Volume 1: The Second Coming (Remastered) Chapter 46: Skeleton Canon
From the undead town of Yawyat, walk nearly thirty kilometers to the south, and then turn west, and soon you will see a huge mountain wall. The flat top of the mountain wall, which looks like it has been cut by a knife, is a shock to everyone who comes here. The wall, known as the Manitoba Barrier, is more than 200 meters high, and behind the barrier is the burial of bones.
Due to the nature of the Bonesland, some undead often run out of it to harass the surrounding towns, and in order to solve this problem, the Necromancer Society used magic to build this Manitoba barrier here at the end of the First Age, and since then there have been few low-level undead harassing towns.
There is only one way to get through the Manitoba Barrier, which is less than 10 meters wide and more than 500 meters long, and the only passage left by the necromancers who built the Manitoba Barrier is the magic lamps set on the stone walls on both sides of the passage are the only source of light, and walking in it will make people subconsciously think that they will be flattened by the mountain walls on both sides.
After crossing the passage, it is the real place where bones are buried. Yu Bin could clearly feel the difference between here and the other side of the mountain wall. The rich power of death seems to have a will of his own, pouring into his body unscrupulously, and if he does not have enough restraint, it is easy to be attracted by this huge power, and then lose his nature and become a puppet of power. This is one of the reasons why Dia finally gave up control of this place, and the uncontrollable power is like poison, which will make people regret it.
While controlling the speed at which his soul fire absorbed the power of death, while slowly moving along the mountain wall, Yu Bin did not dare to leave the passage too far, in the event of an emergency, the narrow passage would at least be a good haven.
Unlike the dead land outside, the land here is covered with a layer of gray matter, and if you look closely, you can see the bones under the gray matter, and countless corpses have covered the land. It is common to see a pale arm sticking out of the ground, either a lowly-level skeleton or a powerful skeleton warrior. Yu Bin's first reaction to this was to take advantage of the fact that the other party was not yet free from the constraints of the ground, and rushed up and kicked the opponent's head away, so as not to suffer an unwarranted disaster.
Of course, more often than not, it is a skeleton strolling through the land with a high and low pace. The vast majority of them are undead who have just woken up, and because they have been hit by a large amount of death power after awakening, the poor self-consciousness cannot be preserved at all, and finally turned into irrational puppets. The rest are the poor creatures who rush into the Burial Place, coveting the power of death here, only to end up being the kind of puppets.
Compared to the skeletons in the outside world, these guys are more powerful, generally reaching the level of the second or even third order, but because they have no intelligence, the difficulty of killing is not much higher than that of ordinary skeletons. Relying on these guys, Yu Bin quickly collected a lot of white bone essence.
Yu Bin's target is not these skeletons, the deeper he goes into the place where the bones are buried, the higher the concentration of death power, so the more powerful the undead will subconsciously go deeper. A few hundred meters away from the mountain wall, you can see some zombies and ghouls, who provide Yu Bin with some blackened nails and flesh essence.
Yu Bin did not continue to go deeper, but kept his distance from the mountain wall and collected materials while leveling up.
An arm suddenly stretched out from Yu Bin's feet, and the dark skin and shriveled muscles made Yu Bin immediately judge that this was a zombie who had just woken up. After three strikes and five divisions to deal with the ghoul who fell to the ground, Yu Bin squatted down and slashed the short sword in his hand towards that arm.
The sharp black-winged blade only left a wound no more than a centimeter deep on it, and Yu Bin immediately realized that this zombie was not one of those ordinary goods. He immediately stepped back a few meters, observing the sudden appearance of the creature under the cover of a pile of bones.
The awakened zombie didn't seem to realize that it was being attacked, and the arm that stretched out the ground kept digging the ground around it, and soon, the second arm also stretched out, then the third, then the fourth.
Yu Bin's face instantly darkened, it was not a zombie, but a multi-armed monster! Or should it be called the multi-armed demon ape, this monster from the bottomless abyss can have up to twelve arms, and the body is a huge ape with three heads, and its strong physical strength allows them to wield multiple weapons at the same time, which is a very terrifying killing machine.
The multi-armed demon ape resurrected in the form of an undead has lost its strong physical strength, and its strength has decreased to a certain extent, but it is still not something that Yu Bin can contend with, facing the simultaneous attack of four or even more arms, no matter how powerful Yu Bin is, he can't block them all.
In a matter of minutes, the multi-armed monster had dug itself out of the ground, and with up to eight arms and a height of nearly five meters, he stood out from the undead creatures around him. Although the soul fire was not very stable because he had just woken up, he was still subconsciously looking for the guy who had left him a wound.
At this time, Yu Bin had already run away, he didn't have the confidence to go against that big guy.
This is the danger of the Bone Ground, you never know what will be the next thing to get up from under your feet, in the previous life, someone even had the bad luck to run into a bone dragon and wake up beside him, just yawned, and the five players went straight back to the graveyard to resurrect.
Avoiding the sight of the multi-armed monster, Yu Bin started his hunt again, and was lucky to find a suitable target.
It was a very different being from the other skeletons, with a tall body, thick bones, a half-length chain mail on its upper body, an elf-style pendant helmet on its head, and a thick-backed machete in its hand.
This skeleton will even consciously attack those of its kind, slashing the opponent's neck with the weapon in his hand, placing the skull in front of him, and then sucking hard, the soul fire hidden in the skull is directly swallowed into the mouth of this guy, leaving the remains that turn into broken bones.
Yu Bin cautiously approached from behind, and at the same time tested the other party's strength with his soul touch (pseudo), as if sensing that someone was peeping at him, this powerful skeleton turned its head 180 degrees sharply, and looked in the direction where Yu Bin was with blue flame eyes.
Yu Bin, who noticed that something was wrong for the first time, immediately lay himself on the ground, and the bones around his body became the best camouflage, if he didn't get close to a certain distance, it would be difficult to find Yu Bin's traces. Feeling that the soul fluctuations that swept through his body disappeared, Yu Bin raised his head slightly with a sense of horror and looked at the powerful skeleton in the distance that continued to suck the soul fire.
Canon, that's the name of that skeleton, what the soul touch (pseudo) can perceive is that the opponent's strength is the sixth order, and almost nothing else is known. This kind of strength means that he is even stronger than that multi-armed monster, and if he continues to suck like this, it won't be long before he becomes a seventh-order monster due to the growth of his soul power, and finally enters the realm of heroes.
If it was any other time, Yu Bin might leave directly, although the sixth-order monster was not impossible to deal with, but after all, this was a place of bones, in case of any accident in the process of killing, Yu Bin would have to pay the price of his life.
However, there were three reasons why he chose to do it to Skull Canon.
The first is the amount of experience you can get. This skeleton named Canon obviously already has a boss template, far from being comparable to those monsters with ordinary skeleton templates, just like the corrupt crocodile lord at the beginning, once successfully killed, the experience points provided can allow Yu Bin to save a lot of time. You must know that it has always been Yu Bin's regret that he had to waste the experience points of the corrupted crocodile lord because of the change of class.
The second is the helmet on the other person's head. Although the helmet is inconspicuous because of the influence of the power of death, Yu Bin can still see the strong elf style from it, which can make the elf use a special process to forge on a helmet at any cost, you can imagine how important this helmet is, even if it is not a purple legendary-level, at least it is a red rare level equipment, which is a relief for Yu Bin, who is suffering from lack of strength.
The third is the impact of this skeleton on Bin. If you let this guy go, it means that Yu Bin has to give up this area and find another place to level up, the previous multi-armed monster has already wasted a lot of time for Yu Bin, if this is the last time, it will be difficult for Yu Bin to ensure that he can still find a suitable training place nearby, and he doesn't want to leave the passage too far.
So he can and must kill this skeleton!
Yu Bin first spent nearly two hours cleaning up the ordinary skeletons around him, he didn't want to be disrupted by these skeletons on the way to battle, and at the same time, it was also to prevent the skeleton canon from sucking their soul fire. The fewer blood packets this movement, the better.
Then Yu Bin arranged a few simple traps in a few preset places with the props he carried, not hoping that these traps could play a decisive role, as long as they could come in handy at a critical time.
After arranging it properly, Yu Bin sorted out the equipment and props on his body, found a place to bury the things he didn't need, tried to reduce his weight, and then walked lightly towards the goal.
At this time, because he couldn't find a new target to suck, Skeleton Canon was slowly moving in a fixed direction, and the direction he was moving in was also expected by Yu Bin, and a trap was waiting for him in front of him.
Lifting legs, stepping, and skeletons' walking movements are not good-looking, because only bones are left, and the center of gravity is not easy to grasp, so it will look a little top-heavy when walking.
Suddenly, when Skeleton Canon stepped down, there was a crunch on the ground beneath his feet, and only a few brittle bones and a layer of gray matter covered trap trapped the entire calf bone of Skeleton Canon, making him almost unable to maintain his balance and eating.
Yu Bin, who had been waiting for this moment for a long time, immediately launched a charge, and the distance of more than ten meters passed in an instant, and before the skeleton Canon could turn around, the short sword in Yu Bin's hand slashed at his neck.
The sound of gold and iron sounded under the exchange of hard vertebrae and black wing blades, and Yu Bin, who realized that the opponent's bones were already harder than iron, quickly turned the weapon in his hand to the opponent's jaw, but who would have thought that the skeleton Canon twisted suddenly, and the entire upper body changed from facing away from Bin to facing Yu Bin, causing Yu Bin's attack to hit his ribs and was bounced away.
The light in his eyes soared, and the skeleton Canon swept the machete in his hand towards Yu Bin, and after being dodged by Yu Bin with a backward roll, he directly used the machete to cut off the leg stuck in the trap.
"How is that possible!" Yu Bin couldn't help but scream, it turned out that after cutting off his thigh, the skeleton Canon, who had gotten rid of the restrictions, pulled the broken leg out of the trap with his empty left hand, and then directly connected it to the fracture, and the fracture full of splinters quickly closed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and recovered as new.
"Click!" With a terrible laugh, the skeleton Canon maintained this strange appearance and ran towards Yu Bin. Obviously, the upper body is frontal, but the lower body walks in reverse as if it is backwards, which is creepy.
"Damn it!" I didn't expect the other party to be so difficult Yu Bin immediately turned around and ran, in the face of this kind of skeleton that can change at will regardless of joint restrictions, no matter how good Yu Bin's technique is, he will not dare to fight him in close combat, God knows that his next attack will come from that direction.
However, the speed of the skeleton Canon was obviously faster than Yu Bin, and when he was about to catch up with Yu Bin, a rope buried in the ground was violently tightened under the action of the mechanism, tripping the forward skeleton Canon to the ground, and at the same time, a bottle of potion was also thrown by Yu Bin and smashed on Canon's head.
The milky white potion seeped into the gap in the skull, and the liquid containing the power of light made the skeleton Canon send out violent soul fluctuations, and in the next second, a black energy spread out from his soul fire, completely vaporizing the seeping liquid.
But judging from the way the skeleton Canon staggered to his feet, it was clear that the bottle of light healing potion had caused him a lot of damage just now.
Yu Bin didn't take the opportunity to attack, his rich experience made him subconsciously feel that this skeleton still had the power to fight back, he seized this opportunity to run in the other direction, and once again opened the distance between him and the skeleton Canon.
Perhaps feeling Yu Bin's tricks on him, Skeleton Canon stood up and raised the big knife in his hand, a wisp of black light emanated from the blade, and with his fierce split, the black knife flew towards Yu Bin like a substance, splitting the bones on the ground all the way.
"! Even volleys! What a monster this thing is! Yu Bin wailed and threw himself to the side, and he could dodge the flying attack. This attack is by concentrating energy on the weapon, and turning the energy into an extension of the weapon through a vigorous swing, causing damage to the enemy, depending on the energy used, there are also subtle names, such as flame volley or ice blade slash, etc., so it is collectively called volley slash by players. This is an advanced skill that can only be used with a deep understanding of energy.