klisemfg Chapter 38 The Lich's Weakness
Chapter 38 The Lich's Weakness
"Teacher! What exactly is the lich's weakness? If you don't tell us soon, we're really doomed."
"Fool, it's just an ordinary quest monster, maybe a slightly more special elite monster. What about the five-colored dragons and elemental lords later on?"
Rolin remained calm and composed; he had already sensed that Daefryn & Agamand were just ordinary liches.
The lich's vitality is not very strong, and its necromancy is not much stronger than Lorraine's.
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"I was looking forward to seeing how you guys work together, but it seems you're all a bunch of rookies. You only know how to use brute force, not how to fight with your brains."
"Yes, yes, the teacher is right. But right now, help!"
Lorraine was pinned to the ground by countless zombies, with more and more zombies piling up on her body.
They bared their teeth and claws, tearing at Lorraine's body.
While not enough to tear him apart, the countless ghostly claws attacking him had already damaged his limbs...
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"The lich's weaknesses are twofold. First, it is afraid of fire. Any enemy that is immune to or resistant to the same attribute will be countered by the opposite attribute. Second, it is afraid of holy damage. Of course, if the strength of the two sides is vastly different, holy magic will also be resisted."
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"Thirdly, liches are twisted soul beings; they are merely spirits attached to bones. Once their original soul source is found, they can be completely destroyed."
The answer is finally here!
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Lorraine suddenly looked up and gazed behind the lich.
Sure enough, the glowing box on the stone table behind the lich was still there. It was just that the lich's skeletal body blocked everyone's view...
Lorraine shouted:
"The urn is the lich's weakness!"
"That's called the Soul Box."
"Whatever it's called, I'll take you down!"
Lorraine used all his strength to push away the zombie that was pinning him down.
He suddenly charged towards the lich's back!
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Daveline is constantly injecting venom into the surrounding walls to create more zombies.
That must be the plague potion researched by the Scourge.
It was that green venom that once corrupted countless lives. The lich went to his family's tomb and used the poison to create an endless stream of zombies.
Let them crawl out of the tomb and attack all living things around them.
Defeating the Lich will reduce the Scourge forces near Brill and Deathstroke.
Indirectly, it can save the living beings in the vicinity.
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Using his physical strength, Lorraine lunged directly at the lich's Soul Box.
As soon as the lich realized the danger, he froze Lorraine. The lich then unleashed the familiar Frost Nova spell.
"Oops."
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"Haha, you think I don't know what you're thinking? We're the same kind, you're a lich too. It's just strange, how did your soul get replaced by another one? Another... sphere?"
"Is he saying I'm a ball?"
Luo Lin angrily asked his apprentice, but the apprentice was frozen and unable to move.
Even the undead warrior Tiger, who was struggling to continue fighting, was frozen.
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"The plan failed?"
The group sensed something was wrong; the lich was furiously beating the undead warrior Tagore. It lifted Tagore high into the air, then slammed him to the ground, repeatedly ravaging him...
Lilith wanted to cry when she saw her brother suffering, but as a spirit, she had no tears.
The situation is dangerous; Lorraine hasn't touched the Soul Chest...
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"Click."
With the sound of something breaking, Lorraine thought that Tagore's body had been broken.
Looking up, he saw the lich Deifrin trembling violently, the runic chains connecting his bones losing their magic and scattering on the ground.
The lich let out a scream as its body rapidly contracted.
It turned into a ball of will-o'-the-wisp and was swept into the Soul Box that had fallen to the ground.
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"Huh? Who did this?!"
As the lich's body shattered, the ice that had frozen Lorraine instantly crumbled. The previously frenzied horde of zombies also fell silent, collapsing to the ground.
The Soul Box on the ground shattered into two pieces.
I don't know why it broke.
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Having survived the ordeal, the team members looked at each other, their faces filled with confusion.
"What happened? You, did you do it?"
Lorraine shook her head...
He did indeed want to destroy the Lich's Soul Box.
But he was controlled...
"Who could that be?"
The warrior brother, unable to rise from the ground, was still convulsing; it couldn't be him. Shrek was playing guerrilla warfare in the corner, and he had no chance to attack the Soul Box.
Lorraine is frozen. Did the lich break the Soul Box himself?
Lorraine picked up the Soul Box and examined its internal structure.
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He could sense a familiar power remaining in the broken box. He touched it, and the necromantic runes in his magic pocket began to act up again.
Trembling violently, it voluntarily crawled out of the magic bag.
Flying towards the tattered casket of souls.
Before Lorraine could stop him, the necromantic rune sucked a wisp of transparent white smoke from the Soul Box, within which Daefrin's terrified face could be vaguely seen.
"Damn it, the lich's remnant soul was eaten by this thing again!"
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The master and apprentice confirmed that the lich's aura had completely disappeared.
It was clearly absorbed by the necromantic runes floating in mid-air.
It absorbed the lich's soul and immediately darted back into Lorraine's magic pocket.
As if there were dangers around, the shattered Soul Box completely lost its light.
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"what have you done!"
An angry voice suddenly rang out from the darkness.
A figure wearing a veil and a cloak appeared.
The group was startled...
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It looks like an undead assassin stealth!
"The Shadow Council was going to try this lich. How could you just destroy its remnant soul? How am I supposed to go back and report now! Honestly, I saved you, and you still cause trouble."
The stalker kept complaining and pointing at Lorraine, cursing.
However, the target audience was everyone present.
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"So it turns out the object I was perceiving was you."
Shrek finally realized that what he sensed at the entrance to the tomb was neither a demon nor an undead creature.
Actually, it's the aura of this stalker.
Warlocks can vaguely sense nearby invisible creatures by sensing the void. Lesser Invisibility Detection is a skill that can effectively counter rogues and assassins.
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"You destroyed the Lich's Soul Casket and saved us?"
Lilith circled around the figure shrouded in a black cloak. She could see he was wearing leather armor and had a dagger strapped to his body. He looked rather handsome.
"I didn't save you; I was just completing a mission. Assassinating the Scourge's vanguard is our assassination squad's duty."
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"What is the Shadow Council? Are you also one of the Forsaken?"
Lilith circled around the assassin, asking him a barrage of questions.
The other party completely ignored him.
The assassin stared at Lorraine, demanding to know how he had destroyed the lich's remnant soul. He demanded that Lorraine return with him to report.
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Lorraine was initially grateful to the guy who had secretly helped her.
After a barrage of complaints, the other party insisted that he hand over the necromancy runes...
That's my precious treasure, how can I give it to someone else?
He was also curious about this necromancy rune, which, despite being unusable, could devour the souls of undead creatures. He wished he could one day fully master this unique rune, just like feeding a demon baby!
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His teacher had instructed him to keep the secret. Naturally, he couldn't say much to the assassin.
"I'm sorry, I can't go back to your organization with you. Thank you so much for saving everyone. I don't know what that thing was either. But I can't give it to you."
“That’s your stuff. You devoured the lich’s remnant soul, preventing us from extracting the Scourge’s secrets. You are fully responsible for this. Scout, if you don’t cooperate, I will send you to a court-martial.”
"Military court?"
"The Undead Sentinels are an intelligence organization under the Queen's command. We are also under the command of the Dreadlord Varimathras. We were hired by the Shadow Council to assist them in finding the lich's trail. We never expected that you few militiamen would actually find its lair..."
The assassin introduced himself.
The group was unsure of his background...
I've never heard of the Shadow Council or the Undead Sentinels...
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“How could we not know its lair? The Agamand family’s burial site is so large, even a fool could guess that they must be hiding here.”
The assassin awkwardly pulled down his mask, covering more of his face...
The dying undead warrior quickly regained his spirits thanks to his sister's treatment.
"The family heirlooms are all complete. But the sword is broken, what a pity. There's still one guy named Salman we haven't found. We need to bring back his skull."
It seems that only the soldier Tagore truly cared about the mission.
Even though he was covered in wounds, he was still most concerned about the spoils of war...
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“Salman’s head is with me. I arrived at this tomb before you. I’ve already cleared out the enemies in the first half.”
The assassin took out a cloth bag, inside which was the skull of the last sinner of the Agamand family.
Tagore happily snatched it...