Chapter 160: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
This time, Chen Mo was much more cautious!
Opening the intelligent brain map, he discovered that a dozen green dots in the surrounding area were all moving toward the center.
Chen Mo refused to give these green dots any chance. Holding his small round shield, he batted the Dark Skeleton King around like a ping-pong ball, successfully avoiding everyone and rushing to a very remote corner in the top-left of the map.
When Gongzi Wei and Zhang Shengmo arrived at the royal crypt and saw the corpses littering the ground, they looked at each other in dismay.
Where was the BOSS? Where was the Orb of Destruction?!
Wei Zheng, Yue Hu, and the others finally arrived at the royal crypt, covered in injuries. Their expressions changed drastically when they saw Gongzi Wei and Zhang Shengmo.
Wei Zheng, in particular, said with a cold and stern look, "Did the two of you kill all these people?!"
Zhang Shengmo had never held the instructors in any regard, so he showed not the slightest bit of modesty as he retorted, "Instructor Wei Zheng! You mustn't speak carelessly! When Gongzi Wei and I arrived here, these people were already dead!"
Instructor Yue Hu frowned and said, "Logically speaking, there should be a BOSS here. It is very likely these people were killed by the BOSS, but the BOSS is nowhere to be found!"
Wei Zheng made a prompt decision. "We will split up to search! The communicators don't work here, so let's set a time limit. Whether we find it or not, everyone must gather back here in ten minutes!!"
Zhang Shengmo sneered, "You want to split up, go ahead and split up. Gongzi Wei and I are not splitting up. With it being this dangerous here, splitting up is practically courting death!"
"You—" Wei Zheng originally wanted to scold Zhang Shengmo a few times, but thinking of Zhang Shengmo's strength and the powerful family standing behind him, he swallowed his anger. "Fine! The two of you can act together! If you encounter the BOSS, do not act rashly under any circumstances. You must come back here to rendezvous with everyone, and we will deal with it together!!"
The group scattered to search for the BOSS.
Meanwhile, the terrifying BOSS in their minds was currently curled up in a corner like a victim of assault.
Teleport! Dark Strike!
The Dark Skeleton King wanted to use the BOSS's unique spatial shifting ability to teleport behind Chen Mo and launch a sneak attack!
Quadruple Malicious Fire Binding Chains!
Chen Mo had learned from the Nightmare Skeleton how to combine fire chains into a magic formation, using four stone pillars to release the Quadruple Malicious Fire Binding Chains!
He completely sealed the Skeleton King within the grand fire chain formation!
Bang!!
Even spatial shifting was unable to escape the fire chain formation.
Roar-aah~~ Roar-aah~~~
The Skeleton King's roars had already degraded into weak, helpless groans.
"Little skeleton, you've been wronged! Don't be afraid! Daddy loves you! Daddy will end your suffering right away!!"
Mirror Image Clone!
Chen Mo summoned his diamond mirror image.
Energy-Concentration Detonation!
Chen Mo possessed a full fifty thousand magic points, and he poured forty thousand of them in one breath into his diamond clone!
Hundreds of cracks split across the body of the diamond clone, and it could explode at any moment!
Chen Mo muttered to himself, "If we're going to play, let's play bigger!!"
With the remaining ten thousand magic points, Chen Mo used the Phoenix's Claw to manufacture ten fire-thunder bombs.
Then, controlling the diamond clone with his consciousness, it held the ten fire-thunder bombs and walked toward the Skeleton King with an utterly unbothered, swaggering gait.
The Skeleton King curled up in the corner, feeling deeply wronged and trembling all over. How it wished it could shout out: "Scram! Don't touch this lord!"
However, the diamond clone advanced without hesitation. With forty thousand magic points, a ten-second energy-concentration detonation, and ten fire-thunder bombs, it charged straight at the Skeleton King!!
The Skeleton King instinctively wanted to put up a little resistance, but the four malicious fire binding chains tightened their range, binding the Skeleton King securely!
The Skeleton King knew that its tenure as a BOSS had been a complete failure. It didn't even utter the system-preset line: "You foolish mortals, actually driving me to this extent, behold my ultimate move!"
Instead, its body splayed out in a giant character shape, giving up all resistance!
If life has assaulted you, and you cannot resist, you might as well just enjoy the process!
Forty thousand magic points! Ten magic points converted into one point of damage!
The damage of a ten-second energy-concentration detonation multiplied tenfold! Forty thousand damage! Ten fire-thunder bombs detonating, with their damage stacking, pushing the final damage to Chen Mo's current limit!!
One hundred thousand!
Boom!!
The entire northern corner of the cathedral was blasted flat to the ground! Murals, pews, and the altar were all completely obliterated into nothingness!!
"This King is unreconciled!" The Skeleton King finally spoke its very last line, after which its body transformed into countless black particles that surged up into the sky and vanished.
Ding~~
A very crisp sound!
A piece of gleaming, golden equipment dropped onto the ground.
It dropped! It dropped! It finally dropped!!
With a grab of Chen Mo's five fingers, the equipment automatically flew into his hand.
[Crown of Leoric]
[S-Grade Helmet]
[Attributes: Constitution +100; Qi Sea +100; Special: Any attribute gemstone can be placed within the crown, doubling its effect]
[Remarks: Core equipment of the Skeleton King set, one of a kind]
Chen Mo already possessed the Skeleton King's chestplate, leg armor, and round shield. He only lacked the shoulder guards and arm guards, and the six-piece set would be complete!
Chen Mo only hated that he didn't have a clone. If he could have a permanent clone, with one clone per set of equipment, who in the world could ever defeat him!!
Jingle ling~~
Suddenly, the Demon's Bell rang on its own.
The intelligent brain chimed with a prompt: [Demon's soul detected, activate the Demon's Bell to absorb?]
Oh? The Demon's Bell had this function too?!
Activate!!
Jingle ling!
The Demon's Bell rang once more.
A demonic magic formation appeared above Chen Mo's head, and then space tore open, opening a rift linked to the nether-hell dimension.
The black particles from Leoric that had earlier surged into the sky and vanished were now—just like a movie running in reverse—all pulled backward and sucked entirely into the spatial rift.
Skeleton King Leoric let out a roar that wasn't system-preset, but came straight from his very soul: "You damned bastard! Even after I've turned into a soul, you won't let me go!! No! I am the King of Skeletons! No one can destroy me! Roar-aah!!"
With that final unreconciled roar, all of the Skeleton King's soul particles were completely absorbed!
Then the rift healed, the demonic magic formation vanished, and the Demon's Windchime returned to Chen Mo's hand.
Chen Mo could now use the Demon's Windchime to summon a Hellhound or the Skeleton King on a fixed basis, or of course, he could randomly summon another demonic creature.
Chen Mo couldn't help laughing. "Little skeleton, stop struggling. You can't escape the palm of my hand!"
One had to admit that this Skeleton King was definitely the most miserable BOSS in history.
After organizing all the loot, Chen Mo turned his attention to the serious business.
The Orb of Destruction hovered mid-air, black energy flowing within it.
Chen Mo tentatively tossed a casual fireball at it!
Clang!
The Orb of Destruction made a crisp sound! And shattered directly!!
It seemed that having lost the Skeleton King's protection, the Orb of Destruction had also lost its shield.
Ding~~~~~~~~~~~~
A very, very, very crisp sound rang out, and a beam of orange light enveloped the area!
Chen Mo's heart leapt straight to his throat! Holy crap! Holy crap!
Could it be an orange S-class equipment?!
A black gemstone burst out from the Orb of Destruction.
Chen Mo hurriedly ran a data scan.
[Destruction Gemstone]
[Special Item]
[Attributes: None]
[Remarks: Quest Easter egg, gather seven different gemstones for unexpected events to occur]
What a waste of emotion!
Chen Mo had thought it was an SS-grade equipment and was grinning from ear to ear, but it turned out to be just a special item with zero attributes!!
I'll keep it for now. Chen Mo casually tossed the Destruction Gemstone into his storage space.
Rumble!
The moment it was tossed in, the entire ceiling of the cathedral shattered directly, and numerous rays of black light shot down from above.
The ground also began to tear apart, and the entire space rocked and shook violently!
A string of electronic mechanical sounds echoed: "A player has already destroyed the Orb of Destruction. In three seconds, you will be teleported out of the Destruction Space!"
"Warning! Teleportation failed! A player has triggered a hidden quest. You must wait for the player to complete the hidden quest before you can teleport out."
Chen Mo looked around left and right. A hidden quest? Where was it? He didn't see any hidden quest, holy crap! And it wasn't even triggered by him!!
Someone had activated a hidden quest? Who on earth was this? Their luck was incredible! He had painstakingly fought the Skeleton King for half the day only to get a broken gemstone, yet someone else casually activated a hidden quest and reached the pinnacle of life. It really made one compare themselves to others only to die of frustration!
"Chen Mo! Why are you here?!!" Just as Chen Mo was lamenting the injustice of fate, Instructor Yue Hu dodged the giant boulders falling from the ceiling and fled all the way here.