But at that moment, a ghost wearing silver knight armor and wielding a silver knight greatsword and a silver knight shield suddenly rushed out from the way they came, shouting: "Die, you stinking mimic monster!"
Then, with a single strike, it slashed at the mimic, instantly knocking it to the ground. The ghost then began kicking the mimic frantically, muttering, "You dare bite me! You dare bite me! You dare bite me..."
Forty minutes later, Lu Ming, Ramanlas, and Bane, who had revived from the campfire and had consumed the Humanity Elixir, had wiped out all the monsters in the entire library area. Except for a few chests that were obviously treasure chests, they had looted everything that could be looted.
Among these, the Crystallized Ember was probably the best thing Lu Ming and Ramanlas obtained this time. Because of it, Erebus could forge crystallized weapons and equipment. Although, crystallized weapons and equipment weren't very durable...
Meanwhile, the mimic was still rolling around at the wandering spirit's feet.
Finally, Ramanlas couldn't bear to watch any longer, so he had Lu Ming end the life of the mimic with a single sword strike, turning it into a pile of soul bubbles that disappeared.
Lu Ming picked up a key dropped by a mimic from the ground, then threw a small human-shaped figurine to the wandering spirit.
Catching the statue, the wandering spirit examined it in his hand. After a while, he couldn't help but ask, "How do I use this?"
“Look at it.”
"uh-huh."
"Think back to what you look like."
"Um......"
"Then pat yourself on the body."
Without thinking much, the wandering soul slapped the statue onto itself with a "smack." But the next moment, he sensed something was wrong and couldn't help but want to question Lu Ming, asking if he was playing a trick on him.
However, at this moment, Bane, who was standing to the side, looked at him in great surprise and asked with a head full of question marks, "When did the undead turn back into their own form? How is that so simple?"
"This thing isn't as effective as a human. It can't stop the loss of memories; it can only turn you back from a zombie state." Holding the key, Lu Ming glanced at Bane and directly shattered his illusions.
Even so, Bane couldn't help but say, "That's pretty good too!"
"Maybe." Lu Ming smiled noncommittally, then pointed to the remaining mimics with the key in his hand and laughed, "Let's quickly take down these mimics and then go rescue the old mage Logan."
"That's right! That's right! We still need to rescue 'Big Hat'!"
Chapter 92 - The Duke's Library (Part 3)
"The Crystal Forest, the backyard of the Duke's Library, is also where Heath researched the power of crystals." Looking at the forest before him, Logan, the man in the big hat, standing on a platform with Lu Ming and the others, pointed to a distant cave resembling a valley filled with crystals and said, "If we want to defeat Heath, we must sever its energy connection with the primordial crystals. Otherwise, it will be truly immortal, unlike us undead..."
Looking down at the several blue crystal monsters and one golden crystal monster below the platform, and seeing a set of crystallized armor and a crystal longsword among them, Lu Ming thought for a moment and then said to Benjamin, "The crystal monster in the library can't be damaged by magic. So these guys can only be dealt with by the two of us."
Hearing this, Benjamin glanced at the crystal monsters on the platform. Judging from their positioning, if they were alone, they could completely ignore them and go straight to the crystal cave. Unfortunately, there were five of them. If even one person went down, it would alert them, and the rest would be unable to go down. Because going down would inevitably result in being attacked by the crystal monsters!
Left with no other option, Benjamin drew his greatsword, preparing to jump off the platform with Lu Ming. At that moment, Lu Ming, also holding his Farron greatsword, took a few steps back and asked Benjamin, "Ready?"
So-so.
"Then, jump!"
He sprinted quickly, leaped off the edge of the platform, brandished his greatsword, and as he landed, plunged his weapon into the bodies of two blue crystal monsters!
Tiny crystals spread from the crystal monster's wounds onto the greatswords in Lu Ming and Benjamin's hands, but Lu Ming and Benjamin would not give them the chance to corrode their weapons.
Gripping the sword hilts tightly, Lu Ming and Benjamin seemed to roar, channeling flames and lightning from the greatswords into the crystal monster's body. The attack pierced through the crystal monster, turning it directly into a soul bubble and causing it to disappear.
The flames landed on the grass, spreading outwards from Lu Ming's feet like a wildfire, burning the grass to ashes.
Startled by the heatwave, the crystal monsters rushed toward Lu Ming and Benjamin.
Seeing this, Lu Ming, wearing the Undead Legion helmet, curled his lips into a smile in the helmet's shadow. With a flick of his wrist, the Farron Greatsword was enveloped in flames, and he unleashed a Nitro Charge, smashing a crystal monster that dared to offend his majesty into pieces with a single strike!
"Holy crap!" Benjamin screamed in surprise as he watched Lu Ming relentlessly attack several crystal monsters. At the same time, he nimbly dodged an attack from one of the crystal monsters, plunged his sword into its body, and used lightning to pierce through the crystal, blasting the monster into a pile of fragments!
“Soul magic doesn’t do much damage to these things, but miracles and spells should be the same… Are they using the purest energy…” Watching Lu Ming and Benjamin attack with their swords, leaving the crystal monsters helpless, Big Hat Logan couldn’t help but start analyzing why their flames and lightning could kill these crystal monsters.
Meanwhile, Bane used a blank notebook he got from the library and a special magic pen to record some of Logan's soliloquy.
A few minutes later, Lu Ming and Benjamin slaughtered all the crystal monsters, and some of the crystals they dropped were collected into their phones by Lu Ming and Logan.
However, the golden crystal monster didn't drop anything after it died; instead, it conjured up a girl dressed in Onion Knight's outfit out of thin air.
Although we can't see the female Onion Knight's face, judging from her voice, she must be a cute girl.
After being rescued, he was very grateful to Lu Ming and the others, and gave them a wedge-shaped stone disc and two identical skill books. Then he used the return bone fragment to return to the Firelink Shrine.
Since Lu Ming rescued the person, these things rightfully belong to Lu Ming.
However, since the skill book wouldn't disappear when used by an undead, Lu Ming had Benjamin and the other two learn the skill using his own skill book first, and then he would learn the skill himself. The remaining skill book, of course, was given to Ramanlas by Lu Ming.
The two skill books that the female Onion Knight gave to Lu Ming are fighting-type, also known as wave missiles.
After a simple test, Lu Ming discovered that they could use this skill to blow a large tree down. Furthermore, although the Wave Missile consumes mana, its energy isn't magic, but a very peculiar pure energy. This means that unlike spells, miracles, or conjurations, the Wave Missile doesn't weaken when used against the crystal monsters they encountered before.
Because of this skill, Logan had another thing to study, instead of simply studying Hiss's imperfect crystallized powers.
However, when they finished learning the skills and arrived at the entrance of the Crystal Cave, they discovered that there was no way for them to descend to the bottom. If they jumped down directly, they would surely fall to their deaths.
Standing on the giant crystal bridge at the entrance, Lu Ming and Logan carefully looked around, trying to find a way down.
Benjamin and Bane, however, said, "No, no, there's no way down here! It'll be the same no matter how hard we look!"
“No! There must be a way down here! I believe my husband!” Ramanlas was completely different from the other two. She chose to believe Lu Ming and Logan’s idea that there must be a way down here.
After watching for a while, Lu Ming and Big Hat Logan exchanged a glance, then each took out fifty rainbow stones they had obtained from the library and threw them down to different locations below. Although most of them fell to the bottom of the valley, a small portion landed in mid-air with a thud and remained there!
Seeing this, Benjamin and Bane stared wide-eyed at the colorful stones suspended in mid-air. They couldn't believe their eyes; in their view, the stones should have fallen directly to the ground, not remained suspended in mid-air.
"As expected, an air bridge." Looking at the colorful stones that stopped falling in mid-air, Lu Ming smiled with an "I knew it" expression.
"What?" Benjamin was too shocked to hear what Lu Ming said.
"This is a special air bridge, formed by solidifying air with magic. Because it's solidified air, it's transparent and completely invisible." After explaining this to Benjamin and the others, Lu Ming went to the other end of the crystal bridge, tapped the suspended area with his Farron Greatsword, and then stood on the suspended area, walking step by step to below Ramanlas and the others, looking up at them.
Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but swallow hard.
Judging from Lu Ming's actions of repeatedly tapping the air bridge with his greatsword to check the path ahead as he approached, this air bridge was extremely dangerous. One wrong step and he could fall and be sent back to the campfire!
But there was no way around it; the primordial crystal was down there, and Logan wanted to study its energy. Benjamin, as a friend, couldn't abandon Lu Ming and the others either. So, with no other option, everyone except Ramanlas, who had already boldly followed her husband, took a few deep breaths, knelt on the ground, and crawled across the air bridge.
Seeing this, Lu Ming didn't know what to say. After all, even he and Ramanlas were somewhat terrified; their feet were completely on empty ground, offering no psychological comfort whatsoever. Being afraid of heights is human nature, let alone the likes of Benjamin, who lost their memories after death.
The problem is that the air bridge isn't the real challenge; the real challenge lies with the crystal monsters stuck on the way down.
They stood one by one on the platforms connecting the crystal bridges or cave walls to the air bridges, waiting for Lu Ming and his group to arrive so they could punch them off and kill them. It could be said that the existence of these hard and powerful crystal monsters was a form of indescribable malice, especially given their location in such a dangerous position.
There was no other way, so Lu Ming could only eliminate these things remotely to prevent them from causing trouble for his group.
However, these crystalline monsters are immune to soul magic, miracles, and spells, and are also immune to poison and bleeding, which makes them quite troublesome.
Left with no other option, Lu Ming could only pin his hopes on the wave missile given to him by the Onion Knight girl.
Hanging the dagger on his belt, Lu Ming focused his energy on a single point with his free hand. A suction force quickly drew the surrounding air to that point, and the intense friction between the air particles generated energy. This energy grew stronger and stronger in Lu Ming's hand, eventually condensing into a bright blue energy ball.
"Aura Missile!!" With a loud shout, Lu Ming launched the energy ball, which flew heavily towards the crystal monster closest to them!
Because of that loud roar, the crystal monster noticed Lu Ming and ran over, narrowly missing the wave missile.
Seeing this, Benjamin and the others couldn't help but feel a little resentful towards Lu Ming. If he hadn't shouted, they wouldn't have had to fight that crystal monster on the narrow air bridge.
However, at that moment, the Aura Missile, which had just brushed past the Crystal Monster, suddenly changed direction, circled the Crystal Monster halfway around, and came to the other side of the Crystal Monster, blasting it directly off the air bridge. The Crystal Monster fell directly into the deepest part of the Crystal Cave and died.
"The power of the wave missile lies not in its destructive force, but in its tracking ability!" Turning back, Lu Ming glanced arrogantly at those who were secretly blaming him and said with a smile.
Immediately, everyone else blushed. Even Ramanlas was no exception.
In that instant, those who didn't understand the Aura Missile skill never imagined that Lu Ming's shout was intentional. Judging from the Aura Missile's effectiveness, if the Crystal Monster wasn't lured over, simply using the Aura Missile wouldn't kill it. But this way, it could be instantly killed by the fall. It's fair to say that Lu Ming's attack was deliberate.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have doubted you." Blushing, Ramanlas apologized to Lu Ming.
Lu Ming smiled and kissed Ramanlas on the cheek, saying, "Silly woman."
Benjamin, who had been forced to eat a mouthful of dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection), was immediately annoyed and said to Lu Ming angrily, "Hurry up and get off, I don't want to stay on this damn air bridge any longer!"
Logan and Bane echoed his sentiments.
Seeing this, Lu Ming could only smile helplessly and led them all the way to the bottom of the crystal cave.
The moment they stepped onto real earth, Benjamin and the other two immortals breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had been brought back to life.
This left Lu Ming speechless. They were clearly immortal, yet they lacked the courage of him and Ramanlas, who had absolutely no resurrection abilities. It was truly astounding.
However, reaching the bottom of the crystal cave does not mean you are safe.
Not far from Lu Ming and his group, there was a large group of giant terrestrial river clams. These creatures were much larger than a person, and they even had three legs growing from their shells. Anyone could tell at a glance that these clams were no good.
Taking out his Bow of Hope and poisoned arrows, Lu Ming drew his bow and said to the others, "These guys are not easy to deal with. Let's prepare to kill them with ranged attacks!"
"Understood." Upon hearing Lu Ming's words, Benjamin naturally took out the Dragon Hunter Greatbow, preparing to use the Dragon Hunter Thunder Arrow to teach those giant river clams a lesson.
After Ramanlas, Logan, and Bane took out their weapons, Lu Ming and Benjamin shot their arrows!
Their precise archery skills allowed their arrows to penetrate the clam's interior through the gap in the shell the instant the clam opened its shell to breathe.
The one shot by Benjamin was killed the instant it was struck by the Dragon Hunter's Thunder Arrow. The one shot by Lu Ming, however, was poisoned by the deadly venom on the arrow as it ran towards them.
Because it had been poisoned on its way here, the clam collapsed to the ground, and something resembling a pearl rolled out of it. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a whole bunch of skulls!
One of them even rolled over to Ramanlas's side.
Although Lu Ming intercepted the skull, it still startled Ramanlas.
Seeing that Ramanlas was frightened, Lu Ming decided not to use the poison arrows again, lest such a thing happen again.
However, since he didn't have a dragon-slaying bow to fire dragon-slaying arrows, he had to resort to magic or miracles to deal with these giant clams. Lu Ming chose a miracle.
Because those river mussels, no matter how you look at them, seem afraid of lightning.
Shaking the sacred bell, Lu Ming hurled one giant lightning spear after another at the giant river clams, crushing them one by one.
Unlike other monsters and spirits, these giant river clams don't carry any equipment, nor do they turn into soul bubbles and drop anything like crystal monsters. Therefore, the only way to get loot from them is to rummage through the pile of skulls inside their shells.
However, the clams that had been poisoned and fallen, spilling the skulls from their shells, also dropped several Radiant Wedge Stones, which could be used to enhance the Irithyll Straight Sword. So, after killing all the clams, I began using the Farron Greatsword to retrieve the Radiant Wedge Stones from their shells.
Benjamin and his companions, however, showed little interest in these wedge-shaped stones. Only Bane secretly collected a dozen or so, just in case.
Chapter 93 - BOSS: White Dragon Heath
After passing through the white mist gate, Lu Ming and the others immediately saw the primordial crystal at the deepest part of the cave.
Having seen what he wanted, Logan, a magician comparable to a mad scientist, could no longer resist and immediately took Bane and ran towards the Primal Crystal. Lu Ming and the other two followed closely behind.
When the five of them arrived at the center of the cave, a dragon's roar suddenly echoed throughout the cave.
Looking back, they saw a huge, scaleless white dragon with its lower body already crystallized fly in and land heavily in the cave, letting out a deafening roar at Lu Ming and the others.
Upon seeing this, Lu Ming immediately took charge of the group and threw the Blue Flame Sword to Big Hat Logan.
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