YM778.TV Chapter 159: 159: You Can't Heal a Wounded Soul without Touching a Size E Basketball
With the “clack clack” of skeletons rising and the “ergh ergh” of growling zombies, monster corpses turned into Skeleton Warriors or became ordinary Zombies, all uniformly at level 60!
Zi Liyuan had been grinding “Beast Tide” for more than ten days, and it wasn’t just for experience points.
After obtaining specific information about the changes in the Third Order Hero’s job transfer quest from Wang Fu, he started formulating a battle plan, signaling the true Necromancer’s arrival.
Every time he cleared a “Beast Tide” instance, it was a massacre, but with the Zombie Bosses legion, nearly all the corpses in the instance were raised to become a new zombie army, though ultimately they were all annihilated.
In the beginning, each six-hour grind session netted him around 8 to 9 billion experience points, but with the infection of the corpse poison, each instance run could net an additional 2 billion, reaching around 10 billion experience points per session.
However, during the last few instance runs, Zi Liyuan didn’t use the Zombie Boss legion but instead began the massive undertaking of collecting corpses.
The many dozens of types of monsters in the “Beast Tide” instance were numerous, but due to the sheer volume of monsters, corpses of the same type of common rare template monster, unless missing limbs or in a shattered state, could generally be stacked and placed into the Spatial Backpack.
To smoothly pass the Third Order Hero job transfer instance, Zi Liyuan directly collected forty thousand corpses of rare monsters, a full 200 sets into his Spatial Backpack.
Although touching a corpse allowed him to store it in the Spatial Backpack, touching forty thousand bizarre corpses wasn’t just distasteful, it also cast a dark shadow over his heart. Only by touching a Type-E basketball and feeling its softness through his hands could he possibly heal his wounded soul.
Ahem, back to the main topic.
Forty thousand monster corpses laid the foundation in the Spatial Backpack, and the Zombie Boss legion, along with the Netherworld Skeleton Mage legion, raised a vast army of the undead.
Within just a short amount of time, Zi Liyuan had amassed a legion of 12,000 Skeleton Warriors and a 28,000-strong Zombie army, all at a uniform level of 60.
When Lao Tie and the Demon Spider took the stage, the balance of power on the battlefield saw a drastic and earth-shattering shift.
The Necromancer Lord Boss, commanding an undead army totaling between 10,000 and 12,000, had high-end forces comprised of 4 Stone Demons (Elite Bosses), 10 Ghosts (Rare Bosses), and 4 Vampires (Hero Bosses).
Zi Liyuan’s undead army numbered over 41,000, with high-end forces including 1 Hell Demon Puppet (Mutant Hero Boss), 1 Demon Spider (Epic Boss), and 100 Zombie Bosses (Rare Bosses).
The clash between the two forces was imminent.
Necromancer vs. Zi Liyuan
The two undead legions collided, and then a vast array of various curses and spells appeared within the Necromancer’s camp.
With the curses and support spells taking effect, the overall strength of the undead army controlled by the Necromancer surged by over 30%.
The only pity was that even with a significant increase in strength, the Skeleton Warriors summoned by the Necromancer were still just common template monsters. Even if they went up one level, from Second Order to Third Order monsters, they were still no match for the level 60 elite template Skeleton Warriors.
Moreover, Zi Liyuan wasn’t to be trifled with. After his attack aura and Sinister Moon Aura covered the entire field, the boost he gained was only slightly less than that of the Necromancer Lord Boss, and that was without him using any curses or support spells.
As for the high-end forces, both sides remained calm, not engaging in a direct melee at the outset. Instead, they protected their masters, each wary of the other making a sneaky move.
Even with some powerful skills sealed, Zi Liyuan remained vigilant. After all, with the Necromancer Boss possessing skills from three branches and unknown abilities, who knew if he had a devastating damage skill hidden up his sleeve, that could result in an instant death, and wasn’t that a game over?
He still had Xiao Yurou and the four sisters to train! He hadn’t even personally touched the long, black legs of his lucky goddess wife! And there were plenty more happy times he hadn’t enjoyed enough!
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So how could I get caught in a place like this?
Hold on! Don’t recklessly charge in! Caution will make you last forever!
So, after summoning the Demon Spider, Zi Liyuan placed it in front of him to block the Necromancer Lord’s line of sight.
A super meat shield with 3000W health points, isn’t that what it’s used for?
If it can’t see, your targeted spells won’t work well, and any ordinary spells will only hit the Demon Spider in front.
Perfect!
As for Lao Tie, Zi Liyuan dared not send him alone to face off against the boss; after all, Lao Tie didn’t have enough health. Even though he now had a shield skill and could withstand a total of 400W in damage with his shield, Zi Liyuan still feared accidents.
In this battle, Lao Tie was the main damage dealer for the boss, wasn’t he!
However, before even dealing with the boss, the situation on the battlefield changed.
The Necromancer Lord began causing trouble.
Raising its bone staff, it condensed bone spikes and then, like a Heavenly Maiden scattering flowers, shot them into the battling undead army, causing a large number of “-6000” magic damage numbers to appear.
Fourteen bone spikes a second, like a machine gun, continuously shot into the ranks of the undead, smashing skeleton warriors to pieces upon impact.
“Damn it!”
The base damage of the bone spike skill was extremely low, starting at 10 + 20% magic damage bonus, and with each level increase, the base damage would go up by 10 + 5% magic damage bonus, while the spiritual power cost would increase by 10 points.
For Zi Liyuan, this skill was completely useless, with its damage being too low to be of any use.
But you can’t ignore that the Necromancer is a Lord Boss, right?
At LV61, it had a massive 8000 points in magic damage, so when it used the bone spike skill, it could do over 6000 magic damage per spike, which was terrifying.
“Damn it, a trash skill in the hands of a boss suddenly becomes a superb mob-clearing move?!”
Glancing at his own 1923 magic damage, Zi Liyuan quickly calculated the damage, and his bone spikes could deal around 1500+ magic damage each.
However, looking at the skeletons and zombies summoned by the boss, he could instantly kill the skeleton warriors and elemental skeletons, but not the zombies, which had high defense and health.
And there was an even bigger problem, which was the consumption of spiritual power. The boss had a whopping 8000W in spiritual power, exponentially stronger in terms of endurance than him.
“Fine, you slowly grind down the minions, let’s see who has the higher output! My Skeleton Mages, cast ‘Death Withering’ on the ground!”
1200 Skeleton Mages, under Zi Liyuan’s control, slammed their spell down behind the undead army.
With Skeleton Summoning at LV15, the Skeleton Mages had 260 magic damage, and ‘Death Withering’ could cover an area of 25 meters, dealing 200% magic damage per second over 15 seconds, with a cooldown time of 30 seconds.
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