Feicui Long waits until the very last second and, using Emerald Impact, jumps to the side, while in the place he was standing, four powerful attacks strike, the blow of the giant hammers causing a massive rumble and leaving a small crater, while the slash of two enormous axes, apparently held by the amalgam with the great shield, tears the air.
But Feicui Long cannot relax, because even after dodging the attacks from the five ghouls, they keep coming from all directions. At a certain point, clearly irritated, he says: "Damn pests, I'll make sure to wipe you out."
He quickly uses Emerald Shock by stomping the ground, and with the shockwave produced by the impact, he sends the five ghouls flying backward, leaving a small depression in the ground.
Then, grabbing his halberd, he sighs and once again apologizes to his sister Lucretia for using and modifying her techniques. While dodging another attack from the amalgams, that's when he begins to visualize her...
In his eyes appears Lucretia, leaping into the air, holding her Divine Judgment Spear and pointing it at an endless army. Soon her spear shines with golden light and splits into one, two, four, up to a thousand, ten thousand, and even more, all while chanting the martial words of the technique...
Feicui Long begins to imitate her, leaps into the air, and injecting his energy into his halberd, starts to speak the martial words: "I am the one who judges the wicked, the one who judges the neutral, the one who judges the righteous, I am divine punishment incarnated by the creator of this universe and with this Halberd I swear I will wipe out entire armies if necessary! Technique of Divine Judgment, Myriad Divine Punishment Halberds!"
From his halberd soon emerge several golden copies, up to 10. Feicui Long notices this and sighs heavily, saying to himself: "I knew my cultivation would limit me but only 10... on top of that, I didn't know this technique demands so much energy, just 10 and it already consumed 20% of my internal energy."
But Feicui Long doesn't let that discourage him nor waste time. He quickly throws the copies at the five ghouls. They crash down, destroying several undead from the Frozen Wind mercenary group, but they miss their true target. Then he quickly uses Emerald Impact upward to launch himself back to the ground, evading the attacks of the amalgams by mere millimeters once more.
Feicui Long whispers: "I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but still... whatever, I must at least eliminate one more amalgam to focus on the ghouls." Then he summons the 10 copies back around him. Though they are only ten and consumed a lot of energy, at least they are not single-use.
Feicui Long then runs, dodging attacks from ghouls and amalgams alike, then unleashes a full strike on the axe-wielding amalgam. That amalgam withdraws the arms holding the axes and instead switches to the ones with the great shield, barely managing to block the blow. Without wasting time, Feicui Long attacks the other amalgam, the one with the hammers, but the shield one interferes again.
Feicui Long nods and thinks, it's time. He sends a telepathic message. Behind them, a 2.5-meter tall faun with runes all over his very muscular body grabs one of the two remaining metal javelins and starts charging the attack, then throws it at great speed. But this gives the giant amalgam time to turn with its shield and block the strike.
Feicui Long smirks coldly and says: "Got you." Then he jumps to the head, but the other amalgam's attack comes at a terrifying speed. He only manages to dodge just in time, but that was his plan all along, because by evading the two 2-meter hammers from the 5-meter amalgam, the kinetic energy and terrifying force behind them become impossible to stop and they smash straight into its ally's head, shattering it into pieces like smashing a watermelon.
Then the faun leader, by himself, while all of this is happening, does something incredible. He takes the last metal javelin and destroys the chest of the last amalgam, surprising even Feicui Long and the five civilized-type ghouls, especially since one of them gets briefly trapped under the weight of the amalgam. Feicui Long sees this and his eyes light up. Running with his sword in the other hand, he cuts off the ghoul's head directly, from the metallic variant.
Afterward, he puts his sword away again and, laughing a bit like a madman, says: "Hahaha damn undead pests, I'll wipe you all out this time for real!"
Raising his halberd, he visualizes the father of this seventh life of his while training with his own halberd. Feicui Long has to use those memories to fight with weapons, since he truly lacks knowledge in weapon handling. In his first life, he rejected the use of weapons, even the sword, his master's specialty, because he believed they were useless with his powerful dragon body. And in part, he was right, but now...
Now it is necessary, so since he didn't train a halberd technique or any other high-level ones, beyond what his basic weapon mastery technique taught him, he has to rewind those moments and imitate. Then the image of his father spinning the halberd in the air while injecting energy, unleashing a small tornado, appears... he begins to do the same and then says a modified version: "Emerald Slaughter Whirlwind!"
His halberd spins at high speed, creating a whirlwind of emerald energy that destroys even more minor undead and wounds several ghouls. Feicui Long, as he approaches them at full speed, feels glad for the first time that the Sanctuary of All Races specializes in people with skills in taming, summoning, necromancy, golem creation, and puppetry, since thanks to that, most of them use energy-based attack techniques, mixed-energy rifles, mixed bows, or if they use melee weapons, they are halberds and spears.
Then, with a slash of his halberd, he cuts the neck of the ghoul that had been pierced by his telekinetic daggers. Just as he is about to declare victory, his instinct tells him to look to the sides, and what he sees shocks him. The first amalgams that were killed down the hill are getting up and moving again.
Feicui Long says: "This is impossible. You cannot raise a corpse twice. To raise an undead, you need a soul, even a weak one made from soul fragments!"
He then realizes something and, concerned, says: "Whoever the bastard is that did all this gave them more than one soul..."
Knowing that, Feicui Long must act fast. He gives the order: "Faun leader, wildfire shaman, and alpha lizardman, go deal with those two as quickly as possible."
The faun leader then grabs the grade-7 mortal-quality artifact spear that Feicui Long gave him for melee combat and rushes out along with the other two elite undead.
At the same time, Feicui Long jumps into the air and throws his telekinetic daggers to prevent the remaining civilized-type ghouls from retreating. Then he sends out the copies of his halberds, with which he only manages to strike one, the ghoul made from a lesser giant, and as soon as divine energy touches it, it starts disintegrating while screaming: "AHRAGRAARARRRAR!"
The other two, who think they can escape, see him smile coldly. Stretching out his hand and clenching it, he says: "Do you think this technique can only be used once? Divine Punishment Burst!"
The 10 halberd copies explode in divine energy, and with that blast alone, all undead in the surrounding area are wiped out. That single explosion kills around 300 undead, but it is too late. The amalgams have already stood up again.
Feicui Long sees them and quickly notices there are eyes in various parts of their bodies. Using his spiritist ability, he realizes there are two additional brains in each amalgam. He exhales in frustration and charges to kill them. Now that the ghouls are gone and this zone is cleared of undead, it will be much easier, although now he does not have many ways to hurt them. Because right now, Feicui Long only has power equivalent to a cultivator in the Mystic Realm, grade 4, beginner stage, while the amalgams are at the peak of grade 6 of that same realm...
His advantage before comes from the fact that his sister's techniques use divine energy, which has some effect against beings from evil-aligned clans that are opposed to the divine clan. That is exactly why he uses her energy and not his dragon energy, which is far stronger.
That is also why he is now using the sword given to him by his father-in-law, which is forged from lower heaven platinum. Even though the heaven attribute is inferior to the celestial attribute, it is still a descendant of the celestial one and has a stronger effect than divine energy against evil beings or clans aligned with malice. In fact, divine energy is considered neutral with a slight tendency toward good.
Forty-five minutes pass, and Feicui Long is able to finish off the amalgams and the remaining members of the Frozen Wind mercenaries. At last, it is over. They have destroyed the entire army...
Then, from the depths, the sound of bones clashing together like applause ClapClank is heard. Feicui Long, extremely tired and with only 40% of his energy remaining, looks in that direction.
From there, ten translucent women float forward, their faces twisted in horror, crying. Feicui Long darkens his expression and says: "Lesser Banshees..."
Behind them, the sound of bones and flesh striking metal rings out. Twenty figures appear, equipped with armor. Five carry swords and shields, five wield halberds, two have mixed bows, two carry energy rifles, one has a mixed crossbow, and five are equipped with support gear for mystical energies, revealing the presence of two mages, one elementalist, one psychic, and one spiritist.
Irina, who is resting after shooting non-stop, sees what is coming behind them and screams in horror: "An Ice Lich!"
Feicui Long then understands and says: "I see. It is a Lich created from a necromancer mage. That explains why these undead are not raised using necromantic skill. It is just a cheap imitation. It does not even come close to a real Lich."
Even so, Feicui Long does not underestimate him. Although the Ice Lich's guards are weaker in cultivation than the amalgams, it is clear they are more powerful and capable, especially because of their armor and equipment. But the most dangerous of all are those damned Banshees...
In his mind, he cannot help but think that this night seems endless, and that thought alone makes him sigh more and more...