Chapter 85: Extraordinary Combat Experience: Khajiit, Camouflage, Stealth

Bang! Bang!

White specks of light emerged.

Two Guardian Angels wielding long spears materialized and appeared at Tang Zheng’s side.

"Although I know a little about Khajiit’s abilities, what he has shown may not be his full strength; after all, he has extraordinary combat experience."

Tang Zheng’s expression was solemn, yet his eyes held a hint of excitement and gravity.

This person would eventually have a head-on confrontation with the Pleiades, even if Narberal had only been in a playful mood at the start.

But Narberal’s level reached 63, while Khajiit was only around level 21; to not be killed instantly under such a gap—

It shows that Khajiit is truly capable to be valued by [Zuranon].

"Camouflage!"

Tang Zheng’s gaze flashed, a magic scroll appeared in his hand again, and he flicked it toward the Guardian Angel on the left.

Green magical light flickered.

The figure of the Guardian Angel on the left, under the effect of "Camouflage," gradually blurred and soon merged into the night.

"With the help of the dark environment, the effect is no worse than in the forest." Tang Zheng looked at the vanished Guardian Angel on the left and nodded slightly.

Using a second-tier magic scroll to absorb a first-tier spell was indeed a bit wasteful, but in the eyes of Tang Zheng, who could independently manufacture magic scrolls, this bit of waste was nothing at all.

Under Tang Zheng’s control.

This invisible Guardian Angel began to move forward, stopped at a position about 50 meters away, and began to move laterally to stagger its position from Tang Zheng’s.

Viewed from above.

Tang Zheng and the old temple were on a straight line, while the invisible Guardian Angel was located to the left between the two, forming a triangular formation.

Swish!

Tang Zheng took out another second-tier Angel Summoning scroll and summoned yet another Guardian Angel.

He had now used five of his ten second-tier magic scrolls in one go.

"Go, enter the temple."

Tang Zheng controlled the newly appeared Guardian Angel to move toward the temple, while he himself stood behind the other Guardian Angel that had not been camouflaged, his figure flickering.

"Stealth!"

Tang Zheng’s entire body became blurred, as if merging into the shadow of this Guardian Angel.

This was a skill he had acquired while fighting that thief from "Eight Fingers," which had the effect of lowering one's presence and hiding in shadows.

The newly summoned Guardian Angel flew quickly and entered the dilapidated temple; there was nowhere to hide people inside the empty temple.

A single glance was enough to see the entire interior of the temple clearly; the only thing slightly conspicuous was an object that looked like a stone coffin in the center of the temple.

However, in this place filled with tombstones and graveyards, it was truly unremarkable and looked more like a decoration to match the cemetery.

Whoosh!

The Guardian Angel’s wings vibrated, it flew quickly above the stone coffin, and the long spear in its hand, radiating a bright light, slammed heavily into the coffin.

Bang!

A dull, booming sound exploded instantly in the silent environment.

The seemingly sturdy stone coffin was cracked directly by the Guardian Angel’s heavy blow, and immediately after, the attack fell again.

Bang!

Another loud noise, and the entire stone coffin was shattered.

A dark underground passage appeared before the Guardian Angel.

Under Tang Zheng’s control, the Guardian Angel rushed into the passage without hesitation.

And outside the temple.

Tang Zheng, hidden in the Guardian Angel’s shadow, waited patiently.

The order he had given that Guardian Angel was to destroy everything after entering the underground passage.

Tang Zheng did not intend to risk his own life by entering the lair of a necromancer; what he wanted to do was lure Khajiit out. Boom! Rumble!

In the underground chamber beneath the temple, a series of dense vibrations soon rang out.

But the sounds appeared as quickly as they vanished.

In just a moment, the intense vibrations disappeared.

Without needing to guess, Tang Zheng already knew that the Guardian Angel that had rushed into the underground chamber had been dealt with.

A brief atmosphere of silence once again enveloped the area.

It was soon broken again.

Low-level undead zombies, wearing rags and exuding a scent of decay but with bodies still relatively intact, crawled out of the underground passage one after another.

"Hiss!"

"Woo!"

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"Hiss!"

"……!"

These dozen or so low-level zombies swayed continuously while hissing, but they did not act in any chaotic manner; instead, after appearing, they immediately surrounded the entrance to the underground chamber.

This was Khajiit, who was controlling these zombies, observing and testing!

Tang Zheng looked toward the temple through the Guardian Angel blocking his front and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Truly cautious!

In fact, Tang Zheng had initially thought about summoning all his angels and controlling them to rush into the underground chamber in one go.

Perhaps he could have hacked Khajiit to death in one fell swoop.

However, that was only the best-case scenario.

Since Khajiit dared to hide in this underground temple, which was obviously easy to block, he naturally would not fail to guard against such accidents.

Perhaps there was a passage hidden in the underground chamber that could lead out of this cemetery; if that were the case, once Khajiit ran away, it would be difficult to find him.

"Second-tier Guardian Angel?"

"This doesn't look like a skill that those ordinary guards or small-time characters from the Adventurer's Guild could master."

A cold, low voice rang out from the underground chamber.

Although this voice was not very loud, it carried clearly through the now overly quiet cemetery.

Following the sound of unhurried footsteps on the stairs.

An old man wearing blood-colored mage robes, bald, with pale, sickly-looking skin, and appearing to be fifty or sixty years old, walked out of the basement along the stairs.

A magic necklace inlaid with three skulls hung on his chest, his left hand held a long, slender black staff, and his right hand dragged a black stone the size of two fists.

At a glance.

He gave off a feeling of being quite dangerous and imposing.

The moment Tang Zheng saw his figure, he withdrew his gaze and hid his entire body completely within the shadow of the Guardian Angel.

Don't be fooled by his fifty or sixty-year-old appearance; in reality, he was only in his forties. The reason he looked this way was entirely the result of being constantly eroded by negative energy.

If a living person wants to master the abilities of the undead, they must suffer the erosion and influence of negative energy.

To avoid this problem, one must either stop being human and turn completely into an undead, becoming a long-lived being no longer bound by race or lifespan.

Or, one must die completely under the erosion of negative energy and be transformed into an undead without self-awareness.

(End of chapter)