Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 599 - 590 Eliminate the Guard

In this eerie region, the Black Monarch's iconic White Bone Palace is situated.

A large number of guards are defending the palace, divided into teams, continuously patrolling the surroundings.

You can see many archers on the White Bone Tower surrounding the palace, along with crossbows made of white bone.

This White Bone Tower is the only structure outside the palace and the only item with a defensive nature.

It seems this palace was not designed with a defensive battle in mind, so there are no walls; the conspicuous Gate of White Bones connects directly to the ground via steps.

Kane and his men have come charging all the way, with no intention of hiding, rushing straight ahead.

Seeing the White Bone Palace not far away, Kane and his team's blatant actions have already been discovered early by the palace guards.

However, it seems because they have to defend the palace, they did not actively attack.

Instead, they let the Black Monarch's soldiers form up, gathering around the palace.

A significant portion of these guard soldiers are archers. After forming their ranks, they launched a volley of arrows in the direction of Kane and his men.

"Stop!" Seeing the large number of enemy archers, Kreya immediately waved her hand to halt her soldiers.

The rebel army also stopped their war horses, no longer advancing, as going further would enter the enemy archers' attack range.

The volley of arrows landed densely on the ground in front of them, and the black flames on the arrows continued to burn fiercely, seemingly warning Kane and his team.

Kreya turned her head to stare at Kane, the meaning clear in her eyes.

Kane nodded, waving his hand, and the Magic Power surged from his grasp. The amethyst that had been floating beside him began to emit a purple glow.

With the surge of light and Magic Power, turrets rose from the ground again, this time Kane reducing the number, only constructing 20, but with a larger caliber indicating greater power.

Golden light surged from within his body, then enveloped him completely, and a conspicuous Golden Wheel floated behind Kane.

Kane entered the Divine Human State, wanting to test if the Holy Light Attribute's damage could inflict more harm on the opponent.

Judging by appearance, the enemy differs little from the Undead, but since they are created by the power of death, they may not actually be Undead.

Kane had seen in the Village of the Dead; the Holy Light Particles extinguished there were not pure Holy Light, containing an unknown substance.

Thus, he could not guarantee that Holy Light Damage would have a better effect on the enemy.

Since only 20 cannons were made, there was no need for elaborate firepower control. Kane directly used his sight to mark those enemy ranged units one by one.

With the magic surging in again, the cannons roared once more.

Each recoil stirred up clouds of dust.

Each shell, wrapped in a cloak of Holy Light, crashed into the enemy archer lines.

With his Eagle Eye, Kane noticed the impact of his shells was not as significant as expected.

While Holy Light increased the shells' damage, it did not deal the high damage typical against the Undead.

It was like using Holy Light on ordinary monsters—slightly more damage, but not enough to justify the extra Magic Power spent, somewhat wasteful.

As the shells landed among the enemy, the archers were unable to continue firing arrows.

Kreya seized the opportunity and shouted to her followers: "All troops, charge!"

Her voice barely faded before the rebels followed Kreya, charging towards the enemy forces.

This time, they faced no obstruction from arrow volleys because almost all archer positions had been devastated by the shells.

Although these shells may not have caused exaggerated casualties, the absence of death did not exempt them from the concussive force of the cannon blasts.

The explosions and damage left them with no chance to nock and aim again.

"You cursed rebels, how dare you disturb the Monarch's rest." A thunderous roar broke out.

A towering figure, standing about three meters tall and wrapped in massive black armor, charged forward.

The surface of the black armor featured white bones, and in his hand was a giant spine-like sword, ablaze with intense black flames.

He headed straight for Kreya, knocking every skeleton obstructing his path aside.

This figure was likely a general under the Black Monarch, and Kane's Eagle Eye saw the magical aura he emitted was at the peak of silver-level.

No different from Heideline, reaching the limits accepted by this world.

Seeing the enemy, Kreya's war axe transformed into Flying Wing Twin Swords.

Facing the enemy's massive sword slashing down fiercely, one Flying Wing Blade blocked it, and its black and white flames began to devour the black flames on the greatsword.

The other Flying Wing Blade swung towards the general's abdomen—a golden-grade weapon renowned for its sharpness.

With ease, it sliced a large gap in the general's armor, exposing his interior.

Inside was no flesh and blood, but a skeleton, also engulfed in black flames, even pouring out of the armor's breach.

The skeleton general in black armor made no consideration for defense, gripping the White Bone Greatsword with both hands in forceful strikes against Kreya's Flying Wing Blade.

Kreya, using the blocking Flying Wing Blade, deflected the massive blade forcefully. She shifted her weight to her rear leg, planting her forward foot firmly as she kicked the skeleton general's breastplate heavily.

"Bang!"

The thigh armor of her forward leg still ablaze in black and white flames, with that kick Kreya caved in the skeleton general's entire chest armor.

The enormous power caused the Skeleton General to stagger back several steps.

Seeing the off-balance Skeleton General, Kreya pushed herself forward with her back feet, quickly closing the distance.

The Flying Wing Dual Blades in her hands were directly plunged into the chest armor.

The black and white flames on her body fiercely surged into the interior of the chest armor, instantly impacting the black flames within the general, devouring his internal skeleton.

As an undead Skeleton General, he let out a tremendous scream under this strike.

Kreya's black and white flames made him feel the pain he hadn't experienced in centuries since being transformed into an undead.

This pain, as if flames burnt through his throat, drilled into his skeleton, burning the marrow within.

This immense pain made him feel as if he still had flesh and blood.

Kreya withdrew the Flying Wing Dual Blades, and the Skeleton General's screams grew weaker and finally ceased altogether.

Subsequently, the over three-meter-tall general collapsed onto the ground, and through the breach on his black chest corner, it was visible that the internal skeleton had completely lost the black flames.

Just like a frail skeleton stored for hundreds of years.

Kreya and her comrades' current power had long reached the limits of the Silver level, able to defeat characters equivalent to minor dungeon bosses.

It's almost difficult for them to withstand a few moves from Kreya and her team.

At this moment, the battlefield had already tilted overwhelmingly in their favor, with the enemy being rapidly eliminated under various artillery bombardments.

The forces guarding the palace were much fewer compared to the ones outside hunting, with most assigned for long-range defense as archers.

The only strength they could boast was the Black Monarch's generals guarding here, but the general couldn't last ten moves against Kreya before being defeated.

In previous quests, Kreya and her team were invincible at the Silver stage, and now they're even more so.

Kane and his team gently advanced to the main gate of the palace, with the white bone stone towers around the palace already bombarded and collapsed.

Despite the fierce outside battle, the White Bone Palace seemed empty and lifeless, without any sign of movement.

Black Monarch already injured to the point of struggling to even walk?

Logically, hearing such a commotion outside should have prompted assistance from within for the outside guards.

Black Monarch surely isn't foolish.

As the battle advantage grew, Kane and his team systematically eliminated the enemy forces and gradually moved forward, finally approaching the palace's main gate, surrounded by limbs and broken bones.

There were casualties in the rebel army too, no surprise, given the black flames igniting on these skeleton soldiers were extremely difficult to defend against.

Kane looked at the main gate of the White Bone Palace in front. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

The main gate was crafted from assembled human-like ribs, opening from the middle to the sides as the entrance.

Indeed it appeared like an undead's palace no matter how one viewed it; Kane couldn't help but wonder if Black Monarch has completely transformed into an undead.

And this massive Gate of White Bones wasn't vacant.

Two towering Skeleton Guards stood perpetually at the gateway, unmoved by the outside turmoil, clutching enormous White Bone Giant Axes.

If not for their reactions, Kane would've thought these skeletons were mere adornments.

Kane gauged that these giant skeletons reached up to 10 meters, and their skeletal frames were wrapped in a layer of metal-like armor.

The massive White Bone Axes in their hands burned with black flames, as did the flames on the skeletons' skulls and supporting spinal columns.

When Kane, Kreya, and the soldiers behind them stepped onto the stairs of the Gate of White Bones,

the giant skeletons guarding the gate finally stirred.

Their hollow eye sockets burning with black flames focused on Kane and his group below.

Seemingly deducing them as foes, they raised their giant axes and slashed down.

Kane instantly created a giant wall above to block the two giant axes.

The axe blades directly chopped halfway into the giant wall, showing the immense power these skeletons wield.

Kreya once again transformed into her Ghost Form, blazing with black and white flames, charging out.

In her grip remained the highest tier weapon Kreya could wield - the Golden Flying Wing Dual Blades.

Meanwhile, Kane took advantage of the intact giant wall to set up two colossal cannons.

The muzzle was vast enough to directly accommodate a regular adult, with gigantic caliber.

Yet, crafting the shells similarly required a bit of time, unlike other cannons, which could instantly produce many.

Pedi, alongside Steel Armor, moved to engage the other giant skeleton.

The huge curved blade in their hands grew even larger, the blade part transforming into blue Magic Power, fiercely slashing at the giant skeleton's leg bones.

Steel Armor's giant twin hammers smashed directly onto the skeleton's foot bones.

Their combined efforts, including Kreya, instantly restrained the two giant skeletons.

And Kane's cannons were now fully set up, shells already loaded.