Chapter 515 - Generals Tomb (1/2)

The General’s Tomb was the death bed of the City of Light’s famous general [Var? Wind Earl]. He was the bravest warrior in the City of Light and was very powerful. He had raged and led hundreds of thousands of warriors into the Dark Lair because the Dark Shrine had abducted his wife. He had fought to death there.

However, everything had been planned by the Dark Shrine as the war ground had become a great soul summoning spot for them. Countless ancient generals had awoken from their slumber and transformed into the Undead Soldiers that were manipulated by the Dark Shrine. Furthermore, the revival ceremony for the Wind Earl was in progress as well.

Lin Jie was extremely well-versed with the background story, but he did not regard the Wind Earl’s gritting and tragic life of importance. Instead, he was concerned with the items in the tomb—ancient equipment, armories, treasure chests, gems, skill books, and so on. Those items were the valuable portion of the ‘tomb’.

Lin Jie rode his Iron-Willed Blood Horse across the desert as countless other players followed suit. They had all teamed up to explore the new map, and it was rare for solo players like Lin Jie to be around this area. Amongst the casual adventurers, a large portion was made up of Bandits, and they planned to steal some stuff from the tomb.

The reason why Lin Jie did not team up with Bu Yi, and the rest was that this map wasn’t exactly suitable for groups. Due to his training over the years, coupled with his muscle memory and trap familiarity, it would be a breeze for Lin Jie to avoid dangers on his own, but the same couldn’t be said if he brought the others along.

Ssss—

At that moment, several arrows burst through the air abruptly, and they shone as though they had been dipped in gold.

The Iron-Willed Blood Horse neighed, and Lin Jie pulled onto the rein as he threw himself forward and rolled on the ground. He avoided all the arrows as they pierced through the ground. These arrows turned out to be the Gold Hook Arrows and were exclusive to NPCs only. Other than adding 45 points to Attack, they had 35% of Armor Ignore against heavy armor.

The players that ambushed Lin Jie escaped immediately as they noticed their failure and left several traps around to prevent him from pursuing.

“Arrows from the General’s Tomb’s corpse?” Lin Jie did not chase after them. Instead, he began pondering as he looked at the Gold Hook Arrows. “My guess must be correct. Eighteen Massacres must be having a good time around such Undead locations, plus he is the Blood Sub-Shrine’s Master. He must have accepted some special mission and entered the tomb.”

The players around were in shock as a player’s alertness was at the lowest when the person was on the rush. Most of them had the habit of watching movies or flirting while they were on the move. However, this fellow had such quick reflexes that he could react in the heat of the moment!

Lin Jie patted away the dust carelessly and continued on his journey. However, he raised his alertness level. Eighteen Massacres was the current Blood Sub-Shrine’s Master, and even though it was just one of the many sub-shrines of the Dark Shrine, most of the spawned Undead monsters were released from there. In other words, Eighteen Massacres was in control of the majority of monsters!

Furthermore, he had changed his job to an Abyss Knight that was capable of capturing Devils from the Abyss. Seeing how Eighteen Massacres was like, if he hadn’t thought of himself to be invincible and planned to torture Lin Jie, he wouldn’t have appeared at the Ice Shrine. He might even have prepared to attack the City of Light, however, his plan was pushed back when he encountered the system’s protection while opening up the new map.

If he was really so powerful, the General’s Tomb might already be under his control! Eighteen Massacres was an influential Shrine Master, and several ancient backstories were related to this dark force. Hence, if he was able to manipulate the souls in the tomb, it would be too late…

Fortunately, after the first ambush, it wasn’t followed by a second one. Lin Jie had a relatively safe journey, but he was stunned upon reaching the tomb.

Although the name, General’s Tomb, sounded pretty domineering and had a backstory that gave of a strong visual image. However, despite how magnificent the internals would appear, the entrance would just be a black hole, and how could this black hole be sufficient to fit a sea of players?

Thus, upon his arrival, Lin Jie noticed that the hole was fully filled with people, and everyone was trying their best to squeeze inwards…

Lin Jie was sweating as the black hole was not the entrance—on the contrary, it was the resting ground of the tomb’s guarding Boss. Once a player activated the trap for the first time, the Boss would fly up from beneath the ground in a suave manner and begin fighting with the players. What’s worse, the guarding Boss would only drop 100 keys for the hundreds of players.

Judging from the current situation, the players had all jumped in before the Boss was prepared to appear. Hence, these all contributed to an odd situation: Before the Boss was respawned, it was being trapped underground by a dozen of butts.

“Yo, Brother Lone Wolf!” Very Fat, Knight’s Glory’s guild leader, spotted Lin Jie and greeted him with a smile. He approached Lin Jie and raised his eyebrows at the sea of people. “With your abilities, will you be able to squeeze your way in?” he asked, kind of shocked.

Lin Jie gave him a side glance—there seemed to be no link between the ability to squeeze and a professional player, right? However, this wasn’t the time for this, he pointed to the hole and said, “In order to enter the tomb, we must first release the Boss.”

It was obvious that Very Fat had obtained partial information of this map using his own methods as he nodded. “The guarding Boss, Skeleton Demon Sword Artist, isn’t the strength-type, so he won’t be able to blast all the players away. If this situation carries on, we will lose our advantage of being here early. However, these players are all solo players and won’t listen to instructions, we can’t help it.”