After the rebellion broke out, Allen took Arcadia and escaped from the camp overnight and hid in the dense forest overnight.
Until the mercenaries sent by Hesse to hunt them retreated.
At dawn, the mercenary team left the camp, forcing Dr. Morgan to lead the way to find the tomb of the ancient Naga.
Five days later.
Allen and Arcadia followed the mercenary team into a grand canyon submerged in the jungle.
The Naga Ancestral Tomb is dug into the heart of the mountain at the deepest part of the canyon, spiraling downward.
The cross-section of the tomb passage looks like a coiled snake.
Pale skeletons can be seen everywhere along the way.
There are humans, birds and beasts, all the remains of those who were buried.
The evil spirit Naga regards human sacrifice as a spectacle to show off the wealth and power of the tomb owner.
Arcadia was quite critical of this.
In the era in which she lived, human sacrifice was generally considered an inhumane act and was almost extinct in the civilized world.
Allen was not surprised.
In today's world of warlocks, there is a widespread phenomenon of human sacrifice.
When the master sorcerer of a large family died, it was common for a group of low-blooded slaves to be buried alive.
You are your master while you are alive, and you will be your master after your death.
You are born a slave, and when you die you have to go to the underworld to be a slave.
——The vast majority of warlocks think so.
Allen and Arcadia meet in the world of meditation.
In fact, the era in which Allen lived was more than a thousand years later than Arcadia.
With the development of the times, the civilization and moral level of the warlock world, instead of progressing, have greatly degraded!
The aristocratic caste system where blood is supreme is so barbaric and cruel.
…
Continue walking along the serpentine tomb passage, and you can faintly hear the sound of fighting ahead.
Allen and Arcadia detected danger signals at the same time.
What Allen detected was a strong toxin reaction.
What Arcadia detected was the aura of the dead.
Her 0-ring magic "Detect Undead" is similar to Allen's "Detect Virus". When turned on, it can sense negative energy fluctuations within 30 meters around it.
Negative energy is the pure magic of death.
Areas rich in negative energy are usually haunted by the undead.
Allen and Arcadia looked at each other, both of them wary.
Rich negative energy and level 3 snake venom are concentrated on one target at the same time.
This is interesting...
With nervousness and curiosity, the two of them walked lightly and searched forward.
In the dark tomb, two mercenaries were fighting hard.
The mercenary's opponents were their former comrades, who have now become zombies.
Four zombies surrounded two injured mercenaries.
When Allen and Arcadia arrived, the battle was over.
Two mercenaries lay in a pool of blood.
One of them had been chewed by zombies until his bones were exposed.
"How disgusting!"
Arcadia gritted her teeth and swung her sword to throw out a silver light.
The sword energy flashed!
A zombie was cut in half on the spot.
The upper body is still crawling, dragging its intestines.
"The wounded soldier over there is still alive, please treat him."
Allen warned Arcadia and jumped into the tomb.
In leopard-man form, Allen's running speed is almost doubled.
The slow zombie had no time to react and was knocked down by the fists and feet infused with "bone-penetrating explosion".
"Aman!"
Arcadia chants the incantation symbolizing "protection".
He raised his hand and pointed. The wounded soldier sitting against the wall was wrapped in a golden light shield.
Under the protection of the level 1 "Sacred Area", as long as he doesn't take the initiative, he will usually not be attacked by monsters.
Undead creatures, in particular, are particularly afraid of the sacred aura emitted by the "Sanctuary Technique" and avoid them as much as possible.
After neatly eliminating four zombies, Allen came to the dying wounded soldier.
Ask what happened in the tomb and why his companions turned into zombies.
The wounded soldier said a few words intermittently and then died.
Arcadia has blessed him with "healing skills".
Unfortunately, his internal organs were severely damaged and could not be saved.
"Mother Naga's curse..." Allen sighed, "It finally came true."
Before his death, the wounded soldier revealed that they followed Captain Hesse and Dr. Morgan into the underground tomb.
The doctor has repeatedly warned Hesse not to break the magic seal on the tomb door.
However, the greedy mercenary captain ignored the warning and broke in anyway.
Not long after, the mercenary team was attacked by undead creatures.
After the death of the spirit naga, the skeleton naga transformed into is even more terrifying than in life!
The most powerful of all undead monsters was transformed from the Naga Matron.
This crazy temptress turned herself and her cronies into undead. In this way, she realized her ambition of "immortality".
After an encounter, the mercenary team was defeated and scattered.
The wounded soldier and his teammates planned to escape from the Naga Ancestral Tomb along the same route.
However, the teammates who died in the previous battle were resurrected by Mistress Naga's spell, turned into zombies, and hunted them down.
The two of them were fighting and running, but eventually they were seriously injured and fell here.
"It seems that the trouble is bigger than we imagined." Arcadia said with an ugly face, "Apart from the Hessian party, the skeleton naga will not be polite to us."
Her concerns soon became reality.
Tsk...
Tsk...
Across the tomb, there was a harsh scraping sound.
A jagged snake body squirmed through the tomb passage and blocked the exit of the tomb chamber.
Skeleton Naga, with long withered hair hanging loose.
He slowly raised his head, revealing a skull face!
Deep in the eye sockets, two pale balls of soul fire flickered.
Stare at outsiders fiercely.
"Evil spirit! May you rest in peace!"
Arcadia prayed tremblingly, as if to embolden herself.
His hand was unambiguous, and he drew his sword and threw out a cold light!
Clang!
The sword energy was like a silver moon, cutting through the air and striking the skeleton Naga, only cutting off a piece of bone.
Arcadia frowned, realizing that the sword energy was not very effective against such a skeleton.
He quickly sheathed his sword and retreated, chanting the incantation at the same time.
"Rúnya!"
A golden pillar of fire fell from the sky.
Hit the skeleton Naga on the head, interrupting her flying action.
"Holy Fire" has both fire and light attributes, the latter can cause double damage to the undead.
Unfortunately, this is just a 0-level magic.
The level is too low, even if the power is doubled, it is far from enough to kill the skeleton naga instantly.
At the same time, the skeletal Naga was also shaking the skull, using a strange hissing airflow instead of chanting the incantation.
His eyes widened, and the eye sockets burst out with cyan light.
Arcadia's body trembled and became stiff!
A strong sense of numbness invades the whole body, making it impossible to move a finger!
Hound pace!
Allen's figure flashed and stood in front of Arcadia.
Bang!
The skeletal Naga was kicked back by him, rolling and falling into the tomb passage, scattering broken bones along the way.
With Allen's physical attributes, he injected a "bone-penetrating explosion" kick and kicked it down firmly...
A one meter thick concrete pillar had to be kicked off on the spot!
The skeletal body of the Skeleton Naga has a very good defensive effect against sharp weapons such as swords.
Punches and kicks are blunt blows, but they can easily break her defense.
Allen did not pursue the skeletal Naga who fell back into the tomb passage, because there was also the rustling sound of bones rubbing against the stone wall behind him!
Another skeletal Naga crawled in from the entrance to the tomb, stared at Allen, and sprayed ice blue rays from its eye sockets.
"Steel and iron bones" protect the body, and Allen can bear the "freeze ray" without changing his expression.
However, after being blocked in an instant, the skeleton naga had already entangled Arcadia.
The skeleton grinned, its gums overflowed with poison, and bit hard at the girl's snow-white and tender neck!
Allen decisively bowed to the ground and transformed into a black panther.
With a thud, he swooped forward!
The most obvious difference between the three forms of Leopard Man is speed.
Human form, no speed bonus.
In leopard form, the speed is twice as fast as that of human form.
Black Panther form, the most exaggerated, almost triples the speed!
Leopard speed!
Hound pace!
The two superimposed, so fast that even Allen himself could hardly control it!
Like a bolt of black lightning, it hit the skeletal Naga directly.
Bang!
Skeleton Naga was knocked so hard that broken bones flew everywhere!
When he came back to his senses, he found that the girl in his arms had escaped and was replaced by a black panther.
The skull naga's brain had long since dried up and its intelligence had deteriorated. He was too lazy to think too much and bit the black panther's neck fiercely.
He took a big sip and didn't have time to inject the toxin...
The gums in his mouth were shattered into bone fragments.
The fourth-level body-refining secret method "Iron Bone" is so overbearing!
At the same time, Arcadia finally got rid of the "body-holding technique".
He didn't even bother to draw his sword, so he just slapped the skeletal Naga on the spine with his bare hands!
There is a soft halo on the finger, which is a level 1 "Healing Technique"!
"Healing" uses positive energy, which is the magic of life, and is diametrically opposed to the negative energy that creates the undead!
This spell used to heal living people can also be used to kill casualties.
Skeleton Naga's thick spine cracked inch by inch under the caress of the girl's delicate hands that contained positive energy.
With a click, it broke at the waist.
Allen stood up and transformed back into the leopard man form.
Aim at the skull of the skeletal Naga and step on it hard!
puff!
The skull was shattered into pieces.
After destroying a skeleton naga, the crisis is not over yet.
From front to back and left to right, there was a scalp-numbing rustling sound in the tomb passage.
The sound of fighting in the tomb is attracting more skeletal naga.
Being stuck in a small tomb with so many skeletal naga is no joke!
Allen picked up Arcadia and flew into the tomb passage ahead.
The skeletal Naga, who was kicked by him before, stood on the opposite side, shaking his head and tail, and casting a spell.
Allen ran at full speed.
"Get away!"
Before she could finish casting the spell, she took off with a flying kick.
Bang!
Scored twice.
Skeleton Naga was kicked away again.
This time my head was kicked and I couldn't get up at all.
Arcadia was held in Allen's arms and was not idle. She quickly made spell-casting gestures and chanted spells.
A dark and cold magical barrier was created, wrapping the two of them.
The skeletal Nagas around them watched helplessly as Allen flew past him, but did not pursue him.
It was as if he and Arcadia didn't exist at all.
Allen ran at full speed and soon left the group of skeletal naga behind.
When they arrived at a secluded tomb, they confirmed that there were no undead souls around. Then they breathed a sigh of relief and let go of the girl in his arms.
"What spell did you use just now?" Allen asked Arcadia, "It actually made the undead turn a blind eye to us."
"In fact, this is called the 'Ignore the Undead Technique'."
Arcadia explained in a low voice.
"This level 1 magic can strengthen the concentration of negative energy around us and shield the breath of life."
"Undead creatures rely entirely on detecting the breath of life to find enemies, so they will be deceived by this spell and regard us as the same kind of undead."
"Of course, this kind of fraud is not always effective."
"If we take the initiative to attack the undead, or the other party's mental power is higher than mine, the secret will still be exposed."
Allen nodded and asked her: "Why didn't you use such a useful spell earlier to save yourself trouble?"
"Uh..." Arcadia scratched her head and smiled, "I was scared to death before, but I just remembered that there is this trick."
Snapped!
Allen hit Miss Angel on the head and her brain collapsed.
"Can't you put more useful things in your little head?"
Arcadia rubbed her forehead and pouted, her eyes full of grievance.
"Actually... my dear, I usually only think about you!"
The corner of Allen's mouth twitched.
"……forget it."
…
In the tomb, a skeletal naga is lying in a coiled position.
Around her, there were three zombies standing dumbly, all dressed as mercenaries, with blood stains still on their bodies.
As soon as Allen and Arcadia walked in, they heard the skeletal naga hissing and roaring. They thought they had been discovered and quickly prepared to fight.
Fortunately, the "Ignore the Undead" is still in effect.
Skeleton Naga glanced at the two of them, her eyes unwavering, as if they were just a ball of air.
He looked away indifferently, turned around and climbed into the tomb passage.
Three mercenary zombies were holding swords and walking slowly.
Following the skeleton Naga, they entered the tomb passage one after another.
Allen winked at Arcadia.
The two followed the zombies through empty stone tombs one after another.
Along the way, you often see blood stains and discarded swords, but no corpses.
It is conceivable that the corpses have been transformed into zombies by Mistress Naga using necromancy magic.
At the end of the tomb passage, there is a surprisingly large dome.
From the floor to the vaulted ceiling, the height exceeds 20 meters, making it look like a cathedral built underground.
This is the sacrificial hall of the Naga Ancestral Tomb, a place specially used for human sacrifices.
The altar in the center of the hall is impressively made of gold!
Even if it is said to be a golden mountain, it is not an exaggeration!
A drainage ditch was dug around the golden altar.
In ancient times, Nagas killed people and sacrificed people on the altar. This circle of drainage ditch was specially used to conduct blood.
Dr. Morgan was lying unconscious in a dry ditch with his back against the altar. His body was stained with blood and his glasses were broken.
Opposite the golden altar, fierce fighting sounds were heard.
It was obscured by the altar, so you couldn't see clearly who was fighting whom.
"Dear! You are fast and try to divert the skeletal naga away!" Arcadia whispered in Allen's ear, "I turned into an angel and flew directly over the zombies to rescue the doctor!"
"My dad seems to have been poisoned by snake venom..." Allen was able to detect Naga's unique poisonous breath from the doctor.
"Don't worry, I have the antidote spell!"
Allen nodded, leaned over and turned into a black panther.
Under the cover of the shadow on the wall, approach the Skeleton Naga and want to do a backstab first.
Before he could move, Skeleton Naga moved first.
Swinging its snake body, it hurriedly walked around the altar and crawled straight to where the sound of fighting came from.
He seemed to be rushing to support his companions.
The three zombies also moved forward with the hostess.
Since they withdrew on their own initiative, there was no need for Allen to alert them.
Follow this undead squad and see what happens next.
Meanwhile, progress in Arcadia was going smoothly.
Transform into an angel form, pick up the unconscious Dr. Morgan, fly to the towering altar, and cast a spell to detoxify the doctor.
The doctor has not yet woken up, but the black air on his face is dissipating, and his life is safe.
Opposite the altar, corpses were strewn on the ground, and blood was everywhere.
The two sides facing each other were the Hessian mercenaries and the Naga tribe.
Two skeletal Nagas led a large group of zombies and besieged Captain Hesse and his men.
The mercenaries fell into a pool of blood one after another, and in the end Hessen was the only one left, trapped in a siege.
The edge of the giant sword in his hand cracked like saw teeth.
Bang!
Heisen dropped the broken giant sword with a gloomy expression.
"I can't help it, you forced me to use this trick!"
Before he finished speaking, his body began to expand.
The chainmail was directly burst, and the falling steel rings were flying everywhere!
In the blink of an eye, Heisen transformed from a human into a ferocious beast.
It is seven meters long from head to tail and three meters high!
The whole body is covered with a thick layer of steel blue scales.
Along the vertebrae, there are raised fin-like bony plates.
The huge triangular head was wrapped in scales, revealing a wide mouth and a pair of narrow eyes.
Bloodshot and ferocious eyes!
This monster looks like a jungle lizard with a shark head!
This is Heisen’s third-level atavistic form—the Shark Lizard Beast!
The returning Heisen suddenly jumped up and smashed into the skeletal Naga.
The snake demon raised its head, hissed and screamed, trying to use its fangs to deal with the giant beast falling from the sky.
With a bang, the giant beast fell!
The four thick lower limbs trampled the skeletal Naga hard, crushing it to pieces in an instant!
The surrounding zombies were also overturned by the shock waves surging on the ground.
Before the slow zombie had time to get up, the shark-lizard beast trampled over him and turned him into a meat pie.
Hiss——
The skeletal naga in front of Allen hurriedly cast spells to support him.
A broken tooth in the mouth, merged with magic power, and sprayed out!
It turned into a pale bone spear and shot towards the returning Heisen.
Clang!
The sharp bone spear hit the body protected by the thick scales of the shark lizard and broke immediately.
Allen saw it in his eyes and was secretly frightened!
This monster has such thick armor!
Returning to his ancestor Hessen, he didn't bother to pay attention to these insignificant attacks, and rushed directly towards another skeletal Naga who was using the "body-holding technique".
The green light radiating from the opponent's eyes is useless when it hits him!
This second-level magic that once paralyzed Arcadia is called "Human Immobilization".
As the name suggests, it only works on humanoid creatures.
Heisen has returned to his ancestors and has become a magical beast.
How could he be tricked if he was no longer in human form?
The Skeleton Naga, who failed to cast the spell, could only watch helplessly as the giant beast wearing heavy armor rushed over.
Eyes full of despair.
The next second, she was smashed head-on by the Shark-Lizard Beast!
In the hall, there is only the last skeleton naga left.
Even the undead with dried up brains still have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
Skeleton Naga knew very well that he was no match for the atavistic Hessen, so he turned around and tried to run away.
Unfortunately, the direction in which the snake demon escaped was facing Allen's hiding place!