Resurrection Stone (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

The black-robed man reacted quickly this time, retreating backward as his body swiftly transformed into a shadow, preparing to become one again.

But Luna was right behind the black-robed man, giving him no chance at all. As he turned into a shadow, she opened her mouth again and let out a shriek directly at him.

The black-robed man hadn't even moved his body when Luna blasted him out of his shadow state.

Just then, Gu Xi's Powderize Staff smashed into the black-robed man's head, instantly causing it to explode.

At the same time, four or five Skeleton Soldiers grabbed the black-robed man's limbs, preventing him from turning into a shadow again. The Skeleton Soldiers behind them raised their Spears and two-handed swords, continuously hacking at the black-robed man's body.

In the blink of an eye, the black-robed man's body was hacked to pieces like a torn sack.

But this black-robed man was quite ruthless. After being beaten from his strongest state back to a severely injured one, he didn't lose heart; instead, he laughed.

While being hacked, his body turned into a shadow again, but this time, the shadow had a dark red hue.

Even Gu Xi, who had rushed to the front, smelled the heavy stench of blood emanating from the shadow.

Gu Xi felt that something was wrong here.

"Luna, stop him!"

Luna shrieked immediately, but it seemed a little too late.

Under the Banshee's Wail, the shadow that the black-robed man had transformed into was scattered again, but the black-robed man on the ground laughed. He barely raised his head, staring at Gu Xi, blood constantly flowing from his mouth.

"You're doomed, you're doomed!"

Before Gu Xi could figure out what was wrong, Luna discovered a serious problem.

"The ring on his hand is gone."

Gu Xi's heart tightened, and he quickly looked at the black-robed man's right hand. The stone ring that could summon blood from the small building and quickly restore the black-robed man's Life was still there.

This made Gu Xi a little puzzled, but he immediately noticed that the black-robed man seemed to be missing a finger on his left hand.

Although Gu Xi didn't know what had happened, he understood that he couldn't let the black-robed man continue like this.

"Cut off his hand."

Several Skeleton Soldiers rushed out, about to cut off the black-robed man's arm, when the ground nearby shook.

The Skeleton Soldiers wanted to retreat to protect Gu Xi, but Gu Xi said decisively.

"Cut!"

Without thinking, the Skeleton Soldiers immediately cut off the black-robed man's arm.

Gu Xi stepped forward and kicked the arm aside, preventing the black-robed man from having the chance to restore his Life with that ring.

Then, the other Skeleton Soldiers stepped forward and quickly killed the black-robed man on the spot.

[You have killed a Twisted Magician (Elderly, Level 5). You have gained 73 experience points. Due to the combat contract, the undead have gained 46 experience points. All summons participating in the kill have gained 6 experience points.]

However, even as he was being killed, the black-robed man had a smile on his face.

This situation was quite strange.

At the same time, as the black-robed man died, the ground tremors became stronger and stronger, and even the nearby small buildings began to shake.

Gu Xi didn't have time to clean up the black-robed man's body and could only grab the severed arm to the side.

[You have picked up Resurrection Stone (Pseudo, Blue) *1]

[Resurrection Stone (Pseudo, Blue): A mass-produced item imitating the Death Relic Resurrection Stone, which can be used to resurrect corpses that have been dead for no more than three hours (resurrection requires the consumption of an innocent person's Life, and the resurrected body will be partially distorted, and this pain can never be relieved)]

Looking at the ring in his hand, Gu Xi finally understood what had happened. This was using other people's lives to resurrect himself.

These guys were evil magicians, no wonder they used this method to hide this small building. If this were discovered by the people of Victoria City, they would be treated the same as Cultists.

Just as Gu Xi was thinking about this, he suddenly looked up. At this moment, a huge antler protruded from the ground, knocking down half of the small building on the spot.

Then, a grotesquely twisted, huge strange deer crawled out from underground.

More than half of this strange deer's body was made of rock. It had at least seven antlers of varying lengths on its head, the largest being two meters long and the smallest being one meter long.

On these antlers, there were also many pieces of flesh and internal organs hanging, and blood dripped continuously on the deer's face, making it look quite terrifying.

As for the deer's body, it was even more of a patchwork of strange things. You could even see clothes, weapons, and flesh and bones on the deer's belly.

He didn't know how such a monster was raised in the basement of the small building.

Before Gu Xi could understand how this thing appeared, the monster deer took the initiative to rush forward. As it charged, the small building behind it, which had already been half-collapsed by its impact, collapsed completely.

As the monster deer moved, Gu Xi's Bone Spikes, Luna's Banshee's Wail, and the surviving Skeleton Soldiers all went to meet the monster deer.

Unlike the Twisted Magician, who could turn into a shadow and move quickly, this monster deer was not afraid of any attacks. When the Bone Spikes landed on its body, they just stuck there, and it didn't care at all.

The Banshee's Wail was directly resisted, and the Skeleton Soldiers didn't even look at it, crashing straight into it, killing anyone who stood in their way.

After attacking twice, Gu Xi knew that the power of his Bone Spikes was still too weak, so he immediately changed his attack method, pointing at the Skeleton Soldier who had just been killed.

"Corpse Explosion!"

Just as the monster deer stepped on the corpse of the Skeleton Soldier, the Corpse Explosion detonated, blasting a piece of the monster deer's body off.

But to Gu Xi's surprise, the monster deer didn't care about this damage at all, and still lowered its head as before, charging towards Gu Xi.

Gu Xi also understood that, given the current situation, that attack just now didn't actually do much damage to the monster deer.

It was almost impossible to kill this monster deer with Corpse Explosion.

In other words, Gu Xi's attacks were basically ineffective against this monster deer.

Gu Xi had never encountered such a situation before, and he was a little unsure of what to do for a moment.

Just then, the monster deer went berserk, opening its mouth and biting a Skeleton Soldier blocking its path to death.

Seeing this opportunity, Gu Xi pointed his hand at the monster deer's mouth, and the Skeleton Soldier exploded on the spot, causing the monster deer to spit out some blood.

But the monster deer acted as if nothing had happened, and continued to attack in its own way, without any change in its attack methods.

Gu Xi finally realized that his little attack power was nothing in front of the monster deer. If he wanted to kill this monster deer, he would have to use some other means.