Volume 1 Chapter 46 Demon Soul

The moment the skeleton warrior's blade slipped off obliquely, Thor pounced and fled from the opponent's attack range in confusion.

Kneading his muscular arms, Thor looked at the tall skeleton that had returned to wandering after losing its target.

Thor suspected that it had crawled out of the graveyard somewhere in the middle of tonight's battle to join the battlefield, because if it had been on the battlefield from the beginning, he and Lorton and the others must have encountered it in terms of probability.

The terrifying power of the other party is far beyond cognition, and it is conceivable that once the four of them face it, even if they don't get blown up, it will definitely be a bitter battle.

Because of his presence, those skeletons with weak perception gradually had a tendency to surround this side, and Thor finally glanced at the entire battlefield, and decisively turned around and walked towards the gap in the iron bar.

It's time to get out of tonight's fight.

It is theoretically unlikely that these wandering skeletons will find the wellhead beneath the wreckage of the carriage, but the probability is always there.

Thor has no way to do this, the strength of this skeleton warrior is not at all what he can compete with, even if Thor is confident that he can find a new tactic from the speed advantage, but the opponent's constant resurrection deprives the meaning of the battle.

Even if you are lucky enough to knock it away, it will eventually stand up again.

So Thor now has no choice but to leave.

...... Skeletons, resurrections, annihilation.

Messy thoughts flowed through his mind, and after taking a few steps, Thor suddenly stopped.

He suddenly remembered a joke he had read in a certain book.

It's a short adventure story to be exact, roughly about an adventurer who receives a commission from a tavern in the town to bring back the skull of a skeleton mage, which can be used as alchemical material.

When the adventurer took the commission and prepared to embark on his journey, the tavernkeeper played a joke with him.

"If you get a skull and you find it looking at you affectionately, slam it until it no longer shines. The tavern owner said.

Thinking of this, Thor suddenly turned around and looked at the tall skeleton not far away with green fire burning in its eyes.

Glowing skulls?

Thor had always thought it was just a story.

...... But what's the point of trying?

Back on the battlefield, Thor approached the skeleton warrior again with a one-handed hammer.

After clearing a circular range around the opponent, Thor did not rush into action, but began to use his speed to circle around the skeleton warrior, taking the distance while constantly probing the boundary of the opponent's attack range.

Soon, Thor laughed, and he realized that the skeleton was not as invincible as he thought.

When humans find an enemy approaching them behind them, they often use their intuition to use the weapon in their hands to sweep back behind them, or use their heels to maintain their body center of gravity and quickly turn to face the opponent.

The same goes for this skeleton warrior, except that his turn is a little funny.

First the skull, then the chest, then the lower body, like a rusty and incoherent machine.

The whole turn, though sluggish and inconspicuous, was enough for Thor.

After going around the back of the skeleton warrior for the third time, and making sure that the opponent's reaction was really sluggish and not an illusion of luring the enemy, Thor suddenly burst into speed, quickly approaching, and then suddenly jumped.

"Bang!"

The timing was so good that the skeleton warrior's head had barely begun to turn, and Thor had already smashed the hammer with all his hands into the back of its head, and he almost dislocated his own arm from the force.

The blow was so solid that the skeleton warrior's head fell to the ground with a thud and rolled out of the distance, scattering the skeleton of his body with a 'click'.

Thor didn't expect to be able to hit it in one hit.

However, he didn't have a happy expression on his face, just calmly stood aside with a hammer and watched.

Until the broken bones on the ground reassembled, and the skull slowly rolled back, back to its original position on its body.

Sure enough, it stood up again.

After verifying the skeleton warrior's first resurrection, Thor repeated his old trick and smashed his opponent's head away once more.

But this time, as soon as the skull landed and rolled, Thor had already started to run after it, and after kicking the skull out of a distance, Thor shook the hammer in his hand into the wind.

The bones of the skull are hard, and they have not decayed due to weathering and corrosion as expected.

After Thor was beaten in a haphazard manner, dust was everywhere on the ground, and the half-covered helmet that had been fastened to the skull had long since been deformed beyond recognition.

Calculating the resurrection time of the other party, Thor didn't even carefully check the effect he had caused, and decisively pulled the skull into an open tomb next to him with his foot, and then quickly buried the entire head with the surrounding dirt.

Thor wanted to see if the skull would break through the dirt and emerge from the ground.

He even decided that if the skeleton warrior was resurrected again, he would knock it apart again, and then throw its head into the wilderness behind the parapet with his hand to see if it would come back......

Just as Thor's thoughts were flying, for a moment, as if time had suddenly stopped flowing, the ordinary skeletons who had been pushing and pushing to get closer to this place suddenly fell to a standstill at the same time.

The next moment, all the skeletons suddenly disintegrated into dust at the same time, like sand sculptures destroyed by a strong wind.

Looking at that strange scene, Thor didn't even have time to be shocked before he was attracted by the strange sight at his feet.

Right in front of him, in the place where the skeletal warrior's head had been buried, a gray flame appeared at some point.

The flame was small, emitting a faint light on the ground, as if not even the wind could alter its swaying.

Staring at the scene in front of him, Thor's whole body trembled a little with excitement, and he took a deep breath, and his eyes quickly swept around like a thief.

There was no one around, and there was silence in the empty cemetery, except for the distant shouts over the town.

It's a demon spirit!

Although Thor had only heard of such a thing and had never seen it, Thor had an intuition at the first sight of it at this moment.

The nameless old man had taught Thor some combat knowledge in just three days, and he had even mentioned the matter of promotion at the beginning.

When he returned to the bottom of the well to communicate with Xiugus, Xiugus also said that he had actually known for a long time, and the reason why he never mentioned it was because the matter of promotion had nothing to do with the two orphans, at least not yet.

In fact, the matter of advancing to the rank is not a secret among adventurers.

It is said that the demonic beasts and certain unique monsters in the dark wilderness will appear after being hunted, and any ordinary person can gradually accumulate them by absorbing them, so as to finally break through the physical boundaries and achieve the process of advancement.

The reason why Thor and Shogues have not been so concerned is because if they want to obtain the Demon Soul, they must go to the wilderness to fight for their lives.

This means that they must be strong enough to become an adventurer and join a strong adventuring party.

Even if they are lucky enough to be on a certain team, the monsters and monsters that are said to produce demon spirits are usually unique or powerful.

And even if they can survive the battle of life and death, it is far from the turn of the two orphans to be prioritized according to the contribution of the adventurer squad.

Now, a demon soul has appeared in front of his eyes.