Rhapsody of the Skeleton – Chapter 15

Ch 15: Strength Crushing

Hundreds of gray bones charged towards Yun Ming.

Having been on the battlefield and witnessed scenes of millions of skeletons charging together, how could Yun Ming be intimidated by this scale of rabble? Among the hundreds of gray bones, there were only a few dozen white bones, and not even ten jade bones.

According to the limitations of soul speech, a war bone can command up to one hundred jade bones, and a jade bone can command one hundred white bones. It’s not that the wolf-shaped battle skeleton was picky about his subordinates, but he simply couldn’t find any.

On the Skeleton Continent, slightly larger soul rifts were all occupied, and small soul rifts naturally produced gray bones slowly. This led to very few jade bones and war bones among the wandering bones. As for strong bones, sorry, the wolf-shaped battle skeleton had never heard of a strong bone being born among the wandering bones.

The huge bone club swung towards several jade bones. One jade bone hurriedly used the bone club in his hand to block, but the enormous force came, and he was immediately knocked to the ground.

Yun Ming weighed the bone club and felt it was too light and too big, unsuitable for the current battle. He casually threw it into the distance, and Soul Devourer probed out. Before the opposing jade bone could react, Yun Ming crashed into his arms. Soul Devourer easily pierced into the chest bone. Before he could finish absorbing the essence soul, Yun Ming swung the jade bone towards the next jade bone.

Two jade bones were slammed heavily on the ground by Yun Ming, turning into two broken skeletons. The skeletons and humans present seemed to be frozen.

Two jade bones were solved so quickly, too weak, not much stronger than himself in the white bone stage. This was Yun Ming’s evaluation of the two jade bones on the ground. Whether in terms of strength, speed, or reaction ability, they were far inferior to military bones of the same level.

After a brief shock, the remaining jade bones began to cooperate somewhat. One jade bone wielded a bone hammer, intending to entangle Yun Ming, and another snake-shaped jade bone was responsible for long-range attacks, actually firing bone darts from its mouth. The remaining jade bones surrounded Yun Ming with bone clubs.

Yun Ming quickly determined that the bone hammer jade bone and the snake-shaped jade bone were the two strongest jade bones and planned to prioritize solving them. Two Soul Devourers crossed to block the falling bone hammer. The force was not as great as Yun Ming had imagined. He pushed the bone hammer away with force, easily flashed out of the encirclement, and Soul Devourer pointed directly at the snake-shaped jade bone.

The soft bone snake swayed slightly in mid-air, and Soul Devourer deeply pierced into the triangular skull. Just as Yun Ming rushed towards the snake-shaped jade bone, he discovered that the snake-shaped jade bone instinctively wanted to escape, but the next moment, its body contracted and shot towards Yun Ming. If the snake-shaped jade bone wanted to escape, Yun Ming would have to spend some effort, but this saved trouble.

Turning his body, he dodged the bone hammer behind him, and with a punch, he sent the sneak-attacking bone club flying. Yun Ming directly began close combat. Without distance, the bone hammer lost its use. Soul Devourer crazily crisscrossed, bone shards splashed, and the still tall jade bone was instantly reduced to only a skull, limbs, and a spine.

After solving the bone hammer jade bone, there were four jade bones left. Yun Ming did not hesitate. With absolute strength, four more skeletons were soon added to the ground.

Seeing his subordinates being slaughtered, the wolf-shaped battle skeleton finally couldn’t sit still. He finally realized that being able to kill eight jade bones so quickly, he was not a wandering bone at all, but a real military bone. When he was still a jade bone, he thought about joining the army, going to the battlefield to fight human soldiers, and enjoying living souls, but he was not only rejected but also beaten half to death, and it took a long time to recover.

After that, he was promoted to battle skeleton and pulled up his own team. He didn’t expect a military bone to emerge today. Unable to suppress his emotions any longer, the wolf-shaped battle skeleton roared and charged towards Yun Ming. For close combat, Yun Ming naturally didn’t refuse anyone. The two skeletons immediately engaged.

His strength was not as good as a battle bone of the same level, and coupled with the reason for losing his mind, Yun Ming was not at a disadvantage in the battle, and he could even spare time to observe the villagers. The gray bones were extremely fragile, and a teenager could knock them to death with a bone club. The white bones were a little stronger, but they didn’t understand combat at all, and an adult was enough to deal with them.

In Yun Ming’s view, the reason why the villagers were suppressed was not a matter of numbers at all, but the fear in their hearts was at work. If the gray bones shouted loudly, those villagers would be stunned for a moment. If it weren’t for Old Hank constantly stabilizing people’s hearts and the fear of death, these villagers would have scattered long ago.

The wolf-shaped battle skeleton pounced again, but Yun Ming did not confront the battle skeleton’s claws head-on, even if it was a wandering bone.

Soul Devourer aimed at the wolf-shaped battle skeleton’s armpit, and Yun Ming used his chest bone to withstand a claw strike. The wolf-shaped battle skeleton’s speed was greatly reduced, and his previous attack had worked.

Yun Ming did not care about the bone cracks on his chest. Now, the wolf-shaped battle skeleton’s movements were not as agile as before, and coupled with the effect of “Soul Devourer,” this time Yun Ming chose to take the initiative to attack. His right hand blocked, and the Soul Devourer in his left hand pierced into the neck bone. Before the wolf-shaped battle skeleton could struggle, Yun Ming casually threw it aside.

“Your jade bones and battle bones are dead.” Yun Ming shouted loudly. Seeing the wolf-shaped jade bone on the ground, many wandering bones ran away, and some wandering bones had been overwhelmed by living souls and didn’t care about these at all. Yun Ming picked up two bone clubs and swung them left and right, smashing a large area to death.

With Yun Ming’s addition, the result was self-evident. The wandering bones immediately scattered and fled, leaving only broken bones all over the ground.

They won. They actually beat the skeletons. Old Hank couldn’t believe it. Having lived under the shadow of skeletons since he was a child, he mostly chose to swallow his anger when faced with the oppression of skeletons. The only few times he resisted were because the other party was indeed very weak. Today, when he saw the battle bone, he thought this village was finished. He didn’t expect a jade bone to save them and help them defeat hundreds of wandering bones.

After driving away the remaining wandering bones, Yun Ming went back to the Soul Well House on his own, soaking his whole body in the soul water, leaving only his skull exposed. In the final battle, Yun Ming was still injured. It seemed that the gap between jade bones and battle bones was still very large, Yun Ming thought to himself, even if the other party was a wandering bone.

After Yun Ming recovered from his injuries, Old Hank, who had been outside the door, pushed the door open and entered, “Thank you, Lord Yun Ming. If it weren’t for Lord Yun Ming today, the village would have been killed by those wandering bones. Thank you, Lord.” After saying that, Old Hank excitedly wanted to kneel down, but Yun Ming stopped Old Hank’s movements and said, “No need to thank me, I’m just completing the task assigned to me by the lord.”

“Lord Yun Ming, please rest well, I won’t disturb you.” After saying that, Old Hank exited the Soul Well House.

After a while, Yun Ming heard a commotion outside, mixed with the sound of crying. Yun Ming pushed the door open and went out. The villagers were burying the villagers who died in the hands of the wandering bones today. There were seven in total, all of whom were over fifty years old. For this village, this was already a very good result. After all, in this world, the role of the elderly was not that great.

The location for burying the dead was at the soul rift west of the village. There were no complicated rituals. They simply tidied up the clothes and appearance of the deceased and then threw them into the soul rift.

Seeing Yun Ming coming over, Old Hank came to Yun Ming’s side, “Did we disturb you, Lord?” Yun Ming waved his hand and asked, “Why throw them into the soul rift?”

Old Hank looked at the villagers who were throwing corpses and paused for a while before saying, “There has always been a saying on the Skeleton Continent: whether it is a living being or a skeleton, they will not die after falling into the soul rift, but will be reborn and climb out of another soul rift.”

Yun Ming continued, “Is it hoping that they can become skeletons in the future?” Speaking of this, Old Hank bit his lip slightly and said, “What the lord said is right. We are afraid of skeletons, even hate skeletons, but from the bottom of our hearts, we still feel that even a gray bone is better than a human.”

In Yun Ming’s view, this was a distorted yet helpless “hope.”