vncnus Chapter 40: The Gunshot Rings Out!
Chapter 40: The Gunshot Rings Out!
A thick, negative energy-filled gray mist instantly enveloped the entire altar, completely engulfing the three people, including Yu Jing.
Before they could figure out what was happening, they heard a series of howling winds coming from the gray fog.
Upon hearing the sound, Yu Jing immediately raised his sword to block, and then saw several dark objects flying towards him.
Despite managing to dodge most of the attacks with her own reflexes, she was still struck squarely by a heavy object.
The machete, already damaged in several places during the battle, finally gave way and shattered on the spot. It was only because Yu Jing's blended overcoat was sturdy enough that the fragments might have pierced his chest.
"Watch out! There are hidden weapons in the fog! Get out of the way!"
The Blue Demon's voice came from the other side, followed by the mercenary's scream, clearly indicating that he had been hit.
"My left arm got hit... Ouch~ This mist is suspicious, watch out for heavily armored skeletons!"
The mercenaries saw the gray mist gushing out of the heavily armored skeleton and instinctively assumed it was a smokescreen, using the gray mist to disrupt their vision, divide the battlefield, and prevent them from continuing their siege.
Upon hearing the two men's reminder, Yu Jing threw away the half-broken machete and then bent down to pick up the item that had just smashed it.
A helmet that looks somewhat familiar...
No, this is clearly a helmet from a heavily armored skeleton. Looking at the other objects nearby, they are all fragments of armor.
Could it be that the grenade exploded inside the heavily armored skeleton, causing a chain reaction that led to an imbalance of internal energy and its self-destruction?
The impact must have been considerable to scatter that turtle shell into so many fragments.
The grenades prepared by the mercenaries obviously couldn't achieve that level of capability.
The question is, why would such an explosion produce such a dense ash cloud?
Yu Jing wasn't sure if the heavily armored skeleton was still alive; an image of a skeleton without its armor flashed through his mind.
Without the protection of its armor, even if it survives, its fighting power will be greatly reduced. At most, it will be a little faster, making it difficult to continue the previous methods of encirclement and killing.
and many more!
They discarded their armor, leaving only their skeletons, trading defense for agility, and even created large clouds of gray mist to obscure their vision...
Yu Jing felt something was wrong the more he thought about it, and suddenly, as if realizing something, his expression changed drastically.
Oh no, its target is the sarcophagus!
Just as Qing Gui and the mercenaries were busy guarding against the hidden weapons that might reappear in the gray fog, Yu Jing, who had already sensed the abnormality, rushed into the gray fog without hesitation and headed straight for the stone coffin at the top of the altar, relying on his memory.
Their attention was just focused on the heavily armored skeleton, believing that killing it would end this alien realm.
They completely forgot why the heavily armored skeleton had forcibly broken through the fog door and entered the room in the first place.
Its target from the beginning was the female corpse lying in the stone coffin. The attack on them was also because Yu Jing's intrusion disrupted the altar ritual, causing the bone knife, which was the source of the magic array, to be stolen by the Crystal of Resentment, resulting in an accident inside the stone coffin.
Stepping onto the altar steps, Yu Jing finally understood.
As the battle has progressed, the Crystal of Resentment has most likely gained the upper hand with the help of the bone knife and the magic array inside the stone coffin.
The mercenaries' grenades became mere tools for the heavily armored skeletons to escape unscathed. They deliberately pretended to be blown up, trapping them in the gray fog, and then used armor fragments as projectiles. This both reduced their own burden and made them hesitant to act rashly.
The heavily armored skeleton has only one purpose.
That is to take the opportunity to return to the stone coffin and protect the female corpse that is about to be destroyed by the bone knife.
That's why Yu Jing couldn't afford to reunite with Qing Gui and the mercenaries; he had to go and stop them as quickly as possible.
As he weaved through the gray fog filled with negative energy, his still-active beast form allowed him to quickly spot the dark blue halo atop the altar ahead.
As it turned out, Yu Jing's judgment was correct.
The heavily armored skeleton was indeed not dead; it was now standing beside the stone coffin, its skeleton now just a skeleton, having discarded its armor.
However, they are different from those low-level skeleton soldiers.
Its skeleton was significantly larger, and its chest cavity and skull were burning with ghostly blue soul fire, which was particularly eye-catching in the gray mist.
Yu Jing didn't have time to think about why a skeleton could come up with a plan like "escape from the cicada's shell".
As the distance closed, he saw that the heavily armored skeleton had taken out the bone knife that should have been plundering energy inside the stone coffin, and held it in its right palm. The skull suddenly leaned in, opened its mouth, and spat out a pillar of eerie blue fire, scorching the bone knife.
To be precise, it was the burning of the crystal of resentment embedded in the bone knife handle.
In an instant, a mournful roar echoed throughout the entire altar.
One after another, illusory figures of vengeful spirits emerged from the Crystal of Resentment under the scorching blue soul fire, only to vanish into thin air the next second.
It should be known that the Crystal of Resentment is a crystal formed from the condensation of vengeful spirits that have been imprisoned for an unknown period of time. The heavy-armored skeleton's actions are tantamount to cutting off the source of the problem. As long as these vengeful spirits are completely burned, the crystal will naturally shatter.
At this point, nearly four-fifths of the female corpse inside the stone coffin had turned into a skeleton.
Only the area above the neck still had shriveled skin and flesh hanging on it.
The armored skeleton's rage drove it to unleash even more frantically the ghostly blue soul fire within its body, attempting to destroy the crystal of resentment that had caused all of this as quickly as possible.
boom!
Gunshots rang out from the gray fog.
A silver streak shot out and pierced straight into the skull.
Without the protection of a helmet, its defensive capabilities are inevitably greatly reduced, not to mention that this is a silver bullet.
The silver bullet, imbued with divine properties, burst forth with intense light the moment it touched the ghostly blue soul fire. Even the heavily armored skeleton could hardly withstand it; the pillar of fire it spewed from its mouth suddenly extinguished, and its body swayed as it turned toward the direction from which the gunshot came.
All that could be seen was a pair of dark green beast eyes appearing in the gray mist, followed by a figure rushing towards them.
boom!boom!
Two more gunshots rang out.
One shot pierced the heavily armored skeleton's chest cavity, and another hit it squarely between the eyebrows.
The holy white light and the ghostly blue soul fire clashed fiercely within its body. The continuous impact made it unable to maintain its balance, and it even lost its grip on the bone knife, which slipped from its palm.
Before it even landed, it was snatched away by that figure!
Perhaps seeking revenge, the Crystal of Resentment that had escaped its confinement immediately reactivated the magic array within the stone coffin.
The female corpse could no longer hold on; the remaining flesh of her head instantly turned to ashes, leaving only an empty skeleton.
Seeing this, the heavily armored skeleton was completely enraged. Ignoring the deterioration of its skeleton, the ghostly blue soul fire burst out from the gaps in the skeleton and actually abandoned its body, transforming into a man's face twisted with rage in mid-air.
Roar! ! !
An angry roar instantly echoed throughout the entire library.
Yu Jing then realized why the heavily armored skeleton had behaved so strangely before.
The heavily armored skeletons that were supposed to be waiting for them to besiege in the last room were most likely taken over remotely by some being the moment Yu Jing destroyed the altar coffin!
The most direct evidence is the man's face, contorted with rage.
Only in this way can we explain why it was able to forcefully break through the fog gate and, in the battle, repeatedly displayed a level of intelligence that was completely unlike that of an undead monster.
Of course, now is not the time to dwell on these things.
Yu Jing stared at the dark blue soul fire rapidly approaching him, his heart turning cold.
The beast form is about to end, and the silver bullets have been exhausted.
Now, facing this guy who doesn't look like someone to mess with... can we win?
Just as Yu Jing began to consider whether to turn around and run away, the bone knife in his hand suddenly emitted a dark purple aura.
The guy that Resentment Crystal had been "longing" for has finally appeared!