CHAPTER XVI
The entrance to the tomb was just below the tree, and according to Rod's idea, he could sneak into the tomb without being discovered by the wolves.
But what Rod didn't expect was that when he went down to the middle of the tree, I don't know if it was due to the leakage of breath, or the beast's extreme sensitivity to danger, the wolf king who was eating raised his head violently and looked straight at him.
Suddenly, the wolf king let out a loud howl. In the middle of the night, this howl is extremely penetrating. The surrounding wolves stopped eating and looked at the wolf king.
Even when the wolf king howled, Rhodes was not idle.
Since his whereabouts were discovered, Rhodes was no longer hidden, jumping directly from the middle of the tree towards the entrance of the tomb, and when he landed, he rolled to remove most of the impact, and rushed towards the depths of the tomb without looking back.
After rushing less than ten meters, the wolf king in the rear chased directly into the tomb.
The wolf king's howl brought the other wolves in the pack together. They lingered at the entrance of the tomb for a moment, looking a little hesitant, but eventually rushed into the tomb with the wolf king.
The passage inside the tomb is not very long. At first, Rhodes had to observe the terrain in the passage of the tomb while dealing with the undead creatures, and it didn't take long for him to leave the tomb.
In a very short period of time, Rhodes, who was running at full speed, had crossed the position where he had killed the skeleton warrior earlier, and was not far from the place where the walking corpses were placed.
Suddenly, Rhodes, who was running, was shaken, and he felt a palpitation. The perceptual effect of the Scouting technique was raised to the extreme, and Rhodes only felt that his hairs stood on end all over his body, as if he was in great danger.
Rod quickly turned his head and saw the running wolf king open his mouth to condense a stream of magical energy, and then a magic arrow took shape and shot at him at an extremely fast speed.
Rhodes hurriedly took out a shield from the spatial ring. In order to avoid slowing down himself, Rhodes threw his shield directly in the direction of the path of the magic arrow.
The magic arrow hits the shield. With a loud bang, the shield was knocked down and fell to the ground, with cracks lining its surface.
Although Rhodes minimized the time it took to take out his shield and throw it, it inevitably affected himself. The distance between the Wolf King and Rhodes was significantly shortened.
Rhodes didn't care about saving the scroll, so he immediately took out the space ring and tore open a magic arrow scroll. The broken scroll fell to the ground, apparently unusable.
In the air, a magical arrow took shape and shot towards the wolf king. Because it is a magic generated by using scrolls, it is not as bright and fast as the magic arrow cast by the wolf king.
Although his own mana was enough to cast a magic arrow, Rhodes decisively chose to use the spell scroll directly in order to perform the spiritualism.
The Wolf King slowed down and dodged to the side, avoiding the magic arrow. Although the dodge time was not long, it was enough for Rod to run a large distance at full speed.
The wolf king sped up, still choosing to pursue Rhodes behind.
As Rhodes advanced, the passage changed from wide to narrow. Finally, Rhodes saw the figure of the skeleton warrior in front of him.
Rhodes found that he had returned to where he had first woken up, surrounded by corpses.
At the same time that Rhodes saw the Skeleton Warrior, the Skeleton Warrior also spotted Rhodes and prepared to raise his sword and slash at Rod.
Rhodes stared at the soul fire in the skull warrior's eyes. After mastering the spirit imprint, Rhodes could see the simple emotions displayed by the soul fire.
Resentment, unwillingness, bloodthirsty, thirsty for killing...... All kinds of emotions are contained in the soul fire of the skeleton warrior, but there is one thing missing, and that is his own will.
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"Use the [Spirit Mark] ......"
"You're trying to take control of a first-order undead creature: the Skeleton Warrior."
"Determination ...... will in progress"
"You've managed to take control of the Skeleton Warrior! For the duration of the Spirit Sign, your Spirit Stats are reduced by 0.3! ”
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In a trance, Rod felt as if his spirit was missing a little. At the same time, an inexplicable connection appeared in Rod's mind, and the object of contact was the skeleton warrior in front of him.
Rhodes developed a feeling that he could command the Skeleton Warriors to do anything.
The skeletal warrior who was about to slash with his sword raised put his weapon down. Seeing that the wolf king in the rear was about to chase after him, Rhodes asked the skeleton warriors to fend off.
Another skeleton warrior should be in the burial chamber in the rear. Rod didn't immediately enter the tomb to control it, but instead focused his gaze on the surrounding corpses......
The wolf king in the rear had already arrived, and was fighting with the skeleton warriors, and no one could help anyone for a while.
Unlike Rhodes' flesh and blood, skeleton-like undead creatures have a huge advantage when facing wolves.
Skeleton Warriors don't have flesh and blood, and they don't have to worry about getting hurt. Unable to bite the bones in the Skeleton Warrior's legs, the Wolf King struggles to limit its mobility by applying damage, and instead has to dodge the blades slashed by the Skeleton Warrior.
Skeleton Warriors have a high base stat and rank among the top first-tier creatures. As long as the skeleton warrior slashes with a sword, the wolf king will also be uncomfortable.
Although the rank of the Wolf King is higher than that of the Skeleton Warrior, due to the characteristic restraint, the Skeleton Warrior cannot be solved for a while.
While the Wolf King and the Skeleton Warrior were fighting, Rhodes entered the burial chamber in the rear, preparing to take control of another Skeleton Warrior.
At this time, the wolves in the rear finally arrived and besieged the skeleton warriors with the wolf king.
Due to the large numerical advantage, the Skeleton Warrior only had time to kill a few wolves, and the Wolf King found an opportunity, taking advantage of the gap left by the Skeleton Warrior when he drew his sword, a magic arrow hit its cervical vertebrae.
After killing the Skeleton Warriors, the wolves, led by the Wolf King, crossed over the corpses in the area and prepared to enter the burial chamber in the rear.
Rhodes stood in the tomb with his weapon in hand, as if he was waiting for the wolves to enter, and there was no sneer on his face as if he had entered the tomb with the same urgency as before.
The beast's perception of danger made the wolf king feel that something was wrong for the first time, and before it could howl and command the wolves around it, the wolves first made a commotion.
It turned out that at some point, a large number of walking corpses appeared in the rear of the wolf pack.
As he passed by his previous location, the Wolf King could tell that there were some corpses around, but he didn't pay attention to them. Just like the corpses outside, the beast's wisdom made it difficult for the wolf king to be wary of the corpses on the ground.
Now, the corpses stood up again, and in a strange posture of shrugging their bodies, they gathered around the wolves.
The reason for the appearance of this group of walking corpses is that Rhodes casts a spiritualist spell on the corpses on display. After casting the conjuring, Rhodes immediately used the spirit mark to control the group of walking corpses.
Rhodes manipulated the group of walking corpses with a spirit imprint, telling them not to make any movements, and only waited until the wolves had passed them without noticing before letting them get up.
From the beginning, Rhodes had no intention of letting any of the wolves out there. In order to stop the wolves who felt wrong from escaping, Rhodes came up with this method.
With the walking corpse cutting off the retreat in the rear, Rhodes wants to besiege the wolves here!