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Chapter 44 Hidden enemy
Undead, characterised by their lack of vital signs and deathly aura, they can be categorized as part of The Tian's top ten most annoying enemies to face
And this was mostly due to their special privilege as undead
Since they are already dead, their stamina can be said to be almost unlimited in battle as they won't stop attacking till they completely destroyed
And to destroy an undead, the only way to do that is to extinguish the soul fire within their skeletal bodies making it useless no matter how many bones you crush
After all, if you just break them up and leave them be they'll automatically rejoin thanks to the soul fire burning within them
"However, why are the undead here? Shouldn't they be something on the tenth floor above?"
"And why are they moving now? Could it be that they waited for me to come to the village center before acting?"
"If they did, this means not only has the difficulty of this level been spiked by adding these skeleton soldiers, but for them to be so co-ordinated they have to be controlled by a higher order undead"
"Something once again should be impossible at this stage!"
Frowning his eyebrows slightly, Ye Tian quickly went into a fighting pose as he realized something was wrong
This time, rather than being targeted, Ye Tian felt like someone was after him
And whoever it was, was not only powerful enough to tamper with the tower rules but based on the level of difficulty had no plans of letting him go back alive
Realising this, Ye Tian couldn't help but curse silently in his mind
*Damn! Could it be that my act just then actually angered the tower?*
*But it shouldn't be, the tower should be that stingy to hold a grudge against some first-floor noob*
*Arghhh damn, this didn't happen in my past life so what should I do?*
*If I act any more than this, I might end up making whoever is out to get me more angry this lead to more changes, but if I don't I might actually end up dying here*
However, what was unfortunate was that the current two options that Ye Tian had on how to deal with the current situation each had a bad repercussion or side effect
On one hand, he could once again display overwhelming might and gain the attention of more viewers and gods, and even those beings hidden in the tower
Wracking his brains, Ye Tian tried to think of a plan before the undead and fully gained their stance and began their attack, thankfully these undead goblins were the lowest-ranking type of undead with a relatively slow speed However, what was unfortunate was that the current two options that Ye Tian had on how to deal with the current situation each had a bad repercussion or side effect
On one hand, he could once again display overwhelming might and gain the attention of more viewers and gods, and even those beings hidden in the tower
But doing so would undoubtedly anger whoever it was that wanted him dead and changed the trials difficulty, and while Ye Tian was not afraid of making enemies No one wanted to have an unknown opponent staring at their back at every moment Unfortunately, if he didn't do this and decided to continue to hide his powers not only could he get injured, and might die if care isn't taken
But Ye Tian would undoubtedly lose his goal of clearing the stage with the highest possible marks making his first look trip a failure in his books
"Sigh… Damn it I don't care anymore! How can I who lived to the peak of the universe be afraid of some person that hides his head and shows his tail within the tower"
"Let him come, when he does I don't mind showing him what it means to have instant regret!"
Snorting coldly, after taking a deep breath Ye Tian seemed to have made a decision and that was none other than to fight!
Why hold back? For one thing if the person who was out to get him actually wanted to harm him then why didn't he do it himself?
This can only mean that there are restrictions! Restrictions that make it impossible to act himself only making such small moves in hopes of eliminating him
"However, to defeat me something like this will never be enough!"
"Stone skin!"
*Boom!*
Once again summoning his stone skin, Ye Tian directly smashed a nearby skeleton skull breaking it to peace's
And unlike what most people might think, the skeleton soul flame is actually located in its skull not its chest or heart area so that ouch just now had directly extinguished it
Unfortunately compared to the amount of corpses currently surrounding him, Ye Tian knew that this was just a drop in the bucket
"Haha but even if you ask me this about is still too small compared to what I'm used to"
"Damn skeletons, I'll crush you and then whoever is controlling you!"
Diving into the skeleton horde, Ye Tian pretended to be in a battle frenzy as he launched one attack after the other onto the surrounding skeletons This was because he knew he had to lower the leader's guard if he wanted to find him, and what better way than to pretend to be a battle junkie tho to be honest Ye Tian always loved a good battle
However, now rather than enjoying the fight it was more about lowering the enemies guard
And given how great of an actor Ye Tian is, even some of the gods had begun to react to his current skills as while the smarter ones had seen through his plans nodding in appreciation.
[A god who loves war and killings laughs with happiness at the current battle]
[A god who loves war and killing requests for the trialist Ye Tian to become his apostle]
[A god with one eye squints at the god who loves war and killing telling him to back off]
[A goddess who who shoots her bow under the sun says don't mind those two idiots, and come be her apostle]
[A god who loves the light and to sing detests the undead and hopes the trialist Ye Tian can end this battle quicker]
[A god wh-]
Soon thanks to Ye Tians' impressive actions more and more gods began to pay attention to him with some even wanting to appoint them to no his apostle
However Ye Tian who had already expected this pretended not to see this and was currently checking his mission status while fighting off the surrounding undead
[Task 1: Discover the ruined village somewhere within this forest (completed)]
[Task 2: find the source of the destruction of the village (completed)]
[Defeat the main cause of the disaster that took place(in progress)]
[Note: The time given for these quests is 48 hours, failure to do so will result in death!]
Looking at it now, Ye Tian could be sure that the surrounding undead were the cause of the village being in this state
If anything, Ye Tian felt that the high ranking undead should have come here, killed everyone and used them to make the current undead army surrounding him
And since both the first and second tasks had been completed, now all he had to do was to find the h high ranking undead and to complete the whole trail with time to spare
"And that'll happen in just a moment as the mastermind is most likely to be here!"
*Boom!*
Smashing a small wooden hut beside him, Ye Tian unknowingly had wandered to a somewhat distant part of the village
Noting the fact that whoever it was, was using skeleton soldiers to attack him rather than striking himself Ye Tian felt that this high ranking undead most likely had a weak physical body and needed to hide while he controlled his army
So with this in mind, as he fought Ye Tian made his way through the part of the horde with the most dense amount of skeletons as they would most likely have been centred around him for protection Adding to the amount of undead aura in that Hutt that was much stronger than anywhere else in the village
Ye Tian was sure that he had reached the right place!
And sure enough he did, after he smashed down the hutt, a sudden change occurred causing both him and the surrounding undead to stop for a moment *Boom!*
Rising out of the pieces of rubble from the now destroyed hut, a human-sized skeleton with green gem-like eyes, a long wooden staff in one hand and a tattered robe draped around his body slowly ascended from the ground
And as it continued to rise, its aura seemed to expand at every moment causing the formerly clear skies to turn gloomy all of a sudden
"Damn human, how dare you destroy where I was!"
"At first I was going to take it easy on you and destroy you with my soldiers, but since you're looking for death I'll gladly give it to you!"
"Death ball!"
Pointing to the sky, a giant ball filled with death aura suddenly appeared not giving Ye Tian any chance to react
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