After discovering that this guy's lower body was actually a stone sculpture, Xue Hua roughly understood why there was such a necromancer here.
This guy is probably the last guardian of some secrets in this city, using an ancient and mysterious ritual to voluntarily link himself to the fate of this city.
When a city prospers, it also becomes powerful, and when a city declines, it will also decline with it.
However, even if the city is eventually destroyed, as long as the secret he protects has not been given up or revealed, then he will not die.
He will always exist, no matter what way.
His sole purpose of existence is to guard those secrets until the secrets he guards are given up or revealed.
This ritual is called "Sleep Guard" and is a high-level ritual used by ancient humans to guard the core secrets of the city.
It should have been declared a forbidden technique long ago because it has similarities with certain evil spells in hell and can easily be exploited by the devil in hell. It can only be found sporadically in some rare ancient books.
Xue Hua's knowledge of this thing was what Deckard Cain told him, but even that wise man did not fully understand this strange ritual.
However, one thing Xue Hua is certain of is that while the Deep Sleep Guard is still alive, no one can get the things or secrets it guards.
So, if Dopodok, the leader of the cat people, put the snake pattern and the thing he stole from the "Saint" into the secret guarded by the Deep Sleep Guard, then how did he do it?
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And if the leader of the cat people didn't put those two things under the protection of the Deep Sleep Guard, then where would he put those things?
Xue Hua frowned, and finally decided to take a two-pronged approach. He dispersed the king insects and asked them to carefully investigate the entire area. If they found anything wrong, report to him immediately.
And he himself led the insect swarm to continue attacking the central area.
The cooperation between poisonous banelings and Ultralisk works very well. The armor grown on the poisonous banelings helps them resist most damage, allowing them to rush deep into the enemy formation and explode themselves.
The scattered bone fragments further increased the area of their destruction, and each self-destruction of a poisonous baneling would clear an entire area into white ground.
The poisonous banelings are in front, followed by the thunder beasts. The eight-meter-long single-molecule giant blade is really no joke, especially when it is wielded by a giant beast more than twenty meters tall.
The large stone demons summoned by the walking dead necromancer earlier have now been reduced to construction debris all over the ground. The thunder beasts are at the forefront of the insect swarm, using their indomitable momentum to overturn the people rushing towards them.
Most monsters are not qualified to die under the slashing of the monomolecular giant blade. Basically, the thunder beast only needs to step through them to clear a path for the insect swarm behind.
On the other hand, the Destroyer and the Mutalisaurs were still continuing to harass each other's commanders by name. Although most of the attacks were blocked by that guy with his amazingly hard bone shield, there were even some Mutalisaurs who accidentally attacked them.
They were shot down by those walking corpse mages.
But under such intense harassment, the deep sleep guard really had no intention of continuing to cause trouble to Xue Hua.
The upgrade and evolution of the swarm has now reached level 10, and all swarm units have very high resistance to psychic effects.
Therefore, when the Sleeping Guards could no longer continue to apply the curse, the insect swarm's combat effectiveness quickly recovered.
The springtails and cockroaches became swift and fierce again, the bones of the exterminators regained their toughness, the destructive power of the hydralisks and lurkers became powerful again, and the psychic strength of the toadstools and the infected was completely restored.
The insect mothers neighed, and the mad feeding liquid was applied. The sprint stage has arrived!
In the face of the overwhelming offensive of the insect swarm, the resistance of the monsters and zombies seemed so powerless and weak. It took almost no time for their combat power to explode under the double blessing of the maddening feed and the fungus mist of the poisonous bugs.
The swarm of insects broke out of the encirclement of monsters and arrived at the only central square in the entire city that was not haunted by hell monsters.
The Necromancer Sleeping Guard is in the center of the square.
Isa gave two estimates of its psychic level, one at its peak of 9.2, and the other at its current level of 7.3.
Isa's explanation for this is that the spiritual energy reserves in this necromancer's body were at least legendary level at its peak. It was only because of the decline of the city and the erosion of time that its power was reduced to its current level.
But even though he had fallen from legend, the Deep Sleep Guard still showed Xue Hua the terror of a legendary powerhouse.
Facing the swarm of insects rushing towards it, this guy showed an almost abnormal combat power.
All of its skills seem to have been mutated, and the mutations are extremely exaggerated.
Among the bone and poison spells, the tooth skills it releases are as penetrating as sniper rifle bullets, and the bone spears are ten times more powerful than shoulder-fired rockets.
The power of the Corpse Explosion skill is equivalent to a salvo of ten human siege tanks, and the Soul of Bones is so destructive that it can even cause heavy damage to the Thunder Beast.
Fortunately, it has never used the poison explosion and poison gas nova skills, otherwise the casualties of the insect swarm would have been even greater.
The insect swarms surrounded it in the center and carried out rounds of siege. After paying the price of thousands of insect swarms dying, they finally exhausted this guy's mana.
Later, this guy finally fell under the powerful barrage fire of the saboteurs and hydralisks.
Xue Hua came out of the belly bag of the King Insect and looked at the corpses of Zerg units on the ground with some distress. Then he took out his staff and began to resurrect these dead units to the best of his ability.
His current mutation skill can only revive springtails, cockroaches (and their variants), and hydralisks (and their variants). Fortunately, these three units account for the largest proportion of units lost.
With the continuous supply of mana from the insect swarm's psychic units, Xue Hua successfully reduced the insect swarm's battle damage from about 4,000 to 1,248, of which more than 800 were just poisonous banelings, and the rest were some mutalisks and
Infected people and poisonous bugs were accidentally affected.
Not a single insect swarm host was lost. Their teleportation skills were so useful that they could often be successfully transferred to other places at critical moments.
After resurrecting most of the Zerg units, Xue Hua put away his staff and turned his attention to the broken body of the Sleeping Guard.
He walked over, took the bone staff in his hand and took a look, only to find that this thing was still displayed in the holy contract system.
"The polished spine - the weapon of the sleeping guards of the Snake Canyon, and also the key to the lowest level of the Clawed Viper Temple."
Seeing this information, Xue Hua couldn't help but feel shocked.
Snake Canyon is indeed here!
But after he was overjoyed, he soon became confused.
Snake Canyon sounds like a place name, but this place has been combed over by the King Insects, and no canyons have been seen?
Just as he frowned and observed the body of the Deep Sleep Guard, the gemstone in his inventory suddenly ran out of his inventory and drifted directly to the lower half of the Deep Sleep Guard's body - that strange rod.
On top of the stone pillar, a stream of colorful light shot out from the center of the decoration towards the stone pillar.
The stone pillar engraved with strange patterns seemed to be released, and it slowly retracted into the ground.
Immediately afterwards, streaks of light lit up on the ground beside Xue Hua, and a teleportation array that looked like a small station was activated under his feet.
"Holy shit?! Teleportation again?!"
Xue Hua only had time to scream strangely before disappearing from the teleportation array in an instant.