Chapter 284: Undead Army

Chapter 284 The Army of the Undead

The dark clouds in the sky were exceptionally deep.

The heavy black clouds seemed ready to crash onto the earth, the air thick with the scent of rot and decay.

Li Wei stood at the edge of the floating city, gazing at the receding land below.

A white line appeared upon the ground.

The white line moved steadily toward the Element Tower, painting the earth white wherever it passed.

It was an ocean of millions of skeletons.

The Army of the Undead was approaching.

Buzz buzz buzz! Boom boom boom!

The floating city trembled, sheets of rock peeled away and fell to the ground, revealing the original foundation beneath.

Patterns of magic arrays emerged on the surface.

The massive floating city bared its ferocious fangs, transforming into a war fortress.

One by one, mage cannons popped out from holes beneath the floating city, aiming at the undead army drawing nearer in the distance.

Li Wei felt somewhat tense.

Everyone was tense, faces grave and serious.

The Element Tower had gathered all combat-ready mages to welcome the approaching Army of the Undead.

Before the skeleton sea arrived, sounds came first from the sky.

Caw caw caw!

Piercing noise rang out.

Countless gray-white skeleton birds burst forth from the dark clouds, diving down toward the floating city.

"Tower Master, shall we activate the defensive barrier?"

"The threat from skeleton birds is low, do not activate for now; the barrier consumes too much energy, opening it would affect the entire floating city."

"Understood."

The order was transmitted to the front lines; the Element Tower required everyone to exert their full strength to annihilate the falling skeleton birds.

Most skeleton birds were of first or second rank, those above third rank were rare.

Except for the mages.

Many small mage towers within the floating city deployed defenses.

Beams of magic shot from the tops of the mage towers, exterminating the skeleton birds falling from the sky.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

A net woven from dozens of magic beams annihilated most of the skeleton birds.

Large amounts of destroyed debris fell from the sky.

Above the floating city, a rain of bones began to fall.

Civilians had already hidden inside houses; only mages were moving outside.

There was no need to worry about the bone rain injuring people.

It was just that after the battle ended, cleaning up the debris would be a very troublesome matter.

Everyone raised their wands, casting spells to kill the skeleton birds missed by the mage tower defense line.

Li Wei casually tossed out a few small fireballs, blasting apart several nearby skeleton birds.

Secretly using the Golden Bone Ring, he controlled the skeleton birds to actively collide with the magic beams in the sky, like moths flying into fire.

With few skeleton birds nearby, Li Wei had leisure time to observe the Army of the Undead further away.

Valen walked over with Kuro and Diana.

He wore a mage robe, five stars engraved upon the magic badge on his chest.

Valen was a fifth-rank mage.

Beside the magic badge was another badge.

The profession badge of a Magic Puppeteer, six bars.

Sixth-rank Magic Puppeteer.

This was also the first time Li Wei knew Valen's true strength.

Valen said, "Li Wei, let Diana follow you; she will protect your safety."

Li Wei nodded, "Hmm, thank you, Instructor Valen."

Valen said, "The Tower Master has asked us great mages to go to the other side; there might be more important tasks arranged for us, I cannot take care of you, you must watch your own safety."

"Okay, Instructor Valen need not worry about my safety; I will take good care of myself," Li Wei said.

Valen turned and left, Diana remained by Li Wei's side.

Li Wei turned his head to gaze into the distance.

The Army of the Undead entered the attack range of the floating city's mage cannons.

The mage cannons had begun charging and storing power.

Suddenly, Li Wei saw waves surge up within the skeleton ocean.

Countless skeletons were lifted up like seawater, the wave crests growing higher and higher.

A mysterious force sought to slap countless skeletons onto the floating city.

The Glory Mage Cannons at the bottom of the floating city fired. Dozens of white beams cut through the dim earth, like dozens of incredibly sharp knives slicing through the crest of the skeleton ocean.

In an instant, the wave crest composed of countless skeletons was sliced into fragments.

Countless skeletons fell from dozens of meters high, smashing into powder.

Bang bang bang!

The Glory magic rays landed in the skeleton ocean, producing violent explosions.

Hiss hiss hiss!

White-gold flames generated by the explosion spread through the skeleton ocean.

The skeletons became fuel for the Glory flames.

Countless skeletons burned to ash within the white-gold flames.

Suddenly, the Glory flames, which should have burned fiercely until all skeleton monsters were consumed, extinguished instantly.

Like flames losing air, losing the source of their power.

The Glory mage cannons continuously shot white magic rays.

Burning, extinguishing repeated endlessly.

Two forces collided, crushed, and clashed.

Just as Li Wei thought the skeleton monsters posed no threat to the floating city high above.

He witnessed vast hordes of skeletons coalescing, forming dozens of colossal skeletal giants towering hundreds of meters high.

These skeletal giants were constructed from countless feeble zeroth and first-order skeletons.

Striding forth toward the floating city.

With merely a raised arm, the skeletal giants could seize the floating city.

Countless skeletons climbed upward along the bodies of the skeletal giants.

The skeletal giants served as the skeleton army's siege ladders, living siege ladders.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Under the barrage of Radiant Magic Cannons and standard magic artillery, fewer than one-fifth of the dozens of skeletal giants managed to approach the floating city.

A skeletal giant grasped the edge of the floating city, its form swiftly shifting into a white bone bridge connecting to the earth.

Countless skeletons surged toward the floating city along the bridge.

"Destroy the bone bridge!"

The Element Tower gave the order.

No order was necessary; all could perceive the critical importance of breaking the bone bridge.

Yet common mages could not inflict destructive damage upon the bone bridge.

Even fourth-order spells cast upon the bone bridge failed to shatter it.

Upon taking damage, the bone bridge would mend itself swiftly.

So long as the skeletons comprising the bridge were not utterly annihilated, the bridge would continue to repair.

Unless some power existed capable of obliterating the entire bone bridge outright.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

A sound echoed from the sky.

Li Wei lifted his gaze.

Meteorites descended one by one, piercing the heavy dark clouds to crash down upon the bone bridge.

Crash! Boom! Roar!

Under the bombardment of the Meteorite Spell, two bone bridges collapsed.

Though many other bone bridges suffered severe damage, they did not completely sever.

The damaged sections were also being rapidly restored.

The bone bridges stood too close to the floating city; the magic cannons could no longer reach them.

Destruction could only rely on the power of mages.

The Meteorite Spell could be considered the most potent fifth-order spell.

Even with such mighty magic, destruction was possible only when striking the bone bridge's vulnerable points.

Spells below the fourth order could scarcely pose an effective threat to the bone bridge.

Curiously, though the Element Tower knew spells below the fourth order could not destroy the bone bridge.

No Archmages emerged to dismantle the bone bridge.

It appeared that wave of Meteorite Spells was their final recourse.

On another battlefield, the Archmages confronted a multitude of undead monsters ranked above the fourth order.

The number of undead monsters exceeded the number of Archmages at the Element Tower by more than tenfold.

Unspoken between them, both sides had opened a new battlefield.

Li Wei stared at the nearby bone bridge, attempting to use the Golden Bone Ring to command the skeletons forming it to disintegrate.

The skeletons offered no response to Li Wei's command.

Higher-level commands controlled the skeleton monsters.

(End of Chapter)