“Those who turn away from the glory of the Lord will be purified.”
"Holy Light Judgment!"
"Holy Light, please hear my prayer and heal all wounds."
On the wasteland east of Holy Spirit City, more than twenty angels surrounded a band of over a hundred bandits.
This was almost a one-sided massacre. As holy light spells were continuously cast, these bandits, who were also level 30, were powerless to fight back and fell one after another. Meanwhile, the angels also leveled up to level 31.
At the same time, a power visible only to Jiang Yan gathered from the corpses.
[Death Harvest successfully activated; Death Essence increased by 106.]
"Well done," Jiang Yan praised, genuinely satisfied.
These angels were so meticulous in their killing that there were no dismembered limbs scattered on the ground, and not even a drop of blood splattered.
This greatly facilitated his conversion of these corpses.
"It is our honor to serve the Lord." Many angels excitedly fluttered their wings, then dispersed around to carefully guard the area.
Jiang Yan smiled slightly, stepped forward, and the Scepter of Calamity in his hand lit up.
Undead Domination, activate!
Hundreds of bandit corpses, along with their warhorses, began to move simultaneously. They staggered to their feet, climbed back onto their horses, and moved in perfect unison, as if programmed. They remained silent, the only change being that their eyes became empty and lifeless.
As one of the Undead Emperor's innate skills, Necromancer's Domination is the highest-level summoning spell, capable of fully controlling any corpse, not just bones.
With the blessing of the natural disaster at 300%, Jiang Yan felt that the magic power in his body had only decreased by one-tenth, which means that he can now summon nearly 1,000 ordinary undead at a time.
"Set off."
At Jiang Yan's command, more than a hundred bandits began to move forward at a steady pace.
The monsters in the wasteland didn't seem as dense as in the forest; after traveling over a hundred kilometers, they only encountered three waves of monsters.
Both groups were bandits who, perhaps having seen their accomplices, came out of curiosity to take a look and were thus left behind forever.
The other group consisted of three bronze-level lizards, which, after being killed by the angels, became the means of transportation for Jiang Yan and the two greatswordsmen.
"My lord, I must say, this thing is quite sturdy." Shield carefully stepped onto it, and was immediately delighted when he found that the lizard was unaffected.
“That’s right, I tried to poke it with my sword but couldn’t even break the skin,” Shield Two said excitedly.
After all, including their full armor and weapons, they weighed over 800 pounds, and very few ordinary mounts could support that weight.
—The undead horse that the thief had previously tried to ride had directly crushed it.
Jiang Yan, on the other hand, looked rather gloomy.
As the strongest lord today, the legendary Lord of Light, riding a dead lizard is really beneath him.
"We should have called Jacob over, or... oh well, never mind."
Jiang Yan looked at the many angels who were only 1.5 meters tall and were looking at him with reverence. He sighed. Could he really call them over and ask if he could ride them? He just couldn't bring himself to say it!
"Let's keep going, head towards the center." After a brief rest, Jiang Yan reluctantly climbed onto the lizard and gave the order.
He could vaguely sense a powerful energy fluctuation there, which should be the location of the gatekeeper. Judging from the map, the undead army led by Sheena was fighting against it.
The main force moved once again, but this time there were more than 400 bandits leading the way, making a great show of force. Along the way, no monster dared to provoke them.
Soon, the group arrived at a sandy area.
"Proceed with caution. I remember there's a mini-boss here," Jiang Yan said to the angel and the two greatswordsmen.
It doesn't matter how many ordinary undead die, but these two cannot die.
"Yes, Holy Lord."
Upon hearing this, a faint glow rose from the angels, and the two greatswordsmen also took out their shields and activated their skills.
The group slowed their pace slightly and began to proceed cautiously.
When they had traveled about five kilometers, a sudden change occurred.
The ground within a radius of several tens of meters suddenly sank beneath the feet of the undead bandit army.
More than a dozen bandits fell straight down and lost contact.
The army quickly scattered, their eyes fixed on the churning sand and gravel in the depression.
But then a metallic tail shot out like lightning, piercing the angel in mid-air, its tip gleaming with a ghostly green poison needle.
"Oh!"
The angel, who had been warned, valiantly swung his longsword, which was surrounded by holy light, to parry.
Clang!
A sickening clang rang out, and the invincible angelic holy sword was knocked away, the eerie green poison needle grazing the edge and scraping across the two-winged angel's arm.
In an instant, her skin turned bluish-black, and she plummeted from the sky.
"Devout believers, in the Holy Light, we will live forever!"
The next second, a loud chanting rang out, and a dense white light fell on the falling angel.
Under the light, the dead angel opened its eyes again, and flapped its wings to steady itself.
Resurrection!
However, it was two healing angels who made the move.
Jiang Yan urged the lizard he was sitting on to retreat several meters, looking at the dent with a solemn expression.
Something's not right!
The level 40 angel was instantly killed despite being prepared!
This is definitely not the strength a Silver-level mini-boss should have.
unless...
Whoosh!
Sand and gravel filled the air as a terrifying creature, the size of an ordinary house, emerged from the ground.
Its entire body was covered in a metallic black carapace, and its two huge pincers easily clamped several bandits in two. Most eye-catching was the poison needle at its tail, which was raised high and shimmered with a ghostly green light. Even the two-winged angels could not withstand it.
The Netherworld Jade Scorpion King—no, it should now be called the Demonized Scorpion King.
Jiang Yan looked at the faint black and red evil patterns on the other side and its crazed eyes, and knew that it had been infected by the abyss aura.
No wonder it's so powerful; it's no longer a silver-level mini-boss, but a monster comparable to a gold-level one.
"Prepare for battle!"
Jiang Yan became excited, as he was just one silver advancement token away from advancing.
Moreover, monsters are not true abyssal creatures after all; once they are killed, they can be controlled and manipulated by the undead!
His body surged with magical power, and a dense aura of death, amplified three times by the natural disaster, struck out like a black lightning bolt.
Death Finger!
Bang!
As if sensing something, the scorpion raised its pincers to block in front of it, but was knocked back several meters by the enormous impact.
A clear hole, several centimeters long, appeared on the black pincers, from which green blood flowed, but it was nothing compared to its massive body.
Jiang Yan wasn't disappointed. Although their overall scores were similar, his score was mainly boosted by the artifact "Cataclysm." It was already quite good that he could injure a Gold-tier demonized boss with his Bronze-tier first-level combat power.
After all, the Undead Emperor's power mainly relies on necromancy and the origin of death. If given time to gather warriors and the origin, he could even kill his opponent instantly.
"superior!"
After the attack was completed, Jiang Yan retreated to the rear without hesitation and commanded the undead bandit army and the angels to launch an attack.
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