Feicui Long then takes Perla and Kagetsume and returns them each to their own contracted creature dimensions. The banshees are extremely dangerous, even these lower-level banshees, each scream could tear the soul out of a living being if they do not have spiritual or soul strength to counter them. For him, it wouldn't even tickle, same with Irina, since both possess quite powerful special souls, especially his.
Meanwhile, Surinbit, in addition to possessing adaptive power in the four mystical energies, which include spiritual energy, has quite a strong spiritual power. As for golems and undead, it is not very effective against them because although they have souls, their souls are asleep or in a latent state, a state that normally weakens them since it affects their intelligence, but in cases like this it isolates them because it makes interacting with their souls very, very difficult.
The elite group freshly out of the forest begins walking slowly and confidently in formation to approach the hill.
Even so, Feicui Long cannot trust it, he cannot kill it like that nor hurt its soul, but those screams could make his common soul vibrate and distract him or slow down his reaction time, something extremely dangerous.
So he gathers the surviving golems and undead from his army. There are 30 golems left of the initial 45 golems, all the rock and wood ones, while the earth ones have been annihilated even with the absurd regeneration that golems possess. Of the undead, only 100 remain from the 250 he had. It's not the best situation, but it's something.
The Ice Lich floats slowly and calmly while continuing with his elite guard. Next to him floats a ball of crystalline ice.
Irina, a little nervous, hugs him from behind and says: "Young master, how are we going to face that? We should take advantage and flee, only about 31 enemies."
Feicui Long, a little surprised to be touched so suddenly, explains while shaking his head: "We wouldn't make it. The hill served us as defense, but now it's the prison that traps us. We have to go down the hill and they only need to block the climb. Besides, those lower banshees can slow our descent."
Meanwhile, the elite group is already halfway up the hill. They just have to pass through all the destroyed skeletons on the battlefield and they will arrive.
Then Feicui Long, touching one of Irina's hands, turns around until he is just centimeters from her face and says seriously: "Besides that, Irina… if I retreat here, you will never be able to overcome it, and I can't let a precious subordinate see her potential limited by a past that is no longer there. So please keep fighting with me, Irina."
Wasting no time, he quickly distributes his golems and undead in a formation protecting Irina and Surinbit. Then, activating his third eye again and taking an energy recovery pill, he takes a combat stance.
The Lich and his elite troops continue advancing at a steady pace without hurrying, almost as if they already have victory assured. Even so, the elite guard does not neglect their protection of the Lich.
Then he can see the information of this group: Lower Skeleton Knight – Mystic Realm – Grade 4 – Peak, Lower Putrid Knight – Mystic Realm – Grade 4 – Late Stage, Skeleton Archer – Mystic Realm – Grade 4 – Mid Stage, Putrid Crossbowman – Mystic Realm – Grade 4 – Mid Stage, Rotten Flesh Rifler – Mystic Realm – Grade 4 – Initial Stage.
Feicui Long sighs. The only one in this group of 15 that is within his combat capacity range is the rifler. He then directs his third eye at the others: Red Skeleton Mage – Mystic Realm – Grade 4 – Late Stage, Yellow Putrid Mage – Mystic Realm – Grade 4 – Initial Stage, Putrid Lightning Elementalist – Mystic Realm – Grade 4 – Peak, Zombie Spiritist – Mystic Realm – Grade 4 – Mid Stage, Corrupt Corpse Psychic – Mystic Realm – Grade 4 – Peak. As for the banshees, all are in Mystic Realm Grade 3 luckily, same as the Ice Lich.
This is quite dangerous, especially because of the equipment they carry. All have Grade 5 Mortal Quality gear and the weapons are even Grade 6, but the most important factor that almost leaves him in shock is seeing that they are all of the civilized type. So Feicui Long mentally prepares himself. If things go wrong, he will have to be willing to use his three remaining trump cards. He already used 2 of the ones he had… he is truly running out of options.
The enemies keep marching across the battlefield. Their armors resonate with their skeletons and putrid flesh, letting out unpleasant sounds, but they also do so with the fragments of skeletons scattered all over the place. It is a very advanced formation, as the sword and shield knights go protecting the front with their shields raised and the halberdiers behind them.
Finally, the enemies arrive in front of the hill. So Feicui Long quickly gives the order to his undead to harass them, while he draws his halberd and sword. Then he jumps towards them taking advantage of the fact that the sword and shield warriors have their shields ready to defend. With his halberd, he makes a diagonal downward cut.
But when he thinks he will eliminate 5 enemies quickly, the halberds of the putrid knights emerge from below to partially interrupt his attack, along with a spell that covers the bodies of the skeleton knights giving them something like a stone "skin".
Feicui Long frowns in annoyance and says: "These damn undead are too annoying, but this is nothing, we're just getting started."
Then he stores his halberd and grabs the sword with both hands and sends an energy slash while saying: "Emerald Slash!"
After attacking, he immediately uses emerald impact on his limbs to dodge a lightning strike along with a fireball that explodes, burning the place where he was. He only manages to see how the slash breaks the stone skin spell and pushes away the skeleton knights.
The putrid knights, as if expecting this, run out to chase him and stab with their halberds trying to corner him, but he always dodges them gracefully. The problem is that arrows, bolts, and energy shots start attacking him mercilessly, like a deadly rain.
But he is not slow to react, so he stomps the ground injecting his earth element energy and raises a rock wall that absorbs most of the impacts and delays the rest just enough for him to dodge. Even so, this small elite is not easy to deal with and they follow him, finally entering the top of the hill.
There, the spiritist launches a spiritual attack, which is barely blocked by a pink energy barrier made of spiritual energy. Feicui Long glances sideways and realizes it's Surinbit. It's obvious this little one is gaining more and more combat experience, but it's not surprising, since after all, she is a leader type, with intelligence superior to that of an average human.
Feicui Long then senses something and tries to react, but it is too late. The psychic launches an attack, which manages to hit him directly…
But instead of bothering or hurting him, it only makes him burst out laughing aloud: "Hahahahaha, to think that a psychic would use Mind Break on someone with equally strong psychic power, is this really your elite guard?"
Then he pauses for a few moments to dodge more attacks from halberds, bows, and rifles, only to then add: "Everyone knows that Mind Break is only effective if the opponent has much less mental power than the user. But besides that, if the user has equal or slightly lower power, what will happen is a rebound effect. Adding to that the fact that I am a master of mystical energies and therefore a psychic, I have to thank you for removing this annoyance."
Seconds after he finishes speaking, the corrupt corpse psychic freezes and then collapses to the ground grabbing his head, letting out guttural screams. His mental realm has suffered considerable damage from the backlash.
The ice lich, seeing this, speaks and says: "Tsk, damn useless thing. How dare you use Mind Break first without verifying with other attacks. Even so, stupid mortal, don't you dare underestimate this lord."
Seconds later, ice spears and frozen shots begin to act as supporting fire. It seems the lich has joined the skirmish.
Feicui Long, who had been pushed back, smiles and says: "Pfff, underestimate you? Not at all. I know what you're capable of. On the contrary, you're the one underestimating me, because who said I was going to fight this entire battle alone?"
Soon by his side appear three stone golems and two wooden ones from the ten golems that had been protecting Irina. These golems have more high-quality inscriptions, more vivid and emit more power than the ones in the back. Each one unleashes a blow that makes several of the warriors retreat. One of the stone ones is even pulling a putrid knight toward him.
But that's not all. The faun leader with his mortal-grade level 7 artifact spear quickly jumps in and nearly knocks down another putrid warrior, while the wild fire shaman starts attacking a skeleton knight that got too close. The alpha lizardman also fights on equal terms against another. With this, Feicui Long's entire elite is supporting him.
The lich responds with a hiss: "Trash" and then extends his hand using a dark and shadowy magic that surrounds the elite undead and those waiting behind. But after a while, the dark energy disappears as if nothing happened, and nothing has changed, leaving him very surprised.
Feicui Long then bursts out laughing again and says: "Seriously, a pathetic imitation thinks it can take control of the undead from the real version?"
The lich, surprised, says: "You possess necromancy! But how, you already have golem creation and on top of that you have tamed beasts and can summon!?... wait a moment… you possess the Sovereign's Quartet!"
Feicui Long smiles and says: "You're just realizing it?" Then he immediately clashes his longsword against two halberds, letting out a metallic sound Clank
He then directs the attack with all his strength and deflects the halberds, trying to take advantage of the opportunity to cut off the putrid knight's head.
The lich, annoyed, says: "Then even more reason to eliminate you. Quickly, trash, focus on killing that cockroach!" Then he proceeds to cast some enhancement spells on his elite guards, which allows the putrid knight to barely be saved from the attack.
Thanks to that, one of the skeleton knights runs to save the putrid knight who was being pulled by the rock golem. With his sword, using a technique, he manages to cut the stone golem's hand. The putrid knight quickly retreats to a safe distance.
The golem quickly regenerates its arm and strikes the skeleton knight, who uses his shield to protect himself. In addition to that, the golem begins to use earth element energy to attack from multiple directions with spikes from its back and flying rocks that slam into the knight's armor.
On her part, Irina, though scared and trembling, helps by firing ice arrows at the legs of the knights, causing them to have difficulty moving. Feicui Long takes advantage of this moment and with his sword manages to cut off the head of a skeleton knight who tripped, then crushes the skull with the same sword.
The other undead, seeing this, react violently, ignoring even their opponents and heading toward Feicui Long. Feicui Long, already tired, whispers to himself: "So it's the same as with ghouls, they all have some kind of camaraderie… fine, let's play this game then."
Feicui Long once again releases his telekinetic daggers and adopts a defensive stance with his sword, preparing to block. It is at that moment when finally a terrifying scream sounds from the feet of Feicui Long: "Cryaaaaaaaaaaa!"
Feicui Long then feels his soul vibrate intensely and thinks internally 'shit, I completely forgot about these annoyances.'
This delays Feicui Long's reaction by about 2 to 3 seconds, and now, three of the putrid knights' halberds are very close to striking him. Feicui Long takes a breath and thinks internally again: "I'll only be able to dodge one of the attacks if I use that, and block another with the sword, so I have to endure the third one... then I must dodge the one on the right, block the one in the center, and let the one on the left be the one to hit me, only then I'll avoid the worst damage."
The knights, striking with all their strength, which is also enhanced by the Lich's dark spells, pierce through the air with their halberds. Feicui Long then shouts: "Technique of the Palace of the Stellar Sky, Steps of the Heavenly Path!"
Feicui Long then moves back, avoiding the attack from the right, while the one in the center hits Clank, being deflected to the side, but the attack from the left manages to leave a rather deep cut on his side…
He wastes no time. He knows he is in a vulnerable situation and quickly reacts despite the pain and the blood, gathers energy into his sword and launches an emerald slash that sends the putrid knights and the skeleton knights who came to support them flying backward.
Then he feels something strange, a sudden numbness, and suddenly, worried, realizes what it is… it's… it's paralytic poison. Those damn halberds are coated with poison. He then lifts his head to look at the lich.
The lich, seeing him, says arrogantly: "And now what will you do? How will you get out of this, arrogant brat?"
After that, the rest of the undead run toward a very exhausted, injured and paralyzed Feicui Long, while Irina watches in horror at this scene…