Chapter 30

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

While Chu Ge was thinking, he began to touch the corpses. It was a pity that the things dropped from these skeletons were fairly useless. There was nothing except for a lot of Bone Powder, bronze coins, and useless sabers and swords. Well, there were also things like skulls, ribs, and legs. The other items were all rubbish. Chu Ge didn’t even both to look at them as he threw them away.

The only thing that Chu Ge thought had a bit of value was the two Small Soul Crystals that dropped. These things that were like precious stones and Chu Ge carefully stored them away.

When he walked into the room where the skeletons had gathered earlier, the gas can was still lying motionless in the corner. Chu Ge became angry and thought, “Why didn’t it blow up?”

Could it be that the fireball’s force of impact wasn’t enough?

He walked over carefully and touched it with his foot. There was a black mark from the fireball on the gas can. Other than that, there was no noticeable damage.

Chu Ge touched the metal shell and thought there was indeed not enough impact. The power of the fireball itself was only around the power of an ordinary person punching someone else with all their strength, or maybe something slightly more powerful, but there was a limit. However, the gas can was lying flat on the ground, so when it was hit, it flew straight across the room. There wasn’t enough pressure to get it to explode. As for the temperature, according to the store owner, even if this gas can were roasted with fire, it would still stake a long time to explode. The store owner’s claim apparently wasn’t a bluff.

“So how on earth could this gas can be detonated easily?” Chu Ge could not help but wonder. For a while, he was not able to think of any suitable methods. “It seems like I’ll have to put this big, killer weapon aside for now,” Chu Ge thought helplessly to himself.

However, even though he couldn’t think of any good ideas right now, he didn’t delay his journey. He put away the gas can, then passed through the skeleton room. After he pushed open another door, a vast hall-like place appeared in front of him.

“This must be the main crypt,” Chu Ge thought. He looked around and saw that there were many lit torches around the big hall, so the lighting wasn’t too bad. At the end of the hall, there was a staircase that went downward. It was probably the way to the final Boss’s room.

On both sides of the hall, there was also a stone door. It was unknown what would be behind these doors.

In the middle of the hall was a stone platform with three steps. On the platform stood a tall skeleton wearing knight’s armor.

Grimdon Horace (Undead Knight). The skull design behind its name indicated its identity. It was the second Boss in this Instance Dungeon.

No wonder it was a knight Boss. The body shape of this skeleton in front of Chu Ge felt a bit bigger. It wore a rusty plate armor that had a shabby robe around it. However, after looking at it closely, it was possible to see a grizzly bear design, which was probably something like a family crest.

The blue soul fire in the eyes under the helmet burned. At a glance, it was possible to see that the soul fire could not be compared to those trash skeletons he encountered before. The skeleton in front of Chu Ge held a long sword in one hand and a metal shield in the other hand, which had a grizzly bear design on the surface.

It was obvious that if Chu Ge wanted to continue forward, he had to defeat this Undead Knight first.

Chu Ge did not dare to go up and fight directly. Although he had some experience in fighting against cold weapons during the last few days, he did not think that he could compete head-to-head with an Undead Knight. He decided to use the old way and set up snap traps to greet this skeleton.

Since the snap traps worked on the first Boss, there was no reason that it wouldn’t work on the second Boss. Since both were dead spirits, their intelligence would not be very high.

Chu Ge took out the snap traps again and staggered them on the ground between the Boss and the exit of the hall. He did not use any anchors this time. Instead, Chu Ge tied the snap traps together with a chain so that when one was stepped on, it was equivalent to stepping on all the snap traps. This way, even if it were a Boss that stepped on them, they would probably not be able to run. When that time arrived, Chu Ge would be able to fight it at will. On the other hand, there were no anchors to use in this ancient crypt, to begin with.

Chu Ge finished setting up the snap trap formation.

Then, he pulled out his bow and arrow to lure the monster over. He shot out an arrow towards the Undead Knight.

The arrow hit the armor on the Undead Knight’s chest, then bounced away.

Huh? This guy had a pretty high defense.

Out of the blue, Chu Ge had a thought. Within his sight, the armor on the skeleton was rusty, so the arrow would be able to pierce it. Unexpectedly, its quality was excellent. Could it be something related to the Instance Dungeon’s difficulty?

He did not delve deeper into the question, because after the Undead Knight was hit with the arrow, it seemed as if it had received a signal and rushed towards Chu Ge.

Sure enough, it was precisely what Chu Ge had expected. The Undead Knight was not aware of the trap under its feet, as it rushed into the snap trap formation. A clicking sound was heard as one of the skeleton’s feet was caught in a trap. When it took another step, another clicking sound was heard as its other foot had also stepped in a trap.

The Undead Knight was not as stupid as the previous Zombie Bear. It lowered its head as if it was wondering what the purpose of this thing on its foot was. However, the intelligence of dead spirits was not very high, and it was unable to understand these traps even after thinking about it for a while. Therefore, the skeleton decided to try moving forward. However, it could hardly move at all with the two traps, so it could only stumble forward.

With a clicking sound, another trap was triggered as the snap trap on the Undead Knight’s foot was caught in another trap. Immediately after, two more clicking sounds were heard. The Undead Knight dragged five snap traps on its feet as it struggled to move towards Chu Ge. However, this Undead Knight was very strong. Even though it was dragging a bunch of snap traps, it could still move forward. But its speed was extremely slow.

This made Chu Ge, who was still a little nervous, suddenly make up his mind.

Chu Ge started attacking where he stood.

Chu Ge first shot out a few arrows with his bow and noticed that it did not have any effect. The hardness of the armor on the Undead Knight was not ordinary. Also, even if the arrow had shot through the armor, it would not cause any injuries. Chu Ge decisively changed to fireballs. After shooting out a few fireballs, he realized that they were not very useful either. Although the skeleton’s health had dropped, Chu Ge’s mental strength was not strong enough for him to use flame missiles until the skeleton was killed.

It seemed that he had to battle the Undead Knight up close.

Chu Ge thought about it, then carried his club and walked over. He didn’t dare to get too close, so he stopped far away from the skeleton and swung the club towards it.

Although the Undead Knight’s feet were caught by the traps, its hands were unharmed. It raised its shield and easily blocked the attack from Chu Ge.

The Undead Knight also swung its sword, but Chu Ge only had to retreat a little bit to step out of its attacking range.

Chu Ge swung two more times; both were easily blocked by the Undead Knight. He could not help but feel a little depressed. “Sh*t, this guy’s combat strength is quite strong! Fortunately, it’s caught by the traps. Otherwise, it would be challenging to fight against,” Chu Ge thought. “It’s ok, though; I can go around!”

While thinking about this, Chu Ge walked around behind the Undead Knight. It had wanted to turn around but couldn’t due to the snap traps on its feet. Chu Ge hit the helmet on the skull of the Undead Knight. This smash had only tilted the helmet.

Ah, the helmet was fairly firm. Chu Ge suddenly charged and attacked with all his strength. “Break for me!” Chu Ge screamed in his head.

With a bang, the Undead Knight’s health was immediately reduced by half from this blow. It fell to the ground after getting hit but had immediately stood up again after a bit of struggle.

Huh? It didn’t die!

Chu Ge noticed that the snap traps entirely restricted this skeleton, so he decided not to hold back. Chu Ge smashed as hard as he could at the skull. After five or six consecutive smashes, the head finally exploded as it was shattered into pieces. When the blue flame burst out, its body fell like a smashed shelf.