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Chapter 363 Forgotten Tower

Abel had spent three days in Lila Valley; During the day, he would practice his knight’s fighting technique inside the valley . In the night, he would go back to the dark world to clear up all the hell creatures in Black Marsh . With Flying Flame, it didn’t take much time to eliminate the hell creatures he found .

Flying Flame had more opportunities to fight, and it really wanted to show off . Abel was happy about that since the more it kept using the same technique, the better control it would have of its own abilities .

There were a hundred beast-type monsters in front of them . They were shaped like giant gorillas, and their muscles were frighteningly powerful . In fact, they were one of the most muscular and agile hell creatures there were .

Flying Flame knew that . That’s why it was so high up in the sky . It knew that a dragon’s roar wouldn’t do much to these hell creatures, but out of habit, it still screamed at them for a good two seconds . When it flew at them, they just howled back because they couldn’t do anything else .

Instead of going down to have a close-range battle, Flying Flame did something that was much easier . He spat out a white flame ball . Within seconds, all the creatures in a ten-meter radius were incinerated into ash .

This was Flying Flame’s new ability . By throwing a compressed fireball at its target, it could unleash an area attack with a ten-meter radius . The fireball would explode when it made contact to the ground, which was almost guaranteed to kill whatever it hit instantaneously . Well, that’s pretty much the case if it was against a bunch of hell creatures .

Flying Flame was born to breathe out fire . It could only use this about ten times before resting . Drinking soul potions didn’t make that number higher, but they increased its attack range and durability . The longer it could keep spitting out flames, the more damage it could deal to its enemies .

When Abel charged towards the battlefield with his summoned creatures, the number of hell creatures were obliterated . Flying Flame dealt with the vast majority of them, so all he had to do was to do a quick “clean-up . ” This was how things were going to be from now on . He could now save a lot of time from having to sweep off all the hell creatures himself .

“What is that?”

When Abel cleared off the last hell creature, he saw an abandoned building at the plain in front of him . When he rode towards it, he discovered that it was a square building completely made of giant stones .

Whatever power that was used to destroy this building, it must’ve been absolutely destructive . All that remained were broken walls and frames . This was probably the Forgotten Tower, where the Countess used to live in .

Abel ordered as he saw the entrance in front of him, “Stay out, Flying Flame!”

Flying Flame was just big enough to fit the entrance . It wasn’t good at walking with its two legs, though, so it had no choice but to fly on top of the Forgotten Tower . As disappointed as it was with itself, it knew its obligations well enough to serve as a guarding post .

Instead of walking inside the tower right away, Abel chose to send in his five spiritual guardian knights first . That was the right call . Soon, he started hearing the sound of fighting coming from the inside . Once he came in with the rest of his summoned creatures, he saw that the spiritual guardian knights were fighting five large beasts .

So, five spiritual guardian knights and five large beasts, all fighting to the death with each other in a very small room . The spiritual guardian knights were wielding lances with shock effects, so even if they couldn’t use their abilities, they could still protect themselves relatively well from the beasts’ attacks .

When the beasts were knocked away, their backs collided against the wall because of how small the area was . That’s when the spiritual guardian knights pinned them down with their lances . Whenever these creatures tried to move, the shock effect of the lances would keep trapping them from making any sort of movement . After that, their health points were drained away by death qi and attacks .

Abel didn’t have to do much himself . The result of the fight was obvious from the beginning . With a wave of his hand, he easily took the five beasts’ lives away with his “charged bolt” spell .

Now, he was worried that his poisonous ivy couldn’t travel underneath the stone tiles, but it turned out that he didn’t need to be concerned . The poisonous ivy was the strongest low-tier summoned creature for druids, after all . Even in a place like this, he could still see them occasionally hopping out from the ground .

When he took a better look at this place, he realized that everything was burnt before: the floor, walls, and ceiling were all charcoal black . All the furniture and decorations were damaged by fire . All that remained were pieces of charcoal that were on the wall .

Because of what happened here, the secret entrance that was hidden in the corner appeared to be more visible . It was an entryway to the underground dungeon . The light was dim, which made the dark pit that was below looked even scarier .

For a better view, Abel took out a night pearl from his portal bag . After putting it at his shoulder, he began to look for a stairway that he could walk down with .

Again, he sent in his five spiritual guardian knights first . As they had no use for a ladder, they could just disappear and re-appear in the dungeon . When Abel tried to sense their whereabouts, he realized that he couldn’t hear the sound of them fighting . That’s how he knew that it was safe to go down .

Abel was still on top of Black Wind . As its large paws padded on croaking stairs, they slowly made their way to the dungeon that was below . On their way, he saw that there was a small room that he could see with his night pearl . He had guessed that it was where the dungeon guards used to live . It became more evident when he looked inside .

There wasn’t much to look at . There were some rotten corpses on the ground, and there were some broken wooden tools that he wasn’t sure what they were for . The air was pretty clear, though . Whoever designed this place must’ve put some work in ventilation .

At the corner of the dungeon guard’s room, there was a passageway that went further down . There was an iron door that was in the way, but everything except its edges was already eroded . With one command, Abel could easily tell his five spiritual guardian knights to charge in .

And so he did . After, he and the rest of his summoned creatures walked towards the passageway as well . It wasn’t a long passageway . Actually, it was more of a stone stairway that was going down . After taking fifty or so steps down, he began to see a line of lanterns that were in front of him . Those were the lights of long-lasting lanterns . Long-lasting lanterns were made with a special oil that could only be produced with alchemy . While their lights weren’t very bright, they could last for many, many years without going off . Like the ones Abel saw right now, some of them could switch on in the presence of a nearby person .

Long-lasting lanterns were often used for graves of large families . Knowing that actually just made it creepier for Abel . He could make the place more visible with his night pearl, but because of how big the place was, there were still areas that he couldn’t quite see .

When his eyes became better-adjusted to the dark here, he began to notice four wooden barrels in front of him–but they looked new . They had clearly been in this place for some time, but no damage could be found whatsoever .

What kind of things would be inside them? Abel wasn’t willing to find out himself . He still remembered the times when he encountered explosive barrels from inside the dark world . If these were really explosive barrels, he and his summoned creatures would surely take a lot of damage .

Since Flying Flame wasn’t here, the spiritual guardian’s knights would have to be the ones with the highest defense points . Not only that, but Abel could also enhance their fire immunity if he switched on their fire enhancement mode . That being said, these skeletons were his safest option to test out the contents that were inside these barrels .

When the spiritual guardian knight captain came near the four barrels, it did not hesitate to slash one of them open with its knight’s lance . There was nothing inside, though . Abel was glad that that was the case . If there was anything valuable inside, it would’ve been destroyed just then .

Once it was told to restrain its force, the spiritual guardian knight captain proceeded to slash at the second barrel . An angry roar suddenly came from the inside . It was a hell creature, and it was interrupted from its sleep .

A hungry ghoul stood up from the broken barrel . After it tried to take away the broken wooden pieces, its shagged cloth and dark-black skin started showing . It was screaming as if it was trying to find the ones who were disturbing it . It looked kind of hungry as well . After waking up from a long slumber, it was desperate to replenish itself with some food .

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