Chapter 8: The Undead Necromancer of the Dark Cave
"Pineapple! Watch out for a skeleton behind you!"
"What? Ah~!" Elegant collapse...
A thief was walking cautiously in the stinky forest, before level 10 job change there were no advance skills, only being careful not to be discovered by high-level monsters. Just as he walked under a tree, suddenly a skull jumped out from behind the tree almost sticking to his face, and before he could react, it swiped at him with its claws, everything went black.
"I..."
The gentleman's arrow gently pulled the wooden bow, but shot out were stone bullet heads. No way, the new village was too poor, and they couldn't afford arrows, so they could only use free stone bullets. Although hitting the level 6 crazy cow in front only caused pitiful damage, the gentleman archer's mood remained good, as he really liked the profession of being an archer - it was leisurely and safe, just like now, with a warrior at the front taking the lead, while he just output from behind.
The gentleman's arrow suddenly felt a pain in his back, and before he could understand what was happening, everything went black.
"Ding! Your HP is 0, you are dead!"
Looking at the skull that was running towards his teammates from his own corpse, Junzi Arrow felt depressed. What the hell is this? You're a stinky forest skull, what are you doing here in Wild Bull Plain?!
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It's like this, the whole 9191 newbie village leveling point is in chaos, and the resurrection points are all cursing these weird skull players. Of course, there are also skulls that died after encountering powerful players or high-level leveling teams, but after killing these skulls, they scolded them too. Nothing dropped, not even experience!
However, Lingmu did not know these things. At this moment, he was happily looking at his experience bar, which was rising like a rocket. He was searching everywhere for strange corpses and constantly summoning various skulls to search for players. The command he gave them was to freely and actively find and attack players. Among the skulls, there was one that made Lingmu extremely happy - it ran all the way to the entrance of the newbie village. There were a large group of level 1 and 2 newbies killing chickens and other poultry monsters. The level 8 zombie skull rushed into their midst like a super BOSS, attacking without breaking defense, instantly killing one with a single swipe of its claw. Lingmu's screen was filled with experience points - 10 points, 20 points - he was ecstatic. His eyes gleaming red, he continued to search for corpses. If he couldn't find any, he would even go kill zombies himself and summon them again. Although his reputation was deducted by 10 points, Lingmu endured it.
"Congratulations on reaching level 10! You have obtained 5 free attribute points to allocate! Now you can find the village chief to teleport to the main city for a job change!"
I don't know how long I've been brushing, but a burst of golden light finally made Lingmu stop. He looked at the time and was shocked to find that it was already noon on the second day. Lingmu was startled by himself, having been online for 12 hours in a row. Fortunately, he had eaten too much at Bao Lai Da Jiu Lou last night and didn't feel hungry yet. After thinking about it, he decided to go change jobs first before going offline to eat. During the game's opening period, it was all about competing with other players for speed, whoever was faster would have an advantage.
He emerged from the stinky forest, and as he walked, Ling Mu thought about how to enter Newbie Village. He still hadn't forgotten that he was currently sporting a monster-like name, and going out would get him chased and beaten by people.
"Quick! It's inside! Mom's going to wipe out that whole nest of skulls today!"
Just as Lingmu was about to leave the stinky forest, he suddenly heard a burst of human voices and curses outside. He quietly poked his head out to take a look, and was immediately frightened, turning around to run away.
A vast number of players, and they're not low-level either. Ling Muguang took a glance and found many familiar names among the people assigned to Newbie Village 9191: members of major guilds, high-level leveling teams, studio members, and formidable solo players. Many were seething with anger and indignation.
Ling Mu had no idea what a huge impact he had caused, stirring up the entire newbie village into chaos. Of course, his influence on those high-level players was limited, and they were all gathered here because of this unusual skull** behind him, which might have some hidden quest! So, for their own benefit, they gathered together to tackle this rotten forest; otherwise, eating too much without doing anything would be a waste of good leveling time. After all, every bit of leveling time at the beginning of an online game means being one step ahead of others!
Ling Mu ran in the stinky forest, also full of thrills, with players killing their way through the stinky forest all around, some powerful individual players even running in alone to solo brush.
"Whoa! Are they going to clear the Stinky Forest map?!"
Ling Mu's footsteps didn't stop, only running towards the deepest part of the rotten forest, and of course, he didn't forget to summon some skulls to add trouble for them. It felt like they were going to run through the entire rotten forest, and just passing by that one area with strange creatures should already be the highest level in the entire newbie village.
Samurai Onryo: A samurai who came to the deepest part of the rotten forest to explore the source of darkness, and after death, his body was transformed into an evil spirit.
Quality: Ordinary
Level: 10
Health: 4000/4000
Physical Attack: 160-220
Physical Defense: 80-100
Skills: Heavy Slash, Sweep, Charge
Weakness: Light, Fire
Physically strong monsters, both offense and defense are powerful, and even Lingmu has already seen their small BOSS from a distance.
Warrior Evil Spirit Captain: The captain of the warriors who came to explore the darkest depths of the rotten forest, after being transformed into an evil spirit, his strength greatly increased.
Quality: Ordinary BOSS
Level: 15
Physical Attack: 640-880
Magic Attack: 500-700
Physical Defense: 120-130
Magic Defense: 100-180
Skills: Advanced Slash, Advanced Sweep, Advanced Charge, Warrior's Swordsmanship, Wraith's Glow, Dark Strike
Weakness: Light, Fire
No wonder it's the BOSS! The attributes are simply against the sky! Is this a group of trash mobs from the newbie village with no profession, skills or equipment? Lingmu is already powerless to mock, this game is really hard, fortunately, I don't have to fight, friendly faction.
Ling Mu stopped in his tracks, not because he thought no one could break through the Warrior's Evil Spirit's strange zone and it was safe to stop running, but because there was no road ahead. After the rotten forest, there was actually a mountain wall. Was this really the outermost edge of the newbie village?
Ling Mu cautiously made his way along the mountain wall, finally finding a dark and ominous cave entrance.
"Ding! You discovered a new map - Dark Cave, reputation increased by 100!"
As he entered the cave, a chill wind hit him in the face. Even Ling Mu, who was a skeleton, could feel it. He wasn't worried, though - even without a nose, he could smell the aura of death emanating from the dark cave.
"District Announcement! Congratulations to player Xiao Yao Gong Zi for becoming the first player in the district to successfully change jobs! Rewards: +2 level, a random skill book of the current profession, and a random piece of silver equipment of the current profession! This is a special announcement!"
"District Announcement! Congratulations to player Xiao Yao Gong Zi for becoming the first player in the district to successfully change jobs! Rewards: +2 level, a random skill book of the current profession, and a random piece of silver equipment of the current profession! This is a special announcement!"
"District-wide announcement..."
The sudden loud system announcement made Lingmu anxious, but there was nothing he could do about it, so he quickened his pace.
"Damn it! That guy Xiang Yang has already switched jobs! But I'm still stuck here being dragged along! No way! I have to think of a plan quickly!"
Ling Mu was secretly anxious about the system's reward, but he had no choice but to be restricted. Looking at the cave in front of him, he could only investigate further. If this mountain wall was the boundary of the novice village, then passing through this cave might allow him to leave the novice village.
The cave was winding and twisting, but not very long. Along the way, there were only 15-level undead creatures. Lingmu saw a monster with magic attacks for the first time in the novice village map, which was this 15-level ghost. However, due to the urgency of the situation, Lingmu didn't have time to carefully examine their attributes, and they seemed extremely powerful.
Through the dense and eerie district, after several turns, they arrived at the deepest part of the dark cave, which was a very spacious hall. Ling Mu was astonished to hear voices coming from inside!
"Alas! Failed again... Great Undergod above! Have you abandoned your most devout follower?"
Inside the vast hall, there was no wandering monster. In the center of the hall stood an altar-like structure. The entire hall had only one figure shrouded in a large cloak kneeling towards the altar. Needless to say, the voice from just now also came from him.
"Who?" The figure discovered Ling Mu's intrusion and turned around to look over, revealing a skull face with only dry skin left.
Rockmund: An evil lich wizard who fled here a hundred years ago and has been hiding in secret, conducting mysterious experiments on the undead.
Quality: Legendary
Rank: ???
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Legendary! Ling Mu was startled, and the Underworld Eye's investigation yielded only question marks, but seeing his name belonged to a friendly faction made him breathe a sigh of relief.
"Oh! Lord of the Underworld above! What do I smell? This is such a pure underworld aura! It's been thousands of years since I've felt this! Lord of the Underworld above! Have you sent someone to guide your devout followers?"
Rokumon suddenly became excited, ran over a few steps, and jumped around Lingmu, making Lingmu stunned. However, after seeing the attribute below that had an effect of increasing all attributes by 50% in the Netherworld's atmosphere, he roughly understood what was going on.
"Stop!" Ling Mu shouted a halt, fearing that if he jumped again, the skeleton frame would be scattered.
"What are your orders, sir?" Rockmund indeed stopped and bowed his head respectfully to Lingmu.
"Uh, this... Rockmund..." Lingmu didn't know what to say.
"You can just call me Luo Ke, sir. Is there anything I can help you with?"
What benefits does this occupation of Underworld Disciple have?
In Ling Mu's empty eye sockets, two clusters of dark fire flickered.
"Roke, actually, it was the Lord of the Underworld who heard your prayer and sent me from the underworld to guide you here." Lingmu straightened his waist, with a serious expression that seemed to be true, could it be that only he knew the news of the Lord of the Underworld's fall from the system prompt?
