Along the way, Jiang Hao, carrying his newly acquired dark gold-grade summoned creature, garnered countless admirers and respects from his soldiers. As they approached the eastern cliff face, a spearman finally couldn't contain himself and asked Jiang Hao, "Commander Jiang, I don't yet know your name. May I ask?"
Jiang Hao was slightly surprised; this was the first time an NPC had asked him his name. Even when he was appointed legion commander by the city lord of Jinling City, he was only asked his surname. Jiang Hao thought it best not to reveal his real name. So he casually said, "My name is Jiang Batian."
The soldier seemed to receive tremendous encouragement, and immediately began to dance excitedly, even more so than a fan shaking hands with their idol.
He seemed to realize his lapse in composure and immediately gave Jiang Hao a military salute.
"Your subordinate will certainly fight the enemy well and live up to Commander Jiang's trust!"
Jiang Hao found it somewhat amusing and nodded to him. Unexpectedly, the soldier's eyes turned bloodshot, and he looked like he was about to do something outrageous. Jiang Hao quickly climbed the stairs leading to the walkway.
Walking on the boardwalk, the view suddenly opened up, revealing the entire canyon. The skeletal monsters in front of the city wall continued their relentless advance, and the rain of arrows from the wall never ceased. Further ahead and into the distance, along the 4-kilometer-long canyon, countless skeletal monsters remained densely packed.
Jiang Hao couldn't help but sigh.
The city walls have become a gallows for skeletons. Are all these skeletons stupid? At this rate, who knows how many skeletons will die on this battlefield? I just don't know where these skeletal monsters came from, whose orders are they following, or what in the Eastern Kingdom is attracting them, making them charge forward without fear of death?
Jiang Hao knew nothing about any of this.
After walking past the protruding rock, Jiang Hao finally saw the little skeleton.
It kept swinging its big knife!
Jiang Hao thought this little skeleton was truly inspiring, tireless and restless, just like a machine on an assembly line. One skeleton monster after another was pulled up from the cliff by it, and after being subdued, they were ordered to jump down to join its subjugation army.
Looking at the little skeleton again, Jiang Hao noticed a significant change in its appearance. It had grown considerably larger, taller and stronger than Jiang Hao, its skeleton thicker and smoother, as if forged from refined steel. Even a sword capable of cutting through iron like mud might not be able to leave a mark. Besides its agile movements, Jiang Hao also vaguely sensed a newfound commanding presence emanating from the little skeleton, as if Zhen Nantian had subtly or intentionally revealed it.
The little skeleton must have leveled up by now, and Jiang Hao began to check its attributes.
The Inspirational Skeleton Knight
Faction: Necromancer Summoned Items
Quality: Gold
Level: 17
Life Count: 4.32 million
Physical attack: 13,400
Physical defense: 0.3 million
Speed: 0.21 million
Weapon: Heroic Blade
Experience points: \/
Number of subordinates recruited: 100,000
(After reaching the final stage of primary evolution and having 100,000 subordinates, it will enter the intermediate evolution stage.)
Talent: Taming (The final blow to the target will not kill the target, but will instead turn the target into your subordinate.)
Skill:
Bone Blade Strike: Swing the bone blade forward, dealing 120% of your attack power as damage to the target.
Bone Armor: Generates a bone armor on the body to help block damage equal to 40% of the user's health.
Charge: Quickly approach the target and deal 100% damage, stunning the target for 2 seconds.
Skeleton Summon: Summons 1,000 bronze-level skeleton guerrillas to assist the Skeleton Knight in battle.
Epitaph: A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier.
Note: The Skeleton Knight's minions are bound to the Skeleton Knight and enjoy all the talent bonuses available to the Skeleton Knight, without consuming any of the Summoner's summon count. The Skeleton Knight can level up, sharing experience points equally with the Summoner. After taming a sufficient number of minions, the Skeleton Knight's quality can be improved. When a Skeleton Knight is killed, it will enter the Summoning Space to recuperate. Recovery time required for the current quality: 1000 hours.
Just as Jiang Hao had expected, the little skeleton had indeed reached the Gold level. Even Jiang Hao was somewhat envious of such a rapid improvement in quality.
Looking at the gold-level attributes, Jiang Hao became increasingly satisfied with the little skeleton. What surprised Jiang Hao most was the little skeleton's fourth skill: Skeleton Summoning!
Upon reaching Gold rank, one can summon a thousand Bronze-rank minions. What about Dark Gold rank? Or Diamond rank? Will the quality of the summoned minions increase? Will the number of summoned minions increase?
It's a skill that truly inspires endless imagination!
Jiang Hao's expectations for Little Skeleton were finally fulfilled the moment he saw the fourth skill. From that moment on, Little Skeleton would be his summoned creature that he would never dismiss!
Looking down at the small patch of green-health monsters below the cliff, rapidly expanding like a virus, Jiang Hao felt a sense of disbelief. This battlefield was clearly the Skeleton Legion's upgrade arena for his summoned little skeleton. In less than two hours, the little skeleton had already reached the Gold level, and it seemed to be accelerating. Jiang Hao was even a little envious of the little skeleton.
Jiang Hao raised his staff and began attacking monsters at top speed. Level 25 bronze-grade monsters with just over 270,000 HP—the soldiers on the city wall would take two hits to defeat—all took Jiang Hao only one.
The battle was over before it even began.
However, Jiang Hao discovered that even with all his might, he couldn't keep up with the little skeleton's speed in subduing its minions. In one second, the little skeleton's minions grew from 10,000 to 20,000, two seconds later to 40,000, a few seconds after that to 80,000, and a dozen seconds after that, a flash of white light appeared below the cliff, and all 100,000 subdued minions disappeared, and the little skeleton's quality improved.
Jiang Hao was dumbfounded as he looked at the large area that had been cleared out below the cliff.
If it weren't for the need for positioning and monster-fighting, the number of skeletons' minions would probably reach 100,000 even faster.
Jiang Hao had only defeated 64 monsters. His talent increased damage by 6400 points, and the Immortal Heart increased all attributes by 64 points.
That's all.
What frustrated Jiang Hao even more was that even though the little skeleton was undergoing quality improvement, the 1,000 bronze-level minions it summoned were still working for it at the foot of the cliff.
No one but Jiang Hao has ever encountered a situation where a summoned creature is living a better life than its master.
Jiang Hao was unwilling to give up. He glanced at the dark gold-level summon, the skeleton commander Lislin, who was following behind him.
Why should I be fighting monsters while you're just sitting around doing nothing?
Stop fighting the monster, and with a thought, make it jump down.
The experience points started increasing again, along with system notifications indicating increased talent damage and enhanced Immortal Heart effects.
Jiang Hao finally felt a little better. Dark gold-grade summons, besides having powerful health and attack power, also possess extremely high agility. High agility means high attack speed. The Skeleton Commander Lislin, with a whopping 6600 agility, killed monsters much faster than Jiang Hao.
Jiang Hao finally let out a laugh.
Lying down, so this is what it feels like!
The little skeleton's quality upgrade is complete. Its body has become more robust, and its bones are more solid and smooth, just like a work of art polished from diamond. With every move it makes, it can move mountains and fill seas.
In addition, the faint dark golden light emanating from the bones stirred Jiang Hao's heart.
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