The murlocs rushing at the very front had just stepped into the aura's range when they let out miserable, distorted howls, as if they had been splashed with boiling oil.
Smoke rose from their slick skin, their bodies convulsed violently, and they lost their vitality almost instantly, collapsing limply onto the ground glowing with golden light.
The murlocs following behind were also scorched, retreating in panic while screaming "Waaagh!" and huddling together, their bulging eyes filled with primal terror.
These not-so-clever little guys finally realized they had fallen into a trap, but it was already too late.
Consecration, this area-of-effect Holy Light Spells, was quite effective; moments later, Rhodes harvested dozens of murloc corpses.
Rhodes placed them directly into the Necropolis city, and then performed another round of 'fishing'.
He walked around the opposite bank of the small river, skipped some stones, and once again attracted dozens of murlocs.
Using the same tactic, Rhodes once again used Consecration, but this time, when the murlocs were close to death, Rhodes chose to capture them alive.
In just a short time, Rhodes captured over a hundred murlocs, half dead, half alive.
After finishing this, Rhodes began walking toward the camp, and while he was at it, he opened the skeleton transformation field in the system space and threw all the murloc corpses inside.
He then selected conversion; over a dozen murloc corpses emitted a flash of light and were converted into Skeleton Soldier, which appeared to be normal Skeleton Soldier.
But the problem was that the quantity seemed off; he had put in more than 50 murloc corpses, yet only one Skeleton Soldier was converted.
That was truly a rip-off. Was it because he put in too many at once? Now he needed to check the conversion rate.
This time, Rhodes selected 10 unconscious murlocs and put them in, then clicked to convert Skeleton Soldier, but a prompt appeared stating that there were not enough living sacrifices to convert a Skeleton Soldier.
So Rhodes started adding more; 10, 20 were not enough, and only when he reached the 50th murloc was it enough to convert one Skeleton Soldier.
This conversion rate was only passable, not too expensive, and since they were the lowest-tier Skeleton Soldier, Rhodes didn't expect much more.
Converting 50 murlocs into one Skeleton Soldier was still relatively cost-effective, judging by the murlocs' vitality.
50 murlocs were roughly equivalent to the life force of one average adult male, which was somewhat similar to the resurrection mechanism of Necromancy, where both quantity and life force must be equivalent to summon a skeleton.
If the quantity was sufficient, the life force must also be adequate, otherwise, they could not be converted into Skeleton Soldier, and the mechanism was the same as in the game.
Anything put inside could be converted into a skeleton; even if a Skeleton Warrior was put in, what came out would still be a Skeleton Soldier.
This was still good, after all, murlocs were everywhere in the Azeroth World; as long as he was willing to spend some time, Rhodes could easily assemble a Skeleton Army.
Since murlocs could be converted into Skeleton Soldier, then gnolls, kobolds, trolls, goblins, and even orcs should also be convertible into Skeleton Soldier.
No, he couldn't target intelligent races. Murlocs, kobolds, gnolls, and ogres—these low-level creatures—were the primary targets.
In the future, Rhodes could issue a long-term adventurer quest, asking adventurers to clear out murlocs, kobolds, and gnolls across Azeroth, then reward them with some gold while recycling the corpses, which would both eliminate pests for local residents and increase his supply of Skeleton Soldier.
He also needed to find some dragon corpses to see if they could be converted into Bone Dragon. There were plenty of draconic creatures in Azeroth besides the five Great Dragons.
Proto-dragons, Nether Drakes, and Twilight Dragons in Azeroth were all considered draconic creatures; the operational scope of the special building, the skeleton transformation field, was vast.
When Rhodes returned to the camp, he found that everyone else had already started eating dinner. Jaina handed Rhodes a bowl of wild vegetable soup and a piece of roasted bread.
"Thank you, Jaina." Rhodes nodded, accepted his food, and began eating by himself.
"You're welcome. Where did you go for a walk?" Jaina asked curiously.
"I originally planned to wander around the area, but I ended up being attacked by a group of reckless murlocs.
I just used the Holy Light Spells I recently learned to clear them out, and then I didn't feel like walking anymore, so I came back," Rhodes said.
"Murlocs! Oh, you must be careful. Those guys are everywhere, incredibly ferocious, and frequently attack innocent civilians," Jaina nodded and said.
As the Princess of Kul Tiras, the place where she grew up was surrounded by sea on all four sides, so she often encountered creatures like murlocs. No human had any fondness for these creatures, only disgust.
How wonderful would it be if murlocs didn't exist in this world!
Rhodes smiled and chatted with Jaina. As the two were talking casually, several soldiers who had gone to fetch water suddenly returned carrying a severely wounded soldier.
The casualty was very seriously injured; his chest armor was shattered, his leg was also severely wounded, and he had even lost a leg. Uther immediately frowned upon seeing this, walked over, and cast a Holy Light Spells upon the soldier to first stop the bleeding. However, the severed leg could not be restored. Holy Light Spells had strong healing capabilities but could not regenerate severed limbs.
Otherwise, the arm of Alexandros, which was injured by Shadow Spells, would not have remained unhealed for so long.
"What happened? Soldiers, why were you attacked?" Uther asked.
"Lord Uther, we were originally going to the river to fetch water. Everything was normal at first, but we don't know what happened.
The surrounding murlocs started rioting. Hundreds of murlocs rushed at us, and Kharis accidentally had one of his legs chopped off by a murloc," a soldier said.
Uther nodded upon hearing this. A large-scale murloc attack by the creek was not unusual; he could only say the soldier was unlucky.
Rhodes also walked over. The murloc riot must have been caused by him capturing over a hundred murlocs, right? This guy was truly unlucky!
Since finishing the construction of the Necropolis faction's Blacksmith, Rhodes had also purchased a medical tent from the Blacksmith for 750 units of gold.
The medical tent could restore the health of his troops during the combat phase, but it could not perform resurrection.
As for the amount of health restored to the target, it was completely random, but at least 1-25 points.
Rhodes had not yet tested its effect in non-combat status; in reality, he needed a severely wounded unit to test it.
"Lord Uther, I have a special magical item that can treat this wounded soldier and help fix his severed leg," Rhodes said.
His medical tent needed to be tested, and here was a severely wounded person!
Theoretically, the medical tent could regenerate severed limbs; it was all within the scope of treatment.
"A special magical item? It can restore his severed leg!"