If you encounter a powerful enemy that's hard to handle, you should first clip its wings, cut off its supplies, and mess with its mind. Only then can you defeat it.
For Gu Erdan (a character's name) at this moment, the skeleton wizard is indeed a powerful foe, but it's not so tough that he can't handle it.
However, going head - to - head with the enemy is the stupidest act of a brute, especially when you know the enemy can cause huge damage to your side.
Seeing the skeleton wizard turn into a cannon emplacement, Gu Erdan made a snap decision and directly ordered the skeleton soldiers under his command to start massacring the wizard's underlings.
At first, the skeleton wizard didn't give a damn about the death of his subordinates. After all, the death of underlings was something he was used to.
It wasn't until he realized that the amount of cannon fodder around him that could be used to replenish energy was dwindling and he could no longer cast the Spear of the Dead that he knew something was wrong.
At this point, most of the bone - armored mantises were pretty much dead, and only a handful were left.
In fact, if they were up against an ordinary third - order undead, they wouldn't have been in such a sorry state. Even if there were casualties, at most only four or five of them would have died.
But who would've thought the skeleton wizard had such a trump card up his sleeve? Facing the highly penetrative Spear of the Dead, the white - bone armor that the bone - armored mantises were once proud of was completely useless.
With the departure of the bone - armored mantises, this battle has become a showdown among skeletons.
A large number of first - order peak skeleton soldiers swarmed in, attacking with long and short weapons at once. The skeleton guards were in such a panic that they couldn't defend themselves at all.
Especially among these skeleton soldiers, there were actually five or six skeleton archers. They always liked to focus their fire on one skeleton guard, and basically one skeleton guard would be taken down in each round of attacks.
If even the skeleton guards were in such a sorry state, not to mention those skeleton archers with poor close - combat abilities.
As more and more of his skeleton soldiers fell, the skeleton wizard, who wasn't too dumb, started to panic.
If this kept up, he stood a good chance of being beaten to death by the mob. Once all his lackeys were dead and the energy in his body was completely drained, his combat power might not even be as good as that of a single skeleton guard.
Retreat! He had to retreat!
This thought flashed through his mind, and the skeleton wizard commanded the few remaining skeleton guards to protect him and try to break through.
Rushing around, relying on the fearless delay of the skeleton guards, the skeleton wizard finally managed to break out of the encirclement. However, he was attacked quite a bit during the breakout. The originally spotless and snow - white skeleton was now covered with sword marks.
Even the white - bone staff that he loved so much in his hand was broken when he was attacking the skeleton soldiers who broke through the defense line just now.
The extremely disheveled skeleton wizard was pissed off and frustrated.
When had he ever been so down and out! Even when the soldiers under his command rebelled before! He stayed as cool as a cucumber from start to finish! Just like a general sitting on the sidelines.
And today, he actually got his ass kicked by a bunch of first - order skeleton soldiers, just cannon fodder! Why did they rebel? Who the hell was in charge of them? Who on earth had stealthily replaced all his underlings!
A series of questions popped into his mind, giving the already dim - witted skeleton wizard a splitting headache.
Turning his head and looking at the three remaining skeleton guards beside him, the skeleton wizard forcefully suppressed the anger in his heart and sighed secretly.
It seems he really has to start from scratch, but this isn't a big deal. He's on the verge of breaking through to the fourth-tier great wizard realm! As long as he can succeed in advancing! Then all these losses today are just a drop in the ocean!
Dropping the broken white bone staff in his hand, the skeleton wizard suddenly reached out, brutally broke off a rib from the subordinate beside him, and casually inserted it into his own broken rib. Then he turned his head and scanned the surroundings.
He was looking for the healer, Gu Erdan.
After instinctively scanning the surroundings, the skeleton wizard suddenly froze. After a moment, he couldn't help but sigh again.
He had forgotten that the first-tier weakling had been casually killed by the bone-armored mantis at the very beginning.
Now that the healer he had worked so hard to obtain was dead, and he was also very good at deploying troops, this loss pained him even more than the death of a skeleton guard.
If he had known earlier, he should have strengthened him a little bit. Even if he didn't make him a second-tier skeleton, growing to the peak of the first tier and having a little self-defense ability would have been fine.
Had he been too cautious earlier?
Continuing to move forward with a few guards, the skeleton wizard didn't dare to stop at all along the way. His mind was filled with thoughts as he ran.
But just as he was thinking, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.
In his soul sea, the fragments of the soul fire of that healer and military advisor hadn't broken, which meant he wasn't dead yet?
Suddenly stopping in his tracks, the skeleton wizard excitedly turned his head and looked far into the battlefield behind.
He wasn't dead? This was great news! As long as he quickly resurrected a group of cannon fodder! And successfully found that clever guy! Relying on that guy's tactics, he would surely be able to wipe out those hateful skeleton soldiers!
Acting on his idea, the skeleton wizard began to wave his staff, mobilizing a bit of the energy of the dead that had just recovered in his body, and in one go, he resurrected more than a dozen cannon fodder skeleton soldiers.
He was ready to lead his men and charge back.
Just as the skeleton wizard was nervously resurrecting the cannon fodder, preparing to make a comeback, the small white bone hill beside him suddenly let out a loud noise. The white bones piled at the cave entrance were brutally pushed aside, and dozens of skeleton soldiers hiding in the cave rushed out, brandishing their weapons.
Their white bones and the peak of the first tier clearly showed that these guys were in the same group as the previous ones!
They had set an ambush for him!
Looking at the skeleton soldiers that instantly rushed in front of him, directly scattered the cannon fodder he had painstakingly summoned, and frantically pounced on him, the skeleton wizard's mind went blank.
At this moment, the last bit of energy in the skeleton wizard's body was completely exhausted. He raised his hand to cast a spell, but couldn't even perform the most basic Skeleton Resurrection.
Along with the crashing sounds, the skeleton wizard with his hand raised was directly buried under the white bones...
When the intelligence of the living is pitted against the mind of the dead, the result can be described as a Dimension - Reducing Blow.
A guy who had been resurrected for less than three years and whose kind were either idiots or morons, how high could his IQ be?
Although Gu Erdan wasn't good at coming up with strategies, bullying a stupid white bone was still a piece of cake for him.
More than ten minutes later, Gu Erdan, with a skeleton head on his shoulders, swaggered onto this battlefield accompanied by a large number of skeleton soldiers.
Looking at the mess everywhere and those skeletons with their heads split open, especially when he noticed the bones of the skeleton wizard, Gu Erdan nodded in satisfaction.
He was finally free! And he even got his own subordinates!
Skeleton wizard! The leader he chose at the start! Since we can't coexist, then you'll be the first stepping stone under my feet!
Approaching the skeleton soldiers he had ambushed beforehand, Gu Erdan casually held out his palm, waiting for them to hand over the spoils.
However...
Looking at the skeleton soldiers who didn't respond at all and just stood there in front, Gu Erdan frowned.
Come to think of it, have their numbers decreased? They were just dealing with a skeleton wizard who couldn't cast many spells anymore and three skeleton guards with missing limbs. Did they really need to lose more than half of their number?
There were over thirty of these guys ambushing here, but now there are less than ten left? How did these morons fight? Did they smash their heads against the enemy's weapons?
The more he sized them up, the more he felt something was off. Gu Erdan suddenly seemed to recall something. His expression changed dramatically and he quickly pulled up the system and pointed it at them.
The next instant, a whole bunch of data showed up in front of Gu Erdan.