Chapter 307: Chapter 242: As a Necromancer, Carrying Some Holy Light Scrolls is Reasonable, Right?

“Let’s go.”

Zi Liyuan grabbed a somewhat stunned Fan Yuer, with the Spectral Dragon leading the way on the periphery, followed by a group of epic beast Bosses guarding the sides, while Zi Liyuan, Fan Yuer, and Daris stood in the central position.

Ever since stepping into the ancient undead castle, Zi Liyuan had felt the sense of being watched, but no matter how his Spirit searched and sensed, he couldn’t find anything amiss, which made him secretly heighten his vigilance.

Thus, upon entering the undead castle, he tested the quality of the enchantment blocking the way they came in, while also adjusting the formation of their advance.

“Hee hee~”

Strange laughter, chilly and full of sinister ghostliness, echoed closer and closer, twining endlessly around the ears.

Shadowy figures appeared and disappeared here and there as if by illusion, flickering in and out of sight.

“This ghostly laughter is really grating on the ears, makes one feel oddly uncomfortable,” Zi Liyuan complained while commanding the Phantom King forward, to see if they could win over the opposition without a fight.

The idea was good, but in reality, once the Phantom King approached alone, it faced full animosity from its own kind and was battered by hundreds of spectres.

Fortunately, the might of a Lord Boss wasn’t something these common monster-template spectres could understand.

After the Phantom King tore through dozens of spectres, those that had attempted to challenge the sovereignty of their own kind scattered in disarray, vanishing without a trace.

Although it didn’t directly deter the spectres and recruit the enemies into their ranks, driving these annoying beings away was considered a mission more or less accomplished.

Without the harassment of the spectres, they progressed much faster. As for other undead creatures, they were typically handled by the Spectral Dragon on the outer perimeter before they could even approach them.

As for the group of vampires Fan Yuer mentioned, they didn’t even catch a glimpse of a shadow.

Clearly, compared to spectres, vampires held much greater reverence for high-tier undead Bosses, avoiding any foolish attempts to make their presence felt.

Therefore, the group quickly passed through the exterior region of the undead castle and came to the inner area.

This place was a vast expanse of gray-black land. At the central position was a decrepit huge temple, and around the temple were piles of graves and disorderly tombstones.

Desolate, barren, lonesome, dilapidated… the place looked like ruins.

There wasn’t a single undead creature, nor any living being, but Zi Liyuan’s Spirit felt an oppressive force, stirring his heart with pulses of danger.

His Spirit emerged from his body but was unable to advance even slightly upon coming into contact with the black land.

The Eye of Death, which usually could probe into the essence of living beings, lost its effect at that instant.

The Elemental Map was also unable to construct a layout of the black land, as if disrupted and shielded by some force.

“Yuer, are you sure you really entered this decrepit temple before?”

Feeling the faint sense of danger and the sensation of being watched yet unnoticed, Zi Liyuan was particularly wary of the place.

“Yes, this decrepit temple is just the entrance. The undead castle’s core architectures are all deep underground!” Fan Yuer nodded affirmatively as she answered.

“However, I don’t know exactly how many levels are underground, because the first level was a huge undead laboratory. When my sisters and I reached there, we hid inside an alchemy lab,” Fan Yuer continued.

Realizing Fan Yuer and her sisters didn’t dare to explore further down with their strength at the time, Zi Liyuan nodded in understanding.

Those mercenaries they hired were not easy to deal with; if they didn’t find a way to break free from their control, they could likely end up as pawns sent to explore and meet their doom.

Thinking of four young girls, without much strength, threatened from within by companions and hunted from outside by undead creatures…

One could only imagine the peril they experienced at the time.

“Let’s go.”

The palpitations of the Spirit, the premonition of danger, the invisible surveillance—whatever it was, Zi Liyuan was determined to explore the Necro Realm to the fullest.

Step by step, as he set foot on the black land, an invisible pressure abruptly arose.

The Spirit that had extended out of his body was suddenly compressed back inside, unable to sense anything beyond.

The Eye of Death and the Elemental Map also completely lost their effect at that moment, with the map in his mind turning into a blank space.

“The power of the dungeon rules, directly blocking this area, huh? Interesting,” Zi Liyuan thought to himself, and felt several scrolls in his spatial belt, unaffected and unrestricted, ready for use, which relieved some of his concerns.

A swarm of undead Bosses opened the way, pouring into the decrepit temple.

Within the temple, there was nothing but ruins, and at the deepest part, where a deity’s statue or altar should have been, was a huge hole with stairs descending down.

Without the Spirit’s sensing ability, they had to rely on their eyes to observe; all they could see were shattered tiles and faint traces of carvings, the details of which were indiscernible.

“Yuer, when you first entered this temple, did you encounter anything unusual?”

Zi Liyuan summoned three Bone Shields to protect both himself and Fan Yuer within.

“No, when we fled here initially, we were being chased by vampires, but once we entered this temple, the vampires seemed to regard something with fear and did not follow in,” Fan Yuer replied.

They had nearly been caught by the vampires then, but fortunately, they entered this temple, else they would surely have perished within the Secret Realm.