Kunpeng Enters the Battle

Bone Guard One summoned the banners, and the sound of war drums echoed, inspiring and commanding the surrounding skeleton heroes.

Hearing the drumbeat, the mage-type skeleton heroes regrouped according to the rhythm and began to manifest magic arrays.

Unlike the previous time, they formed arrays of ten skeletons each.

Some skeletons first reached into their robes and used their bony fingers to puncture the recovery potions hanging from their ribs.

The liquid spilled onto their white bones, instantly replenishing the skeletons' mana.

Having become skeleton heroes, each skeleton possessed different classes and skills, resulting in varying total mana pools.

Some classes were naturally specialized in endurance, with a mana pool ten times larger than average.

Others were specialized in burst output; though their mana pools were low, their instantaneous damage was also ten times that of others.

In a small adventuring party, these two types of classes could focus on their respective specialties without much issue.

But this was a massive battlefield against Hell. Unless one was an Eternal-tier existence capable of rivaling a nation alone, one had to strictly follow the rhythm of the army.

After replenishing their mana, the skeleton mages began to chant incantations, manifesting magic circles.

As mana was continuously infused, azure magic arrays emerged one after another.

As before, the arrays linked with each other, combining into one massive magic circle.

The moment the combination was complete, the sound of crashing waves echoed from within the array.

The air became saturated with moisture, and droplets of water soon condensed on the skeletons' cold bones.

Bone Guard One pointed his sword forward, and the drumbeat changed abruptly. A massive Sea Element Monarch was summoned.

【War Magic: Ousheng’s Wrath】

The sea element looked similar to a water element, but with an added dorsal fin on its elemental body and seaweed wrapped around its wrists.

After the Sea Element Monarch was summoned, it first looked down at the magic array beneath it. Discovering that its summoners were a group of undead, it let out a cry of surprise.

“Undead?”

Its voice was heavy, but its shock was evident.

It was common knowledge that the relationship between undead and elementals was quite poor. The moment he saw the undead, the Sea Element Monarch, Ousheng, instinctively assumed this summons was another trap.

But when he sensed the swarms of demons in the distance, his non-existent heart skipped a beat.

“Demons?”

Then, he saw beams of holy light shooting from behind toward the demon horde. He whipped his head around and saw a magnificent Heavenly Fortress.

“Heaven!”

Ousheng was stunned. Could the recent rumors be true? Heaven and the undead had formed a partnership, becoming allies on the same front.

Though Ousheng was incredibly anxious and wished to immediately bring this news back to the Elemental Spirit Realm, the constraints of the summoning contract forced him to finish his task first.

Thus, the Sea Element Monarch slammed both hands into the ground, and a massive amount of seawater gushed continuously from his body.

Guided by the summoning contract, the seawater was directed to surge toward the demons ahead.

Towering waves crashed against the demons. Even the massive stone golems appeared tiny before the sea, being knocked to the ground.

The demons behind them fared no better, all being swallowed by this sudden tsunami.

After unleashing the tsunami, the Sea Element Monarch did not linger for a second, returning directly to the Elemental Spirit Realm.

This unusual behavior left Ward, the leader of the skeleton mages, quite puzzled.

The skill book clearly stated that 【War Magic: Ousheng’s Wrath】 would summon the terrifying Sea Element Monarch Ousheng.

Ousheng was supposed to let out a soul-shaking roar to stun enemies and plunge them into fear before raising a world-ending tsunami to drown them all.

However, looking at the ‘buyer’s experience’ at this moment, this 【War Magic: Ousheng’s Wrath】 felt a bit watered down.

“Woooooo!!!”

It didn't matter that the sea element didn't roar; Kunpeng’s roar had arrived.

Kunpeng had been monitoring the battlefield. Upon receiving Chen Xu’s command, it immediately arrived at the scene through a spatial gate.

Sensing the seawater below, Kunpeng directly revealed its Sea God manifestation. Its original ten-thousand-meter body was already exaggerated enough, but after being enlarged by the Sea God manifestation, it reached a staggering hundred thousand meters.

A colossal creature, a hundred thousand meters long, plummeted straight from the sky.

“Boom!!!”

Kunpeng’s freefall generated a massive impact. The earth, which had already been torn asunder once, shattered again.

The demons below only knew that the sky had suddenly gone dark. In the next moment, their breath was gone.

Behind them, atop the Heavenly Fortress, the holy cross also burst forth with blinding light.

To withstand the shockwave generated by Kunpeng’s fall, the fortress’s machine spirit had to exert its full power to maintain the Saint Light Canopy.

In front of the fortress, Bone Guard One sheathed his bone sword and switched to a bone shield. He charged to the front of the army, using the gathered power of the military formation to temporarily break through to the Eternal tier and block the impact for the skeletons.

This was why Eternal-tier beings rarely intervened directly in wars. For beings of a lower realm, every move made by an existence of this level was a catastrophe.

After Kunpeng made its entrance, the four Hell Archdukes also moved.

A mass of black mist suddenly appeared beside Kunpeng. Amidst a flash of fire, an Eternal-tier greater demon raised a scythe burning with Hellfire and slashed toward Kunpeng.

The blade’s light carried the force of the flames, instantly melting Kunpeng’s Sea God manifestation and cutting inward.

However, the blade could not penetrate far. After cutting in about ten thousand meters, it was ground away by the Sea God’s power, failing to wound Kunpeng in the slightest.

Kunpeng turned its head and glanced at the greater demon, let out a “Jie jie jie” laugh that mimicked Tal Rasha.

Hearing this laugh, Chen Xu and the greater demon both frowned at the same time.

The greater demon frowned because he remembered Aug’s recent fate.

Chen Xu was simply speechless. Who had started this trend of weird laughing? Even Kunpeng had learned it.

He wanted to ask Bone Guard One for an answer, but Bone Guard One was at the front holding his shield in defense.

Chen Xu then turned his gaze toward another—Ward, the elemental mage, who could be considered a veteran skeleton hero under his command.

Noticing Chen Xu’s gaze, Ward spread his hands and said quickly.

“My Lord, I promise you, only that fellow Tal Rasha laughs like that. The rest of us—I mean, the other skeletons—are perfectly normal.”

Chen Xu remained silent, looking back toward Kunpeng. Through his soul perception, he knew Ward wasn't lying.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Ward thought Chen Xu didn't believe him and immediately added.

“My Lord, we skeleton mages are all law-abiding, good mages who study orthodox spells. Only Tal Rasha spends all day researching taboo magic.

Every time he answers a summoning request, besides collecting demon souls, he also goes back and collects the taboo magic of every civilization.

I suspect something has already gone wrong up here; he’s been influenced.”

Ward pointed his staff at his own head, gesturing significantly.

Chen Xu nodded in response but offered no comment.

Mages... the class was just like that. There was a very fine line between a genius and a madman. Whether the sane ones were strong was hard to say, but the ones who went mad were almost always powerful.