Suddenly, black smoke crazily surged, emitting a bone-chilling aura. Everyone's expressions changed when they felt that aura. At this time, they saw a bony black silhouette walking out of the thick black smoke.
"Shit …"
Seeing this scene, cold sweat trickled down everyone's back. The Lich still hadn't died!
Lin Yun inwardly shook his head. He had only wanted to try summoning the Lich, he hadn't expected the others to have such a huge reaction. When the spiritual connection was severed, the Undead Horseman and the Lich's silhouettes gradually blurred and turned into black smoke as they returned to the Book of Death. Lin Yun then saw that there were two diagrams on the Book of Death, the Undead Horseman and the Lich.
After going through this arduous battle, everyone except Lin Yun had used up a lot of mana, and their fighting power had declined. They were clearly exhausted, and some of them had even suffered minor injuries. If they encountered an Undead lifeform like the Lich, they might be in danger.
"This netherworld is far more dangerous than we can imagine. Furthermore, the number of high-ranked netherworld creatures is definitely not small. The Lich might have been attracted by the dense death energy. Let's keep going deeper, it's too dangerous to stay here … "
Lin Yun greeted everyone before hurrying forward. He had been in the undead space for less than a day and had personally experienced how dangerous this place was. Although it couldn't compare to the 8th Floor's magic beast space, meeting two powerful Undeads in one day was something even he couldn't handle.
He was now certain that the people Baiers had brought with him had most likely died here and turned into Undead lifeforms. Lagulin and Barton were only one of them. There might be even more high-ranked Undead lifeforms slumbering in some corners of the Undead Space.
He couldn't help worrying.
'Was there a Heaven Rank powerhouse among the group that Baiers brought?' If there was a Heaven Rank powerhouse, then the Undeads they turned into weren't something they could handle.
On the way, Lin Yun roused his Magic Array to its pinnacle.
Very quickly, two hours passed. As they gradually ventured deeper, Lin Yun's group could clearly sense that the surrounding environment had changed greatly. A thick black fog slowly flowed in the surroundings. White bones could be seen everywhere, and a bone-chilling cold aura could be felt...
Moreover, the strength of the Undead creatures had also become very strong. When they had just arrived in the Undead Space, they might not necessarily encounter a Bone Devil even after half an hour. Now, however, one would appear almost every few minutes.
Fortunately, it was just a Bone Devil and could not pose a threat to Lin Yun's group at all. In these two hours, no high-level Undead creatures appeared.
"Oh my god, look at that …"
Countless wind spells flew out of his hands and submerged a Bone Devil. Weiss inadvertently glanced at something out of the corner of his eye, as if he had discovered something. His eyes opened wide as he pointed in a certain direction and exclaimed in alarm.
"That is …"
Lin Yun couldn't help frowning as he looked in the direction Weiss was pointing. Because of the black fog, he could only see a white silhouette. It looked like a hundred-meter-tall hill. As he continued to observe, the expression on his face suddenly changed. It wasn't a small mountain at all, but a pile of countless skeletons!
This scene was truly shocking.
How many bones could be piled up to a hundred meters tall?
Moreover, it couldn't have been formed naturally!
Then …
Everyone looked at each other in dismay. They seemed to remember something at the same time and joy appeared on their faces.
"Rumble …"
The Bone Devil let out a roar as it was submerged by the countless wind spells. Its entire body was scattered on the ground and its flickering Soul Fire was thoroughly extinguished. It turned into an Undead Essence that suddenly rushed out and entered the pile of bones.
"If there is nothing unexpected, this should be the place we are looking for …" Delson excitedly looked into the distance. "Baiers' corpse is buried here. If there is nothing unexpected, that crown should also be here."
"Hold on …"
Just as everyone was about to move, a somewhat discordant voice echoed.
"What are we waiting for …" Dean's expression sank on the spot. Not only would they be able to leave this damned place if they took the crown, but they would also be able to obtain that sky-high reward.
After saying that, he remembered that the voice was somewhat familiar, it seemed to be Lin Yun's. Dean immediately turned pale and looked at Lin Yun with an apologetic expression. "High Mage Merlin, that … You …"
Dean wanted to ask what Lin Yun meant, but before he could finish his words, he swallowed them back down his throat. At this time, he already understood what Lin Yun meant by "hold on".
The sound of something breaking through the ground could be heard in front of them. Those were Skeleton Warriors crawling out of the ground, and their numbers were simply indescribable.
"Heavens, why are there so many Undead creatures …" Dean sucked in a breath of cold air as he looked in front of him in panic. Just from the aura alone, he could tell that this was more terrifying than the Undead Army they had encountered before.
"There are at least several tens of thousands of them …" Seeing the Skeleton Warriors crawling out of the ground made everyone feel numb. Delson moved his throat and spoke with difficulty.
"Let's put the matter of the crown aside for now, let's deal with these Undeads first …" Lin Yun had a solemn expression as he looked at the sea of Undeads in the distance. He could only see wisps of phosphorescence, and those Skeleton Warriors were covered in a black aura, so they weren't affected by the Undead Predator.
After saying that, Lin Yun already moved. He softly waved the Doom Staff in his hand, and dense fire elemental fluctuations spread in all directions. A rain of fire fell on the Undead Army, spreading over a hundred meters. In an instant, several dozen Skeleton Warriors' Soul Fires thoroughly dimmed.
Skeleton Warriors were the lowest level of Undeads, their strength was between the Mage and Great Mage realms. Moreover, they were so densely packed, so when Lin Yun cast a large-scale area of effect spell, a group of Skeleton Warriors fell to the ground.
The other people in the team also joined in the slaughter of the Skeleton Warriors. For a moment, flames soared into the sky, and the number of Skeleton Warriors killed was innumerable.
At this time, no one noticed that there was a crack in the pitch-black ground.
Suddenly, a wisp of frightening aura came out of that crack, followed by a deafening rumble. The earth fiercely shook, and the crack in the ground gradually widened as a white finger came out of it.
"Damn, what kind of monster is that …" Lin Yun turned his head in horror, just in time to see the skeletal finger coming out of the ground. It wouldn't have mattered if it had been an ordinary finger, but that finger was a bit too frightening. It was as thick as a person's waist, and just the part that came out of it was a few meters long.
Time slowly passed, and it wasn't just a finger that came out of the crack, but a skeletal arm. The ten-meter-long skeletal arm suddenly slammed the ground, and a loud rumble echoed as the crack in the ground widened once again. Countless Skeleton Warriors were sent flying by the shockwave, and a large portion of them tumbled into the crack.
Beads of sweat trickled down Lin Yun 'forehead. The fluctuations coming from that arm were simply too frightening, making his heart palpitate. He didn't doubt that this arm could kill an Archmage or a Sword Saint.
'What kind of existence is this?'
Lin Yun wasn't the only one who stopped casting. Almost everyone in the team was looking at that huge arm with a change in expression. They were clearly deeply shocked.
The group of Skeleton Warriors scattered in all directions when the arm appeared. They simply couldn't care about attacking Lin Yun's group.
After a few seconds, there was another tremor in the fissure. Then, another white arm stretched out. Suddenly, the two arms slammed heavily on the ground at the same time, causing a cloud of smoke to rise. A golden crown slowly emerged from the fissure, followed by an extremely huge skull. Its eye sockets flickered with two balls of blue phosphorescence. It just stared at everyone without moving.
"What … What is that?"
Everyone was silent for a few seconds, immersed in shock. Delson suddenly broke the silence, bewilderedly looking at the golden crown on the skull's head. "That wouldn't be Baiers, right?"
If it had only been a huge skeleton that didn't conform to common sense, Delson wouldn't have linked it to Baiers, but that crown …
It wasn't just Delson, everyone's eyes were focused on the golden crown.
They all knew that the significance of that crown was extraordinary. When Charles the Emperor shattered the Throne of Life and established the 3rd Dynasty, he found a group of outstanding Dark Iron Dwarves and spent a few dozen years to forge that crown.
And that crown gradually became the inheritance token of the Empire's throne. But after Emperor Zhantui's era, the crown had been lost, to the point that the later members of the royal family had never seen it.
"How could this be … How could this be! Delson, didn't you say that Baiers was slumbering? Why did it come out? You aren't deliberately deceiving us, are you? " Dean was deathly pale as he glared at Delson. He had been somewhat dissatisfied with Delson since he knew so many secrets, yet he didn't tell the other two mercenary groups.
Now that he saw a terrifying existence similar to Baiers crawling out, he couldn't restrain his anger and vented it all out.
How powerful would the body of a Heaven Mage be after transforming into an undead lifeform?
Barton had been a Peak 9th Rank Archmage during his life, but after turning into a Lich, he already had the power of a level 37 Lich. Their team would have a hard time dealing with him, let alone a Heaven Mage. That kind of existence was an existence they couldn't deal with!
"If we had known that this was the case, our Heaven Enlightening Mercenary Group wouldn't have accepted that damned mercenary mission …" Delson bitterly smiled. That descendant of the royal family from the Odin Kingdom had offered a sky-high reward to the Heaven Enlightening Mercenary Group to search for the lost crown in the Tulan Mountain Range.
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