Chapter 1564: Chapter 178 Undead Creature_2
Everything returned to silence again. Ah Dai looked at everyone in confusion and said, "Why is there only one? Is this what’s called the undead army?"
Kino’s eyes suddenly showed a look of fear, "Quick, look over there, what is that?"
Ah Dai was startled and turned to look in the direction Kino pointed. In the distance, a large gray mist seemed to drift toward them slowly yet quickly, and a faint buzzing sound seemed to emanate from the mist. Ah Dai focused his eyes on the gray mist. When he saw it clearly, he couldn’t help but take a cold breath. It was not a gray mist at all! It was actually composed of countless bone birds, identical in shape to the single bone bird they had seen earlier. Since their bodies emitted a gray fog, at first glance, they looked like a mass of gray clouds.
"It’s a large flock of gray bone birds, everyone be careful."
Xuan Yue saw the countless bone birds and said in a deep voice, "Let’s land on the ground; otherwise, if we’re surrounded by bone birds, we’ll be attacked from all directions."
Ah Dai nodded and said, "Alright, when we land, Yan Shi and Yan Li, you two focus on any disturbances on the ground, everyone else, attack the bone birds in the sky with me." In the face of crisis, Ah Dai appeared exceptionally calm and showed no panic despite the sudden change.
Under Ah Dai’s leadership, everyone quickly descended to the ground. When they landed, the cloud of bone birds in the sky was already close. An idea occurred to Ah Dai, and he turned to Xuan Yue, "Yue Yue, you and Olivia focus on defense, I, Sheng Xie, and Kino will focus on attack, everyone else adapt as needed." With that, he generated a massive silver sword five feet long and half a foot wide and concentrated on the bone birds in the sky.
Xuan Yue didn’t hesitate in the slightest and immediately began to chant a defense magic spell, "Oh great Sky God! Please grant me the Holy Light to defend Your honor with endless divine light." A golden light suddenly flared brilliantly, Xuan Yue raised her hands in a stance of holding up the heavens, and the Angel Wand in her right hand shone with dazzling light. A golden beam pierced through the cloud in the sky, accurately landing on the transparent gemstone at the wand’s head. In an instant, the golden light flooded, enveloping everyone completely.
Olivia dared not delay. As Xuan Yue used Holy Light for defense, he also chanted a level six wind-series defense spell, Whirlwind Barrier. Amplified by the Staff of Wind God, a great gust of whirling wind surrounded everyone, churning intensely. This wind combined with the just-appeared Holy Light, creating a robust whirlwind that made the entire defense net even more solid.
By then, the flock of bone birds in the air had dived down. The countless undead bone birds, nearly a meter long each, seemed unaware of the powerful protection barrier, relentlessly charging forward. To lighten the pressure on Xuan Yue and Olivia, Ah Dai floated out from the protection barrier without hesitation, rushing toward the flock of bone birds. He wanted to see what exactly Audi the grand elf envoy meant by Immortal Undead.
The silver light suddenly brightened intensely, wrapping Ah Dai like a silver meteor. With a thunderous roar, he forcefully crashed in from the front. The hundred or so bone birds at the front were immediately shattered by Ah Dai’s solid true qi born of life cycle energy clash, causing chaos in the birds coming from behind. In the ensuing chaos, hundreds more bone birds were crushed and shattered.
Ah Dai didn’t even need to attack actively. He only needed to spread his solid state energy of life cycle around his body, and the bone birds would rush up to sacrifice themselves, like moths to a flame. Because Ah Dai’s frontal assault drew the bone bird flock’s attention entirely, these mindless low-level creatures ignored Xuan Yue and others, focusing on charging at Ah Dai.
Although the bone birds charged fiercely, Ah Dai felt that the assault was manageable. With the ever-circulating characteristic of his life cycle energy, the bone birds couldn’t break through his defense in a short time. Ah Dai communicated spiritually with Sheng Xie, telling it to temporarily refrain from the battle. Since this was their first encounter with undead creatures, Ah Dai decided to observe the characteristics of the undead before encountering any formidable opponents.
Half an hour passed, yet the bone birds’ assault showed no signs of weakening. During this half-hour, Ah Dai discovered that these flocking bone birds were undoubtedly the lowest level undead creatures from the Death Mountain Range. Their primary trait being a lack of intelligence, possibly attracted by the life energy of Ah Dai and others. The bone birds’ bodies, slightly smaller than Azure Eagles, had a thin membrane of flesh over their skeletons, enabling them to fly. Nearly ten thousand bone birds had already crashed and shattered on Ah Dai’s solid state energy shield. Those early shattered by Ah Dai’s energy sword didn’t revive, and heavily crashed ones turned to bone dust. The ones fractured into pieces, however, underwent a transformation. Their broken bones remained shrouded in a residual black mist, under which they reorganized into bone bird shapes to rejoin the flock and continue their assault.
Interestingly, the gray mist of bone birds completely shattered and unable to resurrect rose into the air, not dissipating but instead being absorbed by other bone birds. Some bone birds, having absorbed an ample amount of gray mist, gradually had black mist surrounding their bodies and their originally gray-white bones deepening in color, seemingly gaining greater strength than ordinary bone birds. If dozens of such mutated bone birds simultaneously collided with Ah Dai’s defense shield, his life cycle energy would show some quivering.
