Chapter 94
“Holy crap!” Ye Bai couldn’t help but exclaim, instantly leveling up and restoring her health to full.
Just moments ago, she was at level 25 with only 850 health points. Thanks to the protection of the Crocodile King’s Blood Bracelet, her health automatically recovered from 5% to 30% after taking environmental damage.
Feeling the entire underground river area shaking, it seemed like the place was about to collapse. Ye Bai dared not linger any longer and immediately fled the island, rushing back across the bridge she had come from.
This time, Ye Bai was truly focused on escaping, without any distractions.
The donkey had long since disappeared, and the paper figure was likely trapped in the Codex. However, due to the curse binding her, any magical text she encountered would allow the other party to leap directly to her side, regardless of distance, leaving her with no worries.
As for the loot here, it would be a lie to say Ye Bai wasn’t tempted. After all, she had gained so much experience from this run that she could probably reach level 40 without needing anything else.
In this world where all scenes could be destroyed, it also meant that such destruction could inflict real damage on players. Ye Bai had survived the attacks of the demigod lich, but if she were to die from environmental damage caused by the collapse, that would be the most frustrating way to go.
“Boom!”
Just as she reached the halfway point of the bridge, a stone pillar broke and fell, smashing the bridge in two.
Ye Bai didn’t hesitate; she sprinted forward and made a desperate leap, hoping to use the jumping ability granted by her Light Feather to clear the gap and land on the other side of the bridge, which was about ten meters away.
“Splash!”
Illusions were best avoided. Ye Bai made a spectacular belly flop into the water, sending up a huge splash as she fell into the ominous river below, filled with ghostly flames.
“Splash…”
The water wasn’t deep, and Ye Bai struggled to float back up.
‘-30’, ‘-30’, ‘-30’…
Ye Bai noticed a new negative buff, [Soul Corrosion], appearing on her status, causing her health to drop by 30 points per second.
“Splash, splash, splash…” Realizing the danger, Ye Bai immediately began to swim forward. In the absence of any undead pulling her down, her swimming skills were just barely sufficient.
As her health dipped to a critical level, she leveled up again and restored her health.
Suddenly, while glancing at her status panel, Ye Bai noticed that, aside from her health decreasing, her health cap and resistances were actually increasing by one point per second under the effect of [Soul Corrosion].
“Hmm?”
With a glimmer of hope, Ye Bai looked at the length and direction of the river. She wasn’t too far from the shore, and the current was flowing downstream.
After a moment’s thought, she decided to abandon the idea of climbing back onto the bridge. Instead, she pulled out the [Crocodile King’s Blood] from her backpack, which she had intended to use for crafting potions, and gulped it down, instantly boosting her health cap by 400 points.
“Splash, splash…”
As she swam, every time her health dropped to a dangerous level, she leveled up again, gaining the restoration effect.
Meanwhile, the skeletal dragon was still rampaging, and it seemed that the experience pool for Ye Bai was hardly diminishing.
“Boom!”
Finally, after a loud crash from the other side, Ye Bai reached the shore.
At this point, she had leveled up to 35. After consuming the Crocodile King’s Blood, her health, which should have been at 1800, had risen to 2639 due to the river’s special effects. This amount of health was not only rare among mages of the same level but also exceptional among tank warriors.
After swimming through the ghostly river, Ye Bai had unknowingly transformed into a veritable tank.
“Roar…”
A mournful dragon’s roar echoed behind her.
On the island, massive stone blocks fell like rain. Ye Bai turned back one last time, unable to see the dragonborn spirits on the altar island anymore—perhaps they were too small, or perhaps they had been completely wiped out by the skeletal dragon.
All she could see was the solitary dragon sitting on the altar, gazing up at the small patch of gray-white sky visible through a crack above.
It was buried along with the entire underground city, preparing to embrace true death alongside those trapped in the world of the living.
As Ye Bai hurriedly turned and dashed through the passage, the image of that scene remained etched in her mind, impossible to forget.
…
In the underground city, as the collapse continued, the last gap in the surface was squeezed shut and vanished.
A gray donkey nimbly hopped across the rubble, leaping up.
The ancient dragon Antito, half-buried under the massive stones on the altar, saw the last flicker of the soul flame in its eyes before it finally extinguished.
It took one last look at the direction of the sky city it could never return to, closed its eyes, and gradually merged into the surrounding stones, forever falling into a deep slumber.
At that moment, Ye Bai finally escaped the underground city, returning to the surface, where the bright light of day greeted her. It was already the next day.
Just then, she heard the system notification chime again:
[You participated in the historical event ‘The Twilight of the Sky City’. You gained 100 historical experience points and 1,000,000 experience points.]
Chapter 67
“The Twilight of the Sky City, huh…”
Receiving this notification, Ye Bai paused for a moment, recalling the final scene of the underground city’s collapse, and couldn’t help but feel a mix of emotions, letting out a sigh.
Historians, aside from excavating relics, also gain archaeological experience by participating in significant historical events.
She had indeed witnessed an epic moment: the corpse of the long-extinct ancient dragon being revived by a dragonborn lich, only to be interrupted by the donkey and the paper figure’s disruption of the Codex, leading to the dragon seemingly not being fully controlled by the lich, and instead annihilating the undead of the entire underground city.
Looking back now, Ye Bai felt that the ancient dragon named Antito?Lusvine might not have been attacking out of madness, but rather retained some of its intelligence and pride as a dragon.
Even as a revived undead, that pride prevented it from accepting such desecration, leading to its actions against the dragonborn undead army, embodying a sentiment of “a family should stay together; dragons are dragons and cannot become undead.”
Of course, excluding the dragonborn lich, the skeletal dragon likely hated it the most.
According to the system’s mention of ‘The Twilight of the Sky City’, Ye Bai realized that Antito?Lusvine was likely the last dragon… well, the last dragon’s corpse.
The ancient dragon clan had already perished, and the paper figure had mentioned that not just the dragon clan, but perhaps all five major races had been wiped out… right?
Taking a deep breath, Ye Bai opened her status panel.
Character: Bai Ye
Level: 35
Identity: Blood of the Gods (Bloodline Level: Revived), Lord, Dragon Language Expert
Class: Whisperer, Historian
Health: 2639/2639
Mana: 625/625
Stamina: 200/200
Strength: 36
Endurance: 36
Speed: 36
Resistance: 108
Spirit: 51
Talents: Insight, Agility, Dexterity
Traits: Magical Bloodline
Skills: Mana Drain, Shadow Step
This journey had yielded immense rewards. Ye Bai calculated the remaining experience points in her pool; even just a fraction of the experience she had gained was enough to boost her level to 42.
The sources of this experience included the initial rampage of the skeletal dragon killing the dragonborn lich, as well as the countless dragonborn undead she had subsequently defeated.
Those dragonborn undead, ranging from levels 40 to 60, couldn’t withstand a single breath of dragon fire. If Ye Bai had engaged them in battle, they would have been a formidable challenge, requiring one-on-one combat, as facing more than one would be perilous.
The bountiful experience gained from her secondary profession as a historian now felt like a drop in the bucket compared to combat experience.
Aside from leveling up, Ye Bai had also made significant gains in her attributes.
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