Rhodes led the undead creatures under his command and walked towards the mayor's mansion.
As he got closer to the mansion, Rhodes felt a strong breath of death.
The breath of death was released from inside the mansion to the surroundings. This breath was far beyond what Rhodes had ever felt before. Rhodes knew that the mayor must have prepared something inside the mansion.
Although he had sensed something unusual in the mansion before, Rhodes didn't take it to heart. At this time, the aura of death around him undoubtedly reminded Rhodes how powerful the enemies inside the mansion were.
Currently, because the ghosts occupy a large amount of Rhodes' mental attributes, Rhodes's mental attributes are only left at the last 0.3. Rhodes' mana also didn't have much left. It was only enough to cast the last magic arrow, which had no key impact on the battle situation.
Rhodes knew that if he wanted to capture this mansion, he must rely on the undead creatures he controlled.
Leading the surrounding undead creatures, Rhodes arrived in front of the mansion.
The door of the mansion was closed, and there were a few sparks remaining around it, but they did not continue to burn, but remained in this form.
Rhodes picked up the torch originally held by the zombie from the ground and lit it with the help of the flames burning in the yard.
Rhodes handed the burning torch to a ghost nearby and asked him to try to use the torch to light the outer walls of the mansion.
The ghost took the torch and came to the front of the mansion. The ghost brought the torch in his hand closer to the mansion, but nothing happened. The flames did not ignite the walls of the mansion at all.
Seeing this, Rhodes confirmed his thoughts.
As early as when the necromancer originally cast the wall of fire, Rhodes noticed something unusual here.
It stands to reason that the fire wall will dissipate after the duration is reached, but due to the flames generated at the entrance of the mansion, the walls around the mansion will burn.
However, the situation was different from what Rhodes expected. After the fire wall disappeared, the flames next to it also disappeared, without affecting the mansion at all. Only some sparks remained in the courtyard in front of the mansion.
However, Rhodes didn't have any other ideas. He used the torch just to confirm what he had seen before, and Rhodes had already been prepared for this.
Ahead, a ghost followed Rhode's instructions and came to the gate of the mansion.
The ghost reached out and pushed, and the door slowly opened, revealing the deep space inside the mansion. Taking this opportunity, Rhodes looked inside the mansion.
There are some candlesticks on the walls of the mansion, and candlelight is burning at this time, illuminating the surrounding scene. In addition, there are no restrictions on the way into the mansion, as if they are waiting for Rhodes' arrival.
Rhodes let the ghosts around him enter first. Following the ghosts were the ghosts controlled by Rhodes. Rhodes followed the ghosts around him and entered the mansion together.
In order to deal with possible surprise attacks, Rhodes asked the vampire to follow him all the time. Once he encountered danger, the vampire could step forward immediately so that Rhodes could react.
Before stepping into the gate of the mansion, Rhodes had a thought in his mind, which was to take these undead creatures around him away. Since this trip has already yielded a lot of rewards, and he also got the map to the City of Screams, Rhodes can leave directly without fighting the mayor.
According to the strength shown by the mayor, if Rhodes chooses to leave, the mayor will definitely not be able to keep Rhodes.
However, Rhodes didn't want to leave just like that. As Rhodes realized from the beginning, every battle is an opportunity for him to increase his strength.
Rhodes has seen a lot of the mayor's methods. The only things that left Rhodes unsure were the undead creatures lurking inside the mansion and the spells mastered by the mayor. These were the possible problems in the battle with the mayor.
Even without understanding these circumstances, Rhodes had a general understanding of the mayor's overall strength. If you choose to leave easily at this time, you will undoubtedly let your own opportunities go to waste.
Following these undead creatures beside him, Rhodes entered the mayor's mansion. The interior of the mansion is relatively spacious, enough for the undead creatures around Rhodes to fight here.
As soon as he entered the mansion, Rhodes' eyes locked on a house inside the mansion. This house was the place where Rhodes felt something strange when he first came to the mansion to test it out.
At this time, the mansion was filled with a strong aura of death, and the concentration of the aura of death was far beyond what Rhodes had originally sensed. The source of these death energies was also the house that Rhodes was looking at.
As early as the first time he came to the mansion for testing, Rhodes felt the death energy here, but it was far from as strong as it is now.
Even when Rhodes was fighting the Necromancer, he didn't feel the death energy around the mansion. If Rhodes had noticed something unusual at that time, he would not have taken action against the Necromancer immediately.
Rhodes realized that the death energy around him was caused by the mayor while he was fighting the Necromancer.
The undead creatures beside Rhodes also felt the death energy around them and began to become agitated. Rhodes used his spiritual mark in time to suppress the undead creatures' restlessness.
With the undead creatures around him, Rhodes walked towards the abnormal room.
Beside, the ghost who originally tried to set the mansion on fire still held a torch in his hand. Rhodes sent the ghost to the door of the room and asked the ghost to try to ignite the surrounding items.
There is some kind of paint on the walls outside the mansion that isolates the flames so that the flames cannot burn on the walls. However, there is definitely no such paint on the objects inside the mansion and they cannot resist the burning of the flames.
Rhodes asked the ghost to ignite these items, just to set the mansion on fire from the inside.
Not knowing the strength of the undead creatures lurking inside the mansion, and the mayor's other methods, Rhodes did not dare to directly go forward to fight with the mayor, but still wanted to use the flames to give himself an advantage.
If the mansion can be set on fire from the inside, the hidden undead creatures can be forced out.
The ghost came to the door pointed by Rhodes and was about to light it with a torch. Suddenly, a black shadow penetrated the corner of the door and shot out from the door, hitting the ghost instantly.
The black shadow hit the ghost, denting the cloth robe in front of the ghost.
The ghost shuddered from the impact, but he immediately adjusted and was about to fight back against the black shadow. The black shadow quickly reached out, circled around the ghost, and at the same time quickly exerted force to push the ghost back. Pulled it violently.
The ghost directly hit the wooden door and made a loud noise that even Rhodes behind could hear clearly.
At this time, another black shadow shot out, cracking a hole above the door, and the position corresponding to this hole was the ghost's head.
In an instant, the ghost's spiritual imprint dissipated in Rhodes' perception.
From the moment the ghost prepared to set the door on fire until he was attacked and killed by this black shadow, it only happened in an instant.
Although the surrounding undead creatures reacted and prepared to attack, under Rhode's control, these undead creatures did not make any move and instead waited in place.
Just when the black shadow in the room attacked the ghost, Rhodes also saw the appearance of the black shadow, which was a huge rattan through the firelight produced by the torch in the ghost's hand.
I don't know if it is due to the light, but in the darkness, because there is only a little firelight to provide vision, the rattan shows a bright red under the light of the fire.
At this time, because the ghost died, the torch fell to the ground. The cane directly crossed the door and violently beat the torch on the ground. The shock spread to Rhodes' feet, and the vines directly extinguished the flames.
After the flames were extinguished, the rattan was retracted into the door, as if nothing had happened, and there was silence all around.
At the door of the room, except for the dead ghost and the door that was broken into multiple pieces, it seemed as if nothing had happened.
Although he lost a ghost in an instant, Rhodes didn't feel it was worth it. The ghost used its life to let Rhodes see the anomalies in the mansion.
Rhodes knew that the enemy in front of him was more powerful than he expected. The rattan dared to directly slap the torch that fell to the ground, showing that it had a certain resistance to flames.
This made Rhodes change his original plan. Originally, Rhodes planned to use the flames to force the mayor out of the darkness, but due to the power shown by the rattan, Rhodes had to give up this idea.
Rhodes looked at the space in the room. The room was dark inside. Rhodes had no way of knowing what existed inside, and could only feel the strong death energy.
Since he saw part of the enemy's body, Rhodes also had some ideas about the cane, but he still didn't know the overall situation of the enemy. If he wanted to defeat the previous cane, Rhodes still needed to obtain more information.
Thinking of the power shown by the vines before, coupled with the terrain restrictions here, if Rhodes insists on letting all the undead creatures under him swarm up, a lot of damage will occur under the attack of the vines, plus the lurking in the mansion The mayor of the town, even if they swarmed them, these undead creatures would be unable to have any effect.
Rhodes knew that he could not attack by force and could only use other methods to break into the mayor's mansion.
At this time, the vampire next to Rhodes stepped forward and came to the door of the house. Following Rhodes' instructions, the vampire was ready to step forward and test the cane.
Since the overall difference between the ghost and the ghost is not big, but the basic attributes are higher, it is still difficult to resist the attack of this kind of vine, so Rhodes did not send the ghost to test the vine.
Vampires are different. Vampires focus on survival. Although they are still at the third level, their bat transformation skills can effectively avoid the attacks of this kind of rattan.
Compared to ghosts, vampires have a clearer consciousness. Although they cannot accurately tell Rhodes through language, they can express the general content to Rhodes through spiritual imprints.
Therefore, Rhodes asked the vampire to come forward to test.
In the previous battle with the Necromancer, Rhodes just let the vampire drag the ghost. At this time, the vampire's bat transformation skill still retains a large number of uses.
The vampire came outside the room and the vines shot straight out of the door again.
Because the vampire had seen how the ghost was killed by the cane before, he had an early warning in his heart. Facing the incoming cane, the vampire dodged directly to the side, trying to avoid the impact of the cane.
However, after this vine hit the air, another vine shot straight from the side. Just as the vampire was dodging, the tip of the cane turned. The vampire was unable to dodge and was directly wrapped around the body by the cane.
The vampire tried to use his sharp claws to cut away the vines on his body, but because the vines were so huge, the vampire could not break free for a while even though he tore some of the vines around his body.
At this time, another vine next to it also wrapped around the vampire, and then pulled the vampire towards the door. At the same time, the next vine shot straight out from the door towards the vampire's head. The original ghost was directly killed by this cooperation between the canes.
Facing the direct shooting vines, the vampire had to choose to transform into a bat in order to avoid being seriously injured when his body was entangled by two vines.
The intensity of the cane's entanglement relaxed, and the vampire originally pulled by the cane turned into black mist. Because it suddenly lost its entangled target, the vines shrank towards the black mist in the middle, but it had no effect.
Another vine struck, but it just passed through the black mist, causing no harm to the vampire.
The bats jumped out of the black mist and bit into the nearby rattan. In addition, many bats followed Rhode's instructions and flew towards the interior of the room.
At this time, the rattan began to twitch wildly, slapping itself on the ground and surrounding walls, destroying the biting bats hanging on it. The entire mansion shook violently due to the beating of the rattan.
In an instant, a large number of bats biting the cane died, and a large amount of black mist erupted from the cane. The bats flying into the room also felt uncomfortable. It seemed that there were still such rattans inside, killing the bats directly.
Due to the extremely wide width of the canes and their violent beatings, most of the bats transformed by vampires died in a short period of time. After the number of bats lost reached a certain level, the remaining bats retreated toward the door.
Just as the bat retreated, the vines caught up and began to beat the bat in the air wildly.
Since the bat was focused on retreating at this time, the cane could only whip a few times quickly, and then it seemed to have reached its maximum extension. It was unable to reach the bat in the air. It could only hit the ground a few times, and finally retracted into the room. .
Bats gathered around Rhodes, and as a burst of black mist passed by, the vampire's figure appeared.
Rhodes stretched out his hand, and the vampire placed an item in Rhode's hand. Rhodes lowered his head to check.
With the original candlelight inside the mansion, Rhodes could clearly see the item in his hand. It looks like a small white bone, but it is not as hard as a bone. On the contrary, it is very tough and easy to bend. Rhodes tried it, but couldn't tear it off by his own strength.
What the vampire gave to Rhodes was the part of the rattan that the vampire had torn off before he transformed into a bat. It was part of the tissue of the rattan.
(End of chapter)