Global Lords: The Undead's Mobile Fortress

Of course, a few hundred Skeleton Beasts couldn’t defeat the Demonized Creatures, but they could slow them down, inflict casualties, and even sow chaos. That was enough. Yes, they would die, but their deaths would be meaningful.

The Undead do not fear death, for they are death itself.

The two High Level Skeleton Warriors felt no guilt about sacrificing their allies. It was all for the sake of obtaining more corpses, all for their great Master of the Undead, and all to complete his mission.

The Demonized Creatures never anticipated their enemies would suddenly change. Those beast Skeletons were far more ferocious than the previous humanoid ones. Seeing the creatures approach, the Demonized Creatures relaxed and raised their weapons to engage, only to have the Skeleton Giant Tusked Boars instantly charge into their ranks, sending them flying.

Taking advantage of the chaos, the Skeleton Desert Wolves streaked forward like black lines, following close behind to launch a surprise attack on the Demonized Creatures.

This sudden turn of events caught the Demonized Creatures completely off guard, and dozens were killed before they could react.

A new message came through the Soul Network: the Skeleton Undead had abandoned the fight and begun stealthily collecting corpses. They were hauling the Demonized Creatures killed by the Skeleton Beasts toward the rear. Meanwhile, the Skeleton Beasts that had charged into the enemy ranks were now completely surrounded, receiving the undivided attention of the Demonized Creatures.

But whether they lived or died, what did that have to do with the Skeleton Undead?

Haul the corpses, haul the corpses.

As the Demonized Creatures relentlessly pursued the Undead, constantly absorbing their Soul Fires, the corpses of other Demonized Creatures were being sent out from the tunnels, one by one, and transported to the Undead Fortress.

The underground tunnels were in total chaos. Fierce battles raged everywhere, but none of it affected the world outside.

The battle raged until the afternoon. After a full day of fighting, even the Demonized Creatures couldn’t take it anymore. Hungry and exhausted, like unruly children worn out after a day of mischief, they sounded the retreat at the shouts of their officers and fell back toward Komeilan City.

The Demonized Creatures discovered that as soon as they retreated, those Skeletons would just come right back and reoccupy the tunnels. It was as if they hadn’t been the ones fighting moments before.

This plunged the Demonized Creatures into profound self-doubt. ’What are we fighting for? Why are we even fighting? What’s the point?’

They fought for a whole day, and for what? The tunnels still belonged to those damn Skeletons.

It felt like they hadn’t fought at all, yet they clearly had. After all, they had lost many of their own.

In truth, the Undead hadn’t gotten off easy, either. Of the 200,000 Skeleton Undead sent into the tunnels, over 20,000 had been destroyed in a single day. Fortunately, their efforts weren’t fruitless. In fact, their harvest was plentiful—they had successfully transported out the corpses of the Demonized Creatures.

The sun slowly set, and night was about to fall.

Li Ziyu awoke from his slumber. The Cat Girl Sisters helped him wash up, and after he had eaten and checked the messages in the chat channel, he finally deactivated Hibernation Mode, causing the buildings of the Undead Race to rise.

"Ahhh, I slept so well." Stretching lazily, Li Ziyu ambled over to the window and looked down at the Bone Plate Platform below.

He froze at the sight.

Corpses. On the Bone Plate Platform, corpses were piled into a mountain.

His nose twitched, and he finally caught the stench of blood and something else, something strange and foul.

Forgetting everything else, Li Ziyu rushed out of the main building and ran to the front of the corpse pile, his eyes wide in disbelief.

They were all Demonized Creatures. They were a textbook case; their unnatural skin tones of gray, black, and dark red, along with the black, bulging veins, all confirmed their identity.

Moreover, these weren’t Demonized Beasts, but intelligent, humanoid Demonized Creatures. The Demonized Beasts were piled separately to the side, forming their own small mountain.

A quick glance told him there had to be at least several thousand humanoid Demonized Creature corpses.

’What in the world happened while I was sleeping? Did an all-out war break out?’

His mind reeling with questions, Li Ziyu opened the system to take a closer look. The Skeleton Undead had indeed suffered significant losses. He might not notice a loss of a few hundred, or even a few thousand, but there was no way to miss a loss of over ten thousand.

He quickly summoned a High Level Skeleton Undead and had it connect to the Soul Network in the tunnels. Li Ziyu needed to know what exactly had happened down there and why there were so many new corpses.

The information came through quickly, and Li Ziyu finally understood what had happened during the day. A war really had broken out. The two sides had fought a pitched battle for an entire day. The Skeleton Beasts he had sent down were almost completely wiped out, and the Skeleton Undead had also suffered heavy losses. But in exchange, they had acquired thousands of humanoid Demonized Creature corpses, along with a considerable number of Demonized Beast corpses.

Hunting Demonized Beasts was far easier for the Undead. Most Demonized Beasts were solitary, with only species like Desert Wolves and Giant Tusked Boars gathering in packs. That was why the Undead suffered few losses when fighting them. The ones capable of inflicting massive damage on the Undead were the humanoid Demonized Creatures from Komeilan City.

’What a surprise to wake up to.’

Li Ziyu then asked for more details about the day’s battle. A High Level Skeleton Warrior reported the entire situation without reservation, presenting it for the Lord City Lord’s consideration.

After grasping the full scope of the battle, Li Ziyu estimated that the number of humanoid Demonized Creatures who had fought his Undead was likely around twenty to thirty thousand. And that was just a rough guess—the actual number was probably even higher.

He also learned another key piece of information: those humanoid Demonized Creatures were organized. They had commanders and leaders. If the Low Level Skeleton Warriors hadn’t discovered a way to counter them, the Undead’s losses would have been far greater. They might have even been driven out of the tunnels entirely.