YM778.TV Chapter 154: 154: Zombie Legion!
[Level]:LV60
[Attributes]:Physical Damage 400, Physical Defense 180, Magic Resistance 140, Health 250k.
[Skills]:Corpse Poison, Thick Skin and Flesh, Corpse Poison Infection, Potion Amplification, Rigor Mortis
Looking at this mutated BOSS, Zi Liyuan was not very satisfied. The attack was too low, and all five skills were passive ones, including one negative BUFF skill, which was just speechless.
Rigor Mortis: Passive skill, the zombie’s body is stiff, resulting in a 40% reduction in speed.
This thing moves even slower than Skeletons, and its attack relies only on basic attacks, and that’s only because it’s a BOSS template. Regular rare zombies have even lower attributes.
“It’s better than nothing, at least we’ve got some mid-tier combat power now,” he said.
The zombies summoned by zombie skills only occupy 1 Soul Value point, but to summon those branded with a slave mark using the Soul Value, it takes up 2 points, and this guy, being a BOSS template, needs a whopping 4 Soul Value points.
However, there are benefits. Summoning this thing can be done instantaneously, without the need to wait for the summoning Array to form.
If you don’t want this thing to be an eyesore, you can dispel it back to the Netherworld and let them fend for themselves.
Indeed they fend for themselves, because the Undead in the Netherworld have their own conflicts, too. If they are killed in the Netherworld, the master’s slave mark naturally disappears, and then you won’t be able to summon this thing anymore.
Casually letting this Wild Boar Zombie BOSS stand aside, Zi Liyuan continued his research.
This time, he directly pulled out the corpse of a Lord BOSS and then controlled the Wild Boar Zombie to approach and infect it.
As the infection succeeded and the corpse was corroded, the Lord BOSS’s body slowly rose up.
Unfortunately, the corpse that originally had the Lord BOSS template degraded after becoming a zombie. It dropped two tiers, from the Lord template right down to the Rare BOSS template.
“Zombie resurrected, it depends on the corpse material. The higher the template of the corpse material, the stronger the zombie obtained,” he noted.
Using a Hero BOSS’s corpse, the zombies that rise are from the Elite BOSS template, while using a Lord BOSS’s corpse, you get the Rare BOSS template.
By the same token, the better the corpse material, the stronger the zombie obtained.
Only, Zi Liyuan felt like he was at a loss, a huge loss!
After reaching the Third Order as a Necromancer, one can light up the ultimate skill on the skill tree— “Rebirth”!
Isn’t this thing exactly a resurrection skill?
The strength a being had in life is basically what it will have after Resurrection unless there’s a loss because the corpse is incomplete during Resurrection, leading to reduced strength.
Of course, the Resurrection skill has its limitations as well. With each increase in skill level, you can resurrect one more target. With Zi Liyuan’s current level LV60, and considering the equipment’s bonus of all skill levels +1 effect, once he completes the Third Order job change quest, he will be able to resurrect 15 targets!
“I need 4 Soul Value points to command a Zombie BOSS, I will first gather 100 Zombie BOSSes, form a small team, and go from there,” he decided.
Having a plan in mind, Zi Liyuan began to sort through the mountainous pile of BOSS corpses in his backpack space.
A bout in the martial trial instance had yielded several hundred Lord Boss corpses, but their levels were basically LV40 stuff.
To use them as material for the Corpse Explosion Technique, Zi Liyuan had begun to look down on them. After all, the lower the level, the less health they had, making these corpses unqualified for his current needs of hurling human flesh bombs.
He selected 98 Lord Boss corpses and then controlled two Zombie Bosses to start the infecting and converting process.
It took a good ten-plus minutes to infect them all completely.
Observing the group of a hundred Zombie Bosses before him, Zi Liyuan nodded in satisfaction. An Undead Zombie Legion, at least in terms of imposing presence, was a cut above the Skeleton Cannon Fodder Group.
However, even if all LV40 Zombie Bosses were of a rare Boss template, their strength was just so-so.
Moreover, having not used the Zombie Evolution Elixir, they hadn’t received the full attribute +20% boost effect, making their overall strength weaker than that of the Wild Boar Man Zombie Boss.
“Netherworld Skeleton Mage, use ‘Death Withering’ to clear out the monsters. The Zombie Boss Legion can mop up and farm for experience points, which isn’t bad either,” he said.
Controlling the hundred-strong Zombie Boss Legion, they slowly moved to the frontlines of the battlefield, standing on the edge of ‘Death Withering’ and waiting for half-dead rare monsters to charge at them before striking them down.
These LV40 Zombie Bosses could still deal hundreds of damage when facing LV80 ordinary rare monsters, especially since Zombies come with Corpse Poison.
Corpse Poison is a passive effect. Any monster scratched by a Zombie would be corroded by the Corpse Poison, then suffer toxin damage. Furthermore, this effect stacked layers, ignoring defense and Magic Resistance, with one layer causing a loss of 50 health points every 3 seconds and stacking up to 10 layers.
It could be said that, although Zombies lacked active attack skills and could only deal damage with their regular attacks, the accumulated effect of Corpse Poison could still inflict substantial damage.
As for LV80 ordinary rare monsters, the damage they inflicted on these Zombies wasn’t high, and with Zombies having over 150k health, killing them off was quite difficult.
After casually sending this group of Zombie Bosses to the frontline, Zi Liyuan didn’t intend to bother with them any further, yet when these Zombies started infecting more corpses and amassing a large number of Zombies, he couldn’t help but look again in surprise.
Because those Zombie Bosses could actually control the regular Zombies they had dragged over!
“My goodness, without having branded them with enslavement marks, these corpses that were infected and roused could be controlled by my Zombies?” he exclaimed.
The battlefield was littered with countless corpses, all infected with Zombie toxin and rising again, then commanded by the Zombie Boss Legion to pounce upon the normal monsters.
To Zi Liyuan’s surprise, these reanimated Zombies remained in the monster camp. When standing in the ‘Death Withering’ skill released by the Netherworld Skeleton Mage, they still lost health upon death and also added to Zi Liyuan’s experience points.
“Killing monsters to earn experience, then infecting them to become Zombies, killing them again for another round of experience points? Holy smokes, is this a bug?” he wondered.
The joy of double experience points, could it be any more exhilarating?
As the number of Zombies on the field continued to grow, significant changes occurred in the battlefield.
Initially, there were 1600 Netherworld Skeleton Mages, who farmed monsters using ‘Death Withering’, then raised their corpses to form a massive 16,000-strong Skeleton Warrior Legion.
They used the frail Skeleton Cannon Fodder Group to withstand the monster onslaught, gradually grinding down the monster hordes.
But at this moment, all the corpses on the field had turned into Zombies. Once deceased, they would rise within a few seconds and, under the command of the Zombie Bosses, they started attacking their former kin.
In the end, the entire battlefield turned into a scene with Zi Liyuan at the center, Lao Tie and the Demon Spider acting as left and right guardians, surrounded by a group of Netherworld Skeleton Mages, with the Skeleton Warrior Legion on the outside and an enormous Zombie Legion on the very outskirts engaging with the monsters.