Chapter 92
“The half-god lich can control the skeletal dragon mainly due to the power of that tome, right? How close do you need to be to get in?” Ye Bai nodded. Upon seeing the tome in the lich's hand, she suddenly thought of a new 'use' for the paper figure.
After several deliberate experiments and observations, Ye Bai had a basic understanding of the paper figure's characteristics.
As the only bloodline user capable of communication, the paper figure currently seemed to be bound to her. It could directly traverse three-dimensional space, entering any object with text that Ye Bai touched, such as when it had previously entered the magical scroll she held in the Dragon Tomb ruins.
At the same time, when Ye Bai's eyes saw text on other mediums, within a certain close distance, the paper figure could jump between two types of textual mediums. For instance, it had previously jumped from Ye Bai's magical scroll to the treasure vault's door.
Later, while in the treasure vault, Ye Bai had put away the magical scroll and used her sword to 'draw a circle as a prison' on the wall, trapping the paper figure within a newly created circle, preventing it from leaving that area.
Finally, when Ye Bai left the treasure vault and took out the magical scroll from her backpack, the paper figure managed to escape the two-dimensional circle on the wall by jumping between different mediums.
Thus, when Ye Bai later put the magical scroll back in her backpack, the paper figure could not appear. Even after the scroll it had parasitized was used, it remained absent until Ye Bai took out a new magical scroll, at which point it reappeared.
“Thirty meters.” The paper figure understood Ye Bai's intent and provided her with an exact number.
“Good.”
Ye Bai responded, and at that moment, the skeletal hands grasping at her feet, under the control of the dragonman lich, seemed to rise with a will of their own, forming layers of skeletal stairs that not only held onto Ye Bai but also pushed her forward.
The massive body of the skeletal dragon leaned toward Ye Bai. It didn’t need to move much; it could simply extend its enormous head and swallow her whole.
The dragonman lich's soul flame flickered, its emotions stirred. The lich's primary combat method was to transform powerful corpses into its undead servants, successfully turning an ancient dragon, once revered as a deity, into a servant that obeyed its commands.
For any lich, this was an achievement worthy of being considered the pinnacle of a long, eternal life.
The other dragonborn undead here lacked intelligence and were completely under the lich's control due to their level suppression. They were of no concern to it. Instead, Ye Bai, the unexpected intruder, allowed the lich to vent its joy, preventing it from feeling like it was strutting around in fine clothes at night.
In light of this, the dragonman lich graciously granted Ye Bai the death it deemed glorious.
At this moment, the dragon's head was only twenty meters away from Ye Bai. It opened its massive mouth, lined with interlocking fangs, from which dripped pale, corrosive sparks.
An inconspicuous spark fell onto Ye Bai, immediately dealing a shocking damage of ‘-434.’
Just as the shadow of the dragon enveloped her, Ye Bai used the skill she had been holding in her hand, **Shadow Step**, toward the direction of the dragonman lich!
This crucial escape skill had been saved for the right moment, as she had previously been unable to escape the skeletal domain, with undead soldiers lurking further away. The ten-minute cooldown after using it would not have been enough for her to flee.
Now, using her most critical escape skill, Ye Bai traversed through the shadows and appeared near the skeletal altar, not far from the dragonman lich.
“Let’s go!”
Ye Bai tossed the paper figure along with the magical scroll, then executed a backward roll, her movements fluid and seamless.
The magical scroll released a second-tier ice spell, **Frost Nova**, toward the dragonman lich.
“You…”
The dragonman lich was puzzled. A flash of grayish-white light enveloped it, and a wall made of bones erupted from the ground. This spell, which should have frozen a large area and immobilized enemies, was completely blocked by the skeletal wall, having no effect on the lich behind it.
With a wave of its hand, the skeletal wall faded, and the lich looked in the direction Ye Bai had fled, coldly stating, “It seems you can no longer enjoy my mercy. In that case, you shall be buried forever in my skeletal domain. I will scatter your bones evenly throughout.”
With that, the dragonman lich picked up the black tome in its hand, ready to manipulate the skeletal domain to devour Ye Bai.
But at that moment, the flame of its soul flickered, and it looked at the tome in confusion.
The power it wielded through the tome, as the ruler of all undead, gave it confidence that it could transform even the ancient dragon into an undead servant.
However, in that instant, the connection between the tome and the dragonman lich suddenly severed. No, rather than severing, it was as if the tome's powerful necromantic force had simply vanished.
“What?!”
In the dragonman lich's astonished gaze, the dragon language, magical inscriptions, and necromantic script written in gold and blood-red ink on the tome suddenly began to shift and change.
The lich's bony, withered hand touched the moving text but could not influence it. All it could do was watch as the lines that formed the letters twisted and morphed, ultimately forming a human face.
The face maintained the tome's aesthetic of death, pallor, and an inexplicable sense of the sacred, exuding an indescribable aura of eerie mystery.
Even more bizarrely, this visage was animated!
The figure brushed its hair aside, and the mouth outlined in blood-red lines curled upward.
Then it slightly nodded at the dragonman lich, as if greeting it.
“...!!”
This terrifying and bizarre scene startled the already undead dragonman lich, causing its hand to tremble uncontrollably, nearly dropping the tome it valued most.
“What the hell is this?!”
The dragonman lich snapped back to reality, exclaiming in surprise, instinctively uttering words it should not have said. Yet, despite its fear, it could not bring itself to discard the tome.
At this point, the dragonman lich had no mind to focus on Ye Bai. Like a king who had lost its crown, it looked at the paper figure with a mix of shock and anger:
“What have you done to my tome?!”
“Just taking temporary residence, sorry for the disturbance.” The paper figure replied politely. “But rather than worrying about me, you should focus on yourself right now.”
“Roar…!!”
A long, furious roar erupted from above the dragonman lich. The skeletal dragon, which had previously obeyed the lich's commands, now had its soul flame flickering violently, its eyes filled with rage.
The skeletal dragon turned its head, its cold gaze fixed on the dragonman lich, which stood frozen in place.
This scene once again profoundly illustrated the saying: villains often meet their end through their own words.
Undead are a species with a strict hierarchy. The dragonman lich's ability to transform and control more powerful ancient dragons relied entirely on the power of that mysterious tome.
Now that the tome had become ineffective, it faced immediate backlash.
“Boom!”
The skeletal dragon unleashed a torrent of dragon fire, engulfing the dragonman lich in an instant.
Clearly, the furious skeletal dragon was not only attacking the lich that had attempted to control it but also indiscriminately targeting the surrounding dragonborn undead.
“Ugh…”
At a distance from the altar, Ye Bai, who had narrowly escaped, took out the War Horn and blew into it.
The damage from the War Horn was not high and wouldn’t cause much harm, but its range was extensive.
Ye Bai seized this rare opportunity to provide a small assist to the rampaging skeletal dragon—
And in turn, gain a bit of ‘minor’ experience.
**Chapter 66**
The effect of the War Horn was to disperse creatures within a radius of five hundred meters and instill a sense of intimidation in those within fifty meters. While these effects would have little impact on the dragonborn undead here, they were crucial for Ye Bai's combat assessment.
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