Chapter 13 – Necromancer

Using his remaining time, Su Mo secretly came to Rainham.

Rainham was a small town and had old-style structures. Under the glow of sunset, it looked peaceful and beautiful. If one wanted to see the sights of an old-style European town, Rainham was a great place to go.

Rainham Town's biggest structure was the cathedral at the center of the town. The quiet music from the cathedral continuously bathed people's souls, and players would often form parties to farm Heretic Zealots.

Su Mo looked at the decayed cross and the tattered flags on either side of the cathedral. He held a feather from an arrow in his mouth and felt quite bored as he walked in. He sat at the back row and listened to the kind-looking Bishop preaching to the disciples.

She rambled on for ten or so minutes.

The Bishop then said, "Offerings show respect and loyalty to God. If your offering does not have sincerity, the meaning behind the offering will be lost. We must give the best of what we have to the peerless existence…"

Was it going to begin? The drowsy Su Mo sat up straight and watched the disciples bring in a small girl bound to a cross.

The little girl struggled as she cried, and she was soon devoured by flames.

As the flames devoured the little girl, night began to fall in Rainham. Darkness quickly spread, and no one could avoid the darkness as the entirety of Rainham became a dead town.

The Bishop and disciples all started to struggle and cry out in pain.

There were monsters everywhere, with some looking like mummies from movies; they had powerful Defense and ordinary Movement Speed. There were also monsters that dropped flesh from their bodies—they had average Defense but their attacks had a plague attribute that would make most professions cry out from pain. There were also skeletons, and they no longer had any blood or flesh. Even though they had powerful attacks, they had very weak defense.

The animals and fruits used for sacrifices started to rot, and he spat out the feather in his mouth. While the monsters had not been devoured by darkness, Su Mo snuck out from the small door behind the Bishop.

He could not be too early, or else the Bishop would bring people to kill him.

He could not be too late either, or else it would be impossible to get through the monsters in the cathedral without 1,000 people.

Su Mo closed the door backhanded and leisurely walked down the long flight of steps. Soon, he finally saw the massive sacrificial altar, and there was a Necromancer dressed in gray robes sitting at the center.

"Sorry for the disruption, I hope I'm not bothering you." Su Mo swept back the hair in front of his face, and he did not seem embarrassed or awkward at all.

This was Necromancer Lindberg, who he needed to kill. If his information was correct, it was only a Level 15 Mini Boss. Now that he was Level 25, killing it would not be too difficult.

"Stranger, this is not a place you should come to," Lindberg said in a low voice while casting a spell once he saw Su Mo.

"But I still came. Stop wasting your breath and stop your evil experiment." Su Mo took out his bow and took aim at Lindberg's head before shooting.

A -32 damage figure floated up.

This damage…

This definitely was not a Mini Boss.

Even though Su Mo knew that his equipment was very mediocre, there was something wrong with this damage. This meant that Lindberg was not a Mini Boss like he had thought.

Level 15 Necromancer Lindberg had 22,000 HP, and adding on his HP regeneration and damage reduction, it would take Su Mo at least ten or so minutes to kill him. Su Mo was a Ranger with Blue and Green grade equipment, and it was difficult to say if he could last so long against this Necromancer.

Fortunately, he had a pet, which could help him attack and tank for him.

The requests he took were all quite simple ones, and he usually faced off against small monsters. He would rarely encounter Bosses. Now that he had the Boss monster chat group, he could try more difficult requests with better rewards.

After going back, he had to upgrade his equipment and get some more pet slots and taming scrolls; he needed a pet who could draw aggro and tank well.

Lafu loyally rushed at the Necromancer with no hesitation.

Because Su Mo had continuously fed it fresh meat, Lafu's Loyalty had long since surpassed 85.

New World's pet loyalty system went from 0 to 100 and ranged from Resistant, Cold, Obedient, Faithful, to Unwavering. There were five ranks in total. Pets with Loyalty above 80 were incredibly obedient and had a certain amount of intelligence, and they could make judgments by themselves about how to fight.

Loyalty below 20 meant that a pet might run away at any time.

Necromancer Lindberg started to furiously counterattack, and perhaps because of his obsession with the ritual, he continued to maintain the ritual while using one hand to cast spells to deal with Su Mo and his wolf.

Lindberg summoned two Skeleton Knights who rode on skeleton warhorses and charged toward Su Mo.

Su Mo tossed aside his bow and rolled on the ground, tumbling into a pile of miscellaneous objects. After the charge failed, the Skeleton Knights could only pull on the reins and put some distance between them so that they could once again charge.

Stupid pile of bones!

Su Mo commanded Lafu to attack the Necromancer while circling around with the Skeleton Knights. The complex layout of this underground region made it so that the Skeleton Knights could not use even half of their full strength.

As Su Mo circled about, he did not forget to continue to attack the Necromancer. This time, he used the arm cannon that dealt more damage.

Silver equipment felt quite good, and the arm cannon's damage was not any weaker than a Blue grade bow of the same level, let alone the even weaker crossbow. It was a pity that using the arm cannon required bullets each time he used it, and ordinary bullets were more than three times more expensive than arrows. This thing burned money.

The battle was filled with danger and Su Mo could be killed at any moment, and his pet also needed to regularly heal.

If either he died or his pet died, the battle would be over.

In the end, he had not collected enough information from the Boss monster chat group. He only had basic information about this Necromancer's drops and level, and because Necromancer Lindberg was not a monster that periodically spawned, he did not chat much.

If it wasn't for the fact that Lindberg was determined to maintain the ritual while fighting, Su Mo might have already died.

By the time Lindberg had almost finished the ritual, Su Mo had taken down 18,000 of his total HP, and there was still around 4,000 HP left.

Su Mo gritted his teeth and took out a scroll. He tore it open and threw it at Necromancer Lindberg before madly attacking.

This was a weakening scroll that cost eight gold coins, and it could reduce a Boss' Defense by 20%. However, it only lasted for 20 seconds and could only be used once per battle. Only rich people would use such things.

This was something that Su Mo had seen while looking around the market area the day before yesterday. The other person had listed it for the wrong price, eight silver coins, so Su Mo was able to pick up a bargain. This kind of thing happened quite regularly.

Sometimes the seller would put a zero or decimal point in the wrong place, and sometimes they would list a price that should be in gold coins in silver coins or the reverse. Sometimes a material worth eight silver coins were sometimes purposely priced as 80 silver coins or even eight gold coins.

Su Mo had not been able to bear using this scroll all this time; he had never thought that he would end up using it today, causing his heart to ache. However, he did not hesitate to use it. Since he had come all this way, he could not lose everything for nothing.

After 20 seconds, he was able to take down more than 3,000 HP.