harleyscars Chapter 299 Terrifying Undead Creatures
Chapter 299 Terrifying Undead Creatures
Chapter 299 Terrifying Undead Creatures
"Ugh!! Ugh ugh ugh!!"
Eerie cries came from all around, followed by a series of ferocious and terrifying heads emerging from the mud. Their eyes blazed with a savage red light as they stared at Zhang Xiaohou, Qin Hu, and the other nine people. The pervasive smell of blood made them even more frenzied, as if they wanted to immediately dig up the earth that buried them and rush towards Zhang Xiaohou and the others to devour them.
The undead creatures buried here are all in human form. As the capital of thirteen dynasties, the ancient capital has experienced countless dynastic changes and wars between demons and monsters. There are far more humans buried here than demons, and they have been here for thousands of years.
This land, perpetually shrouded in the aura of death, is no longer ordinary soil, but rather a deathly fertile ground that nourishes undead creatures. This deathly fertile ground nourishes and nurtures the corpses that have died on this land, and prolonged exposure to it easily breeds undead creatures.
Once the sun stops shining on this land, the undead creatures slumbering in this land will emerge from the ground like plants forced to grow. Even if they are wiped out, they will awaken again when the next death point arrives. This is why the ancient capital stands in the realm of the dead.
What's rather peculiar is that this land seems to have undergone some kind of special curse, and whether it's demons or humans who died here, most of their spirits after death take on human form.
In life, it might have been a demon, but after death, its spirit would piece together into a bizarre skeletal giant, its head still a half-rotten demon's head, and its body a human-like form composed of the remaining rotten bones. Besides the demon-headed, skeletal spirits, there are also demons with limbs covered in lividity, but their heads are rotting human heads.
In short, the undead creatures living here will try their best to piece themselves together to look like humans, whether they are beast-headed and human-bodied or human-headed and beast-bodied. In any case, they must have some human appearance, otherwise they will be killed by the Great Terror and reborn as new undead creatures.
At this time, the undead that Zhang Xiaohou and his group encountered were all human. They were either wielding rusty longswords, or spears and shields, like an ancient army that had now become undead creatures.
Qin Hu raised his right hand, and instantly the dark clouds in the sky thickened, with purple, violent lightning surging within them.
"Thunderbolt Dance!!"
Thunderclouds floated above the undead creatures, and as Qin Hu's right hand fell, a violent purple lightning bolt tore through the dark night sky and struck directly into the middle of the undead army.
In an instant, several undead soldiers wielding rusty swords perished in the purple lightning. Those that did not perish were also affected by the dissipating lightning. Because lightning is effective against undead creatures, the soul fire within the undead soldiers' skulls was significantly weakened.
"You reacted quickly; otherwise, this arrogant guy might already be dead," Qin Hu said to Zhang Xiaohou.
Zhang Xiaohou forced a smile. If he hadn't exchanged the Earth-type Spirit Seed Stone at the Merit Department, he really wouldn't have been able to solidify the ground beneath Lu Hongjing's feet so quickly.
At this moment, the female mage Shi Shaoju spoke up, "Captain, let's hurry up and continue forward."
"If we wait any longer, more zombie soldiers will surround us soon. We will be safer when we reach Yangyang Village. The reason why these zombie soldiers emerged from underground so quickly and caught us off guard is probably because the death aura here is too dense and blocks out the thin sunlight."
Because there was no healing mage in the team, the other teammates could only temporarily bandage Lu Hongjing's leg to stop the bleeding so that he wouldn't lose his life due to excessive blood loss.
Lu Hongjing's calves were reduced to bones by the undead creatures, and he was bleeding heavily. He needed immediate treatment, but the medicine they carried could only delay his death at best. If they continued to delay, even if Lu Hongjing didn't die from excessive blood loss, he would be poisoned to death by the corpse poison.
"I'll clear the way!!" Zhang Xiaohou volunteered.
"Good, your spirit seed can suppress their emergence speed," Qin Hu nodded and said.
Just as the group was talking, Cheng Wu, the team member on guard duty, shouted, "Oh no! Captain, a lot more undead are rushing towards us!"
"How can there be so many? Even if this area is a blood-red zone, there shouldn't be such a large group of undead crawling out so early in the night," Wang Tong said incredulously.
"No, these aren't the same corpse soldiers from before. They're probably residents who died here not long ago," said another guardian mage, Yuan Geng.
Next, Zhang Xiaohou immediately connected to the star track and solidified the land in front of him through ground waves, fixing the undead creatures that had just poked their heads or claws out in place. Magic star maps flashed under the feet of Qin Hu, Cheng Wu, Yuan Geng, Shi Shaoju and others.
"Fierce Fist - Nine Palaces!!"
"Ice Lock - Vast Wilderness!!"
"Wind Disc - Tear!!"
"Turbulent Waves!!"
"·····"
"Kun's Forest: The Prison!!"
Mo Fan unleashed a barrage of ice, flames, lightning, and gales at the approaching undead creatures, shattering them into a shower of rotting flesh and countless fragments of bone. Meanwhile, Shi Shaoju's mid-level plant-based magic directly bound dozens of the corpses.
After Cheng Wu and the others unleashed two waves of magic, Qin Hu shouted to the remaining fighters, "Let's go! Don't expect to kill them all. If we keep dragging this out, we'll all turn into withered bones and undead in this earth."
Cheng Wu, Yuan Geng, and the others hurriedly withdrew their magic and followed Zhang Xiaohou towards Yangyang Village.
Where Zhang Xiaohou walked, the soft soil would become incredibly hard, preventing others from being dragged underground and devoured by the undead creatures. When they were still four kilometers away from Yangyang Village, Zhang Xiaohou and his group encountered trouble.
A burly, bull-like creature with a tiny head and four arms like axes emerged from the horde of zombies. This was the Axe-wielding Corpse General, a creature that struck fear into the hearts of countless mages. It was several times more ferocious than an ordinary warrior-level demon.
Normal demons would be affected by injuries, but the undead creatures of the blade and axe are not subject to injury. Even if their abdomens are blasted open or their limbs are shattered by magic, their strength will not be affected in any way.
This single axe-wielding corpse general is often equivalent to three general-level demons from other places.
Moreover, judging from the soul fire flickering in the eye sockets of this axe-wielding corpse general, it has been nurtured on this land for at least a dozen years, and its strength is far beyond that of an ordinary axe-wielding corpse general.
If they were to fight this warrior-level axe-wielding corpse general, all nine of them would surely be wiped out.
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