Following behind the Calamity Knights was another massive group: Skeleton Mages clad in gray cloaks, bone staves in hand, black flames flickering within their skulls. Their numbers reached thirty thousand.
During the last Undead Catastrophe, it was not that Zhao Fu had preserved nothing. He had kept thirty thousand Skeleton Mages. Because the Calamity Knights could control thirty thousand units, they could completely command the Skeleton Mages. This was the first reason Zhao Fu had kept them.
Mage classes were extremely difficult to obtain in Apocalypse World, which was the second reason Zhao Fu had kept the Skeleton Mages. Furthermore, aside from casting single-target attacks, Skeleton Mages could also summon—namely, the Undead Resurrection skill.
One Skeleton Mage could control five skeletons, while thirty thousand Skeleton Mages could control one hundred and fifty thousand skeletons. By making use of the Calamity Knights, Zhao Fu could indirectly control one hundred and fifty thousand skeletons. This was the third reason he had kept the Skeleton Mages.
These skeletons were unlike the skeletons from the Undead Catastrophe. Since they were all under control, they could obey Great Qin's commands rather than follow their instincts and pounce upon any living creature they saw.
By now, the players had basically all left, and the other three system main cities had also learned that Heavenly Stone City had fallen.
Zhao Fu sent these Skeleton Mages into the city, naturally intending to use the countless corpses of the native inhabitants to summon skeletons.
The other soldiers remained outside the city. There was no need to clean up the battlefield either, because nearly anything of value had already been looted by those players who regarded wealth as life itself. Nothing valuable would be left behind.
Countless Skeleton Mages poured into the city. Beside one corpse after another, they chanted