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Chapter 30 - Torches in a Room

When the party of Xiao Lou Ben, Xiao Kai Yang, and Xiao Su Sheng opened the door, they saw a grand opening.

The room was lit with torches surrounding the room, but the center was dark because the light didn't reach as the room was too large.

What made the eyes pop of the Xiao party was that there was a large and muscled undead waiting for them to enter the room. 

Lou Ben gasped: "Is this a floor boss?"

Su Sheng tilted his head in amazement: "Whatever it is, it is huge!"

Kai Yang nodded his head and blinked his eyes as if he was trying to fix his blurred vision: "We have to fight that?"

The large and muscled undead roared: "Gruh!"

Lou Ben was the first to act and raised his palms towards the large undead: "Space technique -  Gravity Wall!

Dust kicked off the ground and an unseen wall laid in front of the Xiao members.

The large and muscled undead picked up a boulder and threw it at them: "Gruh!"

The boulder flew towards Lou Ben, and it slowed down as it approached. 

Su Sheng wiped the sweat off his forehead: "Sheesh."

The boulder collapsed as it lost its momentum inside the unseen wall.

The large undead approached the Xiao party.

It wore torn clothing, had green and oozing skin, the teeth were sharp and its nails were long. 

The body of the undead was scarred and four times the size of a regular human.

Kai Yang yelled: "We have to do something!"

"Lou Ben keep up the wall and Su Sheng and I will attack it's legs!"

Su Sheng and Kai Yang yelled: "Space technique - Gravity Hands!"

They aimed their hands at the knees of the large and green oozing undead.

*Crack

The undead wobbled but kept walking towards the party.

At this time an unseen force pushed the party towards the undead and closed the door.

"Not good!" The party yelled.

Lou Ben pointed his finger at the torch behind the large undead: "That torch went out!"

Kai Yang shook his head and cried: "What does it matter? We're stuck in this room with this monster!"

Lou Ben raised his hand into a knife and yelled: "Space technique - Gravity Knife!"

Just when the large undead was going to throw another boulder, an unseen force sliced the wrist holding the boulder.

"Gruhhh!"

The technique Lou Ben threw out didn't stop the undead from throwing the boulder but it caused the undead's aim to steer towards the wall aside them.

BANG

Kai Yang yelled: "Look, another torch went out!"

Su Sheng yelled back: "I'll keep up defenses, both of you guys keep hurling Gravity Knives!"

"Space technique - Reinforced Gravity Wall!"

This technique was like the first but instead of being a one and done wall, Su Sheng has to keep his hands raised and maintain focus.

"Space technique - Gravity Knife!"

Hands made a knife and were thrown towards the undead.

The damage was minimal and seemed to only cut an inch inside the large undead.

"Gruh!"

The large undead stomped and walked towards the party in a rushed manner.

BOOM

BOOM

BOOM

The undead's steps were heavy and caused the party to stumble.

Lou Ben yelled again: "Look, the torches went out!"

Kai Yang replied: "But what does it mean?"

Lou Ben looked at the undead and the torches behind him. Originally there was twenty torches around the large room, but so far five torches have gone out.

He was thinking that it had some sort of connection with the health of the undead, but when he saw the amount of torches and minimal damage that they were causing he crossed that off.

Lou Ben looked up and yelled: "Wait, I got it!"

"Split up before he reaches us!"

When he yelled that, it was too late the large undead started raising its fist and threw it towards the party.

BANG

BANG

BANG

BANG

Four fists hit the wall that Su Sheng was maintaining. He was putting his entire focus into this wall, that he was unable to hear Lou Ben tell them to split up.

Su Sheng was drenched in sweat.

Kai Yang ran to the right as the undead stopped his attacks.

Lou Ben ran to the left and went far: "We have to tire him out!"

"Look, every attack causes the torches to burn out!"

There was only eleven torches lit, a stark contrast to what the party saw.

The large undead looked around and yelled: "Gruhhh!"

it knelt down and raised itself back up before grabbing a boulder and throwing it at Kai Yang.

"Kai Yang!" Lou Ben yelled.

BOOM

Dust covered Kai Yang.

"No!" Lou Ben yelled. 

"Space technique - Gravity Hands!"

Lou Ben raised both hands and aimed it at the head of the large undead. 

"Gruh!"

*Crack

The large undead shook his head and Lou Ben knelt down as he wiped the sweat from his forehead. 

"Kai Yang are you okay?" Lou Ben Yelled. 

At this time Su Sheng fainted from overworking, having maintained his wall to defend against the large undead's attacks that took all the energy from him.

*Plop

Su Sheng landed face first into the floor. 

"Shit it's only me!" Lou Ben yelled and looked around at the torches. 

There were only ten torches left. 

It took ten torches for Su Sheng and Kai Yang to fall, what about Lou Ben?

"I just need to tire him out and wait to come up with a plan!"

He looked again at the torches, he thought that every attack of the undead would cause a torch to go out but he saw that the following torch was getting dim.

"Wait!"

"Space technique - Extra Gravity Force!"

This was the last technique that Steward Wen Guoliang shared. It created a force that can be maintained. The party hasn't use this because it takes too much energy and can only be maintained for ten seconds before exhausting the user.

Lou Ben raised his hands and made the motion as to try to squeeze the large undead's head.

"Gruh!" The undead yelled.

The pressure was on, either Lou Ben can maintain the technique and cause the torches to go out, or he made the wrong move and will not live to see the next day!