Another World: When a Necromancer Possesses the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls

Li Xingyao immediately issued orders to all the scattered skeleton warriors through mental connection: abandon their guard positions and immediately regroup at the town entrance! The undead units located in the deepest part of the town became the rear guard and began to retreat like the receding tide.

However, the retreating undead army had only been moving for a short while.

Li Xingyao's brows furrowed suddenly!

In his perception, the spiritual connection of the skeleton warrior located in the far northwest of the town was extinguished without warning! It wasn't a reaction to damage from an attack, but rather like a candle flame being blown out in an instant, without even a trace of struggle!

Almost immediately, the connection to another skeleton near the skeleton warrior also suddenly disappeared!

"Something's wrong!" Li Xingyao's tense voice rang out in the tactical channel. "Northwest, about two kilometers away, two skeleton units have lost contact! The extended line from the two vanishing points leads to the town entrance!"

The channel fell silent instantly, with only the sound of everyone's suddenly heavier breathing remaining.

As soon as he finished speaking, the connection to the third skeleton warrior was extinguished! This time, Li Xingyao confirmed a clearer trajectory—the unknown enemy was charging straight towards the town entrance, which was their location, along a straight path!

Li Xingyao checked the information again and confirmed that something was heading their way.

"Enemy attack! Prepare for possible battle!" Lin Wei's voice suddenly rose, filled with unprecedented urgency. "Everyone accelerate! Move towards the town entrance! Li Xingyao, Wang Yisong, prepare to provide backup!"

As Lin Wei finished speaking, Wang Yisong swung his shield, the massive tower shield slamming heavily onto the ground in front of him with a loud thud. He bent his legs, lowering his height and reducing his body surface area, shrinking the shield behind him; a faint energy glow instantly emanated from the edge of the shield. Li Xingyao's mind raced, and the approximately one hundred skeleton warriors at the forefront of the retreating group immediately stopped shrinking.

They turned on the spot and, about a hundred meters in front of Li Xingyao and Wang Yisong, spread out and quickly formed a slightly thin but well-defined arc-shaped defensive line!

At that moment, Lin Wei's team was also rushing out of the town at full speed, heading towards them.

Just as the two groups joined forces, the target that was attacking the skeleton warrior came into their view!

Through the sparse lines of skeleton warriors, the group finally saw the attackers, but they were not the star beasts they had expected, but... humans!

About seven or eight figures were seen rushing from the depths of the town at an extremely fast speed! They were wearing all sorts of armor, carrying weapons, and their class composition was clearly that of a standard wilderness exploration team—two warriors in front, an archer and an assassin in the middle, and a person carrying a medkit!

The squad looked disheveled, their armor stained and damaged, their faces showing fear and exhaustion, but they moved with remarkable speed, as if being chased by something extremely terrifying.

Immediately afterwards, at two other adjacent intersections, two small teams of more than ten people each rushed out. One team had about fourteen people and the other had about eleven people. They were similarly configured, mainly consisting of physical damage dealers and lacking magic damage dealers, typical of wilderness search and reconnaissance teams.

The three teams had obviously spotted each other, but they made no attempt to communicate or merge. Instead, as if by unspoken agreement, they quickly spread out laterally and then... ran straight past Li Xingyao and his hastily formed defensive line, a hundred meters away, without looking back!

Some even glanced subconsciously at the motionless skeleton warriors before quickening their pace, as if afraid of being a step too slow.

"They..." Su Muyao stared in astonishment at the group of people fleeing for their lives, then a smile crept onto her lips. She found the scene somewhat comical, as if she were witnessing a scene from an absurd drama.

However, her smile froze completely on her face before it could even fully open.

The very next second that the three human teams had just rushed past, something truly terrifying appeared, surging out from every intersection in the town like a tidal wave!

Their bodies were covered in shadowy fur, with a crescent-shaped hair on their foreheads. They were as large as calves, with long and powerful limbs. Their claws and teeth gleamed with a cold, eerie light, and their eyes flickered with a cruel and cunning ghostly green light.

The Shadowmoon Demon Wolf is a high-level star beast known for its speed and strength, and is skilled in ambushes and teamwork!

One, five, ten, twenty... seemingly endless! Their figures emerged from the shadows of the ruins like ghosts, converging into a suffocating torrent of death! The first dozen or so were just an appetizer; in the blink of an eye, the number of wolves rushing into the main road and the areas on both sides exceeded fifty!

But this was far from the end. More eerie green pupils flickered in the shadows behind them. In the end, the total number of demonic wolves that appeared in everyone's field of vision reached a despairing eighty-plus!

A chilling coldness instantly shot from everyone's spine to the top of their head!

In an instant, they all understood! They understood why the three teams had fled in such a panic, and why they hadn't even bothered to issue a warning to "them" who were so close at hand! They were simply trying to divert the trouble, attempting to use Li Xingyao's suddenly appearing team as bait to buy themselves a chance to escape!

Anger, fear, and the chill of being targeted by a horde of advanced star beasts instantly overwhelmed everyone.

"Defense! Circular defensive formation!!" Lin Wei's shout was even slightly distorted due to extreme tension, but her brain was still working at high speed. "Li Xingyao! It's all up to you! Summon! Summon as many undead as possible! High-level! Low-level! All of them! Form a formation to help block them! I, Lin Wei, will compensate you for all the losses afterwards! Don't worry! What I can provide will definitely satisfy you!"

"And me, Su Muyao, I'll give you one too!" The 'young lady' nervously added to Li Xingyao's offer.

"Me too, Xinyao, bring out your assets!" Lei Lie shouted.

"Xingyao, this is a matter of life and death, I'll make it up to you too!" Mu Chenbin joined in.

In this life-or-death situation, these distinguished members of the team could no longer afford to consider anything else. They spoke urgently, making promises one after another. They knew that against such a large pack of Shadowmoon Wolves, conventional tactics were ineffective. Their only hope lay in Li Xingyao's undead summons. They would use low-level undead to wear down and slow the wolf pack's charge, while using high-level undead to form a defensive and counter-attacking formation. Only in this way could they secure a sliver of hope!

Li Xingyao didn't answer. Words were superfluous at this moment; if the team collapsed, he wouldn't survive either. He'd consider their reward later if they could return. His eyes turned cold; all distracting thoughts were completely banished, and all his mental energy was focused on summoning and control!

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the light flashed continuously in the space of death, and the vast star energy within Li Xingyao poured out like a flood!

Li Xingyao first summoned twenty Tyrant Zombies. These massive, thick-skinned zombies, under Li Xingyao's command, quickly formed a thick oval defensive circle around the perimeter, leaving an opening for the soldiers in front, protecting the entire squad in the center!

Their scimitar-like claws gleamed with a cold light, as if they could tear creatures apart at any moment, exuding a cruel sense of power.

Immediately afterwards, thirty skeleton swordsmen were summoned. Wielding long, sharp bone swords, they were dispersed by Li Xingyao to fill the gaps between the Tyrant zombies, assisting the defense team on the flanks and rear. They were more agile and had more exquisite swordsmanship, responsible for filling gaps in the defense and close-range strangulation.

Then, ten skeleton longbowmen appeared behind Su Muyao and the other archers. They silently took down the bone bows they carried, drew back the bowstrings, and aimed bone arrows that shimmered with different elemental auras at the outer perimeter, providing supplementary ranged firepower.

Finally, a tidal wave of skeleton warriors surged forth—a full three hundred of the most basic, low-level undead! Summoned by Li Xingyao, they were densely scattered outside the inner defensive line formed by the Tyrant Zombies and Skeleton Swordsmen, creating a buffer zone and cannon fodder wall of bones! Their sole mission was to wear down the demonic wolves' attack and withstand their pounces and bites!

All of this, though described slowly, actually happened in just a few seconds! Li Xingyao almost emptied most of his undead space in an instant! A massive, well-structured undead formation, exuding a strong aura of death, suddenly appeared at the entrance of this desolate town, as if by magic!

Meanwhile, the massive Shadowmoon Wolf pack had completed its initial assembly and observation. About fifty of the wolves, their eyes gleaming with bloodlust and cruelty, crouched low, threatening growls emanating from their throats, locking onto the suddenly appearing, alluring group before them.

Meanwhile, the other thirty-odd demon wolves, led by a particularly large demon wolf with a slightly long tuft of silver fur on its forehead, relentlessly pursued the three human teams in the direction they had fled! Their objective was equally clear.

Divide the forces!

Seeing nearly half of the demonic wolves chasing after their "kin," Li Xingyao and the others breathed a slight sigh of relief. The pressure had lessened somewhat! Although they still had to face around fifty high-level star beasts, which was still a terrifying force, their chances of survival were infinitely greater than facing over eighty high-level star beasts!

However, the wolf pack did not give them much time to adjust.

"Awooo—!"

With a sharp, long howl, the remaining fifty Shadowmoon Wolves moved!

Their movements were as swift as lightning, like fifty shadows hurtling along the ground, launching a charge in an instant! During the charge, the dozen or so demonic wolves at the forefront suddenly opened their mouths, and a ghostly green light gathered deep within their throats—

The next moment, more than a dozen condensed [Moonlight Waves], radiating a cold and milky white light, tore through the air and first covered the undead defense line and Li Xingyao and the others behind it!