"What’s with this Skeleton Saint, acting all timid at the critical moment? If the players’ team gets organized, we’ll lose our advantage!"

Su Ran was anxious but helpless, lamenting in his heart that this was the intelligence gap between system monsters and players; they wouldn’t actively attack unless they entered their aggro range—a foolish setting that doomed the boss to be slaughtered by players.

However.

Just as Su Ran was desperately trying to signal the Skeleton Saint, he helplessly discovered that the saint had decided to sit down and meditate to recover its state, while the high-level Undead around it wandered aimlessly like senseless puppets, leaving the whole Undead camp looking deathly still.

Damn!

The enemy is at the gates, and you’re recovering? What, my grave’s grass isn’t green enough for you?

At this, Su Ran wished he could rush forward himself and command the Army of the Undead to attack!

But that was unrealistic.

A deep feeling of powerlessness washed over Su Ran; he guessed that the Skeleton Saint would definitely suffer a major setback this time!

The initiative was lost, it was too late for anything else, and Su Ran could only hope in his heart that the Skeleton Saint could turn the tide and annihilate these players so he could successfully complete his task—this was what he truly hoped to see.

Out of a sense of self-preservation, Su Ran hid behind a rock formation, out of the players’ line of sight, and slowly moved toward the distance; all he had to do now was wait and reap the benefits.

As time passed, more and more players entered the dark abyss, filling Su Ran with excitement; the more players there were, the greater his hope of completing his mission!

But just as the battle was about to ignite, Su Ran unexpectedly noticed a player riding a Golden Tiger emerge from the crowd.

This person Su Ran recognized; it was the leader of the Dancing Demons guild, Dai Xuan.

"Huh? How did he deign to come out of the Ghost Realm?"

Seeing Dai Xuan, Su Ran was quite surprised; he had not expected Dai Xuan to leave the Ghost Realm so soon, especially since such a powerful teleport scroll was hard to come by and, with so many subordinates, any quick exit should have tied him down for at least a couple of days.

Perhaps, this guy, hearing of the changes in the dark abyss, had no desire to stay in the Ghost Realm any longer and abandoned his teammates to return first.

Dai Xuan’s comeback had two main motives: one, to get the first kill on the Skeleton Saint, and two, to reclaim the dark abyss.

Once the Dancing Demons were ready, the battle finally broke out; however, Dai Xuan did not opt for a suicidal zerg rush strategy but chose a more conservative approach, circumventing the Skeleton Saint, luring mobs bit by bit, planning to whittle down the Undead mobs first.

Seeing this, Su Ran couldn’t help but nod. Were he in command, he likely would have made the same choice; after all, slowly but surely was the sensible approach.

This method of attack was the safest, its only drawback being that it was time-consuming.

However.

The Skeleton Saint was not one to be easily fooled.

No sooner had the battle started than the Skeleton Saint noticed the invading army of players. Rage surged through it, and it stood up abruptly, looming like a small mountain, unleashing a terrifying pressure. The Soul Fire in its eye sockets blazed with intense bloodlust as it roared, "Despicable humans, will you ever stop? Do you really think my Undead race is so easily bullied?"

"The rumors are indeed true, it really is a high-level boss!"

Seeing the BOSS able to speak human language, a hint of joy flashed in Dai Xuan’s eyes. Without saying much, he immediately took out a red talisman and threw it towards the Skeleton Saint.

"Swoosh!"

Since the Skeleton Saint was too large and unwieldy to dodge, the talisman easily hit its target. Following that, the talisman shattered, and the Skeleton Saint became confused, attacking the nearby Army of the Undead as if mad.

"Bang bang bang!"

Caught off guard by the sudden attack of the Skeleton Saint, the undead dared not fight back, allowing the Saint to strike them. Within seconds, it had killed three of the undead.

"This is trouble!"

Su Ran hadn’t expected Dai Xuan to be so cunning, possessing even such heaven-defying talismans. The Skeleton Saint was bound to suffer a great loss this time.

There was no helping it. The Skeleton Saint had missed the chance to strike first, kindly allowing Dai Xuan and his group to prepare and giving the enemy room to develop. It was no wonder they were at a disadvantage!

At this moment, Su Ran had an ominous premonition. Despite being a mighty final BOSS, sealed within the Demon Tower for tens of thousands of years, and its strength much diminished, it couldn’t just be defeated in its lair upon its return in such a pathetic manner!

Could it be that the Army of the Undead was doomed never to rise?

Su Ran did not want to see this happen. He silently watched the situation unfold, having already decided that he would not hesitate to expose himself at a critical moment to help the Skeleton Saint, not for any other reason but because he found Dai Xuan unpleasant and absolutely couldn’t let this guy succeed!

"Haha, Leader Dai’s move was brilliant!"

"Even your Skeleton King has turned against you, why not surrender?"

"With Leader Dai here, even this first kill has become so easy, what a relief!"

The players at the forefront, upon witnessing the Skeleton Saint turning on its own, immediately felt energized. They laughed as they fought even harder.

"Despicable humans, you are truly lowly!"

Fortunately, the talisman’s effects were short-lived, lasting only a minute. But in that brief time, the Skeleton Saint had annihilated its nearby minions, killing about thirty high-ranking undead. After regaining clarity, the Skeleton Saint was incredibly enraged, the Soul Fire in its eye sockets burning ferociously until its eye sockets turned red.

"Increase attack speed, let’s wipe out its forces first, there will be no suspense in killing this skeleton BOSS afterward!"

Dai Xuan, too excited, even raised his voice as he relentlessly slaughtered atop his Red Gold Cloud Tiger, and the players also grew increasingly fierce, piling the corpses of the undead into small mounds.

"You all, deserve to die!"

Roar from the Skeleton Saint, as it wielded a large ruler in its hand, waves of invisible sword energy blasted towards the players, and at the moment when catastrophic damage was about to erupt, Dai Xuan smiled.

"Rebound shield, activate!"

Dai Xuan tore another talisman, and a golden shield appeared in front of the players, blocking all attacks. Not only that, the shield vibrated intensely, reflecting all the Skeleton Saint’s moves back at the undead forces, causing a massive explosion.

For a moment, remains flew everywhere, instantly killing nearly a hundred undead, clearing a large area on the ground.

"Hiss!"

As an observer, Su Ran couldn’t help but gasp at the sight of this counterattack. He hadn’t expected Dai Xuan to be so cunning, using special talismans to fully manipulate the Skeleton Saint. This also illustrated one thing, rich players were capricious, and this was the advantage of RMB gamers—the loss the Skeleton Saint suffered was not undeserved!