That is when Feicui Long, who is a bit distracted listening to Irina's story, senses something, and when he sees it, it is already too late. A group of undead mages in yellow robes have gathered their mana, forming a massive mass of rocks in the sky.
Feicui Long reacts immediately, injecting elemental energy into his leg as he stomps while shouting an order: "Damn it, a joint spell, quickly, earth and rock golems, immediately, Triple Rock Wall!"
The golems, although clumsy and a bit too dumb to follow complex orders, are quite decent in combat instincts and following their master. They quickly stomp on the ground, and soon seven layers of rock wall rise in front of the second formation, sending the skeletons there flying.
But that would not help, because the joint spell of several mages in the mystical realm hits the walls, piercing through them, and although they disperse most of the impact, it still strikes the formation. At that exact moment, about 100 birds, with 10 emanating a freezing sky-blue glow, take advantage of the moment to crash into the formation, unleashing an ice explosion that finally causes the second formation to collapse.
Feicui Long sees this and says internally damn it, but he has no time to think, as the rest of the undead soon arrive at the third formation where he is. He puts away his bow and grabs his halberd, infusing it with emerald energy and easily piercing through several skeletons, while the golems beside him begin smashing them with every blow.
Feicui Long sees on one side the mages trying to gather energy again, so he says: "Irina, please attack the undead mages!"
Irina, trembling, says: "But they're in the mystical realm, I can't hurt them!"
Feicui Long, running out of time, says: "You are capable, you just have to aim at those skeletal mages' undead core, if you break it, you can kill them!"
Irina takes a deep breath trying to calm herself, and grabbing multiple arrows, places the first on the bowstring. Then she hears her heartbeat, activating her Ice Heart ability, a current of icy energy emerges and infuses the arrows that are fired at high speed one after another.
The first arrow hits the central skeletal mage, then the second hits the one on the far left, and the third the one on the far right. The rest are immediately blocked because some of the warriors step into their path, but that is enough to disrupt the joint spell.
Then the sound of heavy footsteps is heard, and the crashing of falling trees echoes across the field. Feicui Long instinctively scans the battlefield and sees five large figures on the five different sides, each over 5 meters tall emerging from the forest, their eyes glowing in different colors.
One of the figures grabs a tree and throws it at incredible speed, hitting the formation where Feicui Long is. Feicui Long can even feel the strike shaking the formation. Then the silhouette of the figure is revealed.
It is a creature made from an amalgamation of different parts. Its lower half is from an energy beast, a bloodthirsty bear, while the upper half is from a rather large minor giant for its species, about 3 meters tall, with six powerful arms, two from a gorilla beast and two from a thrall.
Irina shouts: "That's an undead amalgam!"
Feicui Long remembers the undead book. An undead amalgam falls under undead constructs and is categorized in four levels: amalgam, spawn, monstrosity, and abomination. Although there can be power differences among them, the classification has to do with the number of beings used, the different parts used, and the synergy in the undead, which, by the way, can also occur naturally.
Feicui Long would like to deal with this new guest, but it is going to be a tough battle, especially because some old acquaintances have just returned…
On the battlefield, the five shadow ghouls who survived now advance commanding another 30 savage-type shadow ghouls. With the appearance of the amalgams, they now have artillery. It is only a matter of time before the formations fall.
Feicui Long says to Irina: "Keep shooting at the mages, I'm going to use several scrolls and talismans to clear the skeletons." Feicui Long then proceeds to pull out the last 10 fireball scrolls, along with 25 lightning talismans, the ice spear scrolls, and the rock spine talismans, and launches them all.
Everywhere the undead die, blown apart by explosions, rocks emerging from below, magic, and the elements shaking the battlefield. But this is far from over. Feicui Long pulls out four other types of scrolls and talismans: 25 wind slash scrolls, 25 light burst scrolls, 30 wild root talismans, and 35 steel shrapnel talismans.
Then another undead massacre takes place, cut into pieces, perforated with hundreds of holes, massive holes or shattered into pieces by powerful roots. Of the initial 3,000 skeletons, after the two rounds of scrolls and talismans, along with those killed by the formations and his golems and undead, they are reduced to only about 250.
But the undead army does not remain idle. Three of the amalgams turn their attention toward him and soon launch three trees at the same time, while some mages in red robes and others in blue, which Irina has not managed to eliminate, cast two joint spells: one a giant fireball and the other a floating water sphere launched as a powerful water jet.
When they hit the formation, it begins to cry and creak as if it were a living person. Added to that, several of the surviving skeletons throw themselves as if thirsty to a spring, while several birds dive in, making the formation shake even more.
Feicui Long sees this and says: "Irina, Surinbit, Kagetsume, Perla, we retreat to the rear formation now!"
Feicui Long in fact wastes no time and picks up Irina, lifting her onto his shoulder as he starts running. The golems and undead at his side also retreat but position themselves at the left and right formations at the entrance, just in time for the icy explosion of the birds to sound thunderously, at the same time the collapse of the third formation is heard. Now the hill's entrance is cleared of formations...
Then finally the professional undead army marches over the hill. Although Feicui Long's undead fauns shoot their arrows and javelins, they only manage to kill one or two.
Feicui Long feels exhausted, but he has to stand up. As the army advances, they are at a crossroads. If they ignore the other formations, they will be attacked from behind, while if they split up, they give Feicui Long what he wants.
Then the amalgams roar AGHRUARRRR and charge at high speed toward the hill. As they do, they grab smaller trees and throw them nonstop against the other formations. Feicui Long gives the order to the faun leader.
He grabs one of the special javelins with a metallic glow. Then his eyes, which seem cold, glowing only with the blue soul flame, let out a magical and enchanting glow, and he aims at the first amalgam, one with the lower body of a giant wolf. The faun injects undead energy as his arm thickens and then with a great roar throws the javelin, which leaves a trail of dark blue light.
Then the javelin hits with an explosion of energy in the center of the amalgam's chest, passing straight through and leaving a huge hole. Then the amalgam, which had been running at full speed, suddenly loses almost all its strength and drops the trees, only to after a few steps collapse its massive body over some lagging mages.
The faun looks at another amalgam and grabs another javelin, repeating the entire process, but this time the mages cast several protective spells, some water barriers and wind walls. But the javelin still strikes, at least temporarily halting the creature. However, the faun wastes no time and then throws the next javelin.
At first it seems like it will face the same problem, but then the faun's eyes glow again and the javelin, mid-flight, dodges the defensive measures, hitting this time in the head and bringing down a second amalgam.
The remaining birds all dive, concentrating on the two front formations. Feicui Long wants to direct the bloodspike porcupines, but they are too slow, as they only manage to partially reduce the explosion charge.
Feicui Long then orders the retreat of those two formations toward the two rear ones, which luckily are all interconnected. Finally, he and all his troops are face-to-face with the army. Feicui Long sighs, takes a breath, swallows several energy and blood recovery pills. In addition to that, he applies three reinforcement talismans: a resistance talisman, an energy accumulation talisman, and a mastodontic strength talisman. He also applies two scrolls, one for light steps and another for increased energy power.
The next moment a massive combined attack of several spells and elemental strikes, along with the nearby amalgams hitting with trees and giant rocks, causes the final two formations to collapse.
This causes hand-to-hand combat to finally erupt. The sounds of rock golems striking and crushing undead warriors can be heard, as well as the rebound sound on the resilient stone of the golems strengthened by Feicui Long's inscriptions.
Surprisingly, although Feicui Long's forces number only 405 or 414 if including himself, Irina, Surinbit, Kagetsume, Perla, and the four floating eyes, they are holding up very well. In fact, they have begun to push the enemies back.
An undead from Feicui Long's side, another faun, is using a strange yellow-orange flame. With each attack, he destroys two or three undead warriors. This is the shaman of the wild fire. Feicui Long has especially empowered him with fire energy beast cores.
But even the golems are not far behind. Three of each type of golem are standing out significantly. They are the ones protecting Irina. Not even the strongest undead can get close. Even a wild-type shadow ghoul tries to attack her, but is crushed by a rock golem with a single blow.
But not everything is rosy. The amalgams join the fight and with their power in the mystical realm grade 6, they can kill Feicui Long's undead easily, while the attacks of the same barely manage to slightly damage them, with only a few exceptions.
But that is not the only bad thing. The five civilized-type shadow ghouls are causing havoc. Each strike they deliver means one more undead killed. Not even the golems, with their regenerative capacity, can do much to them, especially because these ghouls sometimes even use other undead as cannon fodder, all this without mentioning the rain of enemy projectiles.
Feicui Long knows he cannot continue like this, so he says: "Fauns and lizardmen, focus on the ranged attackers, same for you porcupines. Golems and undead beasts, we'll focus on the melee ones, except for those protecting Irina and Perla. Surinbit and Kagetsume, I know it will be difficult but take care of the amalgam on the right."
The fauns throw their javelins and arrows at the ranged units, finally interrupting the rain of projectiles. He, for his part, with his halberd, barely manages to block the claws of the giant ghoul.
Feicui Long smiles and says: "We meet again, this time you're going to see your friends in the afterlife."
Then with his longsword in the other hand, he launches an attack that he has to interrupt to jump to the side, as in the place where he was standing a pair of colossal weapons about 2 meters long smash into the ground, causing a loud crash and leaving a small hole.
When he looks to see who attacked, he is surprised. It is one of the amalgams. This one has a shadow stalking beast as its lower half. It has used shadow swimming to get here and holds two hammer-type artifacts of mortal quality grade 6.
Feicui Long has no time to think, as he immediately dodges another attack by jumping back, then another by ducking, and another by jumping again. Covering his two weapons with light elemental energy, he delivers two slashes to the sides, killing the lesser undead and making the five ghouls retreat.
But this leaves him exposed to an attack from the amalgam, which sends him flying, even though he manages to block it. He almost feels his bones crack. Feicui Long says: "Damn, what a monstrous creature, a single hit and it almost fractures my bones. Without a doubt, this thing could fight a mortal in the peak of the mystical realm and easily win."
Feicui Long sighs, puts away his sword and says: "I didn't think I'd be forced to do this... but let me borrow this please, my little sister, Lucretia... even though I know you designed it for the spear..."
Feicui Long can see her, that image, as if she were right in front of him again. The figure of a woman with a golden spear pointing toward an army. He places his halberd resting on his back and looking toward his enemy then propels himself forward saying: "Let this halberd be the one that judges, the judge and jury of all who oppose the will of the one who created this universe, regardless if they are gods, demons, or mortals, this is the judgment, the divine judgment awaiting all who harm the balance of the universe! Divine judgment technique, divine sentence, halberd of divine extermination!"
A golden slash with pure divine energy shines along with Feicui Long's figure as he is launched forward slashing ahead of him. Every undead touched by this energy is eradicated directly...
But then something totally unexpected happens. The first amalgam Feicui Long saw interrupts him with a gigantic 3-meter-long shield that firmly blocks the attack.
Feicui Long in midair barely manages to use an emerald shock to avoid the imposing hammers of the other amalgam, but he receives two attacks from the ghouls that injure him even more and now slightly limit his mobility.
Feicui Long counterattacks with a quick lightning elemental strike. Though he can only hit one of the slower ghouls, it is still enough to reduce that annoying agility of these damn rats.
The battle is far from over. The amalgams appear quickly in front of Feicui Long. He almost laughs. It seems that today he will have to defy death once again, once again...