Chapter 77: Taking Down the Border Tower
In the dock area, the appearance of a black phantom immediately drew Gu Xi's attention.
Gu Xi didn't want them to suddenly rush into his battle, so he glanced at the Death Avatar chasing the remaining enemies in the border tower and decisively ordered.
"Death Avatar, attack and stop them!"
Upon hearing this, Death Avatar looked in the direction Gu Xi pointed, lowered its head, and transformed into black smoke, rushing towards the enemy.
Gu Xi was somewhat helpless regarding Death Avatar's mode of movement. In many ways, Death Avatar resembled a bone dragon, particularly with its destructive, black smoke form.
Every time he saw it, he felt as though everything in the path of Death Avatar would be destroyed.
This always made Gu Xi want to remind it not to destroy his territory.
Fortunately, Death Avatar could control its power and didn't cause too much damage while flying, even when attacking enemies. This reassured Gu Xi quite a bit.
Seeing Death Avatar again, Gu Xi couldn't help but feel a bit resigned that it was unlike a typical bone dragon.
What Gu Xi didn't expect was that when Death Avatar approached the black phantom, it changed its usual style. It retracted its already minimal wings, condensed its body, and rushed forward like a falcon.
As Death Avatar passed, the black phantom's body was sucked in, turning into black smoke and absorbed into Death Avatar.
This situation startled Gu Xi.
He hadn't anticipated that Death Avatar had such an ability.
So Gu Xi quickly called Death Avatar back.
"What happened just now? Can you absorb the phantom's power?"
Death Avatar understood Gu Xi's words but couldn't answer his question.
After all, Death Avatar didn't know what it had become. Its language system was incomplete, it could only passively follow orders, and couldn't communicate.
Faced with this, Gu Xi felt a bit helpless.
At this moment, another wave of black phantoms surged from the dock area, and Gu Xi could only wave his hand, letting Death Avatar go to stop them.
With Death Avatar holding off the ordinary black phantoms from the dock area, Luna's battle became much easier.
Although she couldn't catch the enemy leader, the leader couldn't stop to command the fight either. This made it easy for the skeleton soldiers to handle the militarized black phantoms.
The four different combat styles of skeleton soldiers worked together. The shield-wielding skeletons of Combat Squad 3 no longer defended, they charged forward.
When they saw a black phantom rushing in, they struck first with their shields, knocking the enemy down before it could attack.
Then it was Combat Squad 2's turn. These skeleton soldiers had the strongest melee attack power. Their squad was higher level than the others, and their weapons were highly reinforced.
Having experienced many battles, all skeleton soldiers were full of experience.
They also needed the least space, unlike those wielding two-handed swords, who needed space to avoid hitting their own.
Four or five of them would gather, striking precisely at the same target.
Once targeted, no phantom could escape. Four or five strikes would usually kill the phantom on the spot.
The phantoms charging forward couldn't get past the shield skeletons' defense, and a second attack would follow.
After three waves, the number of black phantoms dwindled, and the leader's movement range shrank.
Finally, Luna cornered the phantom leader. At this point, the leader displayed its formidable defense, unable to escape, it hardened its body.
The once mist-like phantom turned into a black crystal.
This crystal form greatly enhanced its defense.
The ghost's attacks on the phantom leader had almost no effect.
But the leader didn't realize Luna was also present.
Luna was an expert in attacking crystals.
Previously, a crystalized enemy fell to Luna's Banshee's Wail.
This time was no different. As soon as the leader turned into a crystal, Luna screamed.
The sound started low, then rose to a high pitch, locking onto a frequency.
At first, the leader felt nothing, but Luna's continuous scream soon made it realize something was wrong.
It wanted to stop Luna's scream, but it was too late. Cracks appeared on its body.
The leader, seeing this, panicked. It tried to revert to its mist form, but the ghosts reached it, grabbing at the transitioning phantom leader.
Ghosts were much stronger against semi-ethereal bodies.
Under the ghosts' attack, the leader's body was quickly torn apart.
The leader had to revert to its crystal form to withstand Luna's attack.
Meanwhile, Combat Squad 1's skeleton soldiers arrived. The ordinary phantoms were almost gone, making them unnecessary there.
So, Combat Squad 1's skeletons rushed to the leader.
They kept striking with their swords, using their execution skill.
For these skeletons, the execution skill was meant for this moment. Even if it failed, no harm was done.
But if it succeeded, the enemy would be instantly killed.
With so many skeletons taking turns, even a low success rate was enough.
As one skeleton after another struck and retreated, the leader finally couldn't hold on.
When the leader was executed for the twenty-first time, Gu Xi heard a ding.