My Misfortune Crushed Instances-Chapter 308: Coordination
Li Rui jumped down from the watchtower and saw that Cheng Mingyue, who had transformed into an aggressive form, looked different from her previous "makeup." This time, a totem mark appeared on her cheek, wide and narrow, like a sword blade without a hilt.
Her skin darkened a bit, and even shallow scale armor grew on her hands.
"Weren’t you going to support me?" Li Rui asked with a smile.
"I don’t think you need it."
Cheng Mingyue said confidently, "You go left, I go right, let’s clear the way together, more efficient."
Both of them were top-tier talents among the supernovas, without needing much chatter, they could immediately see each other’s general strength, so they decided and split off.
Before leaving, Li Rui instructed the strongman to stay put and call him back if there was danger.
Now, he creaked open the door of a side courtyard and entered, but before he could look around, he heard the door shut with a bang behind him.
Immediately, the doors of the houses in the courtyard flung open with a crash.
"Uh-uh-uh..."
A group of ragged demons rushed out, moving swiftly as they did in life, but with a strong Evil Qi in their gestures.
Li Rui didn’t underestimate them, starting with Yin Thunder strikes, not simply using Thunderbolt Palm to fend them off.
The monsters in this Ghost City were formidable and couldn’t be underestimated.
But once cautious, those resurrected ghost demons fared poorly, bursting into ash in moments.
Li Rui killed the ghost demons and pushed into the house, where toppled furniture and webs covered the hall, and with the Blue Silver Lamp Ring lighting the way, he found an uncorroded box in the inner room.
After opening it, he saw only one item inside, an Epic Level enhancement material.
Sure enough, this was not the outer Ghost City but the Necromancer Witch’s residence, bound to have several unmarked treasures.
After storing the material in the inventory, Li Rui left the house and continued forward; the courtyard was a garden with a dry pool, and a rockery inside the pool.
Li Rui looked closely and saw a small hole in the rockery with something inside emitting a faint glow.
"Hiding in such a nook and cranny, truly devious."
He quickly rushed to the rockery edge, stepping on a protrusion, to see a palm-sized treasure chest gleaming inside the dim hole.
He was about to retrieve the treasure chest when a warning arose suddenly in his heart, almost simultaneously, a rotten claw shot out from the hole and lunged at his heart.
Li Rui was startled; he hadn’t sensed the threat from the hole until the moment of the ambush, and only by relying on the speed of Shenxiao Thunderbolt Heart Scripture he narrowly avoided the strike.
Currently strong, in direct combat if level restrictions were in place, he would have few opponents.
But sudden ambushes with hidden killing intent could still potentially cause harm.
As Li Rui dodged backward, the thing hidden in the rockery’s belly dashed out, revealing itself as a hunting dog, non-demonic in life.
Its slender body allowed it to squeeze through the rockery’s hole.
Its four paws, shrouded in necrotic energy, stepped firmly, each stride crumbling the already shattered tiles beneath.
"Obliteration, huh..."
Recognizing the peculiar trait, Li Rui knew it was not one to be trifled with.
If that’s the case...
Thunder Vortex! Thunder Vortex! Thunder Vortex!
Finding Obliteration tricky, he opted for a ranged skill to avoid direct contact.
Of three Thunder Vortex shots, two missed, as the revived hunting dog’s moves were agile enough to dodge even amid high-frequency oscillations without control effects.
Still, Li Rui’s lack of combat ethics, by using numerous Thunder Vortex shots to cover an extensive area, left no escape for his foe.
Divine Thunder touching Evil Qi was like high heat meeting ice and snow; unless the gap was vast, it would instantly melt it.
The hunting dog was decimated by one hit, and Li Rui hurried back to the rockery side, smashing half of it with the Vajra Umbrella and confirming nothing else was hidden before retrieving the treasure chest.
Inside the chest was a colored crystal.
[Prismatic Crystal: Use to gain experience points +200000, free attribute points +20.]
Li Rui happily used it and continued inward.
Meanwhile, the left side of the Necromancer Witch’s residence also resonated with loud noises, clearly indicating Cheng Mingyue was in action too.
When Li Rui reached the rear, he arrived before the tallest two-story wooden building.
Clearly, this was the main building in the residence, yet it wasn’t the architecture blocking him but a towering figure standing on the rooftop.
A demon race figure, some ten meters tall, stood with humanoid legs, wielding a long staff, face hidden behind a golden mask, silver-white hair trailing down the waist.
A ragged robe draped over him, his exposed body reeking, with flies or some other bugs burrowing in and out.
Li Rui felt this demon race was once gallant and mighty in life, but in death only befriended vermin, a pitiful fate.
Before he could act, the adversary struck first, robes billowing as countless dense black insects surged forth, covering the sky like a descending net.
Li Rui realized his earlier misjudgment.
Those bugs weren’t posthumously attracted; the opponent had wielded insect witchcraft all along.
Except now, he was deceased, and countless bugs, unable to feed on Spiritual Power, lived off necrotic energy, turning more sinister.
If parasitized by them, not only would he be poisoned, his soul might also be eroded.
Buzz!
Li Rui activated Shenxiao Thunderbolt Heart Scripture, poised to use Thunder Shocking Earth to disperse the attack, when suddenly noticed the insects halted in their charge, crashing against a suddenly emerged cyan barrier.
"I’ve got him controlled, you kill."
Cheng Mingyue’s voice rang from the other side; she had reached the boss point too.
"Alright!"
Li Rui’s form vanished instantly, using a Legendary Level state skill to boost its speed, racing along the side of the wooden building toward the roof.
The necromancer witch thrust the staff on the roof, seemingly to cast a spell.
Bang!
Nothing happened.
He seemed puzzled, raised it, and slammed down again.
Bang!
Still no effect.
It appeared one of his spells had failed due to Cheng Mingyue’s interference, leaving him scrambling to escape.
However, Li Rui’s speed was unmatched, arriving close by.
Ding ding ding!
The Vajra Umbrella slammed into the staff, followed by phantom attacks.
High-frequency vibrations overwhelmed the mainly magical necromancer witch, causing him to tilt as if to fall.
Yet Li Rui gave no chances, left hand Thunderbolt Palm struck, bang!
A palm struck critical, leaving half the necromancer witch gone.
Though Thunderbolt Palm was merely a combination of Dash Thunder Palm and Shenxiao Thunderbolt Heart Scripture, it was at least a level 5 Legendary skill, more than enough against a completely unbalanced Yin Sha enemy.
