49: Chapter 49: The Fleeing Zombie 49: Chapter 49: The Fleeing Zombie “Now that those monsters distracting us are gone, it’s time for our final battle!” Zhou Tian glanced at the zombie and looked around, finding that the undead monsters around them had already been mostly handled.

He ordered the few remaining beastman warriors nearby to stop any more undead creatures that still wanted to come in, while he himself made a beeline for the zombie.

“Roar!” Frustrated at its inability to hit Zhou Tian, the low-intelligence zombie was considerably enraged.

It immediately swung its iron chains at Zhou Tian again after letting out a roar.

Unfortunately for the zombie, since Zhou Tian had discovered its weakness, no matter how hard it tried, it no longer posed any threat to him.

Under the zombie’s relentless attacks, Zhou Tian effortlessly made his way to its front.

After tucking away his sacrificial scepter, he climbed directly towards the upper part of the zombie’s body from its right foot.

As Zhou Tian charged towards the top of the zombie, he swung his commanding double axes at it repeatedly.

Although Zhou Tian’s attacks seemed to have little effect on the zombie, he observed through his abilities that the zombie’s HP was slowly decreasing.

Zhou Tian’s actions infuriated the zombie.

It was already unhappy at its inability to capture Zhou Tian.

Now, Zhou Tian had even climbed onto its body.

How could it possibly remain indifferent?

Angry, the zombie threw aside its chains and began to beat its body with its own hands.

In response to the zombie’s actions, Zhou Tian could only dodge continuously.

Though he could counterattack a few times, given the zombie’s HP, killing it was not something he could achieve in a short time.

However, Zhou Tian’s efforts were not entirely in vain.

After he enraged the zombie, it focused all its energies on him.

While Zhou Tian was fighting the zombie, the pressure on his beastman warriors decreased substantially due to the absence of the zombie’s threat.

Meanwhile, because the zombie’s massive body occupied most of the space, many undead creatures from behind couldn’t approach the passage.

Therefore, after a brief period of battling with a small number of undead monsters, Zhou Tian’s beastman warriors achieved their initial goal: they occupied the passage from the undead nest to the Skeleton Cave.

The battle then only took place in two locations – one was the fight among the foot soldiers inside the Skeleton Cave, and the other was the combat between Zhou Tian and the giant zombie.

The fight inside the Skeleton Cave needn’t be mentioned, as Zhou Tian had made ample preparations.

Given the isolation of the undead monsters within the cave, there was no way they could match Zhou Tian’s beastman forces.

Unless something went wrong on Zhou Tian’s end, their eradication was just a matter of time.

Therefore, how the battle situation would eventually pan out depended entirely on Zhou Tian.

If Zhou Tian managed to defeat the zombie and prevent other undead from advancing, his plan should be successfully realized.

If, however, Zhou Tian were to be defeated, everyone else would be dead, and what followed would have nothing to do with him.

Zhou Tian was well aware of the importance of his current battle, so when facing the zombie, he summoned all his potential.

Through agility maneuvers that were impossible under normal circumstances, Zhou Tian dodged countless attacks from the zombie.

His double axes were stained with blood from chopping the zombie repeatedly.

Through his abilities, Zhou Tian saw that the zombie’s HP was already less than half.

Given the situation at the time, if Zhou Tian had continued fighting the zombie, winning wouldn’t have posed any problem.

However, just when victory was within Zhou Tian’s grasp, he did not anticipate the extraordinary action that the zombie took at that moment.

The initially volatile zombie, after realizing it was no match for Zhou Tian and down to less than half HP, astonishingly turned around and retreated in the direction it had come from.

Despite being outraged by the zombie’s actions, Zhou Tian had no choice but to hastily jump off its body.

The zombie could choose to fight or retreat at will, but Zhou Tian did not dare follow suit.

While he could have defeated the zombie if the fight had continued, this would undoubtedly have resulted in Zhou Tian being surrounded by hoards of undead.

He was not just worried about his own survival, but also about whether his frail defense line would be broken by those undead.

Hence, even if he regretted relinquishing imminent battle results, Zhou Tian, noting the present situation, had to prioritize the larger picture and let the zombie go, no matter how unwilling he was.

However, although Zhou Tian didn’t manage to kill the zombie, his previous combat was not without an effect.

The zombie ultimately didn’t perish at Zhou Tian’s hands, but its performance indicated that it could not possibly be a minor character among the undead monsters considering its abilities.

As Zhou Tian managed to defeat even this zombie, this naturally rendered him a dangerous person in the eyes of these undead monsters.

Regardless of whether there was no boss or the zombie defeated by Zhou Tian earlier had been a boss, the group of undead monsters facing Zhou Tian didn’t seem to have received any mandatory orders at that time.

Accordingly, without such oppressive orders and upon realizing Zhou Tian’s power, they naturally became hesitant to approach Zhou Tian.

Consequently, with the mentality of the undead monsters, the pressure faced by them was drastically reduced.

After sensing the situation at that time, Zhou Tian was immensely pleased.

Utilizing the opportunity that the undead monsters didn’t launch a large-scale attack, he quickly reorganized the somewhat scattered Beastman Warriors he had in hand into new squads.

Moving forward, although the undead monsters did initiate several attacks on Zhou Tian, these attacks were all doomed to fail owing to his strength, along with the protection provided by the Beastman Warriors.

Unable to breach for a long period, the undead monsters inside the Skeleton Cave started to waver.

Although they had a certain advantage in strength, the number of members that had actually entered the Skeleton Cave, despite substantial, were limited.

Conversely, even though the Beastmen under Zhou Tian were at a disadvantage in terms of strength, do not forget that the Skeleton Cave was connected right to Zhou Tian’s base camp.

In the recent time, despite not having achieved anything significant, Zhou Tian had earned massive merits due to the large number of NPCs and players killed by him.

Given the intention of Blood Moon Lord and Zhou Tian himself to guide the process, 99% of those merits were converted into Zhou Tian’s military power.

Hence, if Zhou Tian’s military power had been somewhat limited previously, at this time, it was pretty abundant.