Long Haochen had barely found his footing after teleporting through the Eternal Melody to the Eternal Tower when a deafening explosion rang out from inside.
"What's going on?" Long Haochen froze in bewilderment. Why were there sounds of battle coming from the tower Yilikes had left to pass on his necromantic arts?
But at the thought that Yue Chen might be inside, he stopped questioning it and ran straight for the doors.
"Whew."
Yue Chen exhaled a stale breath. At his feet lay the charred remains of two skeleton knights.
"An ordinary fifth-tier fighter really couldn't handle these skeletons with their ancient combat techniques," Yue Chen murmured, looking down at the shattered bones.
He stopped channeling spiritual power into his weapons. The Dragon Flame and white light enveloping his new weapon and the Holy Spirit Sword began to fade, and the scorching heat in the air quietly disappeared.
"I'll call you Ashen Dragon Fang," Yue Chen said, studying the pale blade and the fiery red patterns covering it.
For some reason, he kept feeling that this sword was not the sort of weapon an upright man like him should wield. Moreover, it was purely fire-attributed, leaving him no way to bring out the abilities of his Child of Light constitution.
He looked back at the two charred skeletons on the floor. The two clusters of white light that had entered them earlier reappeared following their defeat and hovered before him.
Before Yue Chen could approach, the two crystalline lights drifted straight toward him and entered his body, becoming two warm currents that flowed through all his meridians.
Yue Chen paid no attention to the white lights that had entered him. Instead, he bent down and used the Holy Spirit Sword to dig a pale golden bead out of the