31: Chapter 31 The Cardinal!

Lu Yin's gaze swept over the newly converted Death Dark Spider Guard; dark green light flowed over its pitch-black shell, and its eight compound eyes flickered with the cold glint of death.

"Keep moving."

His voice was calm and steady, as if everything that had just happened was as insignificant as brushing dust off his shoulder.

Li Chenxu and Wei Xiaoxiao didn't raise any more objections this time, silently following behind him.

The interior of the temple was more intricate than imagined, with dilapidated corridors branching out in all directions.

The dark purple moss on the walls emitted a faint glow, barely illuminating the path ahead.

"The Demon Bat Area is just ahead." Wei Xiaoxiao gripped her staff tightly, the light from her Radiance Shield appearing exceptionally dazzling in the darkness.

Li Chenxu's heavy boots stepped on the dust-covered stone slabs, producing a dull echo.

"That's right. The most troublesome things in this Dungeon are those Bloodthirsty Demon Bats. Many teams have fallen at..."

Before he could finish his sentence, dozens of holes suddenly cracked open in the walls on both sides, and countless blood-red bats surged out like a tide!

[Bloodthirsty Demon Bat]

[Level: 21]

[Strength: 50, Constitution: 400]

[Agility: 150, Spirit: 300]

[Skills: Vampiric Bite, Ultrasonic Interference]

The swarm of demon bats let out ear-piercing screeches, and ultrasonic waves echoed through the narrow corridor, making one feel dizzy.

"What's going on? Why has the Demon Bat Area appeared early?!"

Li Chenxu was startled and immediately raised his heavy shield.

But just as he was about to act, the Death Dark Spider Guard suddenly opened its hideous mouthparts and spat out a large cloud of viscous black spider silk.

The spider web instantly covered the entire corridor. The demon bat swarm crashed into the web and was immediately stuck fast, letting out terrified shrieks.

Following that, the Death Soldier launched an attack, accurately hitting every demon bat trapped in the web.

-7124! -6843! -6988!

[Ding! You have killed a Bloodthirsty Demon Bat, experience points increased by 433!]

[Ding! Obtained Common-grade soul of death ×1!]

[...]

The experience gain notifications scrolled past Lu Yin's eyes like a waterfall, making him think to himself.

"This is a good place to farm souls of death."

Although these Bloodthirsty Demon Bats didn't give much experience, they were numerous and concentrated.

From this single wave alone, he had harvested nearly a hundred Common-grade souls of death.

And there would be several more waves of these demon bat swarms later on.

Next, Lu Yin repeated the process. In such narrow corridors, it should have been the home turf of the Bloodthirsty Demon Bats.

With their agility and numbers, they had caused many Professionals passing through here to suffer miserably.

But after meeting Lu Yin, the corridor instead became a natural barrier that restricted these Bloodthirsty Demon Bats.

As long as the Death Dark Spider Guard spat out its web, it was guaranteed to render most of the demon bats immobile.

Watching Lu Yin's solo performance, both Li Chenxu and Wei Xiaoxiao were somewhat stunned.

As young geniuses with legendary grade classes in the military, they had naturally seen Mythic-level Professionals before.

But there had never been a Mythic Class as monstrous as Lu Yin.

Lu Yin, however, didn't care about the changes in the two of them, completely immersed in the pleasure of gaining experience points and souls of death.

He glanced at his experience bar; he estimated that after farming the final BOSS of this Dungeon, he would naturally be able to level up to Level 21.

At that time, he would not only be able to learn new class skills but also be able to summon the Legion Commander he had been longing for.

Advancing rapidly all the way, a massive underground altar suddenly appeared at the end of the deep corridor.

The air was thick with the smell of stale blood and some indescribable dark aura.

The walls were covered with twisted runes that squirmed slightly under the reflection of the dark purple moss like living things.

In the center of the altar, a tall figure stood with his back to them.

He wore an incredibly striking Scarlet Cardinal Robe, embroidered with incomprehensible and eerie symbols in dark gold thread.

He seemed to be presiding over some long-forgotten ritual, with bleached white bones scattered around him.

"That's the final BOSS, the Cardinal."

Wei Xiaoxiao looked at the figure in the distance and lowered her voice.

Lu Yin followed her gaze; the Cardinal in the center of the altar slowly turned around.

His face was hidden in the shadows of a deep red hood, leaving only the bloodless lower half of his face and a sinister smile visible.

"Intruders... just in time to be sacrifices..." His voice was raspy and hollow, as if coming from another world.

Lu Yin checked the BOSS's attributes.

[Cardinal Moras]

[Level: 25 (Nightmare-level BOSS)]

[Strength: 250, Constitution: 2500]

[Agility: 220, Spirit: 4500]

[Skills: Blood Curse, Blood Rage, Scarlet Arrow Rain, Mind Control, Blood Sacrifice]

"You two step back, leave this to me."

Lu Yin said softly.

After witnessing Lu Yin's abilities, Li Chenxu and Wei Xiaoxiao immediately retreated.

Lu Yin summoned twenty Death Soldier and attacked towards the altar.

As Lu Yin moved, Cardinal Moras also took action.

"Humble creatures, how dare you disturb the sacred ritual..."

Moras slowly raised a withered hand, and dark red energy gathered at his fingertips.

In an instant, countless arrows formed from dark red energy poured down like a torrential rain, heading straight for Lu Yin with an ear-piercing whistling sound!

The Scarlet Arrow Rain covered a huge area, almost blocking all space for evasion.

But Lu Yin didn't need to evade at all.

With the attributes of his Death Soldier, there was absolutely no problem in tanking the BOSS's attacks head-on.

Ignoring the rain of arrows filling the sky, the Death Soldier charged directly forward.

A large amount of red damage numbers floated up, but at most, they were only slightly over three hundred.

During this time, the twenty Death Soldier had already approached the altar and launched their attacks.

However, Moras suddenly spread his arms, and dark red energy erupted with him as the center.

Blood Rage!

A dark red ripple spread rapidly like a sea wave, and all the Death Soldier that had just approached were instantly overturned by the ripple, sent flying dozens of meters away.

This was an area-of-effect knockback skill; generally, more powerful mages would basically have similar life-saving skills.

After releasing Blood Rage, Moras followed up on his advantage.

Blood Curse!

This was also an area-of-effect skill, and dark red light enveloped the entire altar.

Eerie blood-colored runes appeared on all the Death Soldier that were touched, and their movement speed was significantly reduced.

Mind Control!

After slowing down all the Death Soldier, Moras released another skill.

Three Death Soldier were affected; they immediately began to lose control, attacking indiscriminately, regardless of friend or foe.

It had to be said that this BOSS was indeed very strong.

Forget Nightmare difficulty; for ordinary Professionals, being able to pass Hard difficulty would already make them quite a top-tier team.

Lu Yin ignored the controlled Death Soldier; such skills definitely had a time limit.

Once the time was up, the effect would naturally be lifted.

With a thought, he summoned another ten Death Soldier.

These ten Death Soldier were not cursed and approached the BOSS at extreme speed.

Since the BOSS had just released Scarlet Rage and Blood Curse, both of these skills were now on cooldown.

Therefore, these ten Death Soldier easily closed in on him.

Once they were within the Death Soldier's attack range, Lu Yin ordered the attack without the slightest hesitation.

With his Death Soldier boosted tenfold, one could imagine the BOSS's fate without even thinking.