Wizard: Starting with Dealing with Magical Plants

Chapter 217 Battle Against the Giant Skeleton

The dark purple, corrupting mist rolled and surged in like a living thing, carrying a pungent, fishy smell and a strong corrosive sensation.

The purifying aura that Liana had unleashed fluctuated violently under the impact of the mist, like a candle flame in a storm, its golden light quickly dimming.

Her face turned pale instantly, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead. She was clearly struggling to resist both the erosion of the fog and the monster that could pounce at any moment.

Ahead, the vanguard of the undead tide, dozens of stiff-moving skeletons and staggering zombies, had already crossed the collapsed fence. Their empty eye sockets or rotting faces turned towards the squad in unison, letting out silent roars as they charged forward!

Further away, the mountain-like figure of the giant skeleton became clearer in the mist, and the heavy footsteps seemed to beat like a drum on everyone's heart, causing the ground pebbles to tremble.

The newly born corrupted monster completely ignored the tide of undead. Its body, temporarily pieced together from corrupted flesh, writhed violently, and several dark purple tentacles with round mouthparts and sharp teeth shot out with a fierce wind, heading straight for Liana, who was closest to it!

"Liana!" Ella exclaimed, trying to rush over, but Blake grabbed her shoulder.

"Don't go over there! There's something strange about the fog!" Blake roared, slamming his tower shield heavily into the ground. Dark red battle aura flames erupted, forming an arc-shaped shield that temporarily blocked the undead and some of the fog surging towards them.

The edge of the shield came into contact with the corrosive mist, emitting a hissing burning sound, and the consumption of battle qi accelerated visibly.

Kruger and five Forge Guards roared as they raised their shields and weapons, forming a small circular formation back to back. Their battle auras merged into one, desperately resisting the undead flanking from the flanks and the slowly seeping mist.

The surface of their armor had begun to show dark purple spots, signs of decay and erosion.

As the corrupted tentacles hurtled toward her, a resolute glint flashed in Liana's eyes.

Instead of trying to maintain the large-scale purification aura, she instantly concentrated all her power and poured it all into the short staff in her hand!

At the tip of the staff, a point of pure, golden-white light suddenly shone, like the first ray of dawn in the darkest hour before sunrise!

"Purifying Flames - Glory!"

With a sharp shout, she advanced instead of retreating, using her staff as a short spear, and with all her strength and the power of her holy flames, she fiercely thrust it into the center of the thickest tentacle's mouthparts!

puff!

The golden-white light clashed violently with the dark purple, decaying flesh!

Amidst the ear-piercing sound of energy annihilation, a large hole was pierced through the tentacle's mouthparts, and dark purple fluid splattered out. The tentacle convulsively retracted!

But the other tentacles were already within reach!

At this critical moment, Rowling made a move.

Instead of rushing towards Liana, he took a step forward, facing the tentacle that Liana had stabbed and the surging corrupting mist!

With this step, the light of the [Morning Star] and [Silent Star] in the sea of ​​consciousness surged simultaneously!

[Myriad Stars] is spinning at an unprecedented speed, and the star power is like a flood bursting its banks, surging into the [Disintegration of Order] spell model that is undergoing extreme reconstruction!

This time, the model's target is not one or a few energy nodes, but rather—an entire region!

A region that has been domesticated and corrupted by highly polluted energy sources, with a relatively simple and active energy structure.

The newly formed, corrupted monster's body, and the mist surrounding it, containing the same source power!

Given Roland's current level of understanding and knowledge of [Disruption of Order], interfering with such a large-scale target whose energy nature is not purely chaotic is extremely risky, with an unknown success rate and terrifying consumption!

But he had no choice.

The fog is eroding too quickly, the horde of undead is too dense, the giant skeletons are too close, and the corrupted monsters pose too great a threat.

Conventional methods are unlikely to quickly turn the tide.

Fight!

His mental energy was being rapidly depleted as if it were burning, his temples were throbbing, and his vision was blurring.

But the power of [Silent Star] firmly stabilized the spiritual core, providing a final sliver of clarity and stability. The echo unit operated at full power, frantically calculating the optimal interference frequency and the weak points of the target energy structure.

Luo Lin raised both hands simultaneously, spread his fingers, and made a loose fist towards the surging corrupting mist and unstable corrupting monsters in front of him!

There was no light, no sound.

Only an invisible force of negation and disintegration, seemingly originating from the level of rules, spread out in a fan shape from the center of Rolin!

The first to be hit was the injured tentacle that had retracted halfway, followed by several other tentacles.

The decaying flesh and blood on the surface of the tentacles wriggled and changed, like ice and snow splashed with strong acid, instantly solidified, lost its activity, and then began to collapse and melt from the microscopic structure!

It turned into puddles of foul-smelling, dark purple, viscous liquid!

Next, we see the ever-changing core of the corrupted monster's body.

The highly concentrated mass of tamed and corrupting source energy within it, imbued with simple commands to devour and destroy, seemed to have encountered a natural enemy. Its structure became extremely unstable, trembling violently, and then began to disintegrate and collapse from the inside!

The monster let out an even sharper, more painful and bewildered shriek, its entire body going limp like a melting wax figure, turning back into a pool of bubbling, putrid pus.

Finally, there was the thick, corrupting fog ahead.

The taming and corrupting particles contained in the mist lost their activity under the sweeping force of the collapsing order, collapsing from their corrosive energy form into harmless, gray-black dust that fell to the ground.

In an instant, a strange vacuum zone appeared, with the area in front of Roland as the boundary!

The corrupted monsters disappeared, and a large area of ​​the dense corrupted mist was cleared away, leaving only disgusting stains on the ground and gray-black dust falling from the air.

The cost is enormous.

Luo Lin swayed, his face ashen, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. His vision went completely black, and he barely managed to stay upright thanks to sheer willpower.

A sharp, intense pain shot through his mental sea, his star power nearly depleted.

The model for "Disruption of Order" is even more lackluster and cannot be activated again in a short period of time.

But the effect of this desperate attack was immediate!

The threat that was about to pounce on Liana vanished instantly, and she felt much less pressure. She took the opportunity to retreat quickly back behind Blake's shield wall, panting heavily as she tried to recover.

The cleared area ahead has given the team a precious respite and room to maneuver!

"Charge out! Break through to the right along the cleared area!" Blake seized the fleeting opportunity and roared hoarsely—he could see that Rolin was at his last gasp and they had to get out of danger immediately!

The shield wall surged forward, smashing through several zombies that were somewhat bewildered as the fog dissipated!

Ella unleashed a barrage of arrows, precisely targeting and eliminating the skull's eye socket that was closing in from the side!

Kruger and the Forge Guards roared, their battle aura erupting like sharp wedges, piercing the edge of the undead tide that was briefly thrown into chaos by the dissipation of the corrupting mist!

Liana, barely holding on, released a small-scale purification aura once more, protecting everyone's flanks and dispelling the thin, corrupting aura that had once again gathered around them.

Rowling was grabbed by Ella and almost dragged along with the group as they rushed forward.

He felt his internal organs churning, his head felt like it was about to split open, but he remained conscious and gritted his teeth to persevere.

The team fought their way out along the path cleared by the [Disruption of Order]. Although the undead horde was massive in number, without the enhancement of the corrupting mist and unified command, they became chaotic and sluggish, and the team actually managed to tear a gap in their ranks!

Just as the squad was about to break out of the outpost ruins and step into the relatively open wasteland, another unexpected event occurred!

In the distance, the giant skeleton seemed to be enraged by the death of the corrupted monster and the abnormal dissipation of the corrupted mist!

It let out an even more ferocious roar, and the two huge soul fires burning with a mixture of deep purple and pale white flames in its eye sockets suddenly blazed fiercely!

The pale blue visitor device on its shoulder blade, which was constantly rotating, flickered more rapidly and even emitted a sharp buzzing sound, as if it was protesting or under tremendous pressure!

The giant skeleton stopped moving slowly and suddenly raised one of its massive legs, made up of countless thick thigh bones, and slammed it down heavily in the direction the team had retreated!

boom!!!

The earth is shaking!

A shockwave, a mixture of death energy, corruption fluctuations, and—a trace of forcibly distorted pale blue energy of order—sweeped across the ground like an invisible tsunami, hurtling towards the squad.

Wherever the shockwave passed, the ground cracked, the rocks turned to dust, and the wandering low-level undead were thrown and torn apart like straw!

This attack covered an extremely wide area and was extremely fast, making it impossible to avoid!

"Defense!!!" Blake's eyes widened in fury as he slammed the tower shield into the ground, channeling all his battle aura into the shield without reservation!

The emblem of the furnace and flames on the shield burst forth with a dazzling red light, forming a thick wall of flames!

Kruger and the other Forge Guards simultaneously slammed their shields to the ground, their fighting spirits connecting to reinforce their defenses.

Ella pushed Rolin behind the shield wall, then turned around, drew her longbow to its full extent, and nocked a special arrow with the strongest armor-piercing and explosive runes on its tip, aiming at the surging mixed energy shockwave!

The arrow fletching trembled slightly, emitting a low hum.

Liana channeled her last bit of power into her staff, adding a thin layer of golden purifying light to the inside of the shield wall.

With his back against the cold shield, Rolin endured the dizziness and excruciating pain, channeling his remaining mental energy into the joint detector on his wrist.

The instrument screen flickered violently, barely managing to capture the detailed energy composition of the shock wave.

Death is primary, corruption secondary; the energy of order is twisted into tools for amplification and guidance—the core driver seems to be the mixed soul fire in the eye sockets of that giant skeleton, and—the unusually flickering visitor device on the shoulder blade!

Just as the mixed energy shockwave was about to strike the shield wall, Rolin shouted with all his might, "The shockwave core—the unstable Order Energy node—is a weakness!"

Before she finished speaking, Ella released the bowstring!

Buzz!