Chapter 386
386 – A stronger hidden expert
Once the three undead creatures agreed on Han Shuo’s participation, Han Shuo immediately started communicating with the little skeleton. As the distance between them was becoming shorter, Han Shuo could easily convey his thoughts to the little skeleton. The clever little skeleton who was currently flying over at high speed on a bone demon completely understood Han Shuo’s intention.
When the three undead creatures saw that Han Shuo had agreed, they did not try to retrieve the serene luster gem in the middle of the black spring. Instead, they spread out in front of the spring, ordering the surrounding low ranked undead creatures to stop fighting and to slowly encircle this location.
There were two evil knights in the surroundings who slowly headed towards the huge knight that brandished the two meter broadsword, while a few hate warriors stood separately in front of the apparition and the mummy lord. They thoroughly guarded this area, intending to make this place the resting grounds of the approaching little skeleton.
A shrill whistle could be heard gradually coming closer. Under the dusky sky, a huge shadow slowly approached. The wings connected to the variant bone demon’s rotting corpse were five to six meters in length when fully extended. In addition, its whole body was covered with fearsome bone spears. This caused the bone demon that could fly to have ample deterring strength.
More than ten sparkling white bones formed a cushion on the back of the flying bone demon. Seated on it was the little skeleton who held a long, sharp bone spear. Its Purple Demon Eye was filled with a glistening radiance while its small body gave off an imposing presence.
The huge knight waved his rusted two meter long sword at the little skeleton who was flying over on the bone demon, spreading out his indignant consciousness, “This time, you wouldn’t be able to escape!”
“You are currently no longer a match for me. If you submit to me, I will spare your life!” When the little skeleton had arrived, he unyieldingly stayed in the air, looking down as he rode the bone demon, his dignified consciousness transmitted over.
“You can forget about that happening. I would rather let my soul be obliterated than to be your slave!” the knight roared. He then gave a command to his subordinates, “Kill this wretched skeleton!”
As the knight shouted out his orders, the mummy lord and the apparition also ordered their subordinates to attack. Hundreds upon hundreds of undead creatures were like a locust swarm as they charged toward the little skeleton and his bone demon mount. Among them were gargoyles that could fly, which formed groups and attacked in waves and were the first to charge towards the little skeleton with no fear of death.
The fluctuation was extremely slight, as though it had been accidentally leaked due to a soul being excessively excited. If Han Shuo’s consciousness had not improved to its current state, it would perhaps have been hard for him to sense that weak fluctuation. As the fluctuation seemed to contain an ancient aura, it was obvious that there was a formidable undead creature hiding in the spring. This formidable undead creature was unable to be detected by the nearby knight, apparition and even the little skeleton, sufficiently illustrating its strength.
Han Shuo’s consciousness hurriedly circulated, attentively comprehending that unintentionally leaked aura with added caution. Han Shuo was suddenly alarmed, momentarily matching that aura with a formidable undead creature recorded in necromancy books.
The strongest existence known in general to necromancers was the bone dragon. The pitch-black spring had actually contained an extremely cunning bone dragon!
The bone dragon has always been a domineering undead creature in the netherworld. Apart from a few more frightening unknown existences, the bone dragon, skeleton king and zombie king were deemed the highest ranked undead creatures. In the Profound Continent, necromancers had to reach the rank of sacred magus to be able to summon bone dragons.
The bone dragon had always known as the strongest undead creature. This bone dragon that had concealed itself in the spring from beginning to end had made use of the wisps of smoke overflowing the serene luster gem above its head to attract strong undead creatures to this location. Its intentions were extremely clear for all to see.
It seems that the drop of serene luster gem in the middle of the pitch-black spring ought to have always been the bone dragon’s bait to lure in strong undead creatures. The huge knight, mummy lord, apparition as well as Han Shuo had all fallen into the bone dragon’s trap. If Han Shuo’s consciousness had not suddenly sensed the slight fluctuation that arose from the bone dragon’s excitement, he reckoned that the one who benefits eventually would have been the bone dragon.
As he charged toward the apparition, Han Shuo hurriedly communicated with the little skeleton, describing everything that he had just sensed to the little skeleton before inquiring if the little skeleton possessed the strength to defeat the bone dragon.
“Father, I would definitely be able to kill and behead the bone dragon in the future. However, I’m unable to do that now. I still do not have that strength for the time being!” The little skeleton sent a message over, on one hand stating that he possessed the possibility of infinite evolutions while on the other hand, he stated that he temporarily didn’t have the power to deal with the bone dragon.”
When Han Shuo heard that the little skeleton wasn’t a match for the bone dragon, his brain rapidly worked. When he neared the apparition, he immediately issued a different instruction to the little skeleton.
The mummy lord’s sarcophagus suddenly smashed toward the little skeleton, while the apparition erratically retreated, while unleashing an unknown enchantment. The wraiths that had emerged from its body suddenly assembled into a gigantic network of wraiths, attempting to trap the little skeleton.
Han Shuo materialized a bone shield, the huge sinister bone shield suddenly obstructed the mummy lord’s way, establishing a solid defense for the mummy lord and the apparition. This allowed the mummy lord and apparition to relax, only focusing on attacking the little skeleton.
When the little skeleton who was riding the bone demon saw that he was about to be trapped by the apparition’s network of wraiths, the bone demon suddenly changed its direction, descending toward the pitch-black spring.
While the undead creatures had yet to react, the seven bone spurs on the little skeleton’s back suddenly shot out toward the sinister-looking plant. He also firmly threw his javelin-like three meter bone spear into the middle of the spring.
A frightening roar suddenly sounded from the depths of the lifeless spring. The pitch-black spring suddenly boiled, forming huge waves.
Bone spears condensed from the surrounding surging death qi suddenly shot into the depths of the boiling spring, appearing to have pierced the extremely cunning bone dragon, causing the bone dragon to temporarily be unable to emerge from the depths of the spring.
Right at this moment, the little skeleton’s seven bone spurs shot toward the sinister-looking plant, completely chopping through the plant’s rhizomes. Faint blue smoke started to leak out from the serene luster gem that seemed to be supported by numerous withered branches and leaves. After chopping through the plant, the seven bone spurs seized the opportunity to congregate and lift up the serene luster gem which flew into the little skeleton’s palm in the blink of an eye.
The three meter long bone spear suddenly flew out from within the ground, resembling lightning as it returned to the little skeleton’s hand. The little skeleton then urged the bone demon to fly toward Han Shuo without even looking at the rapidly boiling pitch-black spring.
“Treacherous, despicable skeleton, I, bone dragon Zasika, will inevitably exterminate you!” A loud roar could be heard from underground as a huge bone dragon whose whole body was made up of steel like long bones suddenly rose out of the spring, giving off a formidable death qi which spread through the entire valley.
The huge knight, mummy lord and the apparition who were about to attack the little skeleton from all directions suddenly glanced at each other in terror before frantically fleeing toward the surroundings of the valley, ignoring the little skeleton. The lower ranked zombie warriors and hate warriors seemed to be petrified in fear, instinctively submitting themselves and not daring to move from their positions.