Chapter 143 The Bone Plains

Swarms of skeletons surged towards Nie Yan and the others from all directions.

Nie Yan’s eyes quickly scanned the surrounding terrain. He looked to the side and noticed several large boulders not far away, each over five yards tall, scattered around. The steep rocks formed obstacles difficult for the skeletons to overcome.

For the lumbering skeletons, climbing was a very difficult activity.

Using these rocks as support would prevent them from being attacked from all sides.

"Let's go over there," Nie Yan said, swiftly darting towards the distant rocks.

Xie Yao and Tang Yao each used a Blink skill, teleporting a great distance. Thirty holy knights closely followed behind them.

A very obvious difference between mages and great mages was that the cooldown time of their ordinary skills was greatly reduced, and the casting time was also shortened a lot. Skills like Blink had their cooldown time reduced from more than fifty seconds to less than twenty seconds, allowing them to be used frequently.

With spatial magic like Blink and Teleport fully refreshed, the movement speed of mages was still quite fast. Even Shadow Dancers might not be able to catch up. However, the extreme speed of magic users wasn't continuous. They'd be depressed once their skills were used up. Their short legs definitely couldn't outrun melee classes.

They quickly reached the edge of the boulders. Nie Yan had the thirty holy knights secure their positions. After chanting a spell, he summoned the Golden Earth Dragon. He didn't need to hire Holy Knight Levesque for now, as their combat power was sufficient.

At this moment, large numbers of skeletons surged in from all directions. The open space in front of Nie Yan and the others was densely packed with skeletons. If ordinary players encountered this situation, they would probably be scared out of their wits. Even some very strong top-tier player teams would be worn down and killed by this endless horde of skeletons.

On the distant high slope, the figures of dozens of thieves appeared. The leader was a thief wearing silver-gray leather armor. They were all members of Zhu Shen Zhi Jian (Sword of the Gods).

"Xiaoyao, it's the Golden Earth Dragon, and those holy knights are from Mad Rogue Nie Yan!" a thief exclaimed, seeing the situation there.

"Mad Rogue Nie Yan!" Xiaoyao's heart trembled. He looked over there. Thirty holy knights stood in front of Nie Yan and the others, forming a solid wall. "Who are those two beside him?"

"It seems to be Yaozi and Yaoyao from the Niu Ren Tribe, a mage and a holy mage," a player said.

After confirming this, Xiaoyao immediately sent the information to Qin Han, while their group continued to watch from here.

"Even if they're strong, we'll use tens of thousands of skeletons to besiege them. I don't believe they can escape!" Xiaoyao said. In their view, this skeleton army was invincible. They had swept across the land and never encountered an opponent. Some powerful villages and towns were still crushed into ruins under the siege of the skeleton sea. Mad Rogue Nie Yan and the others were just three people plus thirty level 150 elite NPCs.

They watched from the periphery. Looking into the distance, countless skeletons came rushing in like rivers flowing into the sea, gathering more and more. With a gloating attitude, they wanted to see if Mad Rogue Nie Yan would fall under the attack of the skeleton sea like the countless experts they had encountered before.

The skeletons were getting closer and closer to Nie Yan and the others, only about seventy yards away.

They had already entered Xie Yao and Tang Yao's attack range. After the two of them advanced to mages, their basic attack range reached an astonishing eighty or ninety yards. With the bonuses from their equipment, it was about a hundred yards.

"Nie Yan, should I start?" Tang Yao looked at Nie Yan and asked.

Nie Yan nodded and said, "Xie Yao, wait a moment. Let Tang Yao go first."

Nie Yan looked at Tang Yao and Xie Yao's stats. With the bonus from the level 6 arcane sprite, Tang Yao's mana had reached an astonishing 120,000. An ordinary level 100 great mage, or even a mage, would be considered amazing to have 30,000 to 40,000 mana. Xie Yao's mana was about half of Tang Yao's, only about 60,000, but her spell damage was about 20% higher than Tang Yao's. They each had their own strengths.

It was better to let Tang Yao do more damage when the skeletons weren't attacking fiercely, so as to save Xie Yao's mana as much as possible. That was Nie Yan's idea.

Xie Yao waved her staff and cast a Mana Reserve skill on herself. After activating this skill, when her mana was full, it would accumulate additional mana over time based on her mana regeneration rate, storing nearly 30,000 mana, lasting for about three hours. This was also a way to increase her total mana pool.

Seeing the skeletons surging over from afar, Tang Yao revealed an excited expression. "I can finally test out the mage's skills!"

Fire Wall!

Fire Wall!

Fire Wall!

One after another, blazing fire walls appeared on the open space in the distance. The first fire wall was about thirty yards away, and then gradually extended into the distance, with a fire wall every five yards. In the end, Tang Yao cast a total of seven fire walls.

The first batch of skeletons came into contact with one of the fire walls. As they passed through the blazing fire walls, a series of damage numbers over 10,000 floated above their heads. After two consecutive instances of damage, they finally managed to pass through the first fire wall, but there was a second one in front of them, and a third one after passing through the second. The ordinary skeletons collapsed to the ground after passing through five fire walls. Some elite-level skeletons survived after passing through these fire walls, but elites were a minority after all. As soon as they emerged, they faced the holy light strikes of the thirty holy knights, and were blasted to death before they could take a few steps.

A fire wall lasted for about three minutes.

Tang Yao waved his staff quickly, constantly replenishing the fire walls, turning the surrounding area into a sea of ​​flames.

More and more skeletons fell apart in the fire walls, turning into a pile of broken bones. These broken bones were quickly purified by the guardian angel, Karrena.

Time passed by second by second. No matter how many skeletons came, they still met their end.

The group of thieves on the distant high slope looked at each other in dismay, dumbfounded. This Fire Wall skill was too fierce. It could actually be used to farm monsters like this! Watching the skeletons fall to the ground in large numbers before they could even reach Tang Yao and the others, they began to doubt for the first time whether these skeletons could really kill Mad Rogue Nie Yan and the others.

"Wait until their mana is exhausted, then we'll see what they do!" Xiaoyao said. Fire Wall was one of the most mana-consuming skills. Such high-damage area-of-effect skills required a lot of mana. No matter how much mana they had, they couldn't withstand such crazy consumption. They had to maintain a certain amount of mana in reserve in case of emergencies.

Soon, fifteen or sixteen minutes passed, and Tang Yao's Fire Wall skill still hadn't stopped.

As more and more skeletons fell to the ground, Nie Yan and the others' experience points also soared wildly, level after level. After a while, beams of white light lit up on Nie Yan, Tang Yao, and Xie Yao. They had all leveled up.

The experience points from these skeletons were really too generous.

Streams of holy power gathered on the Saint Spirit Emblem. Nie Yan looked at the seal on the Sword of Zennarde. There were also signs that the fourth seal was about to be broken.

If they farmed monsters at this rate, it wouldn't take long to break the seal on the Sword of Zennarde, this powerful artifact. At most two or three months.

Nie Yan was full of anticipation for this.

"I need to recover some mana. I've used up a third of my mana," Tang Yao said, glancing at his mana bar. The mana consumption of the Fire Wall skill was indeed astonishing. Such a high-damage area skill required a considerable amount of mana. Even with a lot of mana, it couldn't withstand such crazy consumption. He now had to maintain a certain amount of mana in order to avoid some emergencies.

After Tang Yao stopped casting skills, the Fire Wall skill gradually extinguished. More and more skeletons charged over. They had just approached within fifty or sixty yards of Nie Yan and the others when thick beams of light descended from the sky. A series of damage numbers immediately floated above their heads. In just a moment, these skeletons were dissolved into ashes by the holy light.

Groups of skeletons fell to the ground. Xie Yao's area-of-effect magic couldn't seal off every corner like Tang Yao's. Nie Yan had the Golden Earth Dragon fill these gaps, spewing out mouthfuls of dragon breath, blasting the rushing skeletons away.

Nie Yan was silent for a moment. In order to increase the speed of farming monsters, he had the Golden Earth Dragon charge towards the skeletons in the distance, plunging into the encirclement of the skeletons.

The Golden Earth Dragon used its powerful defense to withstand the siege of these skeletons. More than thirty holy knights behind it constantly cast healing spells on the Golden Earth Dragon. The Golden Earth Dragon's health was very stable, constantly hovering at full.

Counterstorm!

Counterstorm!

Triggered by the attacks of the skeletons, the Golden Earth Dragon's counterstorm swept all the nearby skeletons to the ground one after another.

Nie Yan looked at the Golden Earth Dragon's level, 99, 62%. It was only a step away from level 100. He couldn't help but feel a little anticipation. If the Golden Earth Dragon broke through to level 100, to what extent would its stats increase?

The thieves on the distant high slope were dumbfounded. The current situation didn't look like the skeletons were besieging Nie Yan and the others, but rather the skeletons were constantly being sent up for Nie Yan and the others to farm and level up.

At this time, Qin Han, who was in the headquarters of the Zhu Shen Zhi Jian (Sword of the Gods) guild, received the videos sent by Xiaoyao and the others. Watching the situation in the videos, Qin Han had a grim expression on his face.

"Boss, at this rate, even with more skeletons, they won't be able to withstand them farming like this," Xiaoyao said. He was speechless at this situation.

Qin Han crushed a cup. Mad Rogue Nie Yan, don't think that just because these ordinary skeletons can't do anything to you, I won't be able to deal with you. The game has only just begun!

"You guys continue to keep an eye on them," Qin Han said in a deep voice.

"Yes."

Nie Yan and the others farmed monsters extremely quickly. In just over half an hour, they had killed thousands of skeletons.

As more and more skeletons were killed, the Golden Earth Dragon received a large amount of experience. Its experience points steadily climbed, gradually reaching 93%. Advancement was just around the corner.

In just another five or six minutes, the Golden Earth Dragon would be able to advance to level 100!

Looking at the endless skeletons in the distance, Xie Yao waved her staff, chanting a series of spells, a full two sets of syllables.