◎The afterimage of Van Arnold◎

Xia Li felt a little excited when she thought about the secrets about the Skeleton Mage and the Skeleton Ring that she was about to find out. However, this excitement was quickly extinguished by the cruel reality.

Because she ran around the logging site twice, searched inside and out, but still couldn't find any clues.

This is totally unscientific! Xia Li thought to herself over and over again. There are no plots in games that happen for no reason, and a demon hunter wouldn't use berries to hint at something for no reason. There must be something she's missed.

Where could it be?

Xia Li refused to believe in evil and rekindled her fighting spirit. She was determined to find the clues today!

Finally, her hard work paid off. After she ran around the sawmill for the third time, a black shadow suddenly appeared in the center of the sawmill.

"You are truly a persevering human being." The black shadow stood in the center and spoke slowly. His voice was hoarse and sharp, like fingernails scratching across glass. Xia Li couldn't help but get goosebumps when she heard it.

Xia Li looked at him and cast an identification spell at him while he was speaking.

Van Arnold's Afterimage, Level 59, HP: 93W...

I actually met a Skeleton Mage!

Although it was only his afterimage, it was enough to make Xia Li ecstatic!

However, her excitement just rushed up for less than 1 second before it was suppressed again!

The opponent is a boss of almost level 60, with a health value of nearly 1 million.

Now let's look at her: Level 26, HP: 320,000.

They were simply not in the same league, the difference was even greater than the first time she fought the demon hunter on the Revenge Coast!

What to do? To fight or not to fight? This pressing question was before her.

Xia Li frowned slightly, then her gaze became focused and firm.

Fight! Fight even if you die!

She had finally managed to escape the big boss after running around in circles, and finally had the opportunity to get closer to the truth of the mission. She would never give up the boss just because of the level suppression.

Once she made up her mind, she had nothing to worry about.

She took out the enchanting material from her backpack - the Demon Heart, and attached it to the precious purple blood-red gloves without hesitation.

[Please confirm whether to consume the first-level enchantment material - Demon Heart]

【confirm】

Once the enchantment is successful, the materials will be combined with the equipment. If you want to remove it again, the system will deduct a higher proportion of gold coins as a cost. Therefore, unless necessary, players should not replace the enchantment materials frequently, of course, except for the rich.

Xia Li knew very well that she had nothing to do with the rich at that moment, so she was always cautious about using the Devil's Heart. That was why she was reluctant to use it after getting this material.

Because there simply wasn't a single piece of equipment worth enchanting. The Night Skeleton Armor had been handed over to Bruce, and the Skeleton Ring had even been forcibly taken away by Bruce, claiming it was dangerous, and placed in the mines beneath the banyan tree. The remaining equipment wasn't particularly bad, but it was just so-so, completely unworthy of enchantment.

The Bloody Gloves were different, the first and most precious purple item in the entire Miracles! If they weren't enchanted now, when would they be?

After the system received her confirmation, at that moment, Xia Li felt a faint purple light wrapped around her hands, as if a force was slowly being injected into them, gradually merging with the gloves.

A moment later.

[Crimson Gloves (Enchantment: Demon Heart): Precious purple equipment, Magic +28 (+1.68), Intelligence +30 (+1.8), Spell Crit +28 (+1.68), Spell Crit +19 (+0.14)]

All attributes have been increased by 6%!

"Human, you are too small and are no match for me at all." Seeing that she had no intention of retreating, the afterimage of the Skeleton Mage laughed slowly twice, with a hint of contempt and ridicule in his laughter.

As soon as his laughter died down, a huge ball of light formed in his hand and was thrown towards her in an instant!

Xia Li hurriedly dodged to the side and just narrowly avoided the light ball before it exploded. It was a close call. If she had not dodged it, with the opponent's strength, she would have been almost half dead.

It seems that his skill speed is not very fast. Xia Li reached into the void and grabbed a bottle of purple potion and drank it!

The 3-minute countdown for the purple medicine begins.

She chose an angle with some discarded wood as cover and flew out. At the same time, the poisonous gas attack and green mist were thrown out from her hands almost at the same time!

There was a loud explosion. The enchanted blood-red gloves lived up to expectations and dealt perfect damage despite being suppressed by more than 30 levels. The second part of the damage even hit the opponent's weak point - the heart, directly causing a higher critical hit than usual.

"Human, give up, you are no match for me." Although the Phantom Boss was badly beaten by the three blows just now, he had a lot of blood, so even if the damage was more than 8,000 points, it didn't hurt him at all.

After saying that, the light ball in the hands of the Phantom Boss took shape again. Xia Li quickly hid behind the cover. Then the third, fourth, and fifth shots... countless large and small light balls flew out from his hands. The intensive attack illuminated the entire sawmill, and the rumbling sound of explosions continued.

Xia Li ran around, relying on advance prediction and agile movement to barely avoid the chasing light ball.

But it was too dense. Even with the bonus of purple medicine, she couldn't dodge it every time. What's more, she couldn't hide in the distance all the time. The longest distance her skill could reach was only 8 meters, which was far shorter than the distance of more than ten meters or even more than twenty meters of the mage profession, so she had to stay in a range that was neither too far nor too close.

Unfortunately, this boss is a magician and uses only long-range attacks.

If she was always blocked by the ball of light and could not get close to him, she would always be the one at a disadvantage and it would be difficult for her to seize the opportunity to turn the situation around.

The only way to break the attack is to get close.

But if she wanted to get close, the probability of her being blown up by the light ball would greatly increase. Once she was blown up, her health would probably...

Xia Li bit her lower lip, dodging left and right while thinking in her mind. She still had a protective brooch in her backpack, but it only had one use left.

Should she use it or not? Or is the boss in front of her worth using?

Xia Li weighed and considered again and again, and finally, she decided to keep the brooch.

Rare items are hard to come by, and once they are used up, she may never have the chance to pick them up again.

Suddenly, at this moment, the phantom boss raised the corners of his mouth cunningly. Of course, he was just a skeleton, so there was no such thing as a corner of his mouth, but Xia Li could clearly feel his complacency.

"It's time to send you on your way, poor human. Remember to become strong enough to come to me next time!"

The phantom boss spread his arms, and his black robe fluttered back and forth in the wind. Soon, Xia Li saw several black halos appearing behind the boss, and skeleton monsters jumped out one after another from the halos!

The terrifying and ugly skeleton monsters made a sound of bones rubbing against each other, and they locked their eyes on Xia Li the first second after they landed.

You should use summoning magic to summon monsters as your helpers.

This is even more difficult. Xia Li frowned and thought, even if she had a body-protecting brooch, it would not be foolproof. The brooch could only protect her from any physical and magical attacks within 4 seconds. 4 seconds was enough for her to dodge at least 4 luminous ball attacks and get close, but it did not allow her to spare any time to destroy the group of skeleton monsters.

And once the protective circle of the body-protecting brooch disappears and she fails to deal a heavy blow to the phantom boss, I'm afraid those skeleton monsters will surround her in an instant?

Seeing the skeleton monster limping towards her, Xia Li suddenly had an idea!

A green light shot out from her glove, then instantly split into two silk threads, wrapping around the two skeleton monsters closest to her!

[Two skeleton monsters are tempted by you]

It worked! I hadn't expected the skill book [Light of Temptation] I picked up from the Scarlet Monastery to come in handy right now! While Xia Li was secretly delighted, she also regretted not upgrading the skill book a bit.

Now her Light of Temptation is only at level 1. At level 1, she can only tempt up to 2 ordinary monsters at a time, and the cooldown time is half a minute.

Forget it, it was already great that she could get two helpers from the enemy. Xia Li came back to reality from her regret, and flew out from between the two skeleton monsters that she had successfully seduced. At the same time, she slightly tilted her head and successfully avoided the boss's other glowing ball attack.

With her two helpers switching sides, Xia Li felt the burden on her shoulders suddenly lightened a lot, and the number of skeleton monsters besieging her finally decreased.

But it’s not enough, not enough yet.

A total of 10 skeleton monsters jumped out of the black circle, and only 2 of them were used by her. She still needed more help!

So Xia Li jumped lightly and tapped the ground left and right, focusing her attention on the boss while observing the cooldown time of the skills.

Half a minute passed quickly, during which she successfully got close to the boss without relying on the protective brooch and gave the boss another critical attack of poison gas!

At the same time, she turned behind her and threw out the Light of Temptation again. The green light turned into silk threads and instantly entangled the two new skeleton monsters.

After another half a minute, Xia Li seized the opportunity and used her skill for the third time, successfully luring the third group of helpers.

The skeleton monster camp suddenly became 4 to 6. That's enough, Xia Li thought to herself. As long as her helpers can hold off the other 4, she will have enough energy to deal with the phantom boss!

As if he hadn't expected that the human before him could actually possess the power of seduction, the Phantom Mage became furious: "You humans are always so cunning! I command you to die!"

A huge ball of light, several times larger than the previous one, suddenly took shape.

Oh no! Xia Li was shocked. She couldn't dodge this ball of light!

With a loud bang!

The light ball exploded, stirring up countless dust and fallen leaves all around, causing the ground to tremble slightly. The two factions of skeleton monsters that were fighting each other were also shaken to the ground with their bones together. The two skeleton monsters in the enemy camp were so exhausted that they fell apart on the spot and turned into a pile of bones.

The remaining six skeleton monsters belonging to Xia Li's camp quickly killed the other two, and then rushed towards the phantom boss with long swords raised.

Van Arnold's Phantom was a boss-level monster, so how could he possibly be afraid of ordinary monsters? He growled softly, and two small balls of light flew out, instantly blasting the annoying creatures into ash.

Wait! The smoke cleared, the vision became clear, and the Van Arnold phantom looked at the empty lumberyard. Where did that human go?

No, he should ask, what is that creature not far away with flames all over its body and an extremely ferocious face?

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