[The 5th Wave, Your Overall Strength: 1st-Tier Champion, This time the monsters are: 2nd-Tier Walking Corpses × 1000, Hero Unit from the Undead Clan × 1]
"Ah, so the Undead don't consume food, which means you can recruit as many as you can, right!"
"But come to think of it, when was my overall strength evaluated as a 1st-Tier Champion?" Qin Muye remembered that before, he was still considered a 1st-Tier Elite.
Although he didn't know when his evaluation was upgraded, he guessed it was probably related to the birth of Evil Curse.
"A 1st-Tier Champion facing a 2nd-Tier troop kind, it's now confirmed that these monsters are the surrounding Undead force, otherwise if they were spawned by 'Lord Era,' I should be facing 1st-Tier Champion monsters."
For the natives, Champion-Level troops, or rather those under their command, are Quasi-Heroes, who can be raised into Heroes, and there aren't many of them around; how can they appear in such numbers?
Heroes might be numerous, but it's not like they're everywhere, so that leaves only the 2nd-Tier monsters.
"Do Champions have to fight monsters beyond their level? Luckily I have Evil Curse, otherwise I would have truly been in trouble today."
A Hero + 2,000 walking corpses would be impossible for this little territory of mine to withstand.
[Hero: Sears Moli LV15]
[Profession: ???]
An entity similar to an Abomination, enormously fat, emanated a Corpse Aura as it approached, giving Qin Muye the impression of a butcher from a pork stand.
Difference being, this butcher didn't hold a knife, but a magic wand?
Sears didn't charge in like the previous Undead Hero, but instead led the 1,000 walking corpses, watching Qin Muye from afar.
"A bunch of weak Spirit Monsters, a Mage apprentice? What gives you the right to kill my sister!" Sears's voice was loud, and as he spoke, a large number of cracks opened in his bloated skin, releasing a wave of greenish poison fog.
"???" Qin Muye truly hadn't expected this Abomination and the previous skeleton to actually be related—was there going to be a ghost or a Corpse Witch appearing next?
"Ambush, attack, kill him first before bickering!" Qin Muye decisively gave the order.
Chat? With such a good opportunity, why talk when you could ambush? Why discuss the reasons for killing his sister when it was clear they are the ones who came looking for trouble first?
Moreover, who knows if the other side was just stalling for time? Considering the other side had a magic wand, though they resembled an Abomination and seemed like a melee fighter, they were actually a Mage.
So maybe they were just trying to divert his attention.
Demon Blood applied Attack Acceleration on the Spirit Monsters, and Qin Muye aimed for the enemy's head, directly casting a Fire System's Magic Divine Arrow at it.
Evil Curse was even more arrogant, throwing out all sorts of magic like Evil Curse, Weakness Curse, and Dissolving Beam. Plus its own Curse Aura and Death Curse Aura reduced the offensive and defensive powers of the enemy walking corpses and the Undead Hero to the extreme.
"You... how is this possible!" Sears exclaimed in a tone filled with disbelief.
This was called killing both the body and the spirit. Not only would he kill them, but he would also take their hearts out to boil afterward.
Leading the charge, Demon Blood activated Blood Frenzy and landed a blow on a walking corpse. In a flash, the walking corpse was cleaved in two.
Qin Muye didn't idle behind, casting Magic Divine Arrows continuously, while Evil Curse, limited by its Magic Value, didn't take action.
The target was the hero, Sears Moli.
Well, Magic Divine Arrow was like a machine gun, firing incessantly. The opponent had a shield similar to the one from the day before, and its strength seemed quite substantial, probably double the thickness of the previous shield.
Unfortunately for them, Qin Muye had a lot more mana today. After just four hits from the Magic Divine Arrow, the opponent's shield broke.
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Instinctively wanting to chant magic to flee, it was unfortunate that he needed to cast, whereas Qin Muye's spells were instant. With that little attack speed, it hardly took two seconds before he was riddled with holes by a barrage of Magic Divine Arrows, his head even blasted apart.
"The battle today was so satisfying!" Qin Muye retracted his magic. He actually hadn't cast many spells himself; most were flung by Evil Curse.
Without a Hero to lead them, those Walking Corpses had long been whittled down by Evil Curse's multitude of negative statuses.
They may be 2nd-tier Troops, but they still couldn't withstand a reduction of 25 Attack Power and 21 defensive power, especially when the weakening effect was steadily increasing.
Evil Curse, standing beside Qin Muye, kept on firing steadily, attempting to transform his Magic Ball into beams or area attacks. It was quite decent, if not quite skillful yet.
But Qin Muye didn't ask for much. Evil Curse's Attack Power was truly not high, doing minimal damage to Troops, with its primary role being to target Heroes in the future. Damage wasn't the point; the key was that his regular attacks could reduce Attributes, and they could stack.
So, Evil Curse actually had no struggle left, only to be a support-type Hero, and it was only because Qin Muye was short on hands that he let Evil Curse join him in battle.
In the future, when there were more Heroes, he just needed to find a spot to hide and then spam regular attacks (A).
If he didn't want to fight, he could just hide in a safe area and provide an aura to reduce the enemy's offense and defense.
With Evil Curse's aura, they were definitely capable of winning a war of attrition.
"I never thought I'd see the day I could fight above my level, tsk tsk!" Qin Muye couldn't help but feel emotional for a moment.
The 1000 Walking Corpses were quickly exterminated, yet the damage was not trivial. When the Walking Corpses died, they exploded, emitting green poisonous mist.
Luckily, he was downwind, and the wind carried the mist far away.
Compared to yesterday's Death Curse, this poison mist was quite trivial. Not to mention the Frenzy Blood Spirit Monster, even the Magic Energy Spirit Monster only suffered an addition of a Poison status, which was time-limited and something Qin Muye could handle even while sustaining health.
As for today's Abomination Mage, he didn't go for a self-destruct as vehemently as yesterday's, dying quite decisively.
[A crushing victory, you have gained 16,500 Experience]
[You have looted the following: ]
[Common Resources: Wood 30,000 units, Minerals 30,000 units, Food 30,000 units]
[Special Resources: Mercury 3,000 units, gemstones 3,000 units, Crystal 3,000 units, Sulfur 3,000 units]
[Gold Coin × 300,000]
[Points × 30,000]
[You have obtained a Bronze Treasure Box (Hero)]
[Your Level has risen to LV9]
[You have gained 1 Free Attribute Point]
[You can choose one Skill from the following three Skills: ]
[1. Intermediate Mysticism (recovers 20% Magic Value per day)]
[2. Basic Understanding of Death (Death System Magic power +1, Magic Value consumption -1)]
[3. Basic Defense (reduce physical attack damage received by 5%)]
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