Chapter 87 - 85: Sweeping Through the Temple

Zhao Ming teamed up with Young Master Cong to easily entangle the three minions of the Skeleton Mage.Following Hang Yu’s instructions, they encircled without killing, only dragging and not attacking.

As long as the three Skeleton Soldiers are not eliminated, the Skeleton Mage cannot summon new Skeleton Soldiers from elsewhere, allowing Hang Yu to continue to ravage the Skeleton Mage without any interference.

"Explosive Skull!"

The Skeleton Mage couldn’t take it anymore.

Immediately a skill was activated again.

A flying skull was summoned, biting Hang Yu, then self-exploding, causing both physical and magic damage, inflicting a 6-point loss of life energy on Hang Yu.

This move was very powerful!

Jiang Nan immediately cast Light Injury Healing, not only healing the wound instantly but also restoring the lost life, ensuring Hang Yu wouldn’t have to worry about his life safety.

The Skeleton Mage summoned another skull.

This time it headed towards Jiang Nan in the distance, causing him to quickly attempt to dodge.

Explosive Skull is a strong and tricky long-range attack skill.

It can fly far enough to attack targets fifty meters away, and once launched it locks onto the target with auto-tracking functionality. Although this skill has strong damage capabilities, is very flexible, and can track, it also has a very obvious flaw.

That is, its speed is too slow compared to regular magic.

So Hang Yu arranged for Xiaoqiang to be on standby at all times.

Seeing Jiang Nan being chased by the flying skull, Xiaoqiang immediately launched an Air Arrow, blasting the flying skull in mid-air.

The Skeleton Mage tried several more times to release Explosive Skull.

Except for the skull attacking Hang Yu, which was too close for Xiaoqiang to intercept, all others aiming at Jiang Nan, Zhao Ming, or Young Master Cong, were intercepted by Air Arrows.

Air Arrow’s cooldown time is more advantageous than Explosive Skull!

The Skeleton Mage clearly couldn’t break through Xiaoqiang’s anti-missile system.

At this point, its Skeleton Soldiers were entangled, its Explosive Skull was intercepted, its Ghost Fire Chaotic Dance couldn’t defeat Hang Yu, making the Skeleton Mage completely suppressed with no tactics left.

Magic professionals typically have weaker life energy.

Skeleton-type monsters are still representatives of fragility and low health.

After being stabbed more than ten times by Hang Yu, the Skeleton Mage finally lost all resistance, splitting from head to toe into a pile of broken bones, and dropped several items, releasing abundant spiritual qi.

The three Skeleton Soldiers also fell down as if losing support.

A dignified level 4 Silver Elite should have been more troublesome than a Ghoul, but was easily taken down, making one feel like killing the Skeleton Mage was even easier than killing a Ghoul.

It was really too easy.

Old Zhao gathered the Skeleton Soldiers.

He and Young Master Cong were enough to entangle the three Skeleton Soldiers.

Xiaoqiang sniped Explosive Skull while Jiang Nan was responsible for healing both sides.

As for the Skeleton Mage, it was entirely left to Hang Yu, whose exceptionally strong magic defense was enough to confront the Skeleton Mage face on, solving it in less than two minutes.

"So exhilarating!"

"Didn’t expect it to be so easy!"

"This was a Silver Elite Monster!"

This time, not to mention Young Master Cong who hadn’t seen much of the world.

Even Old Zhao, Xiaoqiang, and Jiang Nan felt extremely delighted.

The Skeleton Mage was the first Silver Elite they had encountered.

This monster’s spiritual qi was more than a Ghoul’s, and its drop rate was higher than a Ghoul’s as well, exploding with four pieces of equipment this time.

[Skeleton Mage Staff], level 4 equipment, white middle grade quality, magic attack +5, intelligence +1, spirit +1, durability 15, part of the Skeleton Mage Set (requires consuming seven white crystal stones to bring back to the present world)

[Ancient Warlock’s Bracelet], level 4 equipment, white lower grade quality, magic attack +1, soul power +1, durability 15 (requires consuming four white crystal stones to bring back to the present world.)

[Spirit of the Undead Apprentice Robe], level 4 equipment, gray upper grade quality, physical defense +2, magic defense +2, spirit +1, durability 15 (requires consuming seven gray crystal stones to bring back to the present world)

[Fine Magic Belt], level 4 equipment, gray upper grade quality, physical defense +1, spiritual power +2, durability 15 (requires consuming five gray crystal stones to bring back to the present world)

Two pieces of white equipment, two pieces of bright gray equipment.

Additionally, six white crystal stones were dropped.

The spiritual qi obtained from the Skeleton Mage was approximately thirty to forty percent more than that from a Ghoul, quite a significant difference even though both are Elite Monsters!

Most of the equipment dropped by the Skeleton Mage were for magic professionals and spiritual professionals.

Combat professionals need strength and agility, holy professionals need divine and will.

Generally, those boosting intelligence and spirit are mostly magic professional equipment.

Generally, those boosting soul power and spiritual sense are mostly spiritual professional equipment.

The Skeleton Mage also dropped a level 4 set, consisting of a weapon, belt, and necklace, forming a magic professional set.

However, the Skeleton Mage Set lacks distinctiveness.

The set effect is average, not as good as the Tree Spirit Guard Set.

But if you can gather a whole set, the enhancement is quite nice, and it’s still very valuable!

Apart from the most valuable Skeleton Mage Staff, the other three pieces of equipment that dropped are not bad either, it’s just a pity they all require Magic or Spiritual Profession, which is of no use to Hang Yu.

You can’t expect to always have the needed equipment drop every time.

Where is there such a perfect opportunity?

At least these pieces are level 4 equipment, each one is a treasure by today’s standards.

Young Master Cong can be said to be extremely envious and very regretful, wondering why he didn’t try to snatch some.

Initially, Young Master Cong didn’t pay much attention to the four people; he thought that the scope of this team would be very limited even if they could obtain equipment, little did he expect the gains along the way to be so substantial!

Now all is clear.

Staring eagerly as the loot bursts one by one.

Yet he doesn’t have the right to allocate the spoils, which is indeed a sad thing.

Currently, it’s just the beginning.

The Corpse Witch Temple is so vast!

There are still about six hours left, so it’s hard to say how much we can accumulate in the end!

"These ’Ancient Warlock’s Gloves’ are for the Spiritual Profession, right?" Young Master Cong tried asking: "If I want to spend money to buy it, can we negotiate?"

"There’s no time to talk about this now, our next task is heavy!"

Hang Yu didn’t give Young Master Cong any face.

But at least he didn’t refuse, right?

This made Young Master Cong realize a chance!

As they say, the pavilion closest to the water enjoys moonlight first!

He doesn’t have the qualification to distribute the spoils, but by staying so close to this team, he can purchase desired equipment and items in advance, and just that point can bring great benefits to himself!

The few didn’t waste any time.

They continued to explore around the temple.

Many Skeleton Mages were active around the Corpse Witch Temple.

In terms of Elite Monster density, it’s much higher than that in the Burial Ground, Tree Spirit Precision Forest, or the ghoul-infested ruins.

Though Hang Yu’s ultimate goal is to kill the Corpse Witch.

Before that, the Corpse Witch Temple must be cleared completely.

Leaving no trace of ordinary skeletons nor Skeleton Mages, otherwise, there’s no way to defeat the Corpse Witch.

For once the sleeping Corpse Witch awakens.

The surrounding undead will be gathered over.

If they don’t kill all these Skeleton Mages and Skeleton Monsters and go directly into the Corpse Witch Hall in the temple center, even if each person had nine lives, it wouldn’t be enough.

After all, dealing with just one Corpse Witch alone is very difficult!

......

The five people didn’t pause for a moment.

They hacked through from noon till dusk.

In total, they eliminated more than fifty ordinary monsters and eight Skeleton Mages.

The richness of the loot generated had Jiang Nan and Xiaoqiang feeling like they’d wake up laughing happily in their sleep at night... of course, Young Master Cong would wake up crying in pain because he doesn’t even get a single hair, the bigger the harvest, the more heartache that feels suffocating.

Even Zhao Ming, who has seen a lot and has rich experience, was thrilled.

These equipment, items, and crystal stones are extremely valuable resources.

Whether converted to money to supplement cash flow or kept to nurture the team, they are all very beneficial!

With dusk approaching, inside and outside the temple, there was a deathly silence.

Jiang Nan started to worry: "Great God, it’s getting late, we’ve stayed here too long, you think there’ll be danger if we don’t return to the camp by night?"

The camp is a safe zone.

Generally, it won’t be attacked by monsters.

However, anything can happen in the wild!

Especially in this area, it’s likely to be full of undead once it’s night.

"Don’t worry, I’ve planned it all out."

"What should we do now? It seems there are no monsters around!"

"Hmm, since the temple’s periphery is cleared, let’s head directly to the main hall now."

Zhang Xiaoqiang said nervously and excitedly, "Are we going to fight the Boss Corpse Witch?"

"That’s right, since we are here, we definitely have to take it on." Hang Yu nodded: "It is our ultimate goal of this trip!"