Final Lord

Chapter 174 The enemy is... the undead!
But when he approached the Bull Camp, he was shocked to find that the Bull Trees he had painstakingly planted had turned into a pile of rotting mud, just like the farmland before. And there was no sign of any enemy around the Bull Camp.

"Ahhh! Too late!" The lizardman was extremely annoyed. He moved closer to the bull tree to observe it, his nose twitched twice, and his yellow pupils suddenly contracted.

"This is the smell of deathly aura! The other party must be an undead!" The lizardman suddenly realized: "Oh! No wonder they could conduct such intensive reconnaissance in the swamp. It's not surprising that they are undead."

Undead are naturally immune to poison and can ignore poisonous miasma. Ghosts among the undead can also pass through trees, ignore terrain and have no collision volume, have extremely low aggro, and will not be detected by creatures in swamps.

It must have been a ghost that found me!
Heh heh, you bunch of banana fly skeletons! Trying to take advantage of your intelligence to ambush me, huh? Just wait until I catch you, you'll be eating mud!"

The lizardman looked around and then stealthily jumped into the mud.

He needs to find some trial creatures and cultivate organs specifically for locating the undead. Once he has these organs, his current unfavorable situation can be reversed!

……

"Once we have the organ to search for the dead, the current unfavorable situation can be reversed. That's definitely what he's thinking now."

Wang Bufu pointed to the tactical map and said to Wei Yi, "Let's exploit his mentality. Send him the Swamp Mud Monster at coordinates 1922, 1677 to eat. He won't be able to resist wanting to eat it."

After he happily finishes eating the mud monster, thinking he's become stronger, he'll receive our big gift.

……

"What great luck!" The lizardman looked at the swamp monster in front of him and couldn't help but stick out his long tongue to lick his nose.

He hadn't noticed the Swamp Monster at first, but when he got to this area, he happened to hear it hunting birds.

【Swamp Mud Monster (Normal Tier 3)】
attribute

Life: 80
Attack: 10
Defense: 15
Speed: 8
Special skill:

Humus aggregate (passive)

It has no fixed form, physical attacks reduce its damage by 30% (including piercing/slashing attacks), and it is immune to critical hits.

Swamp Symbiosis (Passive)
When in swampy terrain, recover 20 health points every 3 seconds and gain +5 movement speed.

Sticky Devour (Active/Cooldown 2 minutes)

Transforms the user into a mud pit, binding enemies within a 10-meter radius and gradually dealing "Attack x 5" magic damage while inflicting a stun effect. Lasts 20 seconds.

During this period, you are immune to single-target damage, but receive double the area-of-effect damage.

Swamps often contain mud pits. Some of these mud pits are particularly dangerous; creatures that get stuck in them are almost certainly doomed.

A swamp that has swallowed enough creatures will accumulate their resentment and become trapped inside, giving rise to a swamp monster.

Therefore, the Swamp Mud Monster is an undead unit.

"Sixteen swamp monsters should be able to grow what I need, right?"

The lizardmen didn't attack immediately; instead, they circled around the swamp monster.

"The east is safe, the west is safe, the south is safe, and the north is safe."

"Excellent, there are no ambushes within a kilometer radius. It seems the enemy's reach hasn't extended this far yet. We can make our move!"

The lizardmen spent a full thirty minutes scouting to ensure everything was foolproof before charging into the swamp monster's lair.

As soon as the lizard-skin drum sounds, all special moves are unleashed.

In just over ten seconds, the Swamp Mud Monster was brutally killed by the Lizardman.

The lizardmen acted swiftly, not bothering to carefully select their targets. They used their magical powers to plant all the corpses of the swamp monsters into the swamp before quickly retreating and hiding in the nearby mud to observe.

While observing, they prayed, "Don't be discovered! Don't be discovered!" Finally, ten minutes later, to the lizardman's immense surprise, fleshy vines sprouted.

"Nobody stopped me! Hey! The little undead's scouting skills are terrible, it still managed to grow into one of my own."

The lizardmen rushed over excitedly and quickly began selecting from the harvest.

"What is this? A swamp stomach, which can eat the undead to gain energy. Good stuff, have one."

Mud Skull, immune to necromancy magic damage below level three. A good item, please.

"Mud legs, moving at the same speed on the mud, ugh! What garbage!"

While picking and choosing, the lizardman suddenly exclaimed and his tail began to wag excitedly.

"Haha! The Eye of Death can see through the concentration of death energy within a three-kilometer radius and sense the direction of the undead."

Here it is, this is exactly what I wanted!

The lizardman excitedly installed eyes on his forehead, replacing the organ that sensed melee attacks.

He could have replanted and cultivated the replaced organs into soldiers. But his soldiers were all carefully selected to become organs, and their own combat capabilities were not outstanding, so replacing them would not have made much of a difference.

Since death in the war trial wasn't considered real death, he casually tossed the organs into the mud and left them there.

"Let me see where these little undead that should be fed mud are."

The lizardman blinked, touched the top of his head, and activated the Eye of Death...

In an instant, large amounts of cold sweat dripped from the lizardman's chin and landed on his feet.

To the lizardman, countless undead auras surrounded him, forming a four-sided encirclement. In the far distance, a plume of black smoke shot into the sky, terrifying as if a demon had descended.

"What the hell! What have they brought me here for?"
No wonder it's been so calm lately; it turns out their undead army had me surrounded all along and had been searching for my location!

The lizardman's teeth clicked together.

Instead of being afraid, they became excited.

As a witch doctor, he could also use necromancy, so he knew all too well how terrifying a snowballing undead army could be.

"The Soul Summoning Technique can only summon the souls of five out of ten killed. If the opponent doesn't come to capture me but instead clears out the trial creatures on a large scale, I definitely won't be a match for them when I reach the later stages of the game."

Now that he's coming to arrest me, things are different.

"Hehe, you want to catch me? Then come on! Let's see if I can run faster than your skeleton!"

The lizardman quickly jumped into the swamp and crept along it to a point where death energy was gathering. Sure enough, he found a group of emaciated skeleton soldiers at the gathering point.

He chuckled, leaped out of the swamp, his limbs transformed into steel blades, and his tail into a sharp edge, easily dispatching all the skeleton soldiers.

He then hid in the mud and waited patiently.

Sure enough, after a short while, the surrounding death energy began to converge towards the spot where he had dealt with the skeleton soldiers.

"Haha, it really is a man-made army of the dead. Interesting, very interesting. Let the hide-and-seek begin!"

……

"He must be very happy right now." Wang Bufu sat in the temporary tent, his smile very kind.

(End of this chapter)