Wizard: You can become stronger by living life to the fullest.

Chapter 232 017: The Skeleton

"Whoosh!!!" A sharp sound of wind breaking through the air rang out across the entire wasteland as the high-speed spinning bone arrow shaft shot straight toward Rosie's carriage.

The arrow seemed to have broken the speed of sound, creating a series of explosions along its path. A clear airburst trail appeared in its trajectory. When it reached the carriage, it was no longer a single arrow, but rather a powerful gust of air that pressed down on the carriage.

Such a terrifying surge of waves would have torn an ordinary carriage to shreds in an instant. However, just as the arrows were about to hit the carriage, an invisible barrier suddenly appeared around it, and the arrows crashed into the barrier.

"boom!"

A violent roar erupted, and Rosie's defensive field flickered continuously, with ripples spreading out like a boulder thrown into a calm lake.

The white bone arrows broke into several pieces and flew to the surrounding land. Several of the broken bone fragments exploded the moment they hit the ground, instantly creating several deep pits with a diameter of tens of centimeters.

With a "whoosh!" the speeding carriage came to a stop, and Luo Xi leisurely stepped down from it.

He raised an eyebrow, his gaze falling on the pale white skeleton on the distant hillside.

"This power"

The power of a single arrow was almost enough to penetrate its defensive force field. Even some flying bone fragments could blast so many deep craters in the ground. Such attack power far exceeded the level that ordinary skeletons could achieve.

"A wizard-level skeleton?"

"And it's a wizard-level skeleton with considerable strength!"

In terms of attack power alone, the energy coefficient of that arrow just now was probably at the level of a mid-level wizard, equivalent to a spell of about the third ring. This is a powerful spell that even Rosie cannot currently master.

"Again?"

As Rosie pondered, the skeleton archer in the distance once again drew its bow, preparing to shoot Rosie again.

He couldn't keep passively taking hits like this. Besides, even with his strength, he couldn't withstand more than a few arrows with that energy coefficient. So, Luo Xi took out the Death Scythe from his spatial ring and rushed towards the skeleton in a flash.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Arrows rained down from the skeleton's hands, but Rosie moved swiftly across the wilderness in an S-shaped trajectory, calmly dodging the incoming arrows.

The two were only about four or five hundred meters apart, and at Luo Xi's speed, he closed in on the white skeleton in just a few breaths.

With the Grim Reaper's scythe raised high in his hand, its sharp, long blade bursting with a blood-red light, Rosie held the scythe high, like a true Grim Reaper, and slashed straight at the skeleton.

"Click!"

The Grim Reaper's scythe sliced ​​easily across the skeleton, slicing through the decaying bones, and the entire white skeleton shattered with a clang.

"So crispy?"

Seeing how easily the skeleton was defeated, Rosie was taken aback. He had originally thought that a skeleton capable of unleashing such powerful attacks must also possess considerable strength, but now it seemed to be no different from an ordinary skeleton.

"That's strange, how did they manage that?"

Looking at the broken bones on the ground, Luo Xi couldn't help but feel suspicious.

Theoretically speaking, a skeleton capable of unleashing such powerful attacks should be quite strong itself, at least not so easily defeated. Keep in mind, it didn't even use magic, just pure knight-level attack power.

He picked up a piece of bone and examined it closely. It was still burning with a ghostly blue soul flame. The texture and reaction of the flame were not much different from the soul flames he usually knew.

"What is that skeleton?" Just then, Lina floated over. "Was it made by a wizard?"

"No."

Rosie shook her head and looked around at the wasteland: "It should be an undead creature naturally bred in this area."

Undead creatures do not necessarily require magic to form. In areas with a strong aura of death, skeletons will naturally awaken after absorbing a large amount of death energy, and this area meets the conditions for the formation of such undead.

Lina exclaimed in surprise, "Oh, so you're one of my kind then?"

Luo Xi said, "What? Are you going to seek justice for it?"

Lina laughed so hard she bent over.

Luo Xi then took out a small wooden box and gathered the bone fragments on the ground into the box.

Lina asked suspiciously, "Why did you pick up all this trash?"

"I'll study it again later," Rosie explained. "Some of the characteristics of this bone are quite interesting to me."

Lina was speechless: "What a magic fanatic."

"Thank you for your compliment," said Rosie.

The carriage continued on its journey.

After some research, Rosie quickly figured out why these undead skeletons could unleash such powerful energy with their weak bodies.

It is inside the skull.

Within the skull, Roshi discovered a crystal the size of a thumb. The origin of this crystal was unknown, but Roshi's actual testing revealed that it functioned as an energy storage device, capable of absorbing the death energy in the air and converting it into stored energy.

The soul flames of a skeleton seem to have some connection with this deathly aura, allowing it to directly draw upon its energy. This is why skeletons can unleash powerful attacks despite their frail bodies.

"Amazing species!"

Inside the carriage, Luo Xi used tweezers to pick up the blue crystal and examined it closely. She never expected to find such a good thing in these ruins.

Since these skeletons can establish a connection with this blue crystal and draw upon its energy, wouldn't he also be able to apply it to other undead? As a part-time necromancer, researching and modifying undead has always been one of Rosie's pleasures.

"If we installed one of these on the blacksmith Badr, wouldn't that be amazing?" Rosie exclaimed with interest.

"However, this is not enough; we need to collect more blue crystals for the experiments."

With this in mind, Rosie deliberately led the unicorn towards areas with a strong aura of death, as these areas were the most likely to produce undead creatures.

And soon, just as Rosie had predicted, they encountered undead creatures again, this time several skeleton warriors, wearing tattered armor and carrying rusty cross-shaped swords, dragging their broken bodies as they wandered through the wilderness.

(End of this chapter)