Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
Chapter 313: Who Detonated the Magic Array
Of the 20,000 novice players, about half chose to be mages.
At this moment.
Although not all players were attacking the Skeletal Knight, the glow of fire spells still illuminated the entire Karari City.
“Long live the Undead Emperor!”
The Skeletal Knight, with only a sliver of HP left, suddenly roared and stood up from the ground.
He swept his giant axe forward.
Dozens of warrior players, despite their desperate attempts to dodge using the invincible skill Deathly Roll, were still killed by this single sweep of the axe.
The mage players behind them remained unfazed, unleashing a new round of fire spells. Without the protection of its skeletal plating, the Skeletal Knight’s bones were ignited by the flames, its entire body engulfed in fire.
Terrifying wails echoed throughout Karari City.
The Skeletal Knight’s body shattered inch by inch in the flames. The eerie green undead fire flickered in the orange flames, gradually shrinking. It knelt again on the ground, unable to rise no matter how Angus urged it.
The surrounding warrior players, seeing that the time was right, swarmed forward.
Amidst the “crackling” sound of their scorching bones.
Sword light danced!
Steel blades, unaffected by the heat of the flames, struck the Skeletal Knight.
Without the support of necromantic energy and subjected to the intense heat of the flames, the Skeletal Knight’s bones had become extremely fragile.
After a while.
The warrior players found there was nothing left to hack at.
The Skeletal Knight died in the flames.
Only a pile of scorched bones remained on the ground.
The players could still faintly recognize the Skeletal Knight’s appearance.
Its arms were outstretched, as if still trying to reach for the giant axe that had fallen nearby, but the undead fire in its skull had completely extinguished.
“Quick, let’s see if there are any good drops!”
The players began searching through the vast pile of bones left by the Skeletal Knight.
“After such a big fire, there probably isn’t much left…” some players lamented, looking at the ravaged BOSS corpse with little hope.
Most amusingly, one player was even squatting there with a small box, scooping up the Skeletal Knight’s burnt ashes with both hands.
“This is the bone ash of a Champion Level Skeletal Knight,” he muttered to himself. “I need to get some. Maybe drinking it with water can increase my bone strength.”
“Holy cow! That’s a good idea, brother. Share some with me later?”
…
Five minutes passed.
There was nothing left of the Skeletal Knight’s remains. The ground was as clean as if licked by a dog. The players had divided the Skeletal Knight’s bone ash, truly reducing it to dust.
In addition to this, they had indeed obtained two unusual pieces of equipment.
The first was the Skeletal Knight’s axe.
This axe was a solid Grandmaster-level equipment.
It was called [Soul Shatterer].
It weighed over 800 jin.
Although it was not a Hero-level weapon and did not come with any accompanying combat skills, it possessed five characteristics: [Crush], [Fracture], [Heavy], [Sturdy], and [Soul Devour].
In terms of power, it was naturally the strongest equipment currently held by the players.
The other item was a bone ring.
This bone ring could be used to summon a Skeletal Rhinoceros, but the Skeletal Rhinoceros had already fallen in battle and was currently resting within the ring.
It would take three days before it could be summoned again.
In less than two minutes, these two spoils of war had found their respective owners.
The first was a veteran player, usually very low-key, with the ID Call Me Arin.
He bought the [Soul Shatterer] battle axe for five million.
The second was a novice player with an unremarkable reputation, ID Bai Yuekui.
She spent 6.1 million coins on the ring that summoned the level six Skeletal Rhinoceros.
Originally, Call Me Arin had wanted to acquire the ring for summoning the Skeletal Rhinoceros as well. He imagined how cool it would be to wield a giant axe and ride a beast like a Skeletal Rhinoceros.
However, the other party called their father, and the bone ring had to be handed over.
The money from the auction was divided among all the players present. No one would refuse money, and they were more interested in these two deeply hidden magnates, Call Me Arin and Bai Yuekui.
“Brother Arin, what do you do in reality?”
In the guild channel of the Xuan Jia Camp, guild members gossiped.
“Rent collection,” Call Me Arin replied, and that was the end of it.
But the players had already automatically imagined a mysterious figure wearing black sunglasses, beach shorts, a colorful vest, flip-flops on his feet, and a large bunch of keys hanging from his waist.
“Roar—”
Just then, an enraged roar sounded from behind the Undead Legion. The blast wave from the roar caused the entire Karari City to tremble slightly.
The players looked up.
They saw that on the battlements of Karari City’s wall.
A Deathly Shadow Cloud was rapidly approaching.
Vague outlines of a pair of gigantic, eerie green dragon eyes could be seen within the Deathly Shadow Cloud.
That was Angus the Ghost Dragon.
This fellow could no longer hold back and intended to take action personally.
Having defeated the Skeletal Knight, the players had clearly become a bit overconfident. They were considering whether they could defeat the Undead Ghost Dragon with their numbers alone.
This was until a player climbed onto a tower and hurled a Flame Burst at Angus the Ghost Dragon within the Deathly Shadow Cloud.
A dazzling [Miss] popped up above the Undead Ghost Dragon’s head.
It was as if it was mocking the players’ overestimation of their abilities.
Unlike the Skeletal Knight, there was no gray energy bar. The Undead Ghost Dragon’s HP bar was displayed in the sky above Karari City, stretching to the horizon, more than ten times longer than the Skeletal Knight’s HP bar!
“Forget it, this thing isn’t something we can challenge right now…”
“Yeah, let’s just take a group photo and leave quickly.”
The player on the tower had already been frozen into an ice sculpture by the passing Deathly Shadow Cloud, directly saying GG.
The other players also had no intention of tangling with Angus the Ghost Dragon. They planned to use the teleportation array to return to Emerald Fortress.
“Bang—”
The sound of a crystal exploding rang out.
However, this time, it wasn’t the Temporary Resurrection Crystal that exploded, but the bidirectional teleportation array that had just been set up less than half an hour ago.
“Holy cow! Which son of a bitch blew up the bidirectional teleportation array?”
“What do we do? We can only go back by committing suicide. We’ll lose experience points again. All that effort, damn it…”
The players near the teleportation array were crying. Everyone around them thought they had blown up the array, but in reality, that wasn’t the case.
“Why are you being so aggressive… The King of Winter detonated the bidirectional teleportation array…”
“The King of Winter detonated it?”
The other players looked skeptical.
“Yeah!” A player near the teleportation array shrugged, explaining aggrievedly.
“The King of Winter had just entered the teleportation array for less than half a minute when it exploded on its own. Using the Appraisal technique, it was determined that one side of the bidirectional array was destroyed, so it must have been intentional by the King of Winter.”
“Stop guessing, the King of Winter detonated the teleportation array to prevent the undead from following us,” Nobody Does Human Things (M) concluded, standing to the side.
He turned around and looked up.
The Deathly Shadow Cloud had already enveloped the entire Karari City.
The Ghost Dragon’s tattered wings flickered vaguely within the black mist.
“We can’t leave.”
As if in response to this statement, the Ghost Dragon’s earth-shattering roar echoed from within the Deathly Shadow Cloud:
“Damn humans!”
“You will all die here today!”
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