleton squad didn't even last a breath before being completely annihilated, turning into a pile of broken bones.
Ignoring the corpses, Ark quickly lowered its body, using the inner railing of the city wall for cover, and quietly sneaked towards the other side of the city wall.
The Bone Castle is home to countless powerful beings, with at least a hundred of them reaching the level of mutated skeleton warriors.
Once the skeletons discover his presence and signal an enemy invasion, he will likely face an immediate siege by a large number of skeleton warriors and mutated skeletons.
This naturally saved him the trouble of actively searching for the enemy.
As long as the strongest skeleton lord can be avoided, the other mutated skeleton warriors are all prey for the Ark.
Ahead stood a tall arrow tower.
Inside the arrow tower, there is a rare mutated skeleton archer.
Fangzhou quickly approached the arrow tower, but when he reached its base, he stopped and curled up in a small corner.
From this corner, Ark only needs to lean out to see the skeleton archers in the arrow tower.
Similarly, with a single charge, he could leap over a short flight of stairs and rush from this corner to the back of the skeleton archer inside the arrow tower.
However, he did not rush to take action.
Once inside this skeletal castle, the only thing Ark needs to be careful about is the time when the Skeleton Lord will return.
Ark didn't know what kind of command the Skeleton Lord used against the mutated skeleton warriors under his command.
If it were a crude method of control like the Bone Soldier Talisman, even if he slaughtered all the skeletons in the Bone Castle, the Skeleton Lord wouldn't notice a thing.
In this situation, the Skeleton Lord will only return after annihilating the skeleton horde under Ark's command.
However, if it is a form of enslavement similar to that of the Skeleton King in the Ark, as long as he kills any mutated skeleton warrior in the Skeleton Castle, the Skeleton Lord will know that someone has invaded the Skeleton Castle!
In this situation, the Skeleton Lord would likely rush back to the Bone Castle as quickly as possible to kill the invaders!
Ark's style prioritizes stability and it will never gamble on uncontrollable factors.
Therefore, he was waiting for the right opportunity.
Time passed slowly, and the Ark remained motionless in that corner, like a dead corpse.
Finally, after more than ten minutes, a large amount of information suddenly appeared on his attribute panel.
Fangzhou's figure also suddenly rushed out!
"Your servant 'Giant Shield One' is dead."
"Your Servant Giant Shield II" is dead.
"Your servant 'Giant Shield Number Three' is dead."
"Your servant—"
In an instant, several pieces of information were refreshed on Ark's attribute panel.
All this information was about the deaths of his skeleton minions!
Prior to this, Ark had viewed the battle situation more than ten kilometers away through Olaf's perspective.
After being surrounded by three fully-equipped skeleton legions, these skeleton legions did not rush to attack, but only surrounded without killing, seemingly waiting for the arrival of the skeleton lord.
This strategy is undoubtedly foolproof, but it also gives the Ark valuable time.
Now, several skeleton minions were killed almost simultaneously.
It seems that only that skeleton lord could have done it!
Switching perspectives.
When Fangzhou focused his attention on a skeleton minion, he indeed saw the tall figure.
The enraged skeleton lord charged into his skeletal army, slamming his two-handed warhammer down.
A burst of shockwave spread out from the warhammer, shattering all the skeletons within a radius of several meters into dust.
The Skeleton Lords have started a war!
The Bone Castle is about ten kilometers away from the battlefield.
Conservatively estimated, it will take the Skeleton Lord about ten minutes to get back to the Bone Castle from the battlefield.
So————
The soul fire in its eye sockets flickered slightly, and its entire skeleton tensed up at that moment. Ark's body charged out like a leopard that had finished charging, its target being the skeleton archer in the arrow tower!
Death Charge!
With one step, the ark traversed a distance of over a thousand meters.
When the skeleton archer and the two skeletal archers beside him appeared in front of him, Fang Zhou raised the skeletal spear in his hand high and slashed out with all his might!
"Death Cyclone!"
A jet-black blade of light erupted, enveloping the skeleton archer and two skeleton bowmen like a cage.
Accompanied by an extremely sharp cutting sound, large swaths of bone powder flew up.
Of the ten blades of light, the two skeleton archers took the first four, while the remaining six were all taken by the skeleton divine archer.
When the dark, sharp light disappeared, the three skeletons had been cut into several pieces and lay on the ground.
Click!
Click!
Click!
With three crisp sounds in succession, the Ark swiftly shattered the heads left behind by the three skeletons.
He then bent down to absorb the essence of the skeleton archer's bones.
A powerful surge of energy flowed into his body, making him feel refreshed.
Each kill, devouring, or enslavement of a mutated skeleton warrior brings some racial enhancement to the Ark.
Feeling the cold energy surging deep within the skeleton, Ark opened its massive jaws and clenched its bone fist.
Without time to pay attention to the remains left by the two ordinary skeletons, Ark immediately left the arrow tower and headed towards the center of the castle.
He was in a hurry.
The bone essence that the two ordinary skeletons left behind could provide him was extremely limited, so he simply gave up at this point.
Each of the other three arrow towers on the city wall also has a skeleton archer.
However, their attention was mainly focused outside the Bone Castle.
Once you infiltrate the Bone Castle, you can basically avoid the sight of those three skeleton archers.
Recalling the information he had received from the Skeleton Commander, the Ark carefully moved forward, hugging the edge of the castle passageway.
This is the core of the burial grounds, where the most intense aura of death resides.
The abandoned open spaces and training grounds were littered with broken bones.
Even in the corners of the castle's passageways, there were piles of bones and skulls.
This was all accumulated over a long period of time from the remains of the skeletons that were killed.
Every corner exudes a suffocating chill.
Carefully cross the castle's front yard and enter the castle interior.
The ark stopped moving again.
Ahead of him, two squads of skeletons were passing through a passageway.
Judging from their routes, the skeleton warrior squad is going to patrol the front yard of the castle, while the skeleton archer squad is going to patrol inside the castle.
The two skeleton squads passed each other at the fork in the road ahead of the ark, one after the other.
Ark calculated the travel time of the two skeleton squads.
As the two skeleton squads overlapped at the fork in the road, Ark suddenly burst out from its hiding place in the passageway!
"Death Cyclone!"
Dark red light blades burst forth from the ark's skeletal spears, spreading out like deadly lightning bolts.
The blades of light mercilessly sliced through each skeleton, tearing the skeletons from both squads to shreds, leaving only broken bones scattered across the ground.
Fangzhou quickened his pace, took the side path, and went up the stairs into the castle.
Once inside the castle, Ark felt much more relaxed.
There were no longer any patrols inside the castle; instead, there were only giant shield-wielding skeleton warriors who stood in one spot for a long time without moving, like statues.
With Ark's capabilities, infiltrating the castle without alerting these giant shield skeleton warriors would be a piece of cake.
Soon, following the route remembered by the Skeleton Commander, the Ark bypassed the numerous giant shield skeleton warriors and appeared in a magnificent hall.
This hall is several hundred meters in diameter. Apart from the few stone pillars supporting the dome on both sides, the only other furnishing in the entire hall is a stone throne located at the deepest part of the hall.
This is the location of the Skeleton Lord.
Normally, the Skeleton Lord sleeps on this throne.
When needed, it also summons its many skeleton minions in this hall.
And now, in this hall, there are many targets that the Ark wants to hunt!
Click!
As Ark stepped into the castle hall, many of the mutated skeleton warriors who had been lying dormant in various corners reacted.
Their soulfire surged suddenly, and their hollow skulls all turned toward the ark.
Perhaps, in their minds, no one could or dared to invade the Bone Castle.
Therefore, when they saw the skeletal clone of the Ark, a terrifying skeleton that was only 4 meters tall, they seemed to be stunned and did not react immediately.
However, the Ark was indeed well-prepared.
He had already tried it many times in previous hunts and battles.
Any mutated skeleton warrior who has been contracted by the Skeleton Lord can no longer be enslaved by his Skeleton King.
Therefore, all that the Ark could do was send them into eternal slumber and inherit the essence of their bones.
Fangzhou quickly assessed the situation in the hall and already had a plan in mind.
There were more than a dozen mutated skeleton warriors in the hall, some standing and some sitting, distributed in different locations.
At this point, a swift and decisive victory is essential.
Fangzhou's form unfolded instantly, moving through the hall like a ghost.
A sharp, jet-black glint flashed by.
A deadly strike!
The skeleton guardian standing at the very front had just raised its giant shield when Ark pierced its soulfire with a single spear thrust.
Fang Zhou's movements were clean and swift; almost instantly, the skeleton guardian's body crashed to the ground, turning into a pile of broken bones.
After casually absorbing the essence of the skeletons, Fang Zhou, alone with his gun, charged straight into the hall.
After casually dispatching the dozen or so mutated skeleton warriors, Ark devoured the essence of their remains while checking its attribute panel.
A large amount of information is constantly being updated, without stopping for a moment.
This means that his skeletal servants are still under siege.
Switching perspectives.
When the Ark observed its surroundings from the perspective of one of the skeleton servants, the enormous and terrifying figure of the Skeleton Lord had indeed vanished from the battlefield.
Instead, the three skeletal battle groups were besieging and killing the Ark skeleton minions!
Fangzhou calculated the time.
It has been about five minutes since the skeleton archer on the arrow tower was killed.
If the Skeleton Lord left the battlefield immediately after killing the Skeleton Archer and headed towards the Bone Castle—
Conservatively speaking, he has about five minutes left to continue hunting the mutated skeleton warriors inside the castle.
There's enough time!
Because Ark had already planned the route when it infiltrated the castle.
His next self-inscription is located below this castle hall.
The entire skeletal castle is designed with three floors.
At the very front is the front yard, surrounded by city walls and arrow towers. That large open space was originally used as a training ground.
The main part of the castle is in the middle, and behind the castle is the prison!
In the Hills of Corpses, skeletons, being low-level undead creatures, naturally don't need any prisons.
Those who submit to the Skeleton Lord will naturally be enslaved by him using the Bone Scepter.
Those who do not submit will be killed and used as nourishment for him.
This skeleton castle is less a prison for skeletons and more a laboratory for the skeleton lord.
The laboratory is also an important gathering place for the mutated skeleton warriors in the Bone Castle.
Approaching the window of the hall, Fangzhou glanced down.
Against the backdrop of the gloomy, dim sky, he could vaguely see some burly figures at the prison entrance.
These figures were clearly mutated skeleton warriors; their size far exceeded that of ordinary skeletons, making them appear exceptionally imposing.
After estimating the height and distance between the two, Fang Zhou, carrying the Corpse Spear, climbed onto the window and leaped down at the unsuspecting, burly skeleton at the prison entrance!
Given Ark's current four-dimensional attributes, this height is nothing.
Not only will it not hurt him, it will greatly enhance the power of his next attack!
The sky was overcast and gloomy. The ark leaping out of the window resembled a large bird, carrying a flash of cold light, as it swooped down towards the burly skeleton on the ground!
When he was only two or three meters away from the burly skeleton, Fang Zhou had already raised the skeletal spear in his hand high.
The next moment, all his power was poured into the Tokugawa Spear!
The spearhead, gleaming with a cold light, slashed fiercely towards the neck of the burly skeleton, amplified by the combined force of the Ark's own power and the gravity of its fall from the sky!
"Deadly Strike!"
"Do!!!"
A series of dull thuds echoed far and wide.
Ark's shot was successfully unleashed, and the jet-black light blade that erupted from the deadly strike also cut into the burly skeleton's body without missing a single spot!