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The thirteenth! Xiao Yu pulled his longsword from the corpse and counted silently.

The battle is very simple, but also extremely brutal. All skills are performed through the body's instincts. There are no rage points, no mana points, no damage numbers, and not even health bars.

A single sword strike to a vital point can easily eliminate an enemy, without needing to consider health, Execute thresholds, or skills. However, if one's own vital point is hit, death is almost certain. This constant teetering on the edge of life and death is incredibly thrilling for Xiao Yu. Even though he hasn't officially entered the game yet, he's already starting to enjoy it.

"Over there!" came another shout, and several more soldiers from the Kern Kingdom rushed over from a distance.

Swinging his sword, hacking and slashing, killing, Xiao Yu felt somewhat numb. Suddenly, a sharp pain shot through his ribs as an enemy soldier's blade pierced through his armor, leaving a large wound. Although not fatal, it caused Xiao Yu to gasp in pain.

Die! With a backhand slash, he cut the soldier to the ground. This was the nineteenth enemy soldier he had killed. He felt that his strength was almost exhausted, and the loss of blood made his limbs weak.

But he can't fall yet. Xiao Yu hasn't received any rewards so far; perhaps killing one more would solve the problem.

Generally speaking, combat rewards or achievements in games always appear at whole numbers; if you kill just one more enemy, you might get some kind of reward.

His eyes scanned the surroundings; just one more kill, just one more!

To his disappointment, it seemed that he had killed all the scattered enemy soldiers around him. At this moment, the Mad Lion Knights outside the forest finally moved. Four of them jumped off their horses, picked up their weapons, and surrounded the forest.

Damn, this is bad!

He felt he had no chance of winning even in a one-on-one situation, let alone a one-on-four match.

Without hesitation, Xiao Yu turned and ran. He hadn't gone far when suddenly the forest ended, and a cliff appeared before him.

Holy crap, are you kidding me? This is really making life unbearable!

He turned around and saw that the four Mad Lion Knights had also chased out of the forest and were closing in on him.

Xiao Yu suddenly had an idea, a crazy one, but the only one that would allow him to kill twenty enemies before he died. He slowly retreated to the edge of the cliff and stood there motionless.

The four Mad Lion Knights exchanged glances, and one of them stepped forward, walking towards Xiao Yu. He thrust his knight's longsword directly at Xiao Yu.

With a cliff behind him and a blade in front of him, Xiao Yu advanced instead of retreating. With a soft thud, the blade pierced directly into Xiao Yu's stomach. Enduring the almost suffocating pain, Xiao Yu managed to grab the Mad Lion Knights. Through the gap in the helmet, he could even see the knight's surprised gaze.

Let's die together!

With a loud roar, Xiao Yu grabbed the knight and tumbled off the cliff.

With a loud thud, just a second before his body hit the rocky ground below the cliff, his view suddenly jolted upwards, completely separating him from his body.

He watched helplessly as he, holding the knight, tumbled off the cliff, utterly and irrevocably dead.

"Thank God, it's just a game!" He suddenly felt a sense of relief, as the camera gradually zoomed out. He saw the Mad Lion Knights return to their ranks, and the knights charged towards the distant battlefield, towards the retreating Rhine Empire army. The war continued, and the camera zoomed out further and further until only a blurry group of figures could be seen, continuing to fight in the rain.

The narrator's voice rang out again at that moment.

[Narrator: In the year 1973, the Rhine Empire and the Kern Kingdom fought a decisive battle in the Death Wilderness. In this war, more than 100,000 people were killed or wounded on both sides, and you were just one of those dead.]

Time flies, years pass, the battlefield of yesteryear has long been forgotten, but your remains still lie in this wilderness, waiting for time to devour you.

As the narration began, the scene before our eyes kept changing, from half a day in the dark to spring, summer, autumn, and winter, like a slideshow, with only the two corpses embracing each other lying there unchanged, gradually being covered by mud and weeds.

The image froze once again.

[System prompt: Now, please select the type of Undead you wish to resurrect.]

Three three-dimensional images appeared before my eyes: a pale white skeleton, a walking corpse covered in rotting flesh, and a semi-transparent ghost.

Xiao Yu first looked at the descriptions of the three types of Undead.

1. The walking corpse.

Walking corpses are Undead monsters that awaken from the influence of negative energy on corpses before they have fully decomposed. Because they have not been dead for long, walking corpses often retain some of their human memories and habits. Although they move slowly, they have relatively strong vitality due to their flesh and blood and their status as Undead.

Below are four publicly available upgrade paths for the walkers.

Walking Dead -- Zombie -- Ghoul --????

The Walking Dead -- Zombie -- Frankenstein's Monster --????

Walking corpse -- Mummified corpse -- Ghoul --????

The Walking Dead -- Lich --????

2. Skull.

If a human dies and enough time passes, their flesh and blood will completely decay and rot. Only the human skeleton can survive for a relatively long time, turning into a skeleton. If affected by negative energy, it may sometimes awaken and become the most common Undead creature on the Lost Continent —the skeleton soldier.

Skeleton soldiers can be upgraded by absorbing negative energy and killing. Freed from the burden of flesh and blood, skeletons move quickly, have strong attack power, and are not afraid of piercing attacks, but they are extremely vulnerable to blunt force attacks.

Five advanced paths are listed below.

Skeleton -- Skeleton Warrior -- Skeleton Warrior --????

Skeleton -- Skeleton Swordsman -- Skeleton Knight --????

Skeleton -- Skeleton Archer --????

Skeleton -- Skeleton Mage --????

Skull --????

3. Ghosts.

Ghosts are those who have been dead for too long, their bodies completely decomposed, but their inner obsessions prevent them from finding peace, turning them into evil spirits.

Ghosts cannot be harmed by physical attacks, but they also lack physical attack capabilities. However, ghosts can use the negative energy within their bodies to attack enemies and possess special abilities such as invisibility and the ability to pass through walls.

Ghost -- Shadow -- Ghostly Mist --????

Ghost -- Spirit -- Shadow Wizard --????

Ghost -- Wraith -- Wraith Assassin --????

Ghost -- Evil spirit -- Mind flayer --????

Ghost -- Spiritual aggregate --????