Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Ancient Knight
There is no gray fog in the royal tomb where Skeletron is located, which is really good news for Xue Hua. [with _ dream]ā
He had already prepared for the worst, and if he couldn't prepare for it, he would go all the way to Skeletron by himself, and then release the swarm to fight it.
But now it seems that there is no need to do so.
Xue Hua continued to walk a little further towards the bottom of the corridor, and came to a large hall with magnificent decorations, this hall was quite spacious, and two rows of knights' armor were neatly placed on the stone walls inlaid with rich gold ornaments on both sides.
Four gold-leafed columns support the four corners of the main hall, and a large number of stone boxes and clay pots containing funerary goods are piled up in one place, next to a sarcophagus in the center of the main hall.
Obviously, this should be a tomb, and as for which one is buried here, Xue Hua does not know.
Tristram's history is not long, and there has always been only one king, Leoric, but this coffin certainly can't contain Leoric.
Because this is not the traditional form of king burial in the Western Realm at all.
Xue Hua slowly walked towards the sarcophagus and glanced at the relief on the lid of the coffin.
It was carved with a full-length portrait of a knight wearing full knight's armor and a pestle and a long sword, and at the foot of the portrait there was an inscription describing the life of the owner of the coffin.
"Buried here is King Tristram's fourth general, Ben Jetton, who made a great contribution to the founding of Tristram and swore his oath with his own life.
After his death, the wise Saint Leorik granted him the privilege of entering the royal tomb for his merits. ”
Xue Hua gently recited the inscription on the lid of the coffin, and after reading it, he was silent for a moment, and then shook his head with regret on his face.
The general must have died before Leorik went mad, otherwise his body would never have been so well preserved here.
I wonder if he would be saddened by what happened to Tristram if he had known about it?
Xue Hua gently put his hand on the edge of the coffin lid and swept it, then shook his head and walked towards the stone door at the back of the tomb.
Just a second before he was about to step into the next room, there was a sudden "crunching" sound from the coffin behind him.
"What's the situation? Do you want to cheat the corpse again? ”
Xue Hua frowned, and his face gradually began to show impatience.
He didn't want to get along with the knight who had finally come to the kingdom in his lifetime, but if it had to get in the way, then it wouldn't be his fault.
The creaking sound of the coffin behind him became louder and louder, and finally after a roar, the whole exploded, Xue Hua stretched out his hands slightly, and the dimensional door behind him opened, and the insect swarm that had been waiting in Leviathan for a long time immediately swarmed out.
"Who is it... Dare to disturb the sleep of my king! ”
A rough voice came from the shattered coffin in the center of the main hall, and Xue Hua turned around just in time to see a knight in steel armor and holding a giant sword slowly walking out of the sky of stone dust and dust.
Although the armor on this knight's body is not a professional equipment because it was cast long before the world was regularized, it is obviously not an ordinary product in terms of its quality that has not been half decayed and rusted for so many years.
And the long sword in its hand, a hundred years and thousands of years have passed, and the gauntlet at the hilt of the sword has completely turned into ashes, but the blade of the long sword still looks sharp, reflecting the cold light under the white light of the spiritual light ball.
The swarm that came out from behind Xue Hua swooped directly towards the knight without Xue Hua's order, and the exterminators launched their charging skills, and more than thirty exterminators lined up in a horizontal line and slammed towards the knight.
Undeterred by the exterminators' onslaught, the knight slowly arched its legs, grasped the hilt of the sword with both hands, and concentrated all its energy together.
In the face of the charge of the insect swarm, Xue Hua, an opponent who can do this kind of thing, has only seen it until now.
When the exterminator's charge was about to hit it, suddenly, a lightning-like silver-white sword light flashed through the exterminator's charging ranks, and the next moment, the dozens of exterminators who rushed to the front were cut in two by this sword light, and the first wave of the swarm collapsed.
Seeing this scene, Xue Hua's eyes narrowed, but there were turbulent waves in his heart.
Knight Ben Jetton was born before the world was regularized, it stands to reason that he is not a professional, even if it is strong, it should only be strong for ordinary people, Xue Hua thought that more than ten exterminators would be enough to deal with it and it would be more than enough, but he didn't expect such a big accident to occur.
Ben Jetton's sword wasn't any of the Paladin's skills, it looked more like something... Swordplay?
Could it be that this is the direction in which the world should have evolved before it was regularized?
Swordsmanship, magic, magic......
Scold! It's getting more and more interesting!
Xue Hua watched more insect swarms flock to Ben Jeton's direction one after another, and a hint of amusement appeared on his face.
The knight's swordsmanship was superb and sharp, and the flying sword light made it difficult for the swarm to move forward, but when long-range firepower units such as the Stinger and the Spear Hunter joined the battle, it could no longer sustain itself.
The mothers screamed and gave the order to attack, and the swarm of jumping insects eventually pounced on it and drowned it, and the ferocious swarm violently tore open the knight's armor and tore its body into pieces.
"Alright, that's enough, let's go." Seeing that the knight had completely lost the strength to resist, Xue Hua shook his head, turned around and walked into the passage behind him first.
Ben Jeton's strength is indeed very strong, if it is about attack power, I am afraid that even the paladins of more than 80 levels will have to bow down.
But the problem is that without the assistance of the professional system, this knight with superb swordsmanship is congenitally deficient in other aspects.
It doesn't have the offensive and defensive aura of a paladin, so its ability in protracted battles and group battles is not as good as even a level 50 paladin, and even when it comes to battlefield support abilities, a level 10 paladin can throw him out a few streets.
Therefore, the superiority and inferiority of these two paths really remains to be verified.
Xue Hua continued to walk forward while thinking, the next room in front of him was a downward passage, the royal tomb was multi-level, as far as Xue Hua knew, Leorek's tomb should be in the king's tomb at the bottom.
He took two steps down the stairs when a burst of cold air suddenly hit him, mixed with the resentment of the necromancer, and it was clear that there was no peace down there.
"Juggernaut, let the swarm show you the way!"
A mother worm walked up to him and whispered respectfully.
"Hmm." Xue Hua thought about it for a while, and felt that it was better to keep a low profile in this kind of place, after all, there was a super monster above the level of legend below, and the kind of burrowing tactics that were commonly used by the insect swarm in the past to go straight to the middle palace were better not to be used here.
So he nodded, moved aside half of his body, and watched as more than a dozen jumping insects poured into the passage.
After a while, there was an alarm sound in the mind of the main nest that the insect swarm encountered the enemy, and the jumping insects encountered the enemy, and from the state of view, the opponent's combat effectiveness was not low.
Xue Hua pursed his lips, and the staff in his right hand gently waved towards the passage, and the illuminated white spiritual energy light ball flew out of the tip of the staff.
With the help of the light ball glowing, Xue Hua quickly saw the opponent who was fighting the jumping insects, which was a group of skeletons in shabby iron armor with tattered red cloth cloaks dragging behind their backs.
These skeletons were uniformly armed with huge decapitating steel axes, and there was no trace of the sluggish stiffness of the undead between swings, and they fought with the jumping insects, and the two sides were inseparable.