Chapter 101: The Ghostly Corpse Owl
Chapter 101: The Ghostly Corpse Owl
The first to approach the village wall were the thousands of soulless zombies.
They advanced slowly and steadily, like a tide.
Xiao Jie looked at the soulless zombies and was a little confused. Although there were a large number of them, they were no threat to the village with a wall. Even though the battle was big, so what? They were shaking when they walked, let alone attacking the city.
He was confused, but the NPCs on the wall had already begun to prepare for battle.
"Archers—ready—release!"
Following Yang Baichuan's command, a dozen militiamen with bows and arrows on the village wall began to shoot arrows. However, the sparse rain of arrows fell on the huge horde of zombies, only knocking down sporadic monsters, and had almost no effect on the horde of zombies that was like a tide.
"Let's start too!" Xiao Jie said, and found a position with a wide view. He raised his hand and used a move - combat skill: continuous arrows!
Whoosh whoosh!
Four arrows were shot in succession. Xiao Jie added all the 8 attribute points he gained at level 5 to agility, which brought his agility attribute to 27+3=30 points, just enough to allow him to shoot one extra arrow in the chain.
A soulless zombie was hit by four arrows and fell down instantly.
"I'm coming too!"
Full Moon Shooting!
I pulled the bow of Immortality to its full extent. This time, he specially bought an iron bow with an attack power of up to 28 stabs and 200% weapon damage. One arrow can kill a soulless zombie in seconds, and it can even penetrate three or four directly.
However, the damage will gradually decrease afterwards, and it will only cause injuries but not death.
Dongfang Sheng also raised the light crossbow in his hand. His attack was not so exaggerated, but as long as he could shoot the head, there was still a chance to kill instantly.
At this time, the group of zombies had already approached the wall, and they were completely living targets. Arrows were shot at the group of zombies one after another.
The four of them each found a good position and kept shooting. Together with the surrounding militia with archers, for a moment the surroundings were filled with the sound of bowstrings churning, and soulless zombies were constantly shot to the ground.
However, such a small loss was nothing to the thousands of zombies. Soon the zombies rushed to the bottom of the village wall, waving their arms, scratching and biting the sturdy village wall made of logs.
Xiao Jie stood on the wall of the village and looked down. He could see countless zombies' arms waving in vain, like fanatical fans at a concert.
That's it? Xiao Jie was a little amused for a moment. He shot an arrow into the head at random. This thing was simply giving away experience.
A kerosene bottle was thrown down, flames rose, and in the blink of an eye, five or six kill prompts appeared.
The others followed suit, shooting with bows and arrows, throwing kerosene bottles, and slaughtering the zombies to their heart's content.
Because of the four-person team, prompts for gaining experience are almost non-stop. Although there are only one or two points at a time, when added up, it is still considerable.
"Haha, this is so cool. This monster is attacking the city just to give me experience." I shouted excitedly as I wanted to become an immortal.
Ye Luo snorted coldly, "Don't get excited too early, this is just the beginning.
Sure enough, after killing only two or three hundred, a strange sound of bells rang out.
It was those corpse-drivers who started to perform their rituals.
The secret art of driving corpses—the zombie swarm is rampaging!
Those soulless zombies suddenly started to become manic, as if they had taken stimulants. They instantly became lively and jumped up and down, crawling towards the wall of the village.
Those in front were squeezed down in the blink of an eye, and those behind kept climbing up along the bodies of their companions, forming several rising piles of corpses in the blink of an eye.
Those soulless zombies actually know how to stack up.
They climbed up on each other and continued to surge towards the village wall.
The village wall was only three meters high and it was clear that we had to climb up.
Xiao Jie's scalp tingled as he watched. He never expected that this harmless soulless zombie could become so brutal.
"Powder Kettle!" cried a loud voice.
[Gunpowder Pot (Consumable)
Throw: Causes 50 explosion damage to a small area. 】
The four of them threw gunpowder pots at the bottom of the pile of corpses. Boom! Boom! Amid a series of explosions, bones and flesh flew everywhere, and the pile of corpses built by the soulless zombies collapsed directly.
Xiao Jie thought to himself that it was a good thing that he listened to Ye Luo and bought this thing, and it turned out to be very useful.
jingle! jingle!
Another round of bells rang, and the corpse driver continued to cast spells.
The zombies also continued to charge.
Listening to the strange ringing, Xiao Jie was secretly concerned. The violent state of these soulless zombies was definitely not normal. Under normal circumstances, soulless zombies encountered in the wild would not have much desire to attack. It was obvious that this should be some kind of spell effect of the corpse driver.
So does this mean that as long as we kill those corpse-drivers, these soulless zombies will return to their original non-threatening state?
"Everyone, prepare to focus your fire on the corpse chasers, starting with that Wu Gang.
A corpse chaser only has 440 health points and can be killed in a few rounds.
However, the corpse drivers seemed to know this as well. They stayed far away and did not come close. They just rang bells from behind.
"Look at my brother Feng!"
"Don't be anxious!" Xiao Jie hurriedly stopped them, "Have you forgotten? The humanoid monster has a very high IQ. It will be troublesome if it is injured but not killed and becomes defensive. Let's continue to clear the monsters and pretend not to notice them. When those corpse drivers get closer, I will shout to concentrate fire and we will shoot together to make sure we can kill the target in one second before he runs away." At this moment, two more piles of corpses appeared under the village wall. Everyone hurriedly launched another round of gunpowder bombardment. The crisis here had just been resolved when another problem arose at the gate.
At the gate, there were also groups of soulless zombies scratching and ramming the gate.
Fortunately, the gate has been reinforced with a durability of 2000 points and extremely high defense. It is simply impossible for these crazy zombies to break it. It seems that it can hold out for a while.
The militiamen above the gate kept throwing logs and rocks down, and zombies were constantly knocked to the ground. In the blink of an eye, dozens of corpses were piled up outside the gate.
At this moment, a corpse driver suddenly stepped out from the crowd and walked towards the city gate.
The bell in his hand rang rapidly.
The secret technique of driving corpses away—corpse explosion!
The stomachs of those dead bodies instantly swelled up like balloons, and a pile of corpses turned into a pile of "corpse balls" in the blink of an eye, which looked both funny and terrifying, followed by a series of dull explosions.
Boom boom boom!
These 'corpse balls' exploded like bombs, instantly reducing the durability of the gate by one third, and even the surrounding zombies were blown to pieces.
Damn, so this is how corpses are used?
Ding! Ding! Another zombie driver approached the city gate. As he rang his bell, more than a dozen black-haired zombies were driven towards the damaged city gate. These level 8 and 9 monsters were not comparable to those low-energy soulless zombies.
Each of them was tall and strong, covered with black hair. They rushed to the gate of the village and started beating it frantically. The durability of the gate was visibly decreasing.
"Quick! Support the main gate!" Yang Baichuan shouted and shot arrows at the zombies at the door.
However, Xiao Jie saw an opportunity. In order to use the corpse explosion, the corpse driver was only 20 to 30 meters away from the gate. It was a good time to concentrate fire and kill him.
"Don't worry about the zombies. Prepare to focus your fire on the zombie chaser - wait for my command!"
Several people quickly moved a distance towards the gate to ensure that everyone had enough range.
The corpse chasers were still driving the zombies away and smashing the door, and they didn't notice the movement on the wall at all.
"Right now! Shoot!"
Full Moon Shooting!
A flurry of arrows!
Deadly flying knife!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
In an instant, all kinds of bows, crossbows and flying knives were aimed at Wu Gang. The corpse driver screamed, first he was pierced through by the full moon shot, and then he was shot into a sieve in an instant. He turned around and wanted to run, but the second round of shots also came at him.
He took only two steps before he fell down with a scream and was shot dead.
The remaining two corpse-drivers saw this and hurriedly retreated.
"Focus your fire on the corpse chaser!" Yang Baichuan suddenly roared, and Xiao Jie was immediately surprised to see that Yang Baichuan fired a full moon shot, which instantly pierced through another corpse chaser.
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84! One arrow directly took away one-fifth of his health.
The archers also concentrated their fire on him, and in the blink of an eye the second corpse driver fell down.
“Hahaha, disciples, don’t think your master is giving you things for free.” Yang Baichuan laughed, and then said anxiously: “Hurry up and use your banging things to hit those zombies a few times.”
Xiao Jie was extremely surprised for a moment. Although he had already experienced the intelligence of these NPCs, it was really eye-opening to see that they could be so real in battle.
But now is not the time to sigh, a round of gunpowder pots were quickly thrown at the zombies outside the door, blowing them all over the place and leaving them with little health, followed by several rounds of arrow rain to finish them off.
Seeing that this wave of threats had been lifted, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
However, at this moment, the crisis has just begun.
Lin Yutian looked at the village in front of him with a sneer in his eyes.
As long as he could destroy the village in front of him and absorb all the souls of the living people inside into the ghost general's body, he could restore the ghost general's strength by at least 30%. With such a powerful subordinate, he would surely gain a foundation in this chaotic world.
It's ridiculous that those mortals think they can survive by fighting off a few zombies.
Lin Yutian (Corpse Master): "Go, my servants, open the gate! Devour the souls of those living people!"
The ghost general at the side snorted coldly. He was not used to obeying the orders of mortals, but the dozen or so talismans and seals engraved on his body forced him to obey orders. (Hmph, I will just pretend to be nice to you for now. When I recover my full strength and break the inferior spells you cast on me, I will definitely kill you and these ant-like humans all together).
Waving the Ghost General's Halberd, he rushed towards the gate.
It is three meters tall, almost level with the village wall, and its huge size brings a terrifying pressure.
Seeing the ghost general breaking through the zombies and charging towards the gate, everyone on the village wall changed color.
Xiao Jie immediately looked at the long blood bar on the ghost general's head.
Corpse Owl (Weak Ghost General/Lin Yutian’s Guardian): Boss-level BOSS, level 16, HP 1400/4000.
Hey, this guy's health isn't full! Yes, after being sealed for 700 years, it must be running out of energy.
Fortunately, it is in a weakened state. If it is in full state with 4000 health, the level would definitely not be the current level. So don't fight and just wait to die.
However, this situation is normal for the BOSS assigned to the Novice Village.
(End of this chapter)