Chapter 114: This Is Trouble
Just as the Headless Horseman charged in anger, the slimes under the old woman's command also received orders, breaking through the skeleton soldiers blocking their way and charging towards Gu Xi.
"Luna!"
At this moment, Chen Gu felt a chill behind him, then a smile appeared on his face.
"Ah!"
Luna flew out from behind Gu Xi and screamed at the approaching enemies.
"Banshee Wail!"
With the activation of this skill, many slimes that couldn't be shot or cut to death exploded on the spot.
The Headless Horseman, however, wasn't much affected and continued charging forward.
At this moment, the heavily armored zombies standing in front of Gu Xi threw their iron hooks, which were attached to chains, hooking onto the legs of the Headless Horseman's warhorse and pulling down forcefully, interrupting the charge.
Seeing that the Headless Horseman couldn't charge, the ghosts quickly attacked.
Previously, Gu Xi had used ghosts to deal with a wight leader of the same level. Although there were fewer ghosts now, they still had their abilities, whether it was their attack power or their immunity to half of physical attacks.
Under Gu Xi's command, the ghosts instantly swarmed the Headless Horseman.
A stationary knight's combat power was halved, and with the ghosts' close attacks, the Headless Horseman's spear had little room to maneuver.
In no time, the Headless Horseman was reduced to low health.
Just as the Headless Horseman was about to be killed, he picked up a human head with his left hand and placed it on his neck.
Suddenly, the eyes of the head opened wide, and the body swelled, knocking the ghosts away.
Then the Headless Horseman stepped heavily on the ground and retreated dozens of meters.
When the Headless Horseman landed, Gu Xi made his move again.
He pointed at the position of the Headless Horseman and cast a spell.
"Corpse Explosion! Corpse Explosion! Corpse Explosion!"
It turned out the Headless Horseman had landed exactly where the slimes had exploded.
After dying, the slimes left a pool of liquid on the ground.
Gu Xi wasn't sure if this liquid counted as a corpse, but he didn't want the Headless Horseman to have an easy time, so he immediately used the Lesser Corpse Explosion skill.
It turned out that the Corpse Explosion was effective.
The slime's remains were indeed considered corpses, and the explosion, mixed with a large amount of liquid, sprayed all over the Headless Horseman.
The Headless Horseman's newly restored health was instantly halved again, and the ghosts charged in once more.
However, this time the Headless Horseman had already gained some distance. He thrust his spear, killing a ghost on the spot.
Gu Xi pointed at the ghost's corpse immediately.
"Corpse Explosion!"
The ghost impaled on the Headless Horseman's spear exploded.
The shockwave from the explosion blew off the newly attached head of the Headless Horseman.
With the loss of the newly attached head, the Headless Horseman's recently regained health quickly dwindled.
Now the Headless Horseman's situation became dire. Ghosts attacked from all directions, clawing at him wildly.
Under the ghosts' attacks, many of the Headless Horseman's actions were interrupted. He tried several times to replace his head again, but each time, the ghosts dragged him down before he could.
Eventually, the Headless Horseman's armor was stripped off, revealing the grayish-white skin beneath.
[Ghost (Summoned) kills Wight Leader (Level 9), you gain 3227 experience points (Experience +5%, Level Cap, Overflow Experience Stored), all participating summons gain 33 experience points each.]
"Dead? Attack!"
Seeing the notification, Gu Xi decisively issued the order.
With one of the wight leaders dead, only the seemingly weak old woman remained. If he didn't attack now, when would he?
So Gu Xi pointed forward, sending all his troops out.
The skeleton archers, just recovering from the explosion, charged forward.
Their range was 150 meters, and since they were still a bit far, they adjusted their attack angles while advancing. When they reached the corresponding position, all the skeleton archers stopped, drew their bows, and released a volley of arrows.
This time, the target was the old woman. As a magic user, she didn't have the thick armor of the Death Knight.
Facing this barrage, the old woman had to step back. She pressed her hands to the ground, causing many tree roots to spring up and form a defensive net, blocking the attack.
But the skeleton archers seized the opportunity. Without stopping, they launched a second and third volley, continuously hitting the old woman's defensive net.
After four volleys, the old woman's defense broke, and she used the opportunity to retreat more than ten meters.
Meanwhile, the surviving slimes charged forward, attempting to attack the skeleton archers and buy the old woman time to retreat.
However, at this moment, Gu Xi's three skeleton squads had already advanced to the front.
Squad 1's skeleton soldiers stabbed at the slimes with their spears.
The Bone Cutting Battalion's skeleton soldiers leaped over the slimes, chasing the old woman.
Seeing the unfavorable situation, the old woman jumped into a cauldron. The cauldron grew legs, like a large rooster, and carried her into the forest.
The remaining cauldrons actively engaged the Bone Cutting Battalion's skeletons, pouring potions from their pots onto the skeletons.
[Skeleton Soldier (Summoned) kills Animated Cauldron (Level 5), you gain 1 experience point, Bone Cutting Battalion gains 1 experience point, summons gain 13 experience points.]
[Skeleton Soldier (Summoned) kills Potion Slime (Level 4), you gain 1 experience point, Battle Squad gains 1 experience point, summons gain 8 experience points.]
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With each experience notification, Gu Xi knew the battle was secured. He finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked around.
At this moment, Gu Xi noticed Du Wushuang seemed to have disappeared.
This situation puzzled Gu Xi.
Where did he go?
Just then, an explosion sounded from behind Gu Xi.
Turning around, he saw a blood-red giant hand emerging from the ground.
The hand was over two meters long. After it emerged, it pushed against the ground, and a blood-red demon with curved horns on its head, standing over five meters tall and wearing a white baboon skin around its waist, climbed out of the ground.
At the same time, the old woman, who had just escaped, returned on her cauldron, followed by a white-haired man wearing a white baboon skin and wielding a large knife.
Behind the man were over seven hundred ashigaru soldiers, crow-headed, wearing straw hats, and clad in armor.
Seeing the situation before him, Gu Xi's expression turned serious.
"This is trouble!"