Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone-Chapter 564 - 396: Fully Equipped Skeleton Battle Group? Soul Power Surge!
In this complete Skeleton Battle Group, for every hundred Skeleton Warriors, there was a Centurion who acted as their captain. These captains also served as the pivots for the Skeleton Centurion to command the entire Skeleton Battle Group. These Skeleton Centurions not only had larger frames, but their weapons were also finer, clearly playing a crucial commanding role in battle.
Following the Skeleton Warriors were the Skeleton Archers. Their numbers exceeded a thousand! These archers were stationed on the flanks of the melee skeletons, forming dense defensive lines, always ready to unleash a volley of deadly arrows.
What surprised Fang Zhou was that at the very center of the vast Sea of Skulls were more than a dozen Mutated Skeleton Warriors wielding a wide array of weapons. In the skeletal swarms Fang Zhou had hunted before, he had never seen any other standard Mutated Skeletons aside from the Skeleton Commanders. This had once led him to believe that Mutated Skeleton Warriors like Tidamia, Verus, Sain, or Yongen did not exist under the Skeleton Lord’s command. Now, however, it seemed they were simply too rare and had all been gathered under the Skeleton Centurion.
These Mutated Skeleton Warriors were even larger, with more complex skeletal structures and an even greater variety of weapons, from massive warhammers to sharp longswords. Their eyes glowed with an eerie light, a clear sign of their higher intelligence and greater combat strength. The presence of these Mutated Skeleton Warriors elevated the entire Skeleton Army’s fighting power to a new level.
Fang Zhou scanned the battlefield, seeing how the melee and ranged units were interlocked, all protecting a tall skeleton at the center. This skeleton... was the Skeleton Centurion!
The Skeleton Centurion was significantly larger than an ordinary Skeleton Warrior. Its bones were sturdier, and it held a gigantic saber. Standing at the very heart of the formation, it was surrounded by skeleton soldiers that formed a solid defensive line. Its existence made it not only a powerful combat unit but also the command hub of the entire Skeleton Army.
All in all, within this skeletal swarm of over ten thousand, the number of Skeleton Chiliarchs and Mutated Skeleton Warriors alone reached more than twenty. The presence of these high-level commanders not only massively boosted the Skeleton Army’s combat power but also elevated their organizational and coordination abilities to a new height. There were also nearly a hundred other Centurions responsible for direct command and coordination.
In contrast, Fang Zhou’s forces were far more compact. He himself was the strongest combatant. His strength had already reached the peak of the Black Iron level, and he possessed many powerful skills. The Berserker Heroic Spirit Olaf, with his Golden Body Series and Blood Fury Series skills, was no slouch either. In addition, Fang Zhou had twelve Mutated Skeleton Warriors with exceptionally strong frontal combat capabilities. These Mutated Skeleton Warriors were not only large with complex bone structures, but their weapons were also quite distinctive. As for the remaining ordinary Skeleton Warriors, there were only a few dozen.
In terms of numbers alone, though both were skeletal swarms, the gap between them could only be described as a world of difference.
Fang Zhou was watching the Skeleton Centurion, and the Skeleton Centurion was watching him back. With neither leader having given the order to attack, the two Skeleton Legions, vastly different in both quantity and quality, faced each other from a short distance.
Fang Zhou observed the Skeleton Centurion, using his Soul Fire perception to estimate its approximate Four-dimensional Attributes. He carefully examined every detail, calculating the best angle to break through the Sea of Skulls and hunt the Skeleton Centurion once the fight began.
The Skeleton Centurion observed Fang Zhou because its immature intellect struggled to understand. Why could such a seemingly strange Mutated Skeleton Warrior annihilate more than a dozen skeletal swarms in such a short amount of time? This clearly exceeded its limited comprehension.
However, being an Undead had its advantages. If it couldn’t figure it out, the Skeleton Centurion simply stopped thinking. A flicker of decisiveness flashed in its cold gaze.
When its skeletal swarm was only a few hundred meters from the enemy, the Skeleton Centurion raised its curved saber high.
The next moment, the saber swept down!
The sea of nearly ten thousand skeletons charged as one, surging toward them!
It begins...
As the skeletal swarm rushed forward, Fang Zhou simultaneously ordered his skeleton underlings to form up and brace for the impact. In terms of both numbers and quality, Fang Zhou’s skeletal swarm was no match for the Skeleton Centurion’s.
But their mission was not to win this war. They only needed to endure the initial assault, draw the swarm’s attention, and stall them for Fang Zhou. This was a manageable task for the nearly one hundred skeletons Fang Zhou had carefully selected.
After all, Fang Zhou had strategically chosen the battlefield at the base of two steep Hills of Corpses. The narrow angle formed by the two hills would prevent his outnumbered skeleton underlings from being surrounded by too many enemies. He believed that under the leadership of Olaf and the host of Mutated Skeleton Warriors, they could hold out for a long time. Furthermore, this advantageous terrain greatly restricted the firing angles of the enemy Skeleton Archers.
