32: Fire Essence Fragment

Ye Xiao looked up at the pair of eyes in the darkness.

He felt a jolt in his soul.

However, just at this moment,

a red light suddenly burst from between Ye Xiao's eyebrows, shooting straight towards those eyes.

Instantly, those ferocious eyes seemed to be stimulated.

They roared madly.

“Ah! Ah! Ah!”

With this roar,

the entire surrounding space began to shake, and the surrounding glare became even more distorted.

Suddenly, the red light scattered in the dark sky, forming a strange Red Moon.

“Damn otherworldly creature, it’s that move again.”

As the Red Moon ascended, those eyes seemed to encounter something terrifying, closing directly and then rapidly disappearing.

The surroundings also returned to calm.

The entire process took less than three seconds.

If he hadn't personally felt that terrifying pressure,

Ye Xiao would have almost thought he was hallucinating.

Remi had clearly said before he died:

in the catacombs, if one held a star compass stone,

as long as one didn't attack first, the creatures inside the catacombs wouldn't attack them.

But in that instant just now, Ye Xiao clearly felt the killing intent emanating from those eyes.

Ye Xiao's brows furrowed.

He didn't think Remi would lie to him after his death.

The two NPCs who had previously trespassed into the Miasma Hidden Forest were clearly weaker than him.

Even that terrifying pressure just now made him feel stressed.

Let alone those two NPCs.

What exactly went wrong?

Ye Xiao couldn't figure it out.

And at this moment,

where the Red Moon shone, the space became stable again.

Coming back to his senses, Ye Xiao looked at the Red Moon above his head with confusion.

At this moment, he suddenly had a thought.

The scene before him was so familiar.

It was almost identical to when he had previously entered the Red Moon Space.

“Could it be that this crimson moon token is related to the catacombs?”

Just as Ye Xiao was wondering,

the colorful light that had been quiet before him twisted again.

Immediately after, Ye Xiao saw a creature engulfed in flames leap out from the distorted light.

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[Spark Ghost]

[Level: 20]

[Health: 10000]

[Attack: 500]

[Defense: 300]

[Description: Formed by tiny flames, appearing as a ghost, floating everywhere, able to pass through obstacles, attacking enemies with high-speed flame shadows]

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Catacomb monster?

Ye Xiao was slightly startled, looking at the spark-like monster that suddenly appeared before him.

The monster before him didn't seem to have appeared in the Eternal World.

It was probably a species exclusive to the catacombs.

However, this guy was only level 20, but its health was as high as 10,000.

Its attack and defense were also somewhat outrageous.

One must know that the monsters encountered in the Miasma Hidden Forest before,

the ones with the most health barely exceeded a thousand.

Even the level 20 boss, Plague Source Grub, only had 50,000 health.

The health of this monster was one-fifth of a boss.

However, what made Ye Xiao feel even more outrageous was that

there was not just one such monster; as the first Spark Ghost jumped out,

four more Spark Ghosts followed closely behind from the surrounding distorted light, appearing before Ye Xiao.

The five Spark Ghosts, like the mysterious eyes before, rushed towards Ye Xiao as soon as they appeared.

Although the Spark Ghost's attributes didn't seem like a level 20 monster,

for the current Ye Xiao, it posed no threat.

He raised his hand and cast a Fireball.

Fireballs filled the sky, colliding with the fiery red ghosts.

The surrounding temperature noticeably increased.

However, in the next moment, Ye Xiao suddenly discovered that his Fireball only dealt a tiny amount of damage to these Spark Ghosts.

Clearly, these ghosts, completely enveloped in flames, were not afraid of fire attributes and possessed extremely high fire resistance.

But Ye Xiao had already anticipated this point.

Sure enough, in the next second, the Spark Ghost in front of him let out a strange scream and completely fell.

Although the Spark Ghost could be immune to the damage of Fireball, the Venomous Assault damage attached to 30 Fireballs could instantly stack its layers to the maximum.

12,000 damage per second was already enough to instantly kill the Spark Ghost.

This was also the reason why Ye Xiao was not in a hurry to learn other elemental skills before.

After all, with his financial resources, most of what he could buy were ordinary-level skills.

Their power was not strong to begin with.

If that was the case, it was better to focus on stacking up the power of Fireball first, which would be faster.

Anyway, if he encountered monsters with high fire resistance, he still had Venomous Assault.

He wasn't worried about being countered.

At this moment, a strange scene appeared.

The fallen Spark Ghost actually split into four smaller Spark Ghosts.

Ye Xiao was startled and, after thinking for a moment, cast another Fireball.

As a result, the four smaller Spark Ghosts split again, turning into sixteen.

Ye Xiao tried to attack the other Spark Ghosts.

The result was still the same.

These strange monsters, after being killed, did not die directly.

Instead, they split into smaller Spark Ghosts.

And apart from their health becoming one-fourth of the original, their attack and defense remained unchanged.

In the blink of an eye,

as Ye Xiao continuously released Fireball,

the originally five Spark Ghosts were now densely spread all around.

At a glance, there were no less than 300 of them.

Ye Xiao's scalp tingled.

He didn't expect these things to multiply the more he killed them; luckily, he had stacked 25 Evil Devour earlier.

This allowed him to recover his health in time.

Otherwise, facing the attacks of these 300 Spark Ghosts simultaneously, Ye Xiao's 120,000 health would not be enough for them to cut through.

These catacomb monsters were actually so terrifying.

No wonder those NPCs didn't dare to move around extensively here.

However, Ye Xiao really couldn't understand how those two NPCs before had dodged the attacks of these monsters.

Or rather, did these monsters not attack NPCs, only Human Job Holders?

Ye Xiao felt it was very possible.

At this moment, seeing the Spark Ghosts multiply exponentially,

Ye Xiao planned to activate the star compass stone and return to the secret realm.

After all, facing these unkillable things, he had no solution.

However, just as he was about to leave, the densely packed Spark Ghosts in front of him simultaneously emitted fiery red light.

In the next instant, the lights converged.

Ye Xiao then saw nearly a thousand Spark Ghosts merge.

What appeared before Ye Xiao at this moment was a gigantic Spark Ghost several times taller than him.

And this giant Spark Ghost was not naked like before.

It wore armor covered with mysterious runes and held a giant flame greatsword.

It looked just like a boss.

“Invader, becut!”

That hollow voice echoed throughout the entire space.

The giant flame greatsword erupted with a scorching red glow, slashing towards Ye Xiao.

Seeing this, Ye Xiao activated Divinity Speed.

His figure instantly retreated, narrowly avoiding the sword strike.

At the same time, he unceremoniously attacked again.

A Fireball struck its body, but it only made the giant Spark Ghost's size expand even more.

However, Ye Xiao didn't care about this at all.

Instead, he silently counted in his heart.

1 second, 2 seconds... After 10 seconds,

the giant flame ghost's body was completely corroded by blackness.

The scorching flames completely dissipated.

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[Ding! You killed a Spark Ghost, gaining 968 experience points.]

[Ding! You collected 1 fire element essence fragment, and the damage of all your fire-type skills increased by 20%.]

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