Legendary Person: I brought my skills back to reality!

Just as Josie's lightning spell dissipated like a breeze, and Thursday's taunts still echoed in the cave, the berserk skeleton that had been standing silently at the front moved.

Its massive skeletal body made no sound of warning, but simply took a step forward, its heavy bony foot striking the ground covered in slime and bone fragments with a dull "crack".

Immediately afterwards, its bony arm, which was gripping the giant sword, slashed through the dull air with a speed disproportionate to its size, leaving a pale trail as it viciously struck Thursday's seemingly fragile chicken body!

This strike was silent, yet it contained the full power and resolve of the berserk skeleton. There was no magical brilliance, no surge of battle aura, only a pure, cold slash.

"Pfft!"

A faint cutting sound, which should never have been heard on Thursday, rang out.

The expected scene of the blade being deflected or neutralized by an invisible force did not occur. Instead, the berserk skeleton's greatsword left a clearly visible wound on Thursday's side, a wound that, though shallow, was deep enough to expose bone!

A few grayish feathers drifted down, and a very faint wisp of "blood," resembling black smoke, seeped from the wound.

On Thursday, his thin body stiffened abruptly, his two chicken eyes widened instantly, and his previous playful and arrogant expression was replaced by an incredulous shock and excruciating pain.

It let out a sharp, ear-piercing scream, no longer the previous clucking sound, but filled with anger and some kind of... fear?

"It's you!!!" Thursday jerked his head, staring intently at the berserk skeleton, his eyes burning with a crazed fire, his voice twisted and shrill, "You're still alive?! How could you possibly still be alive?! You should have been crushed long ago! You should have been completely wiped out long ago!!!"

Its anger erupted like a tangible flame, and its entire body trembled slightly with excitement, its feathers standing on end.

The next second, it suddenly opened its sharp beak, no longer mocking, but spewing out a thick bolt of lightning with a strong sulfurous smell and ominous purplish-black sparks! This lightning was much more solid and evil than the one Qiao Xi had emitted before, and it devoured the berserk skeleton like a venomous snake.

At the same time, Thursday's two wings flapped violently, creating a sharp whistling sound. With each flap, several translucent wind blades formed from dark energy appeared out of thin air, like countless invisible razors, whistling as they sliced ​​towards the berserk skeleton's body!

"Crack!" "Clang! Clang!"

The purplish-black lightning slammed into the raging skeleton's breastbone, blasting a charred mark that caused its massive body to shudder and stagger back half a step. The wind blades that followed followed relentlessly, slicing through its bones with a piercing metallic scraping sound. While they failed to immediately sever the hard bone, they left deep gashes and even sent tiny bone fragments flying.

The berserk skeleton swung its greatsword to parry, but it could not completely defend against the overwhelming attacks. The wounds on its already cracked skeletal body increased rapidly, and its movements became sluggish. It was clear that it was quickly falling into a disadvantageous position under Thursday's storm-like counterattack.

This sudden turn of events, especially the fact that the berserk skeleton's attack was effective, left everyone stunned.

But Qiao Xi reacted the fastest. She looked at the berserk skeleton suppressed by Thursday's attacks, then glanced at the dimming light on her staff, and a flash of realization struck her! She instantly understood! Not all attacks were ineffective!

“…So that’s how it is!” Qiao Xi gritted her teeth, turned her head sharply, and her gaze swept sharply over Xu Hao at the back of the group. Her voice was somewhat shrill due to urgency and excitement, but it clearly pierced through the noise of the battlefield:

"Xu Hao! Its power is effective against us, but not against you! You go! You deal with that chicken! We'll cover you!"

Then, she pointed her staff sharply at the writhing Crimson Moon Demon, which emanated an aura of endless evil, and roared resolutely at the remaining warriors and mages: "The rest of you! Follow me! Kill that lump of rotting flesh!!"

Qiao Xi's command was like a horn piercing through the chaos, instantly awakening Xu Hao and the few survivors closest to him.

The fighting spirit that had been almost extinguished by Thursday's remarks was rekindled by the unexpectedly effective attack from the Berserker Skeleton and Qiao Xi's judgment!

That's right! Last time at the Longshan base, Xu Hao discovered that other people's attacks were not very effective against Thursday, but his own attacks seemed to be quite effective.

"Protect Xu Hao!" The old warrior closest to Xu Hao, wielding the Staff of Judgment and wearing tattered armor, roared. He quickly moved closer to two other equally wounded warriors and stood in front of Xu Hao without hesitation, forming a shaky yet resolute barrier with his own body to keep out the few Flower Kiss Spiders that tried to rush in from the flanks.

"Damn it, I'll give it my all today!" Xu Hao gritted his teeth, his face a mixture of blood and sweat.

Without further hesitation, he swiftly pulled out several yellow talismans from the talisman pouch at his waist and flung them forward.

Three fiery lightning runes, arranged in a triangular shape, hurtled through the air with a sharp whooshing sound and scorching heat waves, heading straight for Thursday, who was frantically attacking the berserk skeleton!

"Again?! You're courting death!" Thursday was focused on suppressing the berserk skeleton, the wind blades from its wings almost completely slicing through the skeleton's skeleton. At first, it only glanced at Xu Hao's actions with disdain.

However, as the three talismans, a mixture of flames and lightning, approached, a hint of instinctive wariness and disgust flashed in the chicken's eyes.

Unlike Qiao Xi's pure lightning, this Flame Lightning Talisman seems to contain some kind of... different power!

"Boom! Crack!" Three fiery lightning talismans struck Thursday's flank and back almost simultaneously!

The scorching flames were not completely absorbed, but instead exploded on its gray feathers, scorching a small area and leaving a charred mark; the violent lightning, though not as powerful as the purplish-black evil lightning it emitted, still managed to stir up a series of fine arcs of electricity, causing its thin body to tremble violently and let out a short and angry scream!

The results were even better than Xu Hao had expected.

"Crack—!!" Although the actual damage caused by this attack was far less than that of the berserk skeleton's sword strike, the feeling of being repeatedly provoked by a lower creature, and even having it successfully interfere with its attack, completely enraged Thursday. The frequency of its wing flapping was interrupted for a moment, and a brief gap appeared in the originally dense rain of wind blades.

This was the opening! The berserk skeleton, which had been passively attacked and whose bones were covered in marks, seemed to have grasped at a straw. The soul fire in its empty eye sockets suddenly leaped, and taking advantage of the moment when the wind blades paused and Thursday's body was slightly sluggish, it suddenly changed the greatsword from a blocking stance to a horizontal sweep!

"Whoosh!" The heavy greatsword whistled through the air, narrowly missing the edge of Thursday's wings, which had just begun to fold. Although it didn't cause serious damage, it forced Thursday to take another half step back, completely disrupting its previous storm-like attack rhythm.