Now, more than three months have passed since Gu Erdan woke up.
These three months have been like years for him. These three months have felt like years for him. In the first week, Gu Erdan was constantly on the run, hunted by all kinds of undead creatures.
There were skeleton dogs, skeleton sheep, skeleton cows. Even skeleton soldiers would chase after him with their weapons raised when they saw him!
We are from the same origin! Don't you understand the principle of "Why should we oppress each other so harshly?" Everyone is a skeleton soldier! Why does a skeleton soldier have to make things difficult for another skeleton soldier!
Embarrassed as he was, Gu Erdan of course knew why he was being attacked. The reason was simple: he was too weak.
That's right, just too weak. In the Netherworld, weakness is a sin.
These newly resurrected skeleton soldiers don't have much intelligence. Instead of using their limited brains, they prefer to act on instinct.
Gu Erdan's body has small arms and legs, and his bones have been weathered to a yellowish color. Among first - rank skeleton soldiers, he is the weakest of the weak. Of course they would attack him instead of inviting him to dinner!
Name: Gu Erdan
Identity: First - rank skeleton soldier (weakened version)
Ability: One - ring Nether spell - Bone Regeneration (Can consume soul energy to make the bones of undead creatures grow again)
Strength evaluation: First - rank skeleton soldiers are lousy, and you, you don't even deserve the word 'lousy'.
This is all of Gu Erdan's strength. A weakened first - rank physique, yellowed bones that can be easily broken by others, and the Bone Regeneration spell that is completely useless in battle.
With this kind of strength, any newly resurrected skeleton soldier can push him around at will.
Logically speaking, as long as Gu Erdan had any undead subordinate, he could soar to great heights with their help and grow stronger at a snowballing rate.
But unfortunately, as the saying goes, in the Netherworld, weakness is a sin.
If you are this weak, how could any skeleton soldier be willing to follow you? They would be doing you a huge favor if they didn't kill you on the spot!
After several failed attempts to recruit skeleton soldiers, almost being chopped into bone fragments, and even almost being killed by a skeleton dog once, Gu Erdan had to face the reality.
He was just a useless waste!
If it were a normal skeleton soldier facing such a start, they would basically declare game over and might as well die and start over.
But Gu Erdan is different. He is not an ordinary skeleton soldier. Although he has no head, it doesn't mean he has no brains!
If he can't beat others, can't he just cling to the powerful?
After Gu Erdan's careful selection and three days of searching, he finally found his ideal target.
That is the current skeleton wizard.
Skeleton wizards strut around freely in the Sea of Bones. After all, there are always large groups of skeletons accompanying them. They are not only extremely difficult to deal with, but also have extremely weak soul fires.
Is it really worth it to painstakingly kill so many skeletons just for a bunch of first - rank soul fires?
Skeleton wizards are not pathetic first - rank creatures. But these so - called top - tier third - rank undead actually have soul fires that are at the bottom of the third - rank in terms of intensity.
Killing them for their soul fires is not worth the effort.
The powerful ones are too lazy to kill them, and the weak ones can't defeat them. Therefore, in the Netherworld, following a skeleton wizard is actually the safest option.
There was actually another reason why Gu Erdan tagged along with this skeleton wizard. This skeleton wizard could resurrect skeleton soldiers!
With so many minions under the skeleton wizard's command, surely it wouldn't matter if he secretly recruited one or two?
If he could just get one minion! Gu Erdan would be able to soar to the sky and show them all what he was made of!
Gu Erdan's method of sneaking into the skeleton wizard's group was actually quite simple.
Finding an opportunity to sneak into the skeleton ranks and pretend to be one of them was possible, but doing so would be suicidal.
A scrawny bone frame like Gu Erdan would definitely be thrown to the front row as cannon fodder during a fight. At that point, whether Gu Erdan went forward or not, he'd be done for.
Gu Erdan didn't use any underhanded tricks to get in. Instead, he appeared right beside the skeleton wizard in broad daylight and recommended himself.
He found an injured skeleton soldier and used the Bone Regeneration Skill to successfully reconnect its severed left leg.
That's right, just reconnect it.
Gu Erdan wasn't like these stupid skeletons. The total amount of his soul fire is limited. If he really stupidly let the leg slowly grow, it could be done, but he definitely wouldn't be able to treat more than a few in a day.
But reconnecting the bone was different. Find a suitable bone and place it against the wound, then use the Bone Regeneration Skill, and the two bones would quickly connect.
Doing this would greatly reduce the consumption. As for whether the attached bone fit well? That wasn't Gu Erdan's concern.
He only took care of reconnecting the bone; he didn't offer after-sales service.
Relying on this skeleton version of the healing skill, Gu Erdan quickly became the professional bone doctor beside this skeleton wizard, despite his weak build.
Moreover, he only treated the elite soldiers, that is, those mutated first-tier skeleton archers and evolved second-tier skeleton guards.
As for the materials he used to treat the elite skeletons, of course, he just took them from the surroundings!
If an elite was injured, he'd immediately find a cannon fodder and cut off the corresponding part. It always fit just right.
Although the status of a doctor was relatively high, in the eyes of these low-IQ skeletons, it wasn't high enough to make him the right-hand man of the skeleton wizard.
What really got him to this position was mainly Gu Erdan's ingenuity.
Gu Erdan wasn't a genius, nor had he ever studied tactics. Even among the well-known Thirty-Six Stratagems, Gu Erdan could barely pull off the strategy of 'Run Away' Flee.
But it all depended on who he was compared to. Compared to normal people, Gu Erdan was just an average person.
But compared to these brainless bone frames, Gu Erdan was a genuine genius! A top-notch genius! A genius who exceeded the intelligence of skeletons!
A simple tactic of luring the enemy in deep, followed by the tactic of capturing the king to catch the thieves.
At the cost of sacrificing over forty cannon fodder, Gu Erdan directly led away the enemy's main force, successfully killed the third-tier skeleton war general on the other side, and presented its soul fire to the skeleton wizard. Thus, he leaped to become the skeleton wizard's trusted confidant.
Don't you see that even during breaks, Gu Erdan can sit beside the skeleton wizard? You know, usually, it never allows anyone other than the skeleton guards to get close to it.
However, despite his promotion, Gu Erdan's mood didn't get better. Instead, it got worse and worse.
Because he found that his previous speculation was completely off the mark. Sticking with the skeleton wizard did guarantee his safety, yet he couldn't win the loyalty of other skeletons.
After all, with a real big shot around, who would swear loyalty to a deputy?
Not to mention that the minds of these skeletons, whose brains are already not that big, are extremely simple and direct.
If you're stronger than me, I'll yield. If you're weaker than me, I'll slaughter you.
There's no such thing as sizing up the circumstances or reading people's expressions.
There isn't even a thought of fearing death in these fellows' minds.