<h4>Chapter 214: Land of Sleep</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion <strong>Editor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion
There were demaster Skeletons and God-Chastised Pdins, whereas all details regarding everything in-game could be found stated here. This was the Ancient War Ruins in King of Pantheon’s background story.
The Ancient War was one thatsted for hundreds of years, a battle royale between the Gods. As the war reached finally ended, many Gods and Deities had fallen and countless species extinct.
‘No wonder the Dwelling of the Undead was ssified as one of the Seven Secret ces. So this was the secret it was hiding.’
Li Yi soon understood the the origins of the Dwelling of the Dead.
This was the burial grounds of the Gods!
Li Yi tried his best to avoid the demaster Skeletons and God-Chastised Pdins, slowly but methodically clearing out the smaller monsters that he could defeat.
The small monsters were in small groups of three to five. Their HP all varied, ones with rtively lower HP would be finished off with a couple of arrows, whilst the battle with those with higher HP couldst for more than 5 or 6 minutes. The gap in their potential was like heaven and earth, some only knew how to charge forward mindlessly, whilst others could even use magic to counterattack.
Facing creatures that he had no information on, Li Yi’sbat style was increasingly cautious. As soon as he felt that the subjugation target was too strong, he would immediately use Camouge to escape from the battle, never taking a chance.
Luckily, the respawn rate of the monsters here were extremely slow. After Li Yi grinded here for more than eight whole hours, the monsters he had defeated still had not respawned.
Deliberately picking his fights and only attacking monsters he had confidence in beating, hepletely gave up on looting the corpses. This was due to him noticing that the monsters here could not drop any items.
Drinking an Invisibility Potion, Li Yi risked being noticed by a demaster Skeleton as he moved ahead to open the nearest treasure chest in front of him.
“Ding!”
[You opened the treasure chest and found a Wish Stone.]
‘That’s a good start!’
Li Yi was instantly energized. It was at this time, a demaster turned over, making an eery cracking sound. An arrow instantly zipped through the air, flying straight towards him.
When the level gap between two parties was too high, the Invisibility Potion’s effects would be rendered useless. It had the same traits as a Thief’s Stealth after all.
Li Yi had already prepared himself for this oue. He dodge-rolled onto the ground and instantly used Camouge, sessfully escaping the battle.
After a short while, the demaster Skeleton’s head turned back around with simr cracks, now ignoring himpletely.
‘Looting treasure chests in this ce is so dangerous.’
Li Yi wiped off his sweat and waited for his Camouge skill to go off cooldown before chugging another Invisibility Potion. Then, he silently retreated, as long as he was not too close to a monster, the Invisibility Potion would still have an effect.
Just as he retreated to the safe zone, all the small monsters he had killed off finally respawned. Gathering around with the demaster Skeletons and God-Chastised Pdins, they started patrolling the area once more.
‘Bloody hell! This is gonna be annoying.
‘Cleaning up this ce once already took around seven to eight hours, and there’s still the matter of hiding from the demaster Skeletons and God-Chastised Pdins, what bullsh*t is this? There are at least twenty demaster Skeletons and up to 50 God-Chastised Pdins over here, even if I can clear out all the small monsters, I can at most loot three more treasure chests.
‘Something’s not right here, maybe my method isn’t correct?’
Li Yi started looking through his memories of the Dwelling of the Undead from his past life.
In the eight years that the King of Pantheon servers were online, there were at least thousands of yers of all sses who entered the Dwelling of the Undead. However, there were barely a handful of yers who managed to sessfully take away the treasures hidden within the Dwelling of the Undead. Most of the yers already gave up when they were at the entrance, which was precisely where Li Yi was at this moment.
‘The monsters here are so tough. An Archer can still fight like this, but what about the other sses? Can they also solo this ce like this? It seems impossible.’
The Dwelling of the Undead was open to all yers, so it was impossible that only Archers could solo this ce. There must be some secrets hidden within this ce.
Li Yi temporarily gave up of grinding and started to patiently investigate the locale.
After three whole hours of searching, he stillhad nothing to show for it...
“Ding!”
[Someone sent you a challenge, do you ept?]
A challenge message appeared in front of Li Yi. It was from the de Peak Arena.
Without even a hint of hesitation, Li Yi declined.
The Dwelling of the Undead was not an ordinary map, once the yer dies or leaves the area, they will no longer be able to enter again.
Li Yi decided to go offline for now. He then opened the official site to scour for the bits and pieces of information regarding the Dwelling of the Undead.
[It was a Land of the Undead, with countless warriors who had been forgotten by the world roaming around, preventing mortals from reaching the Land of Sleep.]
There was only such a short description with nothing else written.
After searching for more than an hour, Li Yi got increasingly frustrated. For ces as mysterious as the Seven Secret ces, the developers had always kept it as secretive and vague as possible. In their own words, everything awaits the yers’ own discovery.
Still frustrated, he went back online. Li Yi sat down on the ground and red at the Undead Army from afar.
Jiaojiao had alsoe online. It seemed that her rage had subsided and she returned to her normal self.
“What’s up?” Looking at the skeletons and undead walking around, Li Yi sent a message to Jiaojiao to sate his boredom.
“I’m carrying a friend to boost her levels.” (TN: Author did not specify gender.)
Li Yi’s heart dropped, he did not pursue any further.
‘Jiaojiao did not have many friends, most of them Li Yi already knew. Out of those friends, no matter who you pick, they were all much higher-leveled than Jiaojiao. A friend that Jiaojiao had to carry... Could it be her?’
Li Yi did not do anything for the rest of the day. He just continued to sit there having a stare-down with the undead. Naturally, he ended the day with no further progression.
The next day he came online, he went to search for clues once more, but he still could not manage to find any.
‘Preventing mortals from reaching the Land of Sleep. Does it mean that I should get killed by the monsters, then corpse run inside? F*ck, that doesn’t seem right too, is there even a temple here?’
The treasure was ced right in front of him, just barely out of reach. It was so close, yet so far, Li Yi’s current emotions need no be exined.
...
Shen Lang was truly a capable man. Within just a day’s time, he managed to find out who was the person who bought off all the Universal Keys at de Peak. Just as Li Yi suspected, it was that Human Pdin called Smiling Dummy.
Although the time frame had changed, the person of choice did not.
He had already wasted two days over here, so Li Yi made a difficult decision. He decided to to just take a risk to test his hypothesis out.
Summoning Mutated Small Wild Boar, he made it use its ultimate suicidal skill, aggro-ing all the skeletons and undead in the area. Taking this opportunity, he activated Wind Shield’s Protection and ran straight into the map.
The treasure chests nearby were all very tempting, but the biggest secret of the Dwelling of the Undead lied within the Land of Sleep. After deliberating briefly, Li Yi decided to give up on these treasure chests and head over to check out the legendary Land of Sleep that no had entered before.
In his past life, there were countless yers who had entered the Dwelling of the Undead, but there were barely a handful of yers who ever sessfully reached the Land of Sleep.
As the Mutated Small Wild Boar once again used its skill, pulling aggro from every monster in the area, Li Yi started running like a madman. A pitch-ck cathedral soon appeared in front of him, with countless spirits hissing as they wander above the cathedral.
Whenever the spirits noticed Li Yi, they descended from the skies. Li Yi immediately dropped to the ground ying possum, but it had no effect. He then tried to escape the battle using Camouge, but that also had no effect. Being surrounded by a group of spirits, the HP bar on top of his head continuously got lower. Within just a few seconds, he dropped dead onto the ground.
Li Yi did not dare to release his soul yet. He was surveying the area, desperately searching for a temple.
Without a temple, yers could not revive, they would definitely be sent to another area. This was a guarantee from Li Yi’s eight years of experience ying this game!
Unfortunately, other than this ck cathedral in front of him, Li Yi did not see any temple that can house souls.
There were no temples here!
Li Yi lied t on the ground, waiting for the spirits to leave before finally uttering a word in his head, ‘Revive!’
“Bzzz——”
The Holy Light Protection Scroll came into effect and Li Yi stood back up alive.
“Camouge!”
Out of the three Holy Light Protection Scrolls gifted to him by the Holy Light Envoy, Elenor, other than the one he used in the raid, Li Yi was always unwilling to use them. At this moment, he finally used it after some long deliberation.
The number of spirits in front of the ck cathedral was even more terrifying. It was multiple times more than the enemies outside. Conversely, there were also countless treasure chests ced inside, causing Li Yi to unconsciously drool.
He only had one Holy Light Protection Scroll left, in other words, only one more chance of revival. Li Yi patiently started to think up a n on how to use it to get into the cathedral.
He only had one shot, he could not afford to make any mistakes, otherwise, the Holy Light Protection Scroll would have all gone to waste.
Li Yi called over the Mutated Small Wild Boar and had it follow him. Riding the Ice Toad King, he rushed forward. When the spirits finally noticed him and moved over, Li Yi had the Ice Toad King squat down before leaping up straight towards the pitch-ck cathedral.
“Bam!”
The Ice Toad King flew sixty plus meters forward with a single leap. It did not stop when itnded either. It continued to jump forward, cautiously dodging the countless de Auras of the demaster Skeletons.
After Li Yi jumped three times continuously, a giant blood-red cross appeared on his back, constantly sucking up his HP. He could not even remove it with Dark Devour. Once hended his next jump, he had already died due to having his HP sucked dry by the cross.
This was the God-Chastised Pdin’s Cursed Cross. It was even more OP than the demaster Skeletons’ de Auras.
This time, Li Yi died at the entrance of the pitch-ck cathedral. With that, he received a system notification message.
[Congrattions, you are the first yer to arrive at the Land of Sleep. This event has been recorded in the Pantheon Hall of Fame.]
‘Worth it...’
Li Yi let out a breath of relief.
The Holy Light Protection Scroll did not go to waste. By getting another Pantheon Hall of Fame event, he had earned back all his losses.
Li Yi started to look around once more, surveying the ck cathedral as he lied t on the ground.
The sizes of the undead here were muchrger than the ones outside. They were also much better equipped. Not only did they wield weapons, they even had armor. If the undead outside were considered elites, the undead inside here were the elites of the elites.
There were not any average undead, they were either demasters or God-Chastised Pdins.
ncing into the deeper parts of the cathedral, arge amount of ck gas was being released from the inside. Li Yi finally understood why this ce was so dark, the ck gas enveloping this cathedral originated from the deepest parts of the cathedral.
Advertently, the secrets of the Land of the Undead all lied in the innermost part of the cathedral.
‘What exactly is inside? Legendary equipment? Maybe an Epic-Level skill’
Li Yi was excited. He patiently observed the movement patterns of the undead around him, preparing to revive and move at the earliest opportunity.
There were at least ten thousand undead swarming around this area, all of them moving in groups. After one wave left this area, another wave moved in once more. The window between each wave was so small that Li Yi could not help but to scream foul y. He did not have a chance at reviving at all. With so many demaster Skeletons and God-Chastised Pdins keeping an eye on him, he would die almost instantly as soon as he gets up.
After waiting for more than half an hour, Li Yi’s patience ran dry. He decided to risk it and just revive. Just as he was about to use the Holy Light Protection Scroll, a gigantic undead d in ck armor walked out from the pitch-ck cathedral.
All of the undead in the area immediately kneeled down. The hissing from the sky also silencedpletely, all the spirits flew down and knelt before the ck-armored undead.
When Li Yi looked up at the ck-armored undead, he was shocked.
d in a full set of ck armor and carrying a Rune Greatsword on his back, all of these characteristics pointed to one thing.
This was one of the hidden sses in King of Pantheon – the Dark Pdin!