Jacob couldn't help but smile derisively because he fooled those soldiers too easily with a Golden Elf disguise.
Although he knew the Golden Elf Clan was the dominating clan of the Golden Swords Country, he never thought it had such prestige.
He chose to impersonate a golden elf because they look alive humans and most, and he was quite confident in pulling this off after he got those identity badges. But he was still ready if they asked questions, but nothing happened.
Jacob's trail of thoughts suddenly halted as his heart palpitated; the fine hair on his back stood in trepidation.
Just as he was done with his clearing, the water suddenly rippled before a sharp blade pierced through the water's surface and headed toward Jacob's face!
It was too sudden, but Jacob's danger sense wasn't a joke, and the moment he sensed this immense danger, his heart rate suddenly jumped from 1-HBPS to 10-HBPS and entered 1X acceleration!
Time seemed to slow down as before the sharp blade pierced through his eyeball, a black ingot appeared right between the edge and his eye!
'Clang…'
The sound of metal clashing rang in the silent vicinity, and the metal ingot also hit Jacob right in the face, but it was far better than getting pierced by that sword and dying because of his idiocy.
Within that moment, Jacob's head hit the ground, but he quickly rolled to the side, ignoring the pain on his face and head. After rolling over a meter away from the attack area, he finally stabilized himself and rose on his feet.
A dark red mark could be seen on Jacob's eyes, but he was completely calm as the killing intent surfaced in his eyes, 'I nearly died after leaving that shit hole?!'
He was becoming arrogant after pulling the wool over the freedom plains powers, which was a wake-up call for him.
But it was still unexpected that someone was hiding under that water source all this time, and Jacob wasn't careless at all, which could only whoever this attacker was he was hiding under that water before Jacob approached the vicinity.
Lastly, he didn't hear any heartbeat at all. Even after he entered 1X acceleration, he still couldn't hear anything.
Jacob coldly looked at the long blade piercing half into the Basic-Rare Grade Titan Iron ingot he bought, which cost him a small fortune just before coming to the Dark Woodlands, and if that Titan Iron was of common grade, he might really be pierced through that blade!
So, the identity of his attacker was probably below Rare-Tier-6. He could tell by the still lingering impact on his face.
Or he won't be standing calmly without running.
"Why don't you come out? It might be suffocating." Jacob icily sneered as two short swords appeared in his hand.
But unlike his old blades, these blades' hilts were long, and two extra black bearings were attached to the hilt's ends.
However, these swords weren't his old ones, but they were newly forged with basic grade rare titan iron. The old ones were traded so he could borrow a rare-grade smithy to forge these new blades!
He can't just come here without any preparation, can he?
As if Jacob's taunt worked, the blade suddenly started to rose, and a V-shaped sword guard rose before Jacob finally had a clear look at the hand holding the hilt and his eyes dilated!
Because holding the sword hilt was a bone hand, and as it rose, its entire skeleton hand surfaced before a skull appeared with a menacing smile plaster on its skull face. Not only that, but a cold, dim blue light was shimmering within the skull-like lamp, making it look ghostlier.
'That explains the lack of breathing and why it could remain hidden under that water. It's a Tier-5 Skeleton Solider.' Jacob instantly recognized the undead in front of him.
Although he had already does a throughout research on those dark beings and was ready to take them on, seeing one in person still gave him the chills.
These creatures were straight out of someone's nightmares and the pure manifestation of legendry undead. Jacob had never thought he would meet the undead of all creatures in this world.
Nevertheless, these undeads were far easy targets than those high-level civilizations because they didn't have the concept of modern weapons or equipment, but they were still not to be trifled with.
Because even if these dark beings used cold weapons, they were still dreaded by the four powers because they had unimaginable numbers!
Furthermore, these undeads could become strong far more quickly than any living as long as they devour strong life force. Without that special, mysterious protection of the rare freedom plains, there might not be any intelligent species or any living on the rare plains at all!
Jacob's sole reason for leaving the safety of Rare Freedom Plains was these Dark Beings had unimaginable numbers of magic users within their ranks, and only they could provide him with all the magic cores he needed.
More importantly, these Dark Beings were all in the open, unlike the four powers who like to hide their true strength, and no one would also care about these Dark Beings' death.
Besides, just killing them will give Jacob ZC, which was the only way to buy items he needed on the market to hunt Extraordinary Begins!
So, it wasn't hard for Jacob to make a choice!
The skeleton soldier didn't seem to understand the power gap between it and Jacob. Since its ambush failed, it chose the most direct approach toward… its death!
It lunged at Jacob while slashing its long sword down to Jacob's head.
Jacob merely sneered before he moved his sword, blocking the long sword. Although the skeleton soldier had over 500 tons of force behind that strike, so what?
The next moment, Jacob's second sword turned into a streak of dark lightning before it brushed past the skeleton's skull, and the next moment, it sliced in half.
A slight blue flare surfaced when the skull was cut open; it flickers before it diminishes without leaving any trace, and the next moment, the skeleton falls into pieces!