As the skeleton army approached, the players made way for them. The skeletons moved through the crowd, their chilling and malevolent aura seeming to materialize, stinging the players' skin. Several players who were close by had their pants soaked, but they endured the pain without uttering a sound. Only after all the skeletons had passed did they burst into loud sobs.
The group of skeleton monsters walked past, and the players looked into the distance and realized that there were still countless skeleton monsters in the distance.
The bolder player mustered his courage and asked in a trembling voice.
"What...what were those...what were those skeleton monsters all about?"
Seeing that the adventurers had lost their earlier arrogance, the commander felt extremely pleased.
"That's Jiang Batian's summoned creature, of course. He's an adventurer just like you."
Upon hearing this, all the adventurers' expressions changed, and then they began to discuss among themselves.
"Jiang Batian? Legion Commander? I've never heard of a player named that."
"I thought the Lord of Hell was already very strong, but I didn't expect there to be someone even stronger. Those summoned creatures were all bronze-level."
"The Lord of Hell? The Lord of Hell is probably about to kick the bucket, okay? Didn't you see the God-Slaying Curse above his head? Even if he had ten thousand lives, he should be dead by now?"
"Hey buddy, isn't the Lord of Hell the one who's been on the news all this time? What's going on? Tell me in detail."
"You still don't know? Then it seems you're not player number 006 from the Shanghai district, right? It's all over the news now. People from the three major guilds, Tianfa, Shenmie, and Chenxing, saw it with their own eyes. They said he had a debuff called Godslayer Curse, which caused him to lose 1% of his health every second, and no skills or healing equipment could help. The people from the three major guilds just watched him lose health and die."
"It can't be that bad, can't you just revive if you die from low health?"
"He's still losing health after resurrecting! He keeps losing health as long as he's alive! He's been losing health for a full 15 days, I doubt he can even log on now. He'd just die as soon as he logs on!"
"And then what? And then what?"
"What happened next? He defeated a bronze-level boss, then helped the players in the 006th newbie village of the Shanghai district open the teleportation array to Jinling City, and then logged off. What happened next?"
"No wonder it's been so quiet these past few days, even the server-wide announcements have stopped."
"What a pity. I haven't even seen the Lord of Hell in person yet."
"What's there to regret? Wait until after the 15th, oh right, wait until after 12 days. If he comes online, you'll be able to see him."
"That's different, okay? In just over ten days, my level was higher than his. The idol aura had long since faded."
"Hmph! Even if you reach level 40 in ten days, you might not be able to beat the Shadow of Wailing on Hard mode. Your idol will always be your idol!"
An untimely voice rang out, and everyone quickly looked at him. They discovered that he was from the Ice and Snow World Guild.
The boastful man who had said the Lord of Hell was incompetent quickly shut his mouth and hid behind his companion.
In today's starting village (No. 006) of Shanghai, the newly formed guild "Ice and Snow World" has risen to prominence, surpassing the four established guilds to become the undisputed number one guild. No one in the starting village doesn't want to join their guild. Of course, no one would actively provoke them.
"Report, sir! Commander Zhen Nantian said that Commander Jiang has already sent summoned creatures to help move bricks."
The messenger who had just left came running from a distance, shouting at the top of his lungs as if afraid the players wouldn't hear him.
The commander at the pass ahead praised the guard in his heart, saying that he was indeed capable of handling things.
"You all heard that, right? The skeleton that just passed by was Commander Jiang's summoned creature. If you don't hurry up and move bricks, Commander Jiang will probably beat you to it. Once the front pass is completed, the number of bricks you move might not be enough to guarantee you'll still get a silver-level treasure chest."
Upon hearing this, the players no longer cared about guessing who this Jiang Legion Commander was. They all unloaded the stones from their shoulders and rushed towards the quarry at the back peak pass.
Once the players learned that the skeletons were merely summoned creatures of Commander Jiang, they were no longer so afraid and followed the skeleton army back to the quarry. Seeing the skeletons bend down, reach out, and stack up standard wall bricks—about seven or eight—before dragging the bottom brick away, as if they were truly just moving bricks, some players immediately began to question their existence.
"Holy crap, these skeletons are too strong! I feel like any one of them is stronger than me!"
"Brother, get rid of your feelings, and they'll be better than you."
"That expert said before that if your strength isn't over 200, you can forget about moving these stones. Look at all of us players, who has a strength over 200?"
"One point of strength equals ten points of health. Judging from the health of these monsters, they must have at least 27,000 strength. Moving seven or eight bricks seems easy enough for them."
Players and the skeleton army lined up to move bricks, exhausting the soldiers in charge of quarrying. Watching the stones the soldiers tirelessly quarried being carried away by skeletons, followed by countless more, the quarry commander turned green with rage and quickly gave an order to his guards.
"Quickly inform Commander Zhen Nantian of the situation, saying that the quarrying work is too arduous, and ask him to quickly ask Commander Jiang to send Skeleton to help with the quarrying."
Hearing another commander mention Commander Jiang's name finally ignited the players' long-held doubts.
"Good heavens! Who exactly is this Commander Jiang? It seems like all the NPCs know him!"
"Do you think this Jiang Legion Commander is the same person as Jiang Batian Legion Commander?"
"Didn't you hear the announcement? It said that the commander of the Qiongfeng Pass Legion recruited us. I'm guessing that this Commander Jiang Batian must be the commander of the Qiongfeng Pass Legion. Brother, am I right?"
One player mustered up the courage to ask the quarry commander.
"The commander of the Qiongfeng Pass is Commander Nok, how can he be compared to Commander Jiang?"
"Huh? Aren't they both legion commanders? Why can't they be compared?"
The commander, who had come with Zhen Nantian, turned around and spat a thick wad of phlegm when he heard a player ask this question.
"The legion commander at Qiongfeng Pass is a coward who only thinks about running away. How can he be compared to Legion Commander Jiang Batian? Legion Commander Jiang Batian, alone with his summoned army, pushed the Skeleton Legion more than 20 kilometers away. He's not even worthy to carry Legion Commander Jiang's shoes!"
The commander pointed to the entire quarry and then to the location of Zhongfeng Pass.
"Without Commander Jiang Batian, all the soldiers here would be dead today."
No sooner had he finished speaking than Jiang Hao swaggered out of the quarry entrance, followed by a large group of skeletons.
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