The group of skeletons surrounding Mark soon fell apart one by one under the rapid growth of the vampire rose and the suction of magic power, turning into broken bones and dull gray-white light dust covering the ground.
As for the leeches in their bodies, they never had the chance to jump out again.
Along with their parasites, they turned into life energy and were completely absorbed by Monica and the others.
Dozens of skeletons that followed them up the mine platform from the bottom of the lake were quickly wiped out by the three-person team.
The healing amount and abnormal holy water provided by dozens of third-level monsters easily allowed the two women and one mother to enter the mutated state again.
It’s a pity that the mutation state has not yet reached its limit.
All of them only mutated to the first step.
Monica transformed into Shadow Wing.
Xiao Mu mutated and developed more controllable tentacles.
Anna's eyes changed first.
But just when the three thought that the encounter was over.
From the depths of the dark mine, there seemed to be an extremely faint rustling sound, different from the movement of skeletons, as if something was retreating quickly.
Even though Anna had eyes that could see through the darkness and lock onto the trajectory of an arrow, she couldn't see clearly what was flashing past in the darkness.
However, after the thing flashed past, a series of "cracking" sounds of bones colliding were heard in the mine again.
This time, along with the sound of bones colliding, the three also heard the sound of armor moving and colliding!
"Mr. Mark, Sister Monica. We must get out of here as soon as possible! Those are a group of heavily armored dwarves!"
Anna first saw a neatly-formed group of dwarves coming from a branch of a mine tunnel.
Although they were still skeletons with phosphorescent fire in their eyes, it was clear from the way they lined up that these newcomers were not on the same level as the ones they had just crushed and strangled!
And there seems to be something else behind this group of heavily armored dwarves!
Anna didn't think Mark could face this new group of skeletons as easily as before.
If they didn't go deeper into the mines to avoid these heavily armored dwarves, they might have no choice but to retreat back to the Falling Star Lake.
"Okay! Retreat first!"
Although they didn't see the specific scene in the mine, Mark and Monica both believed in Anna's judgment.
"This way!" Anna's sharp eyes swept across the platform, where an abandoned mine cart blocked most of the mine tunnel entrance. "There's a road behind the mine cart!"
It was a mine car that had rusted and stuck to the rails.
The sides and top of the passage were completely blocked by ore and debris.
"Clang! Clang!"
Mark used all his strength to turn the cross necklace into a battering ram, and swung it hard from the side at the dilapidated mine cart that was blocking the road.
Two consecutive heavy hammer blows.
The rusted joints groaned harshly, and the mine cart was knocked sideways, revealing a narrow gap at the back that was only wide enough for one person to pass through.
It was only a short delay, and the sounds of the skeletons and heavy armor colliding in the mine were already much closer to them.
Mark could already vaguely see the outlines of the skeletons.
The skeletons wearing heavy armor seemed much more majestic than those shriveled skeletons, and their momentum was even more astonishing.
"Go in quickly!"
Mark was at the end of the team, letting Anna and Monica enter the mine first.
He and Xiao Mu walked at the end.
By the time he had squeezed into the gap with his chest and back pressed against the gravel wall, he could already see the person coming in the faint light.
A team of elite dwarf troops wearing silver steel armor and holding battle axes, hammers, and crossbows!
The moment he saw the crossbow, Mark's heart shuddered.
“Swoosh—clang! clang! clang!”
Mark just subconsciously transformed the cross necklace into a cross shield to block the entrance of the cave, and then he heard a series of crisp sounds.
Sure enough, those weapons that still seemed to be emitting magical fluctuations could still be used normally even after being buried deep underground for more than two hundred years!
Following that crisp sound, heavy footsteps and the sound of metal scraping quickly approached.
Those heavily armored dwarf skeletons are charging towards this side!
"Anna!"
Monica growled, and the Shadow Wings were ready to go. Xiao Mu stretched his wings tightly behind him, opened his wings slightly, and stared at the entrance with his big eyes.
Anna raised her bow and quickly condensed an emerald green arrow of natural energy on the bowstring, and the bow was like a full moon.
"The Arrow of Confinement!"
The green arrow shot accurately at the wreckage of the mine cart.
"puff!"
Green light exploded!
Countless thick vines suddenly emerged from the cracks in the mine cart and the surrounding ground, rolling up gravel and broken wood like living things, and entangled tightly with the mine cart!
In the blink of an eye, a thick barrier made of vines, mine carts and rubble blocked the entrance!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Almost at the same time, heavy chopping and crashing sounds were heard outside the barrier!
War hammers and battle axes smashed down fiercely, crossbow arrows scattered, the vines trembled violently, green light flashed, but the barrier stubbornly withstood the first wave of attacks.
"We can't hold it off for long! Go!"
Anna shouted anxiously. After just one wave, she realized that her magic arrows did not seem to have much effect in blocking the dwarf skeletons outside.
It can only block it for a minute or two at most.
Mark immediately put away his shield and said, "Retreat! Monica leads the way, Anna stays in the middle, and Xiaomu and I will cover the rear!"
He pushed Anna and signaled her to follow Monica's movements.
Monica flapped her shadow wings and turned into a shadow, blending into the darkness ahead.
The three-man team ran deep into the abandoned mine tunnel without hesitation, leaving the heart-pounding chopping sound behind them quickly behind them.
The mine was pitch black, with only the Holy Light Shield and the faint light emitted from Xiao Mu's body providing illumination.
The air was filled with the smell of decay and strong fluctuations of attributeless magic.
These attributeless magic powers should be transformed by the mithril veins themselves, just like the magic powers near the shore of Starfall Lake.
Living in this kind of environment for a long time, even the most common weeds could evolve into magical plants.
"These damn things...how can they act like a well-trained army even though they are controlled by bone leeches!" Anna walked in front, her face slightly pale.
In the brief confrontation just now, when she saw the dwarves charging towards her, she only thought of the orc squad she had seen at a border of the human kingdom.
They are all equally fierce and violent.
"Perhaps these dwarves are of a higher level, or perhaps the bone leeches controlling them are of a higher level."
To be honest, Mark, who was at the back, was the one who suffered the greatest impact.
Even though his current strength has reached the third level, neither he in his previous life nor little Mark in this life has ever had direct contact with any well-trained army.
When the dwarves rushed over, he just felt like he was being stared at by some wild beast.
It has nothing to do with the strength of those dwarves. It is a unique momentum belonging to the army that they have gained from years of military service and training!
When an individual faces such a group, it is easy to have the illusion that he or she will be overwhelmed.
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