Chapter 1246: Chapter Seventy-Five: Soldier Surge

Su Xiao walked quickly toward the outside of the village, although the signal flare was pulled down by him using a boundary-cutting line and did not explode, it left a red smoke trail shooting straight into the sky.

If the signal flare had fully exploded, the undead soldiers within a dozen kilometers would have swarmed here, but with only a smoke trail appearing, the number of undead soldiers it could attract was limited.

Su Xiao had just left the small village when a signal flare rose into the distance and exploded with a boom, this signal flare was about half a kilometer away from Su Xiao.

As soon as this signal flare exploded, dozens of signal flares in the surrounding kilometers began to explode one after another in midair, and in an instant, the high sky over the surrounding kilometers was filled with red smoke balls.

What is most noticeable about the signal flare is not the red smoke produced after explosion, but the sharp screaming sound during detonation, which can travel very far.

Su Xiao threw the Apostle's Eye into midair, and the Apostle's Eye flew upward; he had already set coordinates inside this mechanical eye, ensuring he could distinguish direction even when caught in a crowd.

The Apostle's Eye has three functions: first, detection, which is the reconnaissance ability Su Xiao often uses; second, warning color, where the Apostle's Eye marks enemies with colors based on their strength—this ability Su Xiao rarely uses, as he trusts his own judgment more, since strong attributes do not always mean strong strength.

As for the third function of the Apostle's Eye, it is vigilance—it can monitor the surroundings within half a kilometer, and once a suspicious creature approaches, the Apostle's Eye will immediately issue a warning; as a pale gold equipment, the Apostle's Eye is very practical.

When the third function of the Apostle's Eye was activated, Su Xiao saw a green circle appear before his eyes, very much like a radar, with the edge of the green circle filled with red dots, conservatively estimated at over ten thousand; the green circle represents the half-kilometer radius around him, and the red dots are enemies.

The edge of the green circle was already covered with red dots, these red dots were neatly arranged and slowly converging toward the center, while Su Xiao stood at the center of the green circle.

Boom, boom, boom……

The rumbling grew closer and closer; Su Xiao controlled the Apostle's Eye to float into the sky—being surrounded by enemy troops was already a bad situation, and if he lost direction again, Su Xiao would surely die under the tactic of overwhelming numbers.

The Apostle's Eye can guide Su Xiao's direction, ensuring he has a chance to break through the chaotic army.

In the rolling dust and smoke, Su Xiao saw the first wave of the undead army—they wore finely forged armor and held tower shields nearly two meters high, with the blades of long weapons protruding from above the shields.

Boom, boom, boom……

The rumbling, deafening rumbling—this was both the footsteps of tens of thousands of undead soldiers and the sound of war drums.

Three hundred meters away from Su Xiao, undead soldiers holding tower shields formed a ring, encircling him; all Su Xiao could see was a ring of shield wall.

Su Xiao being surrounded here was not due to his carelessness, but an inevitable situation.

The undead heavy shield soldiers surrounded Su Xiao; their strategy was simple: use tower shields to ram Su Xiao, and use several tower shields to pin him down, after which it would be spear thrusts from long weapons.

However, before that, the undead army still had a 'great gift' to give Su Xiao.

The shield wall around Su Xiao did not continue advancing; what Su Xiao needed to do next was simple: find the commander of this undead army and kill him—only after this undead army became leaderless would he have a chance to break through.

As for killing all these ten thousand undead soldiers, don't joke—this isn't slaughtering chickens; even if Su Xiao sliced them one by one, over ten thousand undead soldiers would take a long time to kill, and during that time, other undead units would arrive, causing the undead forces to gather more and more.

Don't say gathering hundreds of thousands—even gathering millions would not be an exaggeration; a few hours ago, the undead race had stopped attacking the Wall of Gods and instead dispatched most of their troops to patrol their territory, standing by at any moment.

Su Xiao's gaze swept around—besides seeing a ring of shield wall, he saw nothing else; as for the commander of this unit, this wasn't a performance—the commander would not step forward to speak nonsense, but would hide behind layers of troops, giving Su Xiao no chance to behead him.

Just as Su Xiao was observing the surroundings, the undead race's great gift arrived.

Whoosh~

A whistling sound came from above; Su Xiao looked up and saw a large patch of dense black dots in the sky—these black dots were countless spiral-shaped black cones, the undead race's signature long-range weapon, 'Black Dusk Rain'.

The Counter Shield appeared around Su Xiao, and melee combat was about to begin, so he did not worry about insufficient mana.

Facing melee combat, Su Xiao was very confident—first, due to his innate ability, and second, due to the blade effect of Dragon-Slashing Flash 2.

【Soul Devourer】

Innate Effect (Passive): After killing a target, permanently absorb 1–30 mana points, and restore an equal amount of mana and health (e. g., if killing an enemy permanently increases mana by 30, restore 30 mana and 30 health).

Note: In each derived world, at most 200 mana points can be absorbed; if mana absorption reaches the limit, Soul Devourer will be fully activated, and after killing enemies, the recovery effect increases by 50% (e. g., if 200 mana points have been successfully absorbed, killing enemies will still restore corresponding mana and health based on enemy strength, and increase recovery by 50%).

Supreme Blade Effect 2: Bloodthirsty Praise (Passive)—when using Dragon-Slashing Flash to attack, 16% of the damage dealt is converted into healing effect to heal oneself.

【Wood Spirit】Equipment Effect 1, Wood Activation (Passive—Defensive Equipment Form): mana regeneration per second increases by 130 points, maximum mana increases by 1200 points, physical defense increases by 40.

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With these three abilities, Su Xiao, as long as he is not instantly killed or exhausted in the crowd, would find it very hard for undead soldiers' attack power to kill him.

Black Dusk Rain fell from the sky, and the Counter Shield around Su Xiao unfolded, blocking everything above him.

After several seconds of metallic clinking, the 'Black Dusk Rain' stopped falling, and the ground around Su Xiao was already riddled with holes.

As soon as the first wave of Black Dusk Rain ended, the second wave arrived; Su Xiao remained in place, unmoving, waiting for the undead soldiers to approach.

After three consecutive waves of Black Dusk Rain, the Counter Shield above Su Xiao was already covered in cracks, and the undead soldiers around him, as if having received some order, began advancing toward Su Xiao.

The war drums sounded, and the undead soldiers marched in step, the shield wall gradually closing in, with enemies filling his field of view—this would impose immense psychological pressure, yet Su Xiao stood still in place, only gripping the hilt of his sword with one hand, assuming the stance to draw and slash.

The shield wall drew nearer—one hundred meters, eighty meters.

When the shield wall closed to fifty meters from Su Xiao, long weapons began to protrude from the gaps in the shields.

Woo~

The charge horn sounded, and the undead soldiers let out earth-shaking roars; maintaining formation, they roared as they charged toward Su Xiao, the soldier surge like a raging torrent.

Su Xiao took a deep breath, even feeling the ground beneath his feet begin to tremble—ten thousand soldiers charging at him; if his courage were insufficient, it would not be strange for his legs to go weak.

Su Xiao did not feel his legs weaken—on the contrary, he felt the blood in his body seem to be burning.