Chapter 258 - 257: Corpse Explosion Upgrade

Chapter 258: Chapter 257: Corpse Explosion Upgrade

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Just as Gu Su ordered the Graveyard Demon to block the breach in the wall and do everything possible to halt the spread of the town’s eerie transformation, Jin Chang, Xi Yue, and the others, fighting deep within Trebot Town, also keenly sensed a sudden change on the battlefield.

The eerie transformation of Trebot Town was no localized anomaly, but a mutation sweeping across the entire area.

The atmosphere in every corner of the town was twisting, and a bone-chillingly strange sensation could be clearly felt no matter where one stood.

Jin Chang, Xi Yue, and their squad members all sensed the town’s ongoing, eerie transformation.

However, they were all caught in fierce battles with strange bosses and their minions, unable to break away to investigate the source of the mutation. They could only fight off the immediate assault while hastily using all available external communication devices to contact the outside and find out what was happening.

A series of inquiries were sent out, and one eventually reached Gu Su.

After all, Gu Su was a part of the current battle. Even as an outsider, they wouldn’t forget to include him.

Gu Su froze for a moment as he read the message.

At that moment, he also wasn’t sure of the exact cause of Trebot Town’s bizarre transformation.

The town’s aberrant traits far exceeded his expectations; there were no prior records of anything like it.

Gu Su, however, did not panic.

He immediately replied to Jin Chang and Xi Yue via his external communication device, detailing his situation.

The wall was eerily regenerating, he explained. He had already ordered the Graveyard Demon to block the breach while using Artillery and Poisonous Qi to stop it from closing.

He ended with a guarantee: "Don’t worry. I will hold this breach in the wall. No matter how strange Trebot Town becomes, I will keep your retreat path open for you. I will never let you be trapped in a dead end."

Upon seeing Gu Su’s reply, Jin Chang and Xi Yue’s anxieties were instantly eased.

To them, as long as their retreat path wasn’t cut off, they weren’t in a truly desperate situation.

No matter how bizarre the changes before them, it was just a temporary setback. They still had plenty of time and opportunity to handle it.

They managed to regain control of the battle, which had faltered from the confusion.

Everyone steadied themselves and continued to launch even fiercer assaults on their respective targets.

As for Gu Su, a strange sense of mission began to well up inside him.

That profound sense of being entrusted with the team’s escape route, of being their sole pillar of support, quietly washed over him.

He was keenly aware that he was the squad’s lifeline, the very foundation that allowed Jin Chang and the others to fight without any rear-guard concerns.

Everything he was doing concerned the life and death of the entire squad.

This sense of duty made Gu Su even more focused on the battle at hand. His already rigorous command became even more meticulous and thorough.

Not only did he order the Graveyard Demon to keep ramming the wall and wedge itself firmly in the breach to prevent it from closing, but he also proactively ordered the breach to be widened.

He had the Artillery redirected to precisely bombard the buildings near the breach, collapsing any that could serve as enemy strongholds or obstruct efforts to widen it. At the same time, he had the Walking Dead continuously hurl bags of Poisonous Qi to form a dense, toxic screen around the breach. This both prevented the strange creatures from getting close and directly poisoned any enemies that dared to charge in.

In this battle to defend the breach, Gu Su’s ranged Magic Corps proved to be absolutely crucial.

The Magic Skeletons and Corpse Witches gave their all, pushing their magical abilities to the absolute limit.

Their roles were clearly defined, and they coordinated with perfect synergy.

Some were in charge of scouting for any strange creatures that appeared, some focused on channeling their Magic, others delivered the finishing blows, and still others fell back to perform a Magic Refuel.

Whenever a strange creature revealed itself from behind the ruins or at the edge of the toxic smoke, a fully charged spell would whistle through the air and strike it with pinpoint accuracy before it could even get its bearings.

Initially, the Magic of these Magic Undead wasn’t very powerful. They could usually only inflict heavy damage on the creatures, rarely managing a one-hit kill.

But as the battle raged on, the constant combat experience caused their spell proficiency to skyrocket, and their power climbed steadily.

They began learning to predict the creatures’ movement patterns, select different spells based on the creature type, and even coordinate their Magic for combos.

Eventually, the power of their Magic became incredibly potent.

It reached the point where any strange creature that appeared was instantly killed.

Any strange creature that tried to approach the breach would be pierced by Magic and fall amidst the toxic smoke and rubble, often without even seeing where the attack came from.

With their precision and efficiency, the Magic Undead completely blockaded every path the strange creatures could use to approach the breach.

Gu Su himself had not a moment to spare.

Besides continuously directing the Artillery fire and adjusting battlefield deployments, he also had to use any lulls in the fighting to cast his Soul Summoning Technique. He converted the corpses of the slain creatures into new Undead, replenishing his forces and maintaining the numerical superiority of his Undead Team.

If the number of strange creatures on the battlefield became overwhelming and threatened to encircle his forces, Gu Su would decisively cast his Corpse Explosion Technique, using the blast to clear the area.

However, the material he chose for his Corpse Explosion Technique had changed.

He no longer used the corpses of the strange creatures, opting instead for the bodies of his own fallen Undead.

After all, the creatures’ corpses could be turned into new Undead with his Soul Summoning Technique, making them too wasteful to use for a Corpse Explosion. The bodies of his fallen Undead, however, could no longer be reanimated. Using them for the Corpse Explosion Technique was the only way to maximize their value and not let their sacrifice be in vain.

The only thing that troubled Gu Su was that the bodies of his fallen Undead were often scattered across the battlefield, some even within enemy encirclements, making it quite difficult to gather them for his Corpse Explosion Technique.

As he pondered, a bold idea began to form in his mind.

’What if I order some ordinary Undead to deliberately charge into the enemy’s ranks to get themselves killed? That would deliver the raw materials for Corpse Explosion right into the enemy’s core. Then I could cast the Corpse Explosion Technique and deal a devastating blow in one go.’

Gu Su calculated silently. If he could pull this off, the rest of the battle might go much more smoothly.

Just then, a DING sound echoed in Gu Su’s ears.

[You have used Subordinate Corpse Explosion (Level 1). Subordinate Corpse Explosion proficiency +25.]

[Your Subordinate Corpse Explosion has successfully leveled up! Please choose an upgrade path.]

[1. Upgrade to Corpse Explosion: Subordinate Corpse Explosion becomes Corpse Explosion. Power increased by 125%.]

[2. Poison Injection: Subordinate Corpse Explosion becomes Poison Explosion. After the blast, enemies will take 1 point of continuous damage per second.]

[3. Battlefield Shredded Corpses: Allows incomplete corpses to be used as the source for the explosion. This does not affect the power of Subordinate Corpse Explosion, but the corpse’s integrity must be at least 50%.]

’It leveled up?’

A glint appeared in Gu Su’s eyes, but he didn’t make his choice immediately.