Dragonspawn

Xiao Yu had previously run several dungeons, most of which were linear. In the early days of large-scale online games, dungeons were often very complex, like mazes, and sometimes even designed to resemble real monster lairs. However, because this could easily affect the player's gaming experience (such as getting lost), later dungeons were often designed as linear, where players simply had to follow one path to get through.

The dungeons themselves don't provide additional difficulty; all the challenges in the game come from the monsters within the dungeons. The dungeons are merely for creating atmosphere, but this particular dungeon seems to be different.

"Which way should we go?" he asked the Earl of Monte Cristo.

"How should I know? But I have a way."

As he spoke, he began to cast a spell while muttering incantations.

"Almighty gods, guide me on the path to glory and victory!" -- Insight!

As the Earl of Monte Cristo cast the spell, a blue orb of light appeared before them. The orb drifted directly toward the path to the right, leaving a blue trail, like a road sign.

"Look, isn't this the road?" he said, following the blue path.

This Insight is also in Xiao Yu's spell list. This spell requires the caster to lock onto a target, and then the spell will automatically plan a route to the target.

The problem is that nobody knows what's inside these ruins, so how could the Earl of Monte Cristo possibly succeed with his Insight? Unless he already knows what's inside, or it's even his mission objective, or he's targeting his teammates.

Xiao Yu sneered inwardly, thinking, "You've been exposed again. How do you know what's in these ruins? Clearly, this guy's up to something."

(Okay, I'll see what you're up to.)

Thinking of this, he turned around and glanced at everyone, then sent a message in the guild channel.

"Everyone, be on high alert. This Earl of Monte Cristo might be suspicious. I suspect they might have an ambush inside the ruins. Everyone, follow behind me. We'll stay in formation and attack if things go wrong."

After walking along the passage on the right for a while, a spacious hall suddenly appeared ahead. At the end of the hall was a stone door, so it was clear that one had to pass through the hall to continue. However, on both sides of the passage in the middle of the hall, there were two rows of statues.

There are eight statues in total. They look quite strange. They have lizard-like bodies, but their upper bodies stand upright like humans. They hold huge spears in their hands and stand on both sides of the passage, looking quite mysterious.

However, Xiao Yu recognized this statue.

"Holy crap, isn't that Dragonspawn?"

Dragonspawn are monsters unique to the Sky World. They are a vassal race of the Dragon Clan, half-human and half-dragon, and generally serve as servants of the Dragon Clan. However, no such creatures have ever been heard of during the War of the Gods. The closest thing to the statues in front of us should be lizardmen, but lizardmen are bipedal creatures that walk upright, and they are barbarians living in swamps. They have no civilization of their own and could not possibly have built such a magnificent ruin. Moreover, these statues in front of us have four legs, which clearly indicates that they are Dragonspawn.

This relic is indeed related to the Sky World.

Clearly, Xiao Yu wasn't the only one who recognized the identities of these statues. The Count of Earl of Monte Cristo's men were already buzzing with discussion, and a few of the bolder ones had already gone over and started touching them.

"Wow, what is this thing? It looks so weird."

"He looks like a lizard man."

"They're not lizardmen, they're Dragonspawn. I've seen them before in the Sky World."

"Dragonspawn in the War of the Gods? I've never heard of that."

As for Xiao Yu, his men had all obeyed his orders, so they maintained their battle formation and stood in the passageway at the entrance of the hall without making any sudden movements.

"Shut up, all of you! Listen!" the Earl of Monte Cristo suddenly shouted.

Everyone stopped talking at once, and a crashing sound rang out, as if something was shattering and breaking apart.

"It's those statues!"

An adventurer suddenly shouted, and sure enough, cracks began to appear on the statues, and they even trembled as if they were about to come alive. Suddenly, with a crack, one of the statues' arms exploded, revealing golden dragon scales beneath the stone.

"Holy crap, this thing is alive!" someone exclaimed.

With a couple of taps, the Dragonspawn sprang out of the statue. It turned out that only the surface of these statues was made of stone; the rest were made of real Dragonspawn. The Dragonspawn was exceptionally tall, over three meters high, and his spear was also over three meters long. The huge spearhead was like a giant sword, and with a single, light swing, he pierced right through an adventurer in front of him.

"Ah!" The adventurer let out a scream, instantly bringing the others back to their senses.

"Come back, all of you! Prepare for battle!" shouted the Count of Earl of Monte Cristo.

Everyone ran back, one after another. All the Dragonspawn had come back to life and recovered from their petrification, and they chased after them.

A Dragonspawn caught up with a slow-moving Warrior, raising his spear high in the air.

Flame Missiles! With a bang, a fireball exploded on the Dragonspawn's body, but it couldn't break through the dragon scales' defense at all.

With a soft thud, the Dragonspawn stabbed the Warrior to death with a single spear thrust.

In the blink of an eye, the adventurers had already flipped over several times.

"Damn, this script isn't right!" Xiao Yu, watching from the back, was dumbfounded, realizing he had clearly guessed wrong. If the Earl of Monte Cristo really had some kind of ambush, people wouldn't be dying so quickly.

"Captain, are we still going to make a move?" Big Water Cunt.

"Everyone, hold your fire for now, assess the situation first, and deal with the Dragonspawn first."

By this time, the adventurers had retreated into the passage and joined Xiao Yu and the Undead, forming a battle formation with melee fighters in front and ranged fighters behind. The Earl of Monte Cristo was clearly preparing to use class coordination and numerical superiority to deal with these monsters.

However, the battle was completely one-sided. There was no way around it; these Dragonspawn had Dragon Clan scales, and although they weren't as powerful as true dragons, their defensive and magical defenses were exceptionally strong. Ordinary magic was practically like a tickle to them.

Even swords and blades can only inflict limited damage.

In contrast, the Dragonspawn wielded enormous spears of immense power, each strike causing chaos and confusion for the melee fighters in the front ranks.

The biggest problem was that after fighting for so long, they couldn't tell how much health the monsters had lost. After a chaotic battle, seven or eight adventurers died, and two skeleton Warrior were also killed, but they couldn't even kill a single Dragonspawn. Instead, they were forced to retreat back into the passage.

"Use the barbecue method!" the Count of Earl of Monte Cristo exclaimed.

Upon hearing this, the mages in the group immediately began to act.

Grease!

The black oil spread out instantly, causing the Dragonspawn to slip and some to fall to the ground.

Burning Hands!

The classic two-hit combo: first, use the Grease to pave the way, causing the Dragonspawn standing on it to slip and fall one by one; then, use the Burning Hands to ignite the fuel, and flames immediately rise up, filling the passage. The Dragonspawn standing in the flames are all burned red.

However, the flames were clearly not enough to kill these Dragonspawn; instead, they fueled their ferocity, making them even more frenzied in the flames.

Several more melee fighters in the front row were killed in the blink of an eye.

"Damn it, this isn't working! We need to think of something quick!"

As the flames gradually died down, Xiao Yu suddenly had a brilliant idea.

"Use ice magic!"

The Count of Earl of Monte Cristo's eyes lit up. "Yes, yes, yes, use ice magic!"

Freezing Cloud!

Freezing Mist!

Frigid Wind Blast!

A barrage of ice spells was unleashed upon the Dragonspawn. Their scales, which had turned a brilliant red from the flames, crackled and popped in the ice as the thermal expansion and contraction caused their scales to deform.

"Melee fighters, move out! Cast your Magic Weapon!"

Level Two Divine Spell - Magic Weapon!

This spell was a universal divine spell. Since everyone was Blasphemers, almost everyone knew it, so they all buffed themselves with it and surrounded the Dragonspawn with their swords, giving them a beating. This time, the Dragonspawn finally couldn't withstand it. Due to thermal expansion and contraction, their dragon scales became extremely fragile, even if they didn't burst. The swords, enhanced with Magic Weapon, were incredibly powerful and easily pierced through their scales.

A few minutes later, with a scream, the last Dragonspawn also perished.

"Thank goodness we finally won," Xiao Yu said, glancing at the crowd. In such a short time, thirteen people had died, nine of whom were men of the Earl of Monte Cristo.

It seems I misunderstood the Earl of Monte Cristo; there was no ambush.

Is there some special mission involved?

The Earl of Monte Cristo then said, "Let's divide the spoils first. Let's split the loot in half each, and then we'll divide it further later."

After saying that, he directly touched a corpse.

However, the dropped equipment that popped up surprised everyone.

Item Name: Dragonspawn Spear (Weapon/Fine)

Item Attributes: Attack Power 47-73, Strength +20, Stamina +10.

Item effect: When attacking, there is a chance to ignore the target's defense.

Equipment level requirement: 42.

Holy crap, what the hell? Level 42? In the War of the Gods, level cap is 20! This really is equipment from the Sky World.