Chapter 2: Skeleton Soldiers

Rod observed the terrain and found that this was a strip-like space, with obvious passages in front and behind, the passage on one side was the location where the roar came from before, the passage was relatively narrow and long, and the passage on the other side was only a little bright, which was not as fluorescent as the light in this long space.

"Since the richer the dying energy, the faster the transformation of undead creatures, these corpses should be placed closest to the main burial chamber here. Well, this should be the closest thing to the burial chamber in the tomb. ”

"That apprentice will definitely arrange a part of the undead in the passage to be guarded, the side where the roar comes is the passage, and the other side leads to the main burial chamber, that necromancer will definitely not think that someone can pass the guards of the passage and enter the main burial chamber directly, there should be no danger in the burial chamber."

"Let's go to the tomb first and see if there are any supplies, after all, you can't deal with the undead in the passage with your hands."

With this in mind, Rhodes began to move, carefully stepping over the corpses displayed at his feet and slowly walking to the tomb.

With the help of the glimmer of light in the tomb, Rhodes observed the situation in the tomb, there were a large number of materials piled up on both sides of the tomb, including some valuable items looted from the village, enough for one person to eat dry food for half a month, as well as several sets of worn leather armor equipment, and a few rusty iron swords stacked in the corner, which should be used to arm the undead creatures.

At the end of the chamber was an intact coffin, and although it was not looked closely, the death energy it emitted represented a mid-to-high-level undead creature sleeping inside.

Seeing this, Rhodes stepped forward and chose and changed into a set of leather armor that looked relatively intact, and then selected a relatively intact iron sword from the corner of the wall. Although he didn't look closely at the system's evaluation, from the appearance of these items alone, Rhodes also knew that their properties were not very good.

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【Worn-out Leather Armor】

Equipment Requirements: None

Basic attributes: Armor +3, Durability 13/20

Evaluation: Instead of putting hope in it, it is better to put hope in your body.

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【Rusty Iron Sword】

Equipment Requirements: None

Basic attributes: +3 kill, 4/10 durability

Comments: The iron sword has been placed for an unknown amount of time, and it can still fight for you for a while due to its good maintenance.

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Swapped into the best gear available in the current situation, Rhodes was ready to get moving. According to Rod's guess, since the attribute panel is still there, and various equipment can still display attributes, the way to obtain experience points will not change much.

Armed with his gear, Rhodes returned to where he had displayed his body, and walked slowly towards the passage outside the tomb.

Coming to the passage, Rhodes observed the terrain and found that the road suddenly changed from empty to narrow, which was undoubtedly good news, which meant that Rhodes did not have to face more than one enemy at the same time.

Continuing to walk slowly, Rhodes could clearly hear some meaningless roars. Rhodes concentrated, gripped his weapon, and looked into the darkness of the passage.

Rhodes was sure that the first enemy he would face was the skeletons. Although it had not yet seen the full extent of the enemy, the skeletal body undoubtedly revealed its identity.

Skeleton soldiers, low-level undead creatures, whose attributes are slightly higher than those of adult men except for their physique, only retain the most basic sense of battle, and can't beat well-trained swordsmen without necromancer control, and can only be used to consume the enemy's physical strength on a larger battlefield, and together with the walking corpse, they are called the two major cannon fodder on the battlefield.

There has been a lot of debate in the player forums about who is the most rubbish undead creature between skeletons and walking corpses, but these are of no use to Rhodes at the moment, because Rhodes's body is still developing, and his own attributes are not even comparable to the average adult man.

"Can you only fight hard......

Rhodes sighed, and wanted to kill the skeleton soldier unless he decapitated it, otherwise he could only drain the energy of the undead fire by dealing damage, which is commonly known as running out of health.

Since he didn't know the number of enemies behind the passage and the necromancers he might face, Rhodes was obviously unwilling to get too entangled with the skeleton soldiers in front of him, and could only find a way to decapitate them when his attributes were slightly worse.

This kind of putting one's life entirely on the skill of fighting is actually a very disadvantageous choice, if there is another better choice, Rod will definitely not choose to forcibly decapitate, and it is much easier to get attributes and other advantages in a battle.

The main reason is that the basic attributes of this body are too poor, if it is the attributes of a normal adult man, Rhodes is confident that he can rely on his combat skills to consume the skeleton soldiers. But Rhodes won't complain about anything, after all, the battle still has to be fought, but it needs to be done in a different way.

Rod's thoughts on the spot delayed for a while, and after a long delay, no one knew what would happen when the necromancer apprentice returned.

Thinking of this, Rhodes looked around at his feet, then bent down to pick up a stone the size of an egg, and then slammed it down on the skeleton soldier in front of him.

Due to the poor lighting and low stats, the stone did not hit the skeleton's skull as Rhodes had thought, but instead smashed into the skeleton's sternum, causing the skeleton to take two steps back.

The characteristics of the undead creatures made the skeleton soldier not startled by the sudden attack, but after stabilizing his footing, he directly raised his knife and rushed towards Rhodes.

The skeleton rushed in front of Rhodes, then slashed at Rhodes with a fierce swing of his sword.

It stands to reason that in order to deal with the skeleton's shocking attack, Rhodes should have retreated and parried while looking for an opportunity to counterattack, but instead of doing so, Rhodes met the skeleton's attack as it was about to arrive, stabbing his sword diagonally upwards while his body bent diagonally in an unnatural position.

If someone were watching at this moment, they would have found that it was not so much that Rod's sword stabbed the Skeleton Soldier's cervical vertebrae when the strength of his arm was at its maximum, but that the Skeleton Soldier took the initiative to use his cervical vertebrae to meet Rod's stabbing blow, and Rod's body skillfully avoided the Skeleton Soldier's attack by a slight margin.

For!

With a crisp sound, a skull fell to the ground, the soul fire in the skull slowly extinguished, and Rhodes also collapsed from exhaustion at this time, resting against the wall next to him, calming his violent heartbeat.

Although the previous battle was extremely short, and the victory and defeat were determined in just an instant, the consumption brought was extremely high, especially the mental attrition.

It seems that Rhodes killed the skeleton soldier with a simple sword, but it contains great danger.

The first is the timing of the attack, once the timing is not right, the blade does not stab or stabs but does not kill the skeleton, then the next attack on the skeleton soldier will not be able to dodge, and can only be injured. The second is to dodge the original attack after killing the skeleton, which is even more mentally draining.

I don't know if it's because of mental attrition, Rod feels that his physical strength has also been consumed a lot.