Half an hour later.
Bai Xiaowen's personal guard squad was facing six Deathbone Swordsmen. It was a complete mess.
"I'm so stupid, really."
"I thought the Deathbone Swordsmen were the same as the stupid zombies in front and didn't have any intelligence. I didn't know they could provide support.
"When I rested, I started the group and had Kitts fight at the front. He was very obedient and listened to every word I said.
"I controlled the Terror Knights from behind and taught them energy attacks. I taught them step by step and had Kitts demonstrate.
"My name is Kitts, there was no response. When I turned around, all I saw was a bunch of bats. Our Kitts was gone …"
After letting his mind wander for 0.1 seconds, Bai Xiaowen hurriedly put away these improper thoughts.
Kitts screamed and turned into a group of bats to escape with all his might.
The Deathbone Swordsmen already had basic intelligence. Other than patrolling in a small area, they could also call for support!
What was even more hateful was that their alert range was quite large. With a howl, all the Deathbone Swordsmen in the tomb would chase after them.
Bai Xiaowen gritted his teeth and raised his hand towards the corpse of a Deathbone Swordsman.
He used soul essence to activate Dark Resurrection!
Although the Deathbone Swordsman was a level 13 elite creature, Bai Xiaowen was equivalent to a level 10 overlord. With the advantage of being two levels higher, Bai Xiaowen's elemental energy exceeded the opponent's and successfully revived the dead Deathbone Swordsman.
Fortunately, Dark Resurrection looked at Bai Xiaowen's original elemental energy limit and not the reduced elemental energy limit after the elemental energy imprint was planted.
With the addition of a Deathbone Swordsman and the large number of summoned creatures, the situation was finally stabilized.
Bai Xiaowen ordered the half-dead close combat creatures to retreat. He then used soul essence to activate another skill of Death's Visage, Strengthening Undead Allies!
Rays of black light enveloped the summoned creatures and personal guards. Their attributes increased and their spiritual energy also increased. It was as if all of them had increased by one level.
Bai Xiaowen carefully recalled. Elemental energy circulated in his body and he raised his arms.
Control Skill: Army Prestige!
Display the prestige of the friendly army and intimidate the enemy.
This move was useless against the Frost Rage Zombies and wandering corpses without intelligence, but it was effective against the Undead Bone Swordsmen who had basic intelligence.
A huge shadow of a skeleton appeared above the heads of the ten Skeletal Archers. It opened its black mouth and laughed silently.
Out of the six Deathbone Swordsmen, three of them cowered in fear. Their attack speed and accuracy were greatly reduced, and their movement techniques were no longer as elusive as before.
There were also two Deathbone Swordsmen who were terrified and curled up in a corner, not moving at all.
Only the last Deathbone Swordsman managed to resist the influence of the Army Prestige.
Bai Xiaowen gave a soft cry of surprise. This control technique was actually unexpectedly useful.
It was only at the beginner level, but its effect was almost the same as the mutated skill "Deterrence". No wonder it was a skill from "Tai Gong's Art of War" with 7 points of priority!
However, it consumed a lot of elemental energy. It consumed a total of 100 points of elemental energy. Furthermore, using such a large amount of elemental energy at once caused both physical and mental stress, Bai Xiaowen felt a sense of emptiness.
It was similar to the feeling of weakness after doing a set of extreme weightlifting.
"Elemental energy skills …"
Bai Xiaowen squinted his eyes. He felt that he had grasped a key point.
The wave of Deathbone Swordsmen in front of him lost their ability to resist under the influence of the Army Prestige skill and were killed one after another.
The three Terror Knights had finally completed their apprenticeship. Not only did they learn how to use their spiritual energy to attack, but they also learned how to use their spiritual energy to protect themselves. This was also the result of being slashed by the Deathbone Swordsman again and again.
Therefore, actual combat training was the fastest way to improve. If it was purely training with summoned creatures, it would definitely not be so efficient.
After suffering this loss, Bai Xiaowen became more careful and advanced slowly. Now, it was finally the turn of the chief-tier creatures to "teach". He chose the Death Knights first.
As more and more creatures learned how to use their spiritual energy to attack, the team's strength also increased steadily. Along the way, they cleared most of the tomb passages and chambers in the third mausoleum.
In the last main chamber, there was a tall "Deathbone Swordsman Leader". It was already a Rare Elite and had a spiritual energy value of 1200 points! Behind it were six other Deathbone Swordsmen.
Seeing this Deathbone Swordsman Leader, Bai Xiaowen felt a burst of excitement.
I've confirmed with my eyes that you're mine!
Bai Xiaowen's elemental energy value was 1291 points. At this stage, this Deathbone Swordsman Leader was basically the strongest creature he could use to "Dark Resurrection".
After meeting it, he immediately used the Army Prestige skill!
As expected, three of the Deathbone Swordsmen squatted in the corner and drew circles. The remaining Deathbone Swordsmen were also cowering, their attack speed greatly decreasing.
Bai Xiaowen controlled the Death Knights and activated the Army Charge, charging forward with a blood-red halo.
Unexpectedly, the Deathbone Swordsman Leader casually slashed horizontally and forced the Death Knights to retreat a few steps. The momentum of the Army Charge came to an abrupt halt.
"Even the summoned creature's skills are ineffective … This is definitely not a coincidence!"
Bai Xiaowen recalled the situation when his spells and talismans were ineffective. Combined with the successful Army Prestige skill, he felt that he had found the reason.
It was not that awakened skills could not be used!
It was just that elemental energy was needed to activate them in order to threaten evolved monsters.
Otherwise, evolved monsters would only need to use their spiritual energy to easily break (or resist) the effects of awakened skills.
However, after discovering this problem, Bai Xiaowen was still unable to solve it for the time being.
How could he use elemental energy to replace spiritual energy and use awakened skills?
This was much more complicated than using elemental energy to attack.
Bai Xiaowen did not have time to think about this problem for now. He used the opportunity created by the Army Prestige skill to summon creatures and kill the Deathbone Swordsmen one by one.
The Rare Elite-Level Deathbone Swordsman Leader did indeed cause a lot of casualties to Bai Xiaowen's team. Its whole body was covered in black gas, and it came and went like the wind. Every strike was extremely tricky and impossible to guard against.
Moreover, its intelligence was very high. It actually knew to ignore the melee creatures and attack the Deathbone Archers first.
The Deathbone Archers were really unlucky. Without the ability to protect themselves with spiritual energy, they were basically killed by the Deathbone Swordsman Leader with a single strike.
In fact, even if they had the ability to protect themselves with spiritual energy, with their 500 points of spiritual energy, they probably would not be able to withstand the attacks of the Deathbone Swordsman Leader.
After calculating the priority of the Deathbone Swordsman Leader's attacks, Bai Xiaowen used [Useless Deathbone Fiend] as bait and trapped the Deathbone Swordsman Leader in a corner. Then, Kitts, Delifa, and the Death Knights surrounded it from three sides.
Slash by slash, they slowly reduced the health of the Deathbone Swordsman Leader.
When Kitts and the other two could not take it anymore, they would use Butcher and Terror Knight to replace them. In short, they could not let the Deathbone Swordsman Leader out.
After fighting for about ten minutes, the Deathbone Swordsman Leader finally fell to the ground with a loud bang.
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