I, the Necromancer, will crush the gods!

Chapter 200 The skeletons are damaged again, the palace shakes.

Lin Zhenzi quickly barged into Hong Shen's courtyard, attracting Hong Jishi's attention.

Hong Jishi asked curiously, "Old man Lin, what brings you here today? Didn't your precious granddaughter just get back? Shouldn't you spend some time with her?"

Lin Zhenzi sat down, poured himself a cup of tea without any ceremony, and then said, "Your good student has activated the Hell difficulty of the Vulcan Palace dungeon."

Hong Jishi seemed to have expected this, responding easily: "What's so strange about that? With his abilities, activating Hell difficulty is perfectly normal."

Lin Zhenzi continued, "Once Hell difficulty is activated, elemental fragments may drop."

Hong Jishi interrupted him: "Do you want to steal my student's things?"

This conversation feels like that of an old bull protecting its calf.

Lin Zhenzi angrily retorted, "I didn't mean that! When did I say I was going to steal it! Hong Jishi, don't go too far with your words!"

He was so angry that his face turned red.

Li Xueru calmly said, "Old Hong was just joking, there's no need to get so worked up."

With a smile, Hong Jishi handed Lin Zhenzi a cup of tea: "Yes, don't get so excited."

He continued, "I understand. If he can gather all the elemental fragments, that would be lucky for this kid. If he can't, that's just fate."

"After all, none of us know the exact locations of the Lightning Palace and Holy Light Palace instances." There are three elemental instances in the instance hall: fire, water, and wind, but the lightning and light instances have not yet been discovered.

These two instances are unique and not easily found.

Lin Zhenzi added, "I saw the Lightning Palace on Battlefield No. 8 more than ten years ago, but at that time I was fighting the Abyss Demon King and couldn't spare a hand."

"By the time the battle was over, it was gone."

"As for the Palace of Holy Light, it has indeed never been discovered."

Hong Jishi shrugged: "So, if we can find them, then Jiang Chen will be lucky."

Lin Zhenzi said, "I came here just to tell you that I want your son to take my Cai'er to the Vulcan Palace. Even if we can't combine the elemental fragments into one, the individual elemental fragments will still be very useful."

Hong Jishi chuckled: "I don't need to say anything about this. Let Cai'er talk to Jiang Chen herself. If Cai'er speaks up, Jiang Chen will definitely not refuse."

Lin Zhenzi thought about it and realized that it was indeed true.

I don't need to use my old face at all.

He simply refused to acknowledge that Jiang Chen and Lin Cai'er were in love, which is why he overlooked this aspect for a moment.

But if Lin Cai'er were to say it herself, wouldn't that be tantamount to him admitting their relationship?

The thought of his precious cabbage being taken by someone else filled Lin Zhenzi with conflicted emotions.

Hong Jishi patted him on the shoulder: "Old man Lin, this flower in your family will be picked sooner or later. Rather than letting some good-for-nothings pick it, it's better to let Jiang Chen have it."

"At least among his peers, no one is more outstanding than Jiang Chen, right?"

"Moreover, we can become even closer through marriage, which is a win-win situation."

Lin Zhenzi continued his internal struggle. Inside the Vulcan Palace, Jiang Chen accelerated his advance.

The skeleton warriors have already found the exit.

There are four entrances to the cave, and the internal structure is similar to that of an ant cave, with all passages interconnected.

There is only one final exit.

Moreover, this exit is extremely disgusting; you won't reach the exit until you've explored the entire cave.

No matter which entrance you enter from, the result is the same.

When Jiang Chen saw the entire terrain map, the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

If you're going to explore the whole area, why bother setting up four entrances?

This is like taking off your pants to fart – it's pointless!

How was this replica created? You absolutely couldn't create a cave like this without ten years of brain thrombosis.

Jiang Chen ran out of the cave as fast as he could.

A colossal palace came into view. The palace was engulfed in raging flames, and every pillar was made of fire.

Above the palace, a giant eye of fire appeared.

His appearance bore a resemblance to the Flame Demon King.

"Intruder!"

The giant eye of fire spotted Jiang Chen and immediately sounded an alarm.

The earth was still shaking, and magma spewed out, turning into flames that crashed towards Jiang Chen.

I go!

Jiang Chen snorted and ran forward as fast as he could.

At the same time, he added another layer of skeletal armor to his body.

The flames landed on the ground and exploded with a bang, bursting into a ball of fire.

A massive impact swept in, and the skeletal armor gleamed, shielding Jiang Chen from all the impact.

The skeleton warriors were all injured in the charge, but the flames on their bodies intensified.

The time that skeleton warriors can last is further reduced.

Lava continued to spew forth, and flames rained down as Jiang Chen led his 16 skeleton warriors in a frantic dash forward.

The skeleton warrior's injuries worsened, and he could only hold on for a shorter and shorter time.

Unexpectedly, the Skeleton Warrior would face danger while tackling a level 32 Nightmare difficulty dungeon.

Jiang Chen had no idea that he was currently tackling Hell difficulty.

Finally, he rushed to the palace entrance.

The palace gates were open, and two guards stood outside.

The guard wore a suit of fiery armor and wielded a flaming spear; his appearance was somewhat similar to that of the dragons in the Otherworld Battlefield.

It also resembles a lizard-like monster.

The guards had spotted Jiang Chen and were charging towards him. The skeleton warriors immediately followed.

Although he was seriously injured, he was still capable of fighting.

"Guardian of the Vulcan Palace (Hell-level Elite Monster)"

"Level: 35"

Strength: 16000

Agility: 10000

"Spirit: 10000"

Constitution: 16000

Skill: Flame Sweep

Trait: Immune to fire elemental attacks

Jiang Chen was slightly startled.

How did it become a Hell-level Elite Monster?

He had clearly felt the monsters' strength increasing, but he was too busy blasting them to pay much attention.

Now that I look at it, it's turned into a Hell-level elite monster. I was clearly playing on Nightmare difficulty, so how did a Hell-level elite monster appear?

Thinking back to the previous instance tremor.

"Could it be... that I triggered some special mechanism?"

Determining whether a game is in Hell difficulty is actually quite simple; just check your inventory space.

Upon closer inspection, the storage space was found to be unusable.

The dungeon has indeed become hellish in difficulty.

No wonder the flames on the skeleton warrior's body became so powerful.

Looking at the Vulcan Palace Guardian in front of him, who was level 35 and had a total attribute of 52000, Jiang Chen quickly accepted the fact.

Hell difficulty is pretty good too.

It's not like he hasn't fought before.

At least with higher experience, the drops are better.

Who cares about the difficulty, just fight! The skeleton warriors have already collided with the guards of the Vulcan Palace.

The greatswords in their hands unleashed their skills.

A red light flashed and landed on the guardian of the Vulcan Palace.

The guards were instantly severely injured, and they roared in anger.

Flames shot up from the spears as both spears swept across the field simultaneously.

Skill: Flame Sweep.

It's an area-of-effect skill with a considerable range.

With several loud bangs, each skeleton warrior froze on the spot, entering a state of dizziness.

"Another skill with control abilities!"

This is exactly what Jiang Chen hates most.

Once a monster gains control, it can sometimes be more terrifying than a professional.

Especially against monsters on Hell difficulty, once they unleash their power, their control over them is almost limitless. The guards of the Vulcan Palace relentlessly attacked the skeleton warriors with their spears, each attack being a group attack.

Like its skill, its attack range is extremely large, covering all 16 skeleton warriors.

Helpless, Jiang Chen summoned twenty skeleton mages.

There wasn't a single fire-type skeleton mage.

Fire element immunity renders fire-elemental skeleton mages ineffective.

We can't keep recruiting skeleton warriors; if we don't recruit enough, they'll be useless charging in and will just become sitting ducks once they're controlled.

Too many, and they'll all have to endure the continuous fire damage from the dungeon.

This has created a dilemma.

Even the Skeleton Mage can only release 20; no more.

The skeleton mage instantly unleashed his skill, launching an elemental attack on the two guardians of the Vulcan Palace. Simultaneously, flames erupted from their bodies.

Skeleton mages are far less physically robust than skeleton warriors; on Hell difficulty, they can only last a maximum of one hour.

In other words, if the dungeon cannot be cleared within one hour, these skeleton mages will die.

Jiang Chenlin seized every minute and second, without the slightest delay.

A flash of red light appeared in his palm.

Skill: Slow Curse!

The attack speed of the Vulcan Palace guards immediately slowed down.

However, their agility is not low, and even under the curse, they still have a considerable attack speed.

The soul burned and blazed in the palm of his hand.

A flame landed on the head of the guard of the Vulcan Palace.

A scream rang out, and the guardian of the Vulcan Palace cried out in pain. But monsters are different from professionals; despite the pain, the flaming spear in its hand continued to attack.

The skeleton warrior's injuries were getting worse and worse, and he was on the verge of death.

Jiang Chen sighed; these skeleton warriors were finished.

The will is willing, but the power is insufficient; there's no way to save them.

Finally, the first skeleton warrior collapsed, and the skeleton warriors suffered another loss.

The skeleton mages' second round of focused fire arrived, eliminating one of them.

Jiang Chen also used Soul Burn to target and kill.

Amidst screams, one of the guardians of the Vulcan Palace finally fell.

"Defeat a level 34 Vulcan Palace Guardian, experience +1360000"

"Obtained 3 Flame Cores"

There's a corpse! Jiang Chen's eyes lit up. A corpse makes things much easier!

Skill: Corpse Explosion!

Amid the explosion, another Vulcan Palace guard was also killed.

The dizziness subsided quickly.

The remaining 15 skeleton warriors were all covered in wounds.

The flames continued to burn relentlessly, and even without monster attacks, they wouldn't last long.

"Let's complete our final mission."

Jiang Chen sighed softly, and the skeleton warriors rushed into the palace!

The moment the skeleton warrior stepped into the palace, the giant flaming eye above the palace trembled violently and frantically sounded an alarm.

The entire palace trembled, as if it had come to life!

Looks like there's more!