Before the words were finished, countless dark red lines appeared without warning on the stone walls on both sides of the passage. The lines, like the blood vessels of a living creature, pulsated slowly, emitting a decaying aura.
Wisps of ominous red mist seeped from the cracks in the stone, rapidly spreading, like the hot breath exhaled from the fangs of a beast!
"Damn, did we trigger a hidden storyline?"
"Could it be that the event BOSS is about to spawn!?"
The three players grew excited.
Only the apprentice, hanging upside down, looked bewildered, unable to understand what strange things these three odd skeleton soldiers were muttering about.
Plot?
Event?
Was this also a part of Master rk's plan?
He didn't understand.
At that mont, a solemn system prompt suddenly sounded in the Sea of Consciousness of the three players, and its content was completely different from their speculations.
[Ergency Mission Update: Chaos Invasion!]
[Demon King: The scum of Chaos has polluted my hunting ground. Plan change, my servants, prioritize eliminating the minions of Chaos! Obliterate them completely from the Maze!]
[Main Quest (Updated): Collaborate with the School Magic Apprentice to jointly resist the Chaos Servants, and retreat to the temporary shelter!]
"Collaborate?" The three players looked at each other, faces full of confusion.
Just then, from the depths of the sticky red mist, several twisted humanoid creatures staggered out silently.
Their bodies asymtrical, their skin a deathly gray, their only facial feature was a gaping, silent mouth.
That mouth was ant for devouring people.
"Ah—!" The apprentice, hanging there, saw those monsters and let out a heart-wrenching scream, "It's the Wailing! Servants of Chaos! Quickly, let down!"
"Wailing?" [ichuan Qiu Kuo] raised an eyebrow.
This NPC knows quite a lot.
He hesitated no longer, swinging a sharp bone club to cut the rope.
The apprentice fell heavily to the ground, and before he could catch his breath, [Chuanli Yifu] shoved that cheap Magic Wand back into his hand.
"Hey, kid," [ichuan Qiu Kuo] squatted, patting his pale face, "You're lucky to run into us in the Maze, you're one of us now. If you want to survive, tell us everything about that thing."
Looking at the three "undead" whose attitudes had completely flipped, and glancing at the approaching monsters not far away, the apprentice was utterly bewildered.
But he quickly made the only correct choice, clutching the Magic Wand tightly, and nodded, trembling.
"They, they are servants of Chaos... there are records in the Forbidden Book, they devour all living creatures they encounter, tearing away both soul and flesh!"
In a world abundant with "Spiritual Energy," this was undoubtedly the cruelest death.
Not just a loss of strength, but crucially, a soul missing a leg would remain crippled for countless lifetis.
If too much of the soul is missing, it could even reincarnate as an animal... This is currently the mainstream viewpoint of the Soul School.
The apprentice swallowed, continuing with a trembling voice.
"My suggestion is... we must break through quickly and head to the shelter! Other apprentices and assistants should have already headed that way, we need to regroup with them first!"
[Wang Chuan Neiku] tossed a few copper coins back into his lap, his jawbone grinning in what looked terrifying yet strangely reassuring to the apprentice.
"We will go with you, in exchange, I need you to forget the unpleasantness earlier... can you do that?"
The apprentice nodded rapidly, like a chick pecking at rice.
Honestly.
He wouldn't be foolish enough to say he couldn't at this point.
[ichuan Qiu Kuo] patted his shoulder with satisfaction.
"Good."
"Now, lead the way."
…
A bizarre collaboration unfolded in the blood-colored Maze, with the Empire's Magic Apprentice and the evil undead fighting side by side, probably for the first ti in the history of the Academic State.
"...They have no vision and rely on sensing the soul's fluctuations to locate, and as you are relatively weak-souled undead, they cannot see you clearly!"
Leo, the rescued apprentice, shouted the knowledge he gleaned from Forbidden Books. After a brief pause, he continued to command.
"Don't aim for their heads, attack their chests with physical force! They have no brains, but the crystals in their chest are the weak points!!"
"Awooo!"
"Got it!"
No sooner had the words fallen when the player "ichuan Qiu Kuo" used the leg bone in his hand like a javelin, expertly piercing through a Wailing's chest.
The creature fell silently, turning into a pile of ashes.
"Wang Chuan Neiku" and "Chuanli Yifu" positioned themselves on the left and right, using the hardness of their bones and agile maneuvers, like two battle-hardened rcenaries, they overpowered the approaching Wailings one by one.
Leo watched, mouth agape, in awe of it all.
The way these undead fought was completely different from his understanding!
Without the support of an Undead Mage, they relied solely on extraordinary combat intuition and rapport to firmly suppress a group of Wailings in place.
Under their cover, one after another isolated apprentice was rescued and joined this eccentric team, composed of a human and three skeletons.
However, as the party delved deeper, the number of Wailings increased. They were all malicious spirits attracted by the blazing Soul Fire, eager to devour those pure souls whole.
At a narrow fork in the path, dozens of creatures erged from the writhing walls, completely blocking their way to the shelter.
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