Chapter 83
Ye Bai glanced around, noting that the corridor sloped downward, with the entrance clearly visible above. Since she had already entered, she decided to venture deeper into the abyss below.
However, she didn’t dare let her guard down in the dragonkin settlement. With her left hand gripping a magic scroll and her right hand holding the Snow-colored Sword, she cautiously stepped over the rubble, moving silently forward.
After descending for more than ten meters, Ye Bai reached the end of the corridor.
Ahead lay a wider crossroad, and unlike the roughness of the previous passage, the ground here was paved with large tiles.
Ye Bai carefully peered out of the corridor, stepping onto the rugged tiles while scanning her surroundings.
This road also sloped up and down, with steps appearing in the middle. Below, a massive door stood slightly ajar, and Ye Bai’s keen eyes caught sight of two dragon sculptures flanking the entrance.
The sculptures symbolized the reverence of the dragon race. It seemed the strange humanoid hadn’t deceived her; this was indeed a dragonkin settlement.
Just as Ye Bai was observing, her gaze suddenly sharpened as she spotted a familiar figure.
A gray donkey darted out from a hidden corner, sneaking toward the great door with a mischievous air.
The enormous door was ajar, and the two dragon sculptures made the donkey appear incredibly small, barely larger than the claws of the dragon statues.
Ye Bai watched in astonishment as the donkey slipped swiftly through the giant door.
So that’s where it went!
Just as she was about to chase after it, a familiar voice rang out beside her:
“Be careful, don’t go over there!”
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Chapter 59
“Be careful, don’t go over there!”
The familiar voice startled Ye Bai, sending a shiver down her spine. Instinctively, she took a large step back into the corridor behind her.
“Tap.”
The sound of her retreating footstep disturbed the gravel on the corridor floor, producing an almost imperceptible noise.
After spending an entire night with that voice, Ye Bai certainly recognized it. She turned her gaze toward the source of the sound but found no trace of the familiar figure from the ‘two-dimensional’ world in the corridor.
At that moment, she heard footsteps approaching from a distance, accompanied by the rhythmic clinking of metal chains.
Ye Bai was no stranger to such sounds. In Meiluocheng and Tutucheng, she had often heard the similar footsteps of guards clad in heavy metal armor.
—Something was coming toward her position.
Given that they were in a dragonkin settlement, and wearing armor, it had to be a dragonkin guard. Oh, of course, now they should be referred to as undead guards. If they were responsible for guarding, they were likely at least level 40, possibly even elite.
This was bad!
Ye Bai cursed inwardly. The strange humanoid seemed to have warned her about the approaching guard, but that very warning had startled her, causing her to make a slight noise, which now seemed to have attracted attention.
Fear and anger surged within her, but she couldn’t blame the strange humanoid. Without its warning, she would have already rushed out to chase the donkey.
If she had taken the outer path, she would have been discovered by the guard by now.
However, even though they were in ruins, it was still daytime, and the perception of undead creatures was significantly weakened during the day. Their alert range was smaller than it would be at night.
Realizing the guard was getting closer, Ye Bai quickly extinguished the candle in her hand. Using the faint glow from the corridor, she moved slowly backward, as if in slow motion, step by step.
With the effect of Light Feather, her movements made no sound at all.
Compared to their vision, undead creatures were more sensitive to sound. As long as she kept her distance, the guard might not be able to ‘see’ her even if she could see it.
To maintain silence, Ye Bai moved slowly, and even though she was retreating, the distance she covered was minimal. Meanwhile, the armored guard’s footsteps drew nearer.
“Tap, tap, tap…”
The heavy footsteps echoed through the corridor, growing closer.
The air around Ye Bai felt thick and suffocating, tension mounting to its peak as beads of sweat trickled from her brow.
Yet, in such a situation, Ye Bai’s mind remained remarkably calm.
Even as she could tell that the unknown dragonkin undead guard had reached the edge of her corridor, just a step away from being visible, her brain functioned with mechanical precision, remaining composed rather than panicking. She continued to maintain her posture, slowly retreating.
“Tap.”
A tall figure blocked the faint light streaming into the corridor, revealing half of the dragonkin undead guard’s body at the entrance.
With the breeze from the corridor, a foul, decaying odor wafted toward Ye Bai, making her involuntarily wrinkle her nose.
At that moment, she caught a glimpse of the guard’s profile. It was a towering creature covered in scales, wreathed in ghostly blue flames, standing at least three meters tall. The corridor was lower than the outer passage, so she could only see its shoulder and chin—
Though calling it a chin was inaccurate, as that area was half shattered, revealing a gaping, decayed hollow, likely a result of some past accident or battle.
However, for undead creatures, as long as the flame of their soul still burned, their appearance was merely a Lego set—whatever could be pieced together would suffice, regardless of whether it was ‘original’ or not.
From its appearance, Ye Bai recognized that this guard was likely a sub-dragon, and the corridor she was in had been excavated by the lower-ranked dragon-scaled people among the dragonkin, so it didn’t match the guard’s height.
Seeing this, Ye Bai decided to use an Insight spell from a distance.
Sub-dragon Guard Undead
Level: 5?
Health: ?????/?????
Skills: ???
Weaknesses: Light, Fire, ???
This was an undead monster above level 50. Despite its health being only in the four digits, it was a heavily armored unit. The concern lay not in its health but in its defense. Ye Bai’s level 20 spell penetration wouldn’t deal much damage to it.
Moreover, 1000 is a four-digit number, and so is 9999; fighting between the two isn’t the same concept.
The sub-dragon guard undead paused at the corridor’s entrance, appearing somewhat puzzled and uncertain.
Ye Bai tightened her grip on the Snow-colored Sword and the magic scroll.
Facing a single sub-dragon guard undead, Ye Bai wasn’t worried; she could easily wear it down like she had with the boss before. The trouble was that this was a dragonkin settlement ruin, and as a guard responsible for patrol, if it discovered an enemy, it would call for reinforcements.
This was the trouble with humanoid monsters—they had intelligence and strategy. Although undead creatures lacked brains, their intelligence and strategy were still several levels lower. However, they had their advantages: they were fearless and could communicate quickly. High-ranking undead could transmit commands to their subordinates through a mental network, which was what made the undead calamity so terrifying.
Undead were among the most promising races among the six major races, but their weaknesses were glaring, and they required a large number of strong corpses to form a climate.
As her thoughts raced, Ye Bai suddenly recalled something—if what the strange humanoid hinted at was true, and the six races of the divine realm had been wiped out, the undead might rise to dominate the current divine realm, becoming the largest and most terrifying force.
At that moment, the sub-dragon guard undead paused for a moment before shifting its feet and turning around.
Ye Bai hoped it would leave after failing to find anything, but just as it turned to face the corridor, it stopped again.
“Whoosh…”
Ye Bai watched as the sub-dragon guard undead knelt down, peering into the corridor.
Its eye sockets glowed with flickering soul flames, ‘looking’ directly at Ye Bai.
In her line of sight, a wide health bar for the elite monster slowly unfurled, even exceeding the width of the corridor, directly ‘piercing’ through the stone walls on either side.
Is the health bar so long it’s glitching?
At this point, Ye Bai could only bitterly joke to herself as she silently began to cast Light Arrow, preparing to pull the guard all the way out of the corridor.
If she ran fast enough, she might escape before more undead could chase her down, but she would have to forget about the donkey.
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