Path Of The Dragon (A Dark Fantasy Cultivation Wuxia Xianxia Progression Series)

Chapter 128 Necromancer

Jie sent out another twin chain finger of light attack and just like before, the enemy ninth star Expert blocked it with the very same undead. Or what little remained of them as whatever energy fueled their un-life had been snuffed out in her first attack... but that didn't make them any less effective as shields. Jie strained and struggled, trying to force her qi to chain to the next target, but the result was the same and once more her attack sputtered out uselessly.

Jie glanced at her friends. Each was holding their own though the skeletons continued to boil out of the pit. She didn't want to leave them to it, but the more powerful armored zombies could overwhelm them if she didn't...

Bones swirled around her feet as the skeletons she'd slain only moments ago reformed once again.

"They're reanimating!" Jie cried as she caught a skull and pulled it away from the rest of its swirling body. She hurled it down into the pit. Half its bones followed it down, pulled in the wake of the red energy attempting to reanimate them.

"Death is the inevitable end for all things. Submit and I will make it painless," echoed a voice down the hall. It was the same raspy voice that had made the cackle before. But it had an echoing feminine quality which sounded like the statues of the red woman speaking through something broken.

It's still just a test. Focus on doing what needs to be done, Jie thought, fine. If you want your pet zombies to block my ranged attacks... you leave me no choice.

Jie boosted off a lightning step platform toward the armored zombies. The crackling discharge of her platform blew apart two skeletons in the process of reanimating around her and incinerated the hands of another as it tried to pull itself above the lip of the pit. It fell back down the pit, snarling as it flailed at the air with smoking stumps before it crashed into the undead below. Jie paid it no mind as she raced down the hallway toward the enemy ninth star Expert and his minions.

It was the biggest threat here and she was certain it was raising the skeletons they killed.

Dragon lightning qi crackled over her as she ran toward the zombies. The two she'd killed that hovered in the air acting the part of lightning rods flew toward her on an intercept course.

Jie jumped into the air, making it look like she planned to go over them. As they corrected their trajectory and surged upward to meet her, she turned in the air, formed a lightning step platform at an angle above her, and pushed off with explosive speed. She zipped through the opening below the two corpses and landed with a roll before springing back up and continuing her run.

She heard and sensed the corpses drop like rocks behind her as the ninth star Expert abandoned them and his aura flared with some new technique.

Jie formed a dragonfist around each hand as she ran toward the ranks of zombies. A pulse of dark red energy coming from the center of their formation washed over the ranks of zombies and then got sucked into the zombies' bodies like smoke being suddenly inhaled.

The zombies surged with power and let out rasping, reverberating roars as the red energy suffusing them swelled. Their cultivation hadn't changed but the power surging from their auras felt like they'd all gained the equivalent of three whole stars of power in an instant. Suddenly, the army that she should've been able to walk all over became a danger even to her when there were so many of them and with a ninth star Expert among them.

I'm not even sure this is a necromancer and I already hate necromancers, Jie thought.

She'd been planning to smash into the front lines like a wrecking ball but abandoned that thought now the zombies had been empowered. The necromancer was the key. Without him, even if their power didn't immediately vanish, she could annihilate them without having to worry about what else the ninth star Expert was capable of. And hopefully, once he was destroyed, the skeletons would stop reanimating.