His Current Weakness
Su Mu's pupils suddenly contracted.
His core card, the Stone Left Over from Mending Heaven, is located atop Flower-Fruit Mountain.
Divide the forces.
These skeletons actually know how to divide their forces for combat.
One force was used to contain the Little Drill Wind, while the other force went straight for the core card.
As Su Mu watched the circling skeleton soldiers move swiftly through the grayish-white mist, heading towards Flower-Fruit Mountain, a strong sense of shock welled up within him.
He knew that the monsters in the wild lairs were highly intelligent, and that they could cooperate and use tactics.
But he didn't expect that in just five waves of battle, these monsters had already figured out a crucial piece of information... Little Drill Wind was not a core card.
In the first four waves of battle, they kept attacking Little Drill Wind, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't damage it.
These monsters operate under a fundamental rule: prioritize attacking core cards. Once they discover that Little Drill Wind is not a core card, they immediately begin searching for the true core card.
The stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain.
Su Mu instantly realized his current weakness.
Without Sun Wukong's intervention, the Stone Left Over from Mending Heaven would just be a stone.
Without protection or the ability to retaliate, it's like the Nexus in League of Legends, sitting there blatantly, ready for anyone to destroy.
In trial dungeons, monsters won't split up because they lack the intelligence for that. But monsters in wild lairs will.
Su Mu took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart.
Fortunately, Little Drill Wind's strength far surpasses that of these monsters.
Dividing them up only made them more scattered.
Little Drill Wind did not chase after the group of skeletons that ran towards Flower-Fruit Mountain.
It merely accelerated the cleanup of the main battlefield.
With a flurry of short swords, the seventy skeleton soldiers in front of him were all destroyed in less than forty seconds. The centurion charged forward, raising his bone axe high and bringing it down on Little Drill Wind.
Little Drill Wind to the side, its bone axe slamming into the ground and creating a deep crater. It then swung its blade back, striking the centurion's knee. The centurion's massive body lurched to the side, and before it could recover, a second blade had already pierced its skull.
Dark red Soul Flames surged from the cracks in the skull, and the centurion's massive skeleton collapsed with a crash.
The main battlefield has been cleared.
Little Drill Wind didn't stop, turned around and rushed towards Flower-Fruit Mountain.
Its agility was dozens of times that of the skeleton soldiers, and it caught up with the divided group of skeletons in just a few dozen breaths.
Cutting in from behind, he sliced through the skeletons one by one, clearing them away like harvesting wheat.
From the start of the fifth wave to its end, it took less than three minutes in total.
It was a bit slower than the previous waves, but it didn't have any real impact.
Su Mu stood there, looking at the broken bones scattered all over the ground, but his heart was not as calm as it appeared.
Divide the forces.
These monsters will split up.
If it weren't for the overwhelming strength of the Little Drill Winds, and if they were facing an opponent of similar strength, this tactic of splitting their forces would have been fatal.
The strategy involves frontal containment and flanking attacks on the core card. Once the core card is destroyed, the entire Dungeon Space will collapse, rendering all battles ineffective.
He needs to do two things.
First, bring Sun Wukong out as soon as possible.
Secondly, once the Stone Left Over from Mending Heaven gives birth to the Lingming Stone Monkey, the core card itself will have combat power and will no longer be just a stone that can only be beaten.
Second, create other demon kings. Even if we can't create demon kings of the level of Green Lion White Elephant Golden-Winged Great Peng, and Roc for the time being, we should at least have a backup plan that can protect our base and safeguard our core cards.
Su Mu kept this thought in mind.
After the fifth wave, Little Drill Wind's weakened state finally ended.
[Forced Recall - Weakness Status Has Been Removed]
Its properties have returned to their complete state.
Su Mu glanced at the panel and felt more at ease.
In the following sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth waves, the monsters' levels slowly climbed to level seventeen, and their numbers also increased, with the largest wave even exceeding two hundred.
But their intelligence seems to have dropped back, and they no longer employ the tactic of dividing their forces.
Or perhaps, the previous troop splitting failed, and the nest's underlying logic determined that this tactic was ineffective and would no longer be used.
The Little Drill Wind charged back and forth in the bone tide, its blade flashing like lightning, and shattered bones covered the entire cemetery.
Su Mu followed behind, occasionally crouching down to secure the skeletal materials. The bone field at the foot of Lion Camel Ridge was growing larger and larger, already spreading out into a small gray-white "bone forest."
The experience bar is also steadily increasing.
The tenth wave.
When the mist deep within the tombstone churned even more violently than before, Su Mu knew that this wave was different.
A gigantic figure emerged from the mist.
The thing was over five meters tall and its entire body was pieced together from the remains of countless skeletons.
Its body resembled a fortress built of bones, each bone as thick as a pillar, with dark green Soul Flames burning between the bones, like a walking siege tower made of corpses.
It has no weapons in its hands. But its arms are weapons; each finger is a sharp bone claw, more than half a meter long, with a faint green glow on its bone surface.
[Name: Burial Corpse King (BOSS)]
[Rank: B]
[Level: 17]
[Blood: 58000/58000]
[Attack: 1650]
[Defense: 980]
[Agility: 120]
[Combat Index: 37800]
[Skills: Bone Claw Rend (Dual claw attacks, dealing 2.0x damage and inflicting bleeding effect, ineffective against undead), Domain of the Dead (Releases an undead aura centered on the caster, increasing the attack power and movement speed of all undead creatures within the area by 25%), Bone Storm (Released when HP is below 50%, summoning a storm of bone fragments that deals continuous damage to all enemies within a large area), Corpse King's Command (Triggered when HP is below 20%, forcibly controlling all undead monsters on the field to launch a suicidal charge towards the core card)]
It is over five meters tall.
It has 58,000 HP, 1,650 attack, and 980 defense.
Combat index: 37,800.
This is the first real boss that Su Mu encountered in the normal dungeon.
If left outside, this Corpse King would be enough to wipe out a level 15 five-person squad.
But what is Little Drill Wind's combat index?
291,000.
It's almost eight times worse.
The Corpse King dragged his heavy steps toward Little Drill Wind, each step causing the broken bones on the ground to jump up.
Behind it, nearly two hundred level seventeen skeleton soldiers surged out, densely covering the entire cemetery.
The Corpse King did not charge directly at Little Drill Wind.
It raised a bone claw and let out a low, menacing roar. The sound pierced through the gray-white mist and echoed throughout the entire cemetery.
Then it charged towards the Little Drill Wind on its own.
A massive skeleton, over five meters tall, wielded bone claws more than half a meter long, slashing down at Little Drill Wind. The Bone Claw Rend the air, leaving a dark green arc of light, their power astonishing.
None of the more than two hundred skeleton soldiers behind it followed up to attack Little Drill Wind.
They all bypassed the main battlefield and surged towards Flower-Fruit Mountain like a tide.
The Corpse King held off the Little Drill Wind, while the other monsters went straight for the core card.
Another split-up.
Moreover, this time, the force was not divided into dozens, but more than two hundred.