Demonic Sacrifice

In the distance, hidden in a concealed spot, Irena’s pupils suddenly constricted, reflecting the rising cloud of destruction in the distance.

She subconsciously murmured.

“It’s really… exactly as planned.”

When they were discussing tactics last night, the core of Black’s proposed plan was to set traps at the ten nodes of the magic array.

And so, she, Jianye, and Kristine had spent a great deal of time, extremely covertly carving “Overload Detonation” type magic arrays under the ten points where the magic crystals were originally placed.

The conditions for detonating these magic arrays were extremely harsh, so many people would overlook this type of array.

Its function was singular.

When the magic crystals began to output a large amount of magical power, the magic arrays would quietly absorb a portion of the escaping energy.

After accumulating to a critical point, the magic arrays would explode, which would in turn trigger the uncontrolled explosion of the magic crystals!

The power of ten high-tier magic crystals exploding simultaneously was indeed astonishing.

“The explosion alone won’t kill him. Proceed as planned!”

Black’s calm voice sounded from the side, without the slightest bit of slackness.

This magnificent destruction before their eyes was just a necessary part of the plan.

Everyone’s expression hardened, and they immediately emerged from their hiding places.

They approached the large oak tree at full speed!

After reaching a certain distance, except for Jianye who remained in place, the other four…

Almost at the same moment they moved, a wretched figure appeared in the dust and smoke stirred up by the explosion.

The necromancer’s cloak had been burned to ashes.

Exposed under the moonlight was an abnormally withered body, with only a layer of deathly pale skin wrapped around a skeleton.

Half of his hair was scorched, his face and body were covered in burns, and dark red blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.

Most heart-pounding were his eyes.

His grayish-white pupils burned with a raging fire, fixed on Black and the others.

Boundless venom and killing intent became tangible.

“A trap…”

‘Under the magic crystals?!’

He growled hoarsely, his voice twisted.

He understood!

The other party hadn’t set up an ambush elsewhere at all, but had calculated that he would replenish the magic crystals and had buried the trap directly under them!

So insidious, so precise and ruthless!

It was as if they had calculated that he would be careless on this point!

He had miscalculated! Completely miscalculated!

The original superimposed magic array was riddled with holes, and the ten high-tier magic crystals were also gone.

Even the skeleton army he had accumulated for many years had been reduced by nearly half.

“I never thought…”

“…it would come to this!”

The necromancer spat out a large mouthful of foul blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, and casually wiped it away with his tattered sleeve.

His face was so dark that water could drip from it. The madness in his eyes, however, grew more intense.

He had already prepared for the worst.

Today, the Evil Spirit Knight must be successfully fused. No one could stop it!

“Skeletons! Crush them!”

He waved his withered arm. The soul flames in the eye sockets of the remaining skeletons flared, and they let out a silent roar, brandishing their rusty swords and charging towards Black and the others like a tide.

As for the necromancer himself, he made a strange move.

He violently tore off the scorched and tattered clothes on his body!

The body exposed under the moonlight was terrifying to the extreme.

His exposed, deathly pale skin was densely covered with complex, deep purple patterns.

The shape of these patterns was identical to the magic array that had been destroyed on the ground just now!

The necromancer’s withered palm, without hesitation, pressed into the center of his chest.

The area where the patterns were densest.

“Arghhhhh!”

With an inhuman roar, his palm plunged into his own chest.

The muffled sound of muscles and bones being forcibly torn was nauseating.

The next moment, trembling, from the position of his heart, he pulled out a constantly pulsing black energy sphere.

This was the source of his magical power, the core of his lifelong cultivation accumulation!

Without a shred of hesitation, the necromancer’s eyes hardened, and his five fingers suddenly clenched!

“Pfft!”

That ball of black energy was crushed by his own hand!

In an instant, a magical power far denser and more violent than before erupted.

At the same time, he waved his staff and recited an incantation.

After this operation, the evil spirits that had been wandering in the sky due to the destruction of the array were forcibly dragged to the void in front of him.

And then forcibly compressed and fused!

The magical power generated by burning his origin outlined an extremely dazzling purple halo at his feet.

Black smoke began to seep from his seven orifices, and his skin rapidly aged and degenerated.

Seeing this scene, everyone except Black gasped, their pupils wide with shock!

“Using the body as an array… a Demonic Sacrifice?!”

Jianye, for a rare moment, cried out in alarm.

She had never expected the other party to be this insane.

Burning the origin of one’s magical power!

Using oneself as the eye of the array, with the soul as the anchor, to forcibly activate the magic array imprinted on one’s own body.

This method, in the field of magic arrays, was called a “Demonic Sacrifice.”

The sacrificer, at the cost of losing most of their magical power, would have their cultivation level plummet to the initial stage, and all their past cultivation would turn to dust.

But in this way, the necromancer could complete the fusion in a short period of time!

‘We must kill him immediately!’

The same thought exploded in the minds of all five of them at the same time.

The dense skeleton army rushed forward, and the battle instantly became white-hot!

“Sea-Severing Art!”

Swordsman High-Tier Oracle!

Leon was the first to act, shouting in a low voice.

As his voice fell, his longsword was unsheathed like a dragon’s roar.

A huge, white, fan-shaped sword qi slashed out horizontally!

Wherever the sword qi passed, the air let out a sharp hiss. The skeletons at the very front were as if hit by an invisible giant wave.

They were pulverized into bone dust, and the ghostly blue soul flames were extinguished one after another.

But the second wave of skeletons immediately stepped on the remains of their comrades, filling the gap.

“Crimson Dragon Spear!”

Almost at the same moment Leon’s sword qi dissipated.

Land’s battle cry sounded, and the Knight’s High-Tier Oracle was activated!

He poured all his spiritual power into the long spear in his hand without reservation. The spear hummed and erupted with a dazzling black light!

The next moment, he twisted his body and threw his arm. The long spear left his hand, turning into a black lightning bolt that tore through the night.

Like a meteor falling from the sky, it crashed into the densest area of the second wave of skeletons!

“Rumble!”

A terrifying shockwave of spiritual power exploded, completely clearing the skeletons in the area, and even a large part of the ground collapsed.

The third wave of skeletons was already close at hand!

“Extermination!”

Irena’s crisp cry carried a chilling killing intent as she activated the Sorcerer’s Mid-Tier Oracle!

She swung the staff in her hand horizontally. A golden thread, condensed to the extreme, stretched out in the air and sliced across.

The thread was silent, but its terrifying cutting power directly cut the upper bodies of all the skeletons in the third wave in half.

The cuts were as smooth as a mirror, and all the skeletons collapsed.

Three rounds of devastating attacks cleared the path. They were now close to the necromancer!

At this point.

The remaining skeleton army did not continue to charge, but instead bizarrely shattered on its own, scattering into a pile of bone fragments.

Immediately after, these bone fragments rolled, pieced together, and reassembled at high speed.

In the blink of an eye, they fused into a giant skeleton, four or five meters tall, holding a huge bone axe.

It exuded a ferocious aura and stood in front of Black!