CHAPTER 117: CHAPTER 117, DEMON KING ELLIOT IS A DARK SUMMONER_1

Before their eyes was a vast square. On it, many Philin warriors were positioned in rows, waiting for the four of them to arrive.

Black Phoenix’s face was grim. Are Hell-level difficulty tasks so terrifying?

There were easily thousands of Philin warriors, each clad in armor and armed with a Wolf Fang Club, looking every bit like an army.

The four stopped in their tracks.

Jiang Chen licked his lips. What he saw were not warriors, but rows and rows of experience points.

A hundred of them are worth 30,000 experience points, and there are several thousand here. Wouldn’t that be hundreds of thousands of experience points? This is much easier than finding monsters himself. If he went to hunt in the wilds, it would probably take days and nights to find this many monsters. Now, they’re being delivered straight to his doorstep.

Jiang Chen looked at Ruo Li and coughed. "Ruo Li, when it’s time for your First-stage advancement, you must find me. We can’t let such a good path to experience go to someone else."

Ruo Li giggled. "Call me Senior."

"Alright, Senior. You all step aside; let me charge in for a wave of attacks first."

Black Phoenix drew her Dual Blades.

"I’ll help you."

"Are you trying to steal my kills?"

Black Phoenix was speechless. I’m here to complete a quest, not to steal your kills! Does this guy only care about experience points?

Without another word, Jiang Chen charged forward.

Just then, countless arrows descended from the sky. A familiar barrage of arrows burst forth. Jiang Chen looked up. There must be Archers hidden in there.

As numerous arrows flew towards him, Jiang Chen dodged swiftly from left to right, easily avoiding the attack. With his Perception Skill, these arrows couldn’t possibly harm him.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM...

As Jiang Chen dodged, the surroundings erupted with explosions.

Luckily, he had dodged quickly.

Black Wind exclaimed, "Jiang Chen, be careful! Those are Explosive Arrows!"

WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH...

Jiang Chen flashed forward, appearing before the warriors. He extended his right hand, and three hundred Sword Auras rushed forth like shooting stars, killing the warriors.

At this moment, Jiang Chen was like a Slayer, annihilating everything in his path.

Wherever the Sword Qi passed, Philin warriors fell dead. The feeling was incredibly exhilarating.

He swept through a large swathe of them.

His experience points kept soaring...

[Reached Level 31]

Black Phoenix watched this scene. The speed of the slaughter was too fast. Although she was known as an HP Recovery Warrior, even if she faced an attack from thousands, it would take her hours to wipe them all out.

But Jiang Chen had killed them all in a very short time.

The entire battlefield became a river of blood, with corpses littering the square.

Ruo Li said, "Our junior brother would probably win first place in the War of the Worlds too. What a freak!"

「...」

Demon King Elliot listened to his subordinate’s report on the progress.

Three thousand of his men had been annihilated. And by a single person. Who on earth could possess such power? Demon King Elliot looked at the witch. "Deploy the Dragon Knights. They must be killed. Those damned Heroes! The fact I haven’t attacked them is a mercy I’ve shown them!"

"Understood, my Lord," she replied.

Meanwhile, Jiang Chen and his companions continued on their way.

Black Phoenix said, "Demon King Elliot must know about us by now. He’s sent people to ambush us, and there’s still some distance to go."

Ruo Li nodded. "I didn’t expect Hell-level difficulty to be this horrifying."

"Yes, Hell Level entails hunting down the servants of the Evil God, and in the future, we will face His evil followers, who are much like us."

As they were talking, Jiang Chen looked up at the sky.

Several dark silhouettes swiftly approached. Jiang Chen said, "More enemies are coming."

The others also looked up at the sky, staring at the dark silhouettes. "How do they have Dragon Knights?" one of them asked.

"Those probably aren’t Dragon Knights."

The figures got closer and closer.

Only then did they see clearly: these were not dragons, but Bone Dragons with glowing red eyes. Vague humanoid figures could be seen atop the Bone Dragons.

Watching the Bone Dragons dive, Jiang Chen unleashed his Dragon Mastery Sword Qi into the sky, fiercely tearing into them. Two Bone Dragons died instantly, their bones raining down from above.

One of the remaining Bone Dragons above eyed Jiang Chen, and the figure atop it also stared fixedly at him.

Just then, several more Bone Dragons dived down.

Jiang Chen attacked again, shattering the Bone Dragons instantly. These Bone Dragons were surprisingly fragile; countless dragon bones fell to the ground.

At that moment, something miraculous happened.

The fallen dragon bones quickly reassembled themselves into a complete dragon.

What in the world? Jiang Chen was bewildered. How was this possible? He had clearly killed the Bone Dragons, so why were they reassembling? Could they have an Immortal Body?

Black Phoenix exclaimed, "This is bad! It’s the summoning magic of Dark Mages. Demon King Elliot is a Dark Mage capable of summoning dead warriors to fight again."

"What do we do then? Can’t these monsters be killed?"

"That’s not the case. Look at the Bone Dragon. Inside its body, there’s a Soul Flame. Only by destroying that Soul Flame can it truly be killed."

Jiang Chen looked closely and indeed saw a small, red flame hidden within the Bone Dragon’s head.

Without another word, Jiang Chen swiftly sent out a Sword Aura, attacking the Soul Flame hidden inside the Dragon Head.

SWISH...

A Sword Aura penetrated the Soul Flame, and the Bone Dragon died instantly, becoming completely still.

Jiang Chen smiled. "It really works."

At that very moment, countless Philin warriors approached from behind. Jiang Chen glanced over. These warriors were covered in scars—weren’t they the thousands of Philin warriors he had just killed?

Good heavens, were Dark Mages this terrifying? They had just been killed, and now they were summoned to fight again.

Thousands of Philin warriors charged towards Jiang Chen’s group. They were fast, their movements quick as they swung their blades without hesitation. Jiang Chen unleashed his Sword Qi again, striking at the Philin warriors through their existing wounds.

Black Phoenix wielded her Dual Blades, protecting Ruo Li and Black Wind behind her.

With Jiang Chen’s Three Hundred Sword Auras active, the Philin warriors couldn’t get near him at all.

The Sword Auras moved swiftly, quickly and cleanly dispatching the enemies.

This time, no experience points were gained.

Jiang Chen walked up to Black Phoenix. "We must hurry this time. We have to defeat Demon King Elliot within a day, or he will summon an endless stream of monsters."

"I’m not afraid of them, but you two won’t be able to handle it."

"I think his goal is to use these Summoned Beings to trap us and exhaust our Spirit."

Black Phoenix nodded. "Alright, let’s head to the palace quickly."

"What if the Demon King has already fled?"

"Yes, a Demon King this intelligent might choose to flee the palace once he knows we’re on our way."

Jiang Chen said, "Then we can only pray he hasn’t fled the palace."

The group continued on their way.

Summoned Beings emerged from the forest from time to time. Although they didn’t pose a major threat, they significantly slowed the group’s pace.

Jiang Chen asked, "Is Demon King Elliot a Dark Mage like the ones on our side?"

Black Phoenix shook her head. "I’m not sure about that. The Dark Mages on our side can also turn killed monsters into their pets. The more pets they have, the greater the Dark Mage’s power."

Jiang Chen thought of Caroline, his sister’s good friend.

She was also a Dark Summoner. He wondered if her Skills were the same.

Jiang Chen sent out a message: "Caroline, are you there?"