Reidar activated his new skills, and the forest changed.

[Skill Activated: Summon Vorathid Abyssal-Horrors]

The first creature materialized ten meters away, and Reidar’s breath caught in his throat. The Abyssal-Horror was nothing like the Sky-Hunters he had grown used to.

It was fairly large, roughly the size of a small house, the kind of house you’d see on HGTV with a realtor nervously saying “cozy” and “character,” with a chitinous black exoskeleton. It also had six limbs ending in talons, which were for sure capable of tearing through steel. It also had some fairly large translucent wings that made it able to fly with no particular problem despite its size.

<That’s what my Sky-Hunters turned into.>

It was frankly upsetting to see them. They weren’t just big; they were also ugly, and those acid-dripping fangs promised a very gruesome death that was making even Reidar shiver.

<Luckily they are on my side.>

Reidar summoned more creatures, spending quite a lot of mana, but then he moved to the next skill.

[Skill Activated: Summon Eternal Death-Host]

The ground split. Skeletal hands pushed through the soil, followed by armored bodies that clawed their way to the surface. But these weren’t the simple skeletons of the Undying Legion—these were undead in full plate armor, and eye sockets burning with hellish rage.

[Perk: Grave Calling—+41 Added]

[Perk: Boundless Legion—Count Double d]

[Perk: Legion Commander—+10% Added]

The first wave alone numbered over a thousand, and it was comprised of Ghost-Strike Inquisitors, undead archers wielding bows made of bone that Reidar was sure didn’t belong to humans. Night-Stalker Assassins faded into existence next; they were the assassin-type unit of the group, and they were followed by the tanks, the Dread-Bastion Juggernauts, walking fortresses of bones and steel.

Of course, there were more, but Reidar was more distracted by how cool these new summons were rather than on their role.

<Nice…>

Then he went to the next skill.

[Skill Activated: Summon Primal Chimera-Colossi]

The first summons to appear was where the old one, Reidar, already had with the previous incarnation of his new skill. The panthers, the wolves, the bears, the ravens… But they were far bigger than they were compared to when they were summoned by his previous skills.

Though Reidar was actually not paying them that much attention. He was, in fact, giving a better look at the new summons that the skill brought.

The first was a creature that Reidar could only classify as a Hydra. Based on what he was seeing, the creature could use multiple elements at the same time, as its many throats released lights of different colors—fire, ice, lightning, poison, and what looked disturbingly like pure shadow. It also looked like the creature would be strong in melee, since its scales looked fairly resistant, each one overlapping like natural plate armor that shimmered with an iridescent sheen. Its multiple heads moved independently, scanning the surroundings, and Reidar noticed each neck was as thick as an ancient tree trunk, corded with muscle that promised devastating physical strikes.

Of course, there were other creatures. A giant, monstrous Ape, at least 20 meters and filled with muscles, appeared next. Its face was a blend of simian and reptilian features, with jutting tusks and burning ember eyes.

Then the Terror-Condor, another new flying variant of his, had a wingspan that exceeded thirty meters—approximately the size of a small commercial airplane, except this one wasn’t delayed, didn’t lose your luggage, and was significantly more likely to eat you. Its black feathers trailed shadow and dust, like it had just flown through a Hot Topic that was also on fire.

There was also a spine-Back Rhinos, a creature with magma-like fissures that glowed between its armored plates. Acid-Spitting Myriapods slithered along the forest floor, weeping acidic secretions that ate through fallen branches and stone alike.

[Skill Activated: Summon Shadow Specter-Kings]

[Skill Activated: Summon Spectral Army]

[Skill Activated: Summon Elemental Demon-Lords]

The sky split.

The rifts that opened were different from the ones Reidar had seen before. The Archon Rift-Lords had emerged through portals of energy as the Rift-Sprites did back then, but the Demon-Lords tore their way through wounds in space that leaked something dark and red at the edges and disappeared before touching the ground.

The first Demon Lord to step through was a Fire variant—an Inferno Tyrant. It stood four meters tall, and its body was wreathed in flames that Reidar wasn’t sure could be extinguished.

An Ice Demon-Lord followed—a Frost-Blight Sovereign. Its body was a sculpture of frozen darkness, jagged and crystalline, radiating a cold so intense that moisture in the air froze into snowflakes that fell in a perfect circle around it.

Then others appeared.

352 Demon Lords. All at level 582.

[Skill Activated: Summon Death Knight]

The ground erupted.

42 Death Knights rose from the earth, each one a towering figure encased in soul-forged plate armor that wept a constant black mist. Spectral skeletal horses materialized beneath them, and each Death Knight carried a greatsword that radiated weird energy, and the moment they appeared, 42 of them activated Raise Lesser Battalion.

The earth vomited forth skeletal warriors—500 per Death Knight, for a total of 21,000 additional undead soldiers.

[Perk: Boundless Legion—Count Doubled]

42 more Death Knights appeared. Another 21,000 skeletal warriors rose.

The forest was essentially gone.

It hadn’t been destroyed; that was impossible. No, it was just aggressively occupied. Every space between every tree, every gap in the canopy, and every shadow and clearing for a hundred meters in every direction was packed with creatures, like a fantasy-themed clown car had exploded.

The ground was a carpet of undead that would make any homeowner weep. The air was a ceiling of winged horrors and Demon Lords conducting the world’s most terrifying air traffic jam. The mid-ground was a wall of beasts, spectral warriors, and shadow entities, all wondering if they should’ve carpooled.

Reidar checked the count.

[Active Summons: 47,834]

[Mana Siphon Active—Regeneration Increased]

[Master’s Aegis Active – Damage Resistance: 94%]

[Crushing Presence Active – Enemy Debuff: 45%]

<The church is going to need a new outpost.>

All of them were tier 55. All of them were stronger than anything the church had in that outpost by a margin so absurdly wide it wasn’t even a fight—it was a natural disaster with a guest list.

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