Chapter 47: The Undead Warlock

  Xiao Yu ran, followed by a group of skeleton soldiers. Fortunately, these skeletal frames didn't move very fast, and with Xiao Yu's speed, he could easily dodge their pursuit.

  Xiao Yu led the skull soldiers to a more open area and dodged behind a stone pillar.

  Escape!

  Xiao Yu took advantage of his stealth skill and disappeared from the skeletons' line of sight, walking towards them.

  These skull soldiers lost their target and searched for Xiao Yu's trail everywhere. Xiao Yu calmly dodged left and right among the skull soldiers, moving towards that passage.

  "Done." After flashing past these skeletal soldiers, Xiao Yu's stealth skill time disappeared, and he sprinted away.

  The skull soldiers suddenly found that Xiao Yu was behind them. They chased after him, but their slow movement speed made them farther and farther away from Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu disappeared at the end of the corridor.

  He rotated the dagger in his hand and smiled slightly, then felt his way forward into the interior.

  Carefully avoiding the traps set up on the ground, the deeper you go, the darker it gets, and the skull soldiers' eerie laughter echoes through the long, deep tunnel.

  "In a place like this, probably only thieves can come." Xiao Yu thought to himself that with the density of traps and mechanisms in the tunnel, as well as the distribution density of monsters, even a mid-sized team of 20 level-7 players wouldn't be able to make it here. They'd probably get turned into hedgehogs by the traps or surrounded and killed by the skull soldiers before they could even reach halfway.

  Thieves can always reach some places where others cannot.

  By using his stealth skills to bypass more than a dozen silver-armored skull soldiers guarding the passage, Xiao Yu stepped into a spacious and magnificent underground palace.

  The underground palace is several thousand feet in circumference, with towering stone pillars over 20 meters high.

  "Unexpectedly, there is such a magnificent and grand underground palace in this ancient tomb." Xiao Yu looked around, a somewhat worn red carpet leading all the way to the depths of the underground palace.

  Xiao Yu walked forward along the red carpet, and in the distance, he could see the throne at the end of the palace hall, a high chair that seemed to be overlooking the great hall.

  A metallic crashing sound suddenly came from behind the stone pillar next to him, Xiao Yu was startled, could it be some kind of monster?

  At this moment, a skeleton soldier wearing golden armor appeared behind the stone pillar. His whole body was covered in golden battle armor and he held a long golden scythe in his hand, looking majestic and powerful. This skeleton soldier was much more advanced than the ones Xiao Yu had seen earlier.

  The skull soldier's eye sockets locked onto Xiao Yu with a faint green flame.

  I don't know what the real strength of this Golden Armor Skeleton Soldier is, but Xiao Yu knew that he was fundamentally unable to match up against it. It had to be at least a tenth-level special monster.

  The palace was filled with the sound of metal clashing everywhere, and behind the stone pillars appeared countless skull soldiers wearing golden armor, numbering in the thousands, surrounding Xiao Yu inside.

  These golden armored skeletons seemed to appear out of thin air, and Xiao Yu didn't even have time to react before he was surrounded. Xiao Yu was stunned.

  Looking around at the dense rows of golden armored skeletons, Xiao Yu let out a bitter laugh. This time, even if it were the Great Luo God himself, he wouldn't be able to save himself.

  "It's over, this time I really can't escape." Xiao Yu looked at the neatly arranged golden armored skull soldiers beside him, and couldn't help but feel a little strange. These golden armored skull soldiers seemed to have received military training, their uniforms were neat and tidy, and not one of them charged up to attack Xiao Yu.

  The golden armored skeleton soldiers on both sides of the red carpet were like some sculptures, neatly lined up on both sides. Looking towards the end of the red carpet, a piece of gold light was shining brightly. In front was a high throne, which made people feel quite shocked, as if it were the scene of an ancient audience with the emperor.

  Seeing that the golden armored skeletons did not charge up to attack him, Xiao Yu felt a bit puzzled. Of course, he wouldn't be foolish enough to charge up and attack these golden armored skeletons either.

  "What exactly happened?" Xiao Yu stood quietly on this red carpet.

  A thick and heavy death aura was floating in the grand hall, making Xiao Yu feel a sense of familiarity.

  "It should be that undead wizard." Xiao Yu thought, looking towards the throne, a black-robed undead wizard hunched over and slowly walked up the stairs, sitting on the throne.

  "Come here, young one," said the spirit medium in a hoarse voice that sounded somewhat aged.

  The voice of the undead warlock was not loud, but Xiao Yu, who was still fifty or sixty paces away from the throne, could hear it clearly, every word and sentence extremely distinct.

  Xiao Yu walked over, arrived under the throne, looked up at the undead warlock, and saw that his black robe covered his face, making it impossible for Xiao Yu to see his features.

  "It's been hundreds of years since I've seen one of my own kind, and you're the first person to come here in all that time." The undead wizard coughed a few times, speaking slowly.

  This undead warlock was also an old monster who didn't know how many years he had lived, Xiao Yu bowed and said to the undead warlock: "I'm here to deliver a letter to you."

  "Letter?" The Lich Wizard seemed somewhat surprised and said: "Give me the letter."

  "Oh, okay." Xiao Yu's gaze swept over the pair of hands grasping the armrests of the chair, which were more like a few white bones than hands. It was said that extremely powerful undead wizards would turn themselves into skulls to become powerful liches and gain eternal life. Had this guy already become a lich?

  A golden armored skeleton soldier walked up to Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu handed the strange letter to the golden armored skeleton soldier, the golden armored skeleton soldier took the letter and walked onto the throne, handing the letter over to the undead wizard.

  The lich wizard let out a somewhat strange laugh after seeing the letter, seeming extremely pleased: "It was sent by my old friend."

  System: Task "Undead Warlock's Letter" completed.

  Xiao Yu looked at the system prompt and saw that the task had been successfully completed. Although there were some unexpected events in the middle, the process of the task was still relatively smooth.

  "Young man, you have brought me greetings from an old friend. In return, I shall give you a gift," said the spirit medium.

  Xiao Yu's heart skipped a beat, this undead warlock didn't know what level he was at, just by looking at the golden armored skull soldiers he summoned, it could be known that his level wouldn't be too low, what kind of reward would he give?

  "Before that, would you like to hear me tell a story? It's been a long time since one of my kind has come here." The lich wizard said with some nostalgia.

  Xiao Yu's expression turned respectful: "What kind of story is this?"

  Seeing Xiao Yu's expression, the undead warlock nodded in satisfaction and looked towards the far end of the palace. There, a beam of light shone down from above, seemingly creating a window to the outside world.

  The lich wizard said with some nostalgia: "This is a matter of the Erathian Empire era."