Chapter 6: Playing the Tiger to Eat the Pig

Saratos was a Skeleton Mage who had cultivated to the realm of a high-level Undead Magician hundreds of years ago. Within a radius of over a dozen li, his name made every Undead tremble. He had three thousand Skeleton Soldiers under his command and occupied a sizable crystal vein. Early this morning, after waking up, he prepared to meditate and cultivate as usual, but his heart could not calm down. He felt waves of inexplicable panic for no reason.

“Lord Saratos, last night, the slaves dug out more than a dozen medium-grade Crystals. Look, how charming these Crystals are. The Magic Power they contain is enough for a Skeleton Mage to quickly rise by a realm!” Seeing that Saratos seemed preoccupied, a personal guard carefully offered up a dozen glittering Crystals.

“Pass the order down, summon all the guards!”

Saratos ordered in a deep voice. Medium-grade Crystals were extremely rare. If so many medium-grade Crystals were dug out at once on a normal day, the entire mine would probably be boiling with excitement. But today, he was in no mood to admire them, and the ominous feeling in his heart grew stronger and stronger. Just as he was preparing to go out and check the situation, a series of heart-stopping sounds suddenly came from the distance.

“Crack, crack, roar…, crack, crack, roar…”

The earth-shattering sounds got closer and closer, like the clashing of swords and knives, and also like the friction of skeletons; accompanied by low, powerful thuds, as if giant stones were smashing heavily onto the ground. The sound grew louder and louder. Slowly, the ground began to shake, and the dozen glittering Crystals on the table rolled onto the floor with a clatter.

“Enemy attack! Quick, fight to the death!”

Saratos roared, grabbed the Magic Staff placed to the side, and rushed out like the wind. Just as he was about to command the guards to defend to the death, he looked up carefully and was shocked, breaking out in a cold sweat all over.

He saw a black line appear on the horizon at some point, surging toward him like a tide. Squads of Skeleton Soldiers formed a huge phalanx, rolling over black and oppressive. Although their numbers were not many, their momentum was like a rainbow, appearing as unstoppable as a vast army.

In front of the Skeleton Legion was a strangely shaped Chariot carved full of Runes, with an ancient War Flag fluttering in the wind. A tall, straight figure stood on the carriage, wearing a hideous suit of Asura War Armor. With a light crack of the whip in his hand, the whole Chariot rushed over like a whirlwind, kicking up dust that filled the sky, rolling forward like a thunderous war chariot; in the blink of an eye, it appeared before him, at an incredibly fast speed!

Soul Summoning Banner?

Saratos’s pupils constricted, he swallowed with difficulty, and his legs couldn’t help but tremble: “Heavens, this… this is Lord Ovisis’s Lich Legion!”

Who was the Lich King?

He was known as the number one person below the Divine Domain within a radius of a thousand li, covering the sky with one hand. For thousands of years, people did not even dare to cough loudly when passing within ten li of the Lich Castle. Although for some time unknown changes had occurred, and the pressure from the Lich Castle had suddenly dropped significantly, no one had ever doubted the tyranny and strength of the Lich King Ovisis. Fighting against the Lich Legion led by him personally was simply seeking death!

The reason he was able to occupy this crystal mine for so many years, Saratos understood, was not because he was truly that powerful, but because the Lich King Ovisis looked down on this little bit of Crystals he had. Thousands of years had passed like this, but unexpectedly, the Lich Legion suddenly came to kill him, and the powerful Lich King even personally went to war!

Saratos rubbed his eyes to confirm he was not seeing things.

He could choose not to believe his eyes, but the faintly familiar Soul Fluctuation coming from inside Hu Feng forced him to face the fact that the Lich King was personally fighting.

Over a thousand years ago, when the Lich King Ovisis went to explore the depths of the Cursed Valley, he had the honor of following far behind to pick up some benefits, and by luck obtained a rare Magic Staff. From then on, his cultivation progressed twice as fast, and he slowly evolved from a first-order skeleton to the fifth order, becoming a powerful Skeleton Mage. In the blink of an eye, a thousand years had passed, but he could never forget Ovisis’s powerful aura and terrifying strength.

For a true Stronger, changing body shape and appearance was not a problem; only the Soul Fluctuation remained eternal. Although it was strange why the high-and-mighty Lich King suddenly descended upon his small place, Saratos had no doubt about Hu Feng’s identity!

“Saratos, I give you two choices!”

Hu Feng drove the Ferrari Chariot and appeared in front of the Skeleton Mage as fast as lightning. The barbs on the Asura War Armor shimmered with cold light, revealing only a pair of cold eyes from his whole body, and he coldly continued: “Either join the great army of the Lich Castle and follow me to unify the entire Sunset Wasteland, letting the glory of the Lich King spread to every corner of the Wasteland; or, hand over your Soul Fire!”

Hu Feng was full of Killing Intent, borrowing the identity of the Lich King Ovisis to play the tiger to eat the pig, and as soon as he left seclusion, he used Saratos, this tough bone, to practice his Sea of Skeletons tactic. If this guy submitted, then he would have another powerful subordinate; if he didn’t know what was good for him, then he would directly devour his Soul Fire!

Those who submit will prosper! Those who oppose will perish!

“Lord, this… I…” Saratos’s face turned red. Joining the Lich Castle naturally had many benefits, but those days couldn’t compare to being a free mountain king. But refusing directly like this, he worried it would anger the aggressively approaching Hu Feng, “Lord, I was wrong, I shouldn’t have privately kept the dug-out Crystals. Now, I will hand them all over!”

After hesitating for a moment, Saratos gritted his teeth, and with a clatter, took out all the medium-grade Crystals accumulated in his space ring for many years, attempting to survive this disaster. Although the quality of these Crystals was not high and couldn’t compare to the Top-grade Crystals left by Ovisis, the quantity accumulated over hundreds of years was very considerable. The glittering medium-grade Crystals alone piled up into a small mountain, Arnold and the others stared wide-eyed, and even Hu Feng couldn’t help but his eyes light up.

“Saratos, as a powerful Undead Great Magician, you are too much of a failure to treat these medium-grade Crystals as treasures! This kind of trash is more numerous than bricks in the Lich Castle!” Hu Feng shook his head, deliberately showing disdain for the Crystals before him, and lightly continued: “Fine, I’ll give you another fair chance. You and I will each send out three thousand Skeleton Soldiers. If you lose, you join the Lich Legion and follow me to conquer the entire Sunset Wasteland; if you win, you can ask for whatever you want, even the entire Lich Castle is no problem!”

Hu Feng’s expression was cold. Others played the pig to eat the tiger, but he did the opposite, playing the tiger to eat the pig, blustering under the tiger skin of the Lich King. The fluctuations of Soul and Magic Power in his body were very weak, seeming similar to a Magic Apprentice, but precisely because of this, Saratos didn’t dare to act rashly.

High-and-mighty Strongers were all unfathomable; if a Stronger’s Soul and Magic Power fluctuations could be easily detected clearly, that only proved one point: this was simply not a true Stronger!

Even the entire Lich Castle is no problem?

Saratos’s heart skipped a beat; the more polite Hu Feng the Lich King was, the more cold sweat broke out on his body. Before he could weigh how to respond, the Skeleton Soldiers under Hu Feng’s command came rolling in. Under Arnold’s command, they swarmed up, surrounding three sides and leaving one open, crushing the Skeleton Soldiers beside him into a crushing defeat.

They were all first-order Skeleton Guardians, the same number, but their combat power was completely different!

After more than a month of bloody slaughter, the Skeleton Soldiers of the Lich Legion were like wolves and tigers, their Killing Intent reaching the sky. Under the invisible awe of Hu Feng the Lich King, the Skeleton Soldiers beside Saratos were just the opposite, their morale dropping to an unprecedented low, collapsing at a touch.

“Spirits fallen into the Abyss, you… before the pitch-black flames, every single one of you will turn to ashes…”

Seeing his troops defeated and scattered, Saratos finally couldn’t hold back. He suddenly struck, holding the ancient Magic Staff and chanting awkward spells. He raised his right hand, and a wall of fire suddenly appeared on the battlefield, rising into the sky, instantly disrupting the formation of the Lich Legion. The Skeleton Soldiers who couldn’t dodge in time rolled around everywhere to no avail after touching a trace of the strange black flame, quickly burning into a pile of ashes.

Hellfire!

With one move, Saratos displayed his powerful strength!

The role of a profound Magician in large-scale combat was undeniable. After Saratos joined the battlefield, he quickly turned the tide, inflicting heavy damage on the Lich Legion composed of many Skeleton Soldiers in return. Facing Saratos’s continuous large-scale Magic, let alone ordinary Skeleton Guardians, even Arnold the Commander was almost burned to ashes. Soon, the scale of the Lich Legion was severely weakened, and almost half of the Skeletons fell down.

“Lord, let me go out and fight!” Seeing Arnold charge several times without being able to kill his way to Saratos, Yisu had a cold expression, and the Bone Demon Longbow in her hand buzzed, as if smelling the enemy’s blood.

“Yisu, on a large battlefield, individual power is not the most critical. Today, I will let you see what a true Sea of Skeletons is!”

More and more Skeleton Guardians fell, but Hu Feng remained unmoved until Saratos was exhausted and sweating profusely, and both sides had suffered heavy casualties before he suddenly made his move. The cold Dark Magic Pen drew through the air, once again casting the Great Spirit Gathering Technique; in an instant, a gloomy wind blew on the battlefield, and thousands of Skeletons lying on the ground stood up swaying, quickly joining the battlefield, their numbers increasing.

What is a Sea of Skeletons?

First, an enormous quantity, a quantity like the ocean; second, the ability to rapidly supplement endlessly, impossible to kill them all!

The more Skeletons that died in battle, the larger the number that were resurrected. Compared to last time, the power of Hu Feng’s Great Spirit Gathering Technique was even more astonishing. Almost instantly, the scale of the Lich Legion returned to over two thousand men!