Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

If he’s really as bad as Zhuo Yue described, then he must be a sly old fox who knows how to hide his true nature.

After solving the mystery in his heart, Fang Zhou no longer felt like hanging around with Zhuo Yue. He found an excuse to return to his tent.

The night passed peacefully without incident, leaving everyone a bit surprised when they woke up the next day.

Could it really have been a misinformation from Major General Fan Tianzong?

After preparing everything, the warriors tasked with clearing the path wielded their machetes, ready to explore the unknown areas along the thorny swamp paths.

On the road, seeing the warriors struggle while hacking the thorns spread throughout the swamp, Fang Zhou summoned several Blood Spirit Warriors to help.

Immune to exhaustion and tireless, the efficiency of path clearing by the Blood Spirit Warriors was much higher than the warriors, earning Zhuo Yue and the others’ gratitude.

By now, the sun had risen.

Fang Zhou felt a growing sense of caution in his heart.

It was eerie that in such a large swamp, after traveling for quite a while, there wasn’t a single sign of animal life.

The vanguard team silently marched for half a day.

At the rear of the swamp was an expansive pond.

The water wasn’t deep, with clusters of long plants and water grasses growing everywhere.

Initially, observing no large creatures throughout the swamp unnerved Fang Zhou.

Now, after leaving the swamp, this feeling should have eased, yet he felt even more anxious.

"Captain Leng Feng, I think this pond seems strange!"

After some thought, he felt it necessary to inform Captain Leng Feng about his concerns.

"Oh? Brother Fang Zhou also feels this way? I thought it was just me," Captain Leng Feng said with a heavy heart upon hearing Fang Zhou’s words.

"Yes, this feeling started when I saw the scouting camp last night without anyone there.

Now, it’s even stronger after coming to this pond," Fang Zhou said, his face serious.

Before encountering those three Demon Champion Power Projections at the High Tower Base in Beast Fighting City, he had similarly experienced warning signs.

"I’ve always felt something was off, yet couldn’t pinpoint the issue.

No matter what, we should remain cautious!

Given our team’s strength, unless we encounter a Golden Level enemy, we have ways to handle it," Captain Leng Feng said.

Thus, ten people chopped down a few big trees at the swamp’s edge and fashioned two makeshift rafts, intending to cross the pond on them.

With everything prepared, Fang Zhou’s group split into two, ready to push the rafts.

Then, from behind in the swamp, overlapping bushes shook violently, as if an earthquake was occurring.

"What is it?"

Fang Zhou looked up and saw vibrations spreading rapidly along the path they had just walked.

Witnessing such a commotion, the vanguard team members all drew their weapons, fully alert.

In a moment, a colossal crocodile, stretching fifteen meters long, emerged from the pathway Fang Zhou and his team had cleared, appearing before them.

Its giant animal head, black with hints of yellow, swung from side to side, with fist-sized green eyes gleaming bloodthirstily.

Its forked tongue dripped sticky saliva, and its body was covered with dense scale armor, the body coiled as thick as three human bodies.

"Beware! It’s a Hydra-Crocodile!

A Golden Tier Abyssal Demon Beast!"

Seeing the apex predator of the beast chain, everyone in the vanguard team, including Fang Zhou, felt chilled to the bone!

No wonder the swamp is so desolate!

Reflecting on the sudden disappearance of the scout team from the camp the previous day, all related questions were answered with the appearance of the Golden Tier Fierce Beast Hydra-Crocodile.

However, the Hydra-Crocodile is a frenzied beast tainted by the Abyssal Desecration Aura, usually living deep in the Abyssal Desecration Aura-rich areas of the Calamity Sun Demon Country.

It’s perplexing how one appeared here, especially with a size indicating it’s at least at the level of a Crocodile King!

"If it were an ordinary Golden Lower Rank Demon Descendant, we could manage to spar with it.

But a massive, life energy-rich Golden Tier Fierce Beast is beyond our ability to handle.

With escape routes blocked, let’s hurry towards the largest rock island in the pond and see if there’s a place to hide!" Captain Leng Feng urged.

Hearing Captain Leng Feng’s words, Fang Zhou felt something was amiss but had no other option under the urgent circumstances.

The ten of them hurriedly boarded the rafts.

"Fang Zhou, quickly disperse your Undead Creatures to buy us some time!"

Captain Leng Feng, uncertain when the Crocodile King might suddenly attack, gave a brief instruction.

Without needing Captain Leng Feng’s prompt, Fang Zhou was ready to do just that.

Based on the energy fluctuations detected from Fang Zhou’s Soul Eagle Eye, this Hydra-Crocodile was no ordinary Golden Lower Rank Fierce Beast.

The exact strength was still uncertain to Fang Zhou, who wisely refrained from trying to confront it directly.

Witnessing more than twenty Undead Warriors advancing towards it in a fan shape, the enormous Hydra-Crocodile lowered its head.

It appeared indifferent to Fang Zhou and the others leaving, seemingly more intrigued by these lifeless undead.

A Bronze Level Spiritual Remains Warrior raised its bone axe, attacking its body.

With a clang, the bone axe rebounded high; the Hydra-Crocodile remained unharmed.

Its scale armor’s hardness seemed on par with the bone axe of the Blood Spirit Warrior.

Subsequently, a group of Spiritual Remains Warriors followed, producing a series of clanking sounds as the Hydra-Crocodile closed its eyes, apparently relishing the scratching.

"Clang!"

A loud clang sounded, and several Silver Level Blood Spirit Warriors hidden among the twenty Undead Warriors unleashed their power.

While still unable to break the Hydra-Crocodile’s scale armor, the force contained within the attack caused it pain.

The Hydra-Crocodile’s eyes, which had just closed, snapped open, its triangular head rising abruptly.

With a sweep of its tree trunk-thick tail, the surrounding undead creatures were all sent flying.

The difference became evident instantly; aside from four Blood Spirit Warriors, all the Spiritual Remains Warriors disintegrated.

The Blood Spirit Warriors, possessing strength ranging from Silver Middle Rank to Upper, were ultimately no match for the Golden Tier Fierce Beast Hydra-Crocodile.

Once its anger was roused, the Blood Spirit Warriors quickly faltered.

By the time the Hydra-Crocodile shattered all four Blood Spirit Warriors to pieces, Fang Zhou and his team had seized the opportunity to flee a hundred meters away.

With its body fully mobilized, the Hydra-Crocodile seemed to take pleasure in the chase, its fifteen-meter length slid into the swamp pond, rapidly pursuing Fang Zhou and his group.

Meanwhile, Fang Zhou and his team were still over a hundred meters from the small island in the pond.

Seeing its speed, Zhuo Yue on the other raft exclaimed in alarm, "Captain, it’s catching up quickly! What do we do?"

Captain Leng Feng replied gravely, "Don’t panic, shoot arrows at its eyes to slow it down."

Two Silver Level Forest Wanderers reacted to his command, drawing the bows from their backs and infusing the arrows with battle qi, shooting at the rapidly approaching Hydra-Crocodile.

In the blink of an eye, the two arrows infused with different battle qi attributes reached the Hydra-Crocodile’s eyes, striking its tightly shut thick eyelids.

"Crack!"

The eyelid protection couldn’t match the torso’s scale armor strength.

One arrow was deflected, while the other pierced an inch above the Hydra-Crocodile’s eyelid, apparently injuring its eyeball.

The injured Hydra-Crocodile leapt up with a loud roar.

"Well done!" everyone rejoiced.

But before the joy could settle, Qu Shuang yelled in terror, "Look, it’s diving under!"

The group quickly turned and saw, as Qu Shuang described, the injured Hydra-Crocodile submerged, lowering its head beneath the water, disappearing from sight.

Simultaneously, following its loud roar, the previously calm pond started stirring with water ripples and muddy water roiling.

"Everyone paddle hard, watch for underwater, quickly move, this is the Hydra-Crocodile’s lair!" Captain Leng Feng exclaimed in shock.