Something's wrong with my undead

Chapter 451 Found a Hammer

Once you know that Kalu buried things nearby, it will be easy to find.

Teacher Xia has a lot of experience dealing with dwarves, and knows their nature when it comes to burying things.

Dwarves disdain to hide treasures in marked places.

For example, under a tree, next to a stone, in a central location at an equal distance from the surrounding trees, or in a special place where you can stand and see a certain scenery.

They would first consider deceiving ordinary adventurers passing by, and then consider how to deceive their own kind who are good at sensing the soil.

Therefore, special rock formations that shield the earth element become the best choice.

Although the wanderer's perception cannot be too far away from the body, this does not affect Teacher Xia's search like a reptile close to the ground.

It didn't take long for him to find the area in the grove where the earth element was weakest.

After digging up this thin layer of soil and knocking open the camouflaged rock layer, an exquisite dragon stone treasure chest appeared in front of them.

The whole body is decorated with dark red dragon scale patterns, black borders, and a heavy red lock is hung on it.

Dailin sighed and said, "Oh no, the key was burned by the fire of the soul. How can I open it?"

"What key do you want?"

The veteran wanderer pulled out a lock pick from his leather armor, poked it into the keyhole, and began to twist it skillfully.

As he turned the unlocking tool, the lock core suddenly made a series of clicking sounds, mixed with extremely faint strange noises.

2.75 seconds later, with a click, the lock opened.

——It feels a little unfamiliar.

Teacher Xia couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

This isn't even a skill, it's pure muscle memory developed after opening thousands of locks of the same type.

Fortunately, in reality, all locks are a combination of mechanical and intelligent, just like the magic hybrid locks in the later stages of the game, so the wanderer players in "AGE" do not need to report to the local police station.

Without reminiscing too much about the past, he quickly grabbed the padlock that was already starting to smoke and threw it out.

The latter burned red all over in mid-air, and then exploded like fireworks with a muffled "bang".

The dwarf's anti-theft lock is still so hardcore.

It reminds someone of the time when even lock picking required binding with a healer.

"You can actually do this?" Dailin asked in confusion, "This is not a glorious technique."

Teacher Xia: "You should say 'How many secrets do you have that I don't know about?'"

"What if I don't tell you?"

Teacher Xia: “That’s great.”

"you……"

Ignoring Dailin who had become withdrawn again, he opened the box on his own.

However, looking at the things inside, both he and Dailin, who quietly poked her head out from behind him, were at a loss.

There is no rainbow knife in the box that will inflict debuffs with just one stab.

Instead, it was an exquisite and compact silver craftsman's hammer.

The hammer was glowing with white runes that looked high-end.

But the hammer was entangled with a black chain and locked tightly in the box.

never seen it.

Teacher Xia swore that he had never seen such a thing.

But he recognized that the inner wall of the box was made of dark fire stone. This dark red stone was a perfect match for the flammable and explosive lock.

At the same time, the chains looked very familiar. The souls of the boatmen on the Duling River had their hands and feet tied by these chains, and they could never escape from the underworld.

Before he could take a closer look, the hammer suddenly moved by itself!

It struggled violently, as if trying to break free from its chains.

But the runes on it flashed by, and the hammer lay back down obediently as if it had been electrocuted.

"What is this?" Dailin asked cautiously.

"I have no idea."

"Oh my God, there is something you don't know?"

"? Why are you becoming more aggressive again?"

"I, I'm serious... Never mind, you're right!"

The two were chatting as if no one was around, when the hammer suddenly spoke!
"Mother Earth, what do I see!? Someone of my own kind?"

A string of khaki characters appeared on the hammer, just like the skeletons were typing.

"How can this hammer also 'type'?" Dai Lin asked in surprise: "Is this your friend?"

"I don't know, but it's definitely not my friend."

Teacher Xia changed to private chat.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to it, Hammer continued: "You are a talking skeleton? Wait, are you also a guard of the king? Did you escape from that damn place too?"

"What should I do? What should I say?"

Dailin also changed to private chat.

"Ask it what its name is, where it came from, and who its 'king' is."

Dailin did so.

However, she was interrupted by the hammer just as she asked the first question.

It seemed to be holding it back and was talking a lot.

"Strange, how come you are a woman? And an elf? Are there any female soldiers in the Royal Guard? But this is clearly a man's skeleton..."

"I am not him. I am hidden in this dagger, just like you."

Daelin raised the dagger and shook it.

The hammer vibrated!
"Mother Earth, you are actually a talking spirit in a vessel. This is really shocking. Are you controlling this remains?"

"That's right, you must be playing two roles like a ventriloquist, teasing me, right? I won't be fooled."

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Teacher Xia closed the lid directly.

"It's not safe here, let's go somewhere else."

The previous explosion and Kalu's disappearance attracted the attention of the miners in the camp, and footsteps were heard outside the woods.

...

Insecurity is only one aspect. On the other hand, Teacher Xia suddenly remembered what this thing was related to.

The Southern Territory, the 'King', the Royal Guards, the Spirit in the Vessel.

These words all point to the largest undead dungeon in the underground world, the Ruined Palace.

This huge underground palace involves four races: dwarves, elves, dragons and Luku people, and almost single-handedly defines a large version.

In addition, it was the information found in the dilapidated palace that helped the wizards, who were already world leaders at the time, find the key to counterattack the underworld, and from then on entered the theoretical "last chapter" - the Netherworld Expedition.

However, the first time the dilapidated palace appeared in the player's field of vision was seven years later - by then the magic network had been repaired, the separation of Eternal Dawn was imminent, and the death energy leaking from a certain place in the southern border attracted everyone's attention.

If other things are easy to deal with in advance, then this matter must be taken seriously.

Teacher Xia decided to end his trip south early and bring the box back to McCalla to show everyone.

He didn't even have time to go to the archives of Longyan City to look for clues about the Dragon Tooth Dagger.

On the one hand, this is an important clue to the future.

On the other hand...how can two broken daggers compare with an entire dilapidated palace?
What's more, the most important thing is that the ultimate boss of the palace, Mad King Dictatura, has a "King's Blade Ossidre" stuck on his head, and there is also a "Deception Blade Furaos" in the treasury. The attributes of the Twin Daggers of Sin are not bad either!
He returned to Reef Bay without stopping, gave the heads of Mute Stone an overview of what had happened in the mine and a copy of the list of traitors, asking them to help him clean up his mess while relaying the information to Ian Oldden, then found a griffin and flew north.

Seven days later, Teacher Xia, who changed bus No. 11 from Griffin, finally arrived in McCalla.

However, as soon as he passed the foot of Eagle Mouth Mountain, he felt a strange fluctuation in the air.

It was as if something was converging towards him - to be exact, towards the box in his hand.

After opening the box and taking a look, I saw a faint silver light surrounding the black chain, as if it was struggling to resist something.

At the same time, the air was full of hostility!

It was as if the Yuan Ling did not welcome him...

Teacher Xia sneaked subconsciously, and then keenly felt that the diving speed was a little slower than before.

Something was wrong... He quickly sent a message to Loudon, but my Kara was on strike at this time and the tea room could not be opened.

Something is very wrong!
——This is strange, could it be that I have been away on business for too long and Quilkus doesn’t recognize me?
He didn't care about much and moved quickly towards Panshi Town.

However, only a few minutes later, before he set foot in Panshi Town, he noticed that there were many more shady atmospheres around him.

Even the shadow of the Split-Toed Dragon could be heard from the sky.

Things are getting even weirder. Even though these people can't find me when I'm invisible, they can still locate my approximate location when I'm in level 7 stealth mode...

Teacher Xia immediately became interested.

The fun gets even better when he sneaks up behind the invisible Ravan.

——He was so close to me for such a long time without any alertness. It seems like I need more practice.

He kicked Lawan on the butt, and the latter staggered, but reacted quickly and rolled on the ground.

At the same time, the sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air was heard from four directions.

——The on-the-spot reaction and cooperation are pretty good.

Thinking of this, Teacher Xia swung the dagger around and blocked all the crossbow arrows.

His movements were so careful that sparks flew in the air, and he himself did not even break his submergence.

"ah!"

Lawan rushed forward shouting, looking as if he was ready to die.

——He is so reckless without even determining my position. What is this guy thinking?

Teacher Xia easily dodged Lawan, grabbed him by the neck and threw him away.

Then he rushed forward, stepped on the guy's butt and appeared, saying:

"As punishment, you will have to practice piano feet for a week."

……

"So this is all a misunderstanding?"

"Of course, this is just a misunderstanding!"

After explaining the whole story, Lavan smiled and said, "So we didn't do it on purpose. Look at the extra training this week..."

"Two weeks."

"Why did you give me a raise?"

"One month."

"……no problem!"

Lavan wished he could go back in time and give himself a slap in the face.

Teacher Xia: "So you don't know how to 'lift the ban'?"

Lavan: "Yes, you are the first alarm after this detection system went online."

Teacher Xia seemed to be thinking about something.

According to Lawan, McCalla added a new security system five days ago, which is equivalent to an automatic alarm covering the entire territory.

Any special fluctuations of the Yuanling in any place will be detected, and then the Yuanlings that are in special situations will alarm themselves and pass the message to the nearest management authority.

Currently, management authority is divided into three levels. Ground-based Magb agents like Lavan and the dragon riders in the sky are at the third level.

Going up are the instructors, Carl Ilan, Tuba, Linumu and others.

Above them are the lords and their staff.

The special type of fluctuation of the visual element will trigger different countermeasures.

The "spontaneous removal of pollution by the Yuan Ling" triggered by Teacher Xia is the second most serious after "discovery of intruders".

So he was surrounded by unwelcome spirits, and neither myKara nor other spirit plug-ins could be used.

In essence, all of this is necromancy, but now the "spirit" refuses access, which is the highest level of ban.

The news immediately reached Lawan who was on duty nearby. He then called the air crew, and both sides surrounded the area where the Yuan Ling was roughly located.

In fact, this is a sign that Mackala's soul has been upgraded.

If it was the kind of extremely aggressive spirit from before, it would probably have indiscriminately initiated a purification of the chains in the box instead of hovering on its surface.

The light that Teacher Xia saw was not the chains resisting something, but the Yuan Ling restraining its desire to attack.

Now they have learned to surround but not kill, leaving the power of judgment to "people".

However, this "hostility" cannot be eliminated yet and requires further growth.

"Have many people bound their accounts to myKara recently?" Teacher Xia asked.

Lavan: “Well, as far as I know, one in ten people have already received the beta code.”

"so much?"

Teacher Xia was stunned.

He remembered that Carl's Rune Academy only recruited more than a thousand students in the first term. How come McCalla now has 60,000 to 70,000 people? How could it graduate five batches of students so quickly?

"Is the Rune Academy busy enough?"

"You may not know that 200 of the first batch of students graduated in just three months, and then more than 50 of them were selected to continue teaching. When the first batch of students graduated, the number of temporary teachers increased to . It was also stated on the notice board yesterday that it is expected that the popularization of rune learning will be completed in two years."

"What about contribution points?"

Lavan: "It used to be troublesome to save contribution points, but it's no longer a problem since five days ago. Now I can save two contribution points by meditating for five minutes before going to bed every day. And those with strong mental strength can increase the dosage. For example, I saved 2 contribution points in five days, and it didn't affect my normal training the next day!"

A proud smile appeared on his face.

Teacher Xia: "Young people should exercise moderation."

Lavan: "...Ah? Yes, yes, instructor."

The news of Instructor Xia's return and the lifting of the alarm were simultaneously reported to Loudon, so the group met President Sa who descended from the sky riding on Huiyu after walking a few steps.

President Sa: "What'up man! How come I need someone to pick me up when I get home after a business trip? Damn, Swift Shadow suit? That's great, Xia! I even got new equipment!"

Teacher Xia: "Oh, it's just so-so, not as good as my Sa and Yang Ge who showed off in Fog Valley. I heard that you guys have taken care of diplomacy?"

President Sa: "It's all thanks to Sister Hui! Brother Yang and I are just puppets in her hands! Let's not talk about this, brother JB, why are you being so polite? Do you think this arrow of mine looks familiar?"

"I'm not pulling the arrow, why are you looking at the arrow?"

Having said that, Teacher Xia still took the arrow, and then saw the dragon tooth arrowhead at a glance.

He was dumbfounded: "No, where did you get the dragon tooth?"

President Sa: "Hahahahaha, how about this upgrade? Is this a good one? Let's take a closer look at Brother Yang's new shield later."

Teacher Xia: "Isn't it a dragon bone shield?"

President Sa: "That's not the case. It's just a dragon scale shield, and it's just been processed normally. Don't be nervous. If you really want to cry, you can go to the toilet or come to my arms."

Teacher Xia: "Go away, I don't envy you at all. Anyway, I didn't bring back any clues. The Dragon Tooth Dagger without the infusion of dragon soul is just a blank slate, not even as good as my external sound cords."

President Sa: "It's okay. Although you looked embarrassed pretending to be calm, the shaking of your hands when you got the arrow was still very interesting... Don't pull out my arrowhead, I only have four arrows!"

...

Only a few seconds passed from the two men's silent communication to the start of the fight. This scene was somewhat terrifying in Lavan's eyes.

He could only guess that this was a result of the instructors being too tacitly aligned.

The two parties parted ways, and Teacher Xia was taken back to the lord's mansion by Huiyu.

Zhuoyang and Anahui are both here.

As soon as they met, Heine asked with great interest: "It seems that you have gained a lot this time. What did you bring back that actually caused the rejection of the Yuan Ling?"

Teacher Xia put the box on the ground and called out Dailin to explain the whole story.

I chatted with Mr. Sa and others behind their backs.

Heine almost couldn't help but twitch his lips.

How did this guy learn to AFK, and in front of him?
He deserves to be single!
Although he thought so in his heart, he still had to control his expression and pretend that he couldn't hear their heated conversation.

...

Teacher Xia: "So how come McCalla suddenly has an 'exchange' mechanism? Where did you get the 'mining system' from? Why are you starting to refine contribution points?"

Huihui: "What mining system? This is the soul furnace from Nibra City moved here and optimized. Otherwise, where would they get so much mental power to maintain this security system? But what about this hammer you found? Didn't you go looking for the dragon tooth dagger?"

Teacher Xia: "Well, this is a long story."

(End of this chapter)