Novel Full Chapter 215: Undead
Chapter 215: Undead
Adrian quickly checked his own dungeon’s status screen.
[Dungeon Status]
Name: Dungeon Of Prosperiry
Rank: SS
Dungeon Master: Adrian Sterling
Mana Reserves: 4,000,000/4,000,000
Current settings: Custom Dungeon
Unlocked Settings: Temporal Overdrive, System Share, Monster Catalogue, Organic Synthesis, Undead Unlock, Unique Biomes, Resource Dungeon.
He looked at the hard cap for his mana pool and exhaled.
"Okay." Adrian muttered. "It’s not bad."
He knew he could not summon a million units. He could only summon "real monsters", which meant that a lot of mana would be used to make them since their bodies would be real. These sort of monsters created by the dungeons could be looted without any issues.
Since he had to spend a lot of mana just to make one monster, he decided to go for the ones that costed less while also having the quality and resilience.
He opened his monster compendium and scrolled through the list of monsters on it. The choices he had were endless, but he went for the ones that were buffed due to the synergy of his dungeon’s abilities.
He knew that all of the monsters under the Undead category had been boosted. They had better stats, intelligence and mutations.
So he made his choice.
’System.’ Adrian ordered. ’Use all of the available dungeon mana to spawn undead skeletons. I need Skeleton Knights and Archers.’
He quickly adjusted the ratios too.
’Use half the mana to spawn skeleton knights and use the other half to spawn skeleton archers.’
These were the second tier monsters of his undead category. He knew that he couldn’t use regular skeletons since they didn’t have any weapons to deal much of a damage. As for the higher tiers, they cost quite a lot more so he went with the ones that cost less and could also fight back.
[Affirmative.]
The massive blue portal behind him began to glow and expanded.
The entire army of skeletons marched out of the portal. The skeleton knights took the front, raising their shields in perfect unison while the archers lined up behind them.
The entire army was created and deployed in a single instant, an army of 400,000 skeletons. Each one costed him an average of 10 mana to make.
The system screen began the count down and Adrian turned to look at the opposing force.
[The war begins in 3... 2... 1...]
The red portal vanished. The massive horde of a million monsters roared and charged forward while the skeleton army ran forward to meet them in the middle.
Adrian just stood safely in the backlines, watching the two massive forces clash.
And almost instantly, panic set in.
Because his skeletons were incredibly weak. The moment the massive ogres smashed into the front lines, the skeleton soldiers literally broke into pieces.
The heavy wooden clubs shattered their bones. The dire wolves easily leaped over the shields and bit the skeletal arms clean off. The skeletons were just falling apart like cheap toys without the monsters even needing to put in much effort.
Adrian watched his front line collapse in seconds.
"What the fuck?" Adrian yelled in dismay. "I thought these undead things were supposed to be upgraded! Why are they so squishy?"
He honestly felt like he was about to lose this dungeon war within the first five minutes.
But then, the skeletons reminded him that they were classified as undead for a reason.
The broken bones lying all over the floor suddenly started twitching. They vibrated rapidly, and then shot through the air, violently attaching back to each other.
A skull rolled across the floor, attached itself onto a loose spine, and suddenly a full skeleton soldier stood right back up. It was almost like it had never fallen down in the first place.
And Adrian quickly noticed something brilliant about this chaotic reassembly process.
While the bones were flying through the air to form back into their original shapes, they were completely unpredictable.
A severed skeletal hand would form first on the ground. It would blindly grab its dropped iron sword. And as the rest of the body flew across the battlefield to attach to the hand, the sword would be dragged violently through the air, blindly stabbing and slashing any monster standing in the way.
These unpredictable, flying surprise attacks started racking up a massive amount of kills for his army. An orc would crush a skeleton, step forward, and instantly get stabbed in the back of the knee by a reassembling ribcage dragging a sword.
And the archers in the backline were absolutely relentless.
They did not feel fatigue. They just stood perfectly still and fired a continuous, raining barrage of bone-tipped arrows into the massive monster horde.
The beasts in the middle and back of the enemy pack just kept getting pierced to the point where they began to resemble porcupines.
And the best part was that the archers did not have to worry about friendly fire at all. Their own frontline soldiers were already dead. Most of the arrows that hit the skeleton soldiers simply passed right through the massive gaps in their ribcages and struck the ogres behind them.
Even if an arrow accidentally hit a skeleton’s bone and broke it, the bones just instantly attached themselves back together. The cracks remained on the bone, but they were still functional.
It was a literally war of pure attrition.
The monsters had the numbers and the raw physical power.
The skeletons had infinite stamina and immortality to a certain extent. The ones that did not get up, were the ones that got their skulls crushed but Adrian noticed that while it was very easy to break most of their bones, their skulls were pretty resilient.
Adrian just stood there and watched the slaughter.
The battle did not take two or three hours.
It was a grueling, slow massacre that dragged on for almost nine hours straight. The white floor was completely stained with monster blood and littered with hundreds of thousands of corpses.
But by the time the final dire wolf was chopped into pieces by a group of cackling skeletal skeletons, the war was over.