After launching a wind blade attack on the skeleton's main weaknesses, namely the cervical and lumbar vertebrae, Jia Lan quickly fired a small fireball at the golden skeleton's eye sockets.

  The impact of the flame explosion caused the golden skeleton to stagger back a few steps, and the soul fire in its eye sockets also fluctuated violently.

  Jia Lan exhaled lightly and commented: "Obviously, the strength of the bones has been refined to the limit by the soul fire. The only weakness is the soul fire in the cranial cavity."

  "Both blunt attacks and magic shocks can effectively affect the stability of the soul fire."

  Jia Lan stroked the magic wand gently, as if to dispel the invisible gunpowder, and smiled: "It can be understood as a 'concussion' effect."

  The mercenaries were puzzled by Jia Lan's action of flicking the wand head after firing the fireball, and speculated whether the fire magic caused the wand to heat up.

  However, after listening to Jia Lan's insights, everyone adjusted their tactics and focused on attacking the golden skeleton's head.

  Especially the golden archer Carter, whose longbow was extremely accurate, and the "wind arrows" fired continuously all hit the eye sockets of the golden skeleton accurately.

  The wind element impact released in the arrows made the golden skeleton that tried to approach retreat again and again. Seeing this, everyone was overjoyed and confirmed that the strategy worked.

  The physical undead such as skeletons and zombies are different from the virtual undead such as ghosts and spirits. Their resentful souls need to rely on corpses to exist.

  The low-level skeletons that the mercenaries encountered in the past had insufficient bone strength to resist weapon attacks, so there was no specific weakness, and their skeletons could be destroyed.

  However, the undead accumulated resentment over time, absorbed the "negative energy" of the space, and the soul fire gradually strengthened. Its skeleton and body also strengthened accordingly, and even mutated and evolved.

  At this time, it was difficult to destroy the undead by destroying the skeleton. Its only weakness was the fragile soul fire under the protection of the hard skull.

  However, it was extremely difficult to attack the soul fire hidden in the closed skull.

  Although the undead creatures are not afraid of death, their intelligence has slightly improved as their soul fire has increased. Although they have not reached the level of "wisdom", they have the instinct of self-protection.

  Therefore, when attacking their "vital points", the undead will dodge or block according to the combat instinct left over from their previous occupations.

  For example, the golden skeletons that are attacking Carter and Jia Lan may have been shield warriors in their previous lives, according to their actions.

  Although their equipment and weapons have decayed and disappeared, after being attacked by Carter's unique wind-related fighting skill "Wind Arrow", they actually used their left arm bones as shields and bent their bodies to take a defensive posture, which made people laugh.

  Jia Lan observed the actions of several golden skeletons with great interest. This is an excellent opportunity to study the ecology of the undead at close range. The knowledge in books is far inferior to what you see with your own eyes.

  However, after observing for a while, Jia Lan found that the five silver mercenaries on the side were gradually unable to resist the fierce attack of the golden skeletons, and had to hold the magic wand in his hand again with a little regret and prepare to fight.

  Although this combat team of five silver-level mercenaries successfully trapped the golden skeleton with tacit cooperation, their fighting skills were not strong enough to cause damage to the golden skeleton.

  Facing the fierce attack of the golden skeleton that was almost "invulnerable", they seemed a little helpless.

  In order to protect his companions, one of the silver-level shield warriors resisted the attack of the golden skeleton and was slightly injured.

  Jia Lan hesitated slightly when he raised his magic wand.

  This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings.

  Considering that there was no magician who could see through his spellcasting ability, he imitated the spellcasting posture and quietly released a 0-level necromancy spell "Strike the Undead" with the cover of the primary water magic "Water Arrow".

  No one noticed that in the trajectory of the rapid-fire water arrow, a positive energy ray accurately hit the most vulnerable eye socket of the golden skeleton, causing serious damage to it.

  There was a crisp "crack" sound from the eye sockets of the golden skull, and a spider-web-like crack appeared.

  Jia Lan frowned. Although the 0-level necromancy spell "Strike the Undead" can cause multiple basic damage to the undead, it lacks penetration.

  Seeing this, the golden archer Carter was overjoyed. He took out a very special enchanted arrow from the quiver behind his back - the "blasting arrow", put it on the bowstring, and pulled the longbow to the limit!

  After a burst of fighting spirit, the enchanted arrow with a large amount of wind element energy turned into a phantom, hit the broken eye socket of the golden skull with a bang, and shot directly through its skull!

  The blasting effect of the enchanted arrow exploded in the cranial cavity of the golden skull, blowing its golden head to pieces.

  Everyone seemed to hear the silent wail of the undead, and the headless golden skull was scattered all over the ground!

  The golden archer's successful attack greatly boosted morale.

  "Hey! Good job! Carter! Can you come to me too?" Hugo, the thief who jumped up and down and looked a little embarrassed, shouted.

  But Carter said unhappily: "Do you think the enchanted arrows are just branches picked up at random? I only have three enchanted arrows with the effects of 'blast, fire, and freezing'.

  The blasting arrow has just been used up, and the fire and freezing effects may not have much power on the golden skeleton!"

  "Arrow enchantment? It happens that I know some enchantment skills..."

  Jia Lan's heart moved, and he smiled: "Although the effect of on-site enchantment is average, it is always stronger than ordinary arrows..." As he said, Jia Lan asked for three ordinary arrows from the surprised archer, and spent some time to enchant them with the effect of "strike the undead".

  Carter, who changed to the newly enchanted arrows, immediately showed his strength as a gold-level archer.

  All three arrows hit the eye sockets of the remaining three golden skeletons without missing a beat, directly piercing the thin layer of bones.

  The positive energy attached to the arrowheads exploded in the cranial cavity of the golden skeletons.

  In the silent wailing, the three golden skeletons staggered back and struggled to reach out to pull out the arrows in their eye sockets.

  Although they were not killed in one blow like the first golden skeleton, the mercenaries clearly found that the bones of the golden skeletons that seemed to be covered with a layer of golden light immediately dimmed a lot.

  This discovery made the mercenaries, who were already powerful, burst out with all their strength, and they were surprised to find that their weapons could actually hurt these skeletons as hard as fine iron!

  Especially Kenmet, whose two-handed sword seemed to be covered with a layer of flames. With a fierce slash, he directly chopped off the head of the golden skeleton that had been entangled with him for a long time, and the skeleton as hard as fine steel immediately scattered all over the ground.

  He chased after the skull that was still moving in its jaw and stepped on it, then he held the two-handed sword upside down and stabbed it into its eye socket, completely shattering the golden skull's soul fire!

  As the strongest Kenmet was freed, the remaining two golden skeletons could not hold on for too long and were beaten into pieces by the mercenaries.

  The originally golden skeletons gradually faded into pale skeleton color as the soul fire dissipated, completely losing their vitality.

  After a fierce battle, everyone was still a little shocked, and they also had a little more awe for Jia Lan who showed his enchanting ability.

  On the contrary, Jia Lan shook his head with regret. The effect of on-site enchantment is far inferior to that of regular enchantment. Not only is the power smaller, but the enchantment effect is also short-term and one-time.

  The only advantage is probably that it is more flexible and can be enchanted on the spot according to the situation.

  He himself did not think there was anything strange about on-site enchantment, but a group of mercenaries looked at him with confusion.

  Especially the golden archer Carter, he had never heard of any enchanter who could enchant on the spot without tools and materials.

  After killing the golden skeleton, everyone took a short break and came to the secret door that almost killed them again.

  Hugo carefully used the bronze spear he had obtained to poke the poison needle trap several times in a row. After ensuring that no more poison needles would be shot out from it, he timidly approached to study how to open the secret door.

  After a while, Hugo inserted the bronze spear into a hidden gap in the wall relief again and turned back to ask, "Is it open?"

  Everyone looked at each other, and Kenmet nodded heavily: "Open!"

  No one expected that this hidden relic would be so dangerous. Just after entering, they encountered four golden-level skeletons.

  Fortunately, Jia Lan, a magician, alchemist and enchanter, was present, and used various magical means to greatly reduce the danger.

  In this circular hall, in addition to the four hidden secret doors, there were only a few rat holes dug by giant rats under the piles of rocks on the ground.

  But no one wanted to risk going into the rat hole that was dug by giant rats like a spider web.

  After all, the height of the rat hole might be suitable for big rats that can get through narrow spaces, but it is not suitable for humans who walk upright. Once they encounter danger in the rat hole, they may not even be able to fight.

  In this way, they can only take the risk of choosing the four unknown secret doors.

  As Hugo pulled the bronze spear heavily, the two-foot-thick rock wall sank into the ground with a rumbling sound, revealing the hidden space behind...