Xiao Yu was running as fast as he could as a group of skeleton soldiers followed behind him. Fortunately, these skeletons couldn't run very fast. Xiao Yu could easily distance himself from his pursuers.
He drew the skeleton soldiers to an open area and then hid behind a stone post.
Hiding skill!
Xiao Yu made use of the hiding skill to disappear from sight, and then he walked toward these skeleton soldiers.
The skeleton soldiers lost their target and searched around for Xiao Yu. At the same time, Xiao Yu moved unseen among the skeleton soldiers, calmly moving toward his destination.
"Done." Xiao Yu passed through all of these skeleton soldiers and started racing forward because the time for hiding skill was over.
The skeleton soldiers suddenly found that their target had appeared behind them. They turned around and chased after Xiao Yu. However, they couldn't run very fast, so Xiao Yu distanced himself more and more from them and disappeared at the end of the tunnel.
He rotated the dagger in his hand with a faint smile and continued dashing forward.
He went around the traps set up on the ground. The further he went into the tunnel, the darker it became. The laughter of the skeleton soldiers echoed in the long and gloomy tunnel.
"Thieves are the only ones that come to this horrible place," thought Xiao Yu. Judging by the frequency of the hidden traps and number of the monsters in the tunnel, a midsized team of 20 players at level 7 might not be able to come here. They might end up like porcupines or be killed by those skeleton soldiers.
But thieves could often go to places where nobody else could.
He passed by more than 10 skeleton soldiers wearing silver armor by using the stealth travel skill and arrived in a large and magnificent underground palace.
The perimeter of the underground palace was at least several thousand meters, with the stone poles being at least 20 meters high.
"I didn't expect to see such a magnificent underground palace in the ancient tomb." Xiao Yu looked around and found a slightly run-down red carpet leading all the way to the deepest part of the underground palace.
Xiao Yu walked forward along the red carpet. He could see a royal seat at the end of the underground palace in the distance. The high chair at the end seemed to look down the grand hall.
A metallic sound suddenly rang out behind one of the stone poles. Xiao Yu was startled and wondered if it was a monster of some sort.
It was then that a skeleton soldier in golden armor came out from behind a stone pole. The soldier was covered in golden armor from head to toe, and it held a long golden-colored sickle in his hand that looked strong and mighty. This skeleton soldier appeared to be much nobler and at a much higher level than the skeleton soldiers he met earlier.
The gloomy and greenish glow in the eyes of the skeleton soldier locked onto Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu knew that he was not a match for this skeleton soldier in the golden armor, even though he didn't know its true strength yet. He guessed that this skeleton soldier was a level-10 special monster, at least.
A barrage of metallic sounds rang out from all directions of the palace as innumerable skeleton soldiers in golden armor came out from behind the stone poles, at least thousands of them, and encircled Xiao Yu.
These skeleton soldiers seemed to come out of nowhere. Xiao Yu had no time to respond before he was surrounded by them. He felt overwhelmed.
Looking around at the many skeleton soldiers in golden armor, Xiao Yu let out a bitter smile, thinking that even God couldn't save him this time.
"I'm dead. I have no way to escape this time." But he grew curious as he looked at the golden-armor wearing skeleton soldiers standing in orderly lines. They seemed to have gone through some kind of military training, obeying orders like real military soldiers, and none of them had charged at Xiao Yu.
The skeleton soldiers standing by the red carpet looked like stone statues, lining up in an orderly fashion on both sides. Looking at the end of the red carpet, Xiao Yu could see a golden glow in front of him and a high-rise royal seat up ahead. It was a rather shocking and impressive scene as if this were a place where the ancient emperor gave an audience to his visitors.
Xiao Yu was baffled after finding out that these skeleton soldiers had no intention of attacking him. Of course, he was not foolish enough to attack these skeleton soldiers either.
"What is going on?" Xiao Yu stood on the red carpet silently.
Strong spirit energy filled the grand hall, with which Xiao Yu felt quite familiar.
"This should be from that spirit wizard," thought Xiao Yu. As he looked up ahead, he saw a spirit wizard in a black magic robe with a hunched back walk slowly up the steps and then sit in the royal seat.
"Young man, come here," said the spirit wizard. His voice was a bit hoarse and evidently aged.
The voice of the spirit wizard was not loud, but Xiao Yu, who was about 50 meters away from the royal seat, could hear him clearly. He could hear every word he said.
Xiao Yu obeyed him and came before the royal seat. He lifted up his head to look at the spirit wizard and found that the black magic robe concealed his face so Xiao Yu couldn't see his appearance.
"I haven't seen a member of my tribe for several hundred years. You're the first one to come here in a few hundred years," the spirit wizard said sluggishly while coughing a few times.
It was unknown how many years this weird spirit wizard had lived. Xiao Yu bowed and said to him, "I'm here to deliver a letter to you."
"A letter?" The spirit wizard felt surprised, saying, "Give me the letter then."
"Oh, here it is." Xiao Yu swept his gaze over the hands of the spirit wizard that were holding onto the arms of the chair. These were a pair of white skeletons rather than hands. It was said that powerful spirit wizards could transform themselves into skeletons to become more powerful wizard demons and gain immortality. Did this guy become a wizard demon?
A skeleton soldier came before Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu handed the strange letter to the skeleton soldier, who took the letter and walked to the royal seat. It handed the letter to the spirit wizard.
After seeing the letter, the spirit wizard let out a burst of strange laughter. "It turns out to be a letter sent by one of my old friends," remarked the spirit wizard seemingly delightedly.
System: completion of delivering the letter to the spirit wizard.
Xiao Yu took a look at the system notification and found that the task was completed successfully. Though he had encountered some unexpected incidents, the process of completing the task could be considered an endeavor without any significant hitches.
"Young man, you've sent me the regards of my old friend. I'll give you a gift to show my appreciation," said the spirit wizard.
Xiao Yu's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, wondering what level this spirit wizard was at. Judging from the skeleton soldiers in golden armor obeying his order, he had to be someone at a very high level. What kind of a reward would the spirit wizard give him then?
"Before I give you the gift, are you interested in listening to a story of mine? I haven't seen a member of my tribe for a long time," said the spirit wizard sentimentally.
Xiao Yu asked with a reverential expression on his face, "What story is it?"
Seeing the expression on his face, the spirit wizard nodded satisfactorily. As the spirit wizard gazed into the distance, a beam of sunlight shone down from a window up above.
"This is a story that happened during the Erathia Empire era," said the spirit wizard nostalgically.