Chapter 584: One Person Army
Patriarch Xin observed the corpses, then shifted his gaze to the devil troops in the distance. This would be the first time his troops faced a necromancer, and it seemed to be a powerful one. He had already noticed something was wrong with the recon team for several reasons.
The most obvious was their attire. The recon team wore robes that covered their entire bodies, something they had never done since the war began. While some might argue the change in clothing was a decision made by the recon group themselves, Patriarch Xin saw it as a red flag that immediately raised his suspicion.
The second reason, one that could also be detected by other emperor-stage cultivators with keen senses was the strange aura emanating from the bodies of the undead. The undead naturally exude a kind of aura that feels cold to the living, though the intensity of it depends on the condition of the undead themselves.
The aura could be extremely subtle, detectable only by emperor stage cultivators or it could be sensed even by those at lower cultivation levels. For the aura to be faint enough that only emperor stage cultivators could detect it, the corpse must have been recently deceased, and the necromancer controlling it must be highly skilled.
Patriarch Xin had already heard of a necromancer, who was also a summoner, from the devil’s side who needed to be watched closely during this invasion. One of the Seven Deadly Sins—Sloth.
If there was even a chance that she was among this devil troop, then—
Roar!
A beast’s roar suddenly echoed from beside the devil troops. A massive creature appeared out of nowhere, and it was immediately clear that it had been summoned through a formation or some kind of technique. But then, all the alliance troops felt a chill. The aura radiating from the beast had reached the peak emperor stage!
Also, the beast that appeared could not be underestimated, as it was a four headed hydra.
Shriek!
But the shock did not end there. Suddenly, behind the hydra, another beast appeared, and this one instantly soared into the sky. It had the strength of a high emperor stage, and being an avian-type beast, the alliance troops immediately recognized it as a roc.