His feet were planted on boxes overflowing with gold coins.
Chen Yu slightly tilted his head up, looking at the undead mage whose expression had turned sullen the moment his words fell, his eyes widening with amusement.
Pleasant?
He felt not a shred of joy in his heart.
Only an irrepressible rage.
He appeared indifferent, yet he saw the injuries on Jack and Black Donkey.
The instant he entered the palace, the corner of his eye caught sight of those two skeletal warriors, pinning them down as if they were beasts, their necks held.
Feet were planted upon them.
By what right?
A pile of bones, what qualification did it possess to stand above beings of flesh and blood?
What qualification.
To trample his employees?
"What do you mean by this?" the undead mage’s brows furrowed, his right hand gripping the armrest of his throne, "I’ve handed over the employees to you, you don’t want the ransom anymore?"
"I'll give it to you."
Chen Yu kicked the box with a thud.
The box toppled over.
Gold coins spilled from the box onto the palace’s red carpet, shimmering with a golden brilliance.
"Money, I have plenty."
Chen Yu lifted his foot and kicked over the other boxes as well. The gold coins from several boxes converged into a small golden pile, so eye-catching it was blinding.
"This money is yours, I'll give you the ransom, but we still need to settle some accounts, don't we?"
"What accounts?" the undead mage asked.
*Whoosh, whoosh!*
Suddenly, Chen Yu, standing in the palace, drew his sword. The two skeleton soldiers were instantly chopped into piles of bone by Chen Yu.
[Dungeon Alert: Bones +4]
[Dungeon Alert: Bones +6]
"What are you doing?"
The undead mage exclaimed in shock, his hand gripping the armrest of his throne.
"Relax, I'm just collecting a little bit of interest."
Chen Yu smiled and extended his pinky finger, kicking at the pile of broken bones on the ground that weren't recognized as collectible materials.
"I've wanted to chop those two for a long time. If these were your beloved subordinates, I can compensate you. Do you think 500 gold coins is enough?"
*Clang!*
Another Fire Fruit was tossed onto the ground.
"500 gold coins, I'll pay you with a Fire Fruit, is that enough?" Chen Yu gestured towards the Fire Fruit on the ground, his eyes twinkling with amusement.
Another one!
Seeing this Fire Fruit, the undead mage’s heart trembled.
What was the origin of this foreigner before him?
Fire Fruits required extreme pickiness regarding their growing environment deep within lava, and moreover, it took a full thirty years for a single fruit to ripen.
Extremely precious.
It couldn't be said to be the rarest luxury item, but it was definitely a rare treasure.
In a mere ten minutes.
Chen Yu had thrown out two Fire Fruits.
"Alright, you can chop the skeleton soldiers. Are you satisfied now?"
"Satisfied?" Chen Yu squinted at the undead mage and said, "Rou Si has a total of 42 stab wounds, Jack has 63, and Black Donkey has 45. These are my rough estimates. You injured them, so you should compensate for medical expenses, right? 10 gold coins per stab wound, that’s not high, is it?"
"You!"
The undead mage suddenly clenched his fist.
He was enraged.
Chen Yu was acting so casually in front of him, he felt he had already shown enough respect.
Now he was demanding compensation.
"Counting these stab wounds together, rounded up to 200 stab wounds, for a total of 2000 gold coins." Chen Yu slowly raised his head and extended his hand, "You owe me 500."
"Hahaha…"
The undead mage on the throne suddenly burst into unrestrained laughter.
"What's wrong, ate some bee excrement, that makes you this happy?" Chen Yu raised an eyebrow, "Grinning like that and laughing so hard, did you grow up eating happy fruit?"
"Foolish foreigner, you are courting death."
The undead mage’s laughter ceased abruptly, his expression turning sinister as he stared at Chen Yu.
"You are courting death!"
Chen Yu immediately retorted, his gaze fixed on the undead mage on the throne.
"When did it become your turn to injure my employees, Chen Yu's employees. The moment their first drop of blood flowed, you were already dead to me."
"I’ll hack you to death and refine you into a puppet!"
The undead mage snatched the skeletal staff by the throne, his robes billowing as if in a wind.
"Come forth, my warriors!"
*Kachakacha—*
Numerous protrusions suddenly emerged from the palace floor. The little devil perched on Chen Yu’s shoulder brandished its trident.
"Be careful, it's a skeletal warrior."
The undead warriors broke through the earth.
Their bodies were all white bones, with blue flames flickering in their eye sockets. Emerging from the earth, they braced themselves with the ground, gripping their bone blades and charging at Chen Yu.
"Courting death!"
Chen Yu gritted his teeth and roared, gripping the Adventurer's Swift Wind Sword and slashing down.
*Hoo…*
As the blade struck the skeletal warriors, a wisp of black smoke emerged from their bodies.
The undead mage was greatly alarmed.
He instinctively glanced at the sword in Chen Yu's hand. A faint sacred light was surging around the Adventurer's Swift Wind Sword.
Sacred!
This was actually a sacred attribute attack.
How could this be?
How could a sacred attribute weapon appear on the outskirts of the dungeon?
After all, divinity was the absolute bane of the undead.
"Die for me, you collection of bones!" Chen Yu gripped the blade and slashed down. One by one, the skeletons fell beneath Chen Yu's sacred attribute blade.
Seeing this, the undead mage panicked.
Sacred attribute.
It was far too advantageous for an undead type like him.
"Heh, so what?" For some reason, a fierce glint flashed in the undead mage’s eyes, "This is the Necromancer's Lair, we have no shortage of the undead here."
*Kachakacha—*
More and more skeleton soldiers poured out of the palace.
"Damn it!"
"How did so many more appear? Is the undead type this ferocious?"
Looking at the skeletal warriors with blue ghost fires in their eyes, appearing like tides and seas, Chen Yu instinctively tightened his grip on the blade, his expression solemn as he surveyed his surroundings.
He was surrounded!
The number of skeletal warriors before him was outrageously large.
"It’s not that the undead type is ferocious, it's that the undead mage has the advantage of terrain. If I'm not mistaken, this should be a burial ground," the little devil frowned. "The skeletal warriors are not being condensed by him, hence this scene. Let's try to break through."
"Hoo—"
"Kaha—"
Murky air spewed from the mouths of those skeletal warriors.
Chen Yu quietly watched those skeleton soldiers.
"Break through?"
A contemptuous laugh escaped Chen Yu's lips.
"If I break through now, how will I collect medical fees for my employees? Should I let my employees get beaten for nothing? Such a corporate leader would be too pathetic."
"The problem is, who knows how many corpses are in this burial ground? Can you kill them all?"
"Why kill them all?"
"What will you do if you don't kill them all?"
"It’s very simple," Chen Yu slightly raised his sword tip, pointing at the undead mage holding the skeletal staff aloft, "Kill him, and everything will be fine!"