Rotting Poison Corpse General!

Zhou Sining looked like a stern old man, his expression saying Su Zhe wasn't even worthy of speaking to him.

Su Zhe lifted his leg and kicked him. "You little brat, looking for a beating?"

"You old bastard! Keep breaking the rules and they'll strip that uniform right off you!" Zhou Sining scrambled up and cursed back.

Damn you, Su Zhe. You really kicked me!

"All right, all right. Little Zhou... Deputy Company Commander Zhou was only joking," Jiang Bowen said, trying to smooth things over.

Zhou Sining gave him a look that said, See? He knows how to play along. Su Zhe's temper flared again, and his foot itched.

"I can't be bothered with you!" Su Zhe snorted.

"As if I want to bother with you. No wonder you're over thirty and still unmarried. With that temper, what woman would have you?" Zhou Sining shot back.

He was still angry about that kick, and even angrier at his own physique. He hadn't even been able to take it.

That damned "mages are glass cannons" rule meant that if he let his guard down for a moment, Su Zhe, a fellow Intermediate Mage, could catch him off guard and kick him.

If only the System Shop had something that could improve my physique.

With that thought, Zhou Sining put Su Zhe out of his mind and opened his system panel.

[Zhou Sining]

[Life Points: 10.8 (Self) / 10032 (Demon Beasts)]

[Fire Element Intermediate Level Two] [Innate Fire Element Devouring Seed] [Summoning System Beginner Level 3] [Mind Element Beginner Level 3]

[Demon-Slaying]

[Level: 6 (6547/10000)]

[Current Lottery Draws: 20 (300 Life Points Required)]

He had combed through everything in the shop, so he knew it had nothing that could strengthen his body.

He had opened the system mainly to check his experience points.

Level 7 was close. If he worked hard, he could reach it in the next two days. Perhaps some special items would appear then.

As for the lottery... he didn't want to spend his Life Points yet. He would wait until he reached Level 7 and exchanged them first.

Zhou Sining closed the panel, stretched, and prepared to keep killing Undead.

A fierce gust swept past, carrying a chill aura of death over him.

"Screech!"

The watchful Sky Eagle suddenly cried out. A moment later, Su Zhe's and Jiang Bowen's radios crackled to life.

"Warrior Level Undead spotted at the East City Wall Second Line!"

"Repeating: a Warrior Level Rotting Poison Corpse General has appeared at the East City Wall Second Line! Requesting an Intermediate Mage team to eliminate it immediately!"

Suddenly, a low growl from the ground in the one o'clock direction shook the night sky and drew everyone's attention.

"Urrrgh...!"

"Urrrghhh...!"

The black earth heaved like waves, pushing the Undead above it aside until a broad stretch of bare ground appeared.

Then the hard-packed soil burst open, and a horrifying corpse crawled out from below.

It stood there like a small hill. Its green eyes shone like searchlights, casting a dreadful, cold light straight at the city wall.

The scent of the living drew it in, and it took its first step.

Its legs were so thick that the ground shook beneath its foot, sending dust billowing outward.

Countless fleshy lumps covered its body. Even in the dark, a murky green-black glow flickered inside them.

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

With each step, the corpse horde around it shuddered. As its aura spread, countless rotting corpses abandoned their assault on the wall and crowded toward it.

They swarmed up its body one after another like ants, wrapping it in layer upon layer.

Already enormous, it swelled to two or three times its size in little more than ten seconds!

It was like a core, drawing the rotting corpses in as building material to fill out its newly formed body.

Three minutes. In just three minutes, a terrifying giant nearly ten meters tall stood upon the black earth!

A shrill warning blared from the loudspeakers!

"A Rotting Poison Corpse General has appeared at the East City Wall Second Line! A Rotting Poison Corpse General has appeared at the East City Wall Second Line! All Beginner Mages and non-mages who are not with the military, the Magic Association, or the Hunters' Alliance must retreat immediately! Retreat immediately!"

"Repeating: a Rotting Poison Corpse General has appeared at the East City Wall Second Line! A Rotting Poison Corpse General has appeared at the East City Wall Second Line! All Beginner Mages and non-mages who are not with the military, the Magic Association, or the Hunters' Alliance must retreat immediately! Retreat immediately!"

It was a mandatory order. The crowd on the wall surged down the stairs.

The wall quickly thinned out, then filled again with Military Mages rushing in.

"A Rotting Poison Corpse General... that's Great General level!" Su Zhe's face darkened.

"And it can control so many rotting corpses to build an outer layer of defense. That's terrifying. This one is definitely no ordinary Corpse General!" Jiang Bowen said.

"Look, too. The moment it appeared, those rotting corpses acted as if they'd found their leader. They've stopped blindly charging the wall."

Zhou Sining followed Jiang Bowen's gaze and saw the horrifying sight.

Black figures were streaming out of the densely packed tide of corpses.

Soon, only heaps of white, black, and blood-colored Bone Undead remained in that tide, charging mindlessly at the wall beneath the sickly green glow.

The departing black figures were weak Corpse Undead. They kept gathering around the ten-meter-tall Corpse General.

They couldn't climb onto it, but they no longer followed the Bone Undead in their blind assault. Instead, they stood guard around it like loyal knights.

Those Corpse Undead that seemed to possess "reason" were insignificant compared with all the Undead along the East City Wall. But on the Second Defense Line, their gathering posed a very real threat to the wall!

"What terrifying control!" Zhou Sining exclaimed.

He had seen Warrior Level Undead before, but this was the first Warrior Level creature he had seen with such command over a corpse horde!

"This is trouble."

"This concerns the entire Battle Line. They'll recruit a team of Intermediate Mages to deal with it. We need to clear a path for them."

Su Zhe and Jiang Bowen quickly came to the same conclusion and returned to their posts.

They could handle an ordinary Warrior Level creature, but this Rotting Poison Corpse General was not something one or two Intermediate Mages could easily fight.

As commanders, they had to remain on the wall and direct the mages along the Battle Line against the Undead Tide below.

The Magic Association would organize a team to deal with the Rotting Poison Corpse General.

Sure enough, the two had barely left when a compulsory signal shot into the sky from a city tower. A voice carrying an irresistible Mental Suggestion rang out overhead.

"All unaffiliated Intermediate Mages on the East City Wall Second Line, proceed to the Number Two Corner City Tower immediately!"