Chapter 145: A Strange and Beautiful Scene
The sharp screeching sound grew stronger and stronger.
Ning Yiyi was already covering her ears in discomfort.
"What is this sound? It’s making me dizzy."
Along with the screeching, the elemental spirits also began emitting screeches in response.
The sounds rose and fell, as if piercing the eardrums.
The elements were in complete chaos. The skeleton mages were rendered useless, unable to cast a single spell.
Indeed, the higher level the monster, the harder to deal with.
"If I’m not mistaken, it should be the ruler of the Elemental Secret Realm, the Elemental King."
As he spoke, Lin Moyu raised his palm.
A red light flashed brightly.
A huge crimson net appeared in the sky.
Skill: Slow Curse!
In an instant, giant blood-red shackles appeared above the heads of all visible elemental spirits.
The screeching immediately became drawn out.
Speed reduced by 39 times.
The unpleasant cries were instantly suppressed.
Only the heaviest, sharpest screech from the distance continued.
"Kill!"
At the command, the skeleton warriors raised their blades and attacked.
With the elements in chaos, the skeleton mages had lost their effectiveness. They could only rely on the skeleton warriors now.
Fortunately the skeleton warriors killed quickly, taking down one in just a few strikes.
In the blink of an eye, they had cleared out most of them.
At this point, the skeletons had attracted the attention of all the elemental spirits. None were chasing the people from before anymore - they all came to deal with Lin Moyu.
Those who had been chased looked at the elemental spirits changing direction, showing relief at their narrow escape.
"We’re saved!"
"Finally saved, I thought I was going to die!"
"Why aren’t the elemental spirits chasing us anymore?"
"Look over there!"
They were shocked to discover it was the two people they had thought were lunatics earlier.
Now they were commanding a large group of skeletons, rapidly clearing out the elemental spirits.
The elemental spirits were helpless against the skeletons’ blades, easily killed.
"Who are they? How can they be so powerful?"
"Too strong, these skeletons are too amazing."
"Is it a summoner career? I’ve never seen any summoner this powerful before."
"How ridiculous, I called them lunatics earlier. Now it seems I’m the real lunatic."
Amid exclamations of shock, the elemental spirits were completely wiped out.
Several minutes later, the screeching finally weakened, but the elements were still in chaos.
Lin Moyu recalled the skeleton mages, since they were just decoration standing outside anyway.
He didn’t expect them to go hack with weapons either.
"Finally it stopped screaming."
"My head was about to explode."
Ning Yiyi let out a long breath. She had felt terrible just now.
"It was indeed very unpleasant. Let’s go."
The elemental spirits had been mostly cleared out.
Over 1,000 elemental spirits, under the onslaught of an army of 150 skeleton warriors, had only lasted less than 5 minutes.
The attribute difference was too great. The elemental spirits had no way to fight back.
Lin Moyu led the skeleton warriors towards the direction of the sound.
To get elemental crystals, they needed to kill the Elemental King in the secret realm.
Elemental crystals differed from elemental crystal cores by just one word, but represented the difference between junior and senior items.
Crystal cores were generally items for below level 40, while crystals were items needed by career holders above level 40.
This wasn’t absolutely accurate, but most items followed this pattern.
For example, the Soul Refinement Crystals that Mo Yun had been seeking were high-level items used for level 40 career transitions.
Heading towards the source of the sound, they saw a strange and beautiful scene.
It was difficult to describe in words.
Four types of elements were visibly swirling and dancing in the space.
Lightning elements became starlight, fire elements became decorations, wind elements became wings, and water elements became mirrors.
"So beautiful!"
Ning Yiyi was mesmerized. She had never seen such a beautiful scene before.
Beautiful enough to take one’s breath away, and dangerous enough to do the same.
"Be careful!"
Lin Moyu shouted, but it was a step too late.
A huge bolt of lightning struck down, at extreme speed.
Bone Armor flashed continuously, blocking the attack.
Ning Yiyi was scared this time. Just now her vision had been filled with blue light, unable to see anything.
Without Bone Armor, she would have been dead or crippled now.
After all, she was only level 25, still very weak.
Immediately after, countless sharp ice arrows rained down from the sky like raindrops.
A rain of ice arrows with a murderous aura descended from above.
All the skeletons were attacked by the ice arrow rain.
The attack power wasn’t small. Lin Moyu could feel it through the skeleton warriors.
Skill: Slow Curse!
Lin Moyu pressed his palm down, and the curse descended.
The strange and beautiful scene instantly disappeared.
Ning Yiyi then realized the beautiful scene had been formed by large numbers of elemental spirits intertwining and twisting together.
Under the curse, they quickly separated and revealed their true forms.
The skeleton warriors had already charged forward.
Even without the skeleton mages, even though the Wind Elemental Spirits could fly,
Under the 39 times slow effect, they couldn’t escape the skeleton warriors’ pursuit.
Lin Moyu gave orders to prioritize the Wind Elemental Spirits.
After a round of attacks, the elemental spirits quickly died.
With these elemental spirits dead, the secret realm was revealed before the two.
A world composed of elements, a realm independent from the rest of the world.
Secret realms were different from dungeons.
There was only one secret realm, and everyone who entered was under the same sky.
In other words, if multiple teams explored a secret realm together, they were very likely to encounter each other inside and potentially fight.
The Elemental Secret Realm on the Elemental Plains.
Its most famous product was elemental crystals.
Elemental crystals could be used to forge top-tier platinum weapons.
Platinum weapons were suitable for use between levels 40 to 59.
Their value was so high it had to be calculated in hundreds of millions.
The cheapest platinum weapons cost over 5 million.
The most expensive could reach 1 billion.
Platinum equipment forged using elemental crystals was among the highest value platinum equipment, with top-tier attributes.
But for Lin Moyu, its value wasn’t in forging weapons.
Rather, it was for Bai Yiyuan’s mission, and his own cooldown talisman.
That’s right, elemental crystals were one of the materials needed to upgrade junior cooldown talismans to intermediate cooldown talismans.
"Let’s go in."
The secret realm gate had opened. Lin Moyu led the skeleton warriors in with large strides.
The world changed, cold wind biting their faces.
Lin Moyu and Ning Yiyi stepped into an ice palace.
In the Elemental Secret Realm, everything was composed of elements.
What greeted them first was this ice palace.
The ice surface was pure white, reflecting faint light like a mirror.
Even the faintest light, after multiple reflections, would become dazzling.
The ice palace was like a maze, with several passages.
But Lin Moyu feared mazes least of all.
"Go!"
At his command, the skeleton warriors responded, quickly dispersing to enter the various passages.
At the same time, a map began forming in his mind.
Ning Yiyi looked curious, "Don’t we need to move?"
Lin Moyu shook his head, "No need. Let the skeleton warriors scout the way. Once we find the correct path, we’ll go."
Ning Yiyi giggled, "Your skeletons are so useful, they can do anything."
The skeletons were indeed useful. Without them, he wouldn’t have been able to level up so quickly, let alone solo various dungeons.
The 150 skeleton warriors dispersed and dispersed again, constantly searching for the correct exit.
They didn’t encounter any monsters along the way.
This was purely just a maze.
When skeleton warriors ran into dead ends, Lin Moyu would quickly recall them, then send them out again to find new paths.
The map in his mind became more and more complete.
He also tried having the skeletons attack the walls. They could indeed be broken, but would quickly regenerate. It seemed like wasted effort.
Finally, after about 10 minutes of searching, the true exit of the maze was found.
"Let’s go, we’ve found the exit!"
Ning Yiyi giggled, "So fast! The skeleton babies are so useful."
...
Fortunately skeletons had no emotions. Otherwise, learning they were called "babies" might have given them some thoughts.
A large group of skeleton warriors rushed out of the ice palace exit.
They saw a huge Ice Elemental Spirit.
The Ice Elemental Spirit sat on a throne made of ice blocks, its cold gaze watching the incoming skeletons.
There seemed to be anger in its eyes, as if unwelcome guests had disturbed its rest.
It suddenly let out a roar. From the ceiling and surroundings of the ice palace, countless ice pillars flew out.
Each ice pillar was about a meter thick and four to five meters tall.
The skeleton warriors quickly charged forward, nimbly dodging the ice pillars.
Some didn’t dodge in time and were sent flying by the pillars.
The ice pillars’ attack power wasn’t weak. Even the skeleton warriors took some minor damage when hit.
Lin Moyu cast a detection spell.
[Water Element General (Secret Realm Boss)]
[Level: 37]
[Strength: 13000]
[Agility: 0]
[Spirit: 13000]
[Constitution: 16000]
[Skills: Ice Pillar Impact, Ice Whirlwind, Flood Tide]
[Traits: Physical damage halved, Ice element immunity]
Its agility was actually 0.
Lin Moyu then realized it was connected to the ice throne below, completely unable to move.
This was the first time he had encountered such a monster.