Chapter 3348: Wasteland Pursuit

Actually, during the final preparations, Theresa suggested whether the team should release illusions to hide everyone while moving, but the hound gave a negative view:

"You living people are as conspicuous as the sun in the wasteland. Illusions cannot hide the feeling that you are out of place with this world. Instead of casting illusions, it is more useful to cast secret arts like 【Breath of Wind】 to accelerate movement."

However, at least the 【Grace of the Dark Moon】 Xia De just used allowed the witches to recover some spirit. The effect of this sorcery in his hands was much stronger than in Sister Belen's hands, otherwise the sister would have used it long ago.

At this time, the fog was even thicker than when Theresa and the sister picked up Xia De just now. In the silent wasteland, only the footsteps of a group of people echoed in the fog. Because they didn't want to attract too many ghouls, the lighting in the darkness was still carried out by the tattered lantern in the sister's hand, and now the firelight of that lantern was also becoming precarious.

Everyone was ready for battle. The first battle began four minutes after they left the hut. A large rustling sound came from the depths of the darkness, and then a group of red-eyed crows flew from afar, aggregating into the appearance of dark clouds in the sky.

The only attack means of these crow corpses was to spray black light with corrosive power toward the ground. A single one could be dealt with by a middle-ring wielder, but a large group gathered together was indeed a bit tricky.

So Xia De and Miss Violet at the front of the team at the end of the team set up shields to protect the team, and then Sister Belen and Theresa attacked the crow group together.

And the very professional Miss Liard actually thought of what this was faster than the hound:

"I encountered this kind of thing the first time I stole—I mean, went down to a tomb, but there were only a dozen or so at that time. This kind of crow is generally a scout for more powerful undead. Solve them quickly, otherwise more troublesome things will follow. Their weakness is not fire or light, their weakness is water and ice!"

The freezing ray emitted by Xia De swept toward the sky, while Theresa summoned a unicorn made of pure water material to rush upward. The witches from the Success Higher Medical School are in the deep sea, and the witches from this school will more or less have similar sorcery.

The crows were soon cleared, but three still escaped to the distance in advance. The group of people of course would not go to pursue them, and didn't even have time to search whether the crow group dropped any burial items, and continued to rush forward.

Not long after, a black building appeared in the darkness ahead, but it was still far from the temple, and that was not their destination.

The building was located on a piece of slightly raised stone ground in the wasteland, overlooking the tombstones clustered around like a watcher. It had a cross-shaped layout as a whole, built of gray-white stones, and the traces of weathering were visible.

The front facade was a pointed arch stone gate, and relief patterns symbolizing death and protection were carved on the gate—crows, hourglasses, withered branches, and skeletons holding swords. A line of ancient runes was carved in the center of the lintel—【Remember Death】.

The appearance of the solemn and cold building made the team slow down slightly, and something seemed to be moving faintly in the dirty black glass windows of the building.

The hound didn't recognize what this building was either, and the 【Corpse Tree】 had never encountered it. But Miss Violet, who was holding the book, looked up the general information of the building after flipping through the pages:

"This is a bone-hiding hall in the wasteland. In the era when the angel was still there, this place was specifically used to temporarily detain those undead evil things of the skeleton type."

She flipped back another page:

"In that ancient era, the things detained in this bone-hiding hall would be regularly escorted to death by other angels or servants of gods. But after the Ancient God left... detour, even if only one of the things detained inside exists to this day, it is not something we can deal with."

She led the team to want to detour far away from the left side of the building, but after noticing that the living people were cautious and did not approach, the building shook violently.

Then it stood up.

Xia De thought of any possibility, but didn't expect that giant legs wrapped in flesh and bones appeared under the black stone building, and two withered big hands broke through the walls on both sides of the building and reached out. The two black windows on the front of the building were clearly the "eyes" of this building at this moment, and when the door opened, the wind blowing through the inside and outside of the building was clearly the howling of a giant object.

Densely packed spirit arms reached out from the walls and wanted to scratch around; this looked like the body hair of this giant object; and the densely packed bones that leaked from under the house because of shaking when it stood up showed how many bones it had devoured in this wasteland.

Miss Violet was quite calm, her expression unchanged:

"This is not an ancient evil thing. It should be that the building itself has been given spirituality. There is a divine art in this book that can temporarily suppress this thing. Sister Belen, I can maintain the divine art for three minutes, you come and burn it. Xia De, you and Theresa cast illusions to cover the sound and light of the battle."

The long-silent fire had been reignited by Xia De, so the 【Ashes】 greatsword with cracks on the surface was pulled out from the firelight by the sister again. The 12th-tier fire-holding sister showed traces of "Primordial Fire Embers" on her body. She nodded lightly to Xia De, then jumped up and flew toward the giant object's mouth, which was the main gate of the bone-hiding hall, and then entered directly into that darkness.

Miss Violet recited ancient and awkward death spells, and a huge black divine art ritual base was nested around the giant object, making its actions very slow.

Little Mia poked its head out from Xia De's arms and watched the red butterflies flying toward the top, while the illusion cast by Theresa was a piece of chaotic color. During the illusion casting, the giant object's right arm reached toward the crowd below, so Xia De enlarged his right arm when swinging his fist upward, and knocked the giant object back with one punch.

As it stumbled backward, firelight had already lit up from the window. Then, in just a few short breaths, rolling black smoke drifted out from various cracks in the house.

The fire completely enveloped the main body of the building when the second minute began. Ten seconds later, it collapsed with a bang, and then a skeleton with a burnt yellow body crawled out from the hole in the roof of the house.

"That is the true body!"

Without Miss Violet's reminder, Theresa and Miss Liard shot fireballs toward that side respectively. After all, the sister had already proved that fire was very effective. Thus, the skeleton bombarded was completely integrated with the sea of fire of the house, and Sister Belen, who walked out of the fire, appeared completely undamaged with her back to the burning building:

"Let's continue moving forward."

The building burned behind them, but they had no time to wait for the fire to go out to know what else was in that ancient 【Bone-Hiding Hall】.

And not long after continuing forward, as if this wasteland already knew they were fleeing, the sound of horseshoes getting louder and louder came from behind. Xia De looked back and saw skeleton knights wearing armor riding skeleton horses, rushing toward them in the appearance of a cavalry charge.

The skeleton knights were entangled with blue flames on their bodies, and their mounts seemed to be stepping on the thin fog.

The hound, who turned around, recognized what this was this time:

"Underworld Fire Cavalry! Damn it, only by completely extinguishing our soul fire can we get rid of them!"

The charging knights almost caught up with the team in the blink of an eye. Xia De at the end of the team adjusted his own spirit and slapped backward fiercely:

"Thunder Wave!"

But except for the two knights charging at the very front being overturned to the ground, the remaining knights ignored the spreading thunder ripples and continued to charge.

Xia De turned around and no longer followed the team, but ran toward his left hand:

"You go first, I'll lure them away, I'll catch up with you in a while."

"Xia De, how could we leave you behind!"

Theresa said and was about to follow Xia De, but was grabbed by the arm by Miss Violet seriously:

"Since Xia De put forward the idea, he must have his own plan, believe him."

She led the remaining three witches and two hounds to continue forward, and although the "Underworld Fire Cavalry" wanted to divide into two teams to pursue the two teams respectively, Xia De took the opportunity to turn around, and turned into a moonlight great cross and slashed directly into the interior of the cavalry. When he escaped toward the side again, the knights all chased in his direction.

Xia De ran while pressing his hand to his chest, temporarily turning the cat into a toy. Afterward, silver light escaped from his whole body while running, and then he turned into his fastest state, walking through the tombstone cluster in the darkness like a streamer in the appearance of a silver wolf.

In the case where everyone had four legs, the speed of Xia De in the silver wolf form was even faster than the undead mounts with blue fire behind him. After successfully pulling away a distance, the wolf running suddenly turned into three on the spot, and then ran toward three directions respectively.

The Underworld Fire Cavalry divided into three teams to pursue in three directions. After they went far away, the angel statue that stood crookedly between the tombstones covering its face with both hands and curling its wings moved. The concealment effect in the 【Calm Posture】 state was really excellent in this wasteland.

"I was still worried that the illusion couldn't deceive them... Thanks to those blue butterflies."

Relying on "She" to help point the way, Xia De was not worried that he couldn't find the witches ahead. Just when he turned into a silver wolf again to catch up, he regretted that their group didn't have suitable mounts here.

Other types of summons could not exist for a long time in this world because of the heavy death power, and once undead-type summons appeared, they would likely break free from control.

Xia De's 【True Death】 spirit rune was obtained a long time ago, but he had never learned the sorcery to summon the undead. However, the silver wolf suddenly realized another thing while running, and a certain sorcery seemed to be related to 【True Death】.

So the silver wolf jumped forward fiercely while running and jumped onto the small wooden boat that had just floated up from under the ground. When helping old Mrs. Otto last Sunday, Xia De replaced the blessing in the 【Holy White Auditorium】 with the ability of the "Ferryman God" to travel on dry land, so the small boat was really sliding between the tombstones at this moment. ===== CHAPTER 3349 =====