Pa pa pa…“
In the sky, a group of Red-eyed Crows flapped their wings and swept across the air.
After a while, they flew back again, and circled a few rounds in the sky. Some of them landed on branches to search for something, but was eventually unable to find Yue Yang and the royal swordswoman who were hiding within the dense forest and bushes. In the end, flapping their wings noisily, they flew towards another direction.
Ever since Yue Yang killed the first red-eyed crow, in the span of a day and a night, the pack of Red-eyed Crows had flown over Yue Yang’s head at least twenty times.
It was obvious that the Ranker hiding in Gui Jian Chou Eagle’s Cry Valley was extremely talented at controlling crows.
In order to find out where Yue Yang and the royal swordswoman were, this hidden Ranker had controlled at least two hundred crows to search for them. They were dispatched in alternate shifts, searching everywhere, going over Yue Yang’s head time and time again. However, they were fooled by Yue Yang’s camouflage, and were unable to achieve anything in the end. The royal swordswoman, just like Yue Yang, had also abandoned her full-body armour and wore leaves-covered clothes, the kind that were usually used by forest scouts. Whenever there were a pack of crows flying over, they would only need to duck into a cluster of plants, or crouch down and stop moving. This way, the pack of Red-eyed Crows in the sky would be unable to detect their presence.
Although the royal swordswoman’s rage towards Yue Yang’s groping hands did not disappear, she admired how crafty this fellow was.
Using tree branches and leaves to make clothes as a camouflage was really a great idea.
Not only crows, even humans would be unable to find them.
In a mountain gorge that was filled with a fast-flowing stream, countless Iron-clawed Cliff Eagles let loose chaotic cries, flying in all directions (Shiro: this is Eagle’s Cry Valley). A green wyvern with a protruding head appeared, carrying a black-robed man on its back as it spiralled down to the ground. Yue Yang and the royal swordswoman hurriedly hid themselves within the cracks in the gorge, watching the movements of that black-robed man quietly. They only saw him taking out a black skull before he started muttering some chants… A dense, black fog was emitted from the skull, and eventually it condensed into black balls. The black-robed man then threw these black fog balls onto the ground. The black fog dispersed, and with a crackling sound, oddly-shaped skeletons were summoned one after another.
A few of those skeletons still had some items that they possessed when they were living, for example a tattered pair of gloves, a silver chain drenched full of black blood, a rusted longsword…
The face of the royal swordswoman immediately sunk at the sight of this.
Yue Yang could not understand what was going on, but she did. She understood the situation perfectly. She had found her target.
These skeletons were the people they had been looking for, the royal scouting party. However, all of them had died and they had even been turned into skeletons by the black-robed man through the terrifying Dead Soul Summoning Technique. It turned out that the person who destroyed the entire royal scouting party and controlled the crows was this necromancer.
However, necromancers only exist in the demonic abyss. How did one appear in the Soaring Dragon Continent?
How long had this black-robed necromancer hid himself in the Eagle’s Cry Valley in Gui Jian Chou for? What was his purpose?
“My undead servants, move out. Find where those two living people are hiding…“ While chanting, the black-robed man’s hands, that were as thin as if they were only skeletons, summoned balls of green light and projected them into the few dozen skeletons.
These skeletons changed form under the green fluorescent light, changing in colour and increasing in size, becoming gigantic. Within ten seconds, they had turned from Level 1 Shrivelled Skeletons into Level 2 Bony Skeletons.
Among those skeletons, there was one who had absorbed multiple balls of green light. It was strengthened and evolved even further to become a Level 3 Iron-boned Skeleton.
This Iron-boned Skeleton Commander even grew bone blades that were made of iron on both of its arms.