422 Undead Sea (1/2)

He truly didn't want to join in on that. What did the three mercenary groups getting the crown and obtaining extremely good rewards have to do with him?

Moreover...

Was Baiers' undead body really that accommodating? If it awakened, it would have power comparable to Star Sage Jouyi. He wouldn't get anything if he helped, and he might even lose his life in the process. Any idiot would know that it wasn't worth it.

”High Mage Merlin, you, you… Let me finish!” Delson panicked and rushed over.

”Hm?”

Lin Yun looked at Delson expressionlessly.

”There was one more important piece of information I didn't have time to share. The 2nd Floor of the magic tower is actually sealed. There is no Teleportation Array. There is only one way to get to the bottom of the tower, and it's that crown! In fact, the crown is the key to the lowest floor of the magic tower.” Delson was anxious and nervously looked at Lin Yun.

After all, the forces of the three mercenary groups wouldn't be enough on this floor. It would become really bad for them if the young mage left.

Let alone getting the crown, it might be hard just to survive.

Thus, he had no other choice but to beg Lin Yun to stay. ”This place is too dangerous, High Mage Merlin, I think everyone should remain together, it'll be safer…”

Lin Yun's expression slightly changed. As Delson was talking to him, Lin Yun tried to connect to the Bone Plane with his Book of Death, but ended up failing. It seemed that there was a formidable power in the 2nd Floor restricting his ability to open the Planar Path. He also tried the Demiplane, but found out that he couldn't open his Demiplane.

Through this, he knew that Delson hadn't lied to him.

It looked like he would have to get that crown to leave this place, so he nodded. ”Okay.”

Hearing Lin Yun's answer, everyone, excluding Lin Yun's group, had relieved expressions on their faces. Lin Yun was already the core of this exploration team, he was the one person they couldn't do without.

But, a few minutes after that short discussion, strange sounds echoed in the surroundings. Not far away, a skeleton started crawling out of the ground, muddied from the black soil. It was holding a broken sword that had lost its shine, two phosphorous fires flickering in its eye sockets.

It was followed by more digging sounds as Skeleton Warrior after Skeleton Warrior crawled out of the ground.

And the amount of skeletons increased at a steady pace.

It didn't take long for a few dozen skeletons holding broken, rusty swords to crawl out of the ground, the fires in their eyes flickering sinisterly as they surrounded Lin Yun's group.

But when they were ten meters away from Lin Yun, those Skeleton Warriors all stopped. The fires throbbed intensely once more before suddenly dimming. They withdrew a few dozen meters back before dispersing, not daring to get closer.

What happened?

They were all stunned, especially Weiss. He had been ready to cast high tier spells when those Skeleton Warriors approached, but before he could explode them, he saw that these skeletons were already running away, so he had no choice but to interrupt his cast to avoid drawing their ire.

He had observed these skeletons' strange actions, and there were only two reasons for their soul fires to dim. One was if they were about to die, and the other was fear….

The first one could easily be eliminated. Those skeletons didn't seem to be on the verge of dying. If anything, they were already dead… In any case, if they were on the verge of dying, they wouldn't have bothered to retreat a few dozen meters away.

Thus, only the second reason remained. But what could make those skeletons so afraid? After all, only a high-level undead lifeform could instill fear in these skeletons. In their group, there were only ten humans and one Beastman.

Weiss remained puzzled as he followed everyone onwards. After a few minutes, another group of skeletons surrounded them, but just as they were about to attack, those skeletons were once again scared away.

This made him want to curse.

He was even wondering if a high-level undead was hiding in the vicinity, secretly following them. Thinking of this, Weiss suddenly started looking around, noticing a vast sea of phosphorous lights flickering. There seemed to be at least five to six hundreds.

Weiss couldn't help wiping the sweat off his forehead. They hadn't been here for more than ten minutes! How could there be so many skeletons gathered together? Moreover, it looked like more and more were converging towards that sea of bones. But strangely, those skeletons didn't show any intent of approaching. Rather, they kept milling about a hundred meters or so away.

”High Mage Merlin, let's stop. There are a lot of Skeletons behind us. Shouldn't we deal with that first…?” Weiss looked at Lin Yun, who was walking at the forefront and anxiously added, ”Moreover, they keep gathering. I'm afraid that we might come across some troubles soon.”

”Sir Weiss, there is no need to take care of them since they aren't attacking. Let's look for the Teleportation Array leading towards the bottom first…” Lin Yun didn't even turn back.

As the cause of all this, how could he not know what was happening?