Chapter 201: Strange Flower, Key of the Fire God
The entire palace seemed to awaken, with large numbers of Fire God Palace Guards pouring out.
Their target was unified - they charged straight for the skeleton warriors.
Lin Moyu was still standing at the palace entrance at this time.
Seeing this scene, he immediately ordered the skeleton warriors to return.
Rushing in now would definitely result in being controlled, then surrounded and killed.
Not having any anti-control ability was truly one of his major weaknesses.
Another skeleton warrior appeared beside him, picking up the remaining palace guard corpse.
In dungeons, monster corpses existed for only a short time after death.
And as time passed, the life force in the corpses was rapidly disappearing.
From defeating the two gate guards earlier until now, only about a minute had passed.
Lin Moyu could feel that most of the life force in this corpse had already dissipated.
In a little while, even this corpse would completely disappear.
The skeleton warriors ran back, with a large group of pursuers behind them.
"Throw!"
With a thought, the skeleton warrior beside him immediately threw the guard corpse.
Skill: Corpse Explosion!
The corpse flew over the skeleton warriors’ heads, exploding in mid-air!
The explosion swept through the palace interior, shaking the entire building.
Lin Moyu’s pupils contracted - not a single palace guard was killed by the blast.
The corpse had existed for too long, its life force greatly weakened.
Even after detonation and skill amplification, it still couldn’t kill the palace guards, only injure them.
The palace guards, under attack, collectively shifted their target to Lin Moyu.
They howled and charged towards him.
Red light flashed!
Red shackles appeared above all the palace guards’ heads, instantly slowing their running speed.
Locking onto the guard in front, soul flames ignited in Lin Moyu’s palm as the skeleton mages focused their attacks.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared, fierce winds howled, ice arrows filled the sky.
The soul flames caused intense damage directly.
Amid screams, that palace guard fell to the ground mid-charge.
Boom!
Another explosion rocked the palace.
The freshly killed palace guard, a new corpse with intact life force.
This explosion instantly cleared out the pursuers.
A string of messages popped up.
Each palace guard provided 1.36 million experience.
After this wave, his experience increased by a large chunk.
Now his experience had reached 97%, just 3% away from leveling up.
Lin Moyu still stood outside the palace, the interior now empty.
Alarms were still sounding, but no new guards came charging out.
The skeleton warriors, engulfed in flames, ran into the palace interior, continuing to serve their final purpose.
As they ran, one skeleton warrior fell.
It had completed its mission, reaching the end.
As it fell, its white bones rapidly turned to powder, disappearing without a trace in a gust of hot wind.
Lin Moyu sighed inwardly. Skeleton warriors were the most loyal and perfect soldiers.
Fearless of pain, indifferent to death, never retreating.
They would faithfully execute and complete any order given.
Passing through the palace’s first great hall was a garden.
It had artificial mountains, flowing water, and a small pond.
Unlike any garden Lin Moyu had seen before.
The artificial mountains here were fire mountains, with scorching lava flowing.
The entire garden radiated searing heat, even hotter than inside the palace.
Heatwaves hit his face, carrying dense fire elements, activating the Bone Armor.
These heatwaves were full of aggression, very terrifying.
"What is this?"
The flames were dazzling, making Lin Moyu instinctively squint.
Through the gap in his vision, Lin Moyu saw a flower.
A delicate small flower, crystal clear like a gemstone, blooming brilliantly in the flames.
It swayed in the center of the lava, beautifully captivating.
Such an extraordinary flower appearing in these circumstances must be unusual.
Two more skeleton warriors fell, turning to smoke and dust.
Of the 16 skeleton warriors initially summoned, 4 had already died.
The remaining 12 couldn’t last much longer either.
Lin Moyu had them try to pick the flower.
But when the skeleton warriors approached the lava, it violently churned, its temperature instantly rising several fold.
The skeleton warriors fell one after another.
The last few barely touched the lava when suddenly a flaming hand stretched out from the lava, smashing down hard on the skeleton warriors.
The skeleton warriors were already on the brink of death, their bones covered in cracks.
Now struck by the giant flame hand, the remaining skeletons all shattered and died.
The giant hand that rose from the lava, after smashing the skeleton warriors, swung down towards Lin Moyu.
Lin Moyu swiftly retreated to dodge.
As Lin Moyu dodged back, the skeleton mages launched their attacks.
Ice Storm! Tornado! Five Thunderbolts!
Three elemental spells landed on the giant hand.
Sizzle!
White smoke rose from the giant hand.
Feeling pain, the hand quickly retracted with a whoosh.
Lin Moyu was stunned.
It ran away?
This was the first time he’d seen a monster that would flee.
The next second, the lava violently churned, surging skyward.
Bang bang bang!
Lin Moyu heard heartbeats.
A heart made of flames appeared above that flower.
The heart was pounding, emitting a low sound.
The surging lava became a 10-meter tall lava giant.
And that flower was clearly visible inside its body.
The flower was planted on its heart, rising and falling with each heartbeat.
The giant let out a roar, making the lava churn even more violently.
Pillars of fire shot into the sky, raining fire down across the entire garden.
Most of the lava merged into the giant’s body, making it even more powerful.
[Fire God Palace Gardener (Hell-level Boss)]
[Level: 36]
[Strength: 20000]
[Agility: 10000]
[Spirit: 10000]
[Constitution: 20000]
[Skills: None]
[Traits: Immune to fire elemental attacks]
Strength and constitution both reached 20,000, not much weaker than skeleton warriors.
All attributes added up to 60,000 points.
Though it had no skills, just its normal attacks were enough to cause headaches.
If this were outside, Lin Moyu naturally wouldn’t be afraid.
He could just send skeleton warriors to push through.
But he couldn’t do that here, otherwise they’d needlessly take elemental damage from the dungeon.
However, if he didn’t summon large numbers of skeletons, it would probably take a lot of time to eliminate this boss monster before him.
The skeleton mages were constantly taking fire damage, unable to last much longer.
Lin Moyu had an idea and summoned 9 skeleton warriors.
Including the one that threw corpses earlier, that made 10.
The 10 skeleton warriors quickly ran back into the palace to drag out the corpses of the palace guards that had just died.
The palace gardener had already launched an attack at Lin Moyu.
Its giant palm smashed down.
Lin Moyu didn’t dodge, instead casting Slow Curse to slow its movements.
At the same time, soul flames ignited in his hand, damaging the gardener.
Soul Flame’s damage was high, not inferior to the skeleton mages’ skills.
Especially that pain, which was even more unforgettable.
All its attention focused on Lin Moyu, constantly attacking him.
The Bone Armor flashed brightly, blocking all attacks.
After all, this was a Hell dungeon boss, with terrifyingly high health.
With just 20 skeleton mages plus Lin Moyu, it would take considerable time to kill it.
Soon, the skeletons ran back dragging corpses.
Each skeleton dragged two corpses, 20 in total.
Though these guard corpses had been dead for a while, their life force greatly reduced, it was still better than nothing.
Twenty corpses were thrown at the palace gardener.
Skill: Corpse Explosion!
The corpses detonated in mid-air.
Lava splashed, revealing gaps.
The gardener clearly took massive damage.
Explosions continued one after another.
Lin Moyu didn’t spare his spirit power at all, continuously casting skills.
As long as a Necromancer had sufficient spirit power, skills basically had no cooldown.
At least so far, Lin Moyu hadn’t discovered any skills that needed cooldown.
The explosions continued. After throwing the corpses, the skeleton warriors didn’t stop, charging like lightning to the gardener’s front.
Facing the 10-meter tall palace gardener, the skeleton warriors seemed so tiny.
The skeleton warriors swung their blades, red light flashing - a color even redder than the flames.
Skill: Berserk Strike!
The palace gardener immediately screamed in agony.
Corpse Explosion, Soul Flame, the skeleton mages’ spell attacks, plus the skeleton warriors’ skills.
This combination dealt a fatal blow.
From start to finish, it only took five minutes.
[Killed Fire God Palace Gardener, experience +2,160,000]
[Obtained Fire God Key]
[Obtained Fire God Flower]
[Fire God Key: Key to open the true Fire God Temple]
[Fire God Flower: Using the Fire God Flower can awaken the Fire God]
Boom!
After the gardener died, the lava boiled again.
Scorching lava gushed from all directions, as if to engulf the garden.