The skeletons spawned far from the cellar exit, so Thin Dog and the demon fox ran out without being attacked.
Outside, the ground was completely empty.
The Raiders had been led away and had yet to return.
The two ran back behind the boulder where they had hidden earlier.
The demon fox held a Health Potion in his hand, ready to gulp it down at any moment.
Thin Dog: "Munch munch~"
The demon fox watched behind them and saw the skeletons stop at the cellar entrance. After wandering around for a moment, they went back down without pursuing them.
On open ground, the two of them truly would not have been able to outrun those two agile Skeleton Warriors.
The demon fox breathed a sigh of relief. "Good thing. Otherwise, we'd have had to chug Health Potions until we ran dry."
Thin Dog: "Yeah, munch munch~"
The demon fox sat down to rest while analyzing the situation.
"Based on that fight just now, those skeletons seemed to appear out of thin air. They aren't intelligent creatures. Our enemy may not be the skeletons, but someone who can control them. Perhaps that person is the nonexistent Mysterious Person the lord asked you to find earlier."
Thin Dog: "That's what I think too, munch munch~"
The demon fox took out his jade stone and rubbed its smooth surface. "And this Mysterious Person wants this thing in our hands. When he failed to get it, he immediately tried to kill us. That proves this jade is very important to him."
"But what I don't understand is why this Mysterious Person controlled the skeletons to help us kill the Raiders when we first went to rescue the lord. Yet today, he didn't even show himself and just tried to chop us to death."
Thin Dog: "Mm, I think it's a matter of importance. When we rescued the lord, helping us may have just been something easy for this Mysterious Person, so he did it. But today, we had the precious jade. This jade might hold special meaning for him, so when he couldn't demand it from us and couldn't understand what we were saying, he controlled the skeletons to take it by force. That's probably the logic, munch munch~"
The demon fox snapped his fingers.
"That makes sense! I roughly understand now. This is clearly a plot deliberately arranged by the game designers. The Mysterious Person helped us before, but wants to kill us today, proving he's a neutral faction character. Our choices may determine where his storyline goes from here."
Thin Dog: "Ah, right, right, right, munch munch~"
The demon fox said, "At the same time, I have a guess. We'll need to go down again to confirm it. Hey! Thin Dog, can you stop smacking your lips all the time?!"
Thin Dog, who was eating beans: ∑(O_O;)
"Eating restores Physical Strength, and then you can recover health. Fine, my health's full now. Who can eat beans without smacking their lips? You try it! Here, take these!"
Thin Dog took off two rings and a necklace and tossed them to the demon fox.
After the demon fox put them on, his health immediately began recovering at six points per second. His physical condition steadily improved, as if his blood-producing cells had been put into six-times speed.
A wave of hunger immediately hit him!
The demon fox took out a handful of beans. "Munch munch~ Munch munch~"
The demon fox: (°ー°〃)
Two minutes later, the demon fox had fully recovered and returned the equipment to Thin Dog.
With both of them back at full condition, they entered the cellar again.
The two skeletons were still standing in the cellar corridor.
Thin Dog activated Armor Piercing Aura, and a faint yellow glow covered both his and the demon fox's spears.
"Focus this one!"
The two skeletons may not have expected the heavily injured pair to return. Thin Dog and the demon fox each landed a spear strike first, dealing two Golden Critical Hits!
African Thin Dog dealt Golden Critical Hit damage to Skeleton Warrior! HP -403! Ghost Face Demon Fox dealt Golden Critical Hit damage to Skeleton Warrior! HP -337!
The two of them directly snuffed out the two ghostly flames inside the skeleton's skull.
Crack~
That skeleton scattered into a pile of broken bones.
Jointly killed Skeleton Warrior. Experience +8
The experience entered their bodies.
Although the remaining skeleton began fighting back, it could no longer threaten the two of them.
After becoming familiar with the skeletons' fighting style and rhythm, they could dodge some attacks through prediction. One minute later, the demon fox had lost 240 health while Thin Dog had lost only 154, and they took down the skeleton.
Jointly killed Skeleton Warrior. Experience +8
In that short time, each of them had gained 32 experience points.
They were one step closer to leveling up.
"If skeletons can keep respawning, wouldn't we be able to grind to Level 2 today?"
"Good point! Everything about this game is great except that the leveling speed is too slow. If this really is a fixed infinite monster spawn point, that would be perfect."
"Level 1 to Level 2 requires 500 experience points. If the two of us work together, we only need to kill 63 skeletons."
They had already cleared four. Could sixty-three be far off?
For hardcore grinders like Thin Dog and the demon fox, this only counted as a light grind.
As they chatted, four red glows indeed emerged simultaneously from the other side of the passage.
The demon fox bent down and picked up the four skeleton skulls from the ground. "Retreat first!"
They were not at full condition. They definitely could not defeat two skeletons waiting in formation at once, and they would have to waste Health Potions afterward.
After returning behind the boulder again, the two skeletons stopped chasing once they reached the end of the cellar.
Thin Dog said with certainty, "The monsters' aggro range is the cellar entrance! Once we leave that range, their aggro resets and the minor monsters lose their lock-on. This is much safer than farming Raiders."
The demon fox looked at Lin Tang, who still had not returned from leading the Raiders away, and nodded in agreement.
"Raiders just keep chasing. They don't stop until they kill you."
Thin Dog looked doubtfully at the four skeleton skulls in the demon fox's hands. "You think these things... have value?"
"Not sure, but every bone in the skeletons' bodies shattered, while only their skulls remained intact. All four were like that. That could be a clue. Designers wouldn't deliberately create something useless."
"Especially top-tier game designers like Sentinel, who can create 'Apocalypse OL.' You don't seriously think he doesn't know how to make games, do you?"
After tossing the skeleton skulls behind the boulder, the two each ate another handful of beans, used the three pieces of equipment to restore their health to full, and went down into the cellar again.
Crackle, crackle~
Neither side had active skills, so they traded a flurry of basic attacks.
Slash!
During the battle, one skeleton's Bone Blade sliced across the demon fox's arm, bringing up a long spray of blood.
You received Vitality Damage from Skeleton Warrior. HP -93 You entered the Vitality Decay state. Health continuously decreasing. HP -10
"Ah! My arm!"
The demon fox's arm was injured, and he could not hold his weapon. Thin Dog hurriedly covered his retreat.
This wave, the two of them came out without killing a single skeleton.
The demon fox's clothes had been cut open by the Bone Blade, revealing a deep gash that reached the bone. The flesh around the wound was gradually withering.
His vitality was dropping at a rate of ten health per second.
Thin Dog hurriedly put all three of his equipment pieces on the demon fox, reducing the health loss to four points per second.
The wound's withering noticeably slowed.
Ten seconds later, the Vitality Decay state disappeared. The flesh in the demon fox's arm wound began slowly recovering, once again entering six-times-speed recovery.
The demon fox also let out a sigh of relief.
"My defense was broken just now. It was probably because the armor on my arm was too low. There's something strange about that skeleton's blade. After physical, piercing, and radiation damage, this is a new type of damage. Based on the description, it seems capable of stripping away a person's vitality. Good thing we each wore two pieces of equipment before coming here, or we might have been killed by that Vitality Blade Technique just now."
Each of them wore a shirt and pants dropped by Raiders. The material was unknown, but exceptionally tough.
Although they were only ordinary-grade equipment, they still gave the two of them quite a bit of armor.
"Looking at it this way... Raiders are treasures from head to toe. They can drop potions, health-regenerating accessories, Attack Capability gems, and extremely important armor. We need to kill more of them and get a full set of Raider equipment for each of us three."
Seeing the demon fox's injuries gradually recover and the withered flesh regain its vitality, Thin Dog finally relaxed.
"From now on, when we farm skeletons, we need to protect our weak spots and try to make all attacks hit our armor. Come on! Let's keep chopping!"
The demon fox grabbed Thin Dog. "Hold on! The two of us are having a great time farming, but what about Lin Tang?"
Thin Dog froze.
"Quack~ Forgot about him."
"Come on, let's follow the coordinates on the map and find him. We'll deal with the Raiders, then go down and farm together. With three people, it'll be much easier."
The two gradually moved away from Raider Camp 1.
From the cellar came the faint sound of someone letting out a relieved breath.
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