Chapter Eighty-Five: The Cage of Hatred
In the evening, Lao Meng arrived with his undead army.
The entire undead legion numbered around eight hundred, two-thirds of which consisted of skeleton mages and fortified zombies. The remaining third are relatively diverse. There are dark skeletons that Shen Yi has seen, and there are also zombies with blurred flesh and blood all over his body that he has never seen, fat and bloated, as if they are made of pieces of minced flesh, and they are still bleeding. There are also some strange ghosts floating in the air.
These ghosts flickered in the air, and from time to time they let out a shrill woman's laughter, like a cry, and the sound of this bleak and quiet nocturnal wilderness made people's scalps tingle.
Looking at this scene, Zong Tang and Ambella were also shocked.
Who would have thought that in just over 20 days, Lao Meng would be able to create such a huge and amazing army?
Zong Tang blurted out, "That undead creature is too powerful to make scrolls, right?"
Shen Yi muttered, "This is not the strength brought by the scroll, but the strength brought by madness." β
"Crazy people are not necessarily geniuses, geniuses are often crazy people" This sentence is best interpreted in Lao Meng's body.
Whether it is Shen Yi or Lao Meng, they all have some kind of strong madness factor in their bones, but they act on different levels.
Shen Yi's madness lies in the fact that he always likes to challenge those who are high above and enjoys doing everything that is impossible, while Lao Meng's madness lies in the fact that he can completely sell everything in himself for the sake of strength, including conscience, appearance, and even the human body.
Shen Yi can live a meaningless life, but he can't make himself a human and a ghost, while Lao Meng is willing to turn himself into a lich and make himself strong and alive.
They are exactly the same in their madness and diametrically opposite in their choices.
Now standing at the forefront of the team is Lao Meng wearing a black hood, when he lifted the hood to reveal his ghostly face, his image frightened Zongtang Ambella and others.
Compared with sixteen days ago, Lao Meng's appearance has changed again.
The last time I saw him, Lao Meng at least still maintained his human appearance, but now his whole person has become skinny, all the flesh on his face has disappeared, and it looks like a human skin wrapped in a skull, which looks extremely weird.
His eyes were no longer white, but glowing green like a ghostly fire, like a wolf in the middle of the night, full of evil aura.
"I hope it didn't frighten you...... Two captains. Lao Meng laughed lightly in a hoarse voice, his voice was as sharp as the friction of an iron tool, and it was indescribably unpleasant and harsh. When he spoke, everyone could even clearly see his mandible opening and closing, squeezing out one word after another.
"Holy, how did you make yourself look like this. Zong Tang blurted out.
"Being strong always comes at a price. Lao Meng replied indifferently.
"If you continue like this, you'll be a skeleton. Shen Yi said.
"Isn't that better. Lao Meng Youyou replied: "There is no pain, tireless, and the negative emotions of human beings will no longer affect me." β
Gentle and cold: "Those good things are also far away from you, and life has become a pool of stagnant water because of this." β
Lao Meng ridiculed: "For adventurers, we don't have life, or the only meaning of life is to fight. β
"That's enough!" Shen Yi interrupted, "I don't want to have any more discussions about this, everyone has their own choices." β
"If he's human. Gentle and cold, he turned his head and left.
Shen Yi spread his hands: "I'm sorry, she's like this." β
"It's okay, I know she cares about me, and I can tell the good from the bad. Lao Meng smiled: "Then from now on, we will cooperate again." When are you going to attack the Cage of Hate?"
"Rest for the night, and tomorrow morning we will officially act...... Although you don't look like you need to rest. β
Lao Meng spread out his thin hands: "I noticed that there is a large new grave over there, and there should be many corpses in it...... Do you need me to help you get your summoned soldiers back on their feet?"
"Don't even think about it. Shen Yi replied.
Lao Meng giggled again, he walked past Shen Yi's side, and a bottle of potion was drawn into Shen Yi's palm.
A low voice came into his ears: "20,000 points, a bit expensive, but I believe you will accept it, ask for cash...... If you don't have money, you can equip it. β
Constitution Potion: Normally used, it permanently increases Constitution by 20 points after use. Stimulates the use and increases the constitution by 60 points after use, limited to this mission world.
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The night is as cool as water.
Most people have fallen asleep.
Only Shen Yi, Hong Lang, King Kong, Ivy and others still got together, in addition to a summoned soldier Lyle, as for Ivy - she has now officially become a temporary member of the Broken Blade Team.
As a flash of brilliance flashed, the bloody heraldic prompt sounded:
"You use the C-level skill improvement scroll, and your skill heavy attack is upgraded to C-level: launch a full-force attack on the enemy, and after hitting the opponent, it will deal damage multiplied by 5 skill level, and 100% produce a stun effect of 2-7 seconds, and the stun time is determined according to the skill level, target level, and target will. Skill effect priority is 48. β
"You used a Transformation Token, and the heavy attack was converted from a melee stun to a ranged stun with the same effect, and the range of action was 100 meters. β
"Hit me and try. Shen Yi ordered, retreat to twenty meters away.
King Kong punched Shen Yi Yaoyao, this punch was in the air, but Shen Yi's body shook, and he suddenly fell into a state of vertigo, his eyes were dazzled, and the whole person was almost incapacitated. King Kong flew up, Shen Yi only barely tilted his head and dodged his blow to the head, but he was already kicked in the chest and flew up.
Falling to the ground and rolling a few times, Shen Yi slowly got up: "Four seconds of dizziness, if you use it to deal with Diablo, it will be a great luck to be able to do it for half a second." β
King Kong sighed: "If you want to stun an existence like Diablo, you must at least have a double A-level skill." β
"Fortunately, I didn't expect that. Shen Yi said and threw the bottle of physique potion to Hong Lang: "Stimulate the use." β
Hong Lang hesitated a little: "What about 20,000 yuan, just consume it at once?"
"Well, we don't have a choice. β
Hong Lang sighed and used up the bottle of physique potion, and his physique rose to 102 and his vitality was 1224.
"What do you pay the bill with?" asked King Kong.
"Boots against the wind, we have to think again. Shen Yi had a headache. Lao Meng was very cautious, knowing that after Shen Yi and they were going to kill Diablo, he would never accept payment after the fact.
"I still have a combat mastery scroll here. Ivy took it out and handed it to Shen Yi.
Shen Yi looked at Ivy in surprise, and Ivy shrugged: "Do your best." β
After thinking about it, Shen Yi accepted it unceremoniously and threw it to Wen Wen: "Counting your cotton armor, it should be enough, send it to Lao Meng." By the way, give him the extra Bazooka and Boots of Agility as well, on the condition that he gives us the remaining undead after the battle of Hate Cage is over. He'll agree, he won't be able to bring it back to the city anyway. By the way, there's also that flame amulet. β
In order to win Diablo, Shen Yi has used all the capital he can use, which can be said to be a desperate bet. As for the remaining C-level skill scroll, Shen Yi used it for his own skill plunder.
"Skill Plunder, upgraded from D-level to double-D-level. β
"By using the Plunder skill on a designated target, you can get items such as equipment. Two looting/each quest world can be used for each target. When using skills in close combat, the target's health must be less than 10% and the skill priority must be 25. This skill belongs to a special type of skill, and the success rate depends on the skill level, the opponent's level, will, priority permission to the special type skill, and the opponent's remaining health. When this skill is used on a dead target, the looting success rate is doubled. Time limit, within three seconds of death. β
After completing this, Shen Yi took out the explosives from the coat of arms and handed them to Lyle: "This is the last explosive I have left here." β
Lyle looked at it and replied, "Not enough, sir." β
"I don't need a devastating explosion...... Shen Yi smiled, "I just need this explosion to keep the people I want to keep, understand? β
Lyle quickly saluted, "I understand, sir!"
Looking at Lyle's departing back, King Kong asked, "How sure are you?"
Shen Yi thought for a while and replied: "If Diablo's abilities are all as Belia shows, then my plan is seventy percent certain. However, if he still has abilities that Belial can't simulate, or can't use, the chances of success will decrease as the unexpected increases. How sure there is depends on how many accidents there are. β
"So...... Do you think she'll help us?" asked King Kong after a moment's hesitation.
Of course, Shen Yi knew who he was referring to.
He replied with a straight face: "This thing must be done without her interference, otherwise there will be no meaning." β
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Early the next morning, everyone was ready to act.
The location of the Hate Cage is not far - the entrance is just below the Trevac Fortress, and it can be entered as long as the Trivank Fortress quest is completed.
For the sake of safety, Lao Meng first sent two dark banshees to explore the way ahead.
For this reason, he was very complacent and said:
"Although the vitality of the dark banshee is not high, only 220 points, she has the ability to fly freely, and her speed is very fast. The rarest thing is that they have an eighty percent immunity to normal damage, and only elemental damage can really hit them hard. They have three abilities, one is Banshee Wail, which is group attack damage with 20 damage and ignores defense. The second is Soul Attack, which deals 60 psychic damage to individual targets. Finally, it has the ability to self-destruct in the element, which generates 100 points of area damage when it self-destructs. With my dark banshee alone, Shen Yi, you are no longer my opponent. β
Regarding Lao Meng's provocative words, Shen Yi just smiled: "The stronger they are, the happier I will be." β
Lao Meng's provocation was like a punch in the air, and there was no joy when he was victorious.
Walking down the long stone staircase, the deeper you go, the darker it becomes.
The undead have a tendency to ignore darkness, but not for adventurers. One of the adventurers at the forefront lights a torch, and by the light of the fire, you can see that this is a large underground space.
You can vaguely see the tall dome, and every other section of the road is a room made of iron fences, and a terrible howl can be faintly heard in the distance. It is said to be a prison cage, but in fact, like the Temple of Death, it is simply a huge underground labyrinth.
When I walked farther, I saw the torch between the two walls, and the faint light shone on the surroundings, making the place more and more gloomy. If you are timid, you will be scared half to death just by walking in this atmosphere.
Lao Meng's undead creatures rushed forward first, advancing from various intersections. They swarm in this gloomy dungeon, like a horde of ants rushing to eat the food to be eaten.
Soon there were sounds of battle ahead.
The firelight was permeated in the dungeon, flying, mixed with thunder and roaring, sharp winds howling, ice and snow whining, and yin winds gusting.
The Hate Cage was originally a vast labyrinth, with traps to go through, hidden monster killers everywhere, and difficult to discern the way.
However, all of this was useless before the massive Legion attack. Traps are induced by undead creatures that are used as cannon fodder, and hidden monster killers are killed by a mixed group of adventurers when they appear. The complex labyrinthine roads are overwhelmed by the many wolves, and every road, every intersection, is occupied by an army of undead creatures, and a complete road map is drawn under the action of the electronic bee.
Shen Yi and the others walked almost all the way through the first floor of the labyrinth, and there were corpses everywhere along the way. Although the smoke of the battle was fierce, compared to the fierce battle that had been under siege, this should have been the most difficult sixth mission, but it became the easiest one.
A very important reason why this is the case is that Lao Meng really uses undead creatures as cannon fodder, but Shen Yi will never do this, precisely because the cannon fodder role of the summoned soldiers cannot be fully played, but it will drag on in the battle, and only six people from the Cui Vake Fortress will be killed.
After all, for Lao Meng, the army of undead creatures he made could not be brought back to the city, so he did not feel sorry for the loss.
Of course, there is another important reason that the final boss of the sixth mission is Azmodan, the King of Sin, the head of the four Hell Demon Kings. This means that this guy's strength will far surpass that of the Commander in the previous missions.
The embodiment of the difficulty of the battle has once again changed from the difficulty of the legion to the difficulty of the boss.
From this point of view, there is no doubt that Azmodan will be a formidable opponent they have never seen before.
When a group of adventurers hoped that Azmodan would not be as powerful as the legend, it was Shen Yihonglang and others who prayed in their hearts that the stronger Azmodan's strength would beβthe stronger its strength, the greater the chance of success in killing Diablo.
The peculiarity of human nature can be seen from this point - when egoism is developed to the extreme, its outward manifestation is extremely abnormal, and it gives rise to all kinds of incomprehensibility in the eyes of others.
Thirty minutes later, both floors of the Hate cage were cleared. For safety, Shen Yi left his soldiers on the second floor, and everyone marched to the third floor of the Hate Cage.
Entering the third floor, the entrance is no longer an underground labyrinth with intricate roads, but a spacious hall that looks more like a sacrificial hall. The hall is divided into two floors, and the hall on the first floor has doors on both sides, which is supposed to lead to the rest of the labyrinth. On the second floor, there are turrets like Trevank Fortress. There were several golems in each turret.
In the center of the deepest part of the temple stands a tall golem.
The golem is about three feet tall, sitting in the center of the main hall, with its body slightly bent forward, face down, supporting its jaw with its left arm, doing a state of thinking, holding a giant sword in its right hand, straight into the ground.
The golem was fully armored, and there was a large flag behind it, and the black gas on the flag was shrouded, and a large door loomed, and the fire inside the door appeared.
The whole golem is magnificent, tall and mighty, and intimidating.
At the moment when the adventurer rushed into the temple, the golem actually moved.
It slowly raised its head, and a thick and majestic voice echoed around the hall:
"Who is it...... Disturbed my deep sleep?!"