Chapter 22: New Skill, Gale Slash!

The class change was activated, and a warm current surged through Bruce.

Bruce’s bones were thicker and stronger, and the color was even darker.

His ribs continued to extend, narrowing the gaps between the bones. It was as if they were going to join together to form a layer of bone plate armor.

It took Bruce a full ten minutes to complete this class change.

When the class change was completed, Bruce’s height increased again—from 1.8 meters to 2 meters! His body also became sturdy. He was no longer slender.

Bruce was like a warrior wearing heavy armor. Even if he did not choose the white bone armor, the highest vitality attribute still added a layer of hard bone to Bruce’s skeleton body.

Other than that, the faint aura of power and death also gave Bruce the power of a high-tier undead!

His tall body stood in the wilderness.

Bruce clenched his hand in the air, and the skeleton broadsword, which had also become a bit bigger, appeared in his hand.

Gently waving the skeleton broadsword and listening to the chi chi sound of the blade cutting through the air, Bruce muttered to himself, “Elite Class.”

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[ Gale Combo: Active skill. Consumes half of your stamina and explodes three light blades in an instant, dealing 80% , 100% , and 120% damage to the enemy. ]

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For the skeleton clan, the first leap was from skeleton to skeleton soldier, and the second leap was from advanced skeleton to elite skeleton.

The first leap activated the consciousness of the skeletons, allowing them to have a sense of self from their ignorant state. Under this premise, they began to hunt their own kind, leveling-up and becoming stronger.

The second leap activated the wisdom of the skeletons!

Yes, the elite skeletons already possessed wisdom.

Even if it was the basic and primitive kind of wisdom, what’s important was that it already possessed a sense of judgment.

This would affect the arrangement of the skeleton generals, the charge and escape of the elite skeleton swordsmen, the orders and requests of the ferocious zombies, the poison spit of the elite zombies after they were trapped, and so on.

These were all signs of having intelligence!

Of course, it was in its most basic form.

Bruce believed that warrior-level skeletons would have intermediate intelligence.

A lord-ranked skeleton would most likely be almost as intelligent as a human!

Facing such a high-level undead, Bruce could not treat it like he would when facing an elite skeleton or a skeleton below the elite level. Once he stepped into the trap of a high-level undead, what awaited him would be irreversible.

After changing to the elite level, Bruce had somehow gotten used to his strength. He once again embarked on the path of hunting.

He needed to replenish his underlings.

Leveling-up required more experience points. Combining the advantages of the elite skeleton swordsman and the zombie class template, the heavy-armored skeleton swordsman gave Bruce a higher growth rate, but it also increased the amount of experience points he needed to level up by 0.5 times.

Other than that, Logris’s existence was like a sword of Damocles hanging above his head. Bruce had become more eager to become stronger!

No one knew if Logris was in the boneyard. Even if he wasn’t, no one was sure if he would suddenly return to look for the lost crystal ball.

Logris was the biggest threat to Bruce, not the players who would only arrive two-and-a-half months later.

As he left, Bruce placed the crystal ball in his sternum.

As he did so, the crystal ball automatically floated up and released fine black fog, connecting to Bruce’s bones. Like chains, it firmly embedded itself in the center of his sternum.

It was as if, the crystal ball had become Bruce’s heart.

In this state, the crystal ball would automatically absorb the death aura in the air. After being purified, it would flow into Bruce’s skeleton body through the fine mist chains.

In terms of data, it was continuously providing Bruce with experience and attribute values.

Although the amount provided daily was not much, it was better for Bruce in the long run. After years of accumulation, the experience points and attribute points provided by the crystal ball for Bruce were quite a large number.

With this arrangement, Bruce could also use the magic storage function of the crystal ball. He could store his magic power into the crystal ball at any time and likewise extract it at any critical moment.

One day later, Bruce led his remaining nine skeletal underlings into the true core of the boneyard.

Even if he already had the ability to crush the elite skeletons, Bruce still needed to be careful in that area. He did not need to boldly harvest the elite skeletons and enslave the elite skeletons.

It was not because of anything else.

Below the elite rank, whether it was the basic skeletons or advanced skeletons, they were all scattered soldiers. Even skeleton warriors would not be able to fight more than ten of their subordinates. There was no need to worry at all.

However, starting from the elite rank, army combat was the main trend!

For example, when Bruce had just entered the central area of the boneyard, he had encountered battles between elite skeleton swordsmen and skeleton generals. He was just lucky.

In the central region of the boneyard, there were only a few elite skeletons that fought one-on-one.

The vast majority of the skeletons that had entered the elite rank had been absorbed!

Yes.

Absorbed.

Skeleton warriors had the ability to control skeleton soldiers, and skeleton generals also had the ability to control skeleton warriors. In the entire boneyard, almost 70% of the skeleton generals, skeleton warriors, and skeleton soldiers were under the command of a warrior-ranked skeleton commander.

Meanwhile, the warrior-ranked skeleton commanders were directly under the Skeleton King!

Before this, the skeletons that Bruce hunted, regardless of their rank, were all “raised.” In the human world, these skeletons were like bandits. They were existences that were regularly harvested.

After this, the skeletons that Bruce wanted to hunt were those under the command of the Skeleton King.

Bruce would have to be willing to spend a lot of time not harvesting the skeleton army, and he would instead have to search for 30% of the elite skeletons and warrior skeletons that were wandering in the wilderness.

Otherwise, he would have to fight against the skeleton army that belonged to the Skeleton King.