Chapter 598: Chapter 422 Fleeing in Defeat
So, Zachary didn’t believe that the battlefield only contained the lowest level of Undead, which is why he used Divine Sense to scan in the direction where the skeletons originally were.
As expected, Zachary saw those skeletons in the snow behind them, with Green Soul Fire burning in their eye sockets, standing still in place, not advancing towards the area where the living were like the skeletons filled with White Soul Fire.
Seeing this situation, Zachary guessed that these skeletons might be under the control of higher-level skeletons; otherwise, it would be impossible for them to enter the battlefield with such a clear ranking.
Some of the survivors with strong combat abilities had already broken through the Skeleton Army and seen the skeletons that were still standing further back, motionless, and had yet to join the battlefield.
Looking at the motionless skeletons, then glancing back at others who were still fighting the skeletons, he didn’t turn to rejoin the battle. Instead, he headed straight for the idle skeletons, wanting to find out why they were not moving.
As he approached, perhaps stimulated by the vitality of the living, suddenly three of the stationary skeletons turned their eye sockets towards him.
Although he saw the skeletons looking at him, he did not notice that these skeletons were different from the previous ones. He still thought they were as fragile as the previous ones and could be easily shattered with a casual strike.
When they got closer, just as he casually swung his weapon to break the skeletons, unexpectedly, when the weapon hit the skeletons, it did not shatter them but got stuck in their ribcages instead.
He thought that by covering and amplifying his weapon with qi, he could easily shatter the skeletons, so even when his weapon got stuck in a skeleton’s body, he didn’t pay it much mind. But when he covered his weapon in qi, ready to exert force to break apart the skeleton in front of him, he never imagined that not only would the skeleton not be shattered, but the weapon wouldn’t come out of its body either.
Just as he prepared to continue his efforts to destroy the skeleton before him, attacks from the other two skeletons were about to land on his body. In this situation, he could only reluctantly let go of his weapon, covering his palms with qi instead, then aimed directly at the bodies of the nearby skeletons.
When his palm strike landed on the skeleton, he was surprised to find that the density of their bones was much greater than those of the skeletons that had attacked them earlier.
However, being the first to break through the Skeleton Army, he was no weakling and possessed considerable strength. He had just been careless, which was why he was caught off guard by the skeletons, but once he took the fight seriously, even without a weapon, he could easily shatter the three skeletons.
In the 1V3 fight, he subconsciously retreated in the direction he had come from, so when he defeated the three skeletons, the ones that had been standing still in front hadn’t been activated and were still idly standing there.
By this time, the skeletons that had attacked the temporary camp had all been dealt with by the Hunting Team coming from behind. The members of the Hunting Team, stepping over a field of bones, reached his side.
He had just pulled out his weapon from the shattered ribs on the ground that had been stuck in the body of a skeleton.
A teammate, seeing him pull out his weapon from the broken skeleton on the ground, asked with some confusion, "Mark, you got here first, what’s the deal with those motionless skeletons up ahead?"
Hearing his teammate’s question and seeing the other members of the Hunting Team also looking at him, he had no intention of hiding anything and directly answered, "Everyone, don’t approach those skeletons up front for now. I was also trying to move up to gather information, but before I could get close, it was as if a mechanism had been triggered, drawing the attack of three skeletons directly at me.
Look, those three skeleton corpses on the ground are the three I happened to activate. And these three skeletons, whether it’s the hardness of their bones or their combat abilities, were all much stronger than those from the earlier Skeleton Army we fought."
Hearing this from Mark, immediately a member picked up a bone from the ground and began trying to break it. Although he eventually managed to snap the bone in his hand, he agreed and said, "The hardness of these bones on the ground is indeed higher than those of the skeletons we fought earlier."
Just as they were considering whether to move forward for further investigation, the previously standing still skeletons suddenly turned their skulls to look at them. Seeing these skeletons with Soul Fire in their eye sockets suddenly turning toward them, everyone was startled at first.
Then someone observant exclaimed in surprise, "The color of the Soul Fire in the eye sockets of these skeletons is different from the previous ones. These have Green Soul Fire, while the ones we fought earlier revealed White Soul Fire."
Hearing this, everyone instantly connected the information that the skeletons in front of them were stronger than those they had previously battled.
Therefore, some didn’t want to engage in battle and turned to leave the area first, but when they looked back in the direction they had come from, they were shocked to discover that the previously shattered skeletons had now somehow risen from the ground again.
