Chapter 136: Deterrence (1/2)
Crack!
Underneath the tower, my sword fell on two low-level skeletal soldiers. These mobs were only Level 60 with very low Defense and HP. It barely took any effort to kill all of them.
Inside the tower, the two Blood Dance Alliance soldiers were pleasantly surprised by my timely assistance. When they saw the emblem on my shoulder, they laughed heartily and said, “Princess Sophia didn’t give up on us after all! This is wonderful. The flag of the undead will flutter forever on this continent!”
I didn’t expect the two skeletons to react this excitedly, so I kept quiet and let them enjoy the moment.
A few minutes later, a low-level undead priest walked up to us with empty eyes. Her name was “Priest Lassi”.
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The undead archer was apparently the commanding officer of the sentinel tower. He laughed heartily when he saw the priest. “Oh, beloved Lassi, you’re finally here! I guess our Man-eater Flower Sentinel Tower is finally safe now!”
The priest nodded before replying in a chilly tone, “Captain Weiss, I had been rushing over since I received the message from Raleigh Town. However, it looks like I still underestimated the ferocity of these monsters!”
The archer said, “Yeah. If it wasn’t for the help of this traveling warrior, we might have lost the tower already.”
The priest NPC nodded again. “There are three human towns behind this tower, so we absolutely cannot lose control of it. If the Night Creatures break our defenses, the innocent people living in those towns will be slaughtered without question. Princess Sophia would never want this to happen!”
I was a bit surprised by her reaction, so I asked, “Why is the Blood Dance Alliance protecting the towns of humans?”
The female priest stared at me with her empty eye sockets until I felt a chill crawling up my spine. Finally, she said in a quiet and bitter tone, “The Blood Dance Alliance is the home of the undead, but we were all humans before we became this way. It is precisely this attachment and our unwillingness to see our kin be slaughtered that led us to creating the Blood Dance Alliance. No matter what the nobles of Floating Ice City think of us, we are willing to fight to our last breath to ensure humanity’s survival!”
I nodded and felt growing respect toward the Blood Dance Alliance’s goal. It looked like I had joined the right faction. Those alive should always be aiming to protect something, or they were no different from walking corpses.
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An unpleasant screech suddenly came from the distance. The caws soon joined into one shrilly melody.
The archer Weiss exclaimed in shock, “Heavens, are these the Flying Shadows?”
I turned around and questioned him. “Flying Shadows? What are those?”
“Fuck…”
I groaned on the inside. How am I going to defend this place from a couple thousand mobs?
More screeches came from the distant forest while I was thinking of a way. Then, a black mass of things started flying our way. They looked like birds, but were much bigger than any bird that I knew of. A closer look revealed that they were in fact a bunch of rotten corpses with wings behind their backs. They could probably be mistaken as fallen angels, but in the end they were just rotten corpses who were blessed with a good name—Flying Shadows!
I swept my gaze across the incoming wave and successfully read the stats of the first few Flying Shadows at the forefront—
Dried-up Flying Shadow
Level: 62
Attack: 250~375
Defense: 240
HP: 2400
Skills: Thrust
Introduction: When a lightweight human dies, the devils take their bodies and transform them into flying monsters. These creatures are known as “Flying Shadows”, and can be encountered everywhere on the Heavenblessed Continent. Their name alone strikes fear into the hearts of countless humans.
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As Weiss mentioned, their attack power was incredibly low. In fact, it was low enough that it probably wouldn't be able to pierce my Defense at all!
I checked my own stats again. I had 402 base Defense and 100 extra Defense from the skill Enhanced Bones, so they added up to a total of 502 Defense. At Rank 6, Ghost Deity Armor further boosted my Defense by 18%, so my effective Defense stat was at about 592. I wasn’t completely invulnerable, but I was sure that they couldn’t pierce my Defense, no matter what!
Full of confidence, I turned to face the undead NPCs behind me. “I’ll stop them. Priest, can you heal me while I keep these Flying Shadows at bay?”
The female priest nodded. “No problem. Be careful!”
“Mn!”
I sighed. If Murong Mingyue was here, I wouldn’t need to worry about my safety. Her healing was out of the world after all.
A few seconds later, a huge amount of Flying Shadows descended from the sky and flooded the sentinel tower in an instant!
I couldn’t help but shiver when a rotting stench entered my nose. Standing in front of the entrance with the Dark Wasp at my left and Xinran to my right, I raised the Ghost Ice Soul slightly before yelling, “Thousand Mirage Slash!”
Swhoosh!
The metal sang as an intimidating glow suddenly exploded from the tip of my sword. A moment later, four dazzling sword beams flew toward the sky and enveloped everything within 6 yards of me! It was the Rank 6 Thousand Mirage Slash!
Boom!
My sword beams hit a horde of Flying Shadows, causing a ton of numbers to appear above their heads.
1274!
1183!
1287!
2512!
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Not only did Thousand Mirage Slash utterly ravage the enemies, I even got a couple lucky crits in and one-shot some of the Flying Shadows outright. At Rank 6 the skill was plenty powerful already, but these Level 62 mobs with low HP and Defense made it look even more fearsome!
An entire horde of Flying Shadows had lost more than half their HP after just one Thousand Mirage Slash, but of course these sinister-looking flying corpses weren’t going to stand around and wait for me to kill them. They swung their bony spears and stabbed me from every corner, but their attack power was so low that they rattled my Ghost Deity Armor, but failed to pierce it at all. The column of numbers rising above my head only added to the hilarity of the moment.
13!
9!
14!
11!