Chapter 174: Sea of Deathly Bones
The wild wind blew against his face as Li Meng carried a small iron rod on his shoulder and grinned.
Li Meng stomped his foot, his body leaping into the air.
The immense power caused the flying ice spike in the sky to suddenly plummet toward the ground.
"Boom!"
The giant ice spike smashed into the sea of green flames.
The powerful impact shattered the ice spike into pieces.
Countless shards of ice swept across the surroundings.
A mist of ice expanded outward.
Wherever it passed, everything was frozen.
Everything within a five-hundred-meter radius was frozen solid.
Thousands of undead creatures were turned into statues of ice.
The smaller shards of ice smashed entire waves of undead creatures.
"Boom!"
Li Meng, falling from the sky, crashed into the ground like a missile.
The ground cracked open, and a shockwave spread out.
Nearby undead creatures were instantly blown away.
Those closer to him were directly shattered into pieces of bone.
"Boss?"
The gigantic goblin gave Benben quite a scare.
That familiar voice and scent were the only things that confirmed it was the boss.
The massive goblin in front of him was indeed his boss.
Li Meng grinned, planting the large iron rod into the ground.
A rolling mist of ice surged out.
Dense, crystalline ice shards formed around Li Meng's body.
The ice shards then condensed into small ice spikes.
Li Meng pointed his left hand forward.
Countless ice spikes shot out like bullets.
Undead creatures in a straight line were instantly pierced through.
With a sweeping motion, Li Meng shattered waves of undead creatures in front of him.
"Benben, take your little brothers to guard the cave!"
"Crack, crack!"
Over ten human corpses ran from the left side.
Their rotting flesh had almost fallen off completely.
In just a few days, they would turn into skeletons.
Li Meng swung the iron rod, sweeping it across the corpses.
The half-skeletal bodies were smashed into pieces by the giant iron rod.
"Benben, leave the spiked club!"
The iron rod in his hand was no longer suitable for his nearly five-meter-tall body.
When he returned, he would have to forge an even larger iron rod.
"Boss, catch!"
Benben picked up the spiked club on the ground and hurled it toward his boss's direction.
The giant spiked club spun through the air toward Li Meng.
Li Meng turned and caught the enormous spiked club with one hand.
"Wahaha! You bone scraps! Let me smash your bones to pieces!"
Li Meng held the iron rod in his right hand and the spiked club in his left, spinning them around.
The spinning weapons created a blade storm.
Wherever he passed, it was like a meat grinder shredding undead creatures.
Bones flew, and rotting flesh splattered everywhere.
"Return to the cave! Follow me!"
Benben obediently let out a roar.
He took giant strides, rushing toward the cave entrance.
The other Cave Ogres heard Benben's roar.
Seeing him charging toward the cave, they all gathered around him.
Benben was like a heavy tank, plowing through the sea of bones.
Wherever he passed, numerous skeletons were trampled and smashed aside.
The Cave Ogres roared as they followed behind Benben.
They charged into the cave with unstoppable momentum.
"Guard the cave entrance! Don't let any of those bones come in!"
Benben's body was simply too massive.
He couldn't move freely in the narrow cave entrance.
This was why Benben fought outside.
The Cave Ogres had already been guarding the entrance for over half a month.
Every Cave Ogre was exhausted.
Only then had Benben been forced to charge out and give the Cave Ogres time to rest.
"Boss, he's so strong!"
About two hundred meters away from the cave entrance in the valley.
A massive goblin was slaughtering his way through the undead.
He was like an isolated island in the sea of bones.
No matter how many waves of skeletons surged forth, none could get close.
Since the undead were all attracted by the massive goblin outside, the undead at the cave entrance didn't advance.
The Cave Ogres watching from the cave entrance looked on with awe.
"Of course, that's my boss!"
Benben plopped down at the entrance of the cave.
He sat like a giant metal mountain blocking the cave entrance.
"That's the boss's boss?"
"The boss can have a boss too?"
"Then does the boss's boss have a boss as well?"
"No, the boss is the strongest."
Inside his helmet, Benben looked at his boss in the distance with admiration.
The boss had grown even stronger.
His small body had grown much, much bigger.
At that moment, outside in the valley, Li Meng was slaughtering through the undead.
With weapons in both hands, the space around him became an empty zone.
The iron rod and spiked club swept through every direction.
Undead creatures in the 360-degree radius around him were wiped out.
"Is the Army of Death only made up of these weaklings?"
Even as he fought, Li Meng still had the leisure to observe the undead.
Most of the undead were low-level trash, barely single digits in level.
They didn't even have decent weapons.
Only a small number of skeletons exceeded level twenty.
Those skeletons held relatively fine bone shields and bone swords.
"Do skeletons need time to evolve?"
The bone swords and shields were clearly generated by the undead themselves.
This made Li Meng suspect something about the "Death Scourge."
The "Death Scourge" likely grew stronger over time.
If left unchecked for too long, its strength would grow exponentially.
"Where is the Deathspeaker Archmage?"
Li Meng looked around, but all he could see was the green sea of flames.
White skeletons filled every inch of space in the valley.
The staggering numbers were a grim reminder of how brutal the battles between humans and demons must have been.
While Li Meng slaughtered through the valley...
A graceful figure stood on a distant mountain.
Vanessa held her bow as she scanned the battlefield in the valley.
The number of undead creatures in the valley was overwhelming.
There were no fewer than 150,000 of them, likely even more.
Finding the Deathspeaker Archmage among the countless undead was not an easy task.
When her gaze landed on Ammon, who was slaughtering through the undead, a hint of worry flashed in Vanessa's eyes.
Ammon was indeed powerful, with strength comparable to a Saint-tier warrior.
But even the strongest warriors grew tired.
Even the most powerful mages would eventually run out of mana.
Even the bravest heroes from all races were often worn down by enemies.
"Huff!"
Vanessa took a deep breath.
She shifted her gaze away from Ammon.
She had to find the Deathspeaker Archmage as quickly as possible.
Only then could she help Ammon on the battlefield.
Time passed little by little, and the chaos on the battlefield continued.
"So this is the sense of powerlessness when facing absolute numbers?"
In the sea of bones, Li Meng mechanically swung his spiked club and iron rod.
Each swing carried the momentum of sweeping through armies.
But no matter how many he killed, the area around him was still filled with dense hordes of undead.
At that moment, Li Meng realized that even the strongest had their limits.
In large-scale battles, strong warriors often didn't participate directly.