Chapter 690: Chapter 467: The Unstoppable Battle
Zachary didn’t know what the others were thinking at this time, but Zachary himself also didn’t want to be the initiator of the battle. So, in order to avoid the harassment of that frail skeleton, Zachary used Sword Control to stand above the arena on his Flying Sword.
Watching the skeleton hopping and jumping below in an attempt to attack him, Zachary worried that the skeleton might scatter its own bones in the process.
After an unknown period of time, a participant from another arena finally couldn’t resist attacking the skeletons. First, there was one more skeleton on the arena, and then, in an instant, the arena was overtaken by these frail skeletons.
Standing on the Flying Sword, Zachary watched the skeletons on the arena devour each other, and he shook his head helplessly. It seemed that to leave this place, he could only apologize to the other people.
Then, Zachary used another Flying Sword to charge at the skeletons in the arena. The arena was filled with flashes of sword light, and the frail skeletons fell to the ground in swathes, like wheat being harvested.
However, compared to the speed of the skeletons’ deaths, even more skeletons appeared in the arena like countless stars.
Gradually, Zachary noticed that the speed of his Flying Sword killing the skeletons was not keeping up with the rate at which the skeletons appeared. Below him, the arena once again became congested with piles of skeletons.
While Zachary was using the Flying Swords to clear the skeletons on the arena, the newly appearing skeletons were no longer the fragile kind that shattered upon touch, resembling brittle toys; the new skeletons appeared to have much sturdier bodies.
And in just an instant, the number of robust-bodied skeletons on the arena was about to surpass those with fragile bodies.
Even though the new skeletons were stronger than the original ones, for Zachary, killing those skeletons was still like cutting grass.
However, each time a skeleton was killed on one arena, ninety-nine more would appear on the other arenas. Such a high frequency of spawning, even if the skeletons were very weak, could pose a threat to many survivors.
These battle rules were a significant disadvantage for Martial Artists. Although Martial Artists with high Cultivation Levels had abilities that could attack large areas, these moves consumed a great deal of Inner Strength and couldn’t be used frequently or for long durations.
However, the Martial Artists who seemed to be at a disadvantage were not the first survivors to be eliminated.
To everyone’s surprise, the first to be eliminated were the Awakeners with capabilities for large-area destruction.
Upon reflection, it was easy to understand. Such Awakeners, with their wide-ranging destructive abilities, were similar to mages in games. Despite their enormous destructive power, their physical strength wasn’t great.
If in an open battlefield, they could be positioned with care, ensuring a safe casting distance that would guarantee their safety while using their skills.
But now they were in an enclosed arena. Unless they had the ability to fly like Zachary, even if they wanted to keep their distance from the battle, the rapidly appearing skeletons would instantly fill the arena, leaving no safe or suitable place.
Despite seeing the Martial Artists on the arena not using large-area damage skills but merely relying on their physical strength to kill the skeletons encircling them, which was significantly less efficient,
the skeletons now appearing didn’t even have proper weapons in their hands; their way to fight was still relying on clasping with hands and biting with teeth.
So, despite there being so many skeletons in the arena, the actual number able to attack the survivors were only a few skeletons around them.
The reason the Awakeners failed was because of the fast refresh rate of the skeletons. Their wide-area damage skills didn’t have the damage immunity effects of casters in games, so they could not release them around themselves.
Because of this, they allowed the skeletons to get close. Although some survivors used other skills to ensure their safety, many were still brought down by the claws and teeth of the skeletons.
When the survivors on the arena were gone, the arena did not disappear. The skeletons on the arena tore apart the bodies of the dead survivors, directly devouring them.
Once the skeletons finished devouring the bodies of the survivors, the remaining skeletons on the arena began to cannibalize and devour each other voluntarily. Finally, when only one skeleton remained on the arena, the arena would disappear, and this evolved skeleton would then immediately appear on another arena.
This skeleton, which had undergone multiple evolutions, was instantly noticed by Zachary when it appeared on the arena. After all, compared to the other skeletons less than a meter tall, this double-sized one truly stood out from the crowd.
Because the skeletons were appearing continuously on the arena, Zachary’s Flying Sword no longer swept through the arena back and forth, cutting down skeletons like mowing grass, but instead, it hovered under the spot where Zachary was suspended in mid-air, reducing the attack range and only targeting skeletons that entered a certain area.
And the tall skeleton appeared in a corner of the arena. So, although Zachary noticed the skeleton, he merely watched and didn’t pay too much attention to it.
Because Zachary was well aware that there would definitely be a significant number of those kinds of skeletons eventually.
Because of the reason that skeletons could evolve by cannibalizing each other, despite the fighters only attacking the skeletons around them and not harming those further away,
