Chapter 566

Under the buff of combat qi, the knight's short spears dashed towards the 6 head wolf rider captains in front of them. If they were normal short spears, it wouldn't be a big deal, but one of them was thrown by a head commander.

On top of that, those short spears had an armor-piercing property, so the 6 head wolf rider captains kept controlling their mount wolves to dodge those short spears. They were not confident that they could completely block those armor-piercing short spears.

There were around 20 skeletons in front of the wolf riders. Of course, these were not all the skeletons of the 10 orc deities. As deities, their main fighting power depended on skeletons. It was not safe to have enough skeletons around them.

Therefore, each deity could only take out 2 skeletons to line up in front of the 100 wolf riders. This was already the maximum number.

As the short spears flew past the head wolf rider captains, Abel's arrow had already arrived in front of the skull of the skeleton. That skeleton instinctively turned its head, trying to dodge the arrow with its fragile flame of soul.

However, in the human world, only Abel, who had commanded skeletons in the Dark World for many years, could understand the movements of skeletons like the back of his hand.

Due to the limitations of skeletons, skeletons could only dodge at certain angles. Abel's arrow took advantage of this and accurately shot into the skeleton's eye. The arrow passed through the blue flame of the soul inside the skull.

If this arrow was just an ordinary arrow, then this attack would only injure the skeleton once. Its Soul Flame would shrink a little, and its combat power would decrease.

However, his arrow was imbued with a trace of his spiritual power. Although it wasn't much, it was enough to disturb the Soul Fire of the skeleton after hitting it.

The flame of soul was the origin of skeletons. It was the source of all their power. The most important summoning contract was in the flame of soul. When Abel inserted a sliver of his power of the will into it, it directly rushed towards the contract.

There was a huge difference between the skeletons of an orc deity and Abel's. Abel's skeletons were summoned from a dead body using the most ancient spell. They were directly made from the bones of a dead body, and the damage was buffed by the 'skeleton resurrection' spell.

The orc deity's skeleton was a modified version of the "skeleton resurrection" spell. It captured a powerful fighter and tortured them inhumanely. All of their negative emotions were fully stimulated, and through a secret technique, the negative emotions and most of their power were concentrated in their bones. Finally, a powerful skeleton was formed.

When Abel got the modified version of the orc deity's "skeleton resurrection" spell, he had studied the pros and cons of this spell.

Abel used the most primitive "skeleton resurrection" spell. The skeletons he summoned did not have any powerful fighting ability. They could only absorb the summoner's fighting experience. The good thing was that Abel was a powerful knight, and he grew up in a family of inherited knights. He had received the most professional knight training.

Therefore, the fighting ability of a skeleton was similar to that of a knight. However, due to the lack of the "skeleton control" spell, the attacking power of a skeleton had always been a headache for him.

On the other hand, the skeletons of orc deities were much more powerful. The summoner's fighting ability wouldn't affect the strength of the skeleton. It was almost impossible to find a deity with physical fighting ability like Abel.

The orc deity's skeleton could retain most of the fighting ability of its original skeleton. Coupled with the "skeleton resurrection" spell and the "skeleton control" spell, the orc deity's skeleton's fighting ability was terrifying.

However, this kind of power came with a price. Changing the summoning method would also change the contract method. The most ancient "skeleton resurrection" spell used the soul chain contract method.

This contract method did not have a contract pattern, and it directly affected the soul. The orc deity's skeleton needed a contract pattern to exist in the soul fire of the skeleton.

After Abel's arrow hit the soul fire, the contract pattern was not affected. The contract pattern could not be damaged by physical or magic. However, the power of the will attached to the arrow was the natural enemy of the contract pattern. It directly shattered the contract pattern on the soul fire.

As the contract pattern on the soul fire was shattered, the skeleton suddenly stopped. The soul fire in its eyes turned from blue to red. The soul fire of the skeleton was no longer restricted by the contract pattern, and all the negative emotions in its mind once again took control of its body.

The skeleton thought of the last scene of its life. The hatred that came from the torture was the prerequisite for it to become a powerful skeleton. At this moment, the skeleton regained its memory.

It frantically turned around and nimbly dodged the mount wolves of the wolf riders. The red soul fire in its eye sockets stared at its former owner, a black-clothed priest.

At this moment, that black-clothed priest was suffering from the shock of the contract being broken. At the same time, because of this shock, all of his skeletons had lost control. They were all running with the wolf riders on instinct.

Not a single wolf rider tried to stop a single skeleton. The horror and mystery of a priest was not something they could understand.

The other orc priests did not care about the skeleton that was retreating. Every single one of them wanted to pull back their skeletons. They had just become official priests not long ago. They were not old priests with a lot of knowledge, so they could replenish their skeletons if they lost one.

Every time they lost a skeleton, they would have one less, and they would not be able to replenish it in a short time.

Therefore, with this thought in mind, all the priests wanted to pull back their skeletons as soon as possible. However, the rules of the mission and the rules of the battle made it impossible for them to do so. They were happy to see one of their companions trying to challenge the rules.

The skeleton approached its summoner. At that moment, the priest had just calmed down from the shock of his spirit. As soon as he woke up, he saw a skeleton pouncing towards him. In that red soul fire, there was a familiar figure howling at him.

He was very familiar with that figure. It was a commander that was given to him by his teacher. He had personally turned a living person into a skeleton bit by bit. At that time, he would always dream of this commander, but he slowly got used to it. He never had that kind of nightmare again.

Looking at the red Soul Fire in front of him and the figure in the Soul Fire, he had a feeling that a nightmare was about to befall him again.

The skeleton had countless marks of this priest, so the white bone armor did not see it as an enemy. The priest had just woken up, so he did not control the white bone armor in time.

Therefore, the skeleton easily passed through the protection of the white bone armor and pounced on the priest. The huge impact made the priest, whose body was already weak due to the death qi, fall off his mount in an instant.

When the skeleton pounced on the priest, it bit down on the priest's neck. The bone armor started to repel the skeleton, but the skeleton was already hugging the priest's body tightly.

Everything happened too fast. The head wolf rider captain in the front was busy dodging the knight's short spears. Because of this, many wolf riders in the back were pierced by the short spears, and the formation was thrown into chaos.

After the deity fell to the ground and got trampled by the mount wolves of the wolf riders, the white bone armor disappeared, and the white bone shield disappeared as well. At that moment, the red flame of the soul in the skeleton's eyes burned brightly, and a huge amount of energy was ignited in the flame of the soul.

"Boom!" Along with a huge explosion, a skeleton that had the appearance of a Grand Knight with many kinds of buffs used its energy source to explode. Its hatred completely exploded at this moment, and a large amount of death qi spread in all directions along with the explosion.

The first one to be affected was the priest that was hugged by the skeleton. The impact of the explosion and the broken bones turned the priest into a pile of broken bones.

Then, the death qi spread in all directions, sucking away the life force of the 10 wolf riders around them. In a short period of time, the wolf riders and their mount wolves seemed to have aged a few decades.

Most of the people around this priest were priests, but since they were first pounced on and then stepped on a few times by the wolf riders, the other 9 priests were lucky enough not to be affected.