A Legendary Thief - Chapter 46

Chapter 46: The Ancient Tomb

After he fully recovered, Xiao Yu left the ragged rocks and headed toward the ancient tomb in the distance.

He was climbing the mountain as he roamed through the ragged rocks. By the time he arrived at the halfway point of the mountain, he saw a run-down, ancient tomb embedded into the cliff. The words on the tomb monument were unrecognizable due to erosion over the years. But he could still tell that they were the words of the Erathia Empire. The ancient and powerful empire, like these words, had disappeared in the long river of history, with only some unrecognizable marks remaining.

There was an underground tunnel beside the tomb; it was pitch-black inside. It was also unknown where the tunnel led to.

Xiao Yu investigated the surroundings for a while and ascertained no danger was lurking before he descended the steps of the ancient tomb.

He shivered once when a gust of gloomy and cold air assaulted his face. The steps were covered with moss, so it was very slippery to walk on. Xiao Yu was cautious when putting his feet on the steps.

His surroundings grew brighter after he passed a dark section of the tunnel.

Xiao Yu craned his neck to look up at the light source and saw many glowing orbs each the size of a fist. They were inserted into the top of the cliff wall three meters apart, and the light emitted by the glowing orbs illuminated the tunnel.

“These glowing orbs are huge!” Xiao Yu couldn’t help but feel amazed. However, items like glowing orbs were not something precious in Enzes Land, where magic items were abundant. Hence, tomb robbers were not interested in stealing glowing orbs.

As he walked along the broad and illuminated tunnel, Xiao Yu sensed that he was getting closer to the center, and he wondered what he would encounter there.

As he was walking forward, he suddenly felt a weird feeling under his feet. It felt like the stones under his feet were moving.

“Damn! It’s a trap of some sort.” He quickly pulled his feet back, but it was already too late. His feet triggered the trap in the ancient tomb.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Dozens of arrows with greenish sparks headed straight for Xiao Yu from a corner of the cliff wall.

Xiao Yu leaped left and right to dodge the incoming arrows. In addition, he had to pay close attention to the ground underneath his feet because he didn’t want to trigger a second trap.

Xiao Yu moved to the left cave wall and sucked in his stomach abruptly as an arrow flew by his midsection.

Another arrow was heading toward Xiao Yu. As he was about to move forward to dodge the arrow, he pulled back his foot that was about to step down because he sensed something going on with the stone slab under his foot. If he stepped on it, he might trigger another trap.

As he was hesitant, the incoming arrow pierced through his shoulder, and 120 points of damage emerged from his head. His skin turned green, and his health was constantly decreasing by 10 points a second.

“This is a very powerful attack.” Xiao Yu backed up a few steps and dodged several incoming arrows. The arrows passed his body and struck the cave wall next to him. They buried themselves into the rocks of the cave wall.

It grew quiet after the rainstorm of arrows. Xiao Yu checked his health and found it stood at a little more than 60%. He couldn’t afford to take any more risks. He quickly sat down on the stone ground and ate some bread that could help recover his health.

This ancient tomb turned out to be much more dangerous than he had imagined, with dangers lurking everywhere.

The poison effect had eventually vanished after lasting for about 10 seconds. His health increased slowly before he fully recovered.

Xiao Yu stood up. He couldn’t afford to act as carelessly as he had done earlier. He paid close attention to each stone slab he was about to step on and tiptoed as he walked forward. He usually did this when he used the stealth travel skill.

A peculiar feeling came over him when he tiptoed over the stone slabs. He found that the way he walked had two huge advantages: First of all, because he put down each of his feet lightly, he could respond quickly if he triggered a trap. Secondly, walking this way was very stealthily.

“A thief,” murmured Xiao Yu. It seemed that he had gained a new comprehension of the thief profession.

“Step lightly.” He was gradually getting used to this new method of walking. He knew that he would benefit a great deal once he established a habit of walking this way.

He stepped over a few stone slabs as a test before heading inside the tunnel by walking against the cave wall.

He saw some figures moving back and forth up ahead, which might be a creature of some sort. Xiao Yu hid his body up against the wall and looked in their direction. He found a few skeleton soldiers patrolling.

“One… two… three… six.” He counted them and found that there were six of them. Skeleton soldiers would attack members of the Spirit tribe if they didn’t sign an agreement with a spirit wizard. Though the members of the Spirit tribe had to deal with the corpses all year long, they nonetheless gave off some human energy.

The six level-10 skeleton soldiers blocked Xiao Yu’s path. At his current level, Xiao Yu had no way to kill that many level-10 monsters, so he had no choice but to go around them. He entered the stealth travel mode and approached the six skeleton soldiers slowly and carefully.

He was a member of the Spirit tribe, but the human scent on his body was not that strong, so the skeleton soldiers didn’t notice him.

“Dealing with them doesn’t seem so hard.” Xiao Yu brushed past these skeleton soldiers and kept going.

After he passed a long and narrow tunnel, Xiao Yu was confused as he witnessed the scene up ahead. More than 30 skeleton soldiers were crowding together, and the tunnel was completely blocked by them. There weren’t any gaps at all, not even one.

Xiao Yu couldn’t pass through them even if he had a superpower, like having three heads and six arms or something.

“The game designer wouldn’t design a task that was impossible to complete. I must be able to find a way to pass them.” Xiao Yu stayed in the same spot for a while, thinking.

“I have to draw their attention somewhere else.” He surveyed the formation of the surrounding area and found there were many tall stone posts, behind which he could safely hide.

Xiao Yu found a safe spot to hide and waited for the cool-down of his stealth travel skill to end.

By the time the cool-down of stealth travel was over, he had gathered his wits and had gradually calmed down. He was well aware that it was exceedingly important to keep a cool head while doing such difficult tasks.

He walked toward those skeleton soldiers confidently.

Seeing Xiao Yu walk toward them brazenly, all the skeleton soldiers fixed their eyes on him. They were encircling Xiao Yu while waving the sickles in their hands and yelling.

He had drawn the attention of more than 10 skeleton soldiers so far, but that was not enough. Xiao Yu dodged the attacks from some skeleton soldiers and charged at the skeleton soldiers who were not chasing him yet.

Bang!

His snake-tooth dagger slashed one of the skeleton soldiers, but in the meantime, he was also struck by a sickle. He had 63% of his health still remaining.

By this time, those soldiers who had stayed put began to pursue him. Seeing all the skeleton soldiers coming at him, Xiao Yu didn’t linger any longer. He started to run into the distance as fast as he could, bringing the skeleton soldiers with him.