26 Bone Plane (1/2)

'What the…' Lin Yun was startled when he heard that strange sound and instantly moved back, a small, bright flame appearing at his fingertips.

As the flame lit up the area, Lin Yun saw that at the place he had been standing, a skeleton was pushing its way out of the ground. The skeleton's body was covered in black mud and it was holding a rusted scimitar, and two phosphorescent flames flickered within its empty sockets.

'An undead lifeform?' Lin Yun was horrified by the revelation. This was clearly a lowly Skeleton Warrior, the lowest lifeform amongst the undead. 'How come my luck is so good? I casually found a Planar Path, but it ended up leading to the famous Undead Plane?'

'Such a cruel joke…'

Even at the peak of the magic civilization, mages wouldn't rashly set foot in the Undead Plane. That place was just too dangerous, and even powerful mages could fall there.

Endless swarms of the undead… They had unlimited stamina and did not fear death or destruction, making the Undead Plane one of the most difficult planes to conquer.

Lin Yun once read a note clearly saying that during the entire length of the Plane Colonization Era, only three people truly conquered the Undead Plane!

The Plane Colonization Era lasted for ten thousand years, so who knew how many outstanding mages appeared during that period? But only three of them managed to conquer the Undead Plane.

'What should I do?' Lin Yun felt a bit faint. This wasn't a joke, as the renowned Undead Plane simply wasn't a place that a 9th Rank Mage like him could set foot in. Let alone a 9th Rank Mage, even a High Mage, even an Archmage would be courting death by stepping into the Undead Plane.

'I have to quickly leave this place, if I wait until more of the undead are alarmed, I won't be able to leave even if I want to.'

With this in mind, Lin Yun chanted something, and the small flame at his fingertip immediately turned into a blaze, which turned into a Fire Arrow and flew at the Skeleton Warrior. At the same time, Lin Yun hurriedly retreated and kept chanting line after line, matching these words with various gestures. The mana fluctuations in the surroundings became fiercer.

The Fire Arrow struck the Skeleton Warrior's body, exploding with a ”bang!” and sending sparks and white bone fragments scattering from the impact point. The entire left arm of the Skeleton Warrior had exploded. That kind of injury would be enough to seriously harm any ordinary combatant and seriously incapacitate them, but it was far from enough for an undead.

After receiving the Fire Arrow attack, the Skeleton Warrior was only staggered a bit. And then, as if it hadn't been affected at all, it got up and lifted its rusted scimitar once again before charging at the retreating Lin Yun.

This was the frightening advantage of the undead: they were very troublesome to kill. Losing a hand or a leg was a much less significant loss for them. Besides reducing mobility and effectiveness, they still would be able to fight.

But Lin Yun had already anticipated that. After shooting out the Fire Arrow, he didn't stop chanting, and just as the Skeleton Warrior was raising its weapon, Lin Yun's second spell was cast.

”Thunder Hammer!”

A large hammer with electricity surging all over it and made of flickering gold light appeared out of nowhere in front of the Skeleton Warrior before smashing down, emitting a clap of thunder.

A deep fracture appeared on the Skeleton Warrior's sternum, followed by a lot of low sounds that grew until a sharp ”crack” rang out.

The Skeleton Warrior wasn't able to scream, but the fires in those empty eye sockets were raging as the scimitar in its hand still began to swing down.

But what awaited it was a second Thunder Hammer.

Another ”bang” echoed, and this Thunder Hammer completely smashed the Skeleton Warrior's skull, extinguishing the fires in the eye sockets in that instant. The scimitar fell to the ground with a ”clang” along with the bones of the Skeleton Warrior.

”Pheew…” Lin Yun let out a sigh of relief. He skillfully rummaged through the Skeleton Warrior's skull while carefully checking his surroundings, preparing to use the Planar Path to return to Noscent at any time.

Soon, Lin Yun found a black Undead Essence from the remains of the Skeleton Warrior. This was what remained after the soul fire stopped burning. It contained a large amount of death energy and was an extremely good material to add to a Magic Weapon. It would add death energy to each attack, causing the enemy to have all kinds of negative thoughts, and against a foe with less resistance, these negative thoughts could make the difference between victory and defeat.

This kind of Undead Essence could reach a price similar to that of an Excellent Magic Tool if put on the market.

'Not bad luck.' The Skeleton Warrior's soul fire was quite weak, so it was very improbable for it to become an Undead Essence after it was destroyed. It was truly lucky for Lin Yun to get one from this.

But even if his luck wasn't bad here, Lin Yun was still in a terrible mood.