Chapter 72: The Bone Vine II

Looking at the small piece of vine tissue in his hand, Rhodes realized the type of vine that had attacked the vampire in the first place.

Based on some experience in his previous life, coupled with the scenes he had seen before, Rhodes guessed that the creature guarding the mansion should be a special undead creature, the bone vine. The original rattan that attacked the vampire was part of the bone vine.

After a high-level plant dies for some reason, a necromancer can transform it into a special undead creature through a series of spiritualist rituals, and bone vines are one of the more common ones.

Because it is a special undead creature, the bone vine has excellent potential, and can grow by devouring the flesh and blood of creatures, and after cultivating, it is extremely conducive to defense, and it is a relatively top existence among creatures of the same level.

However, although this bone vine is extremely powerful, it still has a lot of limitations.

The amount of flesh and blood required to cultivate the bone vine is extremely large, and due to its own sake, the bone vine cannot leave the location of the root system like a regular undead creature.

Once the bone vine is cultivated, it can only stick to one place. In addition, the bone vine needs to devour a large amount of flesh and blood as nourishment every day, otherwise it will show a state of malaise, and it will be difficult to exert its strength.

When the rank of the bone vine reaches a certain level, the ordinary flesh and blood can only allow the bone vine to maintain its current strength, but it cannot increase the rank of the bone vine.

Since the main body is also a plant, the bone vine cannot be improved by absorbing death energy like ordinary undead creatures. The bone vine must devour high-quality flesh and blood in order to gain an increase in strength.

Generally speaking, this bone vine is cultivated for defense by medium-sized undead towns or above, and it is only able to exert its maximum strength due to the fact that the entire town is used as a supply of flesh and blood.

As a result, necromancers often leave the vine dormant until enough flesh has been accumulated before awakening it. When the bone vine is dormant, it does not need to devour flesh every day.

Rod realizes that this is why the mayor retreats to the interior of the mansion in the first place. Mayor Mare ignored the outcome of Rhodes' battle with the necromancer, and went to the mansion first, precisely to awaken the bone vine from its dormant state.

At this time, Rhodes had already identified the undead creatures defending the mansion as bone vines. Knowing this, and thinking of the strength shown by the bone vine before, Rod knew that he couldn't be in a hurry.

Rod looked at the small piece of tissue in his hand, most of the bone vine's body was this structure, and only the position near the core would change.

Rod took this small piece of tissue and went to the candlestick not far away, and placed it on the candlestick to burn it.

Although in the previous trial, the bone vine showed resistance to flames, but to what extent this resistance has reached, and how much effective damage the flames can cause to the bone vine, Rod needs to be further confirmed.

Undead creatures generally do not have high resistance to fire, and no matter what kind of undead creatures they are, they cannot withstand the scorching heat of fire for a long time.

When Rod first got his hands on the tissue, the small piece of tissue took on a white color, which should have been its original color. Under the illumination of the flames, the tissues on the bone vine take on a special red color, and the closer you get to the fire, the deeper this red becomes.

Rod looked inside the menorah. As the flame burns, this small piece of tissue gradually changes.

At this time, through the burning of the flames, it didn't take long for a burnt black color to appear on the tissues of the bone vines, and the black gradually expanded from the center of the burning to the periphery, and finally the entire tissue turned into this color, and it seemed that it could be torn off with a light pull.

Seeing this, Rhodes knew that the bone vine's resistance to flames was not as good as he originally thought, and it could only be said to be average, stronger than low-level undead creatures like walking corpses.

Rhodes realized that fire could make a difference. This is also the reason why the Bone Vine will directly attack the ghost holding the torch, and immediately extinguish the torch on the ground after killing the ghost.

In the process of extinguishing the torch, because the single rattan of the bone vine is relatively wide and can produce great power, under the successive whips, the flame will be extinguished, and if it takes a long time, the bone vine will also be burned by the flames.

At this time, Rhodes couldn't help but think that if he mastered the magic of the wall of fire, and when the mana was sufficient, it would undoubtedly be much easier to deal with the bone vine in front of him.

Due to his previous rush to subdue the undead creatures, Rhodes did not search for the magic book carried by the necromancer, although he could learn the spell of the wall of fire in this way, but due to the lack of mana, Rhodes was still unable to cast it.

Therefore, even if he knew that the flames could deal with the bone vine, Rhodes still needed to do it like a suitable method.

With the candle flame beside him, Rhodes re-lit a torch.

Rhodes had just handed the torch to the ghost when a stream of water descended from the sky and extinguished the torch in the ghost's hand. At the same time, multiple streams of water appeared, causing all the candlesticks inside the mansion to be extinguished.

Rod knew that this was the mayor's response from the mayor, who had been secretly watching the situation.

Using spells to directly condense water flows is like directly creating flames, and it doesn't consume much mana, so Rhodes's method only makes the mayor consume some mana.

This created stream of water can be generated from any location, depending on the caster's intentions. Even if the mayor is standing in the room, the water can be poured directly from above due to the short distance.

If the mayor of the town originally left the flames on the menorah to observe the situation of the members who entered the mansion, then by this time the mayor had obtained the information he needed, and immediately extinguished the surrounding fires after discovering that Rhodes wanted to use the flames to set the mansion on fire.

Compared with creating a flow of water, the mayor's move undoubtedly made Rhodes understand something. Even if the mayor is inside the room, he can see what Rhodes is doing outside the room through some means, which makes Rod wary.

Due to the extinguishing of the surrounding fire, the light inside the mansion dimmed instantly, and it was difficult for Rhodes to see the surrounding things, only in the room where the bone vine was, there was still a slight light.

Inside the dark mansion, a flame illuminates the surroundings. Rhodes directly uses mana to light the torch.

Rhodes stood there and waited for a while, but the water did not come again, giving Rhodes some confirmation of the way the mayor observed him.

Giving the torch to the ghost on the side, Rhodes didn't let the ghost try to light the mansion, but just held the torch for lighting.

Rhodes knew in his heart that if it was just a light light, the mayor would not extinguish the torches with a stream of water. As Rhodes had confirmed, the mayor also needed the light provided by the flame in order to observe himself outside the room.

Unable to set the mansion on fire directly, Rhodes began to think about what to do with the bone vines.

According to Rod, the best way to deal with the mayor is to leave the mansion and send undead creatures to monitor every move in the mansion.

After learning the magic recorded in the necromancer's magic book, and the mana has been restored, it is undoubtedly much easier for Rhodes to deal with the bone vines in the mansion, and perhaps this is the easiest way to deal with the mayor.

Since the bone vine needs to consume a lot of flesh and blood every day after being awakened, as long as Rhodes surrounds this place, it won't be long before the bone vine loses most of its strength even if Rhodes doesn't attack.

But, as Rhodes had predicted, it wouldn't be long before the war between Diya and Eli began. Rhodes needs to get to the Necromancy Academy before the war begins, in order to get the most benefits.

Rhodes has been in the town for a few days, and if it goes on like this, even if Rhodes kills the mayor without much loss, Rhodes also loses the opportunity to gain more from the war.

At this time, Rhodes made his own judgment, that is, he could only attack, relying on these undead creatures under his control, although he didn't know how much loss there would be, as long as he could take down the mayor, Rhodes could accept it.

In the previous battle, the mayors of the four spells were used, and Rhodes didn't know why this necromancer chose to come here and become a mayor instead of studying at the Necromancer Academy.

Rhodes knew that assault was also a strategy, and it was undoubtedly the worst option to let all the undead creatures rush at once. When the undead creature will strike and how to dispatch it all need to be judged by the necromancer himself.

In this regard, the player can choose to learn a special skill: Tactics, which will give you a command boost.

And Rod didn't choose to learn tactics, because it is not a necessary skill, relying on his own combat experience alone, Rod can also command undead creatures, so Rod doesn't want to spend attribute points to learn.

Previously, vampires could still scratch the parts on the rattan when they were entangled in the rattan, but due to the short time, they didn't do much damage to the rattan.

This means that ghosts and ghosts can also deal a lot of damage to rattans, but be careful that rattans cooperate with each other, otherwise they will be killed by rattans.

Under Rod's control, the surrounding undead creatures immediately prepared and came to the door of this room.

At this point, following Rod's instructions, the vampire entered the room first.

Behind the vampire are the three ghosts controlled by Rhodes, and in order to ensure that they can deal with the bone vines, Rhodes sent out all three ghosts under his control. However, at this time, the Yin Spirit did not move, and was still outside the door, waiting for the vampire to enter first.

Compared to the ghosts, the ghosts have poor basic attributes, they are difficult to withstand a single attack of the rattan, and will make the space crowded, which is not conducive to other undead creatures to avoid the attack of the rattan, so Rhodes did not let these ghosts come forward to fight, but waited outside.

No sooner had the vampire entered the room than a rattan bolt shot straight at the vampire.

Following Rod's instructions, the vampire quickly dodged to the side, and the rattan struck the air.

The speed of the rattan shooting straight out is extremely fast, and while the vampire dodges, the front part of the rattan has reached the back of the vampire.

The tip of the rattan exerts force, and it wraps around the vampire's side, and then wraps around the vampire.

At this moment, several rattans shot out from the rear again, striking towards the vampire.

The Yin Spirit, on the other hand, stepped forward directly at Rod's order, blocking the vampire's front.

The rattan struck the Yin Soul, and the Yin Soul couldn't dodge, and was hit by the rattan and took a few steps back, but then the dark light on his body flowed, and the injury gradually recovered.

In addition to one rattan that entangled the vampire, several other rattans wanted to attack the vampire, but were blocked by the yin spirit next to them.

Although his body was entangled in rattans, since there was no attack from other rattans, the vampire took advantage of this opportunity to tear the bone vines on his body with all his might.

Under the vampire's tearing, part of the rattan wrapped around its body was torn apart, but it still did nothing compared to the whole of the rattan, and the vampire was entangled to death.

The rattan is so tough that even if the vampire pulls it with all his might, it can't be torn off, and only a small part of it is torn apart at a time.

At this moment, the vampire, who was tearing at the rattan, was unsteady on his feet, and slammed into the room a few steps before he stopped his pace and almost hit the yin in front of him.

It turned out that just as the vampire was tearing the rattan, a huge force suddenly came from the rattan, wanting to take the vampire to retract backwards, directly making the vampire stand unsteadily.

Fortunately, the vampire stopped his forward rush in time. The vampire kept moving, confronting the rattan pulling force with all his might, and continued to tear the rattan with his claws.

Two more rattans struck, but they were blocked one by one by the ghosts in front of the vampire. The Yin Soul is not afraid of the slapping of the rattan, as long as the location of the hit is not the head, the Yin Soul can recover by relying on its own characteristics.

Therefore, the Yin is a great help for vampires to fend off rattan attacks.

The rattan was slapped several times in succession, but it did not achieve good results. The vampire had already torn off most of the rattan wrapped around him, and he only needed to continue attacking for a moment to rip off the front of the rattan from one part.

The bone vine also seemed to realize this, and the rattan that was originally wrapped around the vampire's body was instantly released, trying to pull back to the rear, but the vampire directly grabbed the retreating rattan, making it impossible to retreat.

At this point, the rattan that was grabbed by the vampire began to swing violently, struggling violently in the vampire's hands, trying to break free from the vampire's control.

At that moment, a blade slashed down, slashing directly at the part of the rattan that had been torn by the vampire. At some point, Rhodes came to the vampire's side and joined the fight.

Although it was torn by the vampires, the rattan was still tough on the outside, and it directly bounced off the blade that Rhodes had cut off.

Seeing that the weapon in his hand could not deal effective damage to the rattan, Rhodes quickly took out a dagger from the spatial ring.

The dagger slashed across Rod's arm, and the red light flashed.

Rhodes swung his dagger without any hindrance, and in an instant he severed the vine wrapped around the vampire.