Chapter 273: Ghost Fire Corridor (Subscription Request)
"What does the tomb passage map say?" Jiang Feng asked Gao Fei.
"Uncle Joseph specially made a note on the map, stating that all four braziers must be lit and the monsters born in the braziers must be destroyed before the stone door with a secret magic lock on the opposite side of the corridor can be opened."
"What kind of monster will be born in the brazier?" Qi Tian asked curiously.
"A kind of incorporeal undead creature commonly known as 'will-o'-the-wisp'." Gao Fei said, "Uncle Joseph didn't go into details about what it looked like and what abilities it had. He just emphasized that will-o'-the-wisp is the phantom of a wraith. Unless a priest is invited to save it, Otherwise, they cannot be completely eliminated. Even if a will-o'-the-wisp is temporarily destroyed, it will regenerate after a while. We must try to open the stone door on the opposite side of the corridor before the will-o'-the-wisp regenerates."
"Damn! The battlefield is a long and narrow corridor, the battle has a time limit, and the opponent is the incorporeal undead that I hate most. Now I have a headache!" Qi Tian held his forehead and cried.
"Brother Basaka, I have heard some rumors about will-o'-wisps." Eve suddenly spoke.
"Talk about it, maybe it will be helpful for our next battle." Gao Fei encouraged the Druid girl.
"Although will-o'-the-wisps are a kind of incorporeal undead, they carry not only negative energy, but also electrical energy. If you touch them, you will suffer a strong electric shock. Therefore, before lighting the brazier, we must be prepared to resist electric shock."
After Eve finished speaking, she began to cast spells, spending 30 points of magic power to add "anti-electricity barriers" to herself and five teammates one by one, increasing the resistance to electric shock by 20 points.
As for Muning, he can share the spell buff with his mistress. When Eve casts the spell on herself, she also adds an "anti-electricity barrier" to it.
Be prepared for battle, and everyone retreated to an area away from the brazier to avoid being attacked by the will-o'-the-wisp.
The job of igniting the fire was left to Qi Tian - with the gun in hand, he aimed at one of the braziers and pulled the trigger.
Bang!
The crisp sound of gunfire echoed in the corridor.
The bullet was accurately fired into the brazier. The high temperature generated by the bullet's friction with the air ignited the whale oil, and flames immediately rose in the basin.
Qi Tian wanted to continue shooting and light other braziers, but a magical scene appeared.
When the first brazier was lit, for some unknown reason, the other three nearby braziers also ignited on their own.
At first, the flame rising in the basin was orange and emitted scorching heat, which seemed normal.
However, not long after, the flames in the basin turned into a strange dark blue color. Instead of releasing heat, they extracted heat energy from the surrounding environment, causing the temperature in the corridor to plummet.
Qi Tian felt chilled all over and sneezed twice in a row. Jiang Feng, Eve, Al, Wushi and Muning also felt the same.
Only Goofy is unaffected.
Eve's face changed slightly, and she urgently reminded her companions: "The concentration of negative energy in the corridor is rising sharply, and any living creature in this environment will be eroded by negative energy!"
Qi Tian quickly opened the status bar and looked at it, frowning and said: "The system prompts me to be cursed by the necrosis. Until I leave this corridor and take a long rest, every time I receive damage, the upper limit of my health will be reduced. 'First aid' and the like" Medical treatments cannot remove the curse of necrosis!”
Gao Fei also opened the astrolabe to check his status, and found no "eclipse curse" and his health was good.
After thinking for a while, I realized that this was because I had mastered "standing firm" and was immune to the eclipse effect caused by all negative energy.
"I'm fine, are you okay?" Gao Fei asked Jiang Feng.
"I passed the Fortitude save and resisted the necrotic curse."
While Jiang Nuxia answered, her hands were not idle, and she activated 28 points of infuriating energy in one go, blessing Qitian, Eve, Al and Wush with "anti-death barriers" to suppress the necrosis curse.
Under normal circumstances, it costs 8 points of infuriating energy to cast the "anti-death barrier". Jiang Feng stood directly under the "floating ball" with sufficient light, so he could reduce the cost of 1 point of infuriating energy.
"Before, I thought I had too much infuriating energy to use up, but now I realize that I was too naive! Even before the fight started, a lot of infuriating energy had already been burned. At this rate, I'm afraid I haven't even gotten the holy ax yet. The vitality and Eve's magic power must be drained out." Jiang Feng looked worried.
"I hope we can find a safe place in the tomb to rest..."
Before Gao Fei finished speaking, he heard a series of crackling sounds coming from the brazier across the corridor.
Immediately afterwards, the four braziers spurted flames upward at the same time.
The dark blue flames separated from the brazier and were suspended in the air, circling and rolling. From a distance, they looked like four strange lanterns.
"The will-o'-the-wisp is out!"
Qi Tian reminded his teammates in a deep voice, while raising his gun and firing.
Bang bang, two shots hit a will-o'-the-wisp, but the bullet penetrated the fireball and hit the opposite wall, causing no damage to the will-o'-the-wisp.
Qitian was stunned for a moment, then he patted his head and blamed himself.
"Fuck! I'm stupid! Will-o'-the-wisps are incorporeal undead, and non-magical weapons cannot cause harm to them!"
When Gao Fei heard this, he quickly opened his storage bag, took out the +1 long sword and +1 war hammer obtained in the Dragon Bone Tower, handed them to Al and Ush, and told the two brothers:
"When you deal with the will-o'-the-wisps later, don't turn into a bear, just use these two enchanted weapons to deal with them!"
Al and Ush also knew that the bear's claws could not hurt the will-o'-the-wisp, so they quickly took the weapons and stood ready.
Gao Fei turned back to investigate the will-o'-the-wisps, and found that these seemingly inconspicuous little balls of light actually had a challenge level of level 3, making them more difficult to deal with than he expected.
The diameter of the will-o'-the-wisp is less than a foot long. It is a miniature incorporeal undead creature that can fly in the air. Its HP is 18. Its attributes are: strength -, agility 28, constitution -, intelligence 3, perception 14, and charisma 11.
Rubbing his eyes vigorously, Gao Fei confirmed that he saw it correctly.
The agility attribute of this bird is as high as 28!
Apart from boss-level characters, Will-O-Wisp is almost the wild monster with the highest agility attributes that players can encounter.
The +9 agility modifier, coupled with the +4 dodge modifier brought by the miniature size, makes this little will-o'-the-wisp's defense reach level 23. It's really a ghost!
Incorporeal creatures have no Strength attribute, but a will-o'-the-wisp can apply its Dexterity modifier to attack rolls, dealing 2d8 points of electricity damage by ramming an enemy.
This damage data is actually not bad, and does not exceed the "anti-electricity barrier" that Eve has blessed everyone.
Four will-o'-the-wisps rose from the brazier and disappeared from everyone's eyes in an instant.
"Everyone, be careful! Will-o'-the-wisps are born with the ability to be invisible!"
Qitian quickly reminded his companions.
Before he finished speaking, he stepped into the shadow of the corner and disappeared without a trace, playing hide and seek with the will-o'-the-wisp.
He had already used the astrolabe to detect will-o'-the-wisps just now. This kind of incorporeal undead can become invisible at will, but it does not have the ability to see through invisibility.
Qitian's thief can see through invisibility, so although both parties are in the invisible state, he can see the signs of the will-o'-the-wisp unilaterally.
