It seemed these cultists were also intelligent and not as fanatical as imagined.
"Your Majesty."
"Shall we pursue?"
The lich Konggs asked again: "I’ve already left a soul mark on it."
Duncan shook his head and said, "No need."
He was lurking alone behind the cultists’ lines. Kill when possible, flee if not. The most important thing now was to cause a qualitative change through quantitative accumulation, not caring about killing one more or one less.
——"Fungal Infection (Magic-like Ability) (Spore Association): You can control spores and gain the ability to animate infected corpses. If a small or medium-sized beast or humanoid creature dies around you, you can cast a spell to animate its corpse, treating the target as a kind of undead creature like a living dead, zombie, or ghoul. It will follow your will and actions."
Magic-like ability?
At this moment, a wind of magic appeared in Duncan’s palm, and soon the corpses of the dead civilians around him rose again, each marked with a one-star whiteboard sign.
The lich Konggs was instantly shocked, unable to comprehend what kind of domain law could directly seize the enemy’s abilities through slaughter.
This was definitely more than just the law of death!
Duncan did not resurrect these living dead on a large scale, for his mana bar was limited, and a one-star whiteboard marked unit might have some use in the Middle Ages; here, it was just a matter of a round of gunfire. The Spore Association and Lady Fungus had resurrected hundreds of thousands of living dead, only to be thoroughly wiped out by the Mechanical Divine Sect.
They purely used living dead to complete a life-and-death cycle ritual, to summon a more powerful evil spirit entity in the next step.
But Duncan had different uses for them.
Sizzle.
After removing the auxiliary mechanical arm from his back, he directly mingled with these living dead, then under the cover of about ten of them, he approached a marked unit nearby.
In that direction were a Disaster Messenger and a member of the Spore Association.
No one noticed Duncan among the group of living dead, as the knights’ mechs of the Mechanical Divine Sect had already broken through the cultists’ lines, the steel-cast warriors charging through the battlefield like humanoid tanks. Some used firearm-like weapons, but many more wielded mechanical cold weapons.
Their mechanical prayers were chanted, cutting through enemy lines repeatedly with small squads of a dozen or so, while precise heavy fire from the rear provided overwhelming strikes.
In contrast, the cultists’ tactical command was somewhat chaotic.
Bam!
An armor-piercing bullet ripped through the air.
The Disaster Messenger in the crowd was immediately alert, transforming into a storm before the bullet hit, evading Duncan’s attack by elementalizing the body.
Without the slightest hesitation, Duncan continued shooting, redirecting his target to the nearby member of the Spore Association.
——Roots of the Earth.
The Spore Association member was also prepared, his feet transforming into tree root-like shapes, raising his arms to form a thick shield in front of him. Alas, Duncan had already switched to armor-piercing rounds, finding that ordinary bullets couldn’t kill effectively. He needed something more brutal to penetrate the enemy’s defenses.
His head exploded!
The Spore Association member’s head burst, releasing countless spore dust around.
——"Symbiotic Union (Magic-like Ability) (Spore Association): By guiding surrounding spores to merge and injecting primordial magic power, they will transform into your temporary life force, significantly enhancing the life bar’s maximum. When you unleash a melee attack, these enchanted spores can inflict minor erosion damage on the enemy."
Snatching a magic-like ability with each kill, Duncan hadn’t encountered a situation like this in a long time.
Members of the Spore Association were typically three-star silver-gray marked units. If not for relying on the power of the gun artifact, based solely on the strength of the No. 3 human form, taking them down would be quite challenging.
But that’s how it was on the battlefield; not to mention three-star units, even four-star units could be blown to pieces if caught in the Mechanical Divine Sect’s barrage.
At this point, No. 3 human form’s mana bar further expanded.
He already had the engraving of the Dragon’s Bloodline, which had integrated quite a bit over this time, and after killing several people in succession, the mana pool expanded further, achieving the pre-requisite to summon Monster Hunter-Duncan.
But in this intense battle, summoning Monster Hunter-Duncan was practically useless, so he swiftly retreated, using a bird’s-eye view to shake off nearby enemies.
The advantage of being underground was this.
Once the nearby energy sources were cut off, the collapsing buildings everywhere offered places for Duncan to hide and snipe.
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