Chapter 175: Deathspeaker Archmage
It would only engage when strong enemies appeared.
This was to minimize their own army's casualties.
Li Meng had no idea how long he had been fighting.
He only felt a faint soreness in his hands.
His hands were no longer as strong as when he had first joined the battle.
"Time to leave, time to leave!"
Feeling overwhelmed, Li Meng turned around, sprinting toward the cave entrance.
With a running start, he leapt with all his might.
His massive body soared into the air, reaching a height of nearly a hundred meters.
He crossed over a hundred meters before landing with a loud thud at the cave entrance.
As soon as he landed, Li Meng quickly dashed into the cave.
The moment he entered the cave, he turned and waved his hand.
A white ice mist emerged.
With a crack, a thick wall of ice rose up, blocking the cave entrance.
Having done all this, Li Meng plopped down onto the ground.
"Boss, are you alright?"
Seeing the boss sitting on the ground panting heavily, Benben walked up.
Li Meng waved his hand and took a deep breath.
"I'm fine, just a little tired!"
At that moment, the undead outside charged at the cave entrance.
The green tide crashed against the ice wall.
The undead attacked the ice wall frantically with various weapons in their hands.
For a moment, a loud clanging echoed in the cave.
"Benben, does the cave have any other exits?"
Benben turned around and looked at the nearby Cave Ogres.
One of the Cave Ogres hurried forward.
"Boss's boss, there are no other exits in this cave."
Hearing this, Li Meng understood.
It seemed Benben and the Cave Ogres were trapped here.
Li Meng turned around and glared at Benben beside him.
"Benben, what did I tell you?"
Benben scratched his bald helmet.
"Boss, they're my little brothers, I... I had to protect them!"
"So you entered the Ogre Mountain Range just for them?"
Li Meng turned his head again and glanced at the Cave Ogres in the cave.
Cave Ogres were a subspecies of Ogres.
Although they weren't as large as Ogres,
their average height was no less than three meters.
And their numbers were far greater than that of the Ogres.
Just at the cave entrance, there were no fewer than a hundred Cave Ogres.
Benben shook his head.
"Boss, there's a big guy in the Ogre Mountain Range. It's super despicable. I wanted to fight it, but it got its little brothers to gang up on me. I couldn't win, so I ran, and on my way back, I ran into these little guys."
A big guy in the Ogre Mountain Range?
If Benben called it a big guy, it was definitely no simple opponent.
That meant this big guy was an Ogre bigger than Benben.
"Benben, was that big guy an Ogre?"
Benben nodded, then shook his head.
"It's a little weird. Although it's an Ogre, the aura on its body is disgusting!"
A disgusting aura from an Ogre?
Li Meng's expression turned thoughtful, his face showing contemplation.
It seemed that within the Ogre Mountain Range, there was a force led by an Ogre.
That force had refused Benben's challenge.
This meant that Ogre was special and smart.
"Boss, there was a time when you had that same aura on you."
Benben's words startled Li Meng.
"Benben, are you sure?"
Benben nodded firmly.
"Yes, during the battles with the humans, Boss, you had that aura. It was faint, but it disappeared quickly."
A battle with humans?
Li Meng frowned, deep in thought.
The battle with humans must refer to the last skirmish against the Irisis Principality's expansion corps.
Did he do anything before the ambush began?
Could it be... Ghost Hand?
Li Meng recalled the Ghost Beastman Ghost Hand.
Before heading to the ambush site, he had fought with the Ghost Beastman Ghost Hand.
It was normal for some of its aura to linger on him.
"So that Ogre is related to the Demonic Race?"
The aura Benben mentioned must have been from a Demonic King Contract.
Whether it was Ghost Hand or Agatha, they both had a foreboding aura about them.
"The Demonic Race is indeed not to be underestimated!"
Li Meng grinned ferociously and stood up.
It seemed Benben had come a step too late.
The Demonic Race had long set their sights on the Ogres' and Cave Ogres' immense combat strength.
Years ago, they must have already subjugated the Ogres and Cave Ogres in the Ogre Mountain Range.
"It's okay, Benben. Next time, I'll help you settle the score!"
Since that big guy refused Benben's challenge,
then Li Meng could do whatever he wanted.
Benben hurriedly nodded.
"Boss, when the time comes, you really have to give it a beating! It's super despicable!"
"Alright, I'll beat it so bad it kneels down and begs—"
Before he could finish, Li Meng's face suddenly changed.
His gaze sharply turned toward the outside.
"Ha ha ha, there you are!"
Li Meng's figure flashed, and he laughed loudly as he charged toward the ice wall.
His massive body crashed into the ice wall like a wild bull.
Boom!
A deafening boom echoed.
The thick ice wall shattered with a crash.
The scattered ice fragments swept across a large swath of undead outside the cave.
At the very moment Li Meng burst out of the cave entrance,
a giant bone spear whistled toward him from the distance.
The enormous bone spear was nearly thirty meters long and no less than twenty centimeters in diameter.
Its target was the ice wall at the cave entrance.
Li Meng grinned, gripping his massive iron rod and swinging it toward the bone spear.
Boom!
At the moment the iron rod struck the bone spear,
With a loud crack, a visible shockwave exploded outward.
The massive bone spear shattered.
The bone fragments scattered in all directions, piercing through a large number of skeletons like bullets.
Looking carefully, Li Meng's gaze turned toward the direction the bone spear had come from.
In that direction, Li Meng could sense a powerful aura.
"Found you!"
Amid the sea of white bones, Li Meng found his target.
It was a figure clad in a black robe.
It blended into the sea of white bones.
If it hadn't cast a spell, it would have been almost impossible to spot.
Its body was large, standing nearly three meters tall.
The massive black-robed body floated half a meter off the ground.
Logically, with such a size, it should have been very conspicuous in the sea of bones.
After all, undead creatures weren't particularly large.
But despite the long battle, it had remained hidden.
"Ha ha, seize the leader to defeat the army!"
Li Meng laughed wildly, his massive figure charging forward like a missile.
With a running leap,
his massive green body soared into the sky.
In the air, Li Meng pointed his massive iron rod toward the target.
A mist of ice spread from Li Meng's body.
It quickly condensed into a giant ice spike overhead.
The fifty-meter-long ice spike shot forward.
It arced toward the black-robed figure in the sea of bones.
Faced with the incoming ice spike, the Deathspeaker Archmage moved.
A pale, bony hand stretched out from the black robe.
The ground trembled, and a massive bone wall rose from the earth.
The bone wall covered the Deathspeaker Archmage like an upside-down bowl.
The ice spike roared through the sky, crashing into the bone wall.
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