Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

Few in number, weak in combat power, slow in cultivation, with no top-tier powerhouses.

But looking at this young mage in front of them, and those hundreds of silent, imposing undead creatures, they didn’t match their impression of an Undead Mage at all.

And standing around Fang Zhou forming a tight defensive line, aren’t those 30 or more Silver-level undead summoned creatures?

A Silver Lower Rank Undead Mage, able to summon more than 30 undead creatures of the same tier?

This completely shattered their previous conception of the strength of summoning series professionals.

However, the fortress soldiers quickly turned around, showing a look of joy on their faces.

No matter what, Fang Zhou, this Major who could summon an army of hundreds of undead summoned creatures, was definitely high-end combat power on their side.

With these undead summoned creatures holding the fort, their Tiger Suppression Fortress would undoubtedly be safer against the upcoming beastmen horde.

And their hope of survival naturally increased.

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At this time, after assigning tasks to others, Shen Zhongyun began to summon his summoned creatures to boost the confidence of others inside the fortress.

The first to appear were forty Bronze-level dark shadow puppets.

These dark shadow puppets were summoned one by one from the Dark Plane, their armor was very tattered, full of battle traces.

After being summoned, these dark shadow puppets lined up neatly, holding spears and shields.

Next to be summoned were a dozen or so elusive Bronze-level Shadow Dancers.

These dark creatures, reduced to shadows, danced in the air after being summoned, occasionally letting out screeches.

Then came five Bronze-tier Dark Erosion Mages.

These Dark Erosion Mages had decent casting abilities and their own intelligence.

Each of these dark summoned creatures was a Bronze Upper existence.

Finally, Shen Zhongyun’s grand finale summoned creatures appeared.

As dark energy surged, five tall figures emerged from the summoning array.

Five Silver Upper Rank [Shadow-Devouring Knights].

Shadow-Devouring Knights are the favorite dark summoned creatures of a summoning series profession like a Dark Wanderer at the Silver tier.

Shadow-Devouring Knights are fast, with strong attack power, impact, defense, and also possess numerous magic-like skills to weaken enemies.

Their individual combat strength is incredibly powerful. If fortunate enough to acquire more Shadow-Devouring Knights to form a knight cluster, their charge would indeed be unstoppable!

"Clatter, clatter, clatter."

The Shadow-Devouring Knights riding Shadow-devouring Warhorses moved with small steps, surrounded by a circle of Shadow-Devouring Spirit Light.

This Shadow-Devouring Spirit Light instilled fear in their enemies; before even fighting, the enemy’s momentum was already weakened by a third.

The Shadow-Devouring Knights were tall, and when donned in armor, they stood nearly two and a half meters tall.

The shoulder height of the Shadow-devouring Warhorse was also two meters.

Their main weapon was a lance about five meters long, with auxiliary weapons including a broad-blade greatsword, kite-shaped knight shield, and throwable short spear.

Besides wearing thick armor themselves, their mount, the Shadow-devouring Warhorse, also wore full-body armor protection.

When the Shadow-Devouring Knights charged, combined with the Shadow-Devouring Spirit Light they carried, imagine a nearly four-meter heavy cavalry charging at high speed toward the enemy.

The scene was really terrifying!

Shen Zhongyun’s strength was powerful, and it could be said that with only his own powerful dark summoned creatures, all the Silver-level professionals at Tiger Suppression Fortress aside from Fang Zhou were no match for him.

However, his mana was limited and could not sustain such a powerful summoned army for extended periods.

Other people were still needed to help with defense.

The soldiers in the field secretly compared the summoned armies of Shen Zhongyun and Fang Zhou, secretly amazed in their hearts.

In terms of the number of summoned creatures, whether Bronze-level or Silver-level, Major Fang Zhou, this Silver Lower Rank Undead Mage, far surpassed Lieutenant Colonel Shen Zhongyun, the Silver Upper Rank Dark Wanderer.

Fang Zhou had over 30 Silver-level creatures, while Shen Zhongyun only summoned 5 Shadow-Devouring Knights.

Although the battle strength of these Shadow-Devouring Knights was at Silver Upper Rank, much stronger than the Silver Lower undead summoned by Fang Zhou.

However, looking at the unit composition under Fang Zhou’s command, it seemed that the undead summoned creatures had close combat, ranged, air, military assault, assassination, mages of various units all available.

Just the Silver-level undead alone made a well-balanced and powerful combat squad.

And solely judging by appearances, Fang Zhou’s Blood Spirit Knights looked hardly inferior to Shen Zhongyun’s summoned Shadow-Devouring Knights.

Perhaps these undead creatures just had a cool appearance, and their actual combat power wasn’t that strong.

The fortress soldiers secretly speculated in their hearts.

However, no matter what, seeing these summoned creatures boosted the morale inside the fortress greatly.

Though their comrades could at times be these undead summoned creatures and dark summoned creatures, compared to the fierce beastmen, these summoned being companions were so adorable at the moment.

Under Fang Zhou’s order, over a hundred skeleton warriors marched with clattering footsteps onto the walls, to serve as the first line of defense.

And except for two Blood Spirit Warriors staying as bodyguards at their side, the others were also arranged atop the walls as defense nodes.

Shen Zhongyun similarly deployed some dark shadow puppets to the eastern walls; most of the other summoned creatures would act as a mobile force, ready to support various parts of the walls at any time.

The original garrison inside the fortress, their personal strength need not be elaborated upon, their main attack method was the magic-energy bed crossbows atop the walls.

The magic-energy bed crossbows powered by the magic stone below provided the force for the bowstring, shooting ten arrows per minute.

The attack power of these arrows was decent, capable of inflicting lethal damage on Bronze-tier enemies.

Of course, whether they could hit the enemy was another matter.

After all, the speed of movement for a Bronze-tier combat professional was quite fast already.

The Tiger Suppression Fortress was shaped like a bastion, where the polygonal fortifications could subject attackers to at least a two-sided attack from any direction.

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Shortly after the defensive structures were just built, the beastmen horde broke out.

With the constant transmission of messages, Fang Zhou also gained an understanding of the current battle situation.

The beastmen mobilized nearly a hundred thousand troops, preparing to have an annihilation battle with the Beast Fighting City.

Upon hearing the enemy’s numbers, the people inside Tiger Suppression Fortress lost their initial confidence.

The beastmen’s strength was quite good; an average adult beastman possessed the strength of an Apprentice Peak.

With some effort in cultivating battle qi, these guys could have Black Iron-tier combat power.

So this time’s hundred thousand troops had at least forty to fifty thousand Black Iron-tier beastmen, which was not a small force.

With forty to fifty thousand Black Iron beastmen, the number of higher-tier beastmen wouldn’t be small either.

It was feared that Golden-tier or even Glory Champion level beastmen would participate in this battle.

After all, the space where Beast Fighting City was located was a junction of the Mythical World and the Blue Star World.

Though the energy concentration was much higher than on Blue Star, it was insufficient to sustain large-scale high-tier powerhouse activities.

In the opening war of the Beast Fighting Arena, the originally powerful beastman tribe was mostly wiped out by human Legendary powerhouses.

The remaining Glory Champion level beastman chieftains fled with their remaining beastmen deep into the Northern Wilderness like stray dogs.

Yet the full-force action of the human Legendary Crown seemed to have angered the consciousness of this part of the world’s junction space.

From then on, the energy concentration of this world junction space became incredibly inert.

As a result, any high-level powerhouses at Glory Champion and above found it necessary to expend significant effort to control their internal energy from overflowing, to avoid damaging their energy core.

After more than a decade of battle, a strange tacit understanding was reached between the increasingly weakening beastman tribes and Beast Fighting City.

High-level powerhouses above the Golden tier on both sides no longer engaged easily.

Often in small-scale battlegrounds, the strongest were Silver tier.