Translator: Simple MTL Editor: Simple MTL
Facing Bruce, who was comparable to an elite skeleton, and his forty-six skeleton underlings who only had advanced classes, the zombies in the Death Valley appeared slightly weak.
In less than half an hour, Bruce led his skeleton underlings all the way from the entrance of the Valley of the Dead to its depths.
During this period, they killed hundreds of zombies. Only a dozen of them were zombies with advanced class templates.
However, in the next experiments, Bruce was still unable to enslave even a single zombie!
Fortunately, the first function of [ devour ] did not lose effect. He could still absorb the essence from the bodies of these zombies to strengthen his four-dimensional attributes.
Along with that, he also obtained the advanced class template of the zombies.
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[ template ] : Zombie
[ rank ] : advanced class template
[ bonus ] : health + 500, strength * 5, agility * 1, vitality * 8, spirit * 0.1
[ skill ] : Aharp Claws
“Sharp claws: passive skill. After being bathed in the aura of death for a long time, these living corpses become stronger and stronger. Their fingernails turn into sharp claws to help them tear their enemies apart.”
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Just like the ‘zombies,’ the attributes focused on vitality.
Their class advancement was still limited to the zombies.
After pushing the battle line into the depths of the canyon, Bruce had already killed more than half of the zombies. At the same time, the real appearance of the canyon was revealed in front of Bruce.
It was an altar.
The altar was more than ten meters tall and had a four-sided shape. It was made of black rocks and occupied half of the area at the bottom of the canyon.
Such an altar could be considered majestic.
However, what attracted Bruce’s attention was not the altar itself, but the countless zombies standing on the steps of the altar!
There were nine steps up the altar.
Starting from the first zombie, the level of the zombies continued to rise. On the steps below, there were only a large number of zombies. From the sixth step stood the more advanced zombies.
Basically, the higher the number of steps, the higher the level of the zombies.
Bruce led his skeleton underlings to clear more than half of the valley. The number of zombies killed was only a few hundred. The number of zombies standing on the altar exceeded five hundred.
If these zombies were standing on the altar, it would be fine if they were receiving some benefits.
But from Bruce’s perception, this altar was clearly extracting the aura of death from these zombies, and it was getting stronger towards the top of the altar!
The altar was extracting the aura of death from every zombie that stepped on the altar. To the undead, this was equivalent to their aura of life. When the aura of death in a zombie’s body was drained to a certain degree, it would fall from the altar.
Then, the zombies that were wandering around the altar started to fight for their spot where their aura of death was being drained!
It was as if some entity was controlling the zombies and ordering them to defend the will of that existence so the extraction process can be continued.
The aura of death in the Valley of the Dead was gentler and purer.
Bruce had already verified this point.
After staying in this valley for a long time, whether it was him or his skeleton underlings, they could evolve at a faster speed.
It was the same for the zombies in the valley of the dead.
The aura of death in the Valley of the Dead was nurturing these zombies. When the level of these zombies and the aura of death in their bodies reached a certain level, they would appear at the altar.
When a certain zombie on the altar fell down, these zombies that were entrenched around the altar would seize their position and seize the opportunity to extract the aura of death from their bodies.
They would repeat this over and over again.
It was like some kind of evil ritual.
In this way, the aura of death in the valley of the dead would be harvested by this ritual-like behavior and gathered until it is transferred to a certain existence!
This method was definitely not something that skeletons or zombies, who had almost no consciousness, could create!
Countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
After ordering his skeleton underlings to clear out all the zombies around the altar, Bruce took over the control of a skeleton guard. With the body of the skeleton guard and the vision of the skeleton guard, he stepped onto the altar.
The skeleton guard’s defense was the strongest, and it would last the longest in the face of any danger.
And before he found out the purpose of this altar, Bruce would not recklessly step onto this altar.
Kacha!
Under Bruce’s control, the skeleton guard pushed away a few zombies and stepped onto the first step of the altar. Other than the zombies that were pushed off the altar, struggling to return to their original positions, the other zombies on the altar did not move at all.
When all the zombies stepped onto the altar, they completely lost their consciousness and self-awareness, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep.
It seemed like they were aware of it and knew about it before it even happened to them.
While controlling the skeleton guard to continue climbing the altar, Bruce gave another order. He had the other skeleton underlings climb onto the altar and kill any zombies that they could subdue.
One level…
Two levels…
Three levels…
Four levels…
Five levels…
As time passed, the zombies on the lower levels of the altar were all killed by the skeleton underlings. The skeleton guard that Bruce personally controlled was about to step onto the top level of the altar!
Just like before, the huge altar did not extract the aura of death from the skeleton guard.
One step…
Two steps…
Three steps…
Soon, when the skeleton guard took the last step, it finally appeared at the top of the altar.
The entire scene above the dark altar appeared in front of Bruce’s eyes through the skeleton guard’s vision.
It was a small square.
The ground was more than 100 square meters. It was carved with all kinds of strange symbols. These countless symbols gathered together and formed a magic circle that covered the entire square.
This was not the main point.
The main point was that the entire square was divided into four regions.
At this moment, four zombies that were stronger than the regular zombies were tied up in the center of these four regions. In the center of the entire square, there was a tall zombie that was emitting an extremely terrifying and fierce aura. It was receiving the nourishment of the almost-unlimited aura of death.