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Chapter 277 Wooden House in the Forest

Although he only glanced at the two-story wooden house from afar, a strange feeling arose in Richard's heart.

There is danger, vigilance, and at the same time, there seems to be a call?

A winding cobblestone path leads from the front of the cabin to Richard's current location. The path is overgrown with weeds and seems to have been neglected for a long time.

This road was probably repaired by the previous owner of the wooden house.

However, it might not be so easy for Richard to get into the cabin along the cobblestone path.

The area between him and the wooden house was now occupied by more than ten different types of undead creatures: undead knights on white bone horses, giant axe skeletons wielding double-edged axes, zombies far exceeding normal size, abominations, and wandering evil spirits.

This made Stephanie's scalp tingle.

Although she was also a necromancer, she had never seen so many different kinds of first-tier undead creatures before.

The undead knight riding the white bone horse, in particular, exuded an exceptionally powerful aura, likely at the top level of the first tier or even the second tier.

In addition, Richard could also vaguely see traces of many undead creatures in the surrounding dense fog area. In other words, if they could not quickly defeat the undead creatures in front of them, the undead creatures around them would probably continue to appear.

This situation

Richard couldn't help but fall into deep thought; these undead creatures seemed to be guarding or protecting something.

A direct, forceful attack?

Obviously not!

Including the Wraith Abomination and the Bloodbone Golem, I can only take down three or four Tier 1 undead creatures on the other side at most.

But there were more than ten undead creatures on the other side, as well as a bone knight that was likely a second-tier creature. If he were to fight head-on, he would probably be utterly defeated.

Richard, pulling Stephanie along, slowly retreated back into the mist.

"Stephena, wrench, spring, and wind-up golem," Richard said to Stephena after thinking for a moment.

Stephania was taken aback at first, then her beautiful eyes widened as if she had thought of something. She took off her bundle and began searching, praising, "Master, you intend to use the clockwork golem to lure away these undead creatures so we can enter the cabin?"

Richard nodded approvingly, "You're getting smarter and smarter, that's right."

Stephanie handed Richard a clockwork puppet the size of a rabbit, then stared intently at her master with her big eyes, watching how Richard would operate it.

After all, these clockwork golems are shaped like little people and are only covered in iron. If they were sent charging forward, they would probably be smashed to pieces by those powerful undead creatures.

If you can only attract attention for less than a second before it's completely ruined, then obviously you won't be able to attract attention at all!

Therefore, Stephanie was eager to see how her owner would operate it.

Richard carefully disassembled the outer shell of the clockwork puppet, revealing a somewhat complex gear transmission mechanism and clockwork inside. Richard used a wrench to stack the clockwork into three pieces and then reconnected the transmission mechanism.

Stephanie's eyes lit up. An overloaded clockwork golem? A super-fast clockwork golem?

She instantly understood Richard's idea: to further increase the speed of the already incredibly fast wind-up golem by loading it with more wind-ups.

If it can be upgraded to the point where it can traverse a large area in a flash, then the undead creatures will be unable to do anything to it and will chase after it.

However, given the internal space of the clockwork golem, three clockworks are already the limit.

Immediately afterwards, she discovered that her master, Richard, had also stuffed a considerable amount of Fire Dance Star and Silver Moon Dust powder into the clockwork puppet.

In other words, once the clockwork golem is attacked, it will explode, further attracting the attention of the undead creatures.

"As expected of our master, he even came up with such a method!" Stephania exclaimed admiringly from the side.

"Stephena, once the undead creatures' attention is drawn in, we'll rush in. If that doesn't work, use your innate sorcery, Shadow Transformation, to take me to the cabin door." Richard thought for a moment and devised a backup plan, instructing Stephena on it.

"Yes, Master." Stephania nodded emphatically.

"Then let's get ready." Richard started to spin the knob on the back of the clockwork puppet with great force. Because he used three clockworks of maximum strength, it made a "creak! creak!" sound as Richard spun it!

After twisting it more than ten times, Richard placed the clockwork puppet on the ground and whispered to Stephanie, "Ready! 3, 2, 1!"

"Whoosh!"

The golem, equipped with three wind-up springs, shot straight into the undead horde like a rocket, leaving a long black trail in its wake.

The majestic bone horse knight felt something rush past his feet. The deep green soul fire in his eyes flickered twice, as if he was furious that something small had passed under his feet, and that his dignity had been seriously challenged!

Immediately, it yanked off the reins, and after a few whinnies, the bone horse sped off in pursuit of the clockwork golem.

This phenomenon has had similar effects on other undead creatures as well.

As a result, most of the undead creatures were attracted to the clockwork golem and chased after it.

Richard and Stephanie had already rushed halfway down the cobblestone path when a giant axe skeleton, which had not yet been attracted, spotted them and roared as it charged towards them.

Richard waved his right hand, and the Blood Bone Puppet leaped out from behind him, rushing towards the Giant Axe Skeleton and immediately intercepting it.

At this point, there were no further obstacles in his path to the cabin.

Soon, Richard and Stephena, who were moving forward at full speed, were about to reach the entrance of the cabin.

On the other side, the clockwork golem's three fully wound clocks soon ran out of power, and its speed gradually slowed down. Soon, the first bone knight arrived, angrily swung his longsword, and fiercely unleashed a dark green energy attack.

"boom!!"

The moment the clockwork golem shattered, a huge mushroom cloud appeared simultaneously.

The silver dust mixed in was immediately dispersed in all directions by the high-speed airflow, instantly injuring all the undead creatures around it.

The undead creatures roared in fury, intending to tear the little thing to pieces, but no matter how hard they searched, it was nothing but impotent rage!

The clockwork golem was already smashed to pieces!

Taking this opportunity, Richard led Stephanie to the entrance of the cabin.

"Master, I feel that the wooden house is very strange and dangerous!" Stephania frowned, her heart pounding.

"That's right, I felt it too! But now that we're here, there's no reason for us to leave. With me here, there's nothing to fear!" Richard reassured him.

Richard sensed danger, but it didn't seem intense; however, the feeling of being called to was growing stronger.

Therefore, Richard decided that he absolutely had to go in and take a look.

Before stepping into the cabin, Richard squeezed Stephanie's small hand to reassure her. Richard led the vengeful spirits in first, while he and Stephanie followed in the middle, slowly entering the cabin in the woods.

Gradually, a strange feeling spread through Richard's mind, as if he had stepped into some kind of force field. This strange force field should be the reason why the concentration of dark element energy particles here is particularly high.

When Richard reached the foot of the wooden door, he was suddenly startled and quickly looked up.

He was shocked to discover that the Abomination, which was originally over four meters tall, could now easily enter the wooden door, which was only two and a half meters high and one and a half meters wide.

this.

Could it be that under the influence of this force field, even the physical properties of organisms within a certain range, such as height and weight, are distorted?

This is far beyond the scope of his abilities at this level.

Even a second-level archmage might not be able to explain Richard's current situation.

However, this strange situation did not deter Richard from wanting to enter.

Soon, Richard led Stephanie into the cabin.

At this moment, the originally tall vengeful spirit, now only the same height as Richard, seemed to have shrunk many times over, looking somewhat comical, as if it had been forcibly shrunk.

The vengeful spirit's small, hateful eyes revealed obvious confusion, as if to say, "Why am I so much smaller? Where am I?"

As soon as Richard and his companion entered the cabin, the contents were displayed before them.

This appears to be a dwelling, with dust covering the floor and cobwebs covering the corners of the walls. In the lobby on the first floor, there is a very old dining table and five or six other tables and chairs.

There were no plates on the table, but a thick layer of dust covered it, suggesting that no one had lived there for a very long time.

Stephania tugged at Richard's sleeve and said, "Master, look."

After saying that, he pointed to the footprints on the ground.

Richard looked down and saw a messy trail of footprints leading to the stairs to the second floor, visible through the dust on the ground.

These footprints were of all shapes and sizes: some were normal-sized, some were clearly footprints left by a skeleton, and some were the footprints of the abomination that had just entered.

A thought flashed through Richard's mind: Could it be that all these undead creatures outside came from the second floor?

That's why such messy footprints were left behind?

Richard became increasingly convinced that his guess was probably true!

"Stephena, let's go upstairs and take a look!" Richard pointed to the second floor.

The two, filled with vengeful spirits, slowly walked up to the second floor.

"Creak!"

Richard was startled. He hadn't expected that the wooden stairs, which were perfectly fine when the vengeful spirit stepped on, would make a sound when he stepped on them, as if he were heavier than the vengeful spirit.

Stephanie looked a little nervous, but Richard tightened his grip on her small, fair hand, which made her feel a bit better.

"Crunch! Crunch!"

With each step they took, the wooden stairs made a creaking sound, which made Richard and Stephanie's hearts jump.

"Watch out!" Richard whispered.

At the same time, deathly aura began to swirl around him, and hideous bone armor began to cover his entire body.

Richard has now cast the two sorcery spells: Death Aura and Magic Armor.

As they approached the second floor, the vengeful spirit, having cleared the way, stepped onto the second floor before Richard.

The vengeful spirit looked around, seemingly finding no enemies.

This eased Richard and Stephanie's worries a little.

Just as Richard's left foot stepped onto the second floor.

suddenly!

Five spirits suddenly appeared in front of him, each with a ferocious face and a strong aura; they were all evil spirits.

As if it had been rehearsed, the five spirits simultaneously looked up at the sky and let out a sharp shriek!

"Aww!!"

"Oh no! This is the roar of an evil spirit!" Richard had barely realized what was happening when he felt a sharp pain in his brain!

The successive tsunami-like sonic waves almost pierced his eardrums. Fortunately, Richard had used Death Aura and Demon Armor in advance; otherwise, with the simultaneous roar of the five evil spirits, he would have been in serious trouble.

I'm afraid it could severely injure him!

Fortunately, because Stephanie was last, she didn't have time to step onto the second floor. At this moment, she was as if she were outside a bubble, unable to enter the second floor.

A glance at Stephanie's anxious expression and the way she was patting the membrane made Richard feel relieved.

The fact that the evil spirit's roar hadn't affected Stephanie confirmed that he and Stephanie had been separated by some strange barrier.

The moment the sound wave ended, the five evil spirits simultaneously attacked the vengeful spirit in front of Richard, who was already stunned and bleeding from his ears and nose.

Ten transparent claws stabbed fiercely at the body of the vengeful spirit!

When these claws gripped the thick skin that the vengeful spirit loathed, they slowly seeped in as if soaked in butter, and then tore it apart fiercely!

It was as if a small piece of the soul that the vengeful spirit hated had been torn off.

"roar!!"

The vengeful spirit was instantly struck by the attack and jolted awake by the intense pain, letting out a roar!

However, it was severely injured by the combined attack of the five evil spirits.

It doesn't come from the body, but from the soul.

But strangely, the next second, the vengeful spirit's small, red eyes, which had been filled with anger, became sleepy again, and its upper and lower eyelids touched each other repeatedly as it began to doze off.

This startled Richard; it seemed to be some kind of hypnotic negative effect that came with the "Claw of Evil."

More importantly, once the vengeful spirit is unable to withstand the opponent's attack, it will be directly exposed to the concentrated attack of the five evil spirits.

"Soul Link!!"

Richard used a rarely used innate magical ability—Soul Link!

In an instant, he connected his soul with the vengeful spirit, taking the initiative to share the harm suffered by the vengeful spirit.

That's right!

Richard was using this spell in reverse, transferring some of the damage borne by the undead summons onto himself.

Instantly!

Richard felt a sharp, excruciating pain. "Ah!!!"

He finally understood how painful it was for the vengeful spirit that had just endured five blows of "evil spirit claws"!

Almost simultaneously, the vengeful spirit's hateful, blood-red eyes suddenly opened, glanced gratefully at its master Richard, and then the bulge on its neck began to shrink violently.

"Venom spit!!"

"puff!!"

As the vengeful spirit opened its mouth wide, spraying venom around like a high-pressure water gun, the five evil spirits screamed in agony!

This scene caused the vengeful spirit's hateful little eyes to narrow instantly.

The next second, another bulge on its neck continued to swell!

(End of this chapter)