He's Dead

After the third Skeleton appeared, the Arrow Towers reacted as well, beginning to fire Iron Arrows into the distance.

Trailing a cold glint, the chilling arrows flew into the distance.

Ye Qian glanced at the map and saw a red dot rapidly approaching.

"We're done for."

The Skeletons' Fireball had a cooldown. After using it once, they basically had to wait five minutes, and the few she had brought out earlier had already used theirs.

"Don't overthink it, keep going!"

Chen Ning knew it was already too late to run. The only thing they could rely on now was the remaining Skeletons.

The sixth Skeleton appeared, and the enemy was still 300 meters away. Clearly, the three Arrow Towers had slowed him down to some extent. And now that he was closer, he was already struggling to deal with them.

The seventh was synthesized by Ye Qian using Life Energy, and its strength reached LV8.

Chen Ning narrowed his eyes, thought for two seconds, then said, "Ye Qian, you recruit all the Skeletons from now on."

"Huh?"

"I think you're ridiculously lucky."

Without wasting words, Chen Ning glanced at the Skeletons beside him after speaking and had them spread out.

Yes, he was preparing to command the battle.

Ahead stood rows of wooden walls. Once the enemy got close, these Skeletons would launch a combined attack.

Ye Qian quickly realized that her talent seemed useful for more than just drops. It even worked on recruitment.

Of course, she had suspected this before, so she had deliberately tried it twice. But judging from the recruitment levels, they had not been particularly high.

But thinking carefully now, perhaps she had simply tried too few times before, so the difference had not been obvious.

Sure enough, whether it was luck or not, the eighth Skeleton was LV5. Its combat power was already stronger than the previous ones, which were generally only levels one to three.

"You really are ridiculously lucky."

Lan Xinyu was astonished.

"Yeah, hurry up, or we're all dead." Ye Qian was tense right now.

This was her actual body.

Thinking about it carefully, coming here with her real body had been risky in itself. But that did not mean reality was safe either. After all, the Insect Blood Society was still lurking around over there. Which side was safer really depended on luck in the end.

The ninth was level 6.

Including the previous three, they now had twelve Skeletons. Of course, only three of them could cast Fireball.

Chen Ning sent the three Skeletons that could not cast Fireball charging to the front to draw the enemy's attention.

The tenth was LV3.

"This is bad."

Seeing the enemy close to within 100 meters, Lan Xinyu barely managed to push the new bones down beside them.

The eleventh was LV7.

Ding!

Unit mutated. This Skeleton has gained the Elite effect!

A notification rang out.

This Skeleton immediately jumped out of the deep pit.

"Elite?"

Before Ye Qian could be surprised, Chen Ning had already made his move.

"Fire!"

Just as the armored man slashed apart two arrows and attacked the charging Skeletons, ten Fireballs shot out from three directions at incredible speed.

The man's expression changed, and he hurriedly withdrew his blade and dodged.

Unfortunately... there were too many Fireballs.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

After the series of explosions, dust erupted ahead and the flames swelled in an instant.

Ye Qian also had the Elite Skeleton fire a Fireball.

Boom!

The final blast was indeed the most powerful.

After this wave of explosions, the man's movements stopped.

He had already been covered in injuries. Once the flames faded, his body was in tatters, covered in wounds, with many areas scorched black by the heat.

The Arrow Towers fired several more arrows, striking his body.

Everyone watched the scene nervously.

Ye Qian knew he would not die that easily, so she had two of the weakest Skeletons go up and test him.

Sure enough, after they rushed over and attacked twice, he moved again.

His sword swung fiercely, cutting through the bones of a Skeleton Wolf in one strike.

"Fall back!" Chen Ning shouted.

The Skeletons charged forward one after another, especially the Elite one.

Although Ye Qian had also mastered Alice's Sword Intuition and even held a beginner's shortsword in her hand, she did not think she could withstand a single strike from him.

With an angry roar, the warrior's movements became broad and fierce again. He cut down several Skeletons in succession, then charged straight at Ye Qian.

"Seriously? Why are you specifically targeting me?"

Ye Qian turned and ran on the spot.

The enemy was absurdly fast. In the blink of an eye, he had caught up behind her.

A sword came down, and Ye Qian instinctively twisted to the side. To her surprise, she actually avoided the attack.

With a whoosh, a Skeleton monster leaped up from the side and attacked him, widening the distance between Ye Qian and him again.

Ye Qian turned and slashed at him.

Clang—

A shocking pain shot through the web of her hand as enormous force swept over her, sending Ye Qian flying.

She slammed hard into a tree and slid down.

Pfft!

Another arrow flew over and pierced through the man's chest.

His movements suddenly stiffened, and he lowered his head blankly.

Several Skeletons rushed up and began attacking him.

The man roared and smashed two more apart with a punch, then slowly approached Ye Qian.

"..."

Ye Qian was speechless.

What she had not expected was that after he reached her, he actually stopped and started laughing. "You're not one of The Holy See's dogs. Undead creatures, hahaha..."

"Is this guy mentally ill or something?"

Watching several more arrows strike him, Ye Qian could not help thinking that.

Everything was too strange.

Most absurdly, at that moment, the dot representing him on the map changed back to yellow-green.

Chen Ning came to the man's side with two Skeletons and looked at him nervously. "Who exactly are you?"

Since the target had changed to neutral, leaning friendly, the Arrow Towers automatically stopped attacking without further orders.

"Hahahaha..." The man took half a step back, then suddenly burst into wild laughter. "I'm just a dog abandoned by The Holy See. How laughable that I was once so loyal to them. Some supreme god, ruler of light... pathetic. The Saintess beneath that radiance, praised as the greatest beauty in the world, has such an ugly heart. And now, even her beauty is no longer the greatest in the world..."

At that, he vomited a mouthful of blood and slowly collapsed in front of Ye Qian.

"Dead?"

"No, I think he's still breathing," Lan Xinyu muttered quietly.

"Can you figure anything out? The Holy See and all that sounds so fantastical. Did this guy mistake us for people from The Holy See? Why don't I understand any of this?"

Ye Qian swallowed. Since he was not dead, she thought that at close range, she could force her Mystic Thread to shift slightly and probe his memories.

He died

She did as she thought, though naturally, the process could not be noticed.

She merely moved a little closer, then spent one point of Life Energy to draw her Mystic Thread slightly from the void and pass it through his body.

Naturally, Ye Qian could not read his memories. She could only know what he was thinking, and through certain images and words flashing through her mind, learn some information.

And at that moment, Ye Qian saw an extremely strange scene.

"Undead... do they still have families?"

While Ye Qian was surprised, Chen Ning also asked seriously, "Ye Qian, something feels strange. What exactly happened when you went out earlier? This man attacked us madly the moment he saw us. There must have been a reason, right?"

"I don't know either." Ye Qian frowned slightly. After thinking for a moment, she still said quietly in her own words, "But when I met him before, he was already seriously wounded. From what he said, it seemed like he was being hunted by The Holy See. However... he may have mistaken me for one of his pursuers, so he attacked as soon as he saw me. And while attacking, he mentioned something about undead."

"Undead?"

Ye Qian immediately gestured for silence, stood up, lowered her voice, and spoke in a tone only the two of them could hear. "The Holy See turned his family into undead while they were still alive. After he and his comrades learned about it, they immediately drew the pursuit of Inquisitor Knights and were forced to cover each other's escape all the way here. By the time they arrived, he was the only one left."

Lan Xinyu stared wide-eyed. "Something like that happened?"

"Yeah. Of course, that's just my guess. I only analyzed it from what he said when I met him before, so it might not be right," Ye Qian said with the same doubtful expression.

"They actually turned living people into undead. This world really is a complete mess." Chen Ning sneered.

Ye Qian let out a breath and crouched down as if exhausted. She continued watching the images for a few more seconds, preparing to withdraw her Mystic Thread. Then, the man's hand suddenly moved and grabbed her ankle.

"Ah!" She fell onto the ground.

Chen Ning and Lan Xinyu instinctively raised their weapons.

"Cough, cough." The figure lying on the ground slowly lifted his blood-covered head. "You... aren't from The Holy See. I... shouldn't have attacked you. Sorry."

"Let go of her!" Chen Ning shouted hurriedly.

"Cough, cough. Don't be afraid, I mean no harm. This is... for you... as an apology."

The man did not let go. Instead, he released a strange energy from his arm.

Special type of power infusion detected.

Analyzing...

Analysis complete. Ability type: Light (Element) Resonance.

Pollution detected within the ability. Automatically breaking down and converting.

Breakdown complete. Life Energy ×1000 obtained.

Residual energy converted into Light Resistance.

Ding!

Your current Life Energy exceeds the minimum requirement. Chat group unlocked.

Once the energy release was complete, the man's hand finally loosened.

Almost at the same time, a kill notification sounded beside Ye Qian's ear.

Ding!

Killed LV20 human male.