Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 172 The Mountain Corpse Appears Ahead of Schedule, Rotting Corpse Hides Eggs

While the four high-level mages were working together to kill the Ghost Lord, the vanguard of the undead army had already surged to the city walls like a tidal wave.

The entire defensive line instantly descended into a fierce battle, with shouts of battle and magical explosions echoing through the sky.

The mages guarding the city walls unleashed their most powerful abilities, weaving a dazzling yet deadly web of magic across the night sky.

Fire mages summoned a rain of fire, burning swarms of skeleton soldiers to ashes; ice mages erected ice walls several meters high, temporarily halting the advance of the undead; wind mages controlled raging tornadoes, sweeping up undead attempting to climb the walls and slamming them down.

As the remains of the Ghostly Monarch were completely annihilated in the holy light, a deafening cheer erupted from the city walls.

Many young monks embraced each other excitedly, naively believing that the nightmare was about to end.

However, this joy did not last long before two terrifying roars that shook the heavens and earth came from afar, instantly freezing everyone's smiles.

The first roar came from the sky.

The night sky, which was originally reddened by the firelight, was suddenly covered by a pale, bone-white color, and a giant bone dragon, as big as a small castle, broke through the clouds.

Each of its bones gleamed with a cold, metallic light, and its hollow eye sockets burned with a ghostly blue flame of the soul—this was none other than the vengeful spirit lord, "Bone Demon Lord," who struck fear into the hearts of the entire ancient capital.

As it spread its wings, countless skeleton warriors rained down from the sky.

These skeletons are unlike ordinary undead; their bones are an eerie dark red, and the bone blades they wield are wreathed in corrosive death energy.

The second roar came from the ground.

Suddenly, a "mountain peak" rose up in the distant wilderness. When the dust settled, people were horrified to discover that it was actually a giant corpse—the "Mountain Peak Corpse," the head of the eight fallen emperors.

Its body was pieced together from countless rotting corpses, each piece of flesh writhing and emitting a suffocating stench.

Even more terrifying, it was followed by tens of thousands of zombies, each in a different state of decay, some even still retaining their clothes and appearance from when they were alive.

After circling in the air once, the Bone Demon Lord suddenly swooped down, opening its huge bone jaws and spewing out ghostly blue soul fire.

The affected defenders died instantly, without even having time to scream.

At the same time, the Corpse of the Mountain began its killing spree.

This terrifying undead lord casually grabbed a commander-level corpse beside him and hurled it toward the city wall like a cannonball.

The rotting corpse exploded in mid-air, turning into a cloud of dark green poisonous mist.

As the corpse exploded, countless pearl-sized insect eggs scattered like petals from a fairy maiden.

"What is that?" A young mage looked at a worm egg that had fallen at his feet with a puzzled expression.

The eggshell is translucent, and you can vaguely see something wriggling inside.

Before anyone could answer, the insect eggs began to hatch at an astonishing rate.

Sandworms the size of a thumb hatched from their shells; they were dark yellow all over with strange black patterns on their backs.

These seemingly weak demons immediately displayed astonishing aggression, seeking out the nearest living creature to parasitize.

"Watch out for those insects!" a wise old monk shouted a warning, but it was too late.

Sandworms move very fast and are ubiquitous; in the blink of an eye, dozens of mages were caught in their trap.

A fire mage watched in horror as a sand worm burrowed into his arm. A few seconds later, his skin began to turn sandy, and his eyes gradually became dull.

They became puppets controlled by sandworms.

Even more terrifying is that these humans are turning into undead at an alarming rate under the catalysis of death energy.

Their skin rotted rapidly, their eyes became hollow, and they turned to attack their former comrades.

The entire city wall defense line instantly descended into chaos.

The combined attack of the Bone Demon Lord and the Mountain Corpse, along with the Sandworm's all-pervasive parasitic ability, caused the human defenses to crumble in an instant.

And those parasitized mages quickly completed their necromancy transformation.

They not only gained sand magic from the sandworms, but also became shrouded in deathly aura, transforming into a new "corpse army." One by one, they turned their attention to their former comrades.

When they are killed as undead, the insects quickly flee to find their next target.

In cities, the harm caused by sandworms is far greater than that caused by ordinary dead.

Zhu Meng, Lu Xu, and the others' pupils constricted as they watched another rotting corpse being tossed into the city by the Mountain Corpse, exploding in mid-air into a sky full of poisonous mist and insect eggs.

The eerie fluorescent insect eggs rained down on rooftops and streets like hail, making a "plop" sound.

"Everyone, listen up! Prioritize clearing the insect eggs!" Zhu Meng's roar, amplified by magic, echoed across the battlefield as he summoned dozens of fine lightning nets to cover the area densely populated with insect eggs.

Amidst flashes of lightning, swarms of insect eggs were electrocuted into charcoal.

Hunter King Du Xiao responded immediately. He drew his longbow, and light magic condensed at the tip of the arrow: "Holy Light Arrow Rain!" After the arrow ascended into the air, it exploded into hundreds of tiny light arrows, accurately hitting the scattered insect eggs.

However, the reality is despairing.

As more and more rotting corpses were thrown into the city, the number of insect eggs increased exponentially.

Most of them are difficult to distinguish because they are mixed in with the deathly mist and poisonous fog. Unless you use super-level magic to directly kill all the rotting corpses carrying them.

By the time the rotting corpse explodes on its own, it will be too late.

There are too many to clean up completely.

"Watch your step!" a female mage suddenly screamed.

From the cracks in the bluestone slab beneath her feet, dozens of newly hatched sandworms were wriggling and crawling out, and three of them jumped onto her robe in an instant.

"No, no!" The female mage frantically patted her robes, but it was too late.

The sandworms burrowed into her skin at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving raised marks on her fair neck.

Just a few seconds later, her eyes began to glaze over, and strange, sandy patterns appeared on her skin.

Similar tragedies unfolded throughout the city walls.

The corpse on the mountain continued to throw out large numbers of rotting corpses, each of which contained a large number of insect eggs.
With the appearance of the mountain corpse, Qin Xiaonan sensed the aura of the Sandworm Monarch in that direction.

"They've finally appeared. Lan Xi, Qing Ning, come with me."

The winged magical artifacts behind him flickered.

"Whoosh——"

Qin Xiaonan moved like lightning, charging straight up against the tide of corpses.

"Roar!"

The dark, menacing horde of undead lunged at the audacious human.

But the next second—

"Get out of here!"

A figure in cyan appeared first, arriving before the others.

Qingning's fox tail swelled in the wind, its surface shimmering with the light of crystalline sand.

She spun in mid-air, her fox tail sweeping across like a peacock's tail.

The undead that were swept away were as if they had hit an invisible wall, and instantly torn to pieces.