Chapter 232 017: Skeleton
"Swish!!!" The sharp sound of breaking wind exploded across the entire wasteland, and the rapidly rotating bone arrow shafts shot straight towards Luo Xi's carriage.
The speed of the arrow seemed to have exceeded the speed of sound, causing a series of explosions along the way. An obvious trace of a gas explosion appeared in the trajectory it passed through. When it reached the carriage, it was no longer just a single arrow, but was carrying a powerful airflow and pressing down towards the carriage.
If an ordinary carriage was hit by such horrific waves, it would have been torn to pieces in an instant. However, just as the arrow was about to hit the carriage, an invisible barrier suddenly appeared around it, and the arrow hit the barrier hard.
"boom!"
There was a loud roar, and Luo Xi's defensive force field flickered continuously, with ripples shaking in circles, as if a huge rock was thrown into a calm lake.
The bone arrow broke into several pieces and flew onto the surrounding land. The broken bone fragments exploded the moment they hit the ground, and several deep pits with a diameter of tens of centimeters appeared on the ground in an instant.
With a "swish", the high-speed carriage stopped and Luo Xi walked down from the carriage leisurely.
He raised his eyebrows and his eyes fell on the white skeleton on the distant hillside.
"This power"
The power of just one arrow was enough to almost penetrate its defensive field. Even some flying bone fragments could create so many deep pits on the ground. The power of this attack was far beyond what an ordinary skeleton could achieve.
"A wizard-level skeleton?"
"And it's a wizard-level skeleton with considerable strength!"
Just talking about the attack power, the energy coefficient of this arrow has probably reached the level of a mid-level wizard, which is equivalent to a spell of about three rings. This is a powerful spell that even Luo Xi cannot master at present.
"Again?"
While Luo Xi was thinking, the skeleton archer in the distance pulled the arrow again and prepared to shoot at Luo Xi.
He couldn't just keep taking the beating like this passively. Moreover, even with his strength, he couldn't withstand a few arrows of this energy coefficient. Luo Xi then took out the Grim Reaper's Scythe from his space ring, and quickly rushed towards the skeleton over there.
“Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!”
Arrows burst out from the skeleton's hands one after another. Luo Xi's body moved quickly in the wilderness in an S-shaped trajectory, calmly avoiding these flying arrows.
The distance between the two was only about four to five hundred meters. With Luo Xi's speed, he reached the front of the skeleton in a few breaths.
The Grim Reaper's scythe in his hand was raised high, and the sharp long blade burst into a bloody red light. Luo Xi held the Grim Reaper's scythe high, and like a real Grim Reaper, he slashed straight at the skeleton.
"Click!"
The Grim Reaper's scythe easily cut through the skeleton, cutting the rotten bones in half and shattering the entire skeleton with a clang.
“So crisp?”
Seeing the skeleton being defeated so easily made Luo Xi stunned. He originally thought that a skeleton that could release such a powerful attack force should also possess strong strength itself, but now it seems to be no different from an ordinary skeleton.
"That's weird, how did you do that?"
Looking at the broken bones on the ground, Luo Xi couldn't help but become suspicious for a moment.
Theoretically speaking, a skeleton that could unleash such a powerful attack force should be quite strong. At least, it shouldn't be defeated by a single blow. You know, he didn't even use magic just now. It was just a pure knight-level attack force.
He picked up a piece of bone and looked at it carefully. There was a faint blue soul flame burning on it. The texture and reaction of the flame were not much different from the soul flames he usually knew.
"What is this skeleton?" At this moment, Lina flew over: "Was it made by a wizard?"
"No."
Luo Xi shook his head and looked at the surrounding wasteland: "It should be the undead creatures naturally bred in this area."
Undead creatures do not necessarily need the help of magic to form. In some areas with a strong smell of death, the skeletons will naturally wake up after absorbing a large amount of the smell of death. This area meets the conditions for the formation of this kind of undead.
Lina said in surprise: "Yeah, so you are still my kind."
Luo Xi asked: "Why? Do you want to redress its grievances?"
Lina doubled over with laughter.
Luo Xi then took out a small wooden box and collected the bone fragments on the ground into the box.
Lina asked in doubt: "Why did you pick up these garbage?"
"Looking back, there are some properties of this bone that I find very interesting," Luo Xi explained.
Lina was speechless: "What a magic madman."
Luo Xi said: "Thank you for your compliment."
The carriage continued on its way.
After some research, Luo Xi quickly figured out why this undead skeleton could burst out such powerful energy with its weak body.
It's inside the skull.
Luo Xi found a thumb-sized crystal in the skull. No one knew how this crystal was formed, but after actual testing, Luo Xi found that this crystal was equivalent to an energy storage device that could absorb the death air in the air and convert it into energy for storage.
The skeleton's soul flame seems to have some connection with this aura of death, and can directly call upon the energy therein. This is why the skeleton can drive powerful attacks with its weak body.
“Amazing species!”
In the carriage, Luo Xi held the blue crystal with tweezers and examined it carefully. He never expected to find such a good thing in the ruins.
Since these skeletons can establish a connection with this blue crystal and call upon the energy contained therein, then shouldn't he also be able to apply it to other undead? As a part-time necromancer, studying and transforming the undead has always been Luo Xi's pleasure.
"If the blacksmith Bader were to have something like this installed on him, wouldn't that be great..." Luo Xi became excited.
"But this is not enough. We need to collect more blue crystals for experiments."
With this thought in mind, on the rest of the journey, Luo Xi deliberately let the unicorn go in the direction of the strong smell of death. These areas are most likely to produce undead creatures.
Soon, as Luo Xi expected, they encountered undead creatures again. This time, they were several skeleton warriors, wearing tattered armor and holding rusty cross swords in their hands, dragging their broken bodies and wandering in the wilderness. (End of this chapter)
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