Online Game: Crazy Skeleton-Chapter 1617 - 1432: Crisis Lurks Everywhere

"Why does it feel like I’ve been tricked by a giant mud monster?"

In this secret space behind the dark door, Su Ran did not rush forward recklessly. He always felt something was amiss. The giant mud monster, clearly in hibernation, why would it leave and deliberately prevent others from entering the castle, allowing only him to venture into this secret space? What kind of secrets were hidden here? Surely, it couldn’t be as simple as the Heart of Mud!

Before him lay a test of high difficulty. No one had provided him the answers; failure meant paying with his life. This was a test in which he had to score perfectly!

As Su Ran continued to advance, a pitch-black swamp appeared before him. With no detours available in the vicinity, he had no choice but to confront the swamp head-on.

Hanging above the swamp were dark green vines, swaying continuously as if beckoning Su Ran, with a growing sense of danger that made Su Ran feel as though he was suffocating.

But then, he realized something and felt relieved. Skeletons don’t breathe, after all; the oppressive feeling dissipated significantly into nothingness.

"The danger level here is too high; unless it’s absolutely necessary, it’s best to avoid touching it."

Su Ran was very averse to the swamp and fixed his gaze upon those vines, planning to leave from above.

To be safe, Su Ran dispatched his bone eagle clone to probe for hidden dangers among the vines. If there were none, that would make things much easier.

However.

Just as the Dark Bone Eagle arrived over the swamp, the unexpected happened.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

Red tongues darted out from the darkness, catching Su Ran completely off guard. Before he could even control the bone eagle, the tongues pulled it into the darkness. No matter how the bone eagle struggled, it couldn’t break free from the grip of the tongues and ultimately met its demise, with bones scattered and spirit dissipated.

"This is..."

Through the eyes of the bone eagle, Su Ran realized that the attackers were chameleons hanging from the vines, with skin as dark as ink, blending into the darkness around them. If not for those fiery red tongues, they would have been impossible to detect.

"No choice, to get through this swamp, I have to kill them all."

A murderous intent surged in his eyes as he decided to take on these chameleons. Compared to the danger of the swamp, chameleons were nothing; eliminating them was just a matter of time. Falling into the swamp, on the other hand, could pose a fatal risk.

Su Ran summoned ten magical skeleton warriors and launched a fierce assault on the vines. He targeted not the chameleons—knowing with his vision he couldn’t find them—but rather he aimed to destroy their perch. Without the support of the vines, the chameleons would naturally fall into the swamp below.

Using the swamp to deal with these chameleons was most appropriate.

Under the intense onslaught, the vines suffered devastating damage. Large sections of the vines were blasted apart and rained down into the swamp like a storm, the chameleons included. To Su Ran’s surprise, these creatures managed to move effortlessly atop the swamp, with no signs of sinking.

"Trouble!"

Facing over twenty attacking chameleons, Su Ran felt annoyed. Had he known that the swamp had no effect on them, he wouldn’t have brought down so many chameleons all at once, purely making trouble for himself!

Keep in mind, the camouflaging ability of these chameleons was quite formidable, and before he could count them all, they had already vanished from his sight, not to mention determining their attributes.

As a result, he was about to face a group of unseen, intangible enemies. He couldn’t even lock onto a target until those fiery red tongues appeared; determining their location at that point was far too passive!

He realized the gravity of the situation and his brain whirred into overdrive, searching for a way to resolve this crisis.

Disguise, that is a form of invisibility. But how can one strip these chameleons of their cloaks of invisibility?

Invisibility...

Aha!

Su Ran remembered a special piece of equipment, the Death Sedge Cloak!

This cloak possessed a heaven-defying special ability, Death Gaze!

Even god-tier Invisibility Techniques could not avoid the Break Invisibility attribute of Death Gaze, using it against these chameleons would be somewhat overkill.

(Death Gaze: All those who are invisible under the heavens, nowhere to hide! Once used, characters or monsters within a 5X5 range who are invisible will have their invisibility forcibly removed and be inflicted with death status, making it impossible for them to be revived on the spot. The duration of death status is 1 minute, skill cooldown time is 3 minutes.)

For this precious Ornamental Item, Su Ran felt a twinge of guilt. Ever since he obtained it, he hadn’t really made much use of it. Not because there were no opportunities, but because it conflicted with the Illusion Demon Black Robe. If he wore the Death Sedge Cloak, it would reveal his skeletal identity, which was too great a cost to bear.

There was no other way. Nothing in the world is perfect; there are gains and losses. When he was alone, there was no need for such concerns. He put on the cloak, activated Death Gaze!

"Whoosh!"

A peculiar fluctuation flickered across Su Ran’s eyes. The chameleons, which should have been invisible, all revealed their forms and were now within three meters of himself, ready to launch an ambush at any moment.

It must be said that the Death Sedge Cloak appeared at just the right time, reversing the passive situation and bringing the initiative back into his own hands.

What followed was easy to predict. Amid the dumbfounded expressions of the chameleons, Su Ran led his army to a full-scale assault. Until their death, they could not understand how the detestable Undead discovered them, and why their survival skill – the ability to camouflage – had failed them now, which was beyond their comprehension.

It was only through exploration that Su Ran discovered these chameleons were just ordinary minor monsters. There was no need to worry about taking them head-on; he quickly routed them, leaving a pile of mud behind.

These chameleons contributed a fair amount of potions. In line with the idea of not creating trash for the system, Su Ran picked up all the potions before turning his attention to the remaining vines.

Then came the time for a major cleanup. Under his thorough eradication, the vines were completely cleared, and the remaining chameleons couldn’t escape their fate of being killed. The swamp above became incredibly empty, bereft of any vitality.

Su Ran didn’t stay there for long. Stepping on thin air, he easily left the swamp and continued to forge ahead. As for the magical skeletons, he left them fixed in place, choosing to summon them only when danger was encountered.

"Huh?"

After leaving the swamp and not walking far, his path was blocked by dozens of green dots of light that moved slowly in the air, resembling a swarm of fireflies, yet he sensed danger from them.

Su Ran summoned the Iron-blood Sand Puppet and sent it to probe. As long as he could identify the source of danger from these fireflies, then he could deal with them in a targeted manner.

Sure enough.

The moment the Sand Puppet approached the green dots, the green light on their surface flared brightly, instantly transforming into a swarm of specters that surrounded and attacked the Sand Puppet.