Chapter 47: The Ghoul

The purple-red poisonous mist changed shapes like a ferocious abomination, splitting into several strands and penetrating the wilderness. A faint purple-red color gradually surged in the woods, along with a foul and pungent stench. Xiao Yu could feel his eyes burning, his throat dry, while a wound several inches long appeared in his abdomen. The lingering breeze of his blade suddenly split the poisonous fog, allowing Xiao Yu to see the poisonous zombie’s appearance for the first time.

The monster was entirely covered in purple-red hair, had only one eye left, and its lips were split to the base of its ear, revealing an eerie grin with a mouth full of fangs as it ejected a purplish liquid from the gaps in its teeth. Xiao Yu backed away and retreated, flashing more than ten meters away, before the venom fell straight on a large tree, corroding the tree trunk in an instant. The sprayed venom was like a barrage of bullets, quickly piercing holes in the surrounding branches, leaves, and trees, and the residue of bluish smoke that flew from it felt choking to breathe in.

Xiao Yu discovered that his dizziness was gradually getting worse. And he was already holding to the extreme; if it were someone else instead, he might not be able to hold on anymore.

The deadly poisonous zombie had excellent strength. Though tricky to deal with, it could not compete in terms of fighting power with the goblin leader. However, its body’s resilience was on par with steel. Xiao Yu slashed down with a single-blade strike, leaving only a shallow wound on its skin.

The zombie itself was wrapped in a thick layer of purplish fog, and the surrounding area of the hazy fog felt extremely pungent and stinging, making him feel dizzy while standing unsteadily.

“Roar!” The zombie wrapped in the thick coating of that poisonous fog slapped down fiercely with its pair of sharp claws.

Xiao Yu turned around to avoid it, and the blade moved on with him. A batch of spiritual force poured in, and a three-foot cyan light slashed out, heading straight toward the monster’s chest area.

“It’s about a hundred meters!”

Xiao Yu’s blood-red eyes quickly scanned their surroundings as he discovered that the purple fog was covering a circumference of about 100 meters in that part of the forest. He then judged that the fog could only last for ten minutes.

Xiao Yu looked down at his right hand again; His skin had turned bluish-purple. Unfortunately, during that previous attack he made, it got covered with a trace of the poisonous zombie’s extremely thick fog coating.

The monster roared “Agh! Agh!” twice in a row as more poisonous foggy mist spewed out from its body, and its claws waved like a whirlwind, frequently attacking from all directions. Xiao Yu held his blade in one hand, and his entire body was motionless, except for his feet, which moved back slightly, like a leaf fluttering along the gust of wind, easily avoiding every attack.

“Its movements are stiff, and its speed is average at best, but its poison is too potent; I won’t stand a chance in close combat!”

The poisonous zombie failed more than a dozen attacks in a row. Then, finally, it grew agitated and restless before it kicked its legs on the ground, and the purplish fog shot up with it into the sky as it clawed upward. Xiao Yu’s eyes shone brightly, and a ball of dancing flames shot up from his left hand, bombarding the zombie’s chest. The fire ignited the purple-red hair on the monster’s body, and the zombie howled in agony.

Xiao Yu used a few seconds to gather around his spiritual power, then threw a second fireball with his right hand, which exploded on the head of the zombie, causing it to stagger back a few times. He then bolted out of the area covered by the purple mist like lightning.

On the other side of the battlefield, Han Kexin led the others in fighting with the four skeleton archers who had lost their right hands; two of them had already been eliminated, and the remaining two were struggling against Wang Chao and Jin Shi’s fierce attacks. He judged that it wouldn’t take long for the team to kill them.

Before Xiao Yu had time to look closely at their specific situation, the poisonous zombie had already caught up with him, as had its foul and pungent stench.

Xiao Yu kicked his legs on the ground and quickly retreated. He then condensed and threw a fireball in mid-air, hitting the monster directly. Right afterward, he put the luminous beast blade back into the ring and immediately removed the stabilizing wind bead as a cyan wind blade blew away the oncoming figure enveloped in thick poisonous fog, leaving only a shallow wound behind.

The zombie was pushed back a few meters, and it roared angrily and was about to charge up again when a mighty sand spear shot at its body, causing it to fly back against its will before colliding with a large tree from behind. The Sand spear rotated forward, and the vast force even pierced through the big tree behind, as sand and wood fragments scattered across the forest, leaving a bloody wound on the body of the poisonous zombie, but failing to pierce through.

“It’s so tough!”

Xiao Yu sighed, but he didn’t stop his actions. Instead, he threw a fireball to suppress the zombie and pinned it down in a round of different attacks. The monster wasn’t resisting anymore; however, the power of the wind bead was slowly running out.

Just nearby.

Wang Chao swung his huge battle axe in an arc and split the scarred skeleton archer in half.

Jin Shi immediately took advantage of that opportunity and smashed the fallen skeleton’s skull with his rocky fist. In contrast, the other skeleton archer was defeated under the joint attack of Jiang Xiaowen, Han Kexin, and everyone else.

After they finished with their foes, everybody started watching the battle on Xiao Yu’s side. When dealing with the monster, he was not in a hurry, and his timing was impeccable. He always timed his attacks to coincide with the opponent’s charge and used long-range attacks to batter it consistently. As a result, the enemy’s body was battered and covered in bruises, and it could not get any closer since the opponent had tightly suppressed it.

However, Han Kexin realized that the attacks’ damage was largely minimal. She quickly touched the ring in her hand and walked toward the poisonous zombie. When the distance was acceptable, she slowly raised her right hand, and the ring in her fingers glowed.

But, suddenly and without warning, Xiao Yu charged headlong toward the zombie. When the monster saw this, it roared and swung its claw across as the poisonous fog rushed over to meet that blow.

Wind and Sand tornado!

The stabilizing wind bead released all of its remaining power, forming a tornado of sand and wind, completely blocking the purple fog, and strapping most of the monster’s body to the edge of the rotating vortex, as countless small wind blades immediately cut all over its body dozens of times over. Numerous minor wounds and scratches started to appear on its festering skin.

The moment Xiao Yu’s figure disappeared inside the tornado, the poisonous fog dispersed, and it hadn’t had time to gather around the monster. Xiao Yu used his bullet time skill, and everything came to a halt in an instant. He slowly raised the blade and slashed vigorously toward a massive wound on the poisonous zombie’s neck. This wound was caused by five to six wind blades hitting the same spot in quite succession, nearly severing one-third of the creature’s neck. At this time, Xiao Yu used all of his strength in that blade strike, and this time the iron-cutting blade completely cut off its head!

In an instant, the purplish fog that had previously engulfed everything around it receded like a tide and slowly vanished into nothingness.

The headless body of the zombie fell straight down with a thud.

The ring in Han Kexin’s hand gradually dimmed, her mouth widened, and her face was flushed with surprise, “That’s…so amazing, really amazing!”

An extremely tricky and challenging first-order monster was killed just like that.

After Xiao Yu absorbed the vast energy of the poisonous zombie, his strength skyrocketed, and almost at the same time, two white balls of light fell out amidst the scattered blood.

Han Kexin walked over and said, “You defeated it too fast; I didn’t even have any time to intervene!”

Holding a pale dagger in her hands, Jiang Xiaowen happily ran over and said, “Look, Xiao Yu, some nice pieces of equipment have been harvested from the skeletons.”

Several pieces of equipment fell out from the battle against the skeleton archers, which included a high gray bone dagger with a corrosive effect. Besides that, a high gray bone bow also dropped. However, this one had the function of naturally condensing bone arrows when the bowstring was pulled back, which could solve the issue of insufficient arrows.

The dagger was given to an elementary warrior with the talent of “Agility Enhancement”. In contrast, the bone bow was directly given to Yunyun, and the goblin short bow that she had barely used for the last two days was reserved for another strong individual.

Xiao Yu walked toward his spoils of war and unsealed those two white balls of light, which appeared to be an ancient scroll and a purple claw.

“Poisonous Zombie summoning Scroll” medium white grade, consumable type magic scroll, which can summon a poisonous zombie to help in battle; the summoned creature stays on the battlefield for a period of one hour. Poisonous Zombie, a first-order monster, skills: “Poison fog Shield “, “Poison Fog Shroud”, and “Venom Spray”!

This magic scroll was a one-time use item, but it could summon a powerful poisonous zombie, which can still be helpful in different situations.

“Toxic Claw”, low white grade, highly toxic with blood clogging powers.

Xiao Yu said as he handed the claws over to Han Kexin. “Your own weapon happens to be a claw as well, so this one is just for you; just use one for the main hand, and one for the secondary.”

Han Kexin held the claw and liked it immensely. Although it was relatively weak among white grade weapons, it was still a piece of white equipment nonetheles, and its power was far better than that of the gray equipment she used. This evening, in addition to that magic item and that piece of equipment, there were also five soul gems. The harvest this time around was quite big.

Jiang Xiaowen looked at the mine, “There seems to be some residue smoke of that poisonous fog in the cave, but there should be no zombies inside.”

Xiao Yu lifted his eyes to the sky and said: “It’s getting late right now, and the sun is already setting. It is time for the ogres to go hunting, and we can’t stay in the woods for long, lest we bump into them. So, Let us go back and have dinner first.”

The others nodded their heads in agreement.

All of a sudden! The ground shook violently as an earth-shattering loud noise came from the coal mine’s direction, and the pile of rotten wood at the mine’s entrance cracked one after the other. The stones inside were scattered along with the dust and gravel while the mine itself started showing signs of collapsing.

Wang Chao turned pale with shock: “What’s happen, is it another earthquake?!”

“Roar–!”

A deep and terrifying roar came from the depths of the mine, the sound was full of infinite anger and murderous intent, startling a large flock of flying birds in the distance. Everybody felt as if they were in an ice field. Except for Xiao Yu, the others all felt numb in their limbs, and they found breathing to be extremely difficult, as if a boulder was pressing against their chests.

What kind of existence exhibits such an impact with just a single roar?

“Something is coming out!” Han Kexin looked in the direction of the mine, her face covered with sweat, and she took a few steps back before stopping, “Could it be… Could it be an ogre?!”

“Impossible; how could an ogre live in such a tight space?” Xiao Yu swallowed hard and shouted, “Whatever kind of existence it is, we are not its opponents; let’s get moving before it shows up!”

Everyone finally woke up from their daze, and without hesitation, they turned around, and ran towards the forest. The underground shaking became increasingly severe. When everyone reached the trees of the woods, a powerful breath of death suddenly erupted from the mine entrance, where a vast figure squeezed out.

From afar, Xiao Yu noticed a hideous monster staggering up. Its body was huge and hunched, but even so, it was still about 1.8 meters tall, with highly thick limbs, and its claws were half a meter long, looking like a pair of blades instead. In addition, it had a huge mouth full of sharp teeth, four fierce scarlet eyes, and a head of sparse gray hair hanging down.

This monster seemed to have just woken up from a deep slumber. It slowly walked out of the mine and up to a zombie corpse, then it slowly opened its bloody mouth and bit the dead creature. One bite consumed a large chunk of flesh, including the bones, and the skin and flesh were all swallowed into its stomach.

It was actually eating the zombies!

Xiao Yu immediately had a flash of recognition…Damn it; it’s a ghoul!

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