The power continued to surge within the body, the multiple blessings from the Army Lord never ceasing.
Yet, the warrior wielding the blade, at this moment, found the hand gripping the long saber trembling involuntarily.
"Roar!"
The roaring, pitch-black skeletons surged forward again.
Even though countless comrades had already been brutally annihilated.
Still, from beneath this land of the dead, countless skeletons continued to erupt from the earth.
【Land of the Dead (SSS-Class)】
【Effects】: 1. Redacted 2. Redacted
3. Mourning Reincarnation: Beings who fall in battle upon the Land of the Dead have their soul fragments absorbed by the land, and are resurrected by the endless power of death.
4. ???
As an SSS-class skill released by an unknown entity, the Land of the Dead was an extremely terrifying and rare skill.
In fact, if Chen Luo's profession were not the world's only "Lord of Myriad Armies."
If his exclusive class skill "Legion's Descent" had not also been upgraded to S-class early on.
If "Mourning Reincarnation" were not one of the multiple effects of this SSS-class skill, and its power were not absolute.
Then these fallen warriors would have had their souls completely absorbed by this land, and the so-called immortality of the Lord's legion would have been directly shattered!
But even if the souls of fallen legionaries could not be plundered, simply absorbing the souls of these death skeletons was a simple matter.
Of course, these death skeletons were not without their losses after being killed.
The soul of each death skeleton would completely dissipate after being resurrected approximately three to four times.
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Even so, this increased the difficulty of dealing with the boundless sea of undead before them by several notches.
Therefore, even after fighting for several hours, and even though the hundred thousand warriors were constantly fighting, these undead showed no signs of decreasing.
And after such a long period of combat, a weakness of the legion warriors was exposed.
Most of Chen Luo's Crimson Legion consisted of ordinary humans.
Humans had their limits.
Even though Legion's Descent made them immortal, and even though Chen Luo's multiple buffs granted them immense and terrifying power.
After hours of high-intensity combat, facing tireless undead monsters.
The legion's warriors were tired.
The warrior's hands trembled uncontrollably from fatigue.
The power surging within their bodies formed a strange contradiction with their weary bodies.
Even though each swing felt capable of overturning mountains and seas.
An indescribable fatigue made the warrior struggle to hold onto his saber.
"Hoo... hoo...."
The warrior's crimson eyes stared intently at the charging monsters.
The Crimson Legion, compared to the ocean of monsters, was still too few in number.
Therefore, each person, every moment, had to face several times their number in enemies, with attacks that never ceased.
Therefore, they were too tired...
"Hoo... damn it... move!"
The warrior's voice trembled as well. He was incredibly angry; the enemy was right before him, yet he could barely lift his hand.
Even if they were resurrected after death, it would be useless.
Legion's Descent preserved their complete combat memories and gains, but fatigue was also brought back in its entirety.
The tireless undead flickered.
The warrior's crimson eyes trembled violently; he saw it clearly!
But his saber could not be raised!
With a *poof*!
Amidst a gushing pillar of blood, the warrior's head was flung high.
The next moment, blood and mangled remains transformed into faint light and vanished from the battlefield.
And similar scenes were continuously unfolding on the battlefield.
Even more terrifyingly, the monsters had undergone a new change.
The individual skeletons began to assemble, forming larger skeletal monsters.
Countless death skeletons either pieced themselves together into larger giants or into strange beast forms.
【Death Skeleton (Assembled Form)】
【Special Status】: After multiple elite-class skeletons assemble, their power can rapidly increase. Currently, they are Lord-class!
On the battlefield, the colossal skeletons, whether beast-shaped or humanoid, were a death sentence for the increasingly fatigued warriors.
Within the pitch-black tsunami, crimson stars began to rapidly dissipate.
...
In Starfire City,
On Starfire Plaza, waves of light and shadow flashed, and countless figures, wielding broken weapons and clad in tattered armor, emerged from the void.
However, almost none could stand.
As soon as these soldiers returned, they collapsed onto the ground, panting heavily.
Fatigue, an overwhelming fatigue, surged from every part of their bodies.
Even though the "blood for blood" restoration could mend physical damage, fatigue was real and accumulated.
"No... I need to eat quickly to recover my state..." The soldiers struggled to get up and moved towards the magical dining table Chen Luo had summoned earlier.
"Equipment... I need to go to the functional area to repair equipment with experience points..." The soldiers, barely eating, calculated their next moves.
More and more soldiers were being sent back to Starfire City. The fewer people remaining on the battlefield, the harder it was to resist the monsters' onslaught.
The Crimson Legion, facing the boundless sea of undead, seemed to have been utterly defeated?
Perhaps the limits of humanity were simply this?
In the gray and white land, the remaining soldiers continued to fight against the endless dead skeletons and the assembled skeletal monsters.
They roared, they bellowed, but the fatigue surging within them made them aware of their limits.
"I... I am not reconciled!!"
Suddenly, a new light swept over everyone's bodies.
【Your skill proficiency has reached the required level. Legion Skill has advanced to S-Class】
【Ready as a Formation (F-Class) — Swift as the Wind (S-Class)】
【Effect】: Upon activation, all legions under your command will be blessed by the power of the forest, significantly reducing damage taken.
The soldiers still struggling in the gray and white land were covered in a layer of verdant light.
Both the backlash from attacks and the immense damage from the skeletons were greatly reduced.
However, the situation did not improve much; fatigue remained the warriors' greatest enemy.
Even when soldiers from Starfire City were summoned again after a brief rest, the short respite could not truly restore their bodies.
With a large number of buffs applied, the warriors possessed a constant surge of power but no longer had the stamina to fight.
Yet, even so, no one refused Chen Luo's subsequent summons.
Even though emerging from the spatial gate meant being helplessly killed.
The light in the eyes of the legion's warriors never dimmed.
Their bodies were weary, but everyone's will had been thoroughly tempered.
Chen Luo, hovering above the battlefield, looked at the unextinguished light in the warriors' eyes and said in a deep voice:
"Good. This is the legion I want! Now, let me bring you victory!"
【Detected Player Chen Luo possesses S-class Legion Skills "Swift as the Wind," "Steady as the Forest," "Aggressive as Fire," and "Immovable as the Mountain" simultaneously!】
【Skills will automatically merge and sublimate!】
【Skill sublimation in progress...】
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【Congratulations Player Chen Luo on obtaining the SSS-class Legion Skill "Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain"!】