Chapter 200: Skeleton Warriors Damaged for the Second Time
In the White God’s courtyard, Ning Tairan strode in.
Bai Yiyuan sighed, "Old Ning, why do you have time to come over today? Didn’t your precious granddaughter return? Shouldn’t you be keeping her company?"
Ning Tairan sat down and unceremoniously drank the tea from Bai Yiyuan’s cup, "Your good student activated the Hell difficulty of the [Fire God Palace] dungeon."
Bai Yiyuan seemed to have expected this, "Is that strange? With his abilities, activating Hell difficulty is perfectly normal."
Ning Tairan said, "With Hell difficulty activated, elemental fragments may drop."
"Then, if the five elemental fragments are combined..."
Bai Yiyuan interrupted him, "Are you thinking of snatching my student’s things?"
He looked just like an old bull protecting its calf.
"That’s not what I meant! When did I say I wanted to snatch anything? Bai Yiyuan, don’t go too far with your words!"
Ning Tairan’s old face turned red with anger.
Meng Anwen said calmly, "Old Bai is just joking with you, why get so excited?"
Bai Yiyuan smiled, handing Ning Tairan a cup of tea, "Exactly, why get excited?"
"I know, if he can gather the elemental fragments, it’s the kid’s good fortune. If not, that’s fate."
"After all, none of us know where the [Lightning Palace] and [Holy Light Palace] dungeons are."
The Dungeon Hall had fire, water and wind elemental dungeons.
Lightning and light were never found.
These two dungeons were special, not something you could find just by looking.
Ning Tairan said, "I saw [Lightning Palace] on Battlefield 8 over ten years ago. But we were battling Abyss Demon Kings then, couldn’t spare any effort."
"When the battle was over, it was gone."
"As for [Holy Light Palace], it’s never been discovered."
Bai Yiyuan shrugged, "So as I said, if he can find them it’s the kid’s good luck."
Ning Tairan said, "I came just to tell you to have your kid take my Yiyi to run Fire God Palace. Even if the elemental fragments can’t be combined, individual fragments are still very useful."
Bai Yiyuan snorted, "No need for me to say anything. Have Yiyi ask the kid herself. If Yiyi asks, the kid definitely won’t refuse."
Ning Tairan thought about it, and it did seem to be the case.
He didn’t need to lower himself to ask this favor.
He had just overlooked this option because he still didn’t acknowledge Lin Moyu and Ning Yiyi’s relationship.
But if he let Ning Yiyi ask herself, wouldn’t that be tacitly acknowledging their relationship?
Thinking about his precious daughter being taken away, Ning Tairan’s face was full of conflict.
Bai Yiyuan patted his shoulder, "Old Ning, your flower will be picked sooner or later. Better the kid Lin than some useless person."
"At least among those his age, no one is more outstanding than the kid Lin, right?"
"And we can become even closer relatives, killing two birds with one stone."
Ning Tairan continued his inner struggle.
In [Fire God Palace], Lin Moyu sped up his progress.
The skeleton warriors had found the exit.
There were four cave entrances, with an internal structure like an ant colony, all interconnected.
There was only one final exit.
And this exit was very annoying - you had to traverse the entire cave system to reach it.
No matter which entrance you used, the result was the same.
When Lin Moyu saw the full map, the corners of his mouth twitched.
If you had to go through the whole thing anyway, why set up four entrances?
Wasn’t that like taking off your pants to fart?
How was this dungeon formed? It must have taken someone with severe brain damage to design such a cave system.
Lin Moyu ran out of the caves as fast as possible.
A huge palace entered his vision.
The palace was surrounded by raging flames, each pillar made of fire.
Above the palace floated a giant flaming eye.
It looked somewhat similar to the Flame Demon King.
"Intruder!"
The flaming eye discovered Lin Moyu and immediately sounded the alarm.
The ground was still shaking, lava spraying out and turning into flames crashing towards Lin Moyu.
Damn!
Lin Moyu cursed inwardly, running forward at top speed.
At the same time, he applied another layer of Bone Armor.
The flames crashed to the ground and exploded, bursting into fireballs.
Massive shockwaves swept out. The Bone Armor flashed brightly, blocking all impacts for Lin Moyu.
The skeleton warriors were all injured in the shockwaves, but the flames on them burned even more fiercely.
The time the skeleton warriors could last was further shortened.
Lava kept spraying, flames falling like raindrops. Lin Moyu led the 16 skeleton warriors in a mad dash forward.
The skeleton warriors’ injuries grew worse, and the time they could last grew shorter.
Unexpectedly, in a level 32 Nightmare dungeon, the skeleton warriors were facing danger.
Lin Moyu had no idea he was now tackling Hell difficulty.
Finally, he reached the palace entrance.
The palace gates were open, with two guards standing outside.
The guards wore flaming armor and held flaming spears. They looked somewhat like the dragon race from the Elemental Battlefield.
They also resembled lizard-like monsters.
The guards had already spotted Lin Moyu and charged towards him.
The skeleton warriors immediately rushed to meet them.
Though severely injured, they could still fight.
[Fire God Palace Guard (Hell-level Elite Monster)]
[Level: 35]
[Strength: 16000]
[Agility: 10000]
[Spirit: 10000]
[Constitution: 16000]
[Skill: Flame Sweep]
[Trait: Immune to fire elemental attacks.]
Lin Moyu was slightly shocked.
How did they become Hell-level elite monsters?
He had clearly felt the monsters’ strength increasing earlier, but was busy exploding corpses and didn’t pay much attention.
Now looking, they had actually become Hell-level elite monsters.
He was clearly running a Nightmare difficulty dungeon, how could Hell-level elite monsters appear?
Thinking of the dungeon’s earlier shaking.
"Could it be... I triggered some special mechanism?"
It was actually very simple to determine if it was Hell difficulty - just check his storage space.
Looking, his storage space was unusable.
The dungeon had indeed become Hell difficulty.
No wonder the flames on the skeleton warriors became so powerful.
Looking at the level 35 Fire God Palace Guards with 52,000 total attributes before him, Lin Moyu quickly accepted this fact.
Hell difficulty was fine too.
It’s not like he hadn’t run it before.
At least the experience was higher, and drops were better.
Whatever the difficulty, just fight!
The skeleton warriors had already clashed with the Fire God Palace Guards.
Their blades all unleashed skills.
Red light flashed, landing on the Fire God Palace Guards.
The guards were instantly heavily wounded. They let out roars of rage.
Flames surged on their spears as they swept them simultaneously.
Skill: Flame Sweep.
An area attack skill with considerable range.
With several bangs, each skeleton warrior froze in place, entering a stunned state.
"Another skill with control ability!"
This was what Lin Moyu hated most.
Once monsters had control abilities, they could sometimes be more terrifying than career holders.
Especially Hell difficulty monsters - once they acted, their control was almost unlimited.
The Fire God Palace Guards kept attacking the skeleton warriors with their spears. Each attack was an area attack.
The attack range was as large as the skill’s, covering all 16 skeleton warriors.
Lin Moyu had no choice but to summon 20 skeleton mages.
Not a single fire skeleton mage.
Fire elements were immune, fire skeleton mages would be useless.
He couldn’t summon more skeleton warriors either. Too few rushing in was pointless - they’d just be targets once controlled.
Too many, and they’d all take continuous fire damage from the dungeon.
It was a dilemma.
Even skeleton mages, he only summoned 20, couldn’t summon more.
The skeleton mages instantly unleashed skills, launching elemental attacks on the two Fire God Palace Guards.
At the same time, raging flames ignited on their bodies.
Skeleton mages’ constitution was far inferior to skeleton warriors. In Hell difficulty, they could last at most 1 hour.
That meant if he couldn’t clear the dungeon within 1 hour, these skeleton mages would die.
Lin Moyu had to make the most of every minute and second, couldn’t delay at all.
Red light flashed in his palm.
Skill: Slow Curse!
The Fire God Palace Guards’ attack speed immediately slowed.
But their agility attribute wasn’t low. Even under the curse, they still had considerable attack speed.
Soul Flame ignited in his palm.
A flame landed on a Fire God Palace Guard’s head.
Screams rang out as the guard cried out in pain.
But monsters were different from career holders. Though crying out, its flaming spear kept attacking.
Seeing the skeleton warriors’ injuries growing worse, reaching the brink of death,
Lin Moyu sighed. These skeleton warriors were done for.
The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak. He couldn’t save them even if he wanted to.
Finally, the first skeleton warrior collapsed. The skeleton warriors suffered losses again.
The skeleton mages’ second round of focused fire arrived, targeting one guard.
Lin Moyu also used Soul Flame to focus fire.
Amid screams, one Fire God Palace Guard finally fell.
[Killed level 34 Fire God Palace Guard, experience +1,360,000]
[Obtained Fire Crystal Core x3]
There’s a corpse!
Lin Moyu’s eyes lit up. With a corpse, things were easier!
Skill: Corpse Explosion!
With an explosion, the other Fire God Palace Guard was also killed.
Soon, the stun duration ended.
The remaining 15 skeleton warriors were all covered in wounds.
The flames kept burning continuously. Even without monster attacks, they couldn’t last much longer.
"Complete your final mission."
Lin Moyu sighed softly. The skeleton warriors all charged into the palace!
The moment the skeleton warriors entered the palace, the flaming eye above shook violently, frantically sounding alarms.
The entire palace shook with it, as if coming alive.