Free Web NovelChapter 324: Chapter 166: Massing Puppets, Unstoppable Performance
The number of "reserves" infested by spores and mycelia was also constantly growing!
The next moment, with a mere thought, Lin Ye raised another hundred puppets in the best condition from the mountain of corpses. After issuing an attack command, he severed the connection again.
It took less than thirty seconds.
By the time Lin Ye fought his way through the 28th wave of the Alien Race Legion.
Behind him, in the hellscape of severed limbs and broken bodies, ghastly corpses rose one after another. Dense black threads lit up within their empty eye sockets.
One by one, the dead rose again under Lin Ye’s command.
The legion under Lin Ye’s command, which started at one hundred strong, began to double in size.
Three hundred, five hundred...
In the end, every single dead alien on the battlefield was resurrected!
A massive legion of over eight hundred undead stood silently before Lin Ye. Their numbers were so great they even surpassed the current wave of attacking aliens!
Lin Ye withdrew his spear and stood still.
He no longer needed to fight on the front lines himself.
He retreated behind the puppet army he had created, like a true monarch of the dead, and began to focus on commanding the battle.
He connected to only a hundred puppets at a time, constantly refining and simplifying their battle commands before releasing them and connecting to the next batch.
Gradually, his puppet legion transformed from its initial chaotic state. They began to follow simple tactics and started to gain the upper hand in the battle.
BOOM!
BOOM—!!
On the battlefield, violent explosions of light and fire erupted from within the Alien Race Legion.
It was Lin Ye, controlling the Molten Demon Race puppets. He had them charge into the enemy ranks and self-destruct their Molten Fire Cores.
This scene made Nie Cang’s brain short-circuit in the control room. His thoughts could barely keep up.
Lin Ye’s previous display of controlling hundreds of puppets was already world-shockingly unbelievable.
But now, not only was the number of his puppets skyrocketing, but he was even pulling off fancy new tricks!
"Is there... no limit to the number of puppets he can control?" Nie Cang’s voice trembled.
At his side, Su Yunjin had already disconnected from the virtual link. She couldn’t bear to watch any longer.
Only Yin Liulan’s eyes burned with an unprecedented fervor.
’So this... is your S+-rated Martial Arts Spirituality?’
’It really is heaven-defying!’
Of course, she didn’t know that Lin Ye’s true Martial Arts Spirituality had yet to awaken. But on a battlefield with an endless supply of corpses, the terrifying potential of his [Silk Puppet] skill was being unleashed to its absolute fullest!
Suddenly, Yin Liulan’s gaze sharpened.
Nie Cang seemed to have noticed something as well and cried out in alarm, "Wait! Look! It seems he can control... more than just corpses!"
As they watched, the entire battlefield became almost completely covered in a strange, viscous black mycelium, as if it had transformed into a Death Swamp.
Under these conditions, they saw that the movements of the once-vigorous aliens gradually grew sluggish and numb as they battled the puppets.
Finally, a four-armed slave soldier, currently locked in a struggle with a puppet, suddenly froze. Then, its scarlet eyes were completely overcome by a deep black!
"ROAR—!!!"
It let out an inhuman roar, spun around, and viciously plunged the bone blade in its hand into the back of a nearby comrade!
It had turned on its own kind!
Lin Ye noticed this development immediately.
This was the first time he had obtained a living puppet.
He immediately dedicated a sliver of his consciousness to connect specifically with this new living puppet.
A moment later, he reached a conclusion.
Once successfully controlled, a living puppet could unleash far greater combat power than a Corpse Puppet.
Because their cells had not yet died and their muscles and nerves were still intact, the mycelium’s forced control could squeeze out power beyond their limits. Their combat strength was actually even greater than when they were alive!
