"W-What is this?"

"What are you kidding, it's impossible to win, fight with such a monster!"

The air around them spread with a feeling of fear, the soldiers abandoned their weapons, turned and fled, their legs trembling violently could barely stand normally, and they staggered and fell to the ground after a few steps, so their hands replaced their feet, their fingers dug deep into the dirt, no one noticed the goatmen's withdrawal, the only thought in their minds was to leave the place, even if it was just one more step backwards.

"Line up! Don't run away! You cowards! Give me back! Ballycalf kept roaring, everyone understood the consequences of disobeying orders, but no one hesitated because of this, and still ran away with all their might, even if it was to go to jail, even if it was hanged, it was better to be killed by that kind of monster.

"Whoever deserts without permission, kill! Throwers of weapons! Kill! Balikaf continued to give orders, but unfortunately such words could only be spoken to himself and the horses under his feet, for there was no one around him who could carry out the orders. Ballykaf angrily drew the long sword at his waist, and then the war horse that had followed him for many years began to jump wildly, throwing Ballykav to the ground. His forehead slammed against the rocks on the ground, blood running down his eyes and staining his vision bright red.

Ballycaf got up from the ground in disarray, only to find that the horse had run away.

The soldiers under his command are forgotten, after all, they have been gathered from various towns in the past few days to resist the goats, but the war horse is different, it is a loyal companion who has followed him through many tough battles, and now even he has abandoned it and fled, which shows what a terrifying aura this monster exudes in front of him.

"Father, are you alright?"

Hearing Karan's voice, Ballykaf wiped the blood from his forehead with the back of his hand, turned to look at the young warrior who ran towards him, and the expression on his face looked a little embarrassed, "Lanka, I'm fine. ”

Then his gaze fell on a swordsman behind Lanka, and his face showed a look of joy, "Anjefu, it's not like you're here, it's been a long time!" ”

"You'll have to thank me, old man, if we hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid this kid Lanka wouldn't have come back!" Anjefu looked at the happy expression of the former comrade-in-arms who had joined the army together in front of him.

After listening to Anjev's words, Balikaf looked at Lanka again, it was true that he was covered in blood, and his armor was broken in many places, so he should have experienced a rather difficult battle.

"Lanka, you can't be strong on the battlefield!" Ballycalf's words were still calm and stern, but his eyes were full of worry and anxiety.

"I'm fine, father, I'm still not strong enough," Lanka blushed and lowered his head.

"Anjief, judging by a veteran adventurer like you, can we deal with that monster?" Ballycalf stared at Lanka worriedly for a long time, then looked back at the monster not far away.

"I'm sorry, I've never seen a monster like that, but judging from the aura it emits, I'm afraid the probability that we can defeat it is only one percent." Anjief said with a sigh.

"Ichisei? Anjiefu, you really have confidence in yourself, in my opinion, we have no chance of winning at all, and to defeat such an opponent, I'm afraid only a Crimson-level adventurer can do it. An old voice joined the conversation between Ballycalf and the others.

Everyone looked at the source of the voice, and saw an old man dressed in a high-ranking mage robe, with a pale beard hanging down to his chest, walking over, and after seeing the comer, everyone's faces appeared with respect.

It was a well-known adventurer named Daliola Nicholas, the captain of a team of adventurers called the "Thirteen Magicians". Although he is over eighty years old, he is still active on the battlefield on the front line, which is a very rare situation for adventurers who fight with monsters all year round and have a life-threatening situation at any time, after all, with the increase of age, all the functions of the body will decrease.

"I didn't expect you to come, Teacher Daliora." Anjief and the members of the team all respectfully saluted the old man.

"Ah, after all, Kodev III offered quite a tempting reward," Daliola, who was the current king of the Duchy of Basol, said without hesitation about his reason for being here.

"You just said that the crimson-level adventurer, is that monster really that strong?" Anjiefu looked at the old man with a trace of doubt, adventurers are divided into seven levels according to the strength of red, golden orange, bright yellow, ancestral green, azure blue, dark blue, and dark purple, of which the red level is the highest level of adventurers, and now there are no more than five adventurer teams in the world that can reach the level of red.

"Young man, that monster is called Skeletron, as long as it stands there, it will deprive nearby creatures of energy, if it is expressed in star ratings, but the difficulty of nine stars, and it is a conservative estimate." The old man was at his peak and was a first-class adventurer, and the words of an adventurer with a high reputation and experience like him were quite credible.

"Nine, nine stars?!" Hearing the exclamations of the team members behind him, Anjief frowned, judging from the serious expression on the old man's face, he was definitely not scaring people.

"Damn, such a monster would appear," although he was a soldier, Ballycalf knew a lot about adventurers, and when he heard the Crimson and Nine Stars, he understood the seriousness of the situation.

Only Lanka was still looking blankly at the pale-faced people around him.

"So what do we do now?" Anjiefu sighed and asked, although he was very unwilling, but in the face of such a monster, with the strength of an ancestral green-level team like himself, he was definitely going to die.

"We can only retreat, but fortunately, Skeletron doesn't seem to want to kill us, maybe he can escape." Daliola pointed to Skeletron not far away with a burning green flame, and indeed in the few minutes since he appeared, Skeletron hadn't moved a single step except for a horrible laugh.

"Okay, everyone retreat!" Anjev gave orders to the members of his squad, and then looked at Ballycalfe, "Old man, how are you?" ”

Balikav clenched the sword in his hand and looked at Lanka beside him, he was a soldier but a father, and he didn't want his son to die in vain, "I understand, let's retreat to the town first." ”

Warriors protect mages and archers, and multiple teams of adventurers slowly retreat from different locations, trying not to attract Skeletron's attention. Unlike the desperate frenzied flight of the soldiers, the adventurers retreated in an orderly manner, although they also suffered the same fear.

The wheat ears swayed in the dark night, like countless strange tentacles sticking out of the ground, and Skeletron, who had always remained motionless, suddenly stretched out his dark sword into the sky and let out a roar like a huge thunder. There was a small cracking sound all over the wheat field, and a large number of skeleton soldiers were born from the corpses, quickly rushing towards the adventurers.

"They're coming!" I don't know who shouted, the adventurers took a deep breath almost at the same time, although the will to fight has been worn out by the appearance of Skeletron, but in the face of the charging skeleton soldiers, there is no choice but to fight.

The warriors roared to drive away the fear in their hearts, the archers kissed the arrows and pulled the bowstrings, and the magicians unleashed a brilliant magical glow, just as everyone was forced to come to their senses.

Skeletron, burning with the fire of hell, suddenly disappeared from everyone's sight, leaving only a kilometer in diameter of the withered earth corrupted by death.

The magicians hurriedly performed their magic detection, but they couldn't sense Skeletron's breath around them, and although they didn't know where it had gone, they were certain that the monster had left.

"It's gone!" The magicians screamed excitedly, maybe the moment of graduating from the Academy of Magic was not as exciting as this moment. Hearing this message, the adventurers all let out a cry as if they had won a long battle. Although the skeletons were coming from all sides, the hearts of all were immersed in the ecstasy of escaping death.

"Clean up these minions, I need a drink today!" Anjef swung his broadsword in his hand.

"I'm in for a treat!" Ballycalf patted him on the shoulder and took the lead in rushing into the skeletons.