Slaying the Lich, Random Wilderness Resource Reward?

Although its head had been chopped off, the skull on the ground had not stopped cursing. It was clearly not quite dead yet.

Rod nodded at that. As the saying went!

Cut the weeds without pulling out the roots, and they would grow again with the spring breeze. Was he supposed to wait for this guy to recover and come back for revenge later?

Besides, Rod wanted to see what rewards he would get for slaying a hero-level unit. This lich named Kalis was no ordinary fodder.

"Master! I'll go retrieve his phylactery right away, but he may summon his troops to rescue him. We need to release our soldiers," Skeletor said.

"I know. Leave his undead army to me. Cast Haste on the undead troops you gave me, then hurry over there." As soon as Rod finished speaking, he released his more than four hundred skeleton soldiers. A densely packed undead army appeared before him at once.

Skeletor nodded, cast Haste on the four hundred-plus skeleton soldiers, then mounted his skeletal warhorse and galloped into the distance.

With a death knight's ability to sense the aura of death, he could clearly detect the lich's phylactery hidden within an undead base ahead.

"You can control the undead? You've studied necromancy too! Why not join the Scourge? Our great master will grant you benefits beyond your imagination." The lich's skull immediately began trying to tempt Rod.

He had thought the other party was merely a human mage, but he had not expected him to be an expert in necromantic arts as well, capable of controlling such a large number of undead creatures.

If the Lich King learned of this intelligence!

This mage who could control the undead would surely submit once he witnessed the Lich King's mighty power—once he saw the Lich King's supreme magic.

After all, those who studied death magic were actually terrified of death. They all wanted to transform into liches. In Kalis's eyes, a necromancer who did not want to become a lich was no good mage.

"Oh? Is that so? Your master commands unimaginable magic? Just how powerful is he?" Rod asked, his eyes shifting.

Both sides were stalling for time. Rod wanted to stall, and this lich wanted to stall too!

At that moment, the undead army attacking Hearthglen's main gate suddenly changed direction and headed toward Rod. At the same time, part of the undead force from the undead base also advanced in his direction.

The human defenders had no idea what was happening and simply assumed they had driven back the undead assault!

"Our master controls necromantic magic beyond your imagination. He is a godlike existence whose spiritual will can reach every servant. If you are willing, the gates of the Scourge will open for you." Kalis revealed some information about the Lich King to Rod, but he did not go into specifics.

"That mage named Kel'Thuzad said that the master of your Scourge was Mal'Ganis?" Rod asked.

"That's right. It is Lord Mal'Ganis. He is a powerful dreadlord." Kalis was extremely cautious and did not reveal any information about the Lich King.

"It seems you have no sincerity. I can tell you haven't been telling me the truth." Rod spoke with an amused look on his face.

"You don't have much sincerity either, do you?"

By then, the undead army had arrived. Rod snorted and directly cast Shield of Protection and Stone Skin on his skeleton soldiers.

Neither side wasted words. They immediately clashed in close combat. Although Rod's skeleton soldiers looked crude, nothing more than piles of white bones wielding iron swords, their combat strength left Kalis utterly dumbfounded.

They were far stronger than ordinary skeleton soldiers and could even inflict effective damage on abominations. Their defense was absurdly high, and their speed was breathtakingly fast.

With three beneficial spells on them, these skeleton soldiers unleashed combat power far beyond anyone's imagination.

The one-sided battle Kalis had expected never appeared. Instead, it was his own army that was being cut down.

Rod also repeatedly used Flash of Light to strike the enormous abominations. After a single Flash of Light, an abomination would howl and collapse to the ground, only to be hacked to death by the swarming skeleton soldiers.

More than ten minutes later, over half of the enemy undead legion had been eliminated, while Rod's skeleton soldiers had lost only a little over a hundred. The scales of victory had begun to tip!

Lich Kalis was completely bewildered. He simply could not understand how Rod had created such skeleton soldiers.

These skeleton soldiers looked battered and ragged, yet their combat power far exceeded his imagination. By now, all the abominations had been expended. The remaining zombies, ghouls, and skeletons clearly stood no chance.

Just then, the sound of hoofbeats came from afar. Skeletor rode over with a blue urn in his arms.

When he saw that blue urn, the soul fire in Lich Kalis's eyes suddenly flared violently. The thing he feared most had finally happened.

Damn it, how had this undead knight found his phylactery?

"Master! I've brought his phylactery. As long as the soul inside is destroyed, he'll be finished." Skeletor handed the lich's phylactery to Rod.

"No! Wait, don't kill me, don't kill me!" Lich Kalis began begging for mercy.

But Rod paid no attention to his pleas. He and the Scourge were mortal enemies. He would never submit to the Lich King.

"Skeletor, lead the undead army. Release your zombies too and clean this place up. I'll finish off this lich," Rod said.

Skeletor nodded and released the thirty-plus zombies in his troop formation. He led the remaining three hundred-plus skeleton soldiers to clean up the undead units still present.

Rod, meanwhile, fired a Flash of Light at the lich's phylactery.

"No! Aah!!" The lich's skull let out a shrill scream before it began to shatter.

At the same time, a transparent soul floated out of the phylactery and was burned to ashes beneath the powerful holy light.

Almost at the same time, Skeletor led Rod's undead army to wipe out the lich's forces.

A glorious victory! You and Hero Skeletor each gained 1,200 experience points. Your level has risen to Level 4, and Skeletor's level has risen to Level 2.

Congratulations! You have slain a hero unit!

Special reward unlocked! Random wilderness resource summon.

Random wilderness unit? Was this an unexpected surprise?

Rod immediately checked the reward for killing a hero unit.

Random wilderness location: You may place a wilderness resource outside your city.

It may be a structure that increases hero attributes, a camp for a wilderness troop type, a monster treasure house, a resource mine, various random resources, or even random treasures.

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