This is a fully-manned skeleton legion.

  An elite-tier skeleton warlord and ten advanced-tier skeleton warriors bring the total number of the skeleton legion to five hundred.

  Among them are skeleton mages, skeleton guards, skeleton archers, and others that Lucas has seen before.

  This skeleton legion is even more powerful than the one Lucas had encountered before!

  Of course

  This power is only relative to ordinary elite skeletons.

  Lucas is an exception.

  When he appeared before this skeleton legion, even without Lucas's command to attack, the skeleton warlord on the opposite side led its skeleton horde to charge towards Lucas.

  Harvesting and devouring skeletons not of one's own is a fundamental survival rule in the land of buried bones.

  For this skeleton warlord, any skeleton not under the command of the Skeleton King is within its harvesting and hunting range!

  Hundreds of skeletons surged forward in a mighty wave.

  Skeleton soldiers led by skeleton warriors formed the front line, while skeleton archers and skeleton mages, commanded by the skeleton warlord himself, took up the rear. This formation was naturally invincible against other elite skeletons.

  But against Lucas...

  It seemed somewhat inadequate!

  As the vast skeleton horde approached, when the distance between them was just over a hundred meters, Lucas gave the order. His nine skeleton minions, led by an elite skeleton swordsman, charged towards the skeleton horde!

  He himself took the lead, rushing into the skeleton horde at a speed faster than his minions!

  Circular Slash!

  Boom!

  A flash of cold light!

  No skills were used.

  But with Lucas's current strength attribute of 94, coupled with his two-meter-long bone glaive, even a normal attack was more than what these basic or advanced-tier skeleton soldiers and warriors could withstand!

  When the bone glaive swung in a circular arc, all skeletons within its range—whether skeleton soldiers or skeleton warriors—were shattered!

  Transforming into a sky full of scattered bones!

  After creating a breach in the skeleton horde, Lucas leaped forward. His powerful skeletal body propelled him over a distance of more than ten meters, charging straight towards the skeleton warlord at the center of the horde!

  A rain of arrows came, which Lucas ignored.

  Ghostfire orbs flew towards him, but he dodged them effortlessly.

  By the time his nine skeleton minions made contact with the skeleton horde, Lucas had already traversed the horde and appeared right in front of the skeleton warlord!

  The bone glaive struck again!

  Under the overwhelming pressure of Lucas's superior attributes, this elite-tier skeleton warlord didn't even have time to resist before its skull was shattered by the bone glaive!

  "You have slain the 'Skeleton Warlord.'"

  "You have gained 1000 experience points."

  "You have obtained the job change information for 'Elite Class Template - Skeleton Warlord.'"

  After swiftly dispatching the skeleton warlord, Lucas glanced at the information refreshed on his status panel, his heart sinking slightly.

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  No free attribute points.

  Could it be that his assumption was wrong?

  Were the 5 free attribute points he obtained not from slaying elite-tier monsters?

  Without dwelling on it further, immediately after killing the skeleton warlord, Lucas swung his bone glaive again, decapitating two skeleton mages and a skeleton guard beside the warlord.

  He disabled them without killing.

  After rendering the skeleton mages and guards incapacitated, he also decapitated the dozen or so skeleton archers within the legion, stripping them of their ability to fight.

  Only then did he begin to enslave these valuable advanced-tier skeletons.

  With the skeleton warlord dead, the once-unified skeleton legion fell into disarray. Some skeleton soldiers remained under the command of skeleton warriors, while others became scattered and disorganized.

  When Lucas's skeleton warrior minions charged into the skeleton horde, they instinctively seized control of the now leaderless skeleton soldiers, rapidly increasing Lucas's minion count to nearly a hundred!

  Ignoring the ongoing battle between his minions and the skeleton legion, Lucas focused on enslaving the advanced-tier skeletons.

  Perhaps due to the disparity in strength,

  The time it took for Lucas to enslave an advanced-tier skeleton was significantly reduced. In just a few minutes, he had enslaved all the advanced-tier skeletons in the legion, turning the entire skeleton legion into his own minions.

  From the start of the battle to its conclusion, it took no more than ten minutes.

  Aside from over a hundred skeletons that perished in the battle, the remaining three hundred or so were either enslaved by Lucas or his skeleton warrior minions, becoming part of Lucas's growing power.

  Without delay,

  Lucas immediately led his now-expanded force of over three hundred skeleton minions towards another direction!

  There...

  Lay another skeleton legion!

  ......

  Elite skeletons possess rudimentary intelligence.

  Intelligence implies memory.

  Even if this memory is simplistic, containing only the patrol routes, directions, and commands from higher-ranking skeletons.

  After devouring the first skeleton legion, Lucas extracted the memories of the skeleton warlord, learning the patrol routes of several other skeleton legions, and promptly set out to hunt them down.

  Without exception.

  Given Lucas's current strength, which rivaled that of a champion-tier entity, crushing elite-tier skeletons was effortless.

  Over two days,

  By repeatedly extracting information from the memories of slain skeleton warlords, Lucas killed a total of eight elite-tier skeleton warlords.

  Just by devouring the skeleton legions commanded by these eight warlords, Lucas's minion count skyrocketed, surpassing a thousand!

  And this was after he had culled the weaker ones.

  Had he enslaved without discrimination, his minion count would have doubled!

  At this point,

  Lucas ceased his relentless march.

  Because his true enemy... had arrived.