Chapter 157: Skills Tes (1/2)

Violet Snow brought away the ratman traitor, accompanying her was Big 5 and his hellhound unit, the medusas and Elena.

Under her command were nearly 2000 harpies. Having gone through a period of training, this air force of mine should mostly be ready: the bone javelins were all stocked up and ready and everything was basically ready for a field test.

In actuality, Elena wasn’t the only harpy witch in this air squadron, Numila and Eugenia were as well. Numila’s and Eugenia’s main job however was to support Habona in her battle against the lizardmen. As for what this entailed, their main goal was actually just to aid Westley in his bid for power. In other words, they were there as deterrents rather than as combatants.

If I wanted to gain some real numbers on my air force, the place to observe was still Elena’s. The Abaddon Rodents weren’t known for their combat strength and usually relied on vast numbers to overcome this fact. However, the medusas were basically the natural-born nemeses of such tactics with their fearsome long range attacks. With these snake ladies supporting the contingent, I have no doubt that their morale would suffer a huge blow right from the get go.

Manasha and Majosha were both four-stars while Harlow was at least a three-star. In terms of elites, this contingent shouldn’t be in any way inferior to the ratmen they were challenging.

While the total contingent size was less than 3000, I wasn’t that worried. With that many aerial assets, we simply had to toss our javelins into the enemy throng without ever coming into melee range.

Even so, I made sure to leave Violet Snow a reminder before she left. A reminder to be cautious and to retreat immediately should anything seem amiss. According to reports, those rodents number at least 5000. Given how much time has passed since those reports, I wouldn’t be surprised if that number had grown significantly, these rats were a fecund bunch after all. It would be wiser not to underestimate their reproductive rate given that we still didn’t know their exact numbers.

Having sent off Violet Snow and the others, I summoned my personal guards and started a new round of research.

While I was in the Western Human Realms, Ferti’nier had transferred an enormous amount of energy into me, allowing me to directly advance into three-stars. Back then, the Grimoire of the Dead had gained a few new skills in response to my growth. However, I didn’t have much time to test them out at least, not till now. With nothing much to do now, I guess a round of testing is in order.

Only allowed on Creativenovels.com

Summon Skeletal Horsemen, Summon Skeletal Javelineers and Weakness.

With No.3 and Big 4 in tow, I first began summoning the horsemen in a deserted corner.

As the mana rushed into the spell, the skeletal figure of a horseman armed with a small bone buckler on his left and a bone blade on his right began surfacing from the ground, bones rippling apart as if they were a body of water.

Seems like a human skeleton, that horse seems like an ordinary horse’s skeleton too.

With regards to horses, I wasn’t too familiar with the subject in general let alone a skeletal one. However, there was no doubt that these horsemen had an impressive charging speed. While they weren’t that heavy and belonged to the category of light cavalry, mounted units had a natural advantage in charges so it’s fine.

Summoning a horseman took up 80 units of mana, if I were to go all out, I could summon a total of three in one sitting. Having said that, this was merely a test so one was enough.

“Big 4, go fight with that skeleton over there and test out its sturdiness.”

“Understood, Master.”

I had both of them stand 20 meters apart and after waiting for Big 4 to take up his stance, commanded the skeletal horseman to charge.

“It’s fine if you break the skeleton, just use all of your strength.”

“Got it, Master.”

Big 4 was already a three-star demon child so taking on a two-star horseman should be easy. Giving the horse a nudge, the horseman broke into a blistering charge that seemed that much faster probably because it had lost all of his flesh. In just the blink of an eye, that 20 meter gap was closed and with bone scimitar raised high, the horseman swung down, winds screaming behind it as the force of the its charge propelled the blade towards Big 4’s neck.

Big 4 was currently equipped with the usual set of gear I crafted for him a while ago, a bone shield and a bone mace. In the face of this furious charge, his first instinct wasn’t to counter attack but rather to raise his shield in defense and take the charge head on…he actually wanted to use his body to take on a charge horseman!