In the gloomy Netherworld, countless corpses and bones were piled up like mountains and seas.
Three hundred kilometers to the left was the Land of Rotting Corpses, piled up with flesh and blood. All kinds of rotting corpses and walking corpses could be seen everywhere.
Five hundred kilometers to the right was the well-renowned Ghost Forest, where countless resentful spirits and ghosts wandered.
Sandwiched between the two was the Sea of Bones, covering a very large area.
Here, the mountains were made of bones, and the ground was also made of bones. Even beneath the small stream flowing with black water were nothing but blackened bones.
The bones piled here were of different ages. Some were still unrivaled in solidity, while some had been severely damaged and almost destroyed by the wind and sand. They were not only yellowed but also pitifully brittle.
The black sun hung high in the sky. At a marginal corner of the Sea of Bones below, a large group of skeleton soldiers gathered together, seemingly taking a rest.
At the outermost position, there were even a few skeleton soldiers standing guard in a proper and decent way.
However, these bony frames that kept swaying their skeletons and swinging their heads around, with a reaction speed that is pitifully slow, simply couldn't give anyone a sense of security.
Expecting them to detect the enemy? You might as well expect the enemy to roll out of the grass by themselves!
This skeleton squad, consisting of a hundred skeletons, was led by a skeleton wizard.
It was the kind of bony frame that could cast a few Nether spells and had a relatively higher intelligence.
Beside the skeleton wizard sat a skeleton soldier with a yellowed skeleton, wearing tattered armor and holding a half-broken iron sword.
Most importantly, this skeleton soldier didn't have a head!
Above the severed cervical vertebra was an empty space. Black mist emerged from the chest cavity, and a faint green will-o'-the-wisp could be vaguely seen inside.
This was the soul origin of the undead. As long as the will-o'-the-wisp didn't go out, even if you broke the undead into 108 pieces, they could still come back to life.
Gu Erdan looked at the tall and big bony frames sitting around him, then at the skeleton wizard wearing a tattered cloak beside him, and then at his own small arms and legs. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Among the hundred skeletons, the first-tier skeleton cannon fodders accounted for the majority, more than seventy of them.
In addition, there were also relatively rare first-tier skeleton variants, skeleton archers, around twenty or so.
Then there were the second-tier skeletons, skeleton guards, sitting around as the personal guards of the skeleton wizard.
These large-sized skeleton soldiers could condense armor from white bones and also had weapons made of white bones in their hands.
Don't look down on these bone-made items. Their attack power and defense were definitely not weak.
You should know that the skeleton guards were elite skeleton soldiers who could fight to a draw with human soldiers. They were completely different from those first-tier skeletons that would be wiped out when encountering militia and didn't even have a proper name.
If these guys fought against other skeletons, saying they could fight ten with one was an understatement.
As for the leader of this team, that is, the skeleton wizard, it was the most standard third-tier strength.
To be precise, any skeleton wizard would have third-tier strength.
It's just that their strength was a bit inflated. Whether these guys' intrinsic combat power could defeat the second-tier skeleton guards was even a question.
These guys can be ranked among the third - tier monsters despite their mediocre strength and gain quite a reputation among them. They are hailed as the most powerful third - tier monsters in the undead category and even strike fear into the hearts of humans. This is purely because their ability is simply overpowering.
Skeleton Resurrection Skill! This is the signature skill that every skeleton wizard is bound to master. They can turn any corpse into a first - rank skeleton to replenish their forces and fight on their behalf.
It can be said that they are natural leaders. If you leave a skeleton wizard alone and unfortunately he finds a graveyard, then you have to be careful.
Maybe a few months later, when you set foot in this graveyard again, you will be shocked to find that your ancestors are now standing on the opposite side of you, holding their size 46 shoes and about to slap your size 45 face.
One individual can spell disaster! These guys are simply miniature undead disaster - creating machines. If it weren't for the fact that they can only resurrect first - rank skeletons, and even if these weaklings gather in great numbers, they can't pose a threat to large towns, I'm afraid these monsters wouldn't be just ranked as third - rank existences.
Silently comparing the combat power of both sides in his heart and looking down at his yellowish small arms and legs, Gu Erdan forcefully suppressed the urge in his heart once again.
Gu Erdan is actually a human, at least he was once.
Gu Erdan doesn't know how he got here. When he crawled out of the pile of white bones, he had already turned into a headless knight.
A headless knight without a mount, armor, or strength. He can even be described as an ultimate downgraded version of a headless knight, lacking everything.
The only thing the same as the genuine headless knight is that as an impostor claiming to be a headless knight, Gu Erdan, like the genuine headless knight, also doesn't have a head.
When he woke up to find that he had no head, Gu Erdan was desperate.
And when he looked down only to find that he had lost another 'head', Gu Erdan collapsed on the spot.
If it weren't for a strange voice suddenly sounding in his mind when he was about to seek death, giving him a tiny glimmer of hope, I'm afraid Gu Erdan's undead career would have ended before it even started.
The system, the essential cheat code for time travelers, Gu Erdan also has one.
It's just that his system is a bit special. Other people's systems have their abilities confirmed in advance, simply waiting for the host to activate them.
Surprisingly, it can evolve according to his wishes.
Gu Erdan thought that since he had finally obtained a second life, he couldn't possibly be a wage earner like in his previous life.
So he has a lofty ideal of wanting to be a king or something, ruling over everything. The system should be able to understand, right?
As it turns out, the system understood all too well. Unfortunately, it understood a bit too much.
The system evolved from an originally powerless blank system into a Skeleton Lord System.
Name: Skeleton Lord System
Energy: 947
Ability: Consume energy to strengthen undead creatures. Upgrading from the first rank to the second rank requires 10 energy points, from the second to the third rank requires 100 energy points, 1000 for the fourth rank, 5000 for the fifth rank, 10000 for the sixth rank, 50,000 for the seventh rank, 100,000 for the eighth rank, 500,000 for the ninth rank. Evolving into an Undead Lord (equivalent to a human hero or a demon king in hell) requires 1,000,000 energy points.
It takes 100 million energy points to evolve from a Necromancer Lord to a Necromancer Monarch (equivalent to a demigod in the human world and a Demon Lord in Hell).
To evolve from a Necromancer Monarch to a Lower - level God, it requires 100 million energy points.
This isn't the end. There are even further advancements for gods, such as Intermediate Gods, Superior Gods, the Main God, and the Creator God. This system can actually enhance creatures of any rank, but the amount of energy required becomes more and more absurd.
What frustrates Gu Erdan the most is that this system is really just a Lord system.
He can only enhance his soldiers! He can't enhance himself!
Moreover, he can't guarantee the loyalty of his soldiers! That is to say! If he accidentally cultivates an ungrateful brute! Then he's finished!