Chapter 18: Breaking Out of the Encirclement

"Ahh It's terrible! If I had known that, I should have found something to jam the door in the first place! With the help of the light of the glowing stone, Arroyo looked at the group of undead approaching her side from a distance in a half-moon formation, and felt regretful and anxious, "My lord, what should we do?" If we continue like this, we will be drowned in this sea of bones sooner or later! ”

"Enough Arroyo, don't talk about it." Finn wielded his greatsword and turned his back to Arroyo and reminded, "Get your weapon out, the best thing you should do right now is to say less nonsense." ”

"Uh...... Yes, my lord! As soon as Fern reminded him, Arroyo hurriedly drew his dagger from the leather sheath that hung from his belt, and trotted over to Finn's side in two steps.

He gritted his teeth, and said in his heart that if he coaxed him again this time, he would be a cowardly soft-eyed.

"There are too many of these undead." Arya put her cutlass back into her scabbard and stood behind Finn, holding a crossbow in each hand, "I suggest we don't attack just yet. Finn, Lilith, Arroyo, what do you three think? ”

"I suggest we take the initiative now." Fein replied to Arya resolutely.

"Huh?" Arya was stunned for a moment, "Hey, this Holy Warrior Master, are you crazy?" Now is not the time for you to express your faith! ”

During her days in the human realm, Arya had met several fanatical paladins who regarded all evil as their lifelong enemies.

She was now terrified that Finn was the kind of reckless person whose eyes turned red and lost his mind when he saw an evil creature.

"Don't worry, I'm not crazy, and I'm not the kind of fanatic who believes in directing the head." Finn looked calm, and his words were clear and he spoke as fast as flying, "Listen, Arya, Lilith and I have dark vision that you and Arroyo don't have. Just now I saw an entrance to the tunnel about fifty meters in front of us, and since we have no way out, why don't we rush over and try our luck? ”

"But how can you be sure it's safe over there?"

"It's better than standing still and waiting to die, right?"

"That's... Do you see clearly? Arya worried, "If we rush over and find that there's no such thing as you said, it's not a joke. ”

"Then you might as well make a magic arrow or a stat." Finn advises Arya, "Shoot your magic arrows that way, use the light of the Holy Light or the Light of Fire to illuminate the place I speak, and then see for yourself if I'm hallucinating." ”

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Arya hesitated for a moment, then immediately used her expertise to create a flaming arrow infused with fire magic damage according to Finn's suggestion, and then estimated the range and threw the flaming arrow through her crossbow in the distance in front of her.

Magical arrows of flame cut a fiery red arc through the air over the heads of all the undead creatures, and finally fell exactly from where Arya was, to the other end of the rock hall.

Before the fire went out, it illuminated the wall of a stone wall near the edge of that end, and Arya saw an arched rock entrance to the stone wall.

"Well, you read that right, there is indeed a corridor there." Arya clenched the crossbow in her hand, "Finn, I'll cover Arroyo and Lilith behind you when you charge forward. I'm ready. ”

"My lord, I'm ready, too." Arroyo gripped the hilt of the dagger and said, "When you break through, I will protect your flanks." ”

"I'm fine." Lilith nodded slightly.

"Let's do it."

As the words fell, Finn's eyes widened, staring at a group of skeletons that were only five or six meters away from him in front of his vision, and picked up the whistling blade and slashed out a wind blade nearly two meters wide.

The row of skeleton warriors who rushed to the front couldn't back down, and were immediately slammed into their bodies by the wind blade.

"Whew!"

The wind blade from the Whistling Blade violently pierced through the undead in a straight line in front of Finn's eyes, and the row of skeleton warriors blocking Finn's front leaned back in unison, and Finn immediately pulled out his legs and charged at them.

"Come on, bones!"

Finn roared angrily, picked up his greatsword, and slashed down the row of skeleton warriors in front of him, and then crashed into the pile of undead behind the row of skeleton warriors without fear.

The whistling blade in the shape of a greatsword turned into a real killing weapon in the dense pile of undead, and with each swing of Finn's greatsword, the soul fire in the eyes of several undead creatures was extinguished.

Of course, while Finn slashed the enemies in front of him with a devastating force, the rusty swords of several skeleton warriors around him also slashed at Finn between attacks from time to time.

Humans are a fragile race, not having natural skin armor like dragons, dryads, and high-level demons, so they need to wear armor to protect themselves in battle.

Finn is now very glad that he bought a piece of chain mail specifically for himself before he left.

He has 73 health and a total level 2 skeleton warrior who does little damage to slash him. With the chain mail protecting his body, as long as he was careful not to be injured by the undead creatures around him and the skeleton shooters in the distance, he believed that his health was fully enough to cover the fifty-meter distance under his feet.

The muffled sound of the greatsword slicing through bones, and the metal clash of rusty swords and arrows hitting chain mail continued to ring around Finn.

Fern carved out a bloody path of bones in the Rock Hall like an unstoppable chariot, Arroyo and Lilith followed behind Finn, and Arya followed the end of the four-man team to press the formation, holding two crossbows in her hands like a pair of twin guns filled with holy silver ammunition, firing magic light arrows with high frequency to shoot the undead pursuers on both sides and behind the team.

"My mother, my mother, I feel like I'm on the battlefield right now!" Arroyo used his short sword to force away a skeleton warrior who was about to sneak up on Finn from the side, his face was no longer afraid, and his two eyes revealed an extremely excited look, "Damn, this is the adventure I want!" Lao Tzu is not a coward! ”

"It's good if you're happy!" Finn wielded his greatsword and slashed down a ghoul that had scurried out of nowhere, and couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth.

He thought that Arroyo's personality was suitable for becoming a full-time scout, but he didn't expect that this young man actually didn't reject this kind of hand-to-hand combat.

Simply, there will be a chance to help him advance his career to or, it seems good to think about it.

"Finn, my magic is running out!" Arya suddenly shouted at the back of the group, "How far are we from the corridor?!" ”

"It's almost there!" Finn replied loudly, "Arya, you can only pay a little mana at a time to create light arrows, and the light arrows will hit these bone racks with additional damage -?!" ”

【You have been hit by an unknown target】

[Perform a volitional test...... Expertise Takes Effect】

You are exempt from the status of the imposer.

Three system prompts suddenly popped out of his field of vision without warning, and he was immediately startled by the information in the system prompts.

"Lilith, do you detect the spell of magic?!" Finn yelled at Lilith behind her.

"Yes." Lilith replied immediately.

After waking up from the nightmare, Lilith seems to have regained a bit of memory and awakened several spells from her warlock bloodline.

It's one of them.

"Then you cast a detection spell right away, hurry!" Finn frowned and shouted, "I was exempted from a horror technique just now, I'm afraid there are corpse witches in these undead piles!" ”

"Hmm." Lilith agreed, and immediately followed Finn's instructions to cast a spell called Detection Magic.

, a ring spell (witchcraft), by which the caster can discover the magic around them.

Lilith is a Warlock by profession and does not need to chant to cast spells.

As soon as she cast the spell, she immediately sensed in her heart that a magical creature with magical power was located about ten meters to Finn's left.

"...... on the left," Lilith whispered to herself, raising her left hand toward her inner senses.

The next moment, a fire flashed in front of her palm, and a large blazing fireball flew towards the place where Lilith's palm was facing with a terrifying whistling sound.

"Boom!"

A deafening explosion followed!

Under the firelight, countless knots of broken bones ignited by the flames flew into the sky with the heat wave, and a humanoid skeleton wearing a pitch-black cloak and holding a bone staff was exposed to everyone's vision in the next second.

That's the Corpse Witch, a wizard in undead form, a spellcaster of the undead.

Although the low-level spellcasters of this undead race are far inferior to the lich, they still have some spells between the first and fourth rings.

This corpse witch was one of those things that the corpse witch had just done to Finn.

"Lilith, harass it with spells, don't give it a chance to sing!" The moment he saw the corpse witch, Finn immediately prompted Lilith.

Hearing Finn's words, Lilith did not hesitate, and immediately fired another arcane missile at the place where the corpse witch was.

It's just a one-ring sorcery, although it has limited power, but it has a relatively fast projectile rate of fire, and basically does not consume much mana, making it suitable for long-range harassment by the caster.

Lilith didn't use the fireball spell again because Finn had told her that although the fireball spell had a destructive power that other three-ring witchcraft couldn't match, the mana consumption was too high, and it was easy to drain the mana when used frequently.

Lilith trusted Finn from the bottom of her heart, so she followed Finn's previous instructions and used arcane missiles to attack the Witch instead.

Seeing Lilith constantly firing arcane missiles at the corpse witch, Finn was overjoyed, thinking that the corpse witch was probably so angry that he stomped his foot.

Warlocks usually have fewer spells than wizards, but they have the advantage of not having to chant, and the Arcane Missile's low mana cost and high rate of fire are ideal for Lilith to harass the Necrocer to cast spells, making it one of the best options in the current situation.

Maybe Lilith didn't know how clever her actions were, but Finn knew how much trouble the somewhat naΓ―ve warlock girl had caused the corpse witch.

As long as Lilith's mana doesn't run out suddenly, the corpse witch will be interrupted by Lilith's arcane missile once she casts a spell, and once she continues to dodge Lilith's attacks, she won't be able to chant properly, and it will basically be useless in the rest of the battle.

Finally, as time passed, Finn swung forward with a wind blade, knocking down the last few skeleton warriors in his way like a scythe harvesting ears of rice, and the entrance to the black rock tunnel finally appeared before his eyes.

"Run into the corridor! The terrain in the corridor is narrow, which is suitable for us to fight and retreat! After making sure there were no new enemies in the corridor, Finn quickly turned around and shouted at Arroyo, Lilith, and Arya.

Soon, Finn was guarding the entrance of the corridor with a giant sword in hand, and Arroyo and Lilith, who were closely behind Finn, passed by Finn and rushed into the corridor one after the other.

Arya, who had been following the team at the end, was a little farther away from Finn at this time.

The elven girl with a double crossbow kicked away a zombie lying on the ground trying to grab her ankle, raised her arm backwards with her back to Finn, and shot two light arrows with her crossbow to kill the two skeleton warriors on the left and right who were wielding rusty swords at her, and then turned and ran wildly in the direction of Finn.

"Arya, quick!" Finn stared at the elven girl in front of him and urged.

"Come on!" Arya responded, running quickly on her feet.

Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice burst into Arya's mind, and the elven girl's brain turned white, and all that was left in her mind was the strangely and uncomfortable sounding voice.

The content of that voice is only a single-byte command - "Fall".

The moment the voice burst into Arya's mind, Arya's body fell uncontrollably to the floor of the Rock Hall.

"Oops, it's a command!" Arya immediately recognized the voice for what it really was.

, a ring spell (witchcraft/magic), the caster can issue a single-byte magic command to a target within the cast range, such as "Run", "Escape", "Stop", or even "Die", but the higher the difficulty of the magic command, the lower the success rate, and the less obvious the effect of the spell after success.

Arya's magical command was "Fall", and her will could not resist the spiritual invasion of the Dao, so her body could not disobey the magical command.

"Damn, it must have been the good thing that the corpse witch did!" Arya fell to the ground in embarrassment, almost smoking in her heart.

When Lilith rushed into the corridor, the person who harassed it and chanted was gone, and the abominable undead caster could cast a spell before she could rush into the corridor!

Arya lay on the ground and turned her head to see countless undead coming behind her from all directions, and her heart suddenly fell into despair.

"Leave me alone, run!" Thinking that she could not escape, the elven girl immediately yelled at Finn, who was guarding the gate of the corridor.

Now that you're dead, at least don't drag your companions down. - she thought to herself.

However......

"Finn, you-?!" Arya looked up and saw that instead of throwing her and fleeing, Finn had run briskly towards her with her greatsword in hand.

"I'm not going to leave my companions behind." Finn clenched the hilt of the Whistling Blade with both hands to keep Arya at bay, "Big deal... Let's kill all these undead together! ”

As the words fell, Finn took a deep breath, his eyes as firm as steel.

When Arya heard Finn's words, she immediately stared at Finn's back with wide eyes.

This fool holy warrior, he actually wants to wipe out all the undead creatures here? - She was amazed inwardly.

He's such a ......

β€œβ€¦β€¦ A sucker. Arya felt a choke in her throat and whispered "curse".

Suddenly, just as Arya felt that the dominance of her body had returned a little, and Finn was ready to fight to the death, the two walls of fire suddenly let out a "Boom!" "Boom!" Two sounds, rising from under the two vertical rows of floors in front of Finn and Arya.

The two walls of fire in a V-shape separated the small space at the entrance to the corridor behind Finn and Arya from the many undead creatures in the rock hall, and a skeleton warrior walked through one of the walls of fire alive and dead, and was then burned to a charred corpse, and the two soul fires in his eye socket were instantly extinguished.

"It's ......," Finn looked at in disbelief at the two walls of fire that appeared in front of him.

If his memory wasn't wrong, he remembered that it was already a four-ring level of witchcraft.

The casters who could cast two spells at the same time were only a few dozen in the year before the Great Demon Tide in the year 460 of the Quaternary Age.

So, who helped themselves in this pinch?

Could it be ......

"Lilith?!" Finn looked back with a look of surprise, and then saw the long-haired warlock girl with two hands raised to the left and right towards the two walls of fire, and two deep pitch-black eyes were looking at him calmly.

"Finn, come in." Lilith looked at Finn, standing calmly at the door of the corridor, and prompted unhurriedly.

Hearing Lilith's reminder, Finn reacted immediately, and immediately turned around and pulled Arya up from the ground and ran into the corridor.

Fein took Arya's hand and ran into the corridor, and as Arya ran with Finn, she turned her head back and looked behind her, and there was a faint crackling and burning sound behind the two walls of fire......