Chapter 95: 095 First Wave
Translator: 549690339
Generally speaking, it would be fitting to have a few wizards for this kind of tower defense game.
However, although Dean McKenzie has a wizard template at his disposal, he can’t extract any spirit, rendering the wizard template useless.
Moreover, a level 20 wizard doesn’t have any area-of-effect attacks, which means it might not be as useful as an archer.
This is the reason why Dean McKenzie invested two-thirds of his forces into Skeleton Archers.
As Dean McKenzie spent 31 gold coins, the combat capabilities of the 62 skeletons skyrocketed, resulting in significant changes in their attributes.
Name: Bone Hardening Skeleton Warrior
Template: Elite
Attributes:
Strength: 6.6, Agility: 4 7, Physique: 10.6
Attack: 8.6 (5)
Defense: 5.2 (10.6)
Skill: Bone Hardening (Level 1) Passive increase in defense, 1 Physique point increases 1 Defense point
Equipment: Skeleton Longsword (Level 20) (Common) (Attack Increase by 5)
Name: Accurate Skeleton Archer
Template: Mastery
Attributes:
Strength: 4-9, Agility: 12.1, Physique: 4-7
Attack: 6.05(5)
Defense: 2.7
Skill: Concentrated Shooting(Level i)(Passively increases shooting accuracy by
10 percent, increases range by ten meters)
Equipment: Bone Bow (Level 20) (Common) (Arrows: 50/50)
Generates 1 arrow per minute
This is the result of Dean McKenzie spending 31 gold coins.
The power of the 62 skeletons can be described as reincarnated.
With the evolution of these 62 skeletons complete, the battle on Dean McKenzie’s side officially began.
However, since no elite level opponents had appeared on the enemy side, Dean McKenzie did not participate, instead he commanded the skeletons in battle.
Honestly speaking, this is the first time Dean McKenzie has commanded a battle of this scale.
During the previous skirmishes with the goblin tribes, Dean McKenzie mainly allowed the skeletons to act independently, utilizing their initiative to attack the enemy in unexpected ways.
In layman’s terms, they had been fighting haphazardly.
This is Dean McKenzie’s first time commanding a battle in such an organized manner.
Yet, not even ten minutes in, Dean McKenzie was almost exhausted. “It’s no good, I’m not cut out for commanding large-scale battles!” It took only ten minutes for Dean McKenzie to understand his limits. His advantage lay in multitasking and close, flexible command over the skeletons. Yet this advantage turned into a disadvantage in a large-scale war. He focused too much on tactical strategies, and wished he could personally command each skeleton, which consumed a lot of his energy.
It wasn’t even ten minutes before he was feeling lightheaded and dizzy.
It was only after giving up command that he noticed his skeletal troops were actually doing pretty well in the battle.
On one hand, he had 9 Elite One-turn Skeletons, 1 Excellent One-turn Skeleton, and 62 Elite Skeletons.
While they were outnumbered by the enemy, their quality was far superior. Moreover, they held the upper hand in the terrain, so even though they were fewer in number, they could still suppress enemy skeletons’ attack.
Additionally, Dean found that Doggy Two seemed capable of commanding the battle.
And seemed to command it quite well.
Doggy Two expertly commanded where to focus their attacks and where to defend, as if he was born with this innate knowledge.
After watching for a while, Dean McKenzie couldn’t help but exclaim that some skeletons seem to be born for this job.
“Speaking of which, Doggy Two and Number Eight are becoming more and more intelligent.
Their IQs are almost on par with a pig’s now.”
At first glance, Dean’s words might not seem like a compliment, but indeed, they were.
While Doggy Two was directing the battle, Number Eight wasn’t idle either. He activated [Strong Stealth], transformed into a shadow, and wandered around the battlefield like a cheerful little bee, picking up the dots of light from the ground and presenting them like treasures to Dean McKenzie.
Seeing Dean receiving items and smiling like a happy idiot, the flames in the eyes of Number Eight danced joyously, much like the wagging tail of a dog upon seeing its master.
Seeing this, Dean couldn’t help but smile knowingly.
“This is also pretty good!”
The battle lasted for five or six hours without Dean McKenzie intervening. Thank goodness both sides of the combatants were skeletons. If humans had to fight as intensely as Dean’s skeletons for five or six hours, they would have collapsed from exhaustion long ago.
In those five or six hours, Dean’s skeletons wiped out countless enemies. What they did know was that almost all of Dean’s regular skeletons had been killed.
Only a little over a hundred were left.
But all of the elite template skeletons remained alive under Dean’s watch. Moreover, those 62 skeletons that were originally at level 20 all leveled up to one-turn.
Their transition was quite convenient since they didn’t need to undergo any promotion trials. However, the attribute points gained from the transition were a bit fewer, only an increase by thirty percent.
But this was still a massive upgrade.
Dean now commanded 72 one-turn skeletons.
At the same tier, Dean just needed to send them out, and they could obliterate a large area.
More importantly, this force could help Dean withstand half an hour in this dungeon, providing time for his mana recovery.
Yes, the greatest purpose of training them was to help Dean hold on through his mana recovery time.
So, the moment they completed their transition and formed their battle strength, Dean stopped watching the show and stepped in to take action. He swung the [Bone Scepter], throwing out Bone Fangs as if they were free, Under the enhancement of the Bone Scepter, Dean’s [Bone Fang] skill upgraded to level 5-
However, to be honest, when confronting these skeletons not even at one-turn, there wasn’t much difference between the damage done by Bone Fang at level 3 and at level 5.
Whenever Dean attacked, the Bone Fang split, and Dean could slightly control the strike range of the split Bone Fang to clear skeletons within a hundred meters.
Dean’s ten minutes of slaughter alone was equivalent to the results of Doggy Two and others after several hours of combat.
With Dean’s attack, skeletons on the opposite side fell down in large quantities. Although each burst of level 5 Bone Fang consumed 300 mana, it wasn’t a big problem.
Dean McKenzie, with over 3000 mana, could output over ten rounds.
Even after that, it wasn’t a problem. He could sit cross-legged to recover, and in twenty to thirty minutes, Dean would be back in fighting form.
Like this, Dean wiped out for several hours.
The number of skeletons he had destroyed was even past his own counting. All he knew was that his level had increased from level 27 to level 29. Moreover, under such a killing state, Dean’s skill proficiency had greatly increased.
Aside from Bone Fang and Meditation, it was unexpected even to Dean that the proficiency of [Summon Skeleton] had also considerably increased. After only a few hours of Dean’s slaughter, the originally densely packed skeletons on the Land of Bone started to thin out.
When all the sparse skeletons were eliminated by Dean.
The system alert suddenly updated. “[First Wave of Trial Finished, Second Wave of Trial Begins!] Immediately after, new skeletons seamlessly streamed out from the crack. When Dean saw the new wave of skeletons approaching, his mouth hung open.
“A surprise, isn’t it right here?”
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