Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

A prime example is Julianne, whose aura is indistinguishable from that of the Golden Eagle. Whether in battle or negotiation, she likes to use her aura, which is several times stronger than that of ordinary people, to suppress her opponents.

Once she gains the upper hand, the enemy under her aura will be immediately at a disadvantage, suffering immense psychological pressure, along with a rapid depletion of stamina, decreased judgment, and other negative effects.

However, Julianne's extraordinary aura is a special case. In normal battles, even if there is a level difference between the two sides, it is unlikely that the opponent's aura will completely suppress the other.

Using sheer force to inflict a powerful negative status effect on an enemy is extremely rare in actual combat.

The purpose of the skill [Army Momentum Condensation] is to make this extremely difficult-to-achieve combat effect a regular occurrence in actual combat. To achieve this, one person's morale is clearly not enough.

When individual morale is insufficient to overwhelm the enemy, then use a hundred men, a thousand men, or organized units to unite their morale; this will surely create an overwhelming force.

A force that crushes its opponent.

The prerequisites for activating [Military Momentum Condensation] are extremely demanding. Although it is not necessary to be a soldier, the group participating in the skill must be of one mind and coordinated, and everyone must enter a state of fighting for only one goal.

This state is extremely rare and seldom occurs in daily training. It is more common on high-intensity battlefields, when two armies are fighting head-on. After all, when the battle reaches that point, the people on the battlefield basically have no other thoughts on their minds.

The experience of this corpse also involved condensing [military power] in this state. He personally remained clear-headed and guided the military power to make the combat effectiveness of the entire army reach a new level, thus winning many battles.

"An interesting ability, but its triggering is not very stable. Is it possible to use some additional methods to make this ability work reliably?"

Looking at the newly added [Military Force Condensation] skill in his skill bar, Bell pondered the possibility of unifying the wills of different individuals.

For example, could using the aphrodisiac he had seen in the high-end market to put a large number of different individuals into an irrational state of estrus at the same time achieve the effect of unifying their will?

Alternatively, one could cultivate a unique gregarious insect species, giving these insects an innate ability to project power while maintaining a small size. This would allow Bell to carry a large number of insects with him and use the group skill "Army Condensation" to enhance himself.

Bell's thoughts continued to wander on this skill until the corpse burned to ashes, leaving behind wisps of time, before he finally came to his senses.

Developing [Military Force Condensation] is not something Bell needs to rush, after all, he is still in the stage of fighting alone.

By activating the magical texts within his body, the time fragments previously recorded in Bell's body resonated, drawing these slowly dissipating time fragments into Bell's body. The more of this stuff, the better for Bell. Although it's not very useful now, as Bell grows, the power of time will become increasingly important.

"This corpse is much larger than the last ancient corpse, and the refined bone powder it yields will be three pounds more. We can get a lot of good stuff from the Agricultural Association again."

Bell was in high spirits after collecting the large amount of bone powder obtained from calcining the corpse.

After all, the elite team had worked hard to defeat this corpse, while Bell reaped the benefits without lifting a finger and even got some assists from the nun, gaining a lot of experience.

"Let this elite team slowly work on those white bone towers on the outer perimeter."

With a clap of his hands, Bell headed towards the cave entrance deep in the bamboo forest that led directly to the royal tomb at dusk. Although the elite team had completed the conquest of another spire, they were still searching for treasures inside. If Bell went to take the corpse at this time, it would easily cause unnecessary trouble.

With the nun around, these elite adventurers won't touch the corpses lying on the ground, so Bell doesn't need to rush. He can retrieve the corpses after the elite team leaves.

These corpses have been lying here for so many years, a few more days wouldn't be a problem. The next important step is to enter the royal tomb and complete the first round of exploration.

"The mutated zombies in the Bone Spire are enough to give high-level adventure teams a run for their money. Heaven knows what kind of monsters and demons are buried in this royal tomb."

Before heading to the royal tomb, Bell first took out the Star Unicorn Horn and waited for night to fall.

Bell dared not enter the deathly aura-filled royal tomb naked; he first had to layer two energy shields on himself to resist the erosion of the deathly aura.

Chapter 167 Entering the Royal Tomb

Winter nights come early, and the moon hanging in the sky is very pale, half-hidden and shy.

Holding the Star Unicorn Horn and aiming it at the faintly visible moon, Bell used his mental power to pull down a lot of moonlight from the sky and envelop himself.

"Raise a glass to the bright moon and make three people in the shadows."

Bell shook the Star Unicorn horn in his hand, and using the bard's method of inscribing magical characters, he outlined the power of the stars into a string of Chinese characters, forming a poem.

By encircling these Chinese characters around his body, he quickly formed a protective film that resisted the erosion of death energy.

This poem was not engraved into Bell's body; its existence is limited, lasting only about six hours, but for Bell, that time is enough.

Silver starlight enveloped Bell's body, making its white fur shine even brighter. The shadow that had been silently following Bell also peeked out, curiously observing the starlight surrounding it.

"Heading towards the Earth's core!"

In his shrunken state, Bell quickly arrived at the entrance to the royal tomb cave that he had previously blocked, and followed the secret door he had left for himself to the center of the entrance to the bone wall cave.

Just a few more steps forward and Bell will enter the royal tomb. What he will face there is unknown to Bell, since the power of the Sea of ​​Depths cannot enter the royal tomb; it is a completely unknown territory.

"Shadow, listen up. You don't need to fight alongside me during this expedition. You just need to protect me at crucial moments."

Bell gave Shadow orders in advance: if any sudden danger occurred, Shadow could use his ability to make Bell immune to ranged attacks, or directly pull Bell into the shadow world to escape the royal tomb.

Issuing orders in advance ensures that in the event of intense combat, when Bell doesn't have time to give orders to his shadow, the shadow can spontaneously protect Bell's safety.

Despite being a black paper mouse all day and not being able to speak, Shadow is actually very intelligent, with a perception even more acute than Bell's in certain areas.

Having made these preparations, Bell cautiously stepped into the cave.

With just one step, Bell felt the temperature drop by seventeen or eighteen degrees, as if he had been thrown naked onto the far north tundra.

Bell knew that this perceived temperature was not a representation of the actual temperature, but rather an impact on Bell's perception caused by the extremely unique environment within the royal tomb.

Previously, Bell's fur, which had shimmered in the moonlight on the ground, rapidly dimmed, and the moonlight flowing across her body was compressed into her fluffy fur.

We hadn't even entered the royal tomb yet; we'd only taken a few steps from the entrance and we were already in this state. The environment inside the royal tomb was far more terrifying than Bell had anticipated.

"Based on this concentration of death energy, my Moonlight Poetry Barrier can probably only protect me for three hours, or even less."

With a frown, Bell walked through the ten-meter-deep hole, a halo of flame appearing on his forehead, illuminating the situation in front of him.

Behind the cave entrance was not a scene of corpses scattered everywhere. On the contrary, looking inside the cave, one could find a very orderly passage and walls.

Fangfang is directly connected to the entrance of the cave.

The passageway is straight, with occasional door-like structures on both sides, which seem to allow entry.

Bell thought the structure looked a bit like a pyramid, with the doors being burial chambers for funerary objects, arranged in a certain pattern throughout the royal tomb and guarding the central core tomb.

Of course, being a first-time visitor, Bell didn't dare to tamper with these sealed tombs. Who knew if they contained treasure or mutated zombies trapped inside?

“The traces of the caves that were previously carved out still exist in the royal tomb and extend deeper into it.”

After jumping into the passage inside the royal tomb, Bell didn't walk far before he saw a new hole in the passage. Judging from the marks on the hole, it was also a hole that had been violently blasted out.

Amidst the traces of violent destruction, there were also destroyed tombs and the remains of corpses lying on the ground.

Bell was familiar with these corpses; they were basically the same as the ancient corpses in the Bone Spire outside, except that they had been completely destroyed and looked like they had been lying underground for many years.

Bell had no intention of collecting the scattered corpses, after all, his time was quite limited. If he were to use [Fire-Loving Wisdom] to obtain information from them, he would have to take the scattered remains out and set them on fire when the expedition was about to end.

More importantly, royal tombs are structures specifically designed for burial, and what they have in abundance is a large number of corpses.

Of course, besides the adult zombies that have been buried for who knows how many years, there are also young corpses here.

Following the marks left by these man-made excavations, after about ten minutes, Bell discovered scattered corpses still dressed in their clothes.

Judging from their attire, these corpses were adventurers whom Bell remembered very well, scattered haphazardly near a passage.

"The estimated time of death is no more than a month. It seems to be the group of adventurers who went deep into the bamboo forest in my memory."

As Bell approached the corpses, he was surprised that they hadn't turned into zombies that would bite anyone they saw.

After all, with the large amount of death energy and the special environment of the royal tomb, these guys should have turned into undead creatures long ago. The adventurer corpses encountered in the inner part of the bamboo forest had mostly turned into zombies.

"These guys all have wounds between their eyebrows, small dots the size of a little finger, that went straight through their heads."

After carefully examining several corpses, Bell determined their cause of death: their skulls had been pierced by some high-speed attack.

It can be inferred that this attack also contained some kind of soul-destroying power, because Bell did not find any souls that could not leave the corpses, nor did the Royal Tomb contain the Sea of ​​Depravity that provided rest for souls.

After spending some time dragging the bodies to one place, Bell decided not to explore any further.

He only had an hour and a half left to operate, and Bell planned to use that time to transform into a primal behemoth and bring the adventurers' corpses outside the royal tomb, using [Fire-Loving Wisdom] to obtain more information about the royal tomb from them.

At the very least, Bell needs to figure out what killed these guys.

Bell didn't want to continue exploring deeper into the royal tombs under the constant pressure of being attacked.

"Hopefully nothing goes wrong in the next hour and a half."

Bell muttered something, his body suddenly swelled up, and he began transporting the adventurers' corpses out of the royal tomb.

As Bell's exploration continued, two beams of light suddenly shone in another area of ​​the royal tomb.

Chapter 168 Strange Skeleton

"There were a total of twenty-three corpses, including the old and the young, and all of them died in the same way."

After collecting and gathering the corpses, Bell returned to the entrance of the royal tomb.

Before igniting the flames to activate [Fire-Loving Wisdom], Bell carefully examined the corpses, hoping to find two rare pieces of equipment from these dead adventurers.

Unfortunately, most of the items these dead adventurers possessed were unusable, as they were mostly damaged by the death aura. Only some weapons and a few gem ornaments remained functional.

Bear could only lick the bag with tears in his eyes, expressing his gratitude for the bounty of nature to the dead adventurers.

"These weapons are of average price, but the accessories together should fetch around 800 gold coins from black market dealers."

Accessories that can withstand the corrosive effects of death energy are of high quality. In a normal transaction, they should sell for around 1,500 gold coins. However, if you just want to get rid of them quickly and sell them on the black market, you can only get a maximum of 800 gold coins.

Silently setting the ornaments aside, Bell shrunk his size, snapped his fingers to create a flame, and ignited the corpses as he had done before, preparing to use [Fire-Loving Wisdom] to learn about their experiences in the royal tomb.

As before, when the corpses were initially burned, knowledge about combat entered Bell's brain through the flames. This was muscle memory from adventurers' battles. After this knowledge was sifted through Bell's brain, Bell discarded most of the combat experience he had gained here.

Bell had gained combat experience from all sorts of corpses. With the profound combat experience gained from the two ancient corpses, Bell's understanding of combat had long surpassed that of most adventurers. The combat experience of ordinary adventurers was full of flaws and fallacies to Bell.

"Aside from this blind fighting technique being somewhat interesting, the other combat experience is of no benefit to me."