Clearing the Field
Su Mu looked at the panel and silently did some calculations in his mind.
Experience gained from killing monsters within the instance is shared.
If either Little Drill Wind or White Bone Spirit Demon kills a monster, the other card will gain the same amount of experience.
However, the trade-off is that the card that grants experience points will not gain combat experience, and combat skills will not improve with kills.
However, this was not a problem for Su Mu at all.
In the world of Journey to the West, which demon king didn't emerge from Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood?
Little Drill Wind is Mountain-Patrolling Lesser Yaoguai of Lion Camel Ridge, while White Bone Spirit is Corpse Demon who has cultivated for a thousand years on White Tiger Ridge.
Their fighting instincts are ingrained in their very being; they don't need to be honed through grinding.
After the eighth wave, the monsters began to split up.
A group of skeleton soldiers bypassed the main battlefield and headed towards Flower-Fruit Mountain. Just as Su Mu was about to send Little Drill Wind back to defend, the White Bone Spirit had already made her move.
She swayed and switched from human form back to skeletal form.
A gray-white skeleton, just over two meters tall, was faintly visible in the dark red mist, with two gray-white Soul Flame quietly burning deep in its eye sockets.
She raised one hand, her fingers long and hooked, and pointed towards the horde of skeletons rushing towards Flower-Fruit Mountain.
A grayish-white curtain of fire exploded from her palm, sweeping towards the horde of skeletons like a tidal wave.
The flames covered a very wide area, almost engulfing the entire mountain path leading to Flower-Fruit Mountain.
The skeleton soldiers' bones shattered in the fire, their speed drastically reduced, and most of them scattered before they even reached the foot of the mountain.
The White Bone Spirit's area-of-effect attacks are more suitable for clearing out enemies than Little Drill Wind's.
The Little Drill Wind is a melee single-target attack that can kill enemies with a single strike, making it extremely efficient but with a limited range.
The White Bone Spirit's area-of-effect fire curtain can cover a large area at once. Although the damage per hit is not as high as a single strike from Little Drill Wind, its wide coverage makes it more efficient at clearing out mobs.
One is a melee attacker for finishing off enemies, the other is a ranged attacker for clearing out the enemy.
Su Mu breathed a sigh of relief.
In the battles that followed, he hardly needed to give commands.
Little Drill Wind back and forth on the front lines, taking down elite monsters one by one with a single strike. Occasionally, he would encounter centurions with high health and finish them off with two more hits.
The White Bone Spirit stood at the highest point between Flower-Fruit Mountain and Lion Camel Ridge, constantly unleashing gray-white fire curtains with her hands to clear out the hordes of skeletons attempting to flank and ambush the core card.
From the first wave to the ninth wave, they completely crushed their opponents.
The tenth wave.
The dark red mist surged violently, forming a massive vortex. From the center of the vortex, a colossal figure slowly emerged.
It stands over seven meters tall and is pieced together from the remains of countless nightmare skeletons. Each bone is as thick as a pillar, and eerie green Soul Flames burn between the bones, within which distorted faces can be vaguely seen.
Its skull was adorned with a shattered, dark gold crown, inlaid with seven crimson soul gems, each radiating a chilling aura.
Behind it unfolds a pair of enormous bone wings made of ribs and periosteum, with a wingspan of over fifteen meters. When it flaps, it stirs up gusts of cold wind, even blowing bone dust from the ground into the air.
[Name: Burial Corpse King (Nightmare Lord)]
[Rank: S]
[Level: 22]
[Blood: 580000/580000]
[Attack: 9800]
[Defense: 5600]
[Agility: 680]
[Combat Index: 286000]
[Skills: Bone Claw Rend (Dual claw attacks, dealing 3.0x damage and inflicting bleeding, ineffective against undead), Domain of the Dead (All undead creatures within range gain +40% attack and +25% movement speed), Bone Storm (Released when health is below 50%, summoning a storm of bone fragments that deals continuous damage and slows enemies), Corpse King's Command (Triggered when health is below 30%, forcibly controlling all undead on the field to launch a suicidal charge towards the core card), Soul Drain (Restores 8% of own health each time an undead unit is killed), Death Gaze (Inflicts fear on a single target, rendering them unable to act for three seconds, 30-second cooldown)]
Combat Index of 286,000.
Su Mu looked at the number, then glanced at Little Drill Wind's panel... Level 13 SSS, base combat index of 237,000, plus the boost from Lion Camel Ridge Glory and Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood, the actual combat index was close to 300,000.
They can fight.
The Corpse King did not charge immediately.
It stood in the center of the cemetery, its bone wings slowly flapping. Beneath its dark golden crown, two eerie green Soul Flames swept across the area. Then it raised its bone claws and pointed them towards Flower-Fruit Mountain.
A low, guttural roar.
More than three hundred nightmare skeletons emerged from the mist behind it.
Instead of attacking Little Drill Wind, the skeletons split into two groups. One group of about two hundred formed a frontal formation to hold Little Drill Wind back; the other group of about one hundred, including thirty skeleton archers, bypassed the main battlefield and rushed towards Flower-Fruit Mountain.
Divide the forces.
Moreover, it is more resolute and more organized than Hard Lair.
Su Mu's eyes darkened. "White Bone Spirit, block the flanks. Little Drill Wind, kill the Corpse King first."
The White Bone Spirit did not hesitate.
With a flicker, she switched from human form back to skeletal form, her grayish-white skeleton almost blending into the background amidst the dark red mist.
With a push of her hands, a gray-white curtain of fire exploded from her palms, sweeping towards the skeleton horde on her flanks like a tidal wave. The flames covered a vast area, almost engulfing the entire mountain path leading to Flower-Fruit Mountain. The skeleton soldiers' bones shattered within the fire curtain, and their speed was drastically reduced.
One hundred flank skeletons were stopped by the White Bone Spirit alone.
The Little Drill Wind hurtled straight at the Corpse King.
The Corpse King roared, flapped its bone wings, and two bone claws wrapped in eerie green flames tore through the air. Little Drill Wind sidestepped, the bone claws landing and leaving two meter-deep trenches.
Little Drill Wind his blade backhand, slashing at the Corpse King's ribs. The blade penetrated five inches and got stuck. The bone was too thick, and the Soul Flames between the bones continued to repair itself.
The Corpse King swept across with its other claw. Little Drill Wind withdrew its knife and retreated, tapping its toes on the bone claw, using the momentum to flip onto its shoulder, raising its short knife high and cleaving straight at the skull.
The Corpse King tilted its head. The blade struck the dark gold crown, sparks flying. A crack appeared in the crown, but the Corpse King did not fall. It violently shook its head, sending Little Drill Wind flying.
The Little Drill Wind flipped in the air and landed steadily.
The Corpse King roared, its bone wings flapping, unleashing a storm of shattered bones. Countless bone fragments spun like sharp blades, engulfing an area of tens of meters in radius.
The Little Drill Wind weaved through the storm, scraping sparks from the scales, but failed to penetrate the defenses.
It no longer engages in brute force.
It circled the Corpse King, its short knife thrusting out from tricky angles. The Corpse King was 680 agile, Little Drill Wind over 30,000. Every time the Corpse King swung its claws, it was no longer in the same place.
One cut, two cuts, three cuts...