NOVEL WEB Chapter 287: Compression
"Hey system, can you scan the stats of all the creatures here? I never really focused on stats and stuff until now since numbers usually don't really show how good a person is at combat. But I guess it'll give me a nice baseline to pick my targets."
[Affirmative. Scanning all beings in a radius of 10 km from the Host.]
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[42%]
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[81%]
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[99%]
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[Scan Complete.]
Then, a long list appeared on the screen.
"….. Hundreds of thousands…. Categorise them into groups based on their race or type while making a ranking list depending on their stats. Also, make sure you highlight the abnormal ones within each group too. Just to make sure I don't miss them."
[Affirmative. Note to user: All creatures are undeads and due to this, they have infinite physical stamina.]
'Alright, feel free to keep physical stamina out of it then.'
[Sorting list.]
[Sorting complete.]
Keith read through the list, muttering to himself as he did so.
"Death Knights, Undead Wolves, Spiders, zombies, skeletons and why does he have such a huge goblin army? Then there's the Grand Lich Keith… my doppleganger who's most probably way stronger than I am."
He then moved on to take a look at the key figures of all the groups, only to stop at the zombies.
"Balmond? Don't tell me he actually got his hands on a third level awakener who wields divine energy…"
[After turning into a zombie, he won't have access to any of the divine energy. In a way, all of his divine energy is trapped in that body of his and he will continue getting the divine energy from the continent as long as there's wars, but he won't be able to use that divine energy anymore.]
"I see. Thanks Emma."
Nodding to himself, Keith raised his arms to the side and death knights began to appear behind him one by one.
'Hmm… even with Angel's view, I'm unable to control these many knights. I'll need a skill that strengthens my mind's multitasking capabilities or one that helps me get these guys think for themselves and take complex commands. System, is there anyone who has an awakened ability like that?'
[Searching through data base. Four Individuals fit the requirements.]
Keith quickly went through the four awakened abilities and sighed.
"None of these are strong enough to help me out. Tch." he clicked his tongue and continued to spawn more death knights until his mana pool was down to half it's original capacity.
"Emma, I need a refill."
[Fine do your thing. But keep in mind that you'll have to let someone stay here so you can use them as a teleport beacon.]
Nodding, Keith brought out Ken from his spatial dimension, "Listen, hide somewhere and I'll be back in twenty to thirty minutes. I'll do my best to finish quick."
Then, before Ken could even speak, Keith looked at his undead army of almost 13,000 death knights.
"You guys, stay here." he said and just disappeared.
Ken let out a sigh and dug a hole in the ground before crawling in. Then, he covered the hole as much as he could and then just lay there as he did not have to breathe to stay alive.
Minutes quickly ticked by and Keith appeared soon before sending Ken back to the spatial dimention. 12,000 more death knights were created, bringing the total up to twenty five thousand.
He glanced at the screen that had info of his opponents and grinned, "You guys only have 10,000 death knights but I got 25,000. I got the strongest type of undead with me and in great numbers heh."
But then, his face fell again, "It's a pity they won't be able to fight optimally though."
Sighing, he pointed at the group far away and looked at his army, "Go fight them. Focus on survival."
He watched as his army marched and soon, the opposite party began to move too. A few seconds before the two sides clashed, Keith summoned a small skeleton and threw it with all his might.
It soared through the air and while it did, he summoned a spear from the war god's collection along with the war god's armor. Unlike Clara's armor that increased a person's physical capabilities, this one purely focused on defences and stamina recovery so the user could play an active role for an extended period of time.
"Clara's armor is great but this is what I need right now. I just gotta last long enough for Barou's ability to stack up to crazy levels." he grinned as he kept an eye on the skeleton that had now overtaken his army of death knights and was speeding towards the opposite side like a cannon ball.
"It's time." he muttered and used teleportation to appear right beside his skeleton before he grabbed it and tossed it into the group of undead in front of him.
With his heart pounding with excitement, he yelled, "Undead Summoning!"
Thousands of skeletons appeared behind him and he began to throw them onto the enemies like they were some sort of rocks. He glanced behind him to see his Death Knights pretty close and gave them a command too.
"Throw these skeletons at them!!"
Then it began, a weird looking war where a bunch of death knights threw skeletons at their enemies. The whole action had no real effect as the death knights and spiders from the opposite side just smacked them away while moving forward.
Soon, all the skeletons were gone.
"Nice." Keith said softly and snapped his fingers, "Corpse reconstruction!"
All the bones that were scattered, converged at the center as they punctured through everything in the path. Unfortunately, this wasn't enough as the opponents were undead. They just ignored their injuries but it still stopped them.
Every single death knight, spider, zombie, giant skeleton and every other undead stared at the huge ivory ball make of bone.
Corpse manipulation, bone manipulation and corpse reconstruction. Keith used all three of them at the same time.
The large ball made of bones, began to shrink. The bones were crushed into smaller bits and the process continued.