To Deal with Skeleton Men, I Recommend Letting the Big Dog Chew!
"Go, Bruce!"
[Soaring Clouds 3773] shouted, and a Vine Dog that had grown to the size of a wild wolf leaped up from behind him.
It roared and howled in the air, using its momentum to bite directly at the leg bone of an elite Skeleton Man.
Click!
The Vine Dog bit the Skeleton Man's leg tightly and wouldn't let go. Then, its entire body began to retract rapidly, dragging the Skeleton Man along with it into the crowd.
Upon seeing the food delivery arrive, seven or eight players immediately launched a righteous brawl.
Various weapons, abilities, and skills were thrown at the Skeleton Man without restraint. Although everyone's average level was ten or twenty levels lower than the Skeleton Man, there were still a few moves that could cause significant damage by breaking through its defenses.
As for the Skeleton Man, it can easily break through the player's defenses, but its frantic resistance doesn't seem to have any effect.
Even though it was lying on the ground, it still launched a fierce attack.
It hacked off several players' heads indiscriminately, but when the Blood Pool was activated, the game system seemed to be much more lenient in its judgment of death.
Just like a potato chip that can be picked up and eaten after three seconds if it falls on the ground, a player who has been beheaded can be completely immune to death if they are within the Blood Pool and put their head back on within three seconds.
The desperate Skeleton Man then discovered that these enemies were completely unreasonable; although their attacks didn't hurt much, the frequency was simply too high.
His own counterattack was in a state of "potentially effective, but unlikely to be effective."
Even though their heads were severed, they could still grab them with one hand, press them against their necks, and continue hacking away. Their madness was even more outrageous than that of the Skeleton Man and Blood Corpse.
In endless despair, this incredibly lucky Skeleton Man was slowly worn down and killed by the players.
And through his eyes, the [Thousand Faces] on the city wall also learned all of this.
The new councilor glanced back at the Crystal Cluster Palace, then closed his eyes slightly and began to ponder.
Something seems to have changed there, something is different...
The battle beneath the city walls continues, while [Soaring Clouds 3773] has retrieved Bruce and is preparing to resume the "claw machine" game.
Yes, despite his spring-like body, Bruce the Vine Dog ultimately failed to learn how to truly pounce.
Despite [Soaring Clouds 3773]'s painstaking efforts, including reading numerous books on pet training in another world and even consulting with a streamer skilled in dog training, Bruce seemed to have his own convictions. As the amount of training increased, he was able to pounce further and further, but the problem was that the pounce was always limited to the upper body or the front half of the body.
In the end, the desperate [Soaring Clouds 3773] found a way to redeem himself.
He no longer insisted on making Bruce a hungry wolf pouncing on its enemies, but instead trained him to be a claw machine.
Can you only pounce with your upper body?
It's okay, once it bites you, drag it back, and we'll all fight it together.
[Soaring Clouds 3773] patted the dog's head, then spotted a Skeleton Man and ordered it to pounce and bite again.
This time, the claw machine was very successful again, but after Bruce dragged the prey back, [Soaring Clouds 3773] was shocked to find that the Skeleton Man only had one leg left.
He quickly looked at the battlefield ahead, only to see that the Skeleton Man's upper body had already been cut into three pieces by Colin's "Windmill" sword technique, with no hope of saving him.
"No way..."
[Soaring Clouds 3773] was astonished to see such smooth chopping and cutting of vegetables for the first time.
The reason was that Colin, whom he was in sight at the time, had not used any means such as Psionic Energy or battle aura; he had simply been slashing and hacking, yet it had already produced such an amazing effect.
It's as if he has been fighting in similar scenarios for hundreds of years, and knows every move that any enemy might make.
Colin is a recently promoted High Tier, so his level shouldn't be too high.
Each of these enemies is around level fifty.
Judging solely from the levels, the level difference between myself and the [Thousand Faces] Legion should be roughly the same as the level difference between the [Thousand Faces] Legion and Colin.
But Colin was able to kill his enemies so quickly.
Although [Soaring Clouds 3773] has seen many High Tier powers in previous game CGs and his own personal experience, Colin is indeed the first to truly put "cutting through vegetables" into practice and give people the same exhilarating feeling as playing Fruit Ninja.
Just as [Soaring Clouds 3773] turned on the recording function, he suddenly saw more than a dozen elite Skeleton Man step out from the crowd and rush towards Colin while covering each other.
"Careful!"
Enemies surrounded him from all sides. Colin leaped up, ready to change positions again, but unexpectedly, one last person attacked from above, stomping him down.
Colin hid beneath the heavy sword, perfectly parrying the enemy's attacks, but still couldn't reverse his downward trajectory.
Seeing this, he gave up fighting and instead used the momentum to sweep his heavy sword downwards, creating a foothold for himself.
"Clatter."
Colin stepped back onto the ground, and [Thousand Faces], who had launched the surprise attack, leaped up just before Colin could lose his momentum, almost stepping on Colin's head as he shot upwards, before landing a step too late in front of him:
"Long time no see, Colin, or should I call you... [Broken Sword]?"
"Whoosh!"
Colin didn't reply, but his sword strike only earned him a crisp snap of his fingers.
He decapitated a Skeleton Man with a single sword stroke, while [Thousand Faces] had somehow appeared beside him.
"Don't rush, don't rush. [Crown] has entrusted the entire defense of Sand Capital to me, so I have plenty of time to fight you."
"Whoosh!"
It was the same familiar sword strike, and the same familiar missed attack.
[Thousand Faces] had already appeared behind Colin.
He said calmly:
"A few days ago, a fierce battle took place in the Demon Realm."
"My blood relative Wens was besieged by ten alchemical golems, and for a brief moment they were locked in a stalemate."
"This greatly disappoints me—not of Wens, but of the guy who manipulates the alchemical golem."
[Thousand Faces] spoke with absolute confidence:
"If I had ten clones with the strength of Upper Middle Tier, I could torment my blood relative to death!"
"Of course, that's assuming he doesn't hide in that huge pool of Blood Pool."
"Ha ha!"
[Thousand Faces] burst into laughter, his eyes gleaming with a brilliant light:
"I thought I would never have such an opportunity, but now--"
He spread his arms wide, appearing completely at ease.
"Come play with me, consider it some kind of... rehabilitation training?"
As soon as he finished speaking, eight figures launched simultaneous attacks from eight directions around Colin.
The eight Skeleton Man moved in perfect unison. Although their strength had not changed compared to before, under the control of [Thousand Faces], they seemed to have undergone a complete transformation, leaving Colin unable to find the slightest flaw.