Half-elf Ranger

The underground passage in the Tower of the Dead.

Thorne turned on the Shadow Hand faction's strengthening skills and entered the invisible state, carefully avoiding the perception of wandering skeletons, ghouls or ghouls, and walked towards the hidden altar behind the stone platform.

Since mastering the supernatural ability of shadow power, he has begun to subtly think that he prefers the dark and cold nights to the sunny days, and he likes the black and white pictures in front of him, despite the dazzling sunlight during the day. No harm was done to him.

Now, in the nearly two years of his career in another world, his eyes have long been accustomed to the pictures in the dark. In this environment, he can still clearly observe any fine stones, insignificant dust, and wandering traces of prey in the underground passage.

In the dark underground passage, the only source of light was the flickering light of the ghost fire floating in the air.

In fact, ghost fires are not a natural phenomenon, they are also a kind of miniature undead.

It consists of a group of semi-solid gas phase spheres about 30cm wide and weighs about 1.5kg. The light they emit is roughly equivalent to a torch. Although there is no sound organ, they can vibrate to produce a ghostly appearance. the sound of.

They are mainly composed of some evil spirits roaming the abandoned land filled with powerful magic, transformed in the agony and misery of death.

Imprisoned by dark fate and black magic, they survive by ingesting the cold breath of negative energy, as well as fear and despair.

Looking around, the ghost fire looks like a lantern floating in mid-air, shaking constantly, occasionally emitting weak or distant whispers that are eerie.

The undead could easily be mistaken for a beacon of direction in the middle of the night, and once Thorne was almost lured into the muddy Death Swamp when he first saw a ghost fire in the Emerald Fields.

In the middle of the night, their most common method is to use their own light to bring hope to some lost travelers, and to use their spell abilities to suggest that the other party will go to a safe place with it.

Lost and careless travelers are then lured to quicksand pits, monster dens, or other dangerous places, and they can indulge in the torment of these travelers, even in the screams of death.

He likes to hover above them the most, taking the breath of the living as they struggle for the last time, and relishing the feeling of life as the last ray of light fades from their eyes.

When these evil creatures fall victim to the ghost fires, they may become new ghost fires, and their unfortunate spirits will condense into flickering fire beside their lifeless corpses.

Moreover, the challenge level of the ghost fire is at least level 5, and it has the supernatural ability "intake life", as well as the special abilities "spell immunity" and "natural invisibility". When ignorant pedestrians touch the shape of the ghost fire, they will also emit a micro load current counteracts.

However, ghost fires generally do not take the initiative to attack. When they are frightened or feel scared, they will immediately extinguish the light on their bodies, immediately become invisible, and disappear without a trace.

The vigilance of the ghost fire is even higher than that of the most vigilant corpse witch, so whenever Thorne encounters the ghost fire floating above his head, he always involuntarily raises his hanging heart a little bit, showing extra caution. Don't dare to make any mistakes.

After all, this is the lair of undead creatures, and there are many corpse witches with spellcasting ability around. If they are besieged without preparation, it will be very troublesome. He does not have the powerful ability to dispel undead creatures like priests or paladins. .

The distance from the entrance of the cave to the hidden altar is about 300 meters. In order to prevent accidents, Thorne sneaked very slowly all the way. Fortunately, he had enough patience and finally reached the altar safely and without error.

"It's the statue of the undead king Orthus," Thorne whispered inwardly as he noticed the statue on the stench of the blood-colored altar.

The physical image of the undead king Orthus is a fat, chubby demonic creature with a goat-like head, spiraling goat horns and goat hooves, huge strong arms wielding an evil skull wand, and two huge His bat wings stretched out from behind, and behind him dragged a long snake-like tail with sharp barbs.

"Is this a secret temple of Orbis?" Thorne glanced at the spiritualized ghosts and corpses around him, and finally locked his eyes on the thirteen coffins placed on the stone platform and one surrounded by the center. of large coffins.

Although he did not detect spells such as magic, he could still detect the more vigorous negative energy aura on the large coffin with his keen senses.

Moreover, those humanized ghosts and corpse witches will keep their vicious and crazy eyes on the coffin for a while every time. Obviously, their task of staying here is more like guarding these things.

At this time, Thorne suddenly noticed that the wandering undead were rioting, so he immediately hid his figure in the corner of the icy rock wall and looked at it secretly.

"Roar!"

A hideous-looking demon roared, as if giving orders, and the ghouls who were unconsciously wandering not far from it immediately received the order and all staggered around it.

The appearance of ghouls is not significantly different except that they are stronger, taller and more ferocious than ghouls.

This is an advanced monster formed by ordinary ghouls who were injected with abyss energy on a whim by Orus. If the IQ of a ghoul is like a wild beast, then the IQ of a ghost is like having the cunning of an adult human, and it is even a little high. Intelligent goblins also follow the undead king Orbis, gaining the priest's spellcasting abilities.

The demon led more than 20 ghouls, blocking the other hole near the entrance, lying on the ground on all fours, making a gesture like a beast ready to pounce, opening his mouth full of disgusting mucus and roaring:

"Dragonborn who is beyond your own control, you have broken into the territory of the undead king Orbis, and you have offended the majesty of my lord. Today you must die!"

"Dragonborn?" Hearing the roar of the demon, Thorne's eyes shrank, and he looked curiously in the direction of the other hole.

When the goblin called out the other party's dragonborn, the first thing Thorne thought of was the dragonborn paladin player he met in the tavern during the day.

As soon as the demon's voice fell, a dragonborn paladin, dressed in silver-white heavy armor, holding a silver holy emblem, with pale white protective aura all over his body, came out of the cave.

The paladin first glanced at the large number of undead creatures roaming in the space, as well as the demons and ghouls in front of him, frowned madly, and said solemnly:

"Evil is spreading, justice must come, accept the punishment, evil undead!"

— "Supernatural ability: Dispel undead!"

The dragonborn paladin closed his eyes, holding the silver-white holy emblem on his chest. The shield and the imprint of the warhammer balance were accompanied by high-spirited incantations, flowing with divine brilliance.

Just when the demon led the ghouls to approach the dragonborn paladin, the paladin suddenly opened his majestic eyes, and two holy flames flashed away in his eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the pale golden light array centered on him, spread out around him, and wrapped all the demons and ghouls that approached him.

"what…"

The demon and the twenty or so ghouls all let out a mournful howl, turning into a pile of black ashes with scorched smoke.

"You are a priest!!"

The leading demon was not killed, but the whole body was covered in the fog of scorched flesh. It looked at the paladin with fearful eyes, turned and screamed, ready to escape.

"Pfft!"

However, just two steps away, the demon was caught up by the paladin who followed, and a sharp sword exuding divine light instantly decapitated it. The demon's ugly body was like a severed Fallen down like a dead tree.

A grotesquely twisted corpse witch, with leather-like dry skin shrunk to the bones, covered by a simple cloth robe, when he noticed the movement at the entrance of the cave, his savage and frantic eyes flashed a vicious light, looking at him. To the dragonborn paladin, he opened his mouth full of jagged fangs and said viciously:

"What a disgusting light, the undead place where my king slept broke into the outsider and killed him for me!"

A necromancer is an undead creature that possesses memories of the past and is driven by the self-awareness of their past life.

They obey the orders of any dark beings that have transformed themselves into undead, and while retaining their autonomy, they also swear to serve their new masters. In undead groups, corpse beings generally act as mid-level leaders. and commander.

Moreover, these corpse witches will gradually master some necromantic spells with the continuous growth of their own strength, and have certain spellcasting abilities.

The angry roar of the leading corpse reverberated throughout the underground space, and all the skeletons, zombies, ghouls and other low- and middle-level undead creatures wandering consciously or unconsciously all converged in the direction of the Dragonborn Paladins.

Facing the dense undead creatures, the dragonborn paladin's expression did not change at all, but stood silently in place, holding a sword in one hand and a silver holy emblem in the other. Light circulates on the holy emblem.

Thorne, who was hiding in the dark, noticed the ghost fire that was frightened and disappeared, and immediately took out the composite longbow behind his back, and moved closer to the direction where the dragonborn paladins fought against the undead.

Although priests are the most powerful weapon against undead creatures, their dispelling ability is not endless. The dense undead creatures cannot be dispelled by a paladin at all, not to mention that there are more than a dozen behind them who have certain spellcasting abilities. Powerful corpse witch.

In the entire underground space, under the command of the corpse witch, all the undead creatures without self-consciousness rushed towards the dragonborn paladins who were shrouded in divine light.

The narrow intersection could not take advantage of the Sea of ​​the Undead at all. The space where the Dragonborn Paladin stood, accompanied by the use of "Dispel the Undead", the mist that rose after the carrion was scorched continued to permeate, and the black ash on the ground also filled the air. continuously thickening.

— "Three-Circle Spell: Necro Torch!"

- "One Level Spell: Ray of Enfeeblement!"

- "One Level Spell: Death Scream!"

— "Second-Level Spell: Stink Ray!"

…

At the same time, strands of negative energy aura emerged from the claws of the corpse witches hiding at the back of the team, condensing into strands of necromantic spells to cover the Dragonborn Paladins.

Facing the attacks of various negative energy spells, the dragonborn paladin was never broken despite the flickering protective auras all over his body.

Moreover, the long sword he held in his hand had already been replaced with a shield that shone with magical aura, and every negative energy ray of the corpse witches could always be easily offset by the shield.

In this way, when the paladin ran out of the last dispelling spell, he put away the holy emblem at a very fast speed and took out five or six bottles of holy water full of holy aura.

"boom!"

The bottle was smashed directly onto the rock wall above, bursting in the air, and a large pool of holy water splashed down.

"Zizzizi..."

The dense undead creatures around are like piles of raw meat thrown into a hot oil pan, and the place where the holy water was sprinkled quickly blew owl smoke, turned black, and then spread to other parts.

After throwing the holy water, the dragonborn paladin handed over the shield in his right hand to his left without pausing, and then took the opportunity to draw out the long sword that exuded a sacred aura.

As soon as he let out a low voice, the dim protective aura around his body flashed, becoming dazzling again, and then he rushed into the half-crippled undead group with one quick step, and began to slaughter frantically.

"Pfft!"

At this moment, a sharp arrow jumping with arcs and flames ripped apart the air and hit a corpse witch who was about to cast a spell with precision. With the arc and flames jumping on the corpse witch's head, the corpse witch twitched a few times and then Lying on the ground dead.

"There are enemies in the back!" The corpse witch who noticed the abnormality roared angrily, and more than 20 skeletons with swords turned around and greeted them.

Seeing the skeleton in simple leather armor and holding a sharp blade walking towards him shaking his head, Thorne was unmoved, still frequently pulling the composite longbow in his hand, and each whistling arrow could always take away one. Only the life of a corpse witch.

Just as the skeleton was about to approach, Thorne's longbow had already been put away, and it was replaced by a sharp long sword. Under the blessing of the paladin's ring "Sanction of Evil", Slaying Demon was shrouded in a faint divine aura.

Although these skeleton soldiers have been silent in the strong negative energy atmosphere all the year round, their strength has been significantly enhanced compared with the skeletons in the wilderness, and their movements are much more flexible, but they still can't resist the slashing of Thorn's sharp blade.

With every time Thorne swung the scorching blade, the skeletons collapsed under the smoke of owls. In just a moment, more than 20 skeletons turned into a pitiful experience.

Obviously, the level of undead creatures in the entire underground passage is not very high, otherwise he would not be so easy to deal with.

When the skeleton was cleaned up, Thorne's palm condensed a bright fireball that beat in the dark.

"Boom!"

The explosion of the fireball reverberated in this underground passage, and the skinny bodies of the last few remaining corpses were blown apart and turned into a pile of ashes after burning at a speed visible to the naked eye.