Upon opening the little skeleton's attribute panel, Jiang Hao's breathing immediately became hot.

[The Inspirational Skeleton Warrior]

Faction: Necromancer Summoned Items

Quality: Dark Gold (Intermediate Evolutionary Form)

Level: 17

Life Count: 21.4 million

Physical attack: 23,500

Physical defense: 0.68 million

Speed: 0.48

Weapon: Heroic Blade

Experience points: \/

Number of subordinates recruited: 4513/1 million

Talent: Taming (The final blow to the target will not kill the target, but will instead turn the target into your subordinate.)

Skill:

Bone Crack Strike: Swing a bone hammer forward, dealing 120% of attack power as damage to targets in a straight line in front of you.

Bone Armor: Generates a bone armor on the body to help block damage equal to 50% of the user's health.

Charge: Quickly approach the target and deal 120% damage, stunning the target for 3 seconds.

Skeleton Summoning: Summons 10,000 silver-level skeleton warriors to assist the skeleton general in battle.

Epitaph: A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier.

Note: The Skeleton Warrior's minions are bound to the Skeleton Warrior and enjoy all the talent bonuses available to the Skeleton Warrior, without consuming any summoner slots. The Skeleton Warrior can level up, sharing experience points equally with the summoner. After taming a sufficient number of minions, the Skeleton Warrior's quality can be improved. After being killed, the Skeleton Warrior will enter the summoning space to recuperate. Recuperation time required for the current quality: 5,000 hours.

The first skill became an area-of-effect attack, the second and third skills were both enhanced, and the fourth skill was abnormally powerful. Whether in a group battle or a one-on-one duel, the little skeleton's ability to instantly summon ten thousand silver-level skeleton warriors would likely only lead to despair for the opponent. At the same time, seeing that the little skeleton's maximum number of subordinates it could recruit had increased to one million, Jiang Hao immediately knew that the time had come to push the skeleton army out of the impasse!

There's no need to even explain to Nok that he should provide support with the Energy Crystal Cannon and Energy Crystal Crossbow.

However, remembering the mysterious instructions given by the City Lord of Jinling before his departure, Jiang Hao still took out the dark gold-grade cloth bag from his pocket. After untying the knot, Jiang Hao saw that the bag was indeed full of energy crystals the size of soybeans, and there were also a few energy crystals the size of peanuts.

Jiang Hao was somewhat surprised. The energy crystal the size of a soybean was of the gold grade, while the one the size of a peanut was of the dark gold grade; Jiang Hao remembered this clearly.

Didn't the city lord say there were 1000 gold-grade energy crystals in here? But it looks like there are more than 1000! And what's with the few dark gold-grade energy crystals?

"Could it be that the old man intended to keep this bag for himself, but accidentally mixed it up and ended up giving it to me?"

It has to be said that very few of the NPCs in the Lingxu game are reliable!

Jiang Hao was speechless.

How can someone like this become the city lord?

There was a piece of paper on top of the energy crystal, which surprised Jiang Hao even more. Who would put a piece of paper in their safe? Was it something very important that they were afraid of forgetting, so they jotted it down?

I wonder what kind of private information NPCs record?

Driven by the thrill of peeking into someone's privacy, Jiang Hao reached for the piece of paper.

A will for the adventurer, the Lord of Hell.

This opening line immediately stunned Jiang Hao.

It was given to me, and it was even my will?

What happened? What kind of suicide note was that?

Jiang Hao calmed himself down and decided to take a closer look at what this old bastard, the city lord, was up to.

"You brat, it's been so long since you wrote me a letter to report on the battle. Haha, let me, the city lord, calculate when you opened this letter. It should be at least the third day since you arrived at Qiongfeng Pass, right? How about it? Was my guess right?"

Jiang Hao was once again exasperated. It had only been two hours since he arrived at Qiongfeng Pass.

Where does his mysterious confidence come from?

"Is the pass at Qiongfeng Pass about to fall? Is Commander Nok about to issue a recruitment order for the legion? So you're planning to give this bag of energy crystals to Nok and have him hold out for two more days? Is that right?"

The confident lord of Jinling City was completely wrong in his judgment of future trends!

"Listen to me, don't give this bag to him. There's a gold-grade energy crystal and 58 dark gold-grade energy crystals inside. I'm keeping them for your escape. Let him issue the legion recruitment order. You'll definitely reach level 40 in two days. Even if you lose 10 levels after the city defense fails, it won't be a big deal."

Jiang Hao didn't want to watch anymore. That old man never seemed to have any good intentions towards him.

And what's with letting him run away? Did they abandon the front-line pass? Did they abandon Nanjing?

With these questions in mind, Jiang Hao continued reading.

"After the city defense fails, you should immediately lead your 1,000 personal guards and the adventurers to escape. Take the airship from Qiongfeng Pass directly to the Zhenyuan Legion. After exiting Youyue Pass, head west across the Youyue Empire to reach the Western Kingdom. One gold-grade energy crystal can be exchanged for an adventurer to settle down in the Western Kingdom. As for the 1,000 personal guards, 10 dark gold-grade energy crystals will suffice. The remaining 48 are yours."

He's quite generous!

Although Jiang Hao looked down on energy crystals, they were incredibly valuable to the City Lord of Jinling City. It must be said, although the City Lord seemed unreliable, he was actually quite good to him. He had left him all the remaining energy crystals.

Jiang Hao smiled knowingly. So the city lord was arranging a way out for him.

Jiang Hao felt a surge of goodwill and, wanting to know what he would say next, continued reading.

"Why did the Skeleton Legion sweep across the northern ice plains? And why did they attack the eastern kingdoms? It's because the Skeleton Legion wants the City Building Token, and enough gold to build a city. Although the Skeleton Legion is powerful, it has been suppressed by other forces and therefore does not yet have its own main city. What's the use of a main city? That's a big question, but you can understand it like this for now: If a race doesn't have a main city, then in the eyes of other races, it will always be an alien race and will always be suppressed by other races."

Jiang Hao suddenly realized what was really the reason for this war.

Since the Skeleton Army wants to build a city, why not just let them build it?

They're so powerful now, what's wrong with building a city?

Is it really necessary to keep fighting like this?

As a player, it is indeed difficult to guess the strange thoughts of these NPCs.

“I’ve always said that we are the natives of this world. Actually, one day, when the Spirit Ruins begin to merge with your world, you—I mean you adventurers, and those adventurers who haven’t yet entered the Spirit Ruins—will also become natives of this world, just like us.”

A chill suddenly rose up Jiang Hao's spine, then shot straight to his forehead, making his hair stand on end.

Two worlds merging?

Become a native in the game?