Otherworldly Skeleton Evolution

Blood-red sunset painted the sky, its dying rays stretching the shadow of a blood cedar to absurd lengths.

The ground remained a vibrant crimson.

The air hung thick with the stench of blood.

*Crack crack crack…*

The sound of bones clacking together suddenly rang out.

Mo You froze.

That sound… was it coming from his body?

*Crack crack crack.*

As he raised his arm, Mo You’s jaw would’ve dropped if he still had one.

A deep blue skeletal arm, with spikes at the joints, made that cracking sound with every slight movement.

“What the… where’s my flesh?”

Mo You examined his entire body, suddenly questioning his existence.

His whole body had turned into blue bones?

His flesh and blood had vanished without a trace?

He tapped his bones with a finger, producing a hollow *pop pop* sound.

Was this Hell’s latest fashion? Skinning and draining Blood Race members, turning them into undead for better control?

But… why hadn’t those three useless leaders changed?

“L-L-Lord Mo You?”

The three leaders gaped at Mo You as he stood there in a daze.

Lord Mo You had turned into a blue skeleton?

What… what kind of twisted plot twist was this?

“Hmm?” The soul fire in Mo You’s eye sockets suddenly chilled as realization dawned.

“You… you’re not dead?”

“L-Lord Mo You, what’s happened to you?”

The three leaders stared at Mo You in terror, utterly bewildered.

“This lord…”

Mo You had barely opened his mouth when he spotted Jiang Cheng, who had regained his skeleton form, in the distance. His whole body trembled.

Then, to the leaders’ shock, he dropped to one knee.

“This subordinate pays respects to the Master.”

Blade Guard Leader: “…”

Demon Guard Leader: “…”

Frenzied Guard Leader: “…”

It’s over. Lord Mo You had lost his mind, actually calling this black skeleton Master?

The three leaders shuddered, unable to accept this reality.

Mo You, the Ninth Disciple of the Seventh Demon King, was abandoning his supreme status in the Blood Race to follow a black skeleton?

Come on, even if the black skeleton was strong, how could he be so spineless?

The leaders’ resolve to fight to the death vanished without a trace.

“Lord Mo You has turned traitor. Is there… any point in resisting?”

“Master, I’ll deal with these three useless fools. You’ve had a long journey, you should rest.”

Mo You suddenly clasped his bone hands together, volunteering.

The next moment, he stood up abruptly, ready to take out his staff and annihilate the three bewildered leaders.

However, he seemed to have forgotten that he was now a skeleton.

When he tried to grab his staff, he found it was gone.

Even more embarrassingly, when he had clasped his hands earlier, the spikes on his bone hands had gotten tangled… and he couldn’t separate them.

This left him in quite a panic. If he still had flesh, his forehead would’ve been drenched in sweat by now.

“That’s enough. You’ve just been reborn and aren’t used to your new form yet. I’ll handle this.”

Jiang Cheng’s jaw bones moved as he spoke. Then, he struck at the three completely confused leaders without mercy.

The three leaders were level 60 bosses, and together, they did give Jiang Cheng some trouble.

However, the leaders had no will to fight. Their morale was rock bottom, and they put up little resistance.

In the end, Jiang Cheng killed the Blade Guard Leader and the Demon Guard Leader, while the Frenzied Guard Leader managed to escape with a sliver of health.

Jiang Cheng didn’t feel like chasing him down, so he let him go.

After all, the guild establishment token had dropped when Mo You died. The mission was accomplished.

The reward from a level 60 boss wasn’t particularly enticing to him now.

Besides, even if he killed the leader, he didn’t have enough Soul Power to resurrect him.

The bosses in the Blood Hell Forbidden Land gave a lot of Soul Power, thirty times more than those outside.

But resurrecting Mo You alone had used up all 35,000 of his Soul Power.

Still, as the Ninth Disciple of the Seventh Demon King, Mo You’s magical talent was truly formidable.

【Mo You】

Quality: Epic

Level: 1

HP: 1,500

MP: 35,000

Attack: 70-100

Spell Attack: 1,500-1,700

Defense: 30-50

Magic Defense: 70-100

Skills: Ninth-Order Magic Missile, Blood Magic Rune.

Talents: Magic Sovereign, Mental Shock, Mental Punishment, Mental Counter.

Ultimate Skill: Blood Star.

Overview: Affiliated with Wings of Calamity.

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At level 1, he already had 1,700 Spell Attack. It was hard to imagine how strong his Spell Attack would be if he broke through the Epic level and reached Mythic.

Mo You only had one offensive skill, Ninth-Order Magic Missile.

Magic Missile was the most basic spell for mages, used as their normal attack.

In human mage classes, Magic Missile was the standard attack.

The attack power of Magic Missile was usually 100% of one’s Spell Attack.

But Mo You had clearly mastered Magic Missile to the extreme, reaching 450%!

The instant kill of the Elite Tomb-Guarding Archer earlier showed just how powerful this “basic” Magic Missile was.

His Blood Magic Rune, when used, could temporarily inscribe magic runes all over his body, enhancing his Spell Attack by 300%.

The Magic Sovereign talent further increased his Spell Attack by 100%.

Mental Shock added a fear effect to his spell attacks. Once hit, it could reduce the target’s Magic Defense by 50%.

Mental Punishment reduced the target’s MP by 33% when hit by his spells.

Mental Counter was even more powerful, forcibly returning any negative status effects on him back to the attacker!

When Jiang Cheng had fought him earlier, he noticed that the status effects he inflicted on Mo You didn’t work. Now he knew why.

Although these three talents’ success rates were based on the difference between his and the target’s Spell Attack and MP.

But right now, who else had 1,700 Spell Attack?

If Jiang Cheng hadn’t had Demon Lord’s True Form earlier, he probably would have died at Mo You’s hands.

He was undoubtedly the strongest mage in the boss team.

Of course, Mo You’s weaknesses were also glaringly obvious. His HP was pathetically low.

As a level 350 boss, after being reset to level 1, he only had a measly 1,500 HP…

Even Jiang Cheng’s first resurrected skeleton, the Elite Tomb-Guarding Archer, had 2,000 HP at level 10.

Moreover, while Mo You’s Spell Attack was exceptionally high, for a level 350 boss, his Defense and Magic Defense were shockingly low.

Most crucially, each enhancement required 1 million Evolution Points!

Reaching level 10 would need 5.5 million Evolution Points!

Level 20 would need 55 million!

Each enhancement was too expensive. Jiang Cheng felt he couldn’t afford to develop Mo You right now.

Of course, regardless of how skewed Mo You’s attributes were.

If he could get a few more bosses like this, Jiang Cheng would be more than happy to take them out with Demon Lord’s True Form.

“I wonder… how many more disciples like this the Seventh Demon King has.”

But it wasn’t a good idea to venture deeper now, and they were also on the wanted list. They probably wouldn’t be able to come back for a while, so there was no point in thinking about it further.

“Let’s see what else Mo You dropped besides the guild establishment token.”