I, the Necromancer, will crush the gods!

Chapter 198 This is an elemental dungeon, with hidden secrets within.

Chu Yao recommended a dungeon called the Temple of the Fire God to Jiang Chen.

The level requirement for this instance is 32, and the allowed entry level range is 27 to 37.

On the surface, this dungeon seems to be no different from a normal dungeon, and it only offers two difficulty levels: Normal and Nightmare.

Entering a level 30 or higher dungeon requires 500 points, while resetting costs 2500 points.

In addition, the cooling time is quite long, reaching 120 hours, a full 5 days.

Chu Yao explained why she recommended this instance.

She had earned the points, so she put in a lot of effort. She said, "This dungeon may look no different from other ordinary dungeons on the surface, but it actually has some special features."

She continued, "You can see that there are quite a few people choosing the other dungeons, but relatively few choosing the Temple of Vulcan."

"Furthermore, if you carefully compare the completion time of this instance with other instances of the same level, you will find its differences."

Jiang Chen looked at the progress record of the Vulcan Temple.

Records show that the clearance time was 8 hours, 40 minutes, and 36 seconds.

This record was set five years ago by a team from the Hidden Dragon Academy.

It's clearly abnormal for a Nightmare-level dungeon to take more than 8 hours to complete.

Generally speaking, other Nightmare difficulty dungeons rarely take more than 6 hours to complete. Moreover, this record has stood for a full five years without being broken.

Chu Yao said with a slightly lazy smile, "You may have already noticed that this dungeon is actually one of the five elemental dungeons."

"In addition to the four elements we usually know—wind, water, fire, and electricity—there is also an element called light."

She continued, "Each element corresponds to an element dungeon, and if you're lucky, you can obtain the corresponding element fragments from the dungeon."

"Legend has it that if you can collect all five elemental fragments, you will receive unexpected benefits."

Chu Yao told Jiang Chen the truth about how difficult this dungeon was.

This dungeon is a world of fire elements; once inside, players will continuously suffer fire damage.

This is a huge challenge for therapists.

Therefore, in Nightmare difficulty teams, one DPS position is usually reduced and two healers are added.

This will reduce output and make the completion time longer.

However, the dungeon is not easy, and reducing your damage output will increase the risk.

Even with two therapists, failure is still possible.

Some students were unable to log out in time and ultimately died in the dungeon.

Similarly, high difficulty also brings high experience.

Chu Yao felt that with Jiang Chen's abilities, he shouldn't be able to stump him.

That's why I recommended this dungeon, which offers the highest experience among dungeons of the same level.

After listening, Jiang Chen felt more confident.

I think spending 100 points was well worth it.

"Are the remaining elemental dungeons here?"

Jiang Chen's gaze swept across the dungeon hall, where there were hundreds of dungeons of varying sizes, making it difficult to distinguish them all at once. Chu Yao pointed in a direction where a dungeon vortex occasionally revealed specks of water, exuding an astonishing chill.

"That's the Water Elemental instance, but it's a level 37 instance, so you can't enter it yet."

As she spoke, she pointed to another location where the sound of wind could be heard coming from the entrance to the instance.

"That's the Wind Elemental Dungeon. The Wind Elemental Dungeon is level 42. You can only enter after you reach level 37. However, most people only go in after they have completed their second job advancement and become a high-level professional."

"Copies of the last two elements are not here."

"As for the exact location, you'll have to find it yourself, Junior Jiang."

Chu Yao's eyes held a sly smile and a hint of anticipation, hoping that Jiang Chen could set a new record.

"Thank you, senior! I'm going to go practice my books now."

Jiang Chen chose Nightmare mode to enter the dungeon. Lin Cai'er sent a message after returning home yesterday, saying that she had some family matters to attend to and would be leaving for a while.

I'll come find him when I get back.

They seem to be in a hurry; I guess they've assigned Lin Cai'er some task again.

Top-tier professional families like Lin Cai'er's have a comprehensive system for cultivating their descendants.

Although Lin Cai'er was enrolled at the university, she wouldn't follow the university's path exactly.

Jiang Chen felt that he was almost there now.

I never attended a single university class.

In university, the place I spent the most time was the dungeon hall.

They don't learn or upgrade in the normal way at all.

Much of the knowledge seems incomplete.

Hong Jishi also wanted him to acquire this knowledge through actual combat. Vulcan Palace, level 32 dungeon, Nightmare difficulty.

The scorching flames burned the entire world.

This is a cave, with flames burning fiercely on the rock walls.

There is only one fiery bridge leading to the other side, beneath which flows lava.

The flowing lava occasionally bursts out pillars of fire that explode in the air like dazzling fireworks.

Jiang Chen felt that even with the skeletal armor, he probably wouldn't last long.

The Vulcan Palace dungeon is somewhat similar to the Elemental Rift, but it is more pure in its gameplay.

Simply by standing here, the fire elementals had already begun to attack him, the outsider.

The skeletal armor gleamed, resisting the fire element.

As long as you're inside the instance, you'll be constantly bombarded by fire elementals, with no end in sight. Healers will face immense pressure here.

Even if you're not fighting monsters, you need to heal your teammates every now and then.

No skeleton warriors or skeleton mages were summoned.

We haven't even encountered any monsters yet, and summoning them only results in us taking attacks for nothing.

After crossing the bridge made of flames, which was burning all over, Jiang Chen stepped into the flames with every step.

It was truly a mountain of knives and a sea of ​​fire.

If it were an ordinary professional, they would need several treatments just to cross this bridge.

The bridge isn't long; we'll soon reach the end.

Finally, two monsters were spotted on the shore.

Two monsters made of fire and lava.

The monster was three meters tall and wielded a giant flaming club, pacing back and forth along the bridge. They noticed Jiang Chen at the same time he spotted them.

With a swing of the giant club, two balls of fire were thrown towards Jiang Chen.

It looked just like a mage's fireball spell.

Jiang Chen neither dodged nor evaded, but instead took the hit head-on with his skeleton armor.

Meanwhile, the detection technique had already swept over like a gentle breeze.

"Flame Sprite (Enhanced Elite Monster)"

"Level: 32"

Strength: 10000

Agility: 3000

"Spirit: 4000"

Constitution: 10000

Skill: Fire Attack

Trait: Immune to fire damage, physical damage reduced by half.

With slightly higher strength and physique, its total attributes reach 27000, which is consistent with the attributes of a level 32 enhanced elite monster.

It is composed of fire element and is immune to fire element damage.

Another characteristic of elemental monsters is that they deal half the physical damage.

Jiang Chen had dealt with elemental monsters more than once, so he wasn't surprised to see this attribute.

"Looks like we can't use Corpse Explosion again!"

He said softly, "We can't use corpse explosions, because that would be much less efficient."

Chu Yao probably didn't know this, which is why she recommended this dungeon to herself.

You can ask her later which dungeons have more monsters.

It's okay if you get less experience from a single monster, as long as there are enough monsters.

The most crucial thing is to have a body.

Now that we're here, let's make the best of it.

Having already paid the 500-point entrance fee, it would be too much of a loss to get a refund. The flames of the fire spirit had already landed on the skeletal armor.

The flames exploded, creating beautiful fireworks.

The skeletal armor emitted a silvery-white light, completely blocking the attack.

"The power is passable!"

Jiang Chen had a rough estimate of the fire spirit's attack power.

Skeleton warriors appeared, rushing across the bridge and swinging their large swords at the fire spirits.

As the skeleton warrior ran, flames quickly erupted from his body.

Soon they became fire skeletons, their entire bodies engulfed in flames.

Jiang Chen possesses the passive skill of elemental resistance, which increases his elemental damage resistance by 300% and reduces all elemental damage by a factor of three.

Skeleton warriors have high stats to begin with, so they only look scary and don't actually do much damage.

A dozen skeleton warriors surrounded the two fire sprites and hacked at them wildly.

"Slaying a level 32 Fire Spirit grants 640000 experience points."

"Obtain Flame Core"

As expected, the fire spirit turned into fire elementals and vanished after its death, leaving no corpse behind.

This means that the Corpse Explosion skill cannot be used at all in this instance.