Chapter 1 A Powerful Shattering Blow!

The Shattering Blow skill is different from ordinary area-of-effect skills. Ordinary area-of-effect skills have a larger range, while the Shattering Blow can only be considered a small-range skill, only able to attack monsters in a line. However, the power of Shattering Blow is unmatched by ordinary area-of-effect skills. Ten times the attack damage, coupled with Nie Yan's own high attack, is terrifying.

Elite-level skeletons couldn't withstand Nie Yan's level five Shattering Blow.

Three or four hundred skeletons were reduced by half, and the remaining ones continued to encircle Nie Yan. Nie Yan entered Stealth to evade, letting the Golden Earth Dragon take the lead.

Nie Yan was clearly not good at group battles. If he were to solve them one by one, he didn't know how long it would take to kill so many skeletons.

In the blink of an eye, the Golden Earth Dragon swept away a large number of skeletons, and a large pile of bones littered the ground.

The Golden Earth Dragon's damage output was still impressive, and with healing support, it was practically invincible, sweeping all the way. The experience points from these skeletons were quite generous, more than five times higher than ordinary level 100 monsters. The only slightly depressing thing was that they didn't drop anything.

But such generous experience points were already worth it.

Nie Yan glanced at the Golden Earth Dragon's level, which had reached 98.93%. It would soon break through level 100. He wondered what changes would occur after the Golden Earth Dragon broke through level 100, and he felt some anticipation.

Just as Nie Yan was cleaning up the skeletons on a large scale, inside Brocchi Fortress, Qin Han, clad in a black robe, was checking the current battle results.

He couldn't know the situation near Brocchi Fortress, only how the total number of skeletons was changing.

The number of skeletons had reached more than 60,000 and was still increasing frantically. These skeletons attacked nearby villages in groups and intercepted players on the road. Qin Han looked at his personal panel. In the lower right corner was a number that clearly indicated the number of skeletons.

At the beginning, this number was constantly increasing, from 30,000 to 50,000, and before long, it rose to 60,000.

Qin Han could roughly imagine the situation outside. As the number of skeletons increased, their range of activity naturally became larger and larger. For every five hundred ordinary skeletons, there would be an elite-level powerhouse, and for every twenty elite-level powerhouses, there would be a Lord. For every five Lords, there would be a mutated Lord. They usually moved in groups, never alone. When they encountered players or villages, they would summon a large number of skeletons from nearby to surround them and submerge them with tidal attacks, so the number of skeletons would explode geometrically.

Seeing the number of skeletons soaring, Qin Han's ambition swelled even more. He understood that he could no longer turn back. He could only go all the way, using a sea of skeletons to kill all his enemies! A figure flashed in his mind, Crazy Thief Nie Yan. Wash your neck and wait!

Another few tens of minutes passed, and when Qin Han looked at the number of skeletons again, he suddenly discovered that the number of skeletons hadn't increased much. It was 63,527 just now, and now it was 63,539, only a dozen more. This was a bit illogical. In theory, with so many skeletons active outside, there should be more than just this small gain.

Qin Han frowned. He stared at the jumping number. After a while, he saw the number suddenly jump to 63,219. He stood up abruptly. Good fellow, it must be an advanced magic, otherwise, there's no way so many skeletons could be killed at once.

Could it be that some powerful team has come to kill them?

A murderous intent flashed in Qin Han's eyes. Even if a stronger team came, they couldn't resist his endless sea of skeletons!

He walked to the center of the hall. On the table in the center of the hall was a crystal ball. All the images seen by the skeletons would be fully reflected in the crystal ball. He moved the image in the crystal ball to the area where the melee was taking place. A huge Golden Earth Dragon appeared in his field of vision.

Qin Han's heart sank. It was Crazy Thief Nie Yan. He actually came here!

In the crystal ball, the Golden Earth Dragon frantically trampled all the nearby skeletons, letting out a low dragon roar. A meteor fell from the sky and exploded, turning the nearby area into a sea of fire. Hundreds of skeletons screamed in the sea of fire and fell to the ground.

Qin Han seemed to hear the wails of their souls. He punched the table heavily. "Crazy Thief Nie Yan, are you destined to be at odds with me!"

He issued an order to all the skeletons to gather in the direction where Nie Yan was.

He understood that with the strength of these skeletons, it was basically impossible to kill Crazy Thief Nie Yan. Necromancer Bordman was building a Death Canopy. He could only go himself. Since resurrecting Necromancer Bordman, his strength had soared and he was much stronger than ordinary players.

I want to see how strong Shadow Dance really is, Qin Han sneered in his heart and walked out of the hall.

As time passed, Nie Yan found that there were more and more skeletons nearby. The Golden Earth Dragon was already a little overwhelmed. Under the siege of a group of elite skeletons, the Golden Earth Dragon's health was dropping rapidly. If it weren't for the strong healing support, the Golden Earth Dragon would have died long ago.

Even the Golden Earth Dragon couldn't hold on. If ordinary players encountered these skeletons, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Nie Yan activated the Holy Hire and summoned the Holy Knight Leves.

After discovering these skeletons, Holy Knight Leves blessed himself with a Holy Blessing and charged towards the skeletons around the Golden Earth Dragon. He had a passive aura that reduced the attributes of all dark creatures within range by 20%.

As soon as Holy Knight Leves appeared, all the surrounding skeletons were enraged. They roared angrily and charged towards Holy Knight Leves. The scene was somewhat out of control.

Nie Yan understood that summoning Holy Knight Leves would definitely cause such a situation. Undead particularly hated Holy Light. Once a Holy Knight or Priest appeared nearby, it would easily attract aggro.

However, Holy Knight Leves wasn't weak either. He cast Purifies one after another, killing the skeletons, and occasionally cast a Holy Light on himself to heal his health, while also giving the Golden Earth Dragon a few heals.

Holy Light Illumination!

A beam of light descended from the sky and quickly spread out, covering a large area around it. Whole patches of skeletons melted in the beam of light, disappearing into thin air, all being purified.

The surrounding skeletons were once again swept away.

With Holy Knight Leves, the speed of clearing skeletons was much faster.

In just a few hours, more than three thousand skeletons had been wiped out by Nie Yan. In the early stages of the undead army's development, three thousand was already a very large number, enough to bring their development to a standstill.

Nie Yan felt a slight anomaly in the Holy Spirit Imprint on his left hand. When he looked down, he found that the Holy Spirit Imprint had undergone some changes, emitting a faint white glow. He wasn't very clear about what the Holy Spirit Imprint was used for.

Continuing to farm these skeletons might bring out the Holy Spirit Heart. Then the Sword of Zennarde could be completely unsealed.

How much power could this god-tier weapon ultimately unleash?

Just as Nie Yan was lost in thought, a very large skeleton appeared in his field of vision among the skeleton horde in the distance. This skeleton was two heads taller than ordinary skeletons, dark gold all over. Its bones were like they were cast from metal. It held a giant shield in its left hand and a giant axe in its right hand.

A Lord-level skeleton!

Nie Yan cast a Detect on the skeleton. Level 130 Skeleton King. This guy smashed through the nearby ordinary skeletons and quickly charged towards the Golden Earth Dragon.

With a muffled thud, it swung the giant shield in its hand and smashed a Shield Bash heavily into the Golden Earth Dragon's abdomen. The Skeleton King's powerful force caused the Golden Earth Dragon to stagger a few steps, and a damage number of more than 20,000 floated above its head.

Such high damage!

Nie Yan frowned slightly. With the strength of the Golden Earth Dragon and Holy Knight Leves, they could probably only barely kill this Skeleton King. He drew the Sword of Zennarde and prepared to step up himself.

Just as he was about to make a move, a powerful dark force locked onto an area of about a hundred yards around him. He had a feeling of being targeted.

Nie Yan turned his gaze to a hundred yards away. A guy in a black robe came into view. His eyes narrowed sharply. The powerful dark aura emanating from the other person gave him a strong sense of crisis.

The main character has arrived!

That guy was wearing a black wizard robe, the edges of the cuffs were trimmed with gold thread, and there was a lifelike skull head on his left sleeve. He held a bone staff in his right hand, which was pieced together from sections of white bone, and a Book of the Dead in his left hand.

Blackfire Storm!

Qin Han waved his staff, and black fireballs rained down on Nie Yan from the sky.

Bombardment from a hundred yards away!

Nie Yan used Gale Step to fly out dozens of yards, dodging the barrage of Blackfire Storm.

Being able to attack from a hundred yards away was quite amazing among ordinary mages, and being able to release a small area-of-effect magic in such a short time meant that ordinary melee units basically couldn't get close.

A hundred-yard range, is that very impressive? Nie Yan suddenly thought of the Headless Horseman Drow's Crossbow in his hand, and a subtle smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He quickly retreated, took out the Headless Horseman Drow's Crossbow, loaded five arrows, aimed at Qin Han in the distance, and pulled the trigger. Swish, swish, swish, five arrows shot towards Qin Han.

The arrows crossed a distance of more than one hundred and ten yards, shooting straight for Qin Han's heart.

Such a long range! Qin Han was shocked. He waved his staff and teleported, jumping more than ten yards away, dodging the five arrows.

Thud, thud, thud, the arrows were all nailed into the large tree far behind Qin Han.

Qin Han's expression changed drastically. These arrows had a range of fully one hundred and twenty yards! He thought his hundred-yard attack range was already very strong, but he didn't expect Nie Yan's crossbow to have an even longer range than his attack!