Chapter 5

Don't look at the mage's defenseless appearance, but Ang can feel the soul fluctuations of the bone horse's head scanning his body from time to time. Of course, even without the bone horse's vigilance, Ang does not want to provoke this mage. He is just a small vegetable-growing skeleton, unlike the little zombie that loves to cause trouble.

Blocking the passage between the two pits is also out of worry about this; he is afraid that the little zombie will crawl over when it hears some movement.

A night passes without a word. The next day, as soon as the wind stops, the mage wakes up. He rubs his face hard, treating it as washing his face.

After becoming completely energetic, he looks at Ang in surprise and smiles: "What a quiet skeleton. It's rare to see a skeleton as quiet as you. I hope you are still alive next time I come."

This is a relatively practical blessing. The turnover of skeletons in this area is very fast. If there were a few more active guys like the little zombie, the turnover speed would be even faster.

Ang is already a very quiet skeleton, yet he was still bumped into by the mage. Thanks to this mage having no malice, if it were another predator, his trouble would be big. So "still alive next time" is not an easy goal to achieve; it requires very good luck.

The mage crawls out of the burrow, puts the bone horse's head onto its body, and with a hiss, the bone horse's nasal cavity sprays out blue flames, and it crawls up with a slide.

The mage leads the bone horse and walks two steps, suddenly thinking of something, turns his head and says: "Oh oh oh, so rude, forgot to introduce myself. My name is Aiske, a merchant walking on the Golden Road, and also a necromancer."

Aiske performs a chest-touching salute, nods to Ang, and then walks toward the direction of the plain below the slope.

Looking at Aiske's back and then at the direction he is moving, the soul fire in Ang's eyes flickers a few times. Not knowing what he is thinking, he crawls up from the burrow and follows far behind Aiske.

Aiske does not walk far before discovering Ang. He stops, and Ang also stops. He walks forward, and Ang also follows. He always maintains a distance of tens of meters. That stubbornness is just like the little zombie. Unknowingly, Ang has also been influenced by the little zombie.

This makes Aiske shake his head with a laugh, no longer paying attention to Ang.

After going down the slope, the skeletons on the road increase. The low-level skeletons are all scared away by the bone horse. The road is unobstructed all the way. Arriving at the burrow Ang originally dug, a gray bone skeleton crawls up from the burrow.

It is exactly the skeleton that led people to chase Ang and the little zombie. Obviously, it discovered the advantages of the burrow, so it occupied it as its own.

Other skeletons are scared away by the bone horse, but this gray bone skeleton is not scared. It crawls to the ground, arches its body, opens its jawbone, and emits a soul roar.

The area around the burrow seems to be disturbed, and more than a dozen low-level skeletons crawl out one after another.

Unlike the last time they were chased, the number of the gray bone skeleton's subordinates is much smaller, with only a dozen left, and several have dents on their faces from being smashed.

Ang suspects this is the little zombie's handiwork. Ever since it was chased last time and had a cut on its face, the little zombie has liked smashing other people's faces very much. Several times, the skeletons it dragged back had similar dents on their cheeks.

During this time, the little zombie has been leaving early and returning late. Could it be that it came to find trouble with the gray bone skeleton's subordinates?

Someone broke into its territory, and the gray bone skeleton is very angry. It draws its bone knife and drives its subordinates to swarm up.

The bone horse is actually only at the white bone rank, one rank lower than the gray bone skeleton, but its body size is several times larger. Theoretically, the bone horse's strength should not be weaker than the gray bone skeleton.

But the bone horse does not fight the gray bone skeleton, instead hiding behind Aiske very simply.

Aiske stands forward with empty hands, makes a claw with his hands, and probes toward the two skeletons in front. An invisible force immediately acts between the skeletons and Aiske. The skeletons' soul fire is actually pulled out of their skulls strand by strand, forcibly, and gathers in his palm.

Ang feels his soul tighten. What kind of magic is this?

The soul fire is pulled out and condenses into two balls of soul flames in Aiske's palm. One can see him quickly chanting a spell: Jili Gulu... The sound is too small, and Ang does not hear it clearly.

One can see Aiske flicking the two balls of soul flames onto the ground. With a "teng," two shrieking wraiths rush out from the exploding soul flames, wildly pouncing toward the gray bone skeleton.

The gray bone skeleton waves its bone knife, slashing toward the wraiths. The bone knife splits through the center of the wraiths, but the split wraiths are completely fine. After passing the bone knife, they merge into one again and entangle themselves on the gray bone skeleton.

The gray bone skeleton reaches out and grabs the wraiths. The intangible wraiths are actually grabbed and pulled outward.

Amidst the shrieking, the wraiths stretch out their claws, crazily scratching into the gray bone skeleton's eye sockets.

Inside the eye sockets is the soul fire. The gray bone skeleton might be somewhat wary, turning its head to avoid the wraiths' scratching while its other arm turns into a fist, smashing onto the wraiths' forms punch by punch.

The intangible wraiths are smashed into shrill screams and finally forcibly hammered to explosion. After killing one wraith, the gray bone skeleton continues to entangle with the other wraith.

This buys Aiske enough time. One can see his left hand probing emptily, exactly the same as the first two. The soul is forcibly pulled out and turns into a ball of soul flame.

Quickly chanting a spell, he flicks it onto the ground.

The rising soul flame spreads out like ripples. When it touches something, it turns into two claws, tightly grabbing the touched thing in place.

Such claws are very thin. Ang feels he can break free, but those low-level skeletons cannot. They are firmly locked in place, becoming living targets.

Aiske shoots shadow arrows one by one, shooting into the skeletons' eye sockets, shattering the soul fire inside the skulls. By the time the gray bone skeleton eliminates the two wraiths, it finds that all its dozen little brothers have turned into scattered bones on the ground.

The lone gray bone skeleton is even less of Aiske's opponent. It has a ball of black flame thrown on its head by him, and the entire skull burns up. When the flame dissipates, the skull is intact, but the soul inside has completely dissipated.

This gray bone skeleton's power is thus easily wiped out by Aiske. And looking at the posture, it is obvious that he did not use his full strength; even the bone horse that can single-handedly fight the gray bone skeleton did not make a move.

Aiske also has no excited expression, as if he has completed a very simple thing. He turns back to look at Ang, then leads the bone horse toward the direction of the stone pillars. Arriving at this burrow dug by Ang means it is not far from the two stone pillars of the space channel.

Arriving in front of the stone pillars, Aiske fiddles with them on his own. One can see him taking out a few blue crystals from his waist bag, embedding them into several positions on the stone pillars, and then coming to the front of the stone pillars, kneeling down solemnly. Under his kowtow, the two stone pillars slowly light up.