Constructing-Style Wizard

Chapter 79

"Crack, click, click..."

The scouting team stepped forward, splashing water.

There was water in the stairwell, just covering the toes, soaking everyone's shoes and socks.

The water flows from the canals at the corners on both sides.

There was so much water in the canal that it overflowed, converging into a trickle on the stairway, and flowing down the long and narrow stairs.

The nobles in the middle of the ancient dynasty were indeed quite extravagant.

The original owner of this mausoleum even arranged a set of artificial water features in the mausoleum.

Under ideal conditions:

The tombway lantern on the wall of the stairwell will emit a gentle light to illuminate the stairway and the water channels at the corners on the left and right sides.

Aquatic flowers grow in the canals.

The entire stairway is filled with light, surrounded by flowers, and the sound of water flowing is crisp and pleasant.

If the above conditions are met, then the mausoleum will be as beautiful as an artificial garden.

Unfortunately, this place has now become a war zone.

The ever-burning lamps on the walls hang cobwebs, and the flowers in the canals are gone, but the water pipes and valves inside the walls are still functioning.

Every time Serley's army clears the No. 717 tomb, they will ensure that the valves in the tomb are closed, and even destroy key waterways, so that underground river water will not appear in the canals.

But now, the mausoleum's waterway system is inexplicably activated.

It continuously draws water from the underground river and pours it into the canals and pools on each level of the mausoleum.

This caused water accumulation in the stairwell.

No need to ask, this must be the ghost of the necromancer sect.

The stairwell ends at a metal gate, flanked by impenetrable stone walls.

The entire stairwell is equivalent to a semi-closed container inclined downwards, and the only opening is the entrance of the stairwell on the ground floor.

Using the waterway system of the mausoleum, pouring a large amount of underground river water into the stairwell can seal the road of the imperial army.

This will undoubtedly effectively prevent the imperial army from going deep into the tomb.

Fortunately, the imperial army arrived in time, otherwise, it would have taken a lot of effort just to drain the accumulated water in the stairwell.

…

After entering the stairwell, the reconnaissance team reached the end of the stairs about 10 minutes later.

Along the way, they didn't encounter crypt lurkers, and they walked unimpeded, but they had to stop when they approached the metal gate.

"Stop going."

Sergeant Zener walked at the forefront of the line, raised his arm, and clenched his right fist, signaling the team to stop.

He turned to look at his teammates behind him:

"Sergeant Marrs, let's take a look, the water in front is very serious."

Mars walked forward to take a look, and took a slight breath:

"Hiss... More than half of the door panel was submerged in stagnant water. Things are a bit tricky. The weight of the river water pressing on the door panel is about half a ton at least."

Sergeant Marrs raised the coal lamp and shone on the door hinge:

"To make matters worse, the door opened into the stairwell. We either had to drain the water and open the door. Or we had to force open the metal gate with a rope against the pressure of the water."

Sergeant Marrs thought for half a second, discussed with Sergeant Zener and said:

"I suggest that we send someone back the same way and report the situation in the corridor to Lieutenant Serley. The rest of the people try here to see if they can force the gate to open. If the other stairwells encounter the same situation as ours, then the top priority It is to concentrate our strength, open the metal gate closest to the waterway valve, and quickly close the valve on the basement level."

Sergeant Zener nodded thoughtfully:

"You're right, Mars. I remember stairwell No. 1, which is the stairwell closest to the waterway valve. No. 16 stairwell where we are located is far from the valve. There must be some problems on the way to the waterway valve." Fewer undead creatures. The Necromantic Cult will not allow us to close the valve. The team in charge of stairwell 1 will face dangerous enemies... However, this is not our concern."

Sergeant Zener paused, called a name, and asked one of his team members to go upstairs to report.

Two squad commanders ordered the door to be forced open.

The second-class soldiers in charge of transporting supplies unloaded their backpacks, took out military ropes, and came to the metal gate with the stagnant water that submerged their waists, and fixed the ropes on the latch and the door handle.

A group of soldiers wrapped the other end of the rope around their shoulders, chanted and gritted their teeth.

The metal gate itself weighs several hundred kilograms, and it is more difficult to open the gate after it is mostly submerged by the river.

The soldiers at the scene worked together and tried their best to open it a small crack.

"Wow~"

The river water accumulated on the door quickly drilled through the crack of the door, forming a swirling eddy.

Hearing this voice, the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

This shows that there is no serious water accumulation in the basement floor behind the gate, otherwise, the water in the stairwell would not flow to the back of the door so quickly.

The accumulated water in the stairwell decreased rapidly, and the metal gate became much "lighter". The soldiers worked harder and finally opened the gate completely.

At this moment, the canals on both sides of the stairwell were still overflowing with river water.

These rivers flow down step by step along the steps, reflecting the light of coal lamps, and flow into the tomb passage on the first floor of the basement.

"Crack, click..."

In the dark underground floor, there were very obvious footsteps.

Someone is stepping on the water, walking towards the stairwell!

Everyone tensed up immediately, gripping the guns in their hands.

There will be no imperial soldiers appearing in the basement floor, they are definitely undead creatures!

But why is there only one person's footsteps?

Shouldn't there be a lot of skeleton soldiers and skeleton dogs?

Li Nuo stood at the back of the line, his heart pounding.

He lowered his head and glanced at the water flow on the steps, feeling something was wrong.

River water with impurities can conduct electricity.

Theoretically speaking, a burst of strong current can completely annihilate the soldiers whose shoes and socks are drenched.

If the undead creatures that appeared in front of them had the ability to discharge electricity, then every soldier present would be killed in the combination of "river water + electric current".

But, will the undead discharge?

Li Nuo was slightly taken aback.

Could it be that the undead walking towards the stairwell is an undead with a battery on his back and a bare wire in his hand?

Otherwise, why would it come alone to face the Imperial soldiers?

The more Li Nuo thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

Sergeant Marrs clearly considered the potential danger as well.

"Everyone, cover each other and retreat."

Sergeant Marrs raised his hand, gestured a few gestures, and gave orders to everyone silently.

Sergeant Zener also made a gesture of "covering each other and retreating".

The two reconnaissance teams withdrew to the top of the stairs step by step.

Every time they took a step back, the undead in the underground layer took a step forward.

"Crack, click..."

The footsteps of the undead were very regular, and they were always approaching the metal gate at an unhurried pace.

Just as the two reconnaissance teams retreated ten meters away, a bony thigh stepped out from the dark door frame.

Then there was the bony bone frame, the skull filled with purple-black light, and a tattered dark blue cloak that couldn't hide its gorgeous aura.

This is a skeleton like no other.

It is three heads taller than ordinary skeleton soldiers, and has a sturdy body, and there is a frost-white heart floating in its air-tight chest.

Billowing cold air gushed out from this ice crystal-like heart.

In the water-logged stairwell, the temperature suddenly dropped.

The flowing river suddenly slowed down, and some white snowflakes appeared on the surface of the water.

Li Nuo's pupils shrank sharply, and he shivered involuntarily!

The cold air swept across the audience, invading the soldiers' military uniforms, and swimming against their skin.

Sergeant Zener exhaled a mouthful of white mist, his face was solemn, and he ordered loudly:

"It's the Frost Skeleton Mage! Shoot! Shoot! Fire the bee jelly bomb! Hurry up!"

"boom!"

The private who operated the launcher fired a bee jelly bomb.

The honeycomb-shaped bomb spanned a distance of ten meters in half a second, and was about to fall on the frost skeleton mage, but was stopped by an ice wall rising from the water!

"Snapped!"

The bee jelly bomb hit the ice wall, making a loud bang, shattered, and splashed black biochemical bee jelly.

The biochemical bee jelly was smeared on the ice wall, and within three to five seconds, it was frozen by the ice wall into black ice slag.

Not a drop of biochemical bee jelly fell on the frost skeleton mage!

"Don't stop! Keep firing bombs! Quickly! Everyone shoots alternately, covering each other and retreating!"

Sergeant Zener yelled orders, raised his gun and fired.

Bullets crackled and landed on the ice wall, splashing bursts of ice chips.

Sergeant Marrs yelled:

"The Mars team obeys the order, use the rifle to shoot, and keep the fire suppression! Pass our bee jelly bomb to the Zener team! As long as we still have the bomb in our hands, this frost skeleton mage will not dare to disarm the ice wall! ...Everyone Shoot at its skull, don't aim at the magic heart! That magic heart is indestructible, and it's useless for us to shoot at it!"

The soldiers held short-barreled silenced rifles and fired bullets at the skull of the Frost Skeleton Mage.

Doing so cannot damage enemies protected by the ice wall, but it does damage the wall.

The warhead hits the ice wall like a chisel.

After three rounds of salvo, a hole appeared in the ice wall, and the skull of a skeleton came into view of the soldiers.

"Bang!" Another honey bomb was launched, aiming at the hole in the ice wall.

A cloudy wind suddenly blew up in the stairwell, making people shiver with cold, and there was even more hoarfrost hanging in the air.

The hole in the wall was repaired in an instant, and it became smooth again.

The second bomb followed in the footsteps of the previous bomb and hit the intact wall.

The splattered biochemical bee jelly turned into ice slag, but it still couldn't hurt the frost skeleton mage.

"Continue to retreat and maintain fire suppression!" The two sergeants gave orders alternately.

A group of soldiers withdrew again and again, and came to the higher stairs.

Since the corridor was slanted downward, the Frost Skeleton Mage was quickly blocked by the ceiling.

The enemy was no longer in sight of the soldiers, and the gunfire stopped.

There were no Beyonders in the two scouting teams at the scene. If the Frost Skeleton Mage is in hot pursuit, the team's battle damage will be very serious.

Sergeant Marrs knew this.

While pointing his gun at the stairs below, he ordered without looking back:

"Jarvis! You go upstairs to send a message, call for backup, go!"

Li Nuo had just changed the magazine, and when he heard Mars' order, he ran up without looking back:

"Yes, sir!"

The Frost Skeleton Mage just now is definitely an existence that is difficult to fight at this stage.

As soon as it appeared, Li Nuo threw out the deconstruction technique.

[System message: You are trying to deconstruct the "Frost Skeleton Mage". 】

[Estimated consumption of 1800 energy points can make the deconstruction complete to 100%. 】

[You currently have 11 energy points, are you sure you want to deconstruct? 】

1800 energy points!

This number is 800 points higher than the deconstruction of the first-order "Imperial Fist".

The Frost Skeleton Mage is undoubtedly a more powerful existence than the first-order "Imperial Fist".

Fortunately, the reconnaissance team carried a bee jelly bomb, otherwise the battle situation just now could definitely be described as one-sided.

Thinking that the two reconnaissance teams only carried 6 honey bombs in total, Li Nuo immediately quickened his pace and rushed straight.

As he ran, a strong smell of blood entered the tip of his nose.

Li Nuo raised his head and looked up, his eyes passed through the slanting corridor, and fell on the strange black shadow in the distance.

Looking closely, it was a corpse lying on the steps, with its chest facing upwards, in a terrible state of death.

Bright red blood and minced meat flowed down the river, passing by Li Nuo.

Li Nuo narrowed his eyes and realized that he, Mars and the others had overlooked a crucial point.

Don't act alone!

This is the gist of dealing with the Undead Ripper!

The soldier on the steps in the distance died at the hands of the Undead Ripper after leaving the team.

Who said that there is a distance between tomb 717 and tomb 700, so it is unlikely that there will be a Ripper? !

Mom!

Sergeant Marrs, how did the flag you planted yourself come true on my head! ?

Li Norton was speechless, and couldn't help complaining wantonly in his heart.

He stopped and looked back and forth.

As far as the eye can see, there are no soldiers of the empire.

Li Nuo put down the muzzle of the gun, put the gun on his back, and left the gun with both hands.

He has the "mark of resentment" on him.

As long as he doesn't take the initiative to show the desire to attack, the mindless undead creatures of the Necromancer Sect and the Resentment faction will not regard him as the target of attack.

Li Nuo is now basically sure that there is an Eviscerator in the corridor above.

But here comes the problem.

Where did this Undead Ripper come from?

Along the way, the reconnaissance team obviously did not encounter any enemies.

Could it be that there is a trap door hidden in this stairwell?

Also, is this Undead Ripper an undead creature of the hate faction?

Does it have a mind?

Li Nuo was a little uncertain.

"Mark of Grudge" may not work on this Undead Eviscer.

While thinking about it, a weak cold wind blows from below.

The cold wind brushed against the back of Li Nuo's neck, causing him to shiver.

Fierce gunfire sounded again in the stairwell.

The two sergeants, Mars and Zener, probably believed that the Eviscerator of Tomb 717 was unlikely.

That's why they subconsciously followed the standard combat rules and arranged for only one soldier to report.

It is estimated that they will not realize that they have made an extremely serious mistake until they see the corpse on the steps.

Of course, they may all have died at the hands of the frost skeleton mage, and the corpse above the stairs could not be found at all.

Li Nuo thought to himself that he couldn't do the Frost Skeleton Mage, and he had only one way to go all the way up.

Fortunately, he still has some cards to use.

In the past ten days, he has formulated a set of deconstruction plans:

Reserve 10 to 14 energy points as a backup. All the excess energy is used to harmlessly deconstruct "The Ten Commandments of Martyrdom: General Outline".

After ten days in a row, he deconstructed a lot of useful things in a harmless way.

Some deconstruction results, although efficient, are not safe and will leave clues to be traced.

Some deconstruction results require some price, but it is safe enough that it will not be easily traced by the empire.

In addition to the "fear technique", Li Nuo also has a control spell in his hand, which happens to be useful now.

He calmed down and moved forward at a constant speed.

His eyes moved quickly, always keeping an eye on dark corners.

The disemboweled corpse was close at hand.

A cold light came as expected, piercing from the most insidious angle.

Sure enough, this Undead Ripper doesn't eat the "Mark of Resentment" thing.

Li Nuo's skin tensed instantly, and goose bumps popped out of his skin.

He sensed the blade in front of him, but he didn't make any evasive movements, as if he had given up resistance.