Chapter 73: The Death Avatar of the Three Divine Skills
Under Gu Xi's command, all the skeleton soldiers put down their weapons, each holding a bone and quickly running in different directions.
The bones, held by the skeleton soldiers, initially tried to gather in the center, but as the soldiers ran faster, the bones struggled less and less.
Having lost a large number of bones, the bone dragon couldn't reassemble even if it wanted to, as it couldn't find enough bones.
Thus, the negative energy nodes that reassembled the bone dragon were all exposed to Gu Xi and his companions.
Gu Xi, Luna, and Saya swiftly targeted these nodes for attack.
Without the bone dragon's iron-hard bones for defense, these nodes were merely clusters of negative energy trying to gather.
Both Gu Xi and Luna could easily destroy such a node.
To ensure the nodes were completely destroyed, Gu Xi even threw flying knives at them.
However, Gu Xi soon discovered that breaking one node caused the negative energy to concentrate on the remaining nodes. As the number of nodes decreased, the negative energy grew stronger, and some nodes' vitality exceeded normal levels.
Despite their attacks, Gu Xi and his companions couldn't directly destroy the last of these nodes.
At this point, the skeleton soldiers carrying the bone dragon's bones were struggling to suppress them.
It was evident that if the skeleton soldiers loosened their grip, the bones would fly back and reassemble into a bone dragon, nullifying Gu Xi's efforts.
"Retreat."
Gu Xi decisively issued the order.
Luna and Saya cooperated seamlessly, with Luna casting a touch of frost on the negative energy node while Saya delivered a muffled strike.
As the three retreated, Gu Xi pointed at the bodies of the fallen skeleton soldiers on the ground.
"Corpse Explosion!"
With a series of minor corpse explosions from Gu Xi, the bodies and weapons of the skeleton soldiers on the ground exploded, sending shockwaves that dispersed the concentrated negative energy.
Seeing this, Gu Xi decisively threw out the Staff of Shattering.
The staff once again proved crucial.
The shattering function activated, reducing the concentrated negative energy to powder.
As the fragments of negative energy scattered on the ground, Gu Xi heard a ding sound by his ear.
[Ding! Killed the Death Avatar. Temporary Quest: Progress of the Holy Relic in the Fairy Tale completed. Three Death Artifacts gathered (3/3, completed), killed the Death Avatar (completed).]
[Quest Reward: Necromancer Skill - Death Avatar.]
[Death Avatar Level 11 (3+8 levels). The player can consume all magic to summon a Death Avatar on the battlefield. The Death Avatar's level is player level +8 and possesses various traits at certain levels.]
[Note 1: As the player's defeated Death Avatar was in the form of a bone dragon, the summoned Death Avatar will also be in the form of a bone dragon, possessing the giant creature trait.]
[Note 2: The Death Avatar is level 11, with traits at levels 1, 5, and 9.]
[Note 3: If the player masters both Death Avatar and Death City skills, they will resonate and interact.]
With the information popping up before his eyes, Gu Xi's eyes brightened. The dragon bones held by the skeleton soldiers no longer struggled, and the negative energy on the ground was left unattended.
At this moment, Gu Xi no longer cared about these matters. He didn't even bother to pick up the Staff of Shattering and directly pointed at the ground.
"Death Avatar!"
With Gu Xi's command, he felt all his magical power being drained.
Then, a bone dragon made entirely of pure black bones appeared before him.
This bone dragon was somewhat similar to the one Gu Xi and his companions had just fought but also different.
The bones of this dragon were pure black, not the charred color from before, and its body appeared somewhat ethereal.
When it flew, it seemed to stir up countless black mists, ready to tear apart everything around it at any moment.
Gu Xi stepped forward to examine it and understood the situation of the bone dragon.
[Name: Death Avatar (Summoned Creature)]
[Race: Bone Dragon Form]
[Level: 11 (0/0)]
[Talent: Rule Creature (After death, can be re-summoned by the player consuming all magical power)]
[State (Equivalent to twice the summoner's): Life (820/820), Magic (1500/1500)]
[Attributes (Equivalent to twice the summoner's): Strength 10.4, Agility 8.6, Constitution 8.2, Intelligence 15, Perception 9.4, Charisma 9.2]
[Skills: Death Breath (Bone Dragon Skill, once daily), Undead Creature (Level 1 Trait, undead unit, flying unit, giant creature), Curse Attack (Level 5 Trait, random curses during attacks), Incorporeal (Level 9 Trait, ghost-like, 75% chance to be immune to physical attacks)]
Looking at the Death Avatar, even Gu Xi couldn't help but gasp.
He knew the Death Avatar was powerful, but he hadn't expected it to be this powerful.
A 75% chance of immunity to physical attacks meant that most attacks would be ineffective against the Death Avatar.
Curse Attack meant the Death Avatar would be even more troublesome when attacking enemies.
As for Death Breath, Gu Xi recalled the green glow that had gathered in the bone dragon's mouth earlier.
This once-a-day ultimate move signified only one thing: great power.
Gu Xi now had a powerful weapon for the battlefield.
The guild leader of White Practice City, a small guild, was only around level 10.
If Gu Xi wanted, he could single-handedly take on the Westminster Abbey dungeon.
Calming his excitement, Gu Xi turned his attention to the next line of text.
[Discovered Necromancer Skills - Death Avatar and Death City. Would you like to resonate and interact?]
Although Gu Xi had never heard of this situation, he understood it had to be beneficial.
So Gu Xi decisively said.
"Interact!"
[Interaction successful. Received a large blueprint of the Death Avatar's exclusive building.]
With this prompt, Gu Xi noticed a piece of white dragon bone amidst the negative energy on the ground.
Gu Xi quickly picked up the dragon bone.
[Received the Blueprint for the Large Dragon Bone Laboratory]
[Large Dragon Bone Laboratory: Use 12,000 resources, 10 units of stone, 10 units of wood, and 5 units of mercury to build a Large Dragon Bone Laboratory in the city. Once built, it can house and provide rest for the Death Avatar and offer corresponding interaction traits. If there are other buildings producing bone dragons, ghost dragons, or phantom dragons, regional interaction can occur, increasing the production speed of all undead dragon units by +1.]
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