“Tier 1 Magic, Wind Shield!”
Li Xiuman unfurled two magic circles, coalescing a Wind Shield on his and Rorona's arms at the same time.
Then, using his high altitude to his advantage, he dived down toward the swarm of Firewing Beasts below.
Deflecting fireballs one by one with a Fire Shield, he gripped his wand.
“Go!”
He threw the wand with great force.
The wand spun through the air and embedded itself in one of the Firewing Beasts.
Then, Li Xiuman grabbed Rorona, ignored the fireballs flying past them, and dove toward that Firewing Beast.
“Tier 1 Magic, Waterball!”
The magic circle expanded, and water condensed into waterballs, colliding with several fireballs that were about to hit him.
With a heavy kick to the Firewing Beast's head, its flesh and skin instantly exploded.
Rorona reached out, her shadow transforming into tentacles that yanked out the wand embedded in the Firewing Beast.
Li Xiuman grabbed the wand and shoved it into the Firewing Beast's mouth.
“Tier 1 Magic, Water Burst!”
The burst of water instantly blew the Firewing Beast's head apart.
[Ding! Killed Firewing Beast lv19, Experience +500]
Next, he grabbed the Firewing Beast's wing, dragging its massive body to throw behind him.
A torrent of fireballs rained down on the Firewing Beast's corpse.
But some fireballs still managed to pass through the corpse, shooting toward Li Xiuman.
Li Xiuman swung his wand violently, dispersing fireball after fireball, but his body still burned with searing pain.
Rorona was in an even worse state; large patches of burns had appeared on her body once again.
He tried to fly higher, but several Firewing Beasts blocked his path, pouring down a barrage of fireballs.
“Water Wall!”
Li Xiuman hastily raised his wand to conjure a Water Wall. Blocking the fireballs, he reversed his direction and dove downward.
Using the steam as cover, he flipped his hand and raised his wand as a massive yellow magic circle expanded.
“Tier 1 Magic, Earth Bullet!”
The Earth Bullets shot upward through the steam toward the diving Firewing Beasts.
“Tier 1 Magic, Torrential Wind Spiral Spike!”
A three-colored magic circle expanded, and the mixed water, earth, and wind spell began to charge, aiming directly at the steam.
Rorona also reached out her hand.
The first dark shadow pierced through the steam.
“Shadow Bind!”
The materialized darkness formed chains, binding the Firewing Beast.
Li Xiuman smoothly unleashed the charged Torrential Wind Spiral Spike in perfect coordination. With a sharp whistle of breaking air, it accurately struck the Firewing Beast's head.
The head was pierced through in an instant.
[Ding! Killed Firewing Beast lv19, Experience +500]
Having successfully landed the blow, Li Xiuman immediately continued flying into the distance. However, another wave of intense pain racked his insides, causing him to falter mid-air.
Another massive wave of fireballs arrived.
He quickly suppressed the pain, adjusted his wand, and opened a Water Veil.
But a Firewing Beast suddenly burst out from the lava below him, dripping with molten magma, and opened its giant maw to bite him.
A sneak attack?
Li Xiuman was startled. Gripping his bone sword, he was about to thrust downward, preparing to fight to the death.
But at the crucial moment, a pair of tattered bat wings snapped open from Rorona's back.
The tattered bat wings were pinned with long silver nails. As she flapped them, the silver nails tore even more holes in the wings.
She grit her teeth, her bat wings and Li Xiuman's Bone Wings flapping simultaneously to pull him out of the Firewing Beast's biting range.
Quickly recovering his stance, Li Xiuman thrust his bone sword toward the Firewing Beast's eye while pressing his wand against its forehead.
“Tier 1 Magic, Water Burst!”
[Ding! Killed Firewing Beast lv18, Experience +450]
The burst of water blew open the Firewing Beast's head, causing its corpse to fall back into the molten lava.
Almost there. If he killed just a few more, his experience bar would probably be filled.
However, the pain from earlier clearly indicated that he was currently on the verge of his body collapsing...
The lava erupted like water waves.
A giant fire crocodile burst out of the lava, biting at Li Xiuman and tearing off one of his left leg bones.
It sported a pair of fiery red horns.
It was none other than the Unique Variant monster, the Molten Six-Legged Fire Crocodile King.
[Name] Molten Six-Legged Fire Crocodile King
[Level] lv30
[Class] Monster
[Description] A dangerous monster that lives in lava. The king of the Molten Six-Legged Fire Crocodiles. Immune to low-level Fire Magic, its skin is as tough as steel, making it extremely dangerous.
“A Unique Variant!”
“How could a Unique Variant fire crocodile appear here?!”
There was no way Li Xiuman could defeat it.
Run. He had to run.
Perhaps... he was going to fail...
“Lord Skeleton, I am already deeply satisfied that you would go to such lengths for me.”
“Please, let me die.”
No, there was still a way!
Li Xiuman looked at his body, thinking back to his days when Lucia tortured him.
Back then, he had only survived Lucia's experiments by harvesting all kinds of resistance skills from other skeletons.
Except, it might be a bit cruel to Rorona.
No, it would be far too cruel.
As a vampire, Rorona possessed the racial skills [Self-Healing lv2] and [Regeneration lv2].
[Regeneration lv2] was a racial skill unique to vampires, but he could absolutely take [Self-Healing lv2] for himself.
He was a bit embarrassed to ask.
"Excuse me, but would you mind ripping off one of your legs for me to use?" Saying something like that to a vampire girl was simply too monstrous.
It was completely the behavior of a villain.
No, even villains were rarely this twisted.
The Unique Variant fire crocodile king was still pursuing them from behind, along with the Firewing Beasts.
Now was not the time to be fastidious!
But just as Li Xiuman was preparing himself to say something along the lines of "please give me your leg," he spotted an even lovelier target.
A Molten Six-Legged Crocodile with [Self-Healing lv2] in its skill slot.
Because these creatures possessed flesh and blood, Li Xiuman had never targeted them for his new bones before.
Successfully attaching Rorona's arm bone this time made him realize that perhaps he could attach limbs with flesh as well, as long as he stripped the flesh off first.
This guy had six legs.
Rorona only had two.
His tolerance for failure was vastly higher!
After all, there were quite a few skills in the fire crocodile's skill list.
If he attached the wrong bone and got the wrong skill on the first try, he would still have five more chances to roll for the skill.
The fire crocodile's skill list was just like a rate-up banner, with [Self-Healing lv2] as the featured rate-up skill.
The fire crocodile had six legs, meaning he had a total of six pull opportunities.
The fire crocodile had seven skills in total, giving him a 1-in-7 drop rate per pull.
Even though the fire crocodile's legs were a bit short, he possessed [Bone Manipulation] and [Bone Hyperplasia].
Once connected, he could mold the shape of his new leg however he pleased.
Rorona had absolutely no idea that her legs had just narrowly escaped a disaster.
After all, she had too many skills but only offered two pulling opportunities, making the drop rate for [Self-Healing lv2] far too low.
“Hey, listen up. Do you see that fire crocodile down there?”
“I'm going to dive down in a moment and take it out quickly. Then, I'll chop off all six of its legs.”
“Use your shadows to scoop all of those legs up!”
The fire crocodile king and the Firewing Beasts were still chasing them from behind, so they had to be fast.
Thus, they couldn't land at all. They had to finish it in an instant, grab the legs, and run.
Rorona nodded obediently.
Then, Li Xiuman gradually lowered his flying altitude toward that lucky fire crocodile.
He gripped his bone sword tightly.
“We're making our move!”
He slashed through a molten fireball spat by the fire crocodile with a single swing.
“Shadow Bind!”
The shadow beneath the fire crocodile instantly contorted, turning into ropes of shadow that tightly bound its body.
Imbued with a whirlwind and enhanced by the blessing of [Great Strength lv2], the wand was thrown with violent force, pinning the fire crocodile's body to the ground.
Following that, the bone sword viciously impaled the fire crocodile's skull and brain.
[Ding! Killed Molten Six-Legged Fire Crocodile lv18, Experience +450]
The fire crocodile king was almost upon them, and the surrounding fire crocodiles were leaping out of the lava one after another.
Swiftly chopping off the fire crocodile's six legs with his bone sword, he shot back up into the sky.
Rorona unleashed her shadow magic, her shadows turning into ropes that wrapped around the six severed legs and the wand embedded in the fire crocodile.
“Tier 1 Magic, Gale!”
The wind blasted violently behind him, propelling his body forward by a huge distance and shaking off the fire crocodile king that was still trying to snap its jaws shut on him.
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