Volume 1: The Second Coming (Remastered) Chapter 9: A Difficult Quest (2)

The closer he got to the Heroes' Cemetery, the stronger Yu Bin felt the power of light that filled the air.

"You and your soldiers have 50% less health and mana regeneration and 50% less Light Resistance due to being suppressed by the Light Force."

"Due to the protection of the Light Force, all human soldiers have 50% more health to mana regeneration and 50% more damage from Light skills."

Terrifying suppression and buff effects! It's no wonder that the undead player in his previous life almost couldn't complete the mission with so many troops.

However, for Yu Bin, it was fortunate that the skeleton's pitifully low combat power made such a terrible suppression effect not have much practical significance.

Yu Bin asked the 6 cannon fodder to retreat, found a place where the fence was broken, and secretly entered the hero's cemetery.

Although it is known as a cemetery of heroes, the most visible here are large half-height flower beds and neatly arranged tombs, and the marble tombs are topped with heavy obsidian tombstones carved with the names and brief biographies of the tomb owners carved in the lingua franca. In addition to this, there are various statues and memorial monuments dotted within.

Judging from the biographical accounts engraved on these tombstones, those buried here are those soldiers who fought bravely and died honorably, and those who appear in the hero's biographies should be buried deeper in the cemetery.

It had not been long before a garrison came around the corner of the flower bed.

Yu Bin knew that the most important time had come, in his previous life, the cemetery guards here were mainly Radiant Crusade with priests, who could resist and fight and milk, and there was a small group of holy knights guarding outside the cathedral in the center of the cemetery. These troops are the main arms of the Terrans, and their combat effectiveness is simply off the charts! If it's the same this time, then he won't have any chance.

As the guards got closer and closer, Yu Bin, who was hiding in the flower bed, finally saw the configuration of this guard team clearly - three spearmen and one crossbowman!

Surprisingly low-level troops!

Yu Bin decisively rushed out of the flower bed, and took the opportunity of the sudden attack to smash a fist into the head of a spearman.

The soldiers who can be assigned to serve as guards in the Heroes' Cemetery are naturally not those who have just transferred from the farmer, and they react very quickly. Without hesitation, the three spearmen raised their spears and stabbed forward, blocking the way for Yu Bin to continue advancing, while the crossbowmen quickly took a few steps back and raised the crossbow in their hands. The bow is ready to fire crossbow arrows.

Yu Bin directly opened the [Undead Shield], and a dark green spherical barrier immediately appeared, as a natural skill, this undead shield can resist up to 28 points of damage for Yu Bin, until the barrier is broken, Yu Bin will not receive any damage.

Three spears pierced the shield, causing a visible crack in the undead shield, which was then shattered by the bolts fired at close range, and vanished into thin air. It can be seen that the attack power of these human soldiers is not very strong, and the attack of at least three spearmen is not enough to shatter the undead shield.

Yu Bin's fist hit the spearman's head, but it could cause obvious damage to the attacked spearman, and the staggering pace and the obvious reduction in the strength of the counterattack all proved that Yu Bin's attack was not negligible for them.

It's a pity that in the world of Ntagre, players need to have special reconnaissance skills to get the specific data of the target, otherwise, they can't even see the name of the other party, and the current Yu Bin obviously doesn't have this skill, so he can only rely on the actual combat effect to estimate the relevant data of these human soldiers.

Compared to the spearman, the damage of the crossbow soldier is higher, and the crossbow arrow shot at close range will cause nearly 10 damage to Bin and cause a bleeding effect, but the good thing is that Bin is an undead, and the bleeding effect is naturally ineffective. But Yu Bin didn't dare to continue fighting, turned around and ran, although relying on his own attributes and skills can wipe out this cemetery guard here, but on the one hand, Yu Bin doesn't know if continuing to fight will attract other cemetery guards, and at the same time, this is also to test the intelligence level of these human soldiers.

Sure enough, after chasing Yu Bin for a distance, seeing Yu Bin run out of the crossbowmen's attack range, the cemetery garrison, which had lost a spearman, immediately slowed down its movement and turned from pursuit to alert, and when Yu Bin got out of their sight under the cover of flower beds and tombstones, these guards returned to the original patrol route without hesitation to continue to perform their duties.

Yu Bin, who was hiding in the distance, immediately understood that the wisdom of these cemetery guards was not high, so he was very sure that he would play with these dull NPCs in the palm of his hand.

But he was not in a hurry to act immediately, but spent nearly an hour exploring the entire Hero's Cemetery in a simple way. Almost the size of a small town, protected by a four-metre-high iron fence and surrounded by large flower beds, sculptures and tombstones, the closer you get to the centre of the cemetery, the more elaborate the tombs become, and it is clear that the owners of these tombs have a higher status and status than their counterparts on the periphery.

At the center of the cemetery is a rectangular cathedral that occupies nearly a football field, flanked by stables and prayer rooms, and scattered around the perimeter by a few detached houses, apparently to provide a resting place for the cemetery guards.

What's worse is that the large area centered on the cathedral is turquoise grass except for some low flower beds and stone benches for resting, and there is nothing to shelter it, which makes it impossible for Yu Bin to sneak into the cathedral to see.

As for the guard force of the entire Hero's Cemetery, the perimeter is in charge of the patrols encountered before, and the configuration is exactly the same, all of them are three spearmen plus a crossbowmen, and the area near the inner ring has been slightly strengthened, not only has the number increased to six, but the configuration has also become four halberders and two crossbowmen, and the core cathedral area is guarded by four garrisons composed of a janissary with five halberders and three strong crossbowmen guarding the four directions.

Yu Bin felt that there must be stronger guards in the cathedral. Up to now, these human soldiers are all first-order and second-order troops, and Yu Bin finds it hard to believe that such an important cemetery will not have some high-level troops in charge, even if it is because of his extremely low rank, it is difficult to justify such negligence.

But the good thing is that Bin's attributes are very good, in terms of combat effectiveness alone, it can already be compared with the third-order troops, if you count Yu Bin's skills as a player, it is not impossible to compete with the fourth-order troops in a short period of time.

Returning to the previous place along the safe route, Yu Bin took his 6 younger brothers to touch in again, and after finding the patrol team that had been tested by Yu Bin, he lured them to a safe position, and Yu Bin immediately used [Corrupted Skull] and rushed forward first.

If anyone else had been there at this time, it would have been considered a farce, in a cemetery full of light power, dotted with a lead-gray area like a dogskin plaster, a player with bare hands and only a tattered cloth shirt was jumping up and down and fighting with two lucky E spearmen, and a few meters away, six cheerleaders with only bones were waving their flags and shouting, two of them shooting a crooked bone arrow with a tattered short bow in their hands from time to time. On the other side, the crossbowman, who is the little leader, is trying to teach the uninvited guest a lesson with crossbow arrows, and at the same time angrily accuses the two subordinates of not doing their jobs properly, and actually flirting with a little white face in broad daylight.

It took nearly 3 minutes for Yu Bin to get rid of this crippled patrol, the blood volume of the spearmen was about 30 points, and the crossbowmen were almost 50 points, even if Yu Bin's attributes were high-tech and good, it was not easy to eliminate this patrol team safely.

And these peripheral patrols alone are dozens of them! Considering that not every 24-hour day can be used to enter the game, if every patrol takes such a long time, time has become Yu Bin's biggest problem!

Fortunately, a patrol squad gives good experience, a spearman is 20 experience and 2 military merits, and a crossbowman is 30 experience and 4 military merits, so a squad is 90 combat experience and 10 military merits, and it only takes fifteen squads to evolve skeletons into skeleton hunters.

After 3 hours, Yu Bin killed a total of 18 patrol teams, and the reason why it was not efficient was entirely because Yu Bin spent a lot of time looking for suitable targets in order not to be caught between the two patrol teams.

140 of the 180 military merits obtained were used to evolve two skeletons, so that Yu Bin had four skeleton archers. There are 44 hours and 35 minutes left before the deadline for the completion of the mission.

For the next morning, Yu Bin did not continue to eliminate the patrol of the Hero Cemetery, but chose to quit the game and go to the school to go through some formalities. He originally belonged to the School of Computer Science, although the leaders of the college did not think that Yu Bin's change of department at this time was a wise decision, but they could not resist Yu Bin's insistence, because Yu Bin was orphaned because of a car accident since he was a child, and under the premise of Yu Bin's own application, the college had no reason to stop it, and finally agreed to Yu Bin's request to transfer departments.

It's a pity that Yu Bin's university can only be regarded as a third-rate school, with neither a major in military command nor a professional discipline like medicine, and in the end Yu Bin can only choose the mechanical department, at least he can learn some materials and mechanical knowledge through books, which is also helpful for some life occupations in the game.

After completing the transfer of departments, and then meeting with the leaders of the Mechanical College, and determining Yu Bin's new class, Yu Bin, who had pinched the time, went home against time, hastily ate some lunch, and entered the game again.

After a few hours of rest, Yu Bin's previous lost soul energy was almost replenished, so he continued to take six cannon fodder and began to clean up the guards in the Hero's Cemetery.

After clearing the outer patrols, the inner garrison is followed by a garrison of halberdmen and crossbowmen, which is more difficult to eliminate than a patrol of spearmen and crossbowmen, not only because of the larger number of people in each garrison (six), but also because halberdiers and crossbowmen have begun to develop some skills compared to spearmen and crossbowmen.

The skill of the halberd soldier is [hatred of the enemy], and each additional companion will increase the damage by a point, up to ten points, and as the halberd evolves into a halberd, the upper limit of this skill will also increase to twenty points, which makes the halberd soldier even have the ability to compete with higher-level troops in the case of scale.

The crossbowman's skill is [Piercing Attack], the crossbow arrows they shoot have a certain chance to penetrate the target, dealing one-third damage to another enemy, and after evolving into a strong crossbowman, not only the penetration chance will be greatly increased, but the damage will also be increased to two-thirds.

Fortunately, the skeleton was born with the ability of [Piercing Resistance], and instead accidentally offset the threat brought by the crossbowman. However, the halberd soldiers are still difficult to deal with, especially the number has increased to four, which makes Yu Bin's dodge space even narrower, and there are simply not enough conditions to reduce the damage he takes when fighting.

If Yu Bin is the only one, in this case, he can only adopt the tactics of hitting and running, seizing the opportunity to eliminate one and then retreating immediately, and then attacking after the health is restored, but in this way, the time consumed will be greatly increased. Fortunately, those previous patrols provided Yu Bin with a lot of help, not only allowing him to evolve six cannon fodder skeletons into four skeleton hunters and two skeleton warriors, but also providing experience that also allowed these soldiers to reach the level of more than twenty levels, finally getting rid of the role of cannon fodder who would die at the touch of a button.

Skeleton Hunters can now deal about 10 damage per attack, with Yu Bin in front as a meat shield, they only need two salvos to eliminate a halberd, and the two skeleton warriors, although the damage is lower, but up to 50 HP allows them to block a few hits for Yu Bin at critical moments, greatly increasing Yu Bin's kill speed.

Despite this, it took Yu Bin a full five hours to wipe out all the garrisons with great difficulty, and at the same time raise the level of the skeletons to about forty.

Now, only the cathedral in the center of the cemetery is left in front of Yu Bin.

The central area of the cathedral is guarded in four directions by four troops, each led by a Praetorian Guard, commanded by five halberders and three crossbowmen.

Although the Praetorian Guard, who belongs to the final form of the first order of human arms like the Euphorbia, does not have the skill of [Hatred of the Enemy], but the [Loyalty] skill he has allows him to use the shield in his hand to block some of the damage for the crossbowmen, this class is often used to provide protection for human ranged troops, and while the Praetorian Guards are still alive, any attack on the crossbowmen will be cut in half, which can be said to be extremely disgusting.

Originally, the damage of the three strong crossbowmen was very high, and the second-order archers and the corresponding evolutionary forms have always been the main output troops of the human race, not to mention the strong crossbowmen who are second only to the crossbowmen form, and after having the protection of the guards, it has become an almost impossible fantasy for Yu Bin to eliminate these three strong crossbowmen as soon as possible.

Faced with this situation, Yu Bin had no choice but to rack his brains and use various means to achieve the goal of victory!