Virtual World: Conquering the World

Chapter 159: Undead Scepter

"Kacha!"

The Roaring Flame Spear stabbed into the armour of the skeleton soldier and with a small sweep, the skeleton soldier turned into shattered bones.  The heavy sword in its hand also dropped!

With a faint smile, I went forward to pick up the gold coins and then looked at the heavy sword.

[Undead Sword] (Bronze Item)

Attack: 120-150

Strength: +5

Additional: Increases the user's Strength by 3.

Required Level: 60

(Unappraised)

Seeing the stats of the sword, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.  Wasn't this too trash?  Even if the attack reached 200 after it was appraised, the additional stat was trash.  Moreover, it was a level 60 weapon.  It was hard to imagine if a level 60 swordsman could break through the defenses of a magician at the same level with this weapon

Forget it, I'll sell it to the equipment shop in the city.  Perhaps I could get a few gold coins from this!

So I happily threw the Bronze Sword into my inventory and then quickly moved towards the sentry post.  When I used my Star Eyes again, I was able to finally see the stats of the black figure in the high sentry tower.

[Lich] (Enhanced Monster)

Level: 70

Magic Attack: 450-580

Defense: 4000

HP: 22200

Additional: This Lich was once a human sorcerer, but they were corrupted by the devils and practiced death magic, becoming one of the forces of darkness.  Has a revived body and a terrifying undead controlling technique.

I was a bit surprised.  This Lich had such a strong Magic Attack!  580 Magic Attack, even if I had 560 Magic Defense, it would still hurt quite a bit!

Taking out the Star Chasing Bow, I sent out an armour piercing arrow.

"Peng!"

It hit the Lich right in the chest and with a blooming of white light, the Lich took 2674 damage!

"Roar, roar!"

With a roar, the Lich charged forward.  It jumped down from the several meter tall tower and slashed at me with a claw.  Although it dealt less than 200 points of damage, it showed the fearlessness of this Lich.

"Hu, hu"

With a flicker of flames, the Lich's hand was covered in a layer of strange looking purple flames.  Then there was a scalding purple fireball that flew through the air towards him!

"Pa!"

With a bone biting pain, I was hit by the dark fireball from the Lich.  I was shocked when I saw my HP as a single hit had taken away 1278 HP!  This was too much!  Even Ling Yue's powerful magic attack can't deal that much damage to me!  This Lich's level difference really couldn't be ignored!

Raising the spear as I went forward, I suddenly released a Sweeping Away Thousand Soldiers.  Three cuts flew out through the air and forced the Lich backwards.  It also destroyed the black fireball that it had been preparing to shoot!

But this Lich's attack speed was shocking as it suddenly condensed another fireball in an instant!

"2584!"

Feeling pain all over my body, I couldn't help complaining.  I quickly swallowed a HP pot that recovered 600 HP, but this was just a futile attempt.  This Lich fired another attack and one more would have killed me!  If Ling Xue knew that I had been taken care of by a level 70 monster, I wouldn't have any face left!

I quickly went forward and swept out with a Shield Break Slash.  The golden armour piercing glow covered the spear's blade and it cut through the Lich's body like it was cutting through a watermelon!

"6248!"

It was actually a crit!  What pleased me even more was that when I dealt the 6248 damage, there was a warm feeling that came from the spear as I recovered over 250 Hp.  As expected of the Blood Sucking Ring's 4% life steal effect.  With this powerful attack, this life steal that wasn't important had suddenly become important!

With my HP returning to over 1500, I let out a secret sigh of relief.  I suddenly flicked the Roaring Flame Spear in my hand and I took advantage of the Lich's stun to shoot an Ice Wind Thorn into its chest.  The snow flew into the sky and the upper half of the Lich was covered in a layer of ice.  Then with the Whirlwind Slash, along with a normal attack, the Lich's HP emptied.  The funny thing was that knowing that it was about to die, the Lich revealed a fearful look and quickly started running away!

I laughed as I took out the Star Chasing Bow, sending out an ice arrow.  Then I sent out a fire arrow to finish off the Lich's HP.  With a pitiful wail, the Lich fell to the ground and dropped several dozen gold coins.

I picked up the gold coins.  What was worth praising was that the Lich's were hard to fight, but the experience that they gave was quite good.  It could even compare to the Elite Monsters inside of the White Bone Wilderness.

In the quest screen, the 100 Lichs turned into 99 as it became 1% complete.

I let out a breath.  It seemed that I had to be cautious leveling today.  The legends that the monsters would not only be much stronger, but also have many different attributes after entering the main city was true.  That Corpse Eating Ghost and the Lich's here, their levels and stats far surpassed the monsters of Sunset City.

In this blood coloured sentry post, there were many Liches hidden, but I could only take them out one by one.  I had to be very careful because once I was shot at by two different Lich's, then the only result would be that I would die and lose a level.

Avoiding the skeleton warrior guarding the door, I carefully went in.  I also unlatched the black door, so it would be easier to escape.

Moving slowly from the corner, I didn't get far before I noticed that there was a lich standing there in the corner.  That terrifying face was so pale that it didn't have any expressions that a human should have and its scarlet eyes looked all around it in a lazy manner.

This time, I didn't use the Star Chasing Bow to pull in the monster.  Fighting the Lich long distance wasn't a smart thing to do, not to mention that I can't use the life steal effect if I attacked with the Star Chasing Bow.  So I had to approach the Lich and release the powerful attacks of the Roaring Flame Spear!

It was a pity that I didn't have the charge skill of the swordsman and berserkers after their second Job advancement.  I could only run over and then use the Ice Wind Thorn from a distance to stab the Lich's chest!

"Pu!"

The Lich was caught off guard and didn't even have time to gather mana for a first attack before being slowed by my Ice Wind Thorn.  With a roar, the Lich wildly attacked as it randomly slashed with its black claw.  Although it didn't do much damage to me, it was quite disgusting for me.

After the close combat, the Lich started gathering another black fireball.  I was waiting for this moment.  I immediately used the Roaring Flame Spear to release a Sweeping Away Thousand Soldiers.  There was no need to look to know the Sweeping Away Thousand Soldiers broke the Lich's fireball.  The Lich gave an angry roar and gathered its mana again, but I moved behind the Lich with a single step before attacking with a normal attack from the Roaring Flame Spear.

"Hua la!"

Before the fireball could finish condensing, the Lich quickly turned around, but I had already moved left after expecting this.  I went into the blind spot of the Lich to arrive behind it.  But in the end, the fireball suddenly flew out and went in a semicircle curve, still landing right on my shoulder!

"1189!"

I was a bit surprised.   It seemed like it was hard to avoid this monster's attack, so I could only use the hard method!

With two "pu, pu" sounds, I sent out the Shield Break Slash and the Whirlwind Slash.  With a golden glow and a large wind, the Lich was cut into pieces before dropping several dozen coins and a pitch black staff!

[Undead Scepter]  (Bronze Equipment)

Magic Attack: 100-140

Intelligence: +5

Additional: Increases the user's intelligence by 2.

Required Level: 60

(Unappraised)

I couldn't help being a bit speechless.  This Undead Scepter's stats were just as trash, it would be sold in an item shop.

At this time, a group of three skeleton soldiers came over on patrol.  Of course, I went forward to take care of them.  This kind of physical attacking monster posed much less of a threat, so by killing them, just the life steal effect would help restore the HP that I had lost.

The three skeletons dropped to the ground and dropped another Undead Sword.  I threw it into my bag as every grain in the granary was the path to becoming rich!

So I entered the sentry post slowly but surely like this.  In the distance, there were a row of coffins lying on the empty ground in the sentry post.  This was where the corpses of the human army were placed, but it seemed like the sentry was occupied before the corpses could be buried.

After a hundred years, with the wind and rain, there wasn't a single complete coffin.  Most of them had been split by two and the dead bones were revealed and some of them were filled with large holes.  It was clear that the Liches had summoned the dead and they had become the skeletons wandering the area!

The several dozen Liches wandered around.  I carefully went past the coffins and then directly went in.  The Roaring Flame Spear killed one Lich after the other and I had to eat a piece of bread to recover HP after each Lich killed.  It had to be said that the level 1 bread that Ling Xue gave me really helped me a lot.  Without this bread and relying on the potions to heal, I would only kill half as many monsters while waiting for the potion cooldowns.

The blood coloured sentry post had hidden dangers, so I carefully went through.  I went all the way to nine at night and I had killed 87 Liches at that time, as well as countless numbers of skeleton warriors.  Un, there were 24 Undead Scepters and 56 trash Bronze Undead Swords, which were all trash for the store.

At this time, I looked at my friends list.  The girls from Xue Yue were still online leveling fast. Sword Flame's main people were also online and Qin Yun was temporarily lent to heal them.  But if Xue Yue moved together, Ling Yue would have definitely taken Qin Yun back without any politeness.  After all, this beautiful little cleric was now one of us, so she's closer to us than the people from Sword Flame.

Also my very special friend, Delicate Rice Fragrance was also on.  She was already level 56, leveling at a very fast speed.  Thinking of how satisfying it was to destroy Fated Madman's quest the other day, Fated Madman should have lost his temper.  Did he vent this anger on Delicate Rice Fragrance?  After all, if Delicate Rice Fragrance had been there, with her soul sealing techniques, I would have been taken care of.

At the same time there were doubts in my heart.  Just how was Delicate Rice Fragrance related to Fated Madman?

Could it be that Delicate Rice Fragrance was Fated Madman's girlfriend?

It didn't seem like it.  How could there be people who were so fierce to their girlfriends?

Could it be that Delicate Rice Fragrance had been taken by Fated Madman?  Then with her body, she would focus herself on helping Fated Madman do things?

Carefully thinking about it, it didn't seem too likely because based on Fated Bloodthirster's words, Delicate Rice Fragrance didn't seem to be living with Fated Madman and was being looked after by the servants.  Moreover, Fated Bloodthirster said that Delicate Rice Fragrance couldn't move herself, what did that mean?  Could it be that Delicate Rice Fragrance was a vegetable and could only enter the game through the gaming cabin with her mind?

It didn't seem too likely.  Although Moon Monochrome had developed gaming cabins, they weren't that normal and almost no one bought them.  After all, although a person relying on nutrition liquid to nourish their bodies could not log off for half a month, it was a very rhetorical thing.  A person that didn't interact with people for a long time, they would find it hard to talk to people after coming out.

Thinking until he ruined his brain, he still couldn't think of what kind of girl Delicate Rice Fragrance was.  Forget it, this isn't something that I can help with, so what am I thinking about her for

I continued killing monsters, sweeping through a bunch of Liches in this blood coloured sentry.  Finally my quest number reached 99 and there was only one more Lich to kill.  Then I would have to kill the Lich King here to finish off this 625 difficult quest!

In front of me, there was a black building that was in the center of this blood red sentry post.  It seemed like it was a sealed sacrificial altar and there were two Liches at the door, as if they were specially assigned here.

I was a bit surprised.  This was bad, the two Liches were so close, so the other would notice if I drew one in.  One person fighting two Liches, this was close to reaching my limits

Thinking about it, I thought of a plan!

I raised my hand to shoot an ice arrow at one of the Liches who was covered in a layer of ice.  The Lich's move speed had been reduced by 30% and as I expected, the other Lich immediately came over.  However, I had already started retreating when I shot the ice arrow.

The slowed Lich had just started using its fireball before losing its target because I had left its range!

At this time, the other Lich had caught up and I changed to the Roaring Flame Spear.  I sent out a Sweeping Away Thousand Soldier and a Shield Break Slash before moving back several steps.  As expected, the Lich kept chasing forward, raising its hands to use a melee attack!

The other slowed Lich entered firing range and it brought its hands up as it started changing.

I quickly changed to the Star Chasing Bow, sending out the no cast time ice arrow through the air.  I completely ignored the approaching Lich and then quickly moved back to move out of the firing range of the distant Lich.  Like this, I would be able to avoid the attacks of two Liches at once!

Six seconds later, the Roaring Flame Spear appeared in my hand as I disrupted the enemy's fireball attack.

Quickly drinking a potion, I twisted around and the spear was covered in light.  It stabbed right into the back of the corpse and swept out, causing the Lich to fall to the ground with a wail.

The killing 100 Liches quest had been completed!

Now there was only that Lich in the distance.

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