The moment this thought crossed his mind,
he looked up and saw a woman pulling a young man as they flew in from outside the Forest of Ten Thousand Corpses.
Both had glowing wings on their backs.
He didn’t recognize the young man, but the woman was none other than Liu Xinxin!
“It really is Liu Xinxin from ‘Mirror Flower, Water Moon’! And all three Guild Masters are here! Why?” The blond-haired man was completely bewildered.
Had they discovered their secret infiltration into Longxia?
But that couldn’t be right.
If they had, they would be facing an ambush by the Army of the Protectorate, long since prepared.
Not the near-death situation Ye Hongyi and Lei Tai were just in!
After Liu Xinxin and Lu Ran landed, Lu Ran looked around and asked worriedly, “Sister Hong, Brother Tai, are you both okay?”
“We’re fine. You’re the one who truly cares about your sister. If you hadn’t come, your sister really might have died here.” Ye Hongyi’s eyes were red-rimmed, touched.
With that,
she immediately pulled Lu Ran into a tight hug.
Lu Ran found his face buried in her ample bosom, almost suffocating.
Lei Tai, meanwhile, stared in wide-eyed amazement at the wings on Liu Xinxin and Lu Ran’s backs, exclaiming, “Holy crap, Xinxin, can those wings of yours really fly?”
Liu Xinxin shook her head with a wry smile.
She explained, “They can’t fly. What we just used was the Elven ‘Sky Soar’ skill. It has an extremely long cooldown and doesn’t allow hovering. It’s just that there were too many walking corpses. Even if Lu Ran used the Throne of Bones to control them, it wouldn’t have been fast enough to make them clear a path. This was the only way in, otherwise, we really would have been in big trouble.”
During that last concentrated volley of attacks,
Liu Xinxin’s ‘Nature’s Guardian’ had blocked most of the damage, but it was completely depleted.
The remaining damage was mitigated by ‘Sanctuary’ and ‘Aria’ being replenished just in time.
“You scared me for a second, I thought I remembered wrong. Elves do have the ‘Sky Soar’ skill, though. So envious.” Lei Tai said excitedly.
Lu Ran finally managed to pull his head out and gasped for air.
He said, “I’m envious too! Being able to fly would be so damn awesome!”
As humans, flight has always been a dream, but unattainable. However, after the global datafication, it no longer seemed so out of reach.
But class restrictions are significant.
Only a handful of extremely rare classes have skills that allow brief flight.
That experience, for a human, would undoubtedly be an absolute thrill!
“If you really want to fly, there actually is a way.” Liu Xinxin chimed in with a smile from the side.
Seeing that Ye Hongyi and Lei Tai were okay, and Wei Yingying and the people she brought were also safe, Liu Xinxin finally felt a sense of relief.
“There’s really a way to fly? What is it?” Lu Ran asked eagerly.
“‘Wings of the Elves’.” Liu Xinxin shrugged.
“What’s that? Equipment?” Lu Ran was confused, having never heard of it!
“It’s considered equipment, I suppose. It’s a sacred artifact of the Elven race. For a human professional to obtain it is almost impossible.” Liu Xinxin shook her head.
She was just saying there was a way.
But the difficulty was immense!
Lu Ran wanted to ask for more details.
But Liu Xinxin reminded him, “Let’s talk after the fight. Deal with those people first. So many of them infiltrating Longxia is a danger. They deserve to die!”
Only then did Lu Ran snap back to reality, remembering why they had rushed here in such a hurry in the first place.
Meanwhile,
the group of Eagle Union professionals was also dumbfounded.
Staring at the suddenly appeared Liu Xinxin and Lu Ran,
one of them used a detection skill and scrutinized them for a while.
He suddenly exclaimed in shock, “A Necromancer! That young guy is a Necromancer!”
These words instantly made the eyes of all the Eagle Union professionals light up.
A Necromancer qualified to be with the three Guild Masters, seemingly very familiar with them, even receiving a bosom-hug from Ye Hongyi!
This was definitely not ordinary!
They could easily connect him to the mysterious Necromancer they were sent to investigate!
But immediately after,
that same professional said regretfully, “Too bad he’s not the one we’re looking for. This Necromancer is only level 30. Probably the son of some high-ranking official in Longxia. Killing him wouldn’t be a loss.”
Kill?
The blond-haired man’s mouth twitched.
At this point, it wasn’t about whether they could kill these people anymore.
It was about how they were going to get out of here alive!
Liu Xinxin and that Necromancer could fly in using the Elven ‘Sky Soar’ skill.
But among their group of over a hundred people, not a single one could fly!
Even if there were, they couldn’t possibly evacuate this many people!
Seeing them whispering among themselves,
Lei Tai said in a low voice, “They’re suspicious of Lu Ran’s identity. We need to act quickly.”
Liu Xinxin said, “They absolutely should be killed. But don’t worry about information leaks. Yu Cangqiong has blocked cross-border teleportation, and cross-border communication is also blocked. Their messages can’t get back. This time, it’s like catching turtles in a jar.”
Then, she gave Lu Ran a meaningful look.
But Lu Ran looked up.
These people were on the hilltop, who knows how they climbed up there.
His Skeleton Soldiers and Ancient Golems couldn’t just be tossed up there out of the blue.
But since their messages couldn’t leak, Lu Ran saw no need to hold back.
He pulled out his staff.
The next moment,
Thump, thump, thump~
A bunch of Ancient Golems, kept in reserve for emergencies, were summoned.
They formed a circle, shielding everyone inside.
The Eagle Union professionals on the hilltop stared, stunned.
Huh?
The Ancient Golems themselves weren’t surprising, but summoning so many all at once!
What kind of tactic was this?
“H-how did you do that? Can Necromancers summon like that?” The blond-haired man asked in astonishment.
Just then,
another professional behind him said with a grim expression, “I’m a Necromancer too, and I’m even level 51! I… I can’t summon like that!”
Lu Ran, of course, wouldn’t explain to them.
He just muttered, “They’re up there. How do we kill them?”
Although long-range skills could reach, with over a hundred of them, including healers, relying solely on the long-range skills of Ye Hongyi and the others, it was impossible to kill them all.
“Just knock them down.” Liu Xinxin reminded.
But Lu Ran thought back.
He didn’t seem to have any skill that could knock people off like that.
So he shook his head. “I don’t have any skill that can do that.”
No sooner had he spoken,
Lei Tai excitedly said, “I do! Lu Ran, ‘Corrode’ me!”
Oh…
Only then did Lu Ran remember. He hurriedly formed a party with Ye Hongyi and Lei Tai.
Wei Yingying watched curiously nearby and, out of curiosity, pleaded, “This… younger brother, could you invite me to the party too?”
Lu Ran glanced at Liu Xinxin, then at Ye Hongyi.
After Ye Hongyi nodded, Lu Ran invited Wei Yingying in.
After all, Wei Yingying had seen Lu Ran’s style of grinding monsters in Misty Ravine, so inviting her was fine. The other Gu Masters were left out; letting them witness a miracle was enough.
Next,
Lu Ran immediately cast ‘Corrode’, affecting a small area that included Liu Xinxin, Ye Hongyi, Lei Tai, and Wei Yingying.
The moment the Corrode effect took hold,
Lei Tai seemed to get a shot of adrenaline, letting out a loud laugh.
Three golden shields materialized and began spinning around him.
Immediately after, with a fierce roar,
BOOM!
The ground beneath him exploded as he shot out like a cannonball.
From a distance, he crashed right into the middle of that group of over a hundred people!
Before they could even react,
Lei Tai roared again, “Earth Flow Wall!”
Instantly, a circular earthen wall erupted from around Lei Tai.
The original ‘Earth Flow Wall’ protected an area three meters around Lei Tai.
But enhanced by ‘Corrode’, the range was thirty meters!
The earthen wall exploded outward, bulldozing through the surroundings like a steamroller.
Liu Xinxin and the others immediately understood.
Lei Tai was planning to physically squeeze them off the hilltop, making them fall into the surrounding hordes of walking corpses!
