Chapter 350: Chapter 343, Such an Ugly Monster_i
Many ghouls jumped down from the second and third floors of the ancient castle.
They directly leaped into the rear of our formation.
Their enormous hands and sharp fingertips served as their weapons.
They brandished them at the enemies before them.
Growls rang out from their mouths, reminiscent of wild beasts.
Even though the ghouls broke into the ranks, the undead at close combat units still faced them.
The ranged archers and mages maintained a safe distance from the front line. “Gray Bear, take your men to protect the archers and mages,” the Black Sword commanded after severing a ghoul’s hand, yelling at Gray Bear.
Gray Bear’s subordinates are mostly of tier 3 or 4, but they still employ the fighting style of mountain bandits in battle.
Despite being fierce, their combat power in this kind of battle was inferior to the skeleton soldiers.
Seeing the ghouls directing their attacks to the rear line, he ordered Gray Bear to protect the back.
Without hesitation, Gray Bear shouted loudly, “Hold back these monsters!” The bandits stood in front of the rear line, forming a human wall. They obstructed the ghouls who were charging towards the back. Only about twenty ghouls had rushed out of the ancient castle. Thankfully, the number was not overwhelming.
Boom!
The shield held by Black Sword knocked a charging ghoul out of the air. The entire body fell to the ground, and he promptly plunged his sword into it. Although pinned to the ground, the ghoul was still alive, its claws sparking against Black Sword’s armor.
Spurt!
With one more stroke, he decapitated the ghoul and its struggling body gradually lost its strength.
Black Sword continued to go after the next ghoul.
This dead ghoul, however, was cannibalized by its own kind.
Its limbs and skull were quickly devoured by the ghouls.
Fang Hao felt a bit nauseous watching this and urged, “Black Sword, pick up the pace and stop them from consuming the bodies. They can heal their wounds with that.”
Black Sword nodded.
He urged the skeleton soldiers to hasten the pace of the battle.
As the number of ghouls massively decreased, Gray Bear and his men began to initiate attacks instead of merely defending.
Millie, with her flushed small face, was following Gray Bear, attacking an isolated ghoul.
She stood beside the ghoul, her stature only reaching its waist.
Hiss!
The claws of the ghoul scraped against the iron armor, making a harsh noise. Millie’s body instantly flew backward.
She was thrown over two meters away but quickly struggled back to her feet. Wiping the mud off her face, she rekindled her resolve and rushed out once again.
She quickly returned to Gray Bear’s side and resumed the besiegement.
“Aim for its vital part, these creatures have a tremendous recovery power,” Gray Bear kindly reminded her.
Vital part?
Millie tilted her head, looking at the towering blue monster before her.
She directly aimed a thrust towards the ghoul’s buttocks.
Spurt!
Her sword went in astonishingly smoothly.
Without any resistance, she submerged the most of her blade into it.
Aaaah!
The ghoul let out a painful howl, and with a swipe of its claws, it again threw Millie several meters away.
Even the sword in her hand stayed embedded in the ghoul.
The battle finally came to an end.
Fang Hao began giving orders to clean up the battlefield.
It seemed the ghouls didn’t belong to the undead, as their bodies didn’t disappear after death, but remained intact.
However, several bodies had been cannibalized by other ghouls, making it difficult to piece them together.
It doesn’t matter if we couldn’t reconstruct them. The main objective was to unlock the soldier type.
The team took a brief rest, during which the bandits had some casualties. Gray Bear was directing his men to collect the bodies of their fallen comrades. “How are you doing?” said Fang Hao as he turned to Millie, who was quiet. She looked somewhat disheveled, her face covered in dirt, and several clear scratches were seen on the chest plate of her armor.
I’m fine,” was all she said.
Having been bought from slavers, Millie had seen just as much death as anyone else.
“Okay,” Fang Hao nodded, continuing to instruct Black Sword, “Organize people to enter the old castle. Gray Bear, stay and guard outside, inform us if something comes up.”
“Understood, sir,” they both responded.
The skeleton soldiers began entering the Stone Castle.
The inside of the Stone Castle was rather dim, with deteriorated furniture, carvings of the temple on the walls, and a metal chandelier that had fallen off.
Despite all wooden furniture rotting away, you could still tell that the place resembled a church, based on the traces left behind.
The long, evenly arranged benches, and the podium on the elevated platform directly ahead.
“Move up to the next floor, be careful,” whispered Fang Hao, patting a skeleton soldier on the shoulder.
They encountered no danger on the first floor and began ascending the second. The number of rooms on the second floor was plentiful. A few of them were like dormitory rooms.
The decaying single beds could still be made out.
From the size of the beds, one could infer that this was, indeed, an orphanage, as Monkey had once said, and was inhabited by children.
Upon reaching the third floor, it appeared to be the residence of the church staff.
There wasn’t much to find except for a few rusted metallic objects.
“Sir, there is no enemy.” After Heijian went through each room, he spoke up.
There are no enemies, nor treasure chests.
How could that be possible?
It is understandable that the enemies have been eliminated, but the absence of treasure chests is simply impossible.
“Move everything we can carry out and search again thoroughly,” Fang Hao commanded.
“Yes.”
The skeleton soldiers began to act, moving all the items in the Stone Castle out.
Fang Hao stood by the window on the first floor.
As he watched the skeleton soldiers bustling in and out, he thought about what could have possibly been overlooked that led to the absence of treasure chests. Crack!
Suddenly, a clear, crisp sound came from the front.
Looking up, Fang Hao saw two skeletons dismantling a podium on the steps. As the podium was moved, a square slab underneath it could be seen slowly rising.
With the slab’s elevation, an opening slowly appeared on the ground above the podium.
A burst of excitement welled up in Fang Hao’s heart. Indeed, there was a place that had been overlooked.
“Heijian, we have a situation. Send men over,” Fang Hao said as he himself flew over.
It was a two-meter-wide underground passage.
The entrance was pitch black. Only the smooth stone walls on both sides and the stone steps leading downwards can be seen.
“Sir, what’s wrong?” At that moment, Heijian quickly walked over.
He asked questioningly, but also noticed the entrance leading underground.
“Did you bring the Nightstones?” asked Fang Hao.
“Yes.”
Every time they ventured out, Fang Hao made ample preparations. Expecting caves or dark places, he would have the heroes carry Nightstones.
Heijian took two Nightstones from his package.
“Come on, let’s go down and check.”
The two Nightstones were hung on the necks of the two leading Skeleton Warriors.
The downward passage was only two meters wide.
With two Skeleton Warriors leading the way, two at a line, Fang Hao and Heijian took their positions at the third row, and began their descent.
As they continued downward, the passage grew darker. The Nightstones’ glow became more brilliant.
On the stone walls on both sides, sunken lampposts started to appear, but they were all too corroded to be lit.
They continued downward.
About three minutes later, the path widened abruptly.
This was a simple room — or a prayer room, to be exact.
In the middle of the room lay a rotten hide carpet. Traces of dangling religious
idols were left on the wall facing the room.
What’s going on?
Fang Hao was somewhat puzzled.
This building was originally a temple. Why would there be a prayer room underground?
Glug! Glug!
Just as Fang Hao was pondering, a sound much akin to something wriggling suddenly came from a corner of the room.
Even in his current skeletal state, he felt startled.
If he had skin, it would without a doubt be crawling right now.
“Heijian, did you hear anything?” Fang Hao said in a low voice.
“I hear it. It’s in that direction,” Heijian replied, pulling out his sword and pointing towards a corner.
Skeleton soldiers rapidly descended the steps, spreading out in the room and waiting for the target to appear.
“Miss Adeline, are you here to pick us up? It’s so dark and scary here.” Suddenly, a voice resembling a nighttime cat’s mournful wail sounded from the corner.
After one sentence finished.
“Miss Adeline, are you here?”
“Miss Adeline, we really don’t like it here!” “Miss Adeline, did you bring us human meat? We’re very hungry!”…
A succession of sharp and irritating voices echoed simultaneously from the comer.
At least more than ten different voices were calling for Miss Adeline.
Damn it!
Fang Hao cursed under his breath. How could that corner possibly fit so many people?
Who s there? Come out,” said Heijian, who, as an Undead, was devoid of fear.
His Longsword was pointing directly at the deep, dark corner.
“It’s not Miss Adeline.”
“It doesn’t sound like Miss Adeline.”
“It’s outsiders. What did Miss Adeline say we should do if outsiders came in?
It’s been so long, and I’ve sort of forgotten.”
“I remember, I remember. Miss said we should… eat them.”
Right, eat them. I really like human flesh, especially mine.”
“Eat him, quickly.”
The conversation in the corner was getting faster. Right after that, the wriggling sounds quickly approached.
The next second, a monster that looked like a pile of flesh appeared under the
glow of the Nightstone from behind a pillar.
Fear Devourer (Tier 7).
The Fear Devourer was a nearly two-meter-high heap of meat. The clumps of flesh were full of eyes and mouths.
It wriggled forward like a Mud Monster, its bloated body propelled by several mouths biting the ground.
“What on earth is that thing?” Fang Hao cursed once again.
The Fear Devourer appeared quickly but halted its attack.
“What are these? Why are they so ugly?”
They re skeletons. After we eat those people, we will turn into this.”
“But why are they standing? It’s so scary.”
“It’s a monster. A monster has come in.”
The many mouths began speaking on the heap of flesh..