The Necromancer is amassing troops like crazy in the apocalypse

“Captain, are they the ones?” asked Duke.

“They should be.”

The place was only a few hours away from Lundham City, ordinary merchants or mercenary groups would never set up camp at this location.

Proceeding with high level of caution.

Besides, the physique of the beastmen is towering, they look like a band of mountain bandits when they stand.

“Doesn’t seem to be a lot of them, shall we go in for the kill?” Duke spoke in a low voice, even as he plucked a green snake from a branch and crushed its head, then coiled it up and put it in his bag.

Wu Heng watched him coil up the snake, but didn’t say anything.

Now that he had seen many things, he wasn’t afraid like he used to be.

“Let’s wait a bit longer, and keep observing.”

Their task was to confirm the authenticity of the intelligence.

They could report back now, and other teams or more personnel would be arranged for the kill later.

However, Wu Heng was feeling a bit troubled.

Their own team hadn’t had any tasks in the past few days, and if they returned, they might be given new tasks for no reason.

He squatted in the bushes for a while.

Xiao Xiao, under the invisibility spell, flew back from the opposite side.

She directly burrowed into his body, and the images from inside the stone fort appeared in his mind.

In a half-preserved room inside the stone fort, six towering beastmen huddled together. Their heavy armor was set aside and they were leaning against the wall whispering.

There was a fire pit and iron pot in the middle of the room with some sort of animal’s meat stewing inside it.

The scene shifted again as Xiao Xiao directly flew up to the third floor.

There was a strong female beastman on a collapsed open-air platform on the third floor, keeping watch outside.

A heavy crossbow was placed in the corner of the wall.

Tallying up the one in the courtyard on lookout duty, there were eight beastmen in total.

They seemed to be a small group.

And it looked like they were preparing to spend the night here, as they were already setting up leather beds.

“There are eight beastmen in total, one on the third floor is a crossbowman.” Wu Heng reported the situation.

Duke, while brushing bugs off his body, asked, “So we’re charging in?”

“Charging directly in is a bit risky, it would be best if we could find a way to sneak attack.”

“Erm, how to sneak attack…”

While they were talking.

Something happened inside the manor.

Five or six beastmen emerged from the stone fort with their weapons, shouting at each other about something, and one of them pointed towards the place where Wu Heng and Duke were hiding.

“Damn, we’ve been detected.” Wu Heng cursed.

Many professionals have the means to detect and alert each other, apparently their actions had been noticed by the other side.

Before Wu Heng could decide whether to run or fight back.

Whoosh~!

The sound of the wind breaking suddenly rang out.

A crossbow arrow hurtled towards them.

Clang~!

It directly hit the side of Duke’s helmet, sparks flew everywhere, and the crossbow arrow was deflected.

Overthrown by the massive inertia, Duke fell backwards.

In shock, he touched the dent in his helmet, still shaken up.

“Captain, I almost died.”

“Stay low, don’t show your head.” Wu Heng advised.

Duke lay flat on the ground and shifted his position.

Whoosh~!

The second sound of breaking wind rang out, and a crossbow arrow flew towards Bawudong’s chest.

But Bawudong caught the flying crossbow arrow with one hand and swung his arm, embedding it into a tree.

Such precision!

Wu Heng was somewhat surprised by the opposition.

At the same time, he quickly lit a ‘Poison Fog Thunder’ and threw it forward.

Bang~!

The Poison Fog Thunder exploded, a heavy red smoke engulfing the entire area and obstructing the view of both sides.

The beastmen on the other side immediately raised a clamor.

“Damn reptiles, always hiding.”

“Quickly, charge them, don’t let them run.”

“Kill them, or we will have to relocate.”

The beastmen yelled, thinking that the release of the smoke meant we were trying to run.

They picked up their pace, moving quickly through the grass towards us.

Listening to their movements, Wu Heng immediately said, “Kill them, don’t hold back on bullets.”

Basen and Bawudong stood up, raised their rifles, and fired towards the front.

The skeletons’ sight was not affected by the smoke, they were able to precisely target their positions.

Bang bang bang~!

A barrage of bullets hissed out, piercing the smoke and shooting forward.

The beastmen’s shouting was drowned out by the gunfire, which startled a flock of birds in the forest.

Clang clang~ Pupup!

Some of the beastmen’s plate armor did offer a little protection.

The bullets that hit the edges of the armor were deflected, but more often than not, bullets would pierce through the armor and penetrate the beastmen’s bodies.

For some beastmen, they hadn’t even put on their armor and were immediately shot full of holes.

After a brief round of gunfire.

It was quiet again, only the groans of pain from the bushes were heard.

“Move forward!” Wu Heng’s voice echoed from his gas mask.

With one hand on Basen’s shoulder, they started to navigate through the smoke.

Passing through the Beastman area, they fired shots and directly killed the Beastmen who were not completely dead.

They quickly penetrated the smoke and approached the wall of the mansion.

As they burst out, there was a whoosh, and another crossbow arrow shot over.

They quickly took cover by the wall.

Then, Wu Heng raised his hand towards the third floor and cast the Fireball Technique.

The scorching fireball flew towards the upper floor and hit the wall with a bang, scattering a large amount of burning flame.

It set the third floor on fire and forced the crossbow shooter to retreat.

Inside the mansion, the remaining two Beastmen walked out of the stone fort.

They looked around vigilantly.

“Kill them.” Wu Heng continued.

The sound of gunfire rang out again, aimed at the exiting Beastmen.

One collapsed in fear, while the other held a broad battle axe across his chest, acting as a shield.

Bullets rattled against it without causing much effect.

“Bawudong, go and kill this Beastman, Basen go to the third floor and kill the crossbowman.” Wu Heng quickly ordered.

Bawudong charged towards the Beastman with the battle axe, Basen, from a different angle, quickly dashed through the ruins towards the third floor.

Wu Heng fired two shots, keeping the ax-wielding Beastman in check, while simultaneously releasing Decay Ray and Disease Radiation.

The two rays hit the Beastman directly.

The posture of the Beastman holding the battle axe noticeably sank.

At this point, Bawudong also rushed to the front and swung his fist.

The Beastman roared, his figure became even stronger, he swung the battle axe, and chopped down.

Bawudong dodged, while throwing consecutive punches to the Beastman’s ribs and lower back.

The two entangled with each other.

At this moment, Duke also ran out, coughing and rubbing his eyes.

His eyes were bloodshot and tears were streaming down.

He shook his head forcefully, raised his battle axe, and charged towards the opposing Beastman.

He immediately joined the fight. Two against one, the other side struggled to cope and kept retreating.

Bang, bang~!

Wu Heng seized the opportunity and fired two shots, hitting the Beastman’s thighs.

The Beastman, in pain, stooped down, and Bawudong jumped up and hit the Beastman’s neck with his fist.

A harsh snap sounded.

The Beastman’s head eerily drooped backward.

[Experience obtained +21.]

[Your level has increased to Level 6, Intelligence +1, Charisma +1.]

[The summoned being – Skeleton Boxer, obtained experience +2.]

He actually leveled up.

Wu Heng was surprised.

Recently, he hadn’t been paying much attention to his XP, not realizing that it was full.

Thump~!

At this point, Duke swung his axe and directly chopped off the Beastman’s neck.

The head rolled over to the side, and they breathed a sigh of relief.

“Bawudong, go check the upstairs and kill the crossbowman with Basen.” Wu Heng continued.

Bawudong ran towards the upper floor again.

Faint sounds of fighting and cursing could be heard.

Soon, the fighting stopped, and Basen came down dragging the corpse of a female Beastman.

…

“Duke, are you okay?” Wu Heng removed his gas mask and put it away.

Duke’s eyes were still red, “I’m fine.”

It’s not that he wouldn’t give Duke one.

But the Beastman’s facial features were too distinctive to mention, and the outward protruding tusks wouldn’t fit in the mask.

“Your head isn’t injured, right?”

Duke touched the dented part of his helmet, “The helmet needs fixing.”

“As long as you are fine, go move the corpses from the bushes over here.”

“Alright!”

As the smoke gradually dissipated, Duke quickly walked over and started dragging the bodies.

Wu Heng, along with the skeleton, entered the stone fort, examining the items carried by these people.

The majority of the backpacks had the usual personal belongings.

The major gain was that every person’s bag had a coin pouch, except for in two pouches where the number of silver coins was greater, the rest had exactly 120 coins each.

It looked as though they had just split the spoils, otherwise there would be no way for the money in each person’s pouch to be the same.

However, when he checked the last backpack.

He found three special scrolls inside.

[Slave Contract Scroll]

(Description: A magical scroll that draws up a slavery contract, establishing a ‘master-servant’ relationship. Once the contract is in effect, the servant is unable to have any subjective thoughts of harming the master.)

Were these people slave traders?

There were many types of magical scrolls, most of which performed attack magic.

Master-servant contract ones were relatively rare.

It didn’t seem to be of much use to him. His skeletons were completely loyal, and he could get any type of slave he wanted just by collecting bodies.

After thinking about it, he decided to collect them anyway.

Then he walked out of the stone fort.

Duke had already laid out the bodies in the courtyard.

“Captain, they’re all here.”

Wu Heng took out his tablet, brought up the bounty notice he had taken pictures of from the guild, and said, “See which one is the wanted criminal.”

Duke, with his red eyes, watched the photos flipping in surprise.