Chapter 13: The Reversal of Necromancy
With a click, a skeletal arm fell to the ground.
It turned out that a second-level ghoul had inadvertently hit Locke's broken arm, causing Locke's skeletal arm that was still hanging on his body to completely leave Locke's bone frame.
An extra arm is a completely different situation than one less arm, even if it is an arm that cannot attack, because it has upset the balance of Locke's body to which he has long been adapted.
As soon as the balance of his body was disrupted, Locke's skeletal dexterity decreased considerably. More second-level ghouls can also attack Locke, and Locke's one-arm is basically used to block the attacks of two third-level ghouls, and he can't spare his energy to attack and block the second-level ghouls around him.
Locke's situation became even worse because of this.
"What should I do?" Locke asked himself.
With a howl, the third-level ghoul beast let out a ghoul howl again.
In a trance, Locke was once again knocked to the ground without resistance.
Seeing that this skeleton warrior was knocked down, the two third-level ghouls did not continue to attack.
Obviously, these two third-level ghouls seemed to be powerless to resist the skeleton warriors. As for Locke's soul fire, these two third-level undead creatures naturally looked down on it, so they planned to leave Locke to the other existences of the ghoul group to devour.
Up to this point, Locke had endured almost four third-level ghoul howls, and the two third-level ghouls had almost exhausted their mental power after each casting two ghoul howls, at least for a short period of time, they didn't have enough mental power to continue to perform the ghoul howls.
The nearly ten second-level ghouls around him took advantage of this opportunity to rush up.
Locke, who fell to the ground, was powerless to stop the joint siege of so many second-level ghouls at this time.
There was a flash of soul fire in the skull, and a bone spear appeared from in front of Locke, right on top of the head of a second-level ghoul besieging him, and through its eye sockets, and even shot through the ghoul's soul fire.
"Opportunity. Locke's mind flickered, ignoring the attacks of the other ghouls, and he raised one of his bony claws, which was still intact, and grabbed the head of the injured ghoul that had been struck by his own necromantic magic.
The bone spear hit the soul fire in the head of the second-level ghoul, although it did not hurt the soul fire, but it also made the ghoul feel as if he had been hit by spiritual undead magic, and there was a trace of confusion in his soul. In the face of Locke's attack, he didn't even react, let alone dodge.
After all, these ghouls were only second-level undead creatures, and Locke's skeletal body had already reached the fourth-level strength. As long as these second-level ghouls didn't hit Locke's joints, it would be difficult for them to shatter Locke's skeletal body with a single blow.
The two third-level ghouls did not besiege Locke together, which also gave Locke a chance to turn over and reverse.
The ghoul's head was not large, and Locke's bony claws grabbed it in his hand. After all, the ghoul is shaped like a bird, the whole size is less than a meter, and the head is naturally not that big.
As soon as Locke, who fell to the ground, grabbed the head of the unlucky ghoul, and didn't give the other party a chance to struggle, he immediately spun around. In an instant, the ghoul's head was separated from its body, and its head was captured by Locke along with its second-level soul fire.
Hold the head of this ghoul containing soul fire to his soul fire, suck it gently, and another second-level soul fire merges into Locke's first-level soul fire.
In the midst of the chaos, the encounter with this second-level ghoul was not immediately discovered by other undead creatures.
A feeling of saturation surged over Locke's soul fire again, and Locke felt as if he was about to be promoted to a second-level undead creature at any time, and Locke's soul fire at this time had reached the verge of promotion.
Locke forcibly suppressed the urge to meditate, and in an instant, a bone spear shot out from in front of Locke, in order to vent the surging spiritual power, Locke naturally no longer stingy with undead magic.
Many undead ghouls were within a few meters of Locke's side, and there was no time to escape Locke's necromantic magic for a while.
Several ghouls were struck by Locke's undead magic and retreated.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Locke picked up the skeleton of his fallen arm and stood up.
It was only at this point that several ghouls discovered the fall of another companion.
Locke, whose mental power had greatly increased, did not stop shooting with bone spears.
With the strength of Locke's soul fire at this time, a first-level undead magic like a bone spear shot was enough to cast more than twenty times.
Locke shot the bone spear to keep the ghoul out of his way and secretly ran his bone alchemy, trying to equip himself with a broken bone arm. If the skeleton of another skeleton creature is broken, the only way to deal with it is to find an intact bone to connect it to the joint. However, Locke was able to perform bone alchemy, smelt the broken bones, and connect his broken bone arm directly.
In fact, Locke's undead magic bone spear shooting is only first-level undead magic after all, and if he doesn't directly hit the vital point, it is difficult to hurt a ghoul with second-level strength. The second-level ghoul who was killed by Locke before was also unlucky, and was hit in the head by Locke within a meter of Locke's side, and shot through the soul fire, so Locke seized the opportunity to kill him.
Soon, Locke's broken arm was reinstalled without any damage.
Of course, during the previous siege, Locke's fragile ribs were broken and broken. Although Locke can also use bone alchemy to install it, it takes time after all, and as long as the broken bones do not affect Locke's combat power, Locke will not be in a hurry to install it.
After Locke pretended to kill the second-level ghoul, the two third-level ghouls who had originally retreated immediately stepped forward and continued to attack Locke, but at this time, Locke's lost bone arm had been connected.
After all, ghouls are low-level undead creatures with low intelligence, and there is no strategy to besiege Locke, only to besiege Locke. Even when Locke installed a severed arm for himself before, these ghouls didn't know how to stop Locke from attaching a bone arm because of Locke's non-lethal undead magic attack.
It also gave Rock a chance to fight back and come.
In terms of speed, Locker was no match for a third-level ghoul, barely on par with a second-level ghoul creature.
Therefore, the recovered Locke also targeted these second-level ghouls.
After sensing the surge of his soul fire, Locke knew that as long as he was devouring the soul fire of a second-level ghoul, he would definitely be able to advance to the second-level undead creature.
And once you can advance to the second-level undead creature, although your strength has not increased much, the soul fire is more powerful, and it is easier to resist the ghoul howl cast by the third-level ghoul.
Locke didn't know what to do, and in a short period of time, these two third-level ghouls were no longer able to perform the howl of ghouls.
In Locke's mind, as long as he could take the opportunity to kill a second-level ghoul, he would be able to deal with the dilemma calmly.
The ghouls didn't know about Locke's plans, nor did they know Locke's conspiracy, and they were constantly attacking around Locke at this time.
After more than a dozen consecutive bone spear shots, Locke also stopped casting necromantic magic. It's not that Locke has exhausted his mental power, but because he can't do any good in casting necromancy.
Once these fast ghoul creatures were prepared for bone spear shots, it would be difficult for Locke's necromantic magic to hit the vital parts of these ghouls. Of course, these ghouls don't know how to dodge the vital points, but only instinctively dodge Locke's attacks.
Under the ghoul's dodge, Locke's necromantic magic can't hurt the ghoul even if it occasionally hits the ghoul.
Locke doesn't need to chase the second-level ghouls specifically, he only needs to deal with the attack of the third-level ghouls while parrying, and the second-level ghouls around him will take the initiative to attack Locke.
Seeing that the time had come, after parrying the attacks of the two third-level ghouls, Locke once again unleashed two bone spears to shoot at the two third-level ghouls, and as soon as the bone arm was raised, he attacked the other second-level ghouls.
It was impossible for a Level 1 Undead Bone Spear to hurt a Level 3 Ghoul, but the instinct to dodge attacks caused these two Level 3 Ghouls, who were no less fast than Level 4 Skeleton Warriors, to instantly move to the side, trying to dodge the incoming Bone Spear.