Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

Edward ignored the pain from his wound and hurriedly cast the next curse.

Soul-roaring!

A semi-transparent totem appeared in mid-air, opening its mouth to issue a soul-level roar.

The roar indiscriminately affected friends and foes; several Silver-tier Beastman guards nearby clutched their heads and succumbed in agony.

Only two Golden Tier warrior guards were unaffected.

They carried Edward's phylactery on them, and their souls were under a contract with Edward, making them immune to this curse.

But Ping Haining wasn't so lucky.

The soul-wrenching pain expelled him from the Shadow Plane,

Even though he, as an Erosion Blade, had surprisingly high magic resistance, he was still affected by this soul-level attack.

"Despicable humans, go die!"

Two Beastman warriors charged forward, trying to seize the opportunity to kill Ping Haining.

But a Glory Champion is indeed a Glory Champion; despite enduring soul pain, Ping Haining was still pushing back against these two Golden Warriors.

Yet, Ping Haining, as an Erosion Blade, being in an assassin-type profession, frontally clashing with enemies is not his style.

After some brief combat, leaving several large wounds on the two Golden Tier Beastman guards, he vanished again into the Shadow Plane.

"Ah! Damn humans!"

Edward clutched his chest which had a large hole blown open, agonizing over the fallen Beastman guards around him.

...

Fang Zhou mixed within the Mage Corps of the Beast Fighting City, disregarding mana consumption, crazily casting spells toward the chaotic battlefield.

Once mana was consumed, he started taking mana potions, activating various mana recovery methods.

After several rounds of this, when his body's mana was thoroughly depleted, Fang Zhou finally stopped, gasping heavily.

The battle between the Beastmen and humans ended quickly.

Compared to the long preparations before the battle, the actual combat ended swiftly.

Beastmen had been attacking for half a year, enduring for half a year, and ultimately fell behind in a day's grand battle in the desert.

With Edward, the Glory Champion Shaman, injured and Arthur, the Glory Champion Headhunter Warrior, desperately held back by Ning Danxin, the lack of top-tier power among the Beastmen gradually affected the middle-high tier forces, triggering an overall battlefield collapse.

The higher-tier Beastman professionals suffered severe losses, with nearly 10 Golden Tier professionals killed in battle.

These higher-tier professionals were all nobles or high-ranking commanders in the military.

Without these higher-tier professionals as support points for the defense line, the middle and low-tier Beastman army quickly lost command and control.

Unsurprisingly, a great collapse began, and only a small portion of Beastmen was lost on the front lines as they began fleeing.

Most battle losses occurred during this time.

The human army pursued persistently for over two hundred kilometers, killing and capturing a large number of Beastman soldiers, especially with cavalry's attacks being the most terrifying.

These knights, swift as the wind, kept chasing along the Beastmen's escape route.

They drove large groups of fleeing soldiers, then like piranhas, tore them apart in small bites.

Some clever Beastmen banded together, refusing to separate, but ultimately they couldn't escape.

When the human light cavalry found they couldn't capture them, they would call in heavy cavalry for support.

Once the heavy Silver Pegasus Knights or Iron Wolf Knights arrived, these large groups of Beastmen were like sand castles on the seaside, easily crushed by those terrifying heavy cavalry.

Meanwhile, Fang Zhou's own Undead Knights also reaped bountiful rewards in this spectacular chase.

The military merit for participating has not yet been calculated, but just the Silver-tier Beastman corpses alone allowed Fang Zhou to reap over a dozen.

The human army from the Beast Fighting City spent a day on the front lines breaking the Beastmen's army, then three days pursuing the remaining forces, followed by a week capturing prisoners.

These Beastmen ran quite swiftly.

Ultimately, more than 120,000 Beastman soldiers retreated to the Extreme North Tribe following two gravely injured Glory Champions, reduced to less than 50,000.

Chief Arthur, lying in bed, upon hearing of the battle losses, spat out a mouthful of blood in fury, almost dying from anger.

Compared to the severely damaged Beastmen, humans had won a resounding victory.

Not only were the battle results outstanding, the combat losses were negligible.

The army in the Beast Fighting City, plus the 30,000 reinforcements from the Dawn Legion, mobilized 80,000 people for battle.

After the fight, 60,000 remained.

Approximately a few thousand were killed, the rest suffered various degrees of injuries.

The biggest damages occurred to the front-line battle group that faced the enemy directly.

Many combat formations were heavily damaged, some even wiped out entire units.

It can be said that this victory was wholly due to these front-line battle groups' efforts to block the main Beastman forces.

Afterward, elite cavalry pierced through most Beastman formations from the flank, finally breaking the Beastman army.

Fortuitously, damage to higher-tier Beastmen led to their side losing morale first,

Otherwise, if the fight continued, humans would likely win, but the losses would be greater.

Ultimately, that's war: the winner takes all, the loser pays everything.

This time, the strength of the entire Beastman tribe was essentially shattered.

Now they can't even send forces to counterattack the Beast Fighting City; it's fortunate if the Beast Fighting City doesn't continue attacking Beastmen.

After the war, besides what was taken from the battlefield, the Beast Fighting City also needed Beastmen to cede territory and pay compensation, substantially recovering their losses.

As for these defeated Beastman nobles, they were miserable.

Not only did they lose a lot of middle-high tier strength, even many of their elite private soldiers were lost.

Now they have to face the aggressive compensation demands from the Beast Fighting City, leaving them to swallow their crushed teeth in tears.

........

Within the camp barracks of the Beast Fighting City.

"Do you want to buy anything?" Shen Zhongyun checked the items available for exchange for military merit, asking Fang Zhou.

The war, for now, was temporarily over.

On the front lines, Beastmen were defeated, yielding abundant materials, all kinds of enchanted equipment were available.

During the war, these equipment prices were extremely high.

After all, they were for survival; even if they were expensive, survival was important.

Now that the war ended, the value of these items has fallen.

Due to so much captured equipment, the value of these enchanted items is even below the market price before the war.

However, as the fighting ended, everyone's desire to purchase dropped correspondingly, and many people seized quite a lot on the battlefield.

After humans confirmed their victory, Shen Zhongyun, stationed at the Tiger Suppression Fortress, also led his troops to join the chase and capture of Beastmen, reaping some military merits.

After the military actions were completed, he naturally returned to the Beast Fighting City to enjoy his spoils.

"Buy, of course, I want to buy!"

Hearing Shen Zhongyun's question, Fang Zhou answered decisively.

Although there were some captures at the Tiger Suppression Fortress, most were equipment needed by combat professionals, which Fang Zhou couldn't use.

Besides part being internally consumed by the garrison, most were handed over for military merit exchange.

Fang Zhou now lacked 5 pieces of Blue Fine quality equipment for magic professionals.

Compared to his previously fully equipped set of equivalent level gear, it could be described as utterly impoverished now.

So Fang Zhou immersed himself in the sea of equipment, constantly comparing, picking out the more cost-effective gear.

Finally, when he looked up, he had spent most of his military merits exchanging for a full set of Blue Fine quality equipment.

[Dark Blue Nightmare Mage Boots].

[Spirit Totem Ring].

[Roaring Ancestor Spirit Ring].

[Stormcaster Gloves].

[Desert Enlightenment Necklace].

He amassed a complete set of 8 pieces of blue-quality equipment, successfully upgrading his arsenal.

Boots, phylactery, necklace, rings, all were included.

He even bought a magic professional bracer that could host various marvels, activating inherent spells or enhancing effects in battle.