As if I've never learned magic?

"Rumble… Rumble…"

The sound of bones colliding echoed.

"Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!"

Quickly, the sound became a cacophony, everywhere, as if a hundred people were playing mahjong around them, but no one was speaking, an indescribable terror.

Similarly, the terror spread to the hearts of the four, excluding Anyi.

In their eyes, the skeletons, whose soul fires had been extinguished by the holy light, suddenly stood up one after another!

They began to take stiff steps, moving towards the five in the hall!

"What… what's happening?" Layton vigilantly raised his shield, looking around at the skeletons approaching.

Ghostly happenings?

What's there to be afraid of ghosts?

Knowing that the ghosts were "killed", but they stood up again. That's the scariest thing!

Karen stood up and clenched her fists: "Whatever! If we killed them once, let's kill them again!

They're just skeleton soldiers, let's kill them! If they're strong, I can't beat them, but if they're weak, can't I beat them?!"

Saying that, Karen rushed towards one of them, grabbing its skull and crushing it.

But something strange happened!

The skeleton soldier didn't disintegrate into a pile of bones, even after its skull was completely crushed, the headless skeleton continued to move towards Karen!

「Impossible!」

The word echoed in Karen's mind. She pushed forward with both hands, smashing a pile of skeleton soldiers, then jumped back.

「Death Pupil!」

Weakness Perception!

Karen applied the [Death Pupil] effect to the nearest skeleton soldier, but…

"No… No weaknesses?!" She exclaimed.

There were no weaknesses on the skeleton soldiers!

On the other side, Ariana continuously attacked the skeleton soldiers with [Holy Judge].

「Holy Judge! Holy Judge! Holy Judge!!」

One light arrow after another struck the skeleton soldiers, even targeting their heads.

But like Karen, even if she smashed their skulls, the skeleton soldiers showed no signs of stopping.

And even if their bodies were destroyed, they would immediately reassemble themselves!

Were holy-type skills useless?

Such a doubt arose in Ariana's mind.

"Bang!"

Anyi made a move, a large amount of slime surged from the ground, covering the legs of the skeleton soldiers, slowing their movement.

But many skeleton soldiers didn't even need their legs, they simply fell to the ground and crawled forward, but were eventually stuck by the slime.

Layton swung his shield, scattering and smashing the approaching skeleton soldiers.

Miruku, however, switched to her venom armor and ran around the four, smashing the nearby skeleton soldiers.

But no matter how much they were scattered or smashed, these skeletons would reassemble themselves again and again. At most, the slime sword would stick to them, slowing down their regeneration.

As long as they weren't reduced to bone dust, even a few centimeters of shattered bone fragments would reassemble.

"What's going on with these skeletons?!" Layton frowned, smashing a large number of skeletons with his shield.

Karen shouted: "I don't know! I can't see their weaknesses!"

"Holy Judge is useless!" Ariana also said anxiously.

"Die! Die!!" Miruku frantically smashed skeletons while shouting.

...

In a part of the castle, Necromancer Vitor and the Skeleton Mage were observing them.

「Master, they seem to be at their wit's end.」 The Skeleton Mage said gleefully.

Whether it was the ability to see weaknesses or the strange magic attacks, they were so helpless against this sea of bones.

「Hahaha— Fear! Counterattack!

This catastrophe won't end!」 Vitor laughed.

Even the strongest heroes couldn't withstand such a large number of skeleton soldiers!

This wasn't just a physical attack, but also a mental attack!

No matter how strong those humans are, they couldn't possibly turn all the skeletons to ashes, right?

As long as they weren't turned to ashes, these skeleton soldiers could fight endlessly!

Once these humans run out of stamina, they would be helpless.

They definitely wouldn't expect another, even stronger enemy to be waiting!

...

Ariana retreated to Anyi's side: "Anyi, this isn't going to work, what should we do?"

"Look, the mastermind is trying to play a game with us." Anyi said calmly.

"Ah? A game?" Ariana was stunned.

"Holy Judge is useless, there are no weaknesses, attacking the head and body doesn't work.

Their actions are unrelated to their souls, they just keep reforming physically.

That means someone is controlling these bones.

Just like with the Slime King, these skeletons are all controlled by the same person."

Anyi controlled his slime sword, causing the slime to push the skeletons outwards in waves.

"We killed so many Class 3 monsters, and two Class 4 monsters, so the opponent must know…

These skeletons can't hurt us.

Despite this, it's still controlling these skeletons to attack us.

First, it's trying to drain our stamina, and second, it's trying to scare us.

Endless regenerating skeletons, they can't be killed or driven away, very scary, right?"

Ariana nodded vigorously: "Yes, really scary!"

After all, this wasn't just a threat to the heroes, but also a "mental attack" on them.

After clearing the skeleton soldiers, they inexplicably stood up again from all directions. They didn't have visible health bars, and they didn't need to attack.

It was like a horror game, the heroes couldn't resist and could only run away.

But the difference between this and a horror game is…

Even if they're caught, they won't die.

"Ah, should we try to find the opponent's main body?" Layton took a few steps back and asked.

"Let me go." Miruku shouted.

"Perhaps… I think the direction is wrong! Where is it?" Karen said.

Anyi shook his head: "I think we don't need to look.

We just need to…

Sit down and rest.

My weapon doesn't consume any Prana, and it can protect us indefinitely.

We just need to sit down and recover the stamina we consumed fighting the Skeleton Executioner and the Howling Succubus.

Once we're rested, we'll break through, these skeletons can't stop us."

Having said that, Anyi used the slime to restrain the skeletons again, enveloping the five of them.

The slime, changing from black to almost transparent, enveloped them in a 2-meter-thick layer, pushing all the skeletons outside.

The skeletons were now like a dome-shaped bubble a few meters in diameter.

And the skeletons outside the "bubble" piled up into a small mountain, but they couldn't enter the slime space, they could only dig on the outside.

In the darkness, Vitor and the Skeleton Mage, sharing their vision through other ghosts, saw this scene.

「How is this possible?! Creating such a large defensive barrier without using any mana?!」 The Skeleton Mage exclaimed.

「Don't rush to conclusions, he might think that we don't understand the principles of magic.」 Vitor sneered.

A huge bubble-like defense, without using mana? What kind of joke is this?

Does he think I've never learned magic?