Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons

Chapter 1011 - 877: "Nether River" Kreya_2

In an instant, it turned to ash, the mist swirling and carrying away the ashes as it disappeared.

At this moment, Kreya also revealed her figure.

Quickly observing the situation on the field.

Only one Defender Knight remained, persevering against the attacks from two Ghost Knights.

The remaining Ghost Knight had vanished without a trace, likely taken out together with a Defender Knight.

It seems like someone had just come to aid.

Just like the Defender Knight still on the field, trying his best to ward off the attacks from the Ghost Knights.

Sometimes even risking injury, his attacks focused on the Explorers lurking around, attacking from the shadows.

Clearly, he knew that the Ghost Knight was Kreya’s summoned creature, and dying was meaningless; perishing together was even more disgraceful.

He only needed to take out a few of the Explorers behind him to break even.

In the Explorers’ team, several were injured, and one had already become a corpse.

Indicating that his attacks were effective.

Seeing the situation, Kreya suddenly waved her hand, a black and white flame emerged beneath the last Defender Knight, engulfing him entirely in fire.

Before everyone could react, the flames vanished, leaving only the ashes whisked away by the mist.

Then, Kreya hurried to the corpse’s side.

Seeing that the corpse was not noticeably damaged, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"You all, clean up the battlefield and collect the spoils."

Hearing Kreya’s order, everyone began to clean up the battlefield and gather the spoils. Only Amis by the corpse produced a palm-sized mechanical cube.

Placing the cube on the corpse.

Before long, the corpse was processed by Amis and placed in a transparent coffin-shaped container.

Then, it was stored by Amis in his space equipment.

"Ah, it seems that Locke won’t be able to join the next hunting operation."

Hearing Chase’s words, Amis rolled his eyes.

Indeed, now was a hunting activity, and they were just outside of Kane’s team.

Thus, if they wanted to resurrect, they’d have to wait until the operation was over, and then perform the resurrection ritual at the guild’s Spring of Rebirth.

But each resurrection from the Spring of Rebirth is a one-time opportunity.

They could have used a resurrection item to revive Locke, but the problem is that the resurrection items were depleted long ago; twenty years of wars had nearly exhausted the rebirth resources of the Mist World.

Furthermore, all dungeons were gradually being completed with no new dungeons opening, so resurrection items naturally couldn’t be replenished.

Once the injured Explorers tended to their wounds, everyone followed Kreya into the white mist to continue their operation.

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The battlefield where Lila stood was more splendid and bizarre compared to other battles.

The enemy was merely a team of 12 with 3 Bishops.

But the battlefield around them had already turned into a dreamy world.

The swirling mist transformed into clouds of various peculiar shapes, floating around.

Shapes of castles, swords, fawns and other things that children liked.

Beneath the dense white mist, all manner of strange plants emerged, their colors brightly vivid and fantastical, adorned with nonexistent luminescent spots around them.

The enemies facing the three Bishops were no less strange.

A jade dragon, a massive fairy tale skeleton, and a red-clad Gothic girl in a poufy dress.

These three were all fairy tale elements and all had reached a level of tricolor, summoned by Lila from the Fairy Tale World before the battle.

As the master of the Fairy Tale World, Lila truly didn’t need to operate with three teams of Explorers; she alone was a one-woman army.

At this moment, the 9 cultists on the scene were under siege from 15 gold-level Explorers.

Three had already died at their hands.

Lila brought along the three teams of Explorers merely because everyone else did, and if she didn’t, she’d feel out of place, so she brought them too.

Though the reason sounded odd, Lila’s thought process was always like this.

And everyone was used to it.

Moreover, Lila had enough capability to summon colorful-level summoned creatures.

As well as various enhancements that could affect the Explorers.

Except for their current battle.

Longbei and his team were lingering around Route 2.

"Why aren’t Raphael and the others here yet?" Longbei couldn’t help but ask.

"If they don’t arrive soon, it’ll be bad if the enemy escapes."

No one around wanted to answer Longbei’s complaints.

Everyone was a member of the guild, and they all knew Longbei’s personality; now was not the time to provoke him.

Nearby stood a 6-meter high Sun God Statue.

Six tentacles protruded from around the sun, enough to reveal whose statue it was.

Around the statue, besides an Archbishop conducting some ritual,

were three Defender Knights, three Bishops, and over ten cultists surrounding them.

This lineup was undeniably lavish.

The silver sun statue could stabilize the surrounding chaotic space, stripping away the Explorers’ advantages, and could also enhance the strength of Deep Light Faith’s followers within a certain range.

Longbei and his party hadn’t expected such a worthwhile encounter upon heading out.

But it was apparent that the team setting up the statue wasn’t something they could handle on their own.

Even if they succeeded, it would require a significant sacrifice, and they were hunters, not prey.

Hence, Longbei had sent a request for support to Raphael and Kafka, waiting for the two to arrive.

With the three teams combined, they could take on the statue team quite assuredly.

"How did you manage to run into something like this?"

Raphael, who suddenly appeared beside Longbei, couldn’t help but remark while looking at the distant statue camp.

"No choice, just lucky."

Responding to Longbei, Raphael squinted at the distance, just as the Archbishop presiding over the statue lowered his arms and turned around.

"I rather doubt it’s mere luck; look at who that Bishop is."

Longbei glanced over, sounding somewhat surprised as he said, "How could it be that guy?"

The one conducting the statue ritual wasn’t an ordinary Archbishop, but one who had fiercely opposed them in recent years.

Encountered numerous times within the mist, regardless of whether with Longbei or Kane.

Almost monthly, leading a substantial force to attack the fortresses defended by Kane and his team.

Surviving either during the fortress assault or in the wild encounters was enough to prove the Archbishop’s formidable personal strength.

Which Longbei alone certainly couldn’t overcome.

"What bad luck, to bump into him setting up a statue, better send the intel to Kane."

As Longbei spoke, he pulled out the pager from his waist, crafting a brief message to send out.

By then, Kafka and the others had arrived, too.

"Everyone’s here, I’ll hold the Archbishop, you guys take down the statue and those minions."

Upon hearing Longbei, Raphael and Kafka gave a no-problem gesture.

Following which the trio led the charge straight toward the enemy’s statue camp.