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Chapter 219 - 189: Troll Tomb_1

Chapter 219: Chapter 189: Troll Tomb_1

[You have accepted the ’Absorb Troll Corpses’ quest.]

[You have obtained a ’Troll Spirit Niche’.]

Mu You clicked on the text of ’Spirit Niche’ and took it out to examine.

The so-called ’Troll Spirit Niche’ is actually just a metal cremation urn, its surface engraved with numerous arcane patterns and two rows of a total of twenty embossed troll skulls.

At this moment, all the skulls’ eyes are gray, indicating that there’s no troll ash in the spirit niche. Judging from the quantity, every time a troll corpse is absorbed, a skull should light up.

When all the skulls light up, it signifies that the urn is full of ash.

As the spirit niche was held, it immediately emitted a very cold aura, enveloping Mu You’s whole body.

Mu You guessed that this is the aura of the trolls. As long as he held this item in his hand, he should not be attacked by the spirits inside the cave again.

Mu You immediately controlled his character to return to Little Ya’s treehouse and rode a donkey to the previously visited Troll Cave.

Mu You had tried before that if he set up the Dark Teleportation Array elsewhere in the Elf Forest, it would be casually dismantled by passing elves. The elves really did not like this kind of thing steeped in dark aura.

Having no choice, Mu You could only transit from Little Ya’s place every time.

While on the road, he conveniently opened the world channel of the forum and posted two trade threads: one was for collecting more than 200 sunflowers, with the previously scored Excellent Grade ’Iron Crystal Mace’ and ’Mud Boots’ listed as rewards, and included ’negotiable price’.

Sunflowers are not expensive, a stalk wouldn’t exceed a year’s lifespan. Two pieces of Excellent Grade equipment should be enough for an exchange.

But the problem is that this item is a specialty of cities corresponding to the Star Spirit World in Africa, where the beta players are few and generally low leveled. More importantly, it’s currently the ’Arcane Tower’ server task period, and fools are generally unable to enter the city, making obtaining a material that only grows in a particular city even more difficult.

Mu You didn’t expect the trade to be achieved quickly and posted it just to try his luck.

As for the other task of capturing the ’Abyss Dragon’ alive, this one is even more difficult. No matter how, a solo player probably couldn’t accomplish it. Only a well-coordinated team of godlike players might have a chance.

Mu You also posted a task for this, but he didn’t dare to mention a specific reward, just saying to discuss privately.

When the game character arrived at the cave entrance, Mu You put the spirit niche into the game and immediately clicked on ’Enter the Cave’.

[You have entered the cold and damp Troll Cave, this is where the Troll Tribe has been burying their dead since ancient times, countless animal bones are piled up at your feet.]

[Under the ability of Night Vision, you can see clearly within the pitch-black cave. You see numerous troll spirits wandering around you, scrutinizing you with malice.]

[Thankfully, the aura of a troll that the Spirit Niche in your hand gives off has deceived those spirits. They ultimately did not launch an attack on you, and each passed by you in turn. You are safe.]

Invisibility seemed ineffective against these spirits, he was wearing the Invisibility Cloak, but these spirits could still see him clearly.

Thankfully, as long as the Spirit Niche was in his hand, the spirits wouldn’t attack unprovoked.

Once the first hurdle was crossed, things became much easier. A large number of spirits were concentrated at the cave entrance, like the existence of a gatekeeper. There were much fewer spirits inside.

Mu You continued to explore deeper into the cave, but soon, he realized that he had greatly underestimated the trolls’ defense of this tomb.

[After walking along a narrow dirt path for about thirty meters, you’ve entered a large underground tunnel area.]

[The tunnel was built by piecing together smooth boulders covered in moss, with a width of about seven to eight meters. Extinguished torches filled the stone walls on both sides. About every fifty meters, there is a troll grave. Countless tunnels winding and connecting underground forming a complex labyrinth.]

[You see a three-way junction ahead. To the left, right, and center, you see a vague tomb in each direction, you decide to head to...]

"Left!"

Familiar three-way junction, Mu You randomly selected one to inspect.

[You head toward the left tunnel.]

[You feel as though you have collided with an invisible figure, green skin materializes in front of you, it turns out to be a sneaking Troll Assassin!]

[The Troll Assassin immediately saw through your disguise, roared in anger, brandishing a dagger towards you in an attack.]

[You easily killed the Troll Assassin, but your actions alarmed the other spirits and patrolling trolls in the cave.]

[Countless spirits rushed towards you, you were quickly killed on the spot...]

"Rewind, rewind!"

Mu You immediately pushed his pocket watch. It turns out that there were not only spirit guardians in the cave but also a large number of living troll patrols. The Troll Spirit Niche could fool the spirits, but it didn’t have any effect on the living.

Moreover, somehow these trolls liked to hide, even on their own turf, they always remained in stealth. Even the narration gave no prompts, and he only found them when he directly crashed into one...

[Time shifted, you returned to the three-way junction, this time, you choose...]

Mu You chose ’right’, but he didn’t immediately rush in. Instead, he waited for the character to walk right for two seconds, then clicked on ’Arcane Missile’ to scout the way.

[The missile shot out, following a winding path, revealing a Troll Scout hiding near the right wall.]

"Sure enough, there is something!"

Mu You activated his pocket watch once more, retreating his character to the previous junction, heading toward the last middle route, and once again released the missile.

Luckily, this time, it didn’t hit anything.

[The Arcane Missile hovered around you for a while without detecting any targets until its energy was depleted and it disappeared automatically.]

[You confidently walked into the middle tunnel.]

[You’ve found a ’Troll Spear Thrower’s’ tomb, place the Spirit Niche on top of the grave, and it can automatically absorb the remains inside the grave. Do you wish to do it now?]

"No!"

The quest requires the ’High-Level Troll’ remains, this is obviously just a common minion, and Mu You himself was reluctant, considering that the Cremation Urn could only store twenty remains, it’s better to collect as high a grade as possible.

Next, Mu You began using the pocket watch in conjunction with the missile’s scouting ability, continually pushing deeper into the cave.

The underground tomb was much larger than he’d imagined, built like a labyrinth full of graves, there was a grave every few dozen meters, but the vast majority of them were ordinary troll tombs, he hadn’t seen any high-level ones so far.

Now, the map was crucial.

Mu You explored while drawing a map on paper, which was similar to his previous exploration of the Peaceful Village, although the tomb was much larger than the Peaceful Village, resulting in a complex map that looked like a winding spider web.

Also, not all routes were accessible. The distribution of troll patrols in the cave didn’t follow any pattern, and it took less than half an hour for Mu You to encounter three routes all blocked by trolls.

[As time rolls back, you find yourself back at the junction. Now that you know each of the three directions is guarded by at least two trolls, will you return the way you came and choose a different path?]

"No."

Mu You chose to reject it, he had explored most of the paths ahead, if he went back, he would have to come back here sooner or later anyway.

What’s more, the defense here had suddenly become so tight, it may be because there was a high-level tomb present.

He waited at the spot for a while, and every ten minutes he would go out and throw a missile to test the situation, if he hit a troll, he would go back in time and wait again.

After waiting for nearly forty minutes, finally, this time when the missile was launched, it didn’t hit anything.

Mu You’s eyes lit up, as expected these patrolling guards weren’t always rooted to the spot.

He quickly headed in that direction.

[You venture deeper into the tunnel and discover a tomb that is, by a large margin, taller than the others. Judging by the rustic epitaph, it appears to be the tomb of a Troll tribal chief.]

The rank system within the troll community isn’t as clear as humans, but the common positions of chief, priest, and elder, are present in every tribe, these positions are considered high-ranking trolls.

This tomb turned out to be that of a chieftain, represented the highest leader of a tribe, definitely up to the standard!

[You placed the Spirit Niche flat on top of the grave, runes spread out automatically from the bottom of the Spirit Niche forming a Magic Array that enveloped the whole grave. Under the operation of the Magic Array, the residual corpse energy inside the grave was continuously extracted and flown into the Spirit Niche...]

[Absorbing remains, approximately 118 seconds remaining...]

Mu You’s heart skipped a beat, he didn’t expect that absorbing one corpse would take as long as two minutes... he couldn’t move during this time, he wasn’t about to be discovered by a passing troll, was he?

Mu You nervously waited.

Indeed, as he had feared, just as the countdown reached twenty seconds, a new text suddenly popped up.

[A patrolling Troll Scout passing by here has detected something unusual.]

[The Troll Scout discovered your despicable act of grave robbing and, in a fury, launched an attack on you, and loudly called for backup.]

[You temporarily repelled the Troll Scout, but soon found yourself in combat with other trolls who rushed over to assist...]

Mu You knew this fight would inevitably lead to another death, he was now only hoping for the countdown to tide over quickly, at least allowing him to seize the ashes before he died.

Panic-struck, he used every spell and method available on the control panel one by one to delay his impending death as much as possible.

Luckily, this effort was not in vain and finally, he managed to drag the countdown to zero.

[The Spirit Niche drains all energy from within the tomb, resulting in one troll corpse being stored, with the filling progress being (1/20).]

[You were strangled by the countless Trolls that rushed over, Life -1.]

[Detected Binding Transmission Mark, do you want to resurrect at the transmission point?]

"Yes."

Of course, Mu You chose to teleport back to the small cabin, as he had already been exposed and staying in the tomb would only result in constant attacks by the ghosts.