As the saying goes, nothing is difficult in the world if you are willing to work hard.
Heaven rewards those who work hard. After continuously knocking for over an hour, Gu Erdan finally got a result.
The skeleton soldier, whose entire skull was almost shattered, seemingly realizing that it would surely die if this continued, finally chose to submit.
Feeling the submissive aura emanating from the skeleton soldier, Gu Erdan was so excited that his entire bone frame was trembling.
He stretched out his hand and gently inserted it into the eye socket of the skull.
The next moment, a power unique to the soul came over and instantly merged into Gu Erdan's soul fire.
At that moment! Gu Erdan felt as if he had reached the peak! His entire soul was trembling! It seemed that beautiful melodies were playing in his mind.
This feeling like getting an electric shock was slowly emerging...
"Gurgle! This numbing feeling! It's just like getting an electric shock!"
Shaking his body and forcing himself to wake up, Gu Erdan quickly dug out the skull and pressed it onto his neck again.
And this time, the skull no longer resisted. It was as docile as a pet cat.
The soul oath is a common means of subjugation among the undead.
The way to cast it is very simple. You just need to let the other party hand over a part of their soul fire to you, and then devour it with your own soul fire. Then you can control the other party's life and death. If you're a little unhappy, you can make the other party's soul disperse.
Gu Erdan had also signed such an oath with the skeleton wizard at this time. That is to say, his life was now in the hands of the skeleton wizard.
This was also the main reason why Gu Erdan was so dissatisfied and eager to rebel.
He had already given his life to the other party, but the other party still guarded against him so much. It was simply not treating him as one of their own!
You make the horse run but don't feed it. See if the horse doesn't kick you to death!
If a horse is like this! Not to mention a living person... Ah, no, a dead person!
Breaking free from the soul shackles is not easy. Usually, there are only two ways.
The first way is to find an undead whose strength far exceeds that of the master and let him help you break the oath.
The second way is to make the intensity of your own soul fire reach or even exceed that of the master and forcefully annihilate your own soul fragment.
Neither of these two methods was suitable for Gu Erdan. He didn't know any high-level undead, and he himself was just a first-order small bone frame. If he wanted to reach the third order, that'll take ages!
But don't forget he has the Skeleton Lord System! If he can't grow himself! Can't he make his little brother grow up?
As long as he can ensure the loyalty of his little brother! And strengthen his strength a bit! Isn't it just a matter of minutes to kill the skeleton wizard! And regain his freedom!
Overjoyed, Gu Erdan began to quietly build a body for his skeleton little brother.
The Sea of Bones lacks everything, but there are plenty of bones. Although the quality of these white bones piled on the ground is worrying, and some even break at a touch.
But having a skeleton is better than having nothing.
After working hard for more than ten minutes and hiding around to avoid being seen by others, Gu Erdan finally finished assembling his first little brother before the skeleton wizard finished absorbing the soul fire.
Looking at the guy in front of him, with white and yellow bones interwoven and pieced together and looking extremely eye-catching, Gu Erdan stroked his chin with a frown.
After hesitating for a long time, Gu Erdan still gritted his teeth and spent a few energy points and chose to strengthen this guy.
When the system was activated, some energy that resembled soul fire but was completely pitch-black surged from Gu Erdan's chest and gradually merged with the motley skeleton soldier in front of him.
He could see that the fragile bones on his body were continuously washed and strengthened by the energy. The dull yellow color gradually faded, and the cracks slowly healed. When the energy was completely consumed, what appeared in front of Gu Erdan was a brand-new skeleton soldier with snow-white bones and not a single wound.
At this time, Gu Erdan maintained a distance of at least three meters from this skeleton soldier. He didn't dare to approach rashly but first used the system to check him out.
Name: Skeleton Soldier
Rank: Peak of the First Order (on the verge of promotion)
Skills:
First-circle Nether spell ~ Bone Armor Condensation
Combat Power: Presumably able to defeat a dog.
Looking at the attributes in front of him, Gu Erdan nodded in satisfaction.
Only strengthening it to the peak of the first order was something Gu Erdan deliberately did. Because once the strength of his subordinates exceeded his own, considering the poor intelligence of skeleton soldiers, they would almost 100% choose to riot and rebel.
At the same level, logically speaking, the so-called soul contract should have expired. As long as the other party wanted to, there was a high possibility of destroying the fragment of his soul fire.
However, according to Gu Erdan's observation, skeleton soldiers, especially low-level skeleton soldiers who are naturally stupid, should not have the ambition and idea to rebel.
As long as they could still play a deterrent role, they should not choose to resist him.
Picking up a rib from the ground, Gu Erdan began to continuously poke the head of this skeleton soldier from a very far distance.
After testing for a long time and confirming that he showed no signs of rebellion, Gu Erdan finally heaved a sigh of relief.
"Whoosh! Finally, my first little brother is here! Great!"
Excitedly rubbing his little hands, Gu Erdan began to conceive his next plan around his little brother.
Gu Erdan's subsequent plan was straightforward - the commonly mentioned snowball tactic.
Create an advantage and then expand it using the established advantage. Although Gu Erdan still did not have the power to make other skeleton soldiers submit at this time, this extremely strong first-order peak skeleton soldier under his command already had this qualification.
As the saying goes, the subordinates of subordinates are one's own subordinates. Letting the little brother recruit an army is also a way to increase strength.
Let him recruit troops and then sneak into the skeleton wizard's team. When it reaches a certain scale, Gu Erdan can lead them to capture the skeleton wizard in one fell swoop and become a truly free bone.
The skeleton wizard absorbed the soul fire very quickly. In less than two hours, the army that had rested set off again and began to patrol aimlessly. No matter what enemy they encountered along the way, they would rush up and hack randomly until they hacked the other party to death.
This was the law of survival in the Netherworld. Hundreds and thousands of undead died every day, and tens of thousands of new undead would be resurrected.
The weak died, and the strong evolved. How many of these mountains of white bones had been resurrected and then fallen once more?
I'm afraid no one knows this.
In the blink of an eye, half a month passed, and the skeleton wizard's team became more elite and massive.
Looking from afar, a skeleton army was walking in a straight line on the road. And 20 cannon fodder were in front as bait. These cannon fodder had diverse appearances; some were pale white, while others were yellowish.
As for those trailing far behind, they were the skeleton wizard, Gu Erdan, along with those skeleton guards and skeleton archers.
But the number of these soldiers had decreased. There were only seven skeleton guards left, and of the original twenty or so skeleton archers, only 14 remained, and among them, five had extremely white bones, indicating that they were on the verge of evolving.
As for the reserve team trailing at the rear of the formation, they all had snow-white bones without any cracks on their bodies. They were undoubtedly the cream of the crop among first - order skeletons.
This was the result of Gu Erdan's half a month of hard work. Some things are always tough at the start. Once you get the ball rolling, things will be a lot easier.
Recruiting minions was no different. Once you had your first minion, finding the second and third wouldn't be a hard job anymore.
Snowballing, Gu Erdan quickly recruited more than seventy new subordinates. Although these guys were just minions of his underlings, at least they all listened to him.