Skills with no cooldown? I become the Undead Scourge! - Chapter 86

“Sister Hong, is the Hall of Ten Thousand Snakes a dungeon?” Lu Ran asked curiously.

“No, it’s a Ruins area,” Ye Hongyi replied, shaking her head.

A Ruins area…

Lu Ran was confused; he hadn’t heard that term before?

Liu Xinxin seemed to see right through his confusion.

She explained, “What you learned in the academy is just the tip of the iceberg of the digitized world. Its purpose was to get you quickly accustomed to the state of being a professional. The true digitized world has many things you haven’t learned yet, and Ruins areas are one of them.”

Ruins areas are different from dungeons.

They don’t require teleportation to enter; they exist within the main world itself.

You can just walk in and start farming monsters immediately. There’s no party isolation either; other professionals or parties can enter as well.

“The difference is, in a Ruins area, unless the final Ruins Boss is killed, the regular monsters won’t respawn. Only after the Ruins Boss dies will the entire Ruins area reset, and the reset cycle is very long,” Liu Xinxin explained.

After a pause, as if remembering something, she added, “But Ruins areas are typically very high level. The monsters inside are all auto-aggro, give high experience, and are very difficult. They are usually tackled by guilds organizing joint operations for a concentrated assault.”

But that way, with many people, the share of monsters and experience each person gets is small.

The ultimate goal is probably to obtain the drops from the Ruins Boss.

The drops from a Ruins Boss are usually much better than those from a dungeon boss of the same level.

“When was the last time this Hall of Ten Thousand Snakes was reset?” Lu Ran asked curiously.

“Last time? There hasn’t been a ‘last time’. No one has ever killed the Titan Python in the Hall of Ten Thousand Snakes,” Ye Hongyi said, shaking her head.

Lu Ran was startled.

The Hall of Ten Thousand Snakes was that difficult?

Ye Hongyi recalled, “When we were children, the elders in the village constantly warned us not to enter the Hall of Ten Thousand Snakes.”

“The lowest level monsters inside are level 30, and the highest are level 60.”

“As for the Titan Python… to be honest, no one has seen it. But it’s guessed to be at least a level 50, or even level 60, Ruins Boss.”

“This is a good thing. The higher the level, the more experience, and the better the rewards.”

“Wei Yingying, as the Cao Gu Po of this generation, could easily gather quite a few high-level combat professionals.”

“But so far, they still haven’t managed to get into the inner hall. That should give you an idea of the difficulty.”

…

Hearing Ye Hongyi’s explanation, Lu Ran had a rough idea.

This Hall of Ten Thousand Snakes was incredibly difficult!

Coupled with the fact that few people from outside were willing to come to the Southern Frontier, and that the Hall was located in the wild, anyone wanting to venture there had to first pass through dangerous wilderness areas.

If they encountered trouble inside the Hall, retreating would mean traversing that dangerous wilderness again.

Add to that the fact that Jiuyou City had become an empty shell, making logistical support extremely difficult.

All this led to the fact that…

The Hall of Ten Thousand Snakes had never been cleared since the world became digitized!

“Then we’d better be careful and take it slow from the outer hall,” Lu Ran said thoughtfully.

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Xinxin burst out laughing.

She said, half-amused, half-exasperated, “Your Sister Hong wouldn’t take risks with you lightly. The only reason she agreed so readily is because of your Throne of Bones effect. Otherwise, even if we called Yu Cangqiang over, we still couldn’t clear the Hall of Ten Thousand Snakes. It’s not a Ruins that can be easily conquered at this stage.”

But for Lu Ran…

It was simple!
Extremely simple!

“The venomous creatures inside the Hall are all Dark-type. Since you can control wild venomous creatures, you can naturally control the monsters inside the Hall too. You might even be able to control the Titan Python itself and just take the venom sac,” Liu Xinxin explained.

Lu Ran scratched his head in surprise.

He had been so focused on hearing how dangerous and terrifying the Hall of Ten Thousand Snakes was that he had almost forgotten his Throne of Bones effect allowed unconditional control!

“The Hall of Ten Thousand Snakes is just ahead. Little brother, I’m looking forward to your performance,” Ye Hongyi said with a captivating smile, pointing ahead.

Deep in the dense forest.

In a depression between mountains, there was a large, relatively flat and open area.

It wasn’t very far from the village.

But there were no paths around, indicating that few people usually came here to farm.

Because near the vicinity of the Hall, even before entering the Ruins area proper, venomous snakes were everywhere, and their density was terrifying!

If not for Lu Ran controlling them along the way, simply clearing a path to get this close to the Hall would have taken a long time.

The open area ahead was the Ruins zone.

At first glance, it was enough to make one’s scalp crawl!

The Hall of Ten Thousand Snakes had no outer walls. The ground was paved with stone slabs carved with various intricate runes.

Totem pillars, not supporting anything, were arranged around the area in a specific pattern.

And within the zone, as far as the eye could see, were countless venomous snakes of all colors and patterns!
Some as thin as chopsticks, others as thick as a human thigh!
The density was staggering!

Lei Tai instantly got goosebumps.

He exclaimed, “No wonder the Cao Gu Po and her people couldn’t clear it! The monsters here are too dense! Just getting close would attract dozens of them swarming over. More people would just attract more snake monsters. Who could withstand that!”

And this was just the outer hall. The inner hall probably had higher-level, even more terrifying monsters!
“Lu Ran, give it a try,” Liu Xinxin said, looking at him.

“Okay,” Lu Ran nodded.

This wasn’t a problem, because Lu Ran could see clearly that prompts for control appeared above these venomous creatures’ heads.

He took a few steps forward.

His gaze swept across the area.

A large number of venomous snakes had their control forcibly seized by Lu Ran.

But Lu Ran didn’t control all of them. Instead, he randomly selected a portion to control.

To concentrate, Luran spread his hands out in front of him, as if holding batons, and slowly waved them.

Simultaneously, he continuously issued commands in his mind.

As his will was transmitted, the entire outer hall of the Hall of Ten Thousand Snakes instantly erupted into a boiling frenzy!

The countless snakes that had previously coexisted peacefully began frantically attacking each other!

The batch forcibly controlled by Lu Ran launched indiscriminate attacks on the surrounding uncontrolled snakes!

Ten thousand snakes entangled in combat, the low but densely overlapping hisses of the venomous snakes sending shivers down one’s spine!

The sight of countless snakes twisting and writhing together made Lei Tai feel extremely uncomfortable.

At the same time.

[Party killed Lv.38 Bloodthirsty Snake. Gained 3660 Exp!]
[Party killed Lv.34 Shadow Python. Gained 3200 Exp!]
[Party killed Lv.41 Netherfire Snake. Gained 3870 Exp!]
[Party killed Lv.37 Witheredwood Shadow Snake. Gained 3580 Exp!]
[Party killed Lv.41 Netherfire Snake. Gained 3870 Exp!]
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Message notifications constantly refreshed.

The three guild leaders were dumbfounded.

Although they knew about Lu Ran’s abilities and that he could control the creatures here…

They never expected the effect to be so explosive!
Watching as Lu Ran waved his hands, vast swathes of snakes fell into violent struggles, with venomous creatures constantly dying as their health depleted.

“Lu Ran is controlling some snakes to attack the others. Let’s leave the party,” Liu Xinxin said thoughtfully.

Experience gained in a party is shared.

While the share ratio isn’t too low, it’s best for Lu Ran to have the experience all to himself.
Anyway, this amount of experience is negligible for the three guild leaders.