When Abel entered the cave, his instincts told him to raise the shield in his hands. A howl came out after that.
Clang.
The shield was being hit. Abel realized that he had made a mistake. He couldn't see anything in front of him, which meant that he couldn't see what kind of hell creature was attacking him.
When he was about to take out his night pearl, a fireball came from far back. For a moment there, it started to light up everything that was inside the cave.
Abel laid his eyes on it for the first time. It was a giant beast that was standing on its two legs. It was big and had brown hair all over its body. It was like an ape, which was accompanied by a bunch of fallen standing behind it. The fireball just then was thrown by a fallen wizard that was amongst them.
It was a giant beast. Abel recognized it. They were famous for their supernatural strength and speed.
The fireball wasn't far from Abel. When he was about to dodge it, Rib Bone was already running towards it. It was trying to slash the thing with its ice magic sword. The fireball burst out, of course, and the cave became dark soon after.
Abel tried to sweep past the giant beast in front of him. When he did, he took out his night pearl to check on Rib Bone. The fireball was too powerful for him to even block, but for some reason, Rib Bone had the audacity to slash it with its blade. It was really worrisome for him.
Abel could still see with the night pearl out. Rib Bone was still fine. Right now, it was blocking a fallen's attack with its shield. Abel couldn't believe what he was looking at. The fireball was a pure fire magic attack. Abel knew that he would get a bad burn if he tried to block it himself.
Maybe it had something to do with Rib Bone's death qi. If that was the case, then the orcean priests would've ruled the Holy Continent a long time ago. Perhaps Rib Bone survived because of how thick its bones were.
Abel started casting charged bolts. Soon, a large piece of the ground was covered with lightning arcs that cleared off the fallen and the giant beast. When most of them were eliminated, Abel's finally got some time to look around this place.
So, the legendary Den of Evil.
The cave was naturally formed. From the light that was emitted by the night pearl, Abel could see the stalactites that were hanging from the ceiling
As beautiful as it was, the smell was simply unbearable. Everything smelt rotten here. There was also the distinct stench of the fallen. Abel was used to smelling these dirty fallen, but that didn't stop him from wanting to leave this place as soon as he got what he wanted.
After walking on a pool of blood, Abel walked towards the fallen wizard that just died. He picked up its magic staff and threw it in his Horadric Cube.
"Fireball? Again?" He spat, then threw the magic staff into his kong kong spiritual beast bag.
There were three types of hell creatures in the Den of Evil: giant beast, zombie, and fallen. None of them were really a threat to Abel. Since he's got the Sword of Victory, he could always recover his mana by four points for every time he killed an enemy, and because of his keen sense of awareness (and a loyal companion like Rib Bone), he had a pretty smooth adventure here so far.
After clearing some of the diverging paths here, Abel started to see some more hell creatures. His charged bolt just gained a whole lot more experience points. Now, if he was fighting against hell creatures, he could just fire off charged bolts for unlimited rounds.
At the corner in front of him, Abel could feel the terrible shriek of a monster. Unlike the other ones he encountered, the sound was actually making the ground tremble.
It was a corpse fire. It had to be. When Rib Bone heard it, it decided to run towards the source of the sound whilst carrying its shield and sword.
Abel quickly controlled Rib Bone with his power of the Will. He knew how tough the corpse fire must be. If Rib Bone just went on like this, it would've died for absolutely nothing
Slowly and carefully, Abel reached out his head at the corner. They were at the deepest part of the cavern. A streak of light was coming in from the hole on the top. There was a giant zombie that was standing in the midst of it. It's got a mossy green on its body's surface, which was covered by very thick armor. Around it was seven smaller zombies. They were the mob spawns of the corpse fire, and they were all elite-level zombies.
Seven? If Abel's memory was correct, a corpse fire would only have seven zombies around it if he was at the hardest difficulty. But if that was the case, the corpse fire in front of him would be a top-level boss. He should just give up if that was it. There was no way he could get past its defense with his current attack point.
But still. After getting this far, Abel decided that he might as well give it a try. He's still got some confidence in his speed. The zombies were slow, so he's got plenty of ways to outmaneuver them. If he couldn't do anything to break the corpsefire's defense, he thought that he would just leave the place.
Abel cast a frozen armor around his body. After that, he used his telekinesis to take out a magic staff from his portal bag. Once he was ready, he ran out from the corner he was hiding at.
The corpse fire shouted at the sight of Abel. The seven zombies started rushing towards him. And by rushing, they were walking really fast towards him.
Abel pointed forward with the sword in his hand. He just fired an ice bullet at the corpse fire. While it didn't travel very fast in the air, the corpse fire was too slow to doge it anyways. When the shot hit right on, its body was sent backward.
It didn't slow down, though. Abel suddenly remembered something. The corpse fire had two special effects. One was the spectral hit, which could greatly enhance its offensive ability. The other was immunity to ice, which meant that all ice attacks were useless against it.
While the ice bullet had little effect of harming the corpse fire, the fact that it moved meant that it wasn't invisible, Abel could still harm it if he found the right way.
Abel shot a fireball from the tip of his blade. It was the strongest offensive spell he's possessed. When it hit the corpse fire on its chest, it started exploding.
"Aggh!"
The corpse fire screamed, but the fireball was quickly extinguished by the ice armor around it. The burn on its body was very tiny. Worse yet, it was disappearing within seconds. It must've been very resistant against just any spells.
Abel decided to go for a physical attack. The closest zombie was about seven meters away from him. The corpse fire was about twenty meters away from him, which meant that it was without the protection of its subordinates.
Abel activated his golden combat qi. When he was ready, he ran towards the direction in front of him. He was going for a frontal stab at the corpsefire's front chest. Because of how tall it was, he couldn't aim for its head.
Twenty meters wasn't long for an advanced knight like him. Soon, his blade was already in the corpsefire's chest. It was blocked by the ice armor but managed to penetrate through soon enough.
Just when Abel was about to continue, a blue appeared from the corpsefire's body. Abel felt very heavy after that. He was being slowed down by its freezing effect.
This was not good. Abel was too familiar with what he was feeling right now. He used to do the same thing with his ice magic sword. He would slow his enemies down first, then finish them off with whatever ways he pleased. It seemed that the roles were reversed today.