Chapter 1: Did I become a cannon fodder skeleton?

"Hey, what's with you, skeleton? Why aren't you moving? Hurry up and go fight those monsters!"

A soft and sweet voice came into Jiang Cheng's ears as he slowly woke up.

Opening his eyes...

'Wait...'

'Where are my eyes?'

'Why can't I lift my eyelids?'

Jiang Cheng quickly touched his eyes, only to feel an empty hole.

'Damn! My eyes are gone? What the hell is going on?' His own joints occasionally made a "cracking" sound near his ears.

Jiang Cheng lifted his arm and found nothing but white bones on it. On the bone joints without a trace of flesh, there was even a bone blade extending. He lowered his head and took a look at his body.

'Where's my flesh? Damn it, where's my flesh?' Jiang Cheng's consciousness was momentarily overwhelmed by dizziness, almost unable to accept reality.

However, in that dizzy moment, a message suddenly rushed into his consciousness.

[Congratulations to the host for successfully transmigrating into the game world, activating the god-level evolution system.]

[This system aims to help the host evolve infinitely, loading host data...?]

[Loading one...]

[Loading two...]

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[Data loaded successfully. The current identity of the host is an ordinary skeleton summoned by a cute and silly necromancer player. Please quickly earn evolution points to evolve, otherwise you will disappear.]

After listening to the system's introduction, he finally understood what had happened to him.

'I have reincarnated to the world of game and I have turned into a skeleton?'

'Or am I an undead skeleton summoned by a female player?'

'And there's an evolution system too?'

After a minute, Jiang Cheng got over his initial confusion and gradually accepted reality.

Then, he sighed reluctantly. Before crossing over, he was just an ordinary person, though he had good gaming skills and was hailed as a god-tier player.

But after getting injured in an accident at the age of 20, I ended up in a game club doing game leveling as I was broke.

Due to excessive fatigue and staying up all night, I suddenly died.

I never thought that after crossing over, I would actually arrive in the virtual game world of "The Great Wilderness" and become a skeleton summoned by a player who was a necromancer.

Looking at my skeletal frame, I couldn't help but mentally laugh and cry. No flesh, only bones, even my eyes were gone. Every movement makes a cracking sound.

'Fate can be really cruel, I wonder how devastated my mom and sister would be if they knew I was dead.'

'Sigh...' Jiang Cheng let out a sigh and fell into silence for a moment. But in just a split second, he rallied himself and felt somewhat relieved.

'I guess this could be considered a unique kind of reborn after all. In that world, I was technically dead. Might as well accept it and see this through the end.'

Name: Jiang Cheng.

Level: Race: Undead Skeleton

(Belonging to player: Zhang Mengmeng). Health: 100/100

Magic: 0

Attack: 2 (Bone Sword +3)

Defense: 1

Weapon: Bone Sword

Enhancement Points: 100

Evolution Points: 0/100

Strength Points: 0

Note: The host possesses a super evolution system, can kill monsters, earn evolution points and evolve, evolution direction determined by the host.

Enhancement Points: Can enhance equipment, obtain enhancement points by killing elite-level or above monsters.

After looking at his own panel attributes, Jiang Cheng quickly adjusted his mindset and started making plans.

The game has just recently release on public, and Zhang Mengmeng is an undead player whose level one skill is summoning skeletons.

You can summon ten skeletons to fight monsters, which is an advantage of the necromancer compared to other professions.

But that's just a cute little advantage, and it has nothing to do with me. As soon as the skeletons are summoned, they are destined to be treated as cannon fodder by players and can be sacrificed at any time.

Anyway, if they die, they can be summoned again. But it's different for Jiang Cheng, if he dies, he might really be dead and he can't afford it.

Since he's given a chance to be transmigrated and has an evolution system, even if he's a skeleton, he wants to be the coolest one.

'I cannot die, then I have to get rid of the cannon fodder identity!' he thought.

Although he has become a skeleton, he still has the god-like operating awareness and experience from when he used to play games, and he also has an evolution system!

What he lacks now is attack power. To forge iron, one must be strong oneself. This skeleton's initial attack is too weak.

He decides to use enhancement points. The system initially gave him 100 enhancement points, so he naturally won't be polite.

To stand out among the 10 skeleton soldiers, the weapon cannot be too trash.

'Let's enhance the bone sword. Enhancing the bone sword requires 10 enhancement points.'

[Start strengthening, successful strengthening, bone knife upgraded to sturdy bone knife.]

Weapon: Sturdy Bone Sword (Common)

Attack power: 5

Description: Bone Sword is much stronger after strengthening.

'Strengthen again!'

[Congratulations on spending 20 enhancement points, successfully strengthening the sturdy bone knife, upgraded to sharp bone knife.]

[Congratulations on spending 50 enhancement points, successfully strengthening the sharp bone knife, upgraded to explosive bone knife.]

[Failed to strengthen again, insufficient balance of enhancement points.]

'Explosive Bone Sword?' Jiang Cheng thought and he's heart was delighted as he quickly checked.

Item: Explosive Bone Sword (Elite)

Attack power: 15.

Critical strike chance increased by five. Description: A specially fierce bone sword that has been enhanced.

'A higher level of blue elite quality than regular equipment? And a 5% critical strike chance? Now killing monsters will be much more exciting.'

Jiang Cheng gripped the bone knife in his hand, which felt slightly heavier than before, and was instantly eager to give it a try.

With a shake of his head, relying on his experience from previous games, he first assessed the surrounding environment.

This was a habit he had developed as a god-tier player over a long period of time.

In the blue sky, white clouds, and grassy field in front of him, a large group of Summoned Skeletons were besieging a Zombified Wolf with only its skeletal structure left, displaying damage numbers of -1 and 2. And beside him, there was a cute girl staring at him intently.

"What's wrong with this skeleton? Is it stupid? Why does it keep opening and closing its mouth? Does it think it can talk? And why is it always staring at its own sword?" Zhang Mengmeng waved her wooden staff and poked Jiang Cheng's spine bone, her face showing curiosity.

She considered herself a semi-experienced gamer, but she had never seen this kind of situation before. Other skeletons were fighting against zombified wolves under her command.

But why was this skeleton just staring at its Bone Sword, murmuring something without making any sound, contemplating life perhaps?

Skeletons are supposed to be her summoned creatures and shouldn't have consciousness.

How can it be contemplating life?

"Could it be that this skeleton was afraid of dying when it was alive? So it's afraid to join the battle?" Zhang Mengmeng was dumbfounded.

However, when she followed the Skeleton's gaze and looked at the bone sword in his hand, she became astonished.

"Why does this sword feel different?" Zhang Mengmeng suspiciously stared at the sword, but after a moment, she shook her head.

"It must be my imagination."

But in the next moment, the Skeleton in front of her suddenly moved, swaying its bone sword and slowly walking forward.

When he reached the battlefield of the skeleton soldiers and Zombified Wolves, he swiftly swung the sword down heavily on the Zombified Wolf's neck!