Chapter 71 - More Skeletons

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The skeleton runs at Tanji blindly and pushes forward its sharp fist bone. Tanji swerves out of the way and knocks the skeleton away with a punch to its hollow ribs.

"A concentrated lightning blast should do the trick." He makes a circle shape with his hand on his other palm and begins concentrating bolts of lightning qi. As he is doing this, he is forced to dodge the deadly swings coming his way.

Tanji looks around hastily for a solution then runs away from the skeleton. He jumps up with his legs alone and lands on a branch at least 10 feet up from the ground. He then makes another leap to a higher and stronger branch. The lightning qi then begins to collect around his selected area.

The skeleton stabs its sharp bone appendage into the tree in hopes of climbing up to him. However, Tanji dives down and screams "DIE!" He aims the blast at the skeleton's forehead and shatters its skull entirely. The boney corpse hits the ground below and Tanji sees 3 more skeletons lined up. Ready for combat.

They have several sharp bones across even their ribs. One of the skeletons has formed a massive bone shield that seems to look like it's half its size!

Tanji swirls around his hands and lightning qi accumulates into both of them. It also fuels his knuckledusters with even more power. This technique alone has amplified his punching force significantly. Lightning also trickles throughout his body and he extracts a lot of qi from the Soul Core. He steps forward slightly and begins to analyse the situation.

"My fists now are probably even stronger than when they're in my lightning qi combination form. I need to prioritise the use of them and also not get hit by those sharp bones. But three of them though?! This'll be tough."

Tanji's clothes and aura flows wildly around him and especially his fists. He rushes forward with as much speed as he can muster and punches one in the chest. He cracks two ribs then moves up for an uppercut to the chin. With his open fist, he uses the True Power Fist Art and crushes in the skeleton's head with the attack alone. Right after this, he is stabbed in his side. He shouts from the pain before is kicked all the way into a tree.

One of the skeleton's raises its arm and begins to move around in a weird manner. Almost vibrate but also slush around at the same time. It propels a sharp bone projectile at super high speeds and Tanji gets stabbed in the chest. It almost punctures a lung and got pretty close to his heart. He falls to one knee then the skeletons rush at him.

As they do so, his lightning qi becomes more violent and his eyes flash blue. His rage from the pain of the wounds can be seen just by looking in his eyes. He beams forwards with speeds even his boney opponents can't deal with. He punches one skeleton in the ribs and shatters four of them. He swivels around and faces away from both skeletons then elbows the other in the neck. He swipes one off of its feet before punching it to the ground with a powerful blow to the head. Its head caves in and the dim glows from its dark eye sockets dissipate.

He quickly moves onto the next and grabs its open neck bone. He squeezes and starts to hear some cracking in the neck. However, he is slammed away by the skeleton's large shield. Before he can be moved back far enough, he grabs onto the shield and pulls it towards him. As the skeleton is flying towards him, he strikes it directly in its head and kills it.

A zombie tries to pounce on him from behind but he simply strikes it through the chest and kills it.

He releases himself of his power and sees that he has completely dealt with the group of supernaturals.

Another notification pops up ahead of him.

[WEAPON LEVEL UP!!]

He checks his weapon stats promptly and this is what he sees:

Thin Blade

Level 11

Mobility: 26

Toughness: 20

Effectiveness: 40

Passive Art: Swordsman. +3 to Strength, Speed, Constitution and Defence when sword is used.

Weapon Art: Kōjiro Slash. The Sword of the user's sharpness increases by 30%. Striking Speed +30%. Striking Strength +40%. Speed and Strength stat +7

Knuckledusters

Level 10

Mobility: 13

Toughness: 45

Effectiveness: 28

Passive Art: Tough Knuckles. +4 to Strength and Defence, +2 to Speed and Constitution.

Weapon Art: Bone-crusher. Knuckledusters get tougher and arms get stronger for 10 seconds. +10 to Toughness. +8 to Strength and Speed.

Weapon Art: Steel Fist. For 20 seconds, the toughness of the knuckleduster is increased fivefold and the user's punching force increases by 50%.

Chīsana Bow

Level 9

Mobility: 12

Toughness: 12

Effectiveness: 15

Passive Art: Archer. +5 to Speed and Defence, +4 to Strength and Constitution.

Weapon/Qi Art: Soaring Arrow. Arrow enhanced with condensed qi and the arrowhead increases in sharpness. Arrow Sharpness +50%.

He lays onto the side of a tree and just lets his healing factor do its thing in trying to heal him. He looks around and sees pretty much nothing so he stays completely calm. He just lays there, feeling the hardness of his metal knuckledusters.

However, he hears a rattling ahead of him. There stands 2 more skeletons that seem to have just risen from the ground below. He stands and just tightens his weapons again onto his knuckles. "Even more XP for these guys then.." The skeletons don't actually go in and attack him though.

One skeleton touches the other then their bodies connect. After this, they begin combining and forming peculiar shapes. Tanji watches all of this and prepares himself by using his combination form. The skeletons finish their combination and seem to be much stronger than before. The skeleton stands at 6'4 and and its bones are much thicker.

Tanji says in fear "Oh god."