The Necromancer is amassing troops like crazy in the apocalypse-Chapter 442 - 364, Is This Also a Profession?

Chapter 442: Chapter 364, Is This Also a Profession?

On the road ahead, skeletons clad in leather armor and wielding weapons were patrolling along the road.

Further away, there still was a vast army of skeletons.

Cleaning up the battlefield or transporting the scrapped vehicles that blocked the road.

What’s going on?

What happened to the horde of zombies that used to infest this place?

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Why have they all turned into skeletons now, and with the cleaning up of the battlefield, has a battle just ended?

What in the world is going on?

“Could it be those bone soldiers from the old factory district, wearing the same armor and weapons?” one of them said outright.

Even if they couldn’t believe that a superpowered man could control so many skeletons, the armor and weapons on them were indeed the same as the training skeletons from the old factory district.

This definitely couldn’t be explained by coincidence.

It made the group more convinced that these were the skeletons from the old factory district.

“How can there be so many skeletons? There are more of them than zombies, right?”

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“Did the old factory district launch an attack here? Wasn’t it said that there were tens of thousands of zombies here? How could it have been overrun?”

“I was wondering why it was so smooth driving up here, turns out the zombies have all been killed.”

The road they had come on was carefully selected after several reconnaissance missions.

Along the way, they had encountered hardly any zombies.

They thought they had chosen the route correctly, but now it seemed like the horde had been completely wiped out by those skeletons.

The roundabout was definitely the most dangerous area in the city, densely populated, and there might even be high-level mutated zombies.

And it was just taken over by skeletons?

How many zombies must have been killed?

Even the military refuge, which had control over plenty of weapons and ammunition, didn’t dare to come here to clear out the zombies.

“Don’t provoke them, let’s retreat for now and contact the base,” the team leader in the vehicle ordered in a low voice.

Despite the surprise, he still kept himself calm.

The nature of their mission had changed now, and they needed to bring the intelligence about this place back.

“Oh, okay!” the driver responded.

After contacting through the radio.

The three armored vehicles began to turn around.

But just then, there came a heavy sound of running from up ahead.

The faces of the people inside the vehicles instantly turned sour.

Two towering skeletons, three meters tall with broad skeletons, charged towards them with thousands of ordinary skeletons and surrounded the armored vehicles before the convoy could finish turning around.

Even though these skeletons were only wielding cold weapons, the armored vehicles could have forcibly broken out.

But the blockage was so tight that it still gave a strong sense of oppression.

“What do they want to do?”

The team leader stared outside, clutching the radio in his hand.

Hesitating whether to really order a breakout.

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During his hesitation.

The encircling skeletons made way for a path.

Qi Hancai, dressed in a camouflage bulletproof vest and followed by a lanky skeleton with twin blades hanging from its waist, walked out directly.

Glancing at the armored vehicles, he twirled his finger at the glass.

The air went silent for a few seconds.

Either deciding to get out of the car or lowering the window, the faces of the people inside were revealed.

Qi Hancai spoke directly, “Which refuge are you from?”

“Leader Qi, from the military refuge. We’ve met before at the market,” the team leader squeezed out a smile.

Qi Hancai sized up the other party, not having much of an impression.

But judging by the other party’s equipment, they should be from the military refuge indeed.

Of course, there was also a possibility that they were impersonating another refuge.

Armored vehicles, they had some as well.

But it didn’t really matter which refuge they were from.

“What are you doing here?” Qi Hancai asked again.

The team leader said, “Don’t get the wrong idea, Leader Qi. We were ordered to explore the movements and the situation of the zombie horde. We didn’t expect to encounter so few zombies on the way here, so we just drove over.”

Qi Hancai nodded, not really caring what the other party was here for.

With the current number and fighting capacity of the Skeleton Army, even the military with all its modern weapons couldn’t pose a threat to him.

Guns and machine cannons could be powerful, but skeletons weren’t stationary targets; they wouldn’t stand still to be shot at.

Unless they really pulled out some missiles.

Otherwise, there really wouldn’t be any refuge that could defeat the old factory district.

Looking through the window again, he said, “This roundabout has been taken over by us, and we will arrange troops to guard it in the future. Don’t come near without something important to avoid misunderstandings and danger.”

“Understood. We don’t have any other intentions and will bring this matter back with us,” the team leader said.

“Good, we need to continue cleaning up the battlefield, so I won’t keep you any longer,” Qi Hancai said.

He waved his hand and the blocking skeletons cleared the way.

The team leader smiled, “Leader Qi, then we’ll be heading back. Congratulations on taking over the central area for the old factory district.”

“Thank you!”

The convoy turned around and left for the distance.

After they’d gone a certain distance.

Only then did someone say, “This Qi Hancai, he really has the momentum now, huh?”

“With so many troops, anyone would have momentum.”

“True. What’s going on with the old factory district? How can a superpower control so many skeletons, even more than zombies?”

“Superpowers are quite mysterious. It’s not strange for anything to happen.”

“Now it seems that the old factory district’s development will far exceed the other refuges. Now that they’ve taken over the central roundabout, they might become the first refuge to successfully reclaim a city.”

“It’s a bit terrifying.”

“It doesn’t matter anymore; we’ll be leaving before winter anyway, so we won’t have much contact with them.”

“That’s true!”

…

Elsewhere, at the entrance to the shopping mall.

Wu Heng looked down at the corpse on the ground, his brows slightly furrowed.

After daybreak, he personally led the Skeletons back into the mall to search again. He had the Skeletons bring down the parts of Barrett’s shattered body, flesh and bone together.

When transforming Skeletons, Necromancy Magic does some repair on the corpse.

However, such repair is limited, and severely damaged parts cannot simply regenerate out of thin air.

In front of him, the body of the four-legged Third-level zombie had somewhat tougher flesh, so the severed limbs could still be collected.

As for the other two Second-level Big Heads, only the heads and lower parts were preserved.

The chest area was completely smashed, impossible to gather up.

While feeling a bit of regret, he reminded himself to use Barrett less next time if he wanted to preserve the bodies.

Such anti-machinery weaponry, the bodies of ordinary zombies simply couldn’t withstand that power.

If the corpses were destroyed beyond use, it would be a loss.

If they couldn’t be collected, it was also fine.

He glanced at the corpses again and directly released the [Bone Manipulation Skill].

The flesh of the Third-level zombie fell off like hot wax, and a tall Skeleton stood up from within.

About four meters tall, with a pelvis connected to four legs, standing like a crab.

The upper body retained a human shape, with broad and thick bones and exceptionally wide palms.

After inspecting its appearance,

he directly checked the Skeleton’s attributes.

[Skeleton Four-Legged Warrior (Level 15)]

[Attributes: Constitution 38, Strength 40, Agility 25, Intelligence 18, Perception 15, Charm 8.]

[Traits: Hollow Skeleton, Basic Soul, Quadruped.]

[Specialties: Biological Aberration, Constitution Mutation, Form Mutation.]

[Quadruped]: This unit possesses special limbs that allow for rapid movement in rugged environments.

[Biological Aberration]: Constitution +2, Strength +5.

[Constitution Mutation]: Constitution +3.

[Form Mutation]: Agility +3.

Wu Heng’s brows raised as he looked at the Four-Legged Warrior’s attributes.

With a strength of 40 points, it surpassed warriors of the same level.

A constitution of 38, agility of 25, those were not low either.

But the remaining three attributes were somewhat lackluster, not as outstanding.

“From now on, you’ll be called Quad, stand to the side!” Wu Heng said.

The huge Skeleton moved aside and stood obediently.

The movement of its four human-like legs looked a bit strange together.

Wu Heng searched through the broken flesh on the ground and found a Third-level corpse core.

With the corpse core encased in a plastic bag, he placed it into the Space Ring.

He continued the transformation on the bodies of the Big Head zombies nearby.

The transformation was completed relying on the number of bones, despite the incomplete bodies.

[Skeleton Spirit Demon (Level 8)]

After the transformation, Wu Heng’s brows raised.

Although the bodies were incomplete, the combination of the two still resulted in a Skeleton Spirit Demon, which retained the trait to command zombies.

This point was quite satisfactory.

Not as much of a loss as he had thought.

Continuing his search on the ground, two Second-level corpse cores were found and placed into the Space Ring.

After the transformation of a few Mutated Zombies was complete,

Wu Heng continued walking towards the side.

On the parking space marked ground, over a hundred bodies were neatly arranged.

The Skin withered evolved zombies.

According to ‘Qi Hancai,’ these types of zombies had been mentioned at the headquarters,

being a change that occurs after normal zombies evolve.

Their flesh was no longer decaying and degenerating, dry but apparently tougher.

Moreover, in action, they possessed some low-level intelligence, capable of making some judgments.

Wu Heng, curious about this type of zombies, had Skeletons carry them over while cleaning the battlefield.

After a quick glance, he directly released the [Corpse Battlefield].

The ash-white circle of light spread out.

All corpses lying nearby were transformed into Skeletons at once.

They stood up from the ground.

[Skeleton Warrior (Level 5)]

The evolved zombies were Level 5 Skeletons.

Wu Heng looked at the zombies’ attributes.

Apart from the increase in strength, constitution, and agility, their intelligence reached 6, indeed suggesting some intelligence.

But, he couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off about these Skeletons.

Their evolution seemed so close to the ranks of Otherworld.

Professionals reaching Level 5 marked the transition into the second tier, where the professional characteristics and capabilities significantly improved.

Zombies, on the other hand, followed this pattern as well, with Level 5 being the watershed between ordinary zombies and evolved zombies, starting to show clear physical and intellectual changes.

Zombies as a profession?

Damn it!