Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons
Chapter 896 - 774: Their Own Efforts
"Have the President and others started the attack?"
Raphael asked, listening to the loud noises coming from not far away.
Kafka didn't turn his head, continuing to run towards their destination with the others.
Upon hearing Raphael's words, he said, "Don't worry about that, focus on your own task first."
Raphael's team of four, along with Angel Rui, climbed towards the top of the high tower.
The energy input port they needed to break was located at the very top of this Tower of the Dead, where it spiraled with the Evil Spirit Cloud in the sky.
That was the energy input port of the entire Tower of the Dead; breaking it would stop new energy from being transmitted into the tower.
According to the blueprint Kane acquired from Fakundo.
The Evil Spirit Cloud in the sky was actually the concentrated state of Undead energy of the entire area.
The undead in this area, and the bones underground, constantly generate this energy.
This energy gathers in the sky, firmly covering the whole area, making it feel like the climate of an Undead Space.
And this gigantic Bone Tower was absorbing the inexhaustible energy from the sky.
Therefore, their mission was indeed the most critical, requiring completion at the quickest speed possible.
The cutoff of the energy input is just the beginning of everything else.
"Although the space still has fluctuations that will cause impacts, the distance is not a problem."
Kafka said to his teammates.
At this moment, they were climbing the massive Bone Tower, about less than 1/4 of the way.
Due to the immense energy fluctuations of the Bone Tower and the surrounding rich Undead elements, the spatial fluctuations were particularly intense.
Upon feeling the distance was about right, Kafka created a blood-red teleportation gate on the spot.
"The position on the other side is fine, let's get inside quickly."
With that, he rushed in first, followed closely by the others.
When they appeared again, they were already at the top of the high tower.
The top was a funnel structure shaped like a whirlpool, surrounded by a place to stand, but the center spiraled downward.
The massive energy was wildly pouring in, concentrating as it spiraled.
The pitch-black Evil Spirit Cloud extended upward into the sky in a spiral.
As soon as they emerged from the teleportation gate, various ear-piercing howls and wails echoed continuously in their ears.
In the dark green and black spiral in front of them, countless faces could be seen.
These faces were all filled with expressions of pain and misery.
Children, elderly, and women were all present.
These tragic tones composed a magnificent symphony, even more piercing than a banshee's wails.
Having just stepped out of the teleportation gate, Raphael and his team couldn't help but frown tightly, using their willpower to resist this assault on their souls.
"Heavenly Father's Holy Sound!"
Rui quickly waved his golden scepter, golden light burst forth.
It fell upon Raphael and the others.
Instantly, all the wailing sounds were shielded outside their souls, and the world turned silent.
Rui immediately said to them, "Time is tight, get ready, I'm going in!"
Seeing Raphael and his team nod, Rui swiftly spread the wings behind him, and in a flash, the wings of Holy Light stretched from his back, expanding to three to four meters.
He flapped once or twice, and feather-like rays of Holy Light descended.
Rui turned into a golden stream of light, darting straight into the Evil Spirit Whirlpool before them.
"Ahhhh!"
The piercing shrieks howled madly, without the rhythm as before.
It was chaotic and painful.
After all, these seemingly evil spirits, typical entities, were actually just energy manifesting.
Scattered and unstructured.
Still, the sound was so penetrating that even Raphael and his team's souls, just protected, could hear it clearly.
Thankfully, there was no spiritual assault, only true painful wails remained.
As Rui charged in, these evil spirits seemed like a pile of cotton with a spark tossed into it.
Light emanated from within the whirlpool, piercing through the gaps as beams.
Numerous evil spirit-like energy transformed into black smoke, dissipating in the world.
A huge spread of Holy Light Energy was emitted outward, rushing down the spiral into the Bone Tower.
Crack!
The sound of fracturing was heard, and cracks appeared on the entire funnel-shaped top.
Rui chose violent dismantling.
As it shattered, the defense mechanism triggered automatically.
Dark green energy began to gather.
Seeing the situation, Raphael immediately shouted, "Stay alert, the enemy is coming!"
The gathered energy formed into a massive, enormous evil spirit nearly 10 meters tall.
Wearing a ragged gray-black cloak, its head obscured by black mist, with sharp claw-like black talons.
With its appearance, evil spirits in the whirlpool continuously poured out, merging into its body.
In just a moment.
The evil spirit's body was covered with countless faces of pain, their eyes glaring angrily, mouths slightly open, wailing and shouting something.
The sight of so many faces on a 10-meter tall evil spirit made everyone watching feel chilled to the bone.
It ignored Raphael and the others, charging straight at Rui in the whirlpool.
Raphael turned into a mass of metallic feathers, charging forward, swirling around and tightly binding the evil spirit.
Two blood-red chains formed from Kafka's hands, flung out and tied around the evil spirit's arms.
Then he slung the chains over his shoulder and yanked them fiercely.
A magic barrier blocked the ghost, halting its advance.
Aiming to attack the feathers entwined around him, his talons were rendered immobile by the chains.
The faces on his body were slashed by the feathers, leaking wisps of dark green mist.
As more and more faces were cut, more dark green mist flowed from the evil spirit's body.
But it was evident that the evil spirit's energy response was weakening.
Raphael and his team employed various methods to stop the evil spirit's advance.
And that was their mission.
"Haaaah!"
Imprisoned without the slightest ability to move, the helpless Evil Spirit let out a skyward roar.
The face on its body instantly disappeared, rushing out from its gaping Black Mist mouth.
It swiftly charged towards where Rui was located.
Its own size rapidly diminished until it vanished.
The dispersed Evil Spirit heads reformed around Rui.
Seeing the Evil Spirit break through their confinement, about to reach Rui's side.
"I'm here!"
Anrule shouted, her snake tail spring-like, forcefully kicking off.
Her figure transformed into a lightning bolt, appearing directly in front of the regrouped Evil Spirit.
Snake-like vertical pupils opened in anger, the light flashing in her eyes.
The Evil Spirit felt its movements slowing until it was completely immobilized.
Gray-white hue began to spread over its Spiritual Body.
"When did your petrifying light become so formidable?"
"Hmph! A woman's secret."
Thanks to golden rules, Anrule's petrifying light could affect souls.
As the Evil Spirit was petrified.
The funnel-shaped Energy Input Port collapsed entirely with a resounding shatter.
...
At the bottom of the Bone Tower, this was the energy core area of the entire Ancient Tower.
Funa, Star Symbol, and Xi were here.
Using the items Kane had previously given them, Funa and Star Symbol accurately dismantled all surrounding defensive facilities.
The three of them waited, watching the giant green skull-shaped Energy Body before them.
The area was enveloped by dense energy veins connecting to this point.
"I've always wanted to say, why do the Undead always have aesthetics of bone? It's either thigh bones or skulls, can't they have something fresh?"
Xi couldn't help but grumble at the energy core in front of her.
Since arriving here, fighting against the Undead Influence, every architecture related to the Undead was all bones and skulls.
She was getting sick of seeing it.
She muttered further: "That stupid brother hasn't finished yet, why so slow."
She gripped her Holy Light Greatsword with both hands, with over a dozen golden threads already wrapped around all important regions surrounding the energy core.
Just waiting for Rui at the top to destroy the input port.
If she didn't wait for the input port on the top to be destroyed and directly cut it off, it could cause chaotic energy to circulate unrestrained within the tower.
Then, the entire tower might be collapsed by the enormous amount of energy, and Kane's target, the corpse, might encounter unpredictable situations due to the defense mechanism.
As she was complaining, golden light burst forth, and a vast amount of Holy Light surged along the threads.
"Here we go!"
Funa and the others, on guard nearby, instantly began cooperating.
Having prepared here for a long time, it only took them a minute to dismantle all the key nodal points.
After finishing, the giant skull-shaped Energy Body started to shake violently.
"It won't explode, right?"
Xi couldn't help but say.
Upon hearing Xi's words, Funa glanced at the data panel in front and the smart assistant observing around the energy body.
"It's alright, don't worry, though it's shaking violently, the energy is still controllable."
Sure enough, after a moment, the energy body stabilized and slowly sank into silence.
"Done, let's go support the others."
Then Star Symbol threw a mechanical sphere in front of them, the sphere unfolded into a Teleportation Gate, transferring them away.
Bone Tower top.
A golden silhouette flew back.
Rui was panting: "Done."
"Energy stabilized, we can directly reach where the main force is."
As the spectral vortex dissipated, the surrounding massive energy reactions began to disappear as well.
Space fluctuations calmed down too.
Raphael looked at Rui and asked: "Are you alright? Do you need to rest for a while?"
Rui took out three Potions, poured them into his mouth: "I'm fine, just lost a lot of Magic Power, don't worry, I still have self-preservation capability."
Upon hearing Rui's words, Raphael nodded, then looked at Kafka.
A blood-red Teleportation Gate appeared in front of them.
Everyone filed in.
...
Besides the two teams tasked with breaking the Ancient Tower.
The rest headed to the region of the Bone Tower's defense mechanism, where those Skeleton Giant Beast appeared.
The battle here was exceptionally fierce.
A massive number of Skeleton Giant Beast madly surged out when Lucerne activated the Tower of the Dead's defense mechanism.
These Skeleton Giant Beasts were powerful, and their constitution was extraordinarily resilient.
And they could attack cooperatively.
Causing great trouble for the members stationed here.
The whole area was filled with flowing blood, with the corpses of one massive Skeleton Giant Beast after another lying everywhere.
Everywhere were fragmented limbs and remains.
This was the only place among the three locations where there were casualties.
"Quickly protect their bodies, they must not be harmed by these beasts!"
Holthouse crushed the head of a Skeleton Giant Beast, shouting to the others.
The remaining golden-level members attracted the Skeleton Giant Beasts across the region, running wildly.
Finding opportunities, they would ambush and take one down.
On Abby's warhorse, dragging a corpse, she was evading around the area.
Occasionally using her Longbow to shoot at these beasts.
In the same situation was Mark.
This indicated that two of Kane's golden-level generals had already died.