My Skeleton Soldier Is Strange - Chapter 188

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Chapter 188
Countless emerald points of light, each resembling the silhouette of a figure, bloomed from the wooden fragments. They were the souls of the Guardian Soldiers. The luminous forms drifted languidly around Dercan before gradually seeping into his body.
As the souls were absorbed, his cloak underwent a profound transformation. Subtle verdant radiance began to shimmer through the vivid, deep crimson.
Red and green intertwined in perfect harmony. Death and nature became one, embroidering his cloak with their combined essence.
In that moment, the twin blades in Dercan’s grasp erupted with extraordinary luminescence. Azure light slowly permeated through the pitch-black steel.
My eyes blazed with wonder at the miraculous transformation of my weapon. As though drawn by an invisible force, I swung the twin blades slowly through the air, tracing elegant arcs with the weighty metal.
Miraculously, radiant green spheres materialized along the path I had carved.
The moment the green spheres touched the earth, an astonishing sight unfolded. Azure mana burrowed through the soil, drawing something upward. What began as subtle tremors gradually took on larger, more defined forms. And finally, what emerged were skeletal soldiers.
Their bleached bone hands gripped gleaming twin blades. Ethereal flames flickered within hollow eye sockets. Otherworldly beings standing at the threshold between life and death. They remained silent, awaiting my command.
“You’ve absorbed the Guardian Soldiers’ power.”
A voice shattered the stillness.
It was Kim Jae-beom.
That was when it happened.
Boom-boom-boom!
The World Tree’s roots began to move.
Colossal roots erupted from the earth, their tremendous force splitting the ground and sending dust spiraling into the air.
Countless roots descended upon Dercan and the skeletal soldiers in a relentless barrage. They struck with lightning speed, shaking the very air as they surged forward with savage intensity. Yet the legion of the dead did not hesitate. They evaded the roots’ assault, using them as springboards to launch themselves skyward.
Dercan and the skeletal soldiers navigated the tangled roots with extraordinary agility, moving like shadows through chains of iron. Their flashing blades driving toward the World Tree evoked the image of death’s harbinger. Crimson cloaks and skeletal frames danced upon the wind.
Crack!
New Guardian Soldiers emerged from the roots.
They channeled the essence of nature to oppose the undead. Colossal warriors clad in verdant armor. They stretched their limbs to seize Dercan and the skeletal soldiers. Brutal grappling and tangled roots created a chaotic melee.
Boom!
The Guardian Soldiers struck first. They drove forward, their massive arms sweeping down to overwhelm Dercan and the skeletal soldiers. Wooden branches slashed through the air. The skeletal soldiers were driven back by the tremendous impact.
Yet their momentum did not falter. Under my command, the skeletal soldiers unleashed guttural roars and returned fire. Gaunt warriors wrapped in obsidian armor surged forward, their gleaming blades leading the charge against the Guardian Soldiers.
Clang! Crack! Screech!
The sharp cacophony of metal striking wood filled the Battlefield. Ragged breathing and anguished cries mingled, shaking the air.
The Guardian Soldiers used their bodies as weapons, driving the skeletal soldiers back. They grappled and collided, rolling across the ground. Branches lashed against bone, blades carved through bark. Splinters scattered among the forest’s combatants. The struggle grew increasingly fierce.
Dercan threw himself at the Guardian Soldiers without hesitation. The crimson radiance emanating through his obsidian armor seemed to incinerate all around him. Two blades moved with savage grace, slashing through the air like lightning.
The Guardian Soldiers met his assault. Using branches as swords and bark as armor, they clashed with Dercan. They pushed and struck in endless exchange. Shimmering silhouettes, flashing blades and branches. The duel continued, radiating an ominous light.
Boom-boom-boom!
Suddenly, a sound resonated from somewhere.
Boom-boom-boom!
A tremor transmitted from deep within the earth. Vibrations shook the Battlefield. Dercan and the skeletal soldiers, along with the Guardian Soldiers, flinched in alarm at the sound.
Crash!
In the next instant, a colossal root erupted from the center of combat. All were overwhelmed by its tremendous scale and force. The root coiled and twisted, stretching toward the heavens. It split the Battlefield in two, lifting everyone into the air.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
The skeletal soldiers shrieked in terror. They were swept up by the massive root, plummeting into free fall. Disintegrated bones scattered in all directions like rain.
The Guardian Soldiers, by contrast, ascended naturally, settling upon the root. As extensions of the tree itself, this was no surprise to them. It seemed as though the World Tree itself had come to their aid.
But Dercan was no easy opponent.
My crimson cloak billowed, and from its folds emerged a pair of wings. Fashioned from obsidian feathers, they evoked the image of a demon.
Dercan unfurled his wings wreathed in dark energy and charged toward the Guardian Soldiers with ferocious momentum. He weaved through their ranks at breakneck speed, twin blades flashing in deadly arcs. The steel sang through the air, and gusts of wind scattered the rising dust in violent spirals.
With each sweep of his twin blades, a horrific spectacle unfolded. Crimson light erupted from the steel itself. Mere contact incinerated the Guardian Soldiers’ shells and drained the verdant essence from their bodies.
Splinters of wood scattered like embers in all directions. Dercan pressed forward relentlessly through the ranks of toppling, severed Guardian Soldiers. His wings beat furiously as he ravaged the enemy formation with devastating speed.
The Guardian Soldiers shrieked in terror. They desperately tried to evade Dercan’s blades, but they were hopelessly outmatched against the crimson steel raining down upon them.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
Dercan strode toward the fallen Guardian Soldiers with measured steps. The earth trembled faintly beneath his feet, and nearby leaves quivered. As he crossed through the lifeless wooden warriors, his gaze remained fixed upon them.
“Click-clack.”
An eerie sound echoed through the forest—a chilling noise like bones colliding against one another.
In that moment, a wondrous sight unfolded. Pale green luminescent spheres began rising one by one from the Guardian Soldiers’ bodies. Like fireflies, they cast a soft glow as they hovered in the air. When the wind stirred, the spheres drifted gently like leaves before streaming toward Dercan.
As Dercan extended his arm, the spheres touching his skin vanished instantly.
Rumble-rumble-rumble!
As all the spheres were absorbed, Dercan’s body underwent a dramatic transformation. His muscles swelled and bulged through the gaps in his armor. His arms and legs grew longer, and his shoulders broadened considerably. His entire frame appeared to have expanded by more than a hand’s breadth.
His twin blades too underwent a change. Green runes emerged faintly from the dark metal, their script-like patterns coiling along the blade’s edge and radiating an aura. Verdant energy blazed from the steel, causing the very air around it to vibrate.
The most astonishing sight manifested above Dercan’s head. Wooden branches torn from the fallen Guardian Soldiers’ bodies converged in the air and began orbiting his crown. The slender branches writhed like serpents, intertwining and entangling with one another before coalescing into a spherical form.
The sinister wooden spheres rotated slowly above Dercan’s head.
As Dercan extended his arm forward, dark energy erupted from his fingertips. Green ominous radiance bloomed along his hand and began moving slowly toward the World Tree. The verdant spheres that had been spinning in the air were drawn toward the World Tree by his gesture, launching forward like bullets.
The spheres hurtled toward the World Tree. They resembled emerald projectiles streaking toward a colossal target, their passage shaking the air with deafening roars.
The World Tree counterattacked. The massive tree shuddered violently, and the roots buried deep in the earth surged upward. Enormous roots erupted from the ground like battering ram pillars, shooting skyward with tremendous force.
The collision of spheres and roots thundered across the forest. The green spheres shattered upon direct impact with the roots, their emerald fragments scattering in brilliant flashes. The forest erupted in deafening explosions as the shockwave sent dust and leaves spiraling upward in a violent vortex.

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