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[Prompt: You have entered the Land of the Forgotten.]
[Prompt: The epic quest "Situ Ji''s Trial" has officially begun. Please pass through the Land of the Forgotten and achieve 100% exploration within one week.]
"A week?"
Hearing the system prompt, Su Mubai frowned.
Situ Ji must know how powerful a Lord-level class is, yet he still gave a week?
"So, even with the Cataclysm trait, it will take two to three days to get through here?"
This time frame slightly exceeded his plan, but it wasn''t entirely unacceptable.
He didn''t immediately summon the skeleton legion but instead carefully observed his surroundings.
This place seemed to have been a small town once, but now it was a scene of ruin, with the entire town shrouded in a decaying aura.
The surroundings were extremely desolate, as if abandoned by the world.
Large grave mounds stood tall, exuding a sinister feeling.
Scattered bones littered the ground, sending a chill down one''s spine.
Within his line of sight, there were no living creatures, making the environment appear particularly dead and barren.
In the past, if Su Mubai were alone in such an environment, he would inevitably feel a bit apprehensive.
But after changing his job to Lord of Death, he felt no aversion to this place.
Plus, since entering the game, he had always been accompanied by skeletons, so Su Mubai felt no pressure in such an environment.
The only issue was the lack of sunlight, with the surroundings shrouded in darkness, reducing Su Mubai''s vision range by about 50%.
[Current Exploration: 0%]
Glancing at the exploration percentage, Su Mubai lightly pointed with his Deadwood Staff.
A six-meter wide and long gray portal opened in the Summon Space.
A strong and mighty Skeleton Warrior led the charge, wielding a standard giant sword, followed by a neat formation of Skeleton Shooters and Skeleton Mages.
Clack, clack, clack...
The uniform sound of bones clashing echoed as 340 skeletons all entered the Land of the Forgotten.
Their appearance did not bring life to the place; instead, it intensified the already thick aura of death.
The next moment, Su Mubai witnessed a shocking scene.
The appearance of the skeleton army seemed to disturb the souls here, causing the large grave mounds ahead to tremble.
Pairs of pale skeleton hands broke through the soil, followed by heads, torsos, and lower limbs!
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In just a few dozen seconds, Su Mubai and his army were surrounded.
As far as the eye could see, it was a sea of skeletons, densely packed with flickering Soul Fire!
"Hiss~ Even if the entire town turned into skeletons, there wouldn''t be this many, right?"
Su Mubai couldn''t help but gasp.
It wasn''t that he was making a fuss, but the sheer number was overwhelming.
One glance and there was no end in sight!
[Skeleton]
[Level 20]
[Normal]
[HP: 5000/5000]
[Attack Power: 210]
[Physical Defense: 120]
[Magic Defense: 80]
(Weak entities commonly found in the Land of the Forgotten.)
Although these skeletons were all normal monsters with poor stats, the sheer number of them swarming forward, their reduced bodies paired with the ghostly blue Soul Fire in their eyes, was enough to make one''s scalp tingle.
Su Mubai had always been the one ganging up on others, but now he experienced being surrounded for the first time.
However, it was just a strong visual impact; as soon as the two sides clashed, the skeleton sea of the Land of the Forgotten began to crumble.
The tall and strong Skeleton Warriors were a head taller than them, and each swing of their giant swords turned a skeleton into fragments.
-40580, -40326, -81220!...
Instant kills, nothing but instant kills; not a single skeleton could withstand a single strike.
Even with the Death Codex, which allowed Su Mubai and his summons to deal double damage to undead creatures, the damage numbers from the Skeleton Warriors still widened his eyes.
How much?!
Normal attacks doing 40,000?
A single sword strike killed a skeleton and still owed seven lives!
Su Mubai knew he was overpowered, but he didn''t expect to be this overpowered.
"Leveling up feels like ascending to another realm..."
Muttering to himself, Su Mubai checked the panel of the Skeleton Warrior for the first time after leveling up.
[Skeleton Warrior]
(Advanced Undead Aura double enhancement, all attributes increased by 60%, the following are the enhanced stats.)
[Strength: 5080]
[Constitution: 5080]
[Agility: 5080]
[HP: 381000]
[Attack Power: 20320]
[Physical Defense: 5080]
[Skill: Heavy Hit Lv9]
[Heavy Hit:] (E) Level 9, swing weapon for a heavy hit on the target, dealing 190% physical damage, cooldown 30 seconds.
"Damn, no wonder my Life Share HP bar can exceed a billion."
Su Mubai suddenly realized.
Just these 100 Skeleton Warriors provided 38 million, and with the class Cataclysm trait doubling it, that''s a 76 million shared HP bar.
This value, even for someone as overpowered as him, felt too overpowered.
The 100 Skeleton Warriors formed an impenetrable wall, quickly creating a large circle to isolate the skeleton sea outside.
No stragglers could break through them.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Boom, boom, boom!
Next, the Skeleton Shooters and Skeleton Mages in the center of the circle launched their attacks.
-15008, -15214, -15196, -30888!...
-20102, -20096, -40324!...
Still without using skills, just simple normal attacks.
Both lacked the Cataclysm trait, so their output was nearly half of the Skeleton Warriors.
But they were still incredibly strong; the Skeleton Shooters had lower damage but faster attack speed.
The Skeleton Mages, when not using the Fireball Technique, swung their Bone Staffs to release deathly orbs, attacking at a frequency of about 1.2 seconds, slower than the Skeleton Shooters but faster than the Skeleton Warriors.
[Skeleton Shooter]
[Strength: 5080]
[Constitution: 5080]
[Agility: 5080]
[HP: 60960]
[Attack Power: 7620]
[Physical Defense: 2540]
[Skill: Double Shot]
[Double Shot:] (E) Level 9, instantly shoot two arrows, dealing double hits to the target, each arrow dealing 99% physical damage, cooldown 30 seconds.
[Skeleton Mage]
[Spirit: 5080]
[Agility: 5080]
[Constitution: 5080]
[HP: 40640]
[Spell Power: 10160]
[Physical Defense: 1693]
[Skill: Fireball Technique]
[Fireball Technique:] (E) Level 9, release a fireball to attack the target, dealing 220% spell power fire magic damage, casting time 1.5 seconds, cooldown 30 seconds.
Su Mubai''s army was overwhelmingly crushing the skeleton sea of the Land of the Forgotten.
These level 20 normal monsters couldn''t even break the defense of the Skeleton Warriors; their bone swords hitting the Skeleton Warriors didn''t even show damage numbers, as they were completely resisted.
There was no need to move; as soon as one skeleton died, more would rush forward to take its place.
Like moths to a flame, soon the ground outside the circle was piled with layers of bone fragments.
Su Mubai''s system notification bar began flooding, but he frowned.
[Killed level 20 Skeleton, gained 50% overlevel bonus, experience +30 points, "Far Ahead" effect active, additional experience +6.]
[Killed level 20 Skeleton, gained 50% overlevel bonus, experience +30 points, "Far Ahead" effect active, additional experience +6.]
...
Even though they were level 20 monsters, the experience was equivalent to level 10 Buffalos.
If that was all, Su Mubai could accept it, given the sheer number of skeletons and their relentless advance, making it quick to farm experience.
From level 10 to 11, the experience required to level up increased less than before, only needing 1 million experience points.
Su Mubai estimated that the skeleton sea here was more than enough to level him up once.
Imagine how many skeletons there must be!
In the distant darkness, dots of Soul Fire floated, ready to fill the positions as soon as the skeletons in front died.
Su Mubai''s skeleton army was like workers on an automated assembly line, continuously killing enemies and bringing him a constant stream of experience.
The reason for his frown was that the newly activated [Soul Drain] effect of the Death Codex wasn''t working!
By now, he had killed at least hundreds of skeletons, yet he hadn''t absorbed a single soul point.
"Could it be because these skeletons have no souls?"
A hint of doubt flashed in Su Mubai''s eyes, then he focused his gaze on a skeleton outside the circle.
[Death''s Gaze]!
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