Chapter 665: The Cemetery's Emergency Defense Strategy
The first extraction in the Scourge Cemetery took five minutes.
If you count the magic array laid out in advance and erase the traces afterwards, it took Zhao Dingguo more than ten minutes before and after. Just as he carefully smoothed out the last trace and re-entered invisibility, more than ten seconds after he re-entered the stealth, the figure of the bone dragon appeared again in the hazy sky in the distance.
This thrill, naturally, goes without saying.
If Zhao Dingguo's speed of clearing the magic array was a little slower, or if the bone dragon came half a minute early, Zhao Dingguo would be unlucky.
In any case, the successful completion of the sage's energy extraction for the first time made Zhao Dingguo's confidence soar. Moreover, this risky experience also made Zhao Dingguo summarize an experience, that is, the choice of the object of extraction is not that the more energy you have, the better. Therefore, after the bone dragon left, Zhao Dingguo immediately began to reflexively turn back, and moved forward the historical era of choosing to hang up the hero by one to two hundred years.
This time, the conversion is much faster.
It only took Zhao Dingguo more than three minutes to successfully complete the second transformation, and then there was enough time to deal with the follow-up matters, and finally calmly entered the stealth, waiting for the bone dragon to fly over. It may take a little time to waste in between, from half a minute to a minute or two, but it's better to be safe.
With the continuous infusion of energy, this mottled blade also became more and more bright.
To transform an ordinary sword blade into a famous Sage Relic, the energy required is terrifying. According to the experience of Mentor Garo, it is necessary to transform at least seventeen or eighteen the corpses of plot heroes to complete this process. Moreover, if the energy of the extracted hero's corpse is more severe, this number will increase accordingly.
Before that. Shen Caiwei's blade mainly draws the energy of the Burning Legion Super Monster. Although it can also be used, the blade of the sword after extraction gives people a chaotic dark red. Not only does it look sacred, but it is a little disgusting. The heroic energy that is now continuously extracted has undoubtedly diluted the chaotic energy. And as the transformation progressed, the sword blade also regained a faint golden yellow, faintly adding a divine aura that Zhao Dingguo was familiar with in the death team battle.
The whole process started quite smoothly.
Because Zhao Dingguo was careful enough, the tombs of the heroes he chose were also scattered and separated, hidden in a large area of tombs, so he couldn't detect it if he didn't feel it carefully. The Sky Patrol Bone Dragon, which swept through the sky, apparently didn't notice anything unusual, and continued to fly away after circling in a circle. However, when Zhao Dingguo successively extracted seven or eight heroic graves, the bone dragon that flew again began to realize that something was wrong.
This time. There were two bone dragons flying over Zhao Dingguo's head.
Moreover, the two bone dragons did not leave in a circle like before, but flapped their wings and dangled on Zhao Dingguo's head for more than a minute, during which they also swooped to a low altitude of twenty or thirty meters above the ground, as if they wanted to see what was abnormal here. Eventually, when nothing was found, they left again.
If it weren't for Zhao Dingguo's ghost walk lasting long enough, and there was no fading time when it was activated, the whole process would be perfectly connected. Maybe he's really discovered by the bone dragon.
The enemy's abnormal move undoubtedly gave Zhao Dingguo a wake-up call.
Although the plot heroes and most of the legionnaires who guarded the place have been transferred, it seems that it is still not easy to do anything here. After a brief moment of surprise at the speed of the Bone Dragon Guard's reaction. Zhao Dingguo couldn't help but secretly speed up the movements in his hands.
As the action of setting up the magic array became more and more proficient, the time required by Zhao Dingguo for a single time became shorter and shorter.
However, the situation is also getting worse and worse for Zhao Dingguo. As the number of hero corpses extracted increases. Holes in the entire cemetery network are also becoming more and more apparent. The bone dragons flying over were obviously starting to get irritable, and they increased their patrols in the area where Zhao Dingguo was located. By the time Zhao Dingguo had transformed the corpses of fourteen or fifteen heroes one after another. The time for the bone dragon to hover above Zhao Dingguo had increased to four or five minutes.
This made Zhao Dingguo have more and more time to use, and each action became more and more tense.
But. And that's not all. Not long after, scattered footsteps could be heard faintly in the distance, which was covered by gray mist. Fortunately, Zhao Dingguo had just begun to lay out the magic array at that time, and he immediately canceled it after discovering the abnormality, which prevented premature exposure.
Soon, a small group of undead creatures appeared in front of Zhao Dingguo. This includes a renegade mage with the Dusk Tier template, and the others are ordinary undead minions such as monsters like the Skeleton Guard. It turned out that after discovering that the light patrol was ineffective, the bone dragons sent the only renegade mage left behind, ready to guard the place without stopping.
There were eight or nine skeleton guards in this small group, scattered around the vicinity, and they were patrolling back and forth irregularly.
Their appearance suddenly made Zhao Dingguo's actions ten times more difficult.
In terms of results, Zhao Dingguo's trip can be said to have gained a lot. This mottled blade, which was originally only slightly shiny, was now filled with energy and golden divine aura. Zhao Dingguo could infer from his feelings that it was already filled with about seventy percent of the sage energy. The remaining missing parts can be put into the real world by collecting the corpses of the top monsters of the Burning Legion. It's just that this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is so rare right now!
If you miss this time, you don't know when you'll be able to catch up next time.
After all, if there was a strong person in the plot who was sitting here in person, Zhao Dingguo would definitely not dare to sneak in easily.
Because of this, Zhao Dingguo was very unwilling to leave like this. If he could take some risks to fill the Sage's relics at one time, Zhao Dingguo was definitely willing to gamble. What's more, the great counteroffensive of the natural disaster at this stage has attracted the attention of all the plot powerhouses. Even if he was unlucky enough to be discovered by the bone dragon, Zhao Dingguo would at most leave the work at hand and flee immediately, and it would not be a big problem to retreat!
Having made up his mind, Zhao Dingguo was ready to make a move against the renegade mage.
This Dusk-level elite monster aura is not very powerful, it is much worse than the Sea Giant Guardian and Thunder Lord that Zhao Dingguo once participated in killing. However, Zhao Dingguo still didn't dare to be too careless. Because, there are also a bunch of Sunburst Rank skeleton guards nearby to help. In addition, the appearance of the renegade mage is also a little scary. It seems that the staff in the shape of a short sword and the gray inscription robe worn on the body are faintly bloodstained, giving people a sense of belligerence and ferocity.
Zhao Dingguo's battle plan is to first clear out the mobs one by one, then avoid the inspection of a wave of bone dragons, and then concentrate on the firepower to solve the renegade mage in a wave.
Perhaps because he was very confident in this elite monster, the patrol pattern of several bone dragons returned to normal again, which also gave Zhao Dingguo a chance. While one of the ordinary skeleton guards patrolling back and forth to the edge, Zhao Dingguo suddenly rushed out and attacked the skeleton guard with the help of a thin gray mist and no second monster in his field of vision.
Compared to the low-level undead creatures commonly found on the main plane, this skeleton guard in the cemetery is undoubtedly stronger. It carries a sharp bone scimitar in its hands, and its thick bones have a faint dull gray sheen, full of texture and strength. If it was before the dusk level, Zhao Dingguo would still have to make some effort to clean it up. But now, Zhao Dingguo almost didn't hesitate, and when he rushed out, he turned on the crazy mask!
The state of blessing to the body together is also agile and fast.
The skeleton guard didn't understand how the human in front of him who suddenly rushed out was hiding his perception, so he was slightly stunned. In such a short period of time, its HP was beaten by Zhao Dingguo in extreme output mode. Before it could react, Zhao Dingguo cut out the lava spirit again. Subsequently, the two lava spirits took turns to stun the skeleton guards with their throwing skills, and at the same time activated the armor-piercing skills to assist Zhao Dingguo in exporting.
With his current ability, it wouldn't be a problem to fight a normal monster of the Rising Sun Tier.
In the time of a big move, the skeleton guards who finally approached Zhao Dingguo's side had already lost one-third of their blood. Without waiting for it to swing the weapon in his hand and slash out the first knife, Zhao Dingguo gave it a rapid cooling and continued to output.
Just when the mad mask mania effect ended, the skeleton guard's HP returned to zero and was killed by Zhao Dingguo!
Even though it is a little stronger than a normal undead, the difference is nothing more than an ant and a larger ant......
The gray mist was filled with the aura of death and decay, and the energy and power of the nearby heroic corpses that had been condensed after death had obscured the perception of the renegade mage to a certain extent. So, this brief battle, which was far away from the renegade mage, failed to attract its attention.
Zhao Dingguo naturally did not give the enemy time to react, and quickly solved the skeleton guards one by one with thunderous means.
In just a few minutes, the renegade mage was surprised to find that his skeleton guard was not even half there. When the angry and strange renegade mage finally made up his mind to recall the remaining skeleton guards, Zhao Dingguo chased them all the way and forcibly killed the seventh skeleton guard.
If there are only two skeleton guards left, there is no need to worry so much.
Seeing that the battle was going much smoother than he imagined, Zhao Dingguo calculated the time and finally decided to take a risk and directly attack the renegade mage. If it drags on for a while, I don't know if this angry renegade mage will communicate with the bone dragon for anything. He didn't want to cause any more variables, so he decided to get the renegade mage together.
So, after re-summoning the lava spirit, Zhao Dingguo met the renegade mage openly.
He lost most of his subordinates, but he didn't even see what the enemy looked like, which made the renegade mage furious. Seeing that the enemy had finally emerged from the mist, the renegade mage immediately waved his scepter and shot a pitch-black chaos ray towards Zhao Dingguo!
This is a very peculiar soft restriction skill. (To be continued.) )