Meteor Shower and Aerial Combat / Joint Spellcasting and the Curse of the Underworld

Moros knew very well that his relationship with Fuyuan City's powerful elite was one of standard mutual exploitation.

Therefore, he had left safeguards on those Childe-class vampires handed over to Fuyuan City's elite.

Although limited by Moros's level of knowledge on the path of magic, those safeguards could not remotely curse Childe-class vampires to death, they could still indicate the vampires' locations and display their life statuses.

And just moments ago, Moros had keenly detected feedback from those safeguards—three transformed vampires had already died.

That shouldn't be the case. Were those bureaucrats really that impatient?

Frowning, Moros ultimately decided to personally head to the place where those three vampires had died and investigate.

He then opened a Demiplane passage and returned to the Graveyard City.

The moment he stepped onto the land of the Graveyard City, Moros wasted no words and directly locked onto the locations of the wraiths he had left in Xinke City.

Immediately afterward, he opened another Demiplane passage and headed for the city where the three Childe-class vampires had been buried.

However, the instant he emerged from the passage, Moros's expression turned grave.

As a Legendary Rank necromancer, although he lacked some control over his power, Moros still possessed some of the basic capabilities of a Legendary spellcaster.

At that moment, he could clearly sense an abnormal energy permeating the surroundings, its concentration far exceeding the normal range.

Knowing exactly what kind of world he was in, Moros immediately realized that this was a sign of Honkai descending.

So those vampires hadn't been dissected—they had been killed by Honkai Beasts?

Having reached that conclusion, Moros hesitated briefly before deciding to resolve this Honkai incident.

It was not because Moros had suddenly discovered a conscience.

Moros was a

necromancer!

Talking morality with a necromancer was inherently absurd.

Even if he had retained some conscience when he had first become a necromancer, after studying necromancy for so long and making considerable progress in it, Moros's moral bottom line had become extremely, extremely flexible.

The only reason he had decided to deal with this Honkai disaster was out of consideration for his own interests.

In this era destined to be annihilated by the Herrscher of the End, one had to display strength to earn respect.

It was like the first country on Earth to invent nuclear weapons: it had to find somewhere to drop one and let the whole world witness its terrifying lethality and destructive power. Otherwise, if people only heard you boast without seeing real combat results, how could they truly feel fear?

Moros did not wish to provoke the planet's ruling class too much, so he could not casually choose a small country as the target for displaying his strength.

He had already learned from Fuyuan City's elite about the fall of the First Herrscher - Herrscher of Reason.

That made Moros even more wary of the Mu Continent regime that had been able to kill the First Herrscher.

He had no desire to become a substitute for the Second Herrscher and give the rulers of the Pre-Collapse Civilization an early lesson.

Therefore, he had to avoid actions that might lead to such a misjudgment.

Under such circumstances, the only stage on which Moros could truly display his strength was a Honkai incident.

Having made his decision, Moros naturally began to act.

"Come forth! My servants!"

As Moros's chant echoed through the air, a ghostly blue Demiplane passage abruptly opened in the streets of Xinke City.

Accompanied by the rustling scrape of bones, countless Skeleton Archers and Plague Zombies poured out of the Demiplane passage.

Although Skeleton Archers and Plague Zombies, these two Graveyard units, possessed attributes so poor they were almost embarrassing, and could barely pose a genuine threat to Honkai's servants—the Shi and Honkai Beasts—

Under Moros's attribute bonuses, they could still contend with low-tier Shi and Honkai Beasts.

After all, Moros's Attack stat of 20 and Defense stat of 62 meant that even the lowest-ranking Skeleton Archer could possess 21 Attack.

Such attack power was already comparable to an anti-materiel sniper rifle enhanced with Collapse Energy, sufficient to handle low-tier Shi and Charge-class Honkai Beasts.

Besides the Skeleton Archers and Plague Zombies that served as cannon fodder—strike that—the backbone of the legion, the undead soldiers pouring from the Demiplane passage included even stronger beings.

Vampire Lords wielding dark-green enchanted greatswords and dressed in medieval aristocratic attire; Archliches carrying skull staves with spellbooks at their waists; Wraiths wielding enchanted war scythes several men tall and radiating the aura of death...

These mid- and high-tier undead were the true pillars of Moros's Undead Legion.

Only after a Spectral Dragon roared its way out of the Demiplane passage did Moros calmly close the passage connecting Earth and the Demiplane.

Although the Undead Troops entering Earth through the Demiplane passage this time did not surpass the scale of the raid on Y City in number, their quality was worlds apart.

As for why he had deployed only this portion of his Undead Troops, Moros had his own considerations.

Though he intended to display his strength, Moros did not want to expose every trump card before the Pre-Collapse Civilization's elite.

He knew that maintaining a certain degree of mystery and intimidation was equally important.

Given the scale of the Undead Legion, being discovered was only natural when Moros had not used Battle Spells to conceal them.

Having detected the army of death, the Shi and Honkai Beasts in Xinke City ceased their aimless wandering and swiftly gathered into a military formation, launching a fierce assault against Moros and his undead army.

On the streets, the Knight-class Honkai Beasts charged toward the undead army in orderly ranks, like medieval knights riding into battle.

Behind that charging tide, dozens of Ballista-class Honkai Beasts began gathering Honkai energy, preparing to fire immensely powerful Honkai energy shells and completely destroy the undead soldiers' formation.

At the same time, three purple-and-white Chariot-class Honkai Beasts resembling gorillas strode forward on their thick forelimbs, passing the Ballista-class Honkai Beasts preparing their bombardment and charging toward the undead army alongside the Knight-class Honkai Beasts.

Behind the Honkai Beasts, thousands of Shi also joined the battle.

They followed closely behind the Honkai Beasts, launching a fierce charge at the Undead Legion's formation.

In the sky, flocks of Charge-class Honkai Beasts sped toward the wraith swarm led by the Spectral Dragon.

The Honkai disaster that had descended upon Xinke City this time was ultimately only a small-scale Honkai disaster.

After producing quite a few high-tier Shi, the remaining Honkai energy was no longer sufficient to create powerful Honkai Beasts such as Temple-class or Warlord-class ones.

Even so, this Honkai force, which had gathered more than ninety percent of Xinke City's remaining Honkai-side power, was not to be underestimated.

At the very least, the Mu Continent military would need to deploy division-scale

armored forces to deal with this Honkai legion.

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Meteor Shower and Aerial Combat

Standing atop the Spectral Dragon's savage head, Moros watched the Charge-class Honkai Beasts surge toward the wraith swarm like a tidal wave, a dangerous smile gradually appearing on his face.

He slowly raised his staff and began chanting a sinister, eerie incantation.

As the chant continued, the air around Moros began to churn, and a powerful energy started to gather.

"Meteor Shower!"

Under Moros's control, a massive flaming cloud formed entirely of pure Fire Element rapidly condensed above the Charge-class Honkai Beasts.

Immediately afterward, enormous molten fireballs fell from the flaming cloud like meteors, smashing viciously into the Charge-class Honkai Beast swarm amid deafening roars.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Those ordinary Charge-class Honkai Beasts appeared utterly fragile before that destructive power. They did not even have a chance to struggle before the molten fireballs instantly burned them into charcoal.

The more elite Charge-class Honkai Beasts, such as Super Charge-class Honkai Beasts, Crimson Sakura Charge Beasts, and Space-Time Rippers, possessed formidable defenses, but they too struggled beneath the unending barrage of molten fireballs.

Still, relying on their greater defenses, they survived tenaciously despite their severe injuries.

However, that devastating attack had not ended.

After large numbers of Charge-class Honkai Beasts were reduced to ash by the molten fireballs, the remaining fireballs did not stop. They continued falling at astonishing speed, smashing down upon the Ballista-class Honkai Beasts on the ground like enormous meteors.

As everyone knew, the Honkai energy shells condensed by Ballista-class Honkai Beasts possessed immense power. At that moment, the Honkai energy shells those Ballista-class Honkai Beasts had condensed to their final stage were instantly detonated by the impact of the molten fireballs.

"BOOM!!!"

A sky-shaking explosion rang out, and all of Xinke City trembled amid the unending blasts.

At that moment, Xinke City's sky seemed to have been set ablaze, the fires of the explosions staining half the heavens red.

Under that round of Meteor Shower, the Ballista-class Honkai Beasts, together with large numbers of Ranger Shi and Charge-class Honkai Beasts, were reduced to ash and vanished amid the explosive flames.

If this had been an army made up of ordinary people, no matter how well trained, they would likely have been stunned and thrown into disarray by such sudden, terrifying explosions.

Yet whether it was the Undead Legion composed of Graveyard units or the Honkai Beasts and Shi acting according to the will of the Cocoon of Finality, neither side seemed affected in the slightest and continued carrying out their respective missions with unwavering resolve.

So long as they received no commands from a higher existence, they would unhesitatingly follow their previous orders and launch fearless attacks against the enemy.

Precisely because he understood this, the necromancer did not stop after successfully casting Meteor Shower, but continued chanting the incantation for his next spell.

This time, the Battle Spell he had chosen was by no means comparable to the previous fourth-tier spell, Meteor Shower.

Yes, the necromancer was now chanting the incantation for the renowned fifth-tier Dark Magic among Ashan World's many Battle Spells—Curse of the Underworld.

Moros believed that once the fifth-tier Dark Magic, Curse of the Underworld, descended upon this battlefield, the battle would come to an end.

Although Honkai Beasts were silicon-based lifeforms, they clearly did not belong to the two factions of Inferno and Graveyard.

In other words, Honkai Beasts were not immune to the damage of Curse of the Underworld.

And as long as they could not resist the power of Curse of the Underworld, then with Moros's Mana stat of 42, the Curse of the Underworld he cast would certainly be able to completely erase this Honkai legion composed of Honkai Beasts and Shi.

However, before Moros completed his chant and unleashed Curse of the Underworld, the Undead Legion had to rely on its own strength to withstand the enemy's fierce assault.

Among Xinke City's Honkai forces, the flying Charge-class Honkai Beasts stood above the rest in speed.

Therefore, after the Ballista-class Honkai Beasts were wiped out, they became the first Honkai Beasts to come into contact with the Undead Legion.

"Roar!"

Accompanied by the Spectral Dragon's roar, a dim, deadly Death Dragon Breath tore across the sky with sweeping force, rushing straight toward the Charge-class Honkai Beast swarm.

Under the baptism of Death Dragon Breath, dozens of Charge-class Honkai Beasts were shot down.

But even more Charge-class Honkai Beasts stubbornly broke through the Death Dragon Breath's blockade and closed in on the flying undead at astonishing speed.

A hazy purple glow gathered upon their wings' shimmering blades.

Facing the Charge-class Honkai Beasts' charge, the wraiths did not retreat in the slightest.

Under the necromancer's will, these wraiths surged forward like a raging tide, launching a fierce counterattack against the Charge-class Honkai Beasts' charge.

Wraiths were proper Graveyard faction units.

They were immune to Curse of the Underworld.

Therefore, Moros did not need to worry that his carefully prepared Battle Spell would accidentally injure these loyal servants.

Although the wraiths' basic offensive and defensive attributes were far inferior to those of the Charge-class Honkai Beasts, under Moros's powerful attribute bonuses, they possessed speed comparable to the Charge-class Honkai Beasts and could display combat power on par with them.

It was precisely because of such strength that, even when the incorporeal trait they had always relied upon was negated by the Honkai energy gathered upon the Charge-class Honkai Beasts' wing blades, the wraiths could still firmly withstand their fierce offensive.

"Slash!"

As a Charge-class Honkai Beast's wing blade swept past, a shrill wail rang out.

The wraith's spiritual body was severed at the waist by the sharp wing blade infused with Honkai energy, its once-whole form instantly becoming horribly mangled.

For living units, even powerful dragons, such injuries would be fatal.

But for undead units, especially spirit units like wraiths, such wounds dealt a heavy blow but could not immediately end their lives.

The consequence of failing to kill the wraith in one blow was that the Charge-class Honkai Beast had to endure the wraith's fierce counterattack.

"Screech—"

With a sharp, ear-piercing sound like glass being scraped apart, the wraith's claws mercilessly tore open the Charge-class Honkai Beast's hard shell and reached the softer flesh within.

"Hehehe~"

Amid sinister laughter, the wraith waved its claws, attempting to completely tear apart the Charge-class Honkai Beast that had gravely injured it.

However, its attempt failed.

Though the Charge-class Honkai Beast had been severely wounded by the wraith's attack, it seemed completely unconcerned with the claws lodged in its body. It forcibly swung its Honkai energy-infused wing blade and split the wraith in two down the middle.

This time, the wraith, its damage having exceeded the threshold, ultimately vanished from Xinke City's skyline amid a mournful howl.

Before the Charge-class Honkai Beast that had just killed a wraith could make any response, another wraith appeared before it like a ghost and tore it into two pieces with lightning speed.

Combined Spells and Curse of the Underworld

While the wraiths and Charge-class Honkai Beasts battled in Xinke City's skies, the Archliches on the ground battlefield were also busily preparing their combined spell.

Death Cloud!

Under the precise control of the Archlich Mage Corps, vast amounts of Death Mana were skillfully gathered together, gradually condensing into a filthy yellow-green cloud.