chsdbacks Chapter 387 Legion Conquest, Enemies of Bronze, Grand Trade Fair!
Chapter 387 Legion Conquest, Enemies of Bronze, Grand Trade Fair!
Chapter 387 Legion Conquest, Enemies of Bronze, Grand Trade Fair!
In short, before this, all the skeletons hunted in Ark Hunt, regardless of their rank, were simply free-range prey.
In the human world, these skeletons would be like bandits and mountain robbers, beings that are periodically harvested.
After that, the skeletons that the Ark hunts will be the regular army under the command of the Skeleton Lord!
Unless the Ark is willing to spend a significant amount of time avoiding the skeleton legion's patrols and reaping, painstakingly searching for those lone skeleton warriors in the vast hills—
Otherwise, he would inevitably have to confront these skeleton legions belonging to the Skeleton Lord!
An unprecedented sense of urgency welled up in Fangzhou's heart.
Based on his previous experience, the first person to break through racial barriers and become a Bronze-level Skeleton will surely receive an unprecedented Blood Moon Blessing once again.
On this track, this skeleton lord is the biggest obstacle standing in his way of growth and evolution. He must be eliminated!
Hunting these skeleton legions belonging to the Skeleton Lord is his best option!
Fortunately, although these skeleton centurions and skeleton chiliarchs spawned by the Skeleton Lord completely submit to him, they are not skeleton warriors like Tryndamere and Varus, who mutated through their own power.
Not only were they lacking in strength, but they were also far inferior in intelligence.
The territory under the Skeleton Lord's command still has many loopholes that the Ark can exploit.
Having made up his mind, Ark restored his skeleton minions, which had been reduced to only a few dozen after a great battle, from the scattered bones back to full strength.
He used the Skeleton King skill to recombine the surrounding skeleton remains, restoring the number of his skeleton minions, and then in one fell swoop, he killed and devoured all the skeletons in front of him.
It must be said that as long as one is strong enough, these skeleton warriors gathered together only greatly improve the Ark's hunting efficiency, and do not pose any obstacle to it.
Looking at his other three-dimensional attributes that had skyrocketed, as well as his soul power reserves, Fang Zhou was overjoyed.
After absorbing everything, he led his increasingly powerful skeleton servants forward once again.
Relying on the aerial reconnaissance capabilities of the skeletal bat Bruce, the Ark gained complete strategic initiative.
Soon, his soul fire trembled, and he found a suitable target.
Click, click.
Ark, leading his skeleton servants, appeared near a sea of skeletons.
This is an even more powerful skeleton army than the previous one.
With one skeleton chiliarch and five skeleton centurions, the entire skeleton army numbered as many as five hundred.
Among them were skeleton warriors, skeleton archers, and other creatures that the Ark had previously encountered.
This legion of skeletons is far more powerful than the one Ark had ever seen before!
Of course, this power only applies to ordinary skeleton warriors.
The Ark is not included in this list.
When Ark appeared before this legion of skeletons, without Ark giving the order to attack, the skeleton centurion opposite him led his sea of skeletons and instead attacked Ark.
Harvesting and devouring skeletons that don't belong to your side is the survival rule in the Corpse Hills.
For this skeleton centurion, any skeleton that is not subordinate to the skeleton lord is within its harvesting and hunting range!
Hundreds of skeletons surged forth in a mighty swarm.
Skeleton warriors stand in front, commanded by skeleton centurions;
The skeleton archers are in the back row, personally commanded by the skeleton centurion.
This formation already has a basic tactical framework, which is quite remarkable for skeletons with low intelligence.
When facing other skeletons, they are naturally invincible.
But facing the Ark—
It seems we are somewhat powerless to do so!
A vast sea of skeletons is coming.
When the distance between the two was only a little over a hundred meters, Fangzhou gave the order.
His nearly one hundred skeleton minions, led by Olaf, Tryndamere, Sion, and others, charged toward the sea of skeletons!
He himself took the lead, rushing into the sea of skeletons at a speed even faster than the skeleton minions!
boom!
A flash of cold light!
Without unleashing any skills, Ark's current strength attribute of 100, its massive body of nearly 3.5 meters, and its 5-meter-long skeletal spear make its normal attacks something these ordinary skeleton warriors simply cannot withstand!
When the skeleton spear slashed out in a ring, all the skeletons within the spear's attack range were blasted apart, turning into countless flying bones!
Every swing of the Ark's gun was like the Grim Reaper's scythe, mercilessly reaping the lives of the skeleton warriors.
His movements were swift and precise, each strike hitting a vital point, slicing the skeleton warriors into pieces.
The surrounding skeleton minions were equally formidable, displaying exceptional combat prowess and teamwork under the leadership of the mutated skeleton warrior, quickly breaking through the enemy's defenses.
After blasting a gap in the sea of skeletons, Ark leaped into the air, unleashing its powerful skeletal body, and directly crossed a distance of more than ten meters, attacking the skeleton centurion in the center of the sea of skeletons!
The dense barrage of arrows, shielded by his shield and swift movement, mostly missed their mark and fell to the side.
He easily parried the swords and blades that came at him.
Just as his skeleton minions were making contact with the sea of skeletons, the Ark had already crossed the sea of skeletons and appeared in front of the Skeleton Centurion!
The spear of corpses slashed out once more!
Under the suppression of the powerful four-dimensional attributes and racial combat coefficient, this skeleton centurion, who had been in the Black Iron rank for who knows how long, didn't even have time to resist before his body was smashed to pieces by the corpse spear!
Grabbing the falling skull of the centurion, Fang Zhou's mind stirred, and the Skeleton King skill was unleashed once more.
He was still somewhat unwilling to give up and wanted to try whether he could use his Skeleton King skills to enslave the commanders under the Skeleton Lords.
Ark's eyes gleamed with a ghostly blue light, and powerful soul energy surged from his body as he attempted to control the Soulfire of the Skeleton Centurion.
Unfortunately, with a soft "poof" sound, the soul fire of the skeleton centurion was extinguished instantly.
It seems that these skeleton commanders who have signed a pact with the Skeleton Lord are no longer able to be enslaved by the Ark.
Fangzhou frowned slightly, but was not discouraged.
Just as he expected, the Skeleton Lord's contract power was extremely strong, capable of completely binding the soulfire of these commanders, making them uncontrollable by others.
It's worth mentioning that once this skeleton centurion died, his army of over 500 skeletons fell into complete chaos.
Without unified command, these skeleton warriors began to fight independently, resulting in chaos.
However, the five skeleton centurions who had survived the encirclement soon seemed to have regained command, managing the hundreds of skeletons to slaughter the skeleton servants under the Ark's command.
Without dwelling on the matter any longer, the moment he killed the Skeleton Centurion, Fang Zhou swung his Corpse Spear again, beheading two more skeleton guards standing next to the Skeleton Centurion.
For some reason, among these hundreds of skeletons, there wasn't a single mutated skeleton warrior like Tryndamere, Varus, or Yone.
They are all the most common ordinary skeleton warriors, which makes the battles in the Ark much easier.
These ordinary skeleton warriors are far less powerful than the mutated skeleton warriors and are unable to withstand the powerful offensive of the Ark and its skeleton minions.
Fangzhou deduced from this that perhaps the Undead Blood Moon Blessing obtained by the unknown Skeleton Lord was from a different direction than his.
Its control over the number of ordinary skeletons is naturally much stronger than that of the Ark, and it has also developed the ability to create skeletal military tokens and appoint commanders of thousands and hundreds.
However, as a trade-off, the quality of the skeleton warriors it can control is not very high.
So far, Ark has encountered two waves of skeletons, but hasn't even encountered a single mutated skeleton warrior.
This is a world of difference compared to the fact that Ark's forces numbered only a hundred, but included nearly ten mutated skeletons.
At this moment, on the battlefield.
The death of the skeleton centurion turned this once unified skeletal legion into a disorganized mess.
Some skeleton soldiers remained under the command of the skeleton centurions, while others became scattered and disorganized.
Ark ordered Olaf, Tryndamere, Varus, and other generals to lead the elite skeletons under Mo's command directly into the sea of skeletons and behead these few skeleton centurions who were still clinging to life.
As several skeleton centurions fell one after another, the already collapsing skeleton horde finally disintegrated into a chaotic mess, each fighting their own battles.
Without the Skeleton Lord's skeletal token suppressing them, the hunting and devouring instincts of these ordinary skeleton warriors, which had been suppressed, were awakened once again.
They began to attack everything within the Soulfire's perception, including each other.
This naturally reduced the pressure on Ark's skeleton minions.
Ignoring the war between the skeleton minions and the skeletal legion, after completing the aforementioned actions, Ark continued its attempts to enslave the skeleton centurions.
However, after several attempts, Fangzhou had no choice but to give up.
It's unclear what kind of firewall the Skeleton Lord has set up within the soulfire of these skeleton commanders under his command, but as soon as his soul connection touches these skeleton centurions, they will die instantly, just like their predecessors.
However, to some relief, these skeleton centurions, thanks to the blessing of the Bone Lord, were able to provide a considerable amount of corpse essence and soul power.
After absorbing the final offerings of these skeleton centurions, Ark raised its skeletal spear and charged into the chaotic battlefield like a tiger descending a mountain.
Under the Ark's decapitation tactics, this chaotic battle between hundreds of skeletons lasted only twenty minutes from start to finish.
Ark's tactics were simple and efficient. He first concentrated his forces to eliminate all the skeleton centurions, causing the entire skeleton army to lose its commander and fall into chaos.
Then, he commanded his skeleton minions to launch a swift all-out attack, defeating the leaderless skeleton warriors one by one.
Besides selecting the best among the best and replenishing his own skeleton servants to full strength, the remaining 400-plus skeletons were all devoured by the Ark.
Perhaps because each skeleton warrior had been suppressed by the Bone Token, the amount of soul power they contributed individually was not as much as the Ark had imagined.
Nevertheless, the total of over 400 skeleton warriors represents the largest single gain in soul power since the Ark's awakening.
Looking at the surplus of soul power that he had finally managed to replenish, Fang Zhou nodded with satisfaction.
At this rate, it won't be long before he can attempt to deduce a complete and sophisticated skill tree based on the Corruption and Poison system.
Now he has skilled research assistants like Willow Dance and Sylvanas helping him, who have prepared a lot of skill materials and feasible deduction ideas for him.
As long as Fang Zhou invests enough contribution points and soul power, the new deduction skills that seem impossible to others are simply a matter of course for him.
With practiced ease, Ark cleaned up the battlefield without pausing for a moment.
He immediately led his skeleton minions in another direction!
There----
There is another legion of skeletons!
A few days later, the trade fair that Ark had been eagerly anticipating finally began.
According to the military academy's organization, the entire trade fair lasted for a week.
The daytime is for free trading, while the evenings are for auctions that everyone enjoys.
In the central square of Haicheng Military Academy, the students who had heard the news gathered and, under the organization of their instructors, formed a large temporary market.
Tall tents of various colors, including red, blue, yellow, and green, were set up, with countless small stalls squeezed between them.
Due to limited space, not all students will be able to have their own booth here.
Seed trainees, with their formidable strength and high authority, are wealthy and have no shortage of contribution points or resources, so they can apply for independent booths.
However, for ordinary students, both contribution points and various cultivation resources are scarce, leaving them with limited funds.
Therefore, they often adopt the method of multiple people partnering to operate a stall together.
The entire venue, though chaotic, also possessed a certain order.
Based on the levels of apprentice, black iron, and bronze, they are vaguely divided into three distinct sectors.
Of course, the Iron Rank section is the largest and most bustling, while the Apprentice Rank section is relatively much smaller.
Needless to say, the bronze steps consisted of only a small area with just a few vendors.
However, quite a few students did come here to join in the fun and broaden their horizons.
There is only one rule for the entire trade fair: freedom.
With the Haicheng Military Academy in charge, no student would dare to engage in forced buying or selling or to cheat and swindle.
A steady stream of students poured into the Haicheng Military Academy from every corner, their faces beaming with festive joy.
Fangzhou followed the flow of people and entered this place alone.
Originally, his four assistants, Liu Diewu, Sylvanas, Bai Xiaochun, and Meng Hongzhuang, wanted to accompany him to browse this rare trading market.
But three women make a drama.
He always felt a bit of an eyesore surrounded by these originally outstanding, charming, and flamboyant female assistants.
In addition, since everyone needed different types of resources, Fangzhou simply declined their earnest requests and went out shopping by himself.