The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 909

Chapter 909 Rampage Through the Skeletons

As [Rampage] began to get fully stacked, Karl found that the Skeletal Knights stood no chance before the Blade of Champions. Even when he simply swung it to create an arc of [Rend] to weaken a swathe of undead, most of them would be crippled, or their armour would be severely damaged.

Of course, this did not go unnoticed. A pair of Overlords and their summoned supporters should not be able to cut through an undead horde that was keeping an entire battalion at bay.

It simply didn't make any sense. But like Karl and his team, the Skeletal Knights also had damage reduction, so the actual damage done to them by the average attack was minimal. It wasn't that they were immensely durable, they simply reduced all damage done by enough that they were hard to kill.

But with [Rampage] in effect, the damage reduction was more than offset, and they were no more than skeletons in crude armour, a mediocre form of undead.

The demons of the 7th Bhurk Regiment pushed out to follow Karl and Remi as he moved toward the portals, intending to let Remi bombard the other side with [Apocalypse] once they had a clear view of the situation there.

The two Battalion Commanders had reached the remaining Necromancers, which had allowed Delilah to join Hawk and Nachtia in bombarding the battlefield from above. With Hawk plus two dragons, the amount of aerial bombardment was insane, even though Remi didn't use her larger area spells during this battle, just in case they targeted friendlies.

Making a spell hit certain targets but not others wasn't always easy. When everyone was in your group, it would happen automatically so that you didn't damage party members, but the system didn't intervene if you should happen to cast a spell that would hit noncombatants, other teams, or hidden allies.

Karl noticed that the Lamia bodyguards had fallen back to let a pair of wrath demons take positions at Karl's shoulders. While the Lamia pair did have blades, they were better as a second line fighter, not the one most likely to be attacked, and the wrath demons were much larger than they were.

Karl attempted to include them in [Rampage], but found that the spell couldn't be targeted at anyone but his own group. That was unfortunate, but if he explored the System later, there might be a way to include more people in your team of allies. You could include the whole Guild, and a bunch of strangers to do a dungeon run, so there should be a way to add a military commander and their unit.

If there was one thing that the System favoured on a reliable basis, it was group activities.

"Whatever damage increasing skill your class gets is ridiculous." One of the wrath demons joked as he cut down a pair of skeletal knights that Karl had wounded.

{It's the power of friendship.} Remi joked, and the demon spared her a confused glance.

{The damage buff is based on a percentage of group damage done during the last minute.} She clarified.

The demon laughed as he cut down one more of the skeletal knights. "The power of friendship it is."

The Skeletal Knights began to pack together to stop Karl's group from advancing on the portals, forming a wall of bones that was rapidly being refilled even as [Void Blast] knocked holes in it.

Karl cast [Consecrated Ground], Thor's new favourite anti-undead spell, and Remi cast a [Hellstorm] vortex in front of them as they paused to let the area damage do its thing.