Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone-Chapter 542 - 385: Skeleton Centurion, the Great Crisis of the Corpse Hills!
Since Fang Zhou’s Power Attribute reached 100, he estimated that armed with numerous Universal Skills from Black Iron-level Combat Professionals, his racial Combat Power Coefficient far exceeded that of ordinary Skeleton Warriors and Zombies. He was now absolutely invincible within the Bone Hill.
Thus, Fang Zhou resolutely led his skeleton subordinates, all of whom had been upgraded to the upper rank of Black Iron, deeper into the region. He originally thought that with such powerful subordinates, he could wreak havoc throughout the Bone Hill without restraint, but reality was not as simple as he imagined.
Even though his Corpse Clone, as well as mutated Skeleton Warriors like Tidamia, Verus, and Sain, all possessed the strength to crush ordinary Skeleton Warriors, Fang Zhou still had to proceed with caution upon entering this area. He could not wantonly harvest and enslave Skeletons.
The reason was simple: among all the Undead Creatures Fang Zhou had encountered previously, the most formidable were mutated Undead like Zombie Wolf Packs or Zombified Spider Swarms. They lacked the instinct to kill and devour one another. Although they formed groups, these clusters typically numbered no more than twenty or thirty mutated Undead Creatures. This was nothing compared to Fang Zhou’s own troop of nearly one hundred skeleton subordinates and was no cause for concern.
However, for some unknown reason, large-scale Legion-style combat was the norm in the area Fang Zhou was currently exploring. In the core of the Bone Hill, lone Skeleton Warriors were a minority. The vast majority of those who had reached the peak of the Black Iron upper rank had been conscripted!
Based on Fang Zhou’s prior knowledge, ordinary Skeleton Warriors possessed no intelligence and naturally couldn’t comprehend the art of coordinated battle. He had also never encountered any mutated Undead, other than himself, capable of enslaving or commanding Skeleton Warriors. But now, he was witnessing it firsthand.
At the foot of the hill he was on, a vast Skeleton Battle Group of over one hundred members marched forward. This was not just a scattered mob of Undead Creatures, but an organized and disciplined army. Their leader was a mutated Skeleton Warrior that Fang Zhou named the Skeleton Centurion.
Fang Zhou named this Skeleton Commander a Skeleton Centurion because it was analogous to the military structure of the Blue Star Human Alliance Army. In the Alliance Army, the most basic combat unit was a ten-man squad. Ten squads formed a 100-man company, ten companies formed a 1,000-man battalion, ten battalions formed a 10,000-man Battle Group, and ten Battle Groups formed a 100,000-strong main force division. Depending on the scale of the battlefield, varying numbers of these main force divisions could be organized into armies or even Legion-level formations, with numbers ranging from hundreds of thousands to several million.
Of course, on the battlefields of their Blue Star homeland, the most formidable human military force was the Dawn Legion, which fought on the front against the Calamity Sun Demon Country. This was a mighty Legion with a Legendary Crowned Strongman as its Legion Commander, several Glory Champion Strongmen as Division Commanders, and dozens to hundreds of Golden Powerhouses as Battle Group Commanders, boasting a fighting force of 500,000 soldiers.
According to the Human Alliance Army’s organization, the Skeleton contingent Fang Zhou encountered in this region was company-sized. As their commander, the mutated Skeleton was naturally named the Skeleton Centurion by Fang Zhou.
This entire Skeleton Battle Group, led by the Skeleton Centurion, wandered aimlessly through the Bone Hill, hunting any stray Undead Creatures unfortunate enough to cross its path. Fortunately, Fang Zhou used the high-altitude reconnaissance of his Skeleton Bat, Bruce, to track this skeleton company for some time. He discovered they had no clear objective; the Skeleton Warriors simply patrolled along a fixed route, as if on some sort of guard duty.
The prospect of a good hunt excited Fang Zhou, and he decided to lead his own company-sized force of skeleton subordinates to boldly engage this rare skeleton company. Compared to the ordinary Skeleton Warriors who were merely following orders, Fang Zhou’s true prey was this Skeleton Centurion, a type of creature he had never seen before.
During two months of hunting and devouring, Fang Zhou had amassed over ten mutated Skeleton Warriors. These mutated Skeletons each had unique characteristics. Some, like Skeleton Bat Bruce, had undergone significant changes in their entire form. Others, like Tidamia, Sain, Verus, and Yongen, retained the general shape of a Skeleton Warrior but had developed different weapons and abilities. Naturally, the combat strength of these mutated Skeletons had skyrocketed.
However, not a single one of them had awakened an ability like the Skeleton Centurion before him, which could command over a hundred Skeleton Warriors. In a way, the ability displayed by this Skeleton Centurion was remarkably similar to his own Skeleton Monarch skill.
This undoubtedly filled Fang Zhou with curiosity.
Fang Zhou’s Skeleton Monarch skill had been awakened when all four of his dimensional Attributes reached the Apprentice Limit, allowing him to receive the Blood Moon’s Blessing and evolve into a Skeleton Warrior. This skill enabled him to enslave and control a large number of Skeleton Warriors, greatly enhancing his combat power.
And now, this outwardly unremarkable Skeleton Centurion... how on earth was it capable of enslaving its own kind? What excited him even more was the possibility that this rare Skeleton Centurion could be enslaved by his Skeleton Monarch skill. If so, he could use it to indirectly enslave even more Skeleton Warriors.
