344. Attack Replacement with White Bones for Tang Chen [Large Chapter]_1

After reading the note, Lin Yi was surprised to find that it really meant the same thing...

He said to Tang Chen, "Damage 623548, Golden Junior, your reward is Necromancy Summoning."

These four words gradually gave Tang Chen a bad feeling.

Necromancy Summoning, why does it sound somewhat horrific?

However, having stayed in Slaughter City for so long, Tang Chen had not lost the memories of that time, where he had also seen plenty of dead people.

All sorts of causes of death, various states of corpses, no matter how bloody the scene, he could now conjure up an image in his mind.

But clearly, the reward from Senior Lin Yi did not imply that.

"As the name suggests, it is a skill to summon the undead, but limited only to the flesh, which means the undead you summon will not have thoughts, just a corpse," he explained.

Tang Chen couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, did it have to be so blunt, Senior Lin Yi? Was it just summoning corpses?

Lin Yi continued to elaborate:

"Of course, the strength, speed, and defensive power of these corpses will far exceed that of ordinary people, and even most Martial Souls. This power is granted to them by you, their master, at the time of summoning, and is the essence of this Golden reward. After all, simply summoning is nothing special; the key is whether the ones summoned are strong enough."

Curious, Tang Chen asked, "Senior, just how strong are they?"

Lin Yi replied, "It is determined by the length of time since death; the longer the death, the stronger the power."

Tang Chen carefully pondered the meaning of Lin Yi's words and then heard him add:

"The summoned undead might not necessarily be humans; they could also be soul beasts. However, they will not utilize their abilities from when they were alive. Their weapons will only be their hands and teeth."

Indeed, the combat style of corpses was that simple, but with this, Tang Chen still could not imagine how powerful they might be.

Suddenly, he had another question: "Senior, what is the specific form of the summoning? Do they appear out of thin air or...?"

"Naturally, they will emerge from where they were originally located, most likely crawling out from the ground," Lin Yi stated.

Upon hearing Lin Yi's words, the people on the scene fell silent for a moment.

Then they collectively gasped in shock.

"Crawl... crawling out?!"

Lin Yi's mouth twitched almost imperceptibly: "I prefer to say they emerge by passing through the ground. Their bodies can meld with the soil at the moment of appearing and disappearing, not breaking through the ground as you might imagine."

Despite his explanation, there was still a hint of horror... The expressions of the girls in the audience had already changed, save for a few women with particularly strong mental fortitude.

Gu Yuena simply found it disgusting, hence her expression changed.

Suddenly, Tang Chen felt like he had many questions, but he still wanted to clarify one point: "Then how many can I summon?"

In that instant, he thought of Bi Bidong's Sowing Beans into Soldiers, and Thousand Waves's Cellular Squadron; both were capable of expanding to the size of legions, with Thousand Waves's evidently being a bit more exaggerated.

So, Tang Chen was also looking forward to whether his "legion" could take shape.

After all, the concept of three people each commanding three legions was still quite an astonishing prospect.

Although his legion was sure to be somewhat lacking in style...

Lin Yi glanced at Tang Chen and said, "The number is determined by the area within a kilometer radius of where you are. As long as you maintain the summoning effect and keep moving, you can continuously affect the dead bodies within a kilometer radius of you."

"As many as there are, that's how many will emerge."

Tang Chen's heart was shaken; this was tantamount to an endless stream...

Seeing it this way, rather than summoning, it was more like awakening. Since the summoning wasn't a one-time event and could be sustained for a long time, constantly changing one's position could indefinitely expand the affected area, thus the number of undead being awakened would only increase, wouldn't it?

But, it would also make for a very horrific scene.

Tang Chen couldn't even begin to imagine it.

"How many dead bodies are beneath Soul City?"

At this moment, Qian Renxue turned to look at her grandfather, asking with both curiosity and apprehension.

Thousand Waves clicked his tongue: "This place isn't a graveyard, how many dead bodies could there be?"

Indeed, daring to bury someone here would be to disregard Martial Soul Hall, Qian Renxue thought to herself.

Soon, Tang Chen tentatively asked Lin Yi, "Senior, may I try it out?"

"Of course, as for your reward, it's up to you to handle it," Lin Yi replied.

After Lin Yi tossed the Golden Light Sphere to him, and after fusing with the reward, Tang Chen felt a strange sensation throughout his body.

It was a feeling of establishing a connection.

The way to summon was to touch the forehead with the sword fingers—index and middle fingers pressed together—constantly touching meant keeping the summoning effect ongoing.

Tang Chen raised his sword fingers to his forehead with no hesitation, and at the next moment, a deep red light bloomed from the gap between his fingertip and forehead.

"Ah!!!"

Suddenly, a girl's scream sounded throughout the venue.

Then one scream after another filled the air, even by men; screams echoed back and forth.

As Tang Chen was in the midst of summoning, touching his forehead, he couldn't help but look around.

He was startled.

Numerous corpses were slowly rising from the ground throughout the venue.

There were those made up entirely of bones, their bones assembling on their own as they rose; some were half-rotted, half-bones; and even those just beginning to decompose, including mummified corpses from anoxic environments...