Chapter 254 - 253: Siege Battle

Chapter 254: Chapter 253: Siege Battle

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BOOM!

A deafening roar resounded through the night sky, making the ground tremble slightly.

The Graveyard Demon charged head-on, wielding immense force. Its front-mounted Giant-headed City-Breaking Awl activated in sync, plunging its chilling point viciously into Trebot Town’s wooden wall.

Under the combined force, the already flimsy wall was instantly smashed open, creating a huge gap. Broken wooden posts shattered and flew on impact, sending splinters flying everywhere.

Immediately after, the Graveyard Demon used its momentum from the charge. Its massive body surged forward, crushing its way through the ruined wall like a rampaging Giant Beast, and steadily pushed into the heart of Trebot Town.

The hum of its engine and the grinding sound against the ground intertwined, exceptionally jarring in the quiet of the night.

The violent impact instantly alerted all the anomalies within the town.

The anomalies that had been lying dormant in abandoned houses and dark corners were all jolted awake. Like frenzied demons, they poured out of the dilapidated buildings, shrieking and roaring. They followed the sound, swarming like a tide toward the Graveyard Demon in a terrifying display.

However, the teams under Jin Chang and Xi Yue reacted even faster. Before the anomalies could surround them, they followed their pre-planned routes and rushed to their respective battlefields. The flash of swords and the shrieks of the Undead erupted instantly as they clashed with the approaching anomalies.

At the same time, the Undead Team that Gu Su had dispatched earlier acted without delay. Following their orders, they split into three groups and sped toward their three objectives. Their movements were swift and their goals clear, completely undisturbed by the sounds of battle around them.

While the two sides were engaged, the Graveyard Demon slowly turned its massive body. After adjusting its direction, it advanced head-on toward the wooden wall on the other side of Trebot Town.

Its heavy body crushed the ground, flattening the debris and low-lying ruins in its path, further widening the breach.

Standing on the Graveyard Magic Wall, Gu Su paid no mind to the Graveyard Demon’s direction of travel. He was currently stretching his stiff wrists and ankles, his knuckles cracking softly. His eagle-sharp eyes were locked onto the anomalies charging madly toward him, a faint aura of Mana already gathering around his body.

In just a glance, Gu Su could already tell that the anomalies in Trebot Town were divided into two distinct types.

One type was the common anomalies he had previously researched in bedtime stories—weak, numerous, and essentially just cannon fodder on the fringes of the battlefield, posing no major threat.

The other type was the Boss Level anomalies guarding the key buildings in town. Each possessed unique abilities and Traits, had formidable combat Power, and were the primary targets that needed to be dealt with in this siege.

Take, for example, two of Gu Su’s three subordinates, who had missions to defeat a Boss. The town’s Bosses acted as defenders; they wouldn’t engage intruders unless the building they were guarding was directly attacked.

Now, the moment the wall was breached, the nearby cannon fodder anomalies were the first to notice the intruders. Like beasts that had scented blood, they charged madly toward the Graveyard Demon where Gu Su was located.

It was worth noting that because Trebot was an abandoned town, the anomalies here were completely different from wild anomalies like the scarecrows or Shige Rabbits, and they possessed distinct urban characteristics.

Charging at the very front was a type of anomaly with a grayish-black rat’s head.

They retained human bodies and wore stained, tattered overalls and plaid shirts, clearly transformed from the town’s original residents.

As they charged, their eyes were bloodshot and terrifyingly crimson. The rat fur all over their bodies stood on end, their limbs were twisted, and their posture was frenzied, as if they had completely lost their minds.

In their rough hands, they all clutched repair tools like wrenches, hacksaws, and screwdrivers. The sharp Metal edges glinted coldly in the faint light of night, and their swings were accompanied by a whistling sound.

Gu Su saw through their origins at a glance.

These were clearly anomalies transformed from the town’s lower-class workers, like repairmen. They held a low status in life, and after turning into anomalies in death, they still retained the habit of using their tools.

Following behind these rat-headed anomalies was a group of strangely-shaped mole anomalies.

They had no fur at all, their bodies covered in wrinkled, pink skin. They were about the size of an adult dog, with a pair of sharp, long fangs protruding from their mouths, gleaming with a cold light.

When they ran, the skin on their bodies constantly writhed and twitched with their movements, a grotesque and disgusting sight.

These were naked mole-rats, magnified countless times over—the kind that could burrow.

"Flame Spray!"

Watching the dense horde of anomalies swarming the Graveyard Demon, Gu Su didn’t hesitate for a second and immediately issued the command.

The moment the command was given, the Oil Sprayer on the Graveyard Demon’s right side instantly shot out a searing fireball. Tongues of fire, carrying waves of intense heat, lunged like a burning dragon toward the anomalies at the front, instantly engulfing the nearly one hundred rat-headed and mole anomalies that were charging over.

An intense sizzling sound erupted, and the anomalies’ shrieks came to an abrupt halt. Accompanied by the acrid smell of burning flesh, their bodies burned fiercely in the flames. They soon collapsed and died, their charred corpses littering the ground, wisps of green smoke rising from them.

At this moment, Gu Su had no time to look up the specific information and weaknesses of these anomalies.

The battlefield situation was changing by the second. The number of cannon fodder anomalies before him was huge, and any delay would only create more trouble.

He had only one simple, direct thought in his mind: ’First, burn all these troublesome grunts to death, clear the obstacles before me, and then deal with whatever comes next.’

In the brief lull after the Flame Spray, Gu Su’s hands didn’t rest for a moment.

He raised his right hand, a faint Undead Energy gathering at his fingertips. He quickly drew a circle in the air toward the area where the anomalies had gathered and chanted the Spell: "Soul Summoning Technique!"

[You have cast Soul Summoning Technique (Level 4) 1 time, processing 31 corpses. Successes: 18. Obtained Skeleton Soldiers (Level 1) x18. Soul Summoning Technique proficiency +31.]

[Due to the effect of the Balance of the Dead, you have obtained a Death Knight (Level 1) x1.]

[You have successfully cast Soul Summoning Technique (Level 4), processing 29 corpses. Obtained Skeleton Soldiers (Level 1) x16. Soul Summoning Technique proficiency +29.]

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A series of system notifications chimed one after another in Gu Su’s mind. His method was simple and efficient.

Battlefield Soul Summoning—fueling the war with war itself.

On one hand, he used fire to clear out enemies and reduce their numbers. On the other, he used the Soul Summoning Technique to convert the enemies’ corpses and expand his own Undead Team.

Gu Su knew perfectly well that this was the true essence of an Undead Mage’s combat style.

’Fewer enemies, more allies. Use absolute numerical superiority to crush all obstacles.’