Chapter 13

Chapter 13: The Real and Fake Corpse Demons

It was a surprise to learn the [Ninth Spell of Mystra] here.

This meant that the suicide ring on Roger’s right index finger was finally no longer an accessory.

Excluding self-injury factors, Extreme Burning Storm was a very useful spell.

Roger had a hunch that the suicide ring might have a miraculous effect in the battle against the Corpse Demon.

He put the spell book in his backpack, and then he started to pack other spoils.

In Moss’s laboratory, there were not many valuable things—the most valuable things to Moss, such as the human organs and limbs, were useless to Roger.

Busying himself for a while, he obtained 87 copper orders, 13 magic scrolls, 1 scroll bag, 1 bottle of dragon acid glue, 1 bundle of magic rope…

The above were all the things Roger had found from the laboratory.

“There’s not even a magic stick, what a poor mage.”

Fortunately, there were some magic books.

In addition to the spell book, Roger also took away 4 other magic books.

He was not a mage, so naturally he couldn’t understand the content of the book.

But things like magic books could be sold for money, and if he were lucky, he could even sell them at a high price.

Among these magic books, what concerned Roger the most was a mysterious book with a gilt vertical pupil engraved on the cover——

[The Book of Extreme Evil].

The author was [Villanius].

From Moss’s experiment log, Roger knew that this Villanius was his original mentor.

The Qi Divination Technique showed that Moss’s profession was an apprentice of the blood mage.

Then this Villanius was very likely to be a genuine blood mage.

“This vertical pupil feels a bit familiar somehow.”

“The name Villanius also…”

Roger frowned.

The sound of footsteps came from the stairs.

He hurriedly packed his things and went out.

…

Bone Outpost.

Terry did not disappoint his team and took down the Eastern Tower without any injuries on their side.

This boosted the morale of the adventurers.

Roger, who single-handedly captured the Western Tower, was also sought after by everyone.

It was just that after this guy took down the tower, he disappeared without a trace, which made everyone a little puzzled.

It was after a long time that someone discovered the existence of the bloody pit.

But at this time, Roger had already come out of it with a bulging backpack.

He reported to Dorothy what he saw and heard in the bloody pit.

But he skipped the process of him killing Moss.

Upon hearing that the Corpse Demon plundered people along the Avenue of Knights, Terry’s face instantly turned pale.

The other adventurers also showed their righteous indignation.

And when they saw the bloody corpses with their own eyes, several young adventurers vomited.

The hideous scene in the bloody pit greatly diluted their joy of taking down the Bone Outpost.

But everyone’s morale was ignited to the extreme.

Their hatred towards these kinds of deeds that were devoid of conscience would prompt them to do their best to kill the Corpse Demon.

That night, for safety reasons, everyone temporarily withdrew to the Dwarf Mountain to camp.

Before going to bed, Roger found Dorothy and told her his thoughts, “From the current information, the human skins in the laboratory are very important to the Corpse Demon.”

“He shouldn’t give up on these human skins easily.”

Dorothy instantly understood, “You mean, we can use these human skins as bait?”

“Yes, even if the Corpse Demon wouldn’t come himself, at least we could kill off a section of the skeleton soldiers.” Roger said.

The trickiest thing about Corpse Demon was that he had hundreds of skeleton soldiers.

The individual combat effectiveness of each skeleton soldier was not strong, but when they were assembled into an army, the overall combat effectiveness would have a qualitative leap.

Adventurers were often good at combating alone or in small groups.

And it would be a very bad decision letting them confront an army head-on, even if it was the skeleton army with its combat power reduced.

Roger’s proposal was approved by everyone.

…

In the next two days.

The main forces were lying in ambush on the road between the depths of the southern mine and Bone Outpost, and indeed they encountered several fleets of skeleton soldiers who came to Bone Outpost to investigate.

Under the leadership of Dorothy and Terry, the main force of the crusade group wiped out all the skeleton soldiers who came to help almost without injury.

The only adventurer who had an accident was because he was too excited when charging and accidentally twisted his waist.

They wiped out 49 skeleton soldiers in two days.

Such a result was enough to make everyone excited.

There were already young adventurers who had begun to fantasize about the beautiful scene after killing the Corpse Demon.

Fortunately, Roger, who had been slacking for the past two days, still remained calm.

“Now is not the time to gloat. The Corpse Demon is not a fool.”

“After this, there shouldn’t be any more small groups of skeleton soldiers coming over. Either they won’t come again, or the Corpse Demon will be coming himself.”

Roger believed that the latter was more likely.

Over the years, the southern mine had become the exclusive territory of the Corpse Demon.

As long as he still wanted to control this land, there was no reason for him to continue to ignore the provocations of the visitors from the north.

Under Roger’s reminder, the adventurers in both the main forces and the support group were fully energized and prepared.

It was time to fight the Corpse Demon in a life-or-death battle.

But time passed day after day.

The Corpse Demon’s main army was still nowhere to be seen.

Everyone was puzzled, but they could do nothing but to wait near the Bone Outpost.

Until five days later.

A scout from the vanguard group came late and brought an important news——

“The Corpse Demon escaped!”

…

Two days later in the afternoon.

The western part of the southern mine, bordering the Dragon Slaying Mountains.

Roger was laying on the top of the mountain; he took the monocular from Dorothy, and observed the orderly army for a while.

“They are indeed retreating.”

“This direction should be towards the Bone Burial Ground…”

As the most experienced adventurer in the team, Terry was also a little confused. “Why did they retreat? Did they escape because they foresaw our crusade in advance?”

He didn’t believe this reason himself.

Roger was also surprised.

Although he was certain of their victory, how could the Corpse Demon be afraid of a human crusade team that had just been formed?

But it did not look like a trap either.

After all, if it wasn’t that someone from the scout team discovered the abnormal movement of the Skeleton Army, Roger and the others would have still been waiting around the Bone Outpost.

This kind of migratory march indicated that something big must have happened.

Something so big that the Corpse Demon even gave up on the human skins that were precious to him.

What was this big thing?

Roger glanced at the dark clouds in the north.

A little anxiety reappeared in his heart.

But soon, the dark clouds moved further north.

After all the dark clouds disappeared, his mood returned to normal.

…

“We can’t just let him go like this.” Dorothy said with red eyes, her voice a little hoarse, “At the next pass, we must stop the Corpse Demon and his running dogs!”

No one objected.

They were gathered here to destroy this monster that had been causing misfortunes for many years.

Thanks to the slow marching speed of the skeleton soldiers, and because the adventurers took shortcuts, they had a chance to catch up.

“We have to figure out which one is the real Corpse Demon.” Roger suddenly spoke.

“Huh? Isn’t that obvious?”

Someone pointed at the monster with the largest body in the marching army and said, “‘It is huge and bloated, and has an obvious evil aura. It is an evil monster that is very easy to identify. See? That’s exactly the same as the information described. ”

Roger shook his head silently. “Not him.”

Terry said solemnly, “I think the real Corpse Demon is the barely noticeable, limping skeleton soldier beside the large guy.”

“The Corpse Demon is a very cunning monster, how can he put himself in the light?”

“I just observed the army carefully. Although there are many inferior species among the Skeleton Soldiers, that is the only skeleton who is so obviously limping and has difficulty walking.”

“This is abnormal!”

That was when everyone else also noticed the little skeleton following the bloated monster.

“Make sense.”

Roger agreed. “That limping little skeleton is the real corpse demon.”

Terry used years of rich experience to determine the real Corpse Demon, but Roger’s method was much simpler.

“Qi Observation Technique!”.

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[Corpse Demon LV10, HP 96, ???]

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