Chapter 205: You go ahead, I'm in a hurry

Jiang Chen's Skeleton Warriors have already emerged from the Cave, but the Flaming Giant Eye has already sensed their presence.

The Flaming Giant Eye continues to emit warnings, causing the Instance to shake, magma erupts, falling like Fire Rain.

The Skeleton Warriors pay no heed to the sky‑filled magma rain, and keep charging forward.

They swiftly enter the range of the palace, drawing the attention of two Fire God Palace Guards, then immediately turn back, never confronting the guards head‑on.

The Skeleton Warriors circle around once more, then run toward the direction of the Cave.

At this moment, various monsters chase them from behind, including Flame Sprites, Flame Winged Snakes and Flame Lizards.

The two Fire God Palace Guards are forced to be pushed to the back of the line.

Jiang Chen also steps out of the Cave at this time, watching the Skeleton Warriors rush toward him, a slight smile curving his mouth, revealing his familiar grin.

He can go all‑out with massive explosions again!

Jiang Chen summons ten brand‑new Skeleton Warriors one by one; this time they are not released from the Summon Queue but are summoned anew.

At this moment his experience has reached 98 %; one more level up will fully restore his Spiritual Power, and he cannot waste this chance.

Jiang Chen had long planned to summon all Skeleton Warriors at once, which would still leave over 400 Spiritual Power, enough for him to perform multiple explosions and complete the level‑up.

These ten brand‑new Skeleton Warriors merge with the four returning Skeleton Warriors, totaling fourteen Skeleton Warriors aiming at the front of the monster horde, ready to unleash their Skills simultaneously.

Jiang Chen does not idle either; he releases two Skills with both hands at once.

Skill: Slow Curse!

Skill: Soul Burn!

With a hum, the Red Net descends, enveloping all monsters, their speed simultaneously

slows.

At that moment, the Skeleton Warriors, Soul Burn, and dual attacks arrive collectively.

Instant kill!

That Flame Lizard didn't even have time to let out a scream before being instantly eliminated.

Done!

Immediately after, a flash of White Light flickers in Jiang Chen's palm.

Skill: Corpse Explosion!

Boom!

The intense explosion sound drowns out the sound of magma spouting.

The strong airflow disperses the falling Fire Rain.

A massive group of monsters is instantly blown to death.

Since the explosion first appeared, the blast sound never ceased.

One after another, boom after boom, nonstop.

The whole Instance shakes even more violently, monsters die in massive waves.

White Light emanates from Jiang Chen's body; he levels up.

A hint of joy appears on his face.

He had been stuck at Level 27 for a long time, finally leveling up.

"If it weren't for the Professional Competition, I should already be Level 30 now,"

"Still a bit slow."

Jiang Chen mutters to himself.

If this were heard by other professionals, they'd definitely spit blood three levels.

The fellow trainees from his cohort are still striving to rush to Level 20.

Jiang Chen is already Level 28, yet still complains he's slow.

Moreover, during the climb to Level 28, most of the time he was accompanied by a girl.

Comparing oneself to others can absolutely drive one mad.

Jiang Chen checks his attributes.

The Summon Queue has become 280, with 10 additional empty slots.

He can now summon 10 more Skeletons.

Summon Skeleton Warrior, summon Skeleton Mage, Slow Curse, Soul Burn—the four major Skills have all risen to Level 28.

These four Skills upgrade synchronously as the level rises.

The attributes of Skeleton Warrior and Skeleton Mage have also increased a notch.

A Level‑28 Skeleton Warrior's Four-dimensional Attributes have reached 24,000.

The Skeleton Mage's Spiritual

Power has even reached 48,000.

It has become even stronger.

What pleases Jiang Chen most is that his Corpse Explosion Skill finally upgraded again, reaching Level 4.

After Perfect Amplification, the skill's damage radius reaches 120 meters, and its power rises to 750 % of the corpse's vitality.

The skill is greatly enhanced.

Improving the Corpse Explosion skill is extremely difficult.

Aside from the hard‑to‑raise passive skills, this is the hardest of all.

It has taken this long to reach Level 4.

Bone Armor has also improved a bit, equivalent to 84,000 points of constitution defense, allowing Jiang Chen even when facing a Hell Difficulty boss to still have ample confidence.

Even in an Instance like the Fire God Palace, no healer is needed.

In the blink of an eye, the monsters before him were all dead.

The ground was littered with corpses.

The Flaming Giant Eye at the bottom of the palace seemed to tremble, its gaze tinged with a hint of fear.

At that moment, Jiang Chen made a move he had never made before.

He summoned exactly one hundred Skeleton Warriors again.

Each Skeleton Warrior dragged two corpses.

The Skeleton Warriors quickly hauled the corpses into the Fire God Palace.

The Flaming Giant Eye kept sounding alarms, and a flood of Palace Guards surged out of the palace.

The Skeleton Warriors didn't bother entangling with them; they simply threw the corpses over.

Jiang Chen followed behind, activated a skill, and detonated mid‑air.

Level‑4 Corpse Explosion Skill, with a wider range and greater power.

After a few booming sounds, the palace fell completely silent.

Only dozens of Palace Guard corpses remained.

The Skeleton Warriors immediately swapped some of the corpses they held for Palace Guards.

Their level was higher, and their vitality stronger.

The power used for the corpse explosions was therefore greater

as well.

Carrying a mass of corpses, they burst out of the palace and entered the Garden.

The Garden no longer contained the Fire God Flower.

Jiang Chen realized this item might be like the material for BOSS Jewelry, dropping only once within a certain time.

If he obtained it, no one else could get it.

A Skeleton Warrior ran with a corpse to the side of the magma.

A huge hand emerged from the magma.

Before it could be captured, two successive explosions blasted it back.

Then the magma shot upward, and the Fire God Palace Gardener, a hell‑tier boss, appeared before them.

But it was still merging, still absorbing the magma's energy.

"Too slow!"

"Can't wait, time is short!"

Jiang Chen didn't want to wait for it.

The corpse's vitality was rapidly waning.

Waiting one more second would reduce its power.

The Skeleton Warrior instantly threw dozens of corpses over.

Not a single one belonged to a Palace Guard; they were all corpses of earlier monsters.

By now several minutes had passed, and the monster corpses' vitality was less than a third of what it was at death.

Soon they would vanish.

Jiang Chen was also generous, discarding more than half in an instant.

Skill: Corpse Explosion!

The corpse detonated while suspended in midair.

The booming roar continued unabated.

The hell‑tier boss hadn't even recovered, let alone let out a Roar, when it was blown to the brink of death.

The Roar turned into a moan.

Even on the brink of death, another batch of monster corpses was thrown at it.

A burst of explosions instantly killed the Fire God Palace Gardener.

"Killed Fire God Palace Gardener, Experience +2,160,000"

"Obtained Fire Sword"

"Fire Sword: Gold Tier Weapon, All Attributes +400, Knight Skill Amplify 40%"

It's a decent Gold Tier weapon, just a hair away from top‑tier.

Jiang Chen gave it a quick glance and kept running deeper into the Instance.

He really was racing against time!

He wished every monster in the Instance would appear at once!