Chapter 74: Chapter 74 Where is My Huge Corpse?
Zi Liyuan clenched his teeth and cursed angrily.
He raised his hand and summoned fifty Vulture Skeletons beside him, then pulled out the corpses of ten rare Jackalwolf BOSSes from his Spatial Backpack.
The night was dark, with low visibility that only by using special detective skills or night vision abilities could one see clearly.
Zi Liyuan had the Eyes of Death and the Eyes of Shadow, which already allowed him to see in the dark, and to scout the situation within a three hundred meters radius.
BOSSes generally came with night vision capabilities, but lesser monsters were different; some could see in the dark, while others could only see ten to twenty meters ahead.
Zi Liyuan was surrounded in the middle by a large Skeleton Horde; it was difficult for the monsters outside to see what was happening in the center of the Skeleton Horde, so the Vulture Skeletons, in groups of four carrying the Jackalwolf corpses, ascended without attracting much attention.
Even if BOSSes noticed the flying Vulture Skeletons, they didn't take it seriously—just a few skeletons, after all, easily crushed once they landed.
The explosion from the Corpse Explosion Technique was mainly caused by the dead energy within the corpses, which eroded the targets, and at most, splattered blood, flesh, and bone onto the victims, causing limited damage to the terrain.
Therefore, Zi Liyuan took out ten[Timed High-Explosive Fragmentation Grenades (Silver)]and had the remaining ten Vulture Skeletons clutch them and take off.
He wasn't certain whether the Array that had been set up for summoning would still exist after bombing those BOSSes to death, so he prepared for both possibilities, using grenades to destroy the materials for the Array.
The Vulture Skeletons were fast, and in just a few breaths, they began their nosedive carrying the corpses in a suicidal plunge.
The ten corpses, along with the Vulture Skeletons' death, dropped in front of the twelve BOSSes hiding behind the wall, and before they could react, the corpses began to swell rapidly.
In the next instant, a "boom" of explosions started to sound continuously, ten blasts in a row before the chain of explosions finally ceased.
At that moment, a crowd of BOSSes lay on the ground behind the wall, each with a blackened face, dead from the invasion of dead energy.
The LV58 Jackalwolf BOSS had a health pool of 100k, and the Corpse Explosion Technique could deal damage equal to 60% of the maximum health, which meant 60k in physical damage.
These BOSSes were only between LV35-40; the health of Heroic BOSSes ranged between 150k to 200k, while that of rare BOSSes was less than 100k.
It could be said that the chain of Corpse Explosion Techniques was entirely overkill, how could these guys withstand it?
"As expected, the summoning Array formed by these BOSSes working together did not dissipate after the BOSSes' death."
Seeing an increase of 300 points, Zi Liyuan issued a command to the remaining Vulture Skeletons flying in the air to drop their bombs.
This time it was a real bombing run.
Bombs the size of a human head were thrown onto the summoning Array, even knocking out several of the lesser monsters that ran out from the Array.
When the bombs hit the ground, Zi Liyuan, using his Spirit as a guide, detonated them directly.
Another ten booms of explosions came, and this time it wasn't a spray of blood, flesh, and bone, but countless orange-yellow bullets that shot out like a raging storm, sweeping in all directions.
Amidst countless screams, the ground was blasted into pits and craters, and the materials for setting up the summoning Array were scattered all around.
At that moment, the summoning Array began to twist abnormally, and the space itself was pulled and torn apart, the lesser monsters that were about to come through the portal got stuck, torn into pieces by the distorted space.
Within a few seconds, the vast summoning Array was twisted and shattered, rendered useless.
"Without the summoning Array, you BOSSes, if you dare, don't run. Once I've cleared these lesser monsters, I'll definitely wipe out your whole nest!"
Once again summoning a large number of Crossbow Skeletons, he began to sweep the battlefield.
With no reserves to reinforce them, the lesser creatures on the field were easily dispatched.
One must know that the level 9 Skeleton Summoning, enhanced by various upgrades, had brought the Crossbow Skeletons' physical damage to 170 points, capable of killing these lesser creatures with a single bolt if they had 140+ health.
There were roughly one hundred and fifty Crossbow Skeletons, whose bolts covered and decimated the creatures with high efficiency, often wiping out a large group in one volley.
What else could be expected when these elite and rare creatures had low levels and scant health?
As the number of lesser creatures dwindled, the tide of battle naturally turned, and Zi Liyuan immediately set his sights on the remaining eight hero BOSSes!
"Damn it, weren't you delighted to sneak attack from behind? Lao Tie, beat these bastards to death for me!"
He drove the hellish puppet past the protective circle of Skeletons, charging straight towards the domain of the hero BOSSes.
Lao Tie was like a heavy tank, charging and bulldozing through everything in his path, scattering Skeletons and creatures alike.
Once the gravity field encompassed the BOSSes, it sealed their fate—they were destined to die on the spot.
Besides, Zi Liyuan was no pushover himself; now at level 43 of the second class change, he wielded various powerful abilities that could deal terrifying damage.
Rare BOSSes with less than 100,000 health could hardly last a few rounds against him before being vanquished.
The Corpse Explosion Technique and Bone Spear were especially deadly, capable of depleting 40,000+ health, meaning that those BOSSes with slightly less health might not last five seconds before being targeted and decapitated.
The puppet from hell was even more excessive; once the gravity field activated, reducing the BOSSes' speed by 20%, and he caught up to them, an iron slap to their face followed by a stacked 30% Delayed Deceleration.
BOSSes with their speed reduced by 50%, still thinking of escaping?
Particularly since Lao Tie didn't just slap faces. Any that thought to flee by taking advantage of their companions being beaten were dragged back by the neck by Lao Tie, and subjected to a merciless barrage of punches and kicks—a literal "thump thump" of flesh-pounding blows.
The eight hero BOSSes were ultimately pinned to the ground by Lao Tie, their faces bludgeoned to a pulp by powerful iron fists, beaten to death on the spot.
This battle lasted from midnight until the dawn's light began to show, and only then did it end with great difficulty.
A total of more than a hundred BOSSes escaped, including a dozen rare ones, but the rest were all slaughtered by Zi Liyuan.
Zi Liyuan could not calculate the exact number of lesser creatures he had killed, but just from those kills, his points increased by about 320.
In any case, this night battle had added a total of 2216 points to his score, propelling him to the top of the leaderboards, firmly holding the first place with an advantage of 1500 points over the second-place Zhu Wu.
"Time to collect the corpses~ After using up ten Jackalwolf BOSS bodies, I'll have to replenish them."
The bodies of the ten hero BOSSes definitely needed to be reclaimed—they were excellent materials for casting spells, after all.
However, when Zi Liyuan collected the eight BOSS bodies slain by the hellish puppet and arrived behind the wall, he found that the twelve BOSS bodies had vanished without a trace.
"What the fuck! Where's my huge pile of bodies? Someone actually stole them?"
Immediately, Zi Liyuan released his Spirit to scan the surroundings, while simultaneously activating both Eyes of Death and Eyes of Shadows.
The intelligence brought by his scouting abilities revealed that within three hundred meters, there was no presence of any adventurers, and even the creatures were sparse and fleeing.