Divine Realm: Starting with the Broken Bone Dragon

(This is Jiang Mengyao's first time officially commanding a troop, so please be lenient with her for any shortcomings. Thank you all, Eddie Peng!)

"Forward! Kill them all!"

Feeling the new divine message in his heart, Tuhelian led his troops to charge even faster.

The giants of the earth quickened their pace, forming teams of one hundred, and charged toward the half-elves in different directions.

Unfortunately, the forest paths were intricate and complex, and even though they had split up, their progress was still slow.

"Captain Helian, there seems to be no movement behind us. I have a feeling something's not right."

Tuhelian stopped in his tracks, carefully sensed the situation, and then understood what he meant.

"When did the logging noise behind us stop?"

Tuhelian's face was gloomy. As the most powerful warrior in his tribe, his hearing could be greatly enhanced by the earth.

Even he couldn't hear the logging sounds from the outside, so something must have happened.

"No, there are enemies!"

Tuhelian gripped his spiked club, leaped with all his might, and slammed it hard into a large tree behind him.

"boom--"

The tree fell down, revealing a creature made of bones to them.

"How can there be undead creatures here!?"

With a few blows, Tuhelian dealt with the charging skeleton tiger, leaving him completely baffled.

Just as he was hesitating about whether to continue the attack, a divine oracle appeared in his mind once again.

"Large numbers of undead creatures are behind us! Retreat immediately!"

At this point, Zhan Tianqing could no longer maintain his mystique and issued several divine decrees urging Tu Helian to retreat quickly.

From his perspective, the overwhelming horde of undead creatures had completely surrounded the invasion passage and were gradually advancing into the forest, killing countless ordinary-level earth giants.

Although ordinary-level Earth Giants are not very powerful, with their potential, breaking through to the extraordinary level is a piece of cake. Even Zhan Tianqing was heartbroken to see so many Earth Giants die at once.

"Hopefully Tuhelian can return soon, otherwise—"

Zhan Tianqing's face darkened as he watched the shadow spheres running around in the core of the Divine Realm.

"Begin the counterattack, my people, the dead will help you."

Li Xue cleared her throat and said in a deliberately aloof tone.

"yes!"

Although she didn't quite understand how the deceased could help them, Lori excitedly accepted the divine decree—finally, she could begin her counterattack!

Without a deafening roar, the half-elves, carrying quivers and wielding longbows, nimbly slipped into the forest, forming a semi-circle as they made their way towards the location of the earth giant.

The first group of skeleton guards to enter the forest also began to fight the earth giant head-on.

As it turned out, the Earth Giants lived up to their reputation; the skeleton guards couldn't even last a minute against them before being smashed to pieces.

The complex combat environment within the forest further diminished the effectiveness of the skeleton archers, resulting in significant casualties.

"No, we can't keep fighting like this. Skeleton archers, retreat to the edge of the forest. Skeleton guards, slowly begin to retreat. Skeleton tigers, coordinate... Forget it, you wouldn't understand anyway. Skeleton tigers, just run!"

Sensing something was wrong, Jiang Mengyao hurriedly issued new orders, hoping to salvage some of the losses.

However, the forest was both their downfall and their triumph.

Although the complex environment of the forest prevented the skeleton archers from performing effectively, this also meant that, thanks to the rune's swiftness, the losses during the retreat were much less than Jiang Mengyao had anticipated.

As soon as they left the forest, before Jiang Mengyao could reorganize the group, hundreds of earth giants rushed out of the forest, and behind them, more and more earth giants appeared.

Jiang Mengyao was startled and hurriedly ordered the skeleton archers to start attacking. Although she hadn't organized the formation properly, the skeleton archers had already retreated from the forest first, so their current position was relatively safe.

With over 40,000 arrows fired simultaneously, even if the skeleton archers had poor aim, they wouldn't be too far off when facing a giant earth that was nearly 4 meters tall.

Moreover, the giant shields of these earth giants had already been shattered by the relentless rain of arrows from the half-elves, and now, being naked, the damage inflicted by the skeleton archers was even greater.

After several rounds of volleys, dozens of Earth Giants were already dead before they could reach the Skeleton Guards, and almost all of the remaining Earth Giants were wounded.

Even so, these earth giants still overwhelmingly defeated the skeleton guards. If the skeleton tigers hadn't drawn the attention of many earth giants, the casualties would have been even more terrifying.

In the Divine Realm, Lin Fan, observing the battlefield through the Shadow Orb, kept extending his claws to write and draw on the Bone Book Monster, but in the end, he still sighed in frustration.

"The skeleton itself is still too weak. Even if we try our best to change it to another type of unit, its combat power is still low."

Lin Fan reluctantly released the Bone Book Monster from his hand and lazily lay down on the ground.

Solving this problem isn't difficult; it simply involves addressing either quantity or quality.

The strategy of overwhelming the enemy with sheer numbers is to use an endless sea of ​​undead. However, this method can only be used against creatures at the fifth tier, which is below the lord level, because most creatures can fly once they reach the lord level.

At this point, no matter how many extraordinary or even elite-level skeletons there are, they cannot have any effect on the opponent.

You have a lot of them, I'll just pat my butt and fly away. Who wants to fight you head-on?

As for improving quality, that is even more difficult.

Although the Skeleton Legion is already quite strong compared to other skeletons of the same level due to Jiang Mengyao's talent, and can even fight three at once, it is still too fragile against the exceptionally gifted Earth Giant.

The solution is quite simple: the skeleton mages must develop a transcendent path suitable for these skeletons.

For example, battle qi, elemental power, immortal power... let's forget about that.

This kind of energy that empowers them is the cornerstone of the skeleton army's growth, enabling them to break through to elite levels or even higher ranks on a large scale.

But how easy is it to forge a completely new path?

Everyone knows that the path pioneered by the clan itself is the most suitable cultivation system for them, even if the clan is truly too foolish to find its own path.

Some cultivation paths are also sold on trading platforms.

The problem now is that since the creation of the divine realm system, no god with skeletons as the core of their followers has ever pioneered this path, which shows how difficult it is.

"But that's true. Expecting these skeleton mages, or even skeletons, to create their own path is simply a pipe dream."

Lin Fan shook his head. In the memories he absorbed, even someone as powerful as the eighth-tier Skeleton King was only strong in physical strength and relied on his physical body to brutally use death energy attacks.