Next, at Xiao Hua's request, Tasi led him to the front of the village chief's house. The village chief's house was quite different from the surrounding wooden houses; it was built with the same blue, hard stone slabs as the altar steps. Under Tasi's care, even though the house had been unoccupied for so long, it still didn't feel like an abandoned place.

Tasi took Xiao Hua into the village chief's house and lifted a stone slab in a storage room at the back, revealing a cellar hatch. Following Tasi down the wooden stairs into the cellar, she then moved a wine barrel in a corner and lifted another stone slab, revealing an even darker and narrower hole.

"Go ahead, after a while inside, you'll find the underground labyrinth. I can only take you this far. I hope you can activate the magic array and at least trap the Bone Witch of the Undead within the magical barrier!"

Tasi said it was an underground labyrinth, and after descending and passing through a long, narrow passage, Xiao Hua found that Tasi was right; it was similar to the mazes he had encountered in RPG games he had played. The difference was that this maze looked like an ancient ruin, with old walls adorned with murals depicting legends unknown to him.

The labyrinth was well-lit, and the figures of skeletons were elongated and swayed in the light. Xiao Hua squinted to look and found that the number of skeletons was not as numerous as he had imagined, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

The next step was to explore the maze. For safety, Xiao Hua naturally used his decoy to lead the way. After passing through the Forest of Confusion, he was now very familiar with this task and performed it effortlessly.

However, the maze seemed to lack traps, but it was filled with various skeleton monsters. Some tall and sturdy skeletons appeared to be difficult to deal with. An ordinary team would likely spend a lot of time and effort eliminating these skeletons to find the five magical energy crystals, and there was no telling what unexpected events might occur during the process.

Xiao Hua had plenty of experience navigating such mazes. Like a woman's intuition, he just needed to choose a direction and follow it to reach significant locations within the maze. Controlling the decoy, he twisted and turned through the maze until he found the room in the center where the magical energy crystal was placed.

In front of the room was a wooden door that seemed to be enchanted, and the skeletons dared not approach it. Through the door, Xiao Hua saw a green magical energy crystal hanging on the wall, and on the stone floor was a magical pattern with a black pattern, and in the center of the pattern was a recess for placing the crystal.

Approaching the wooden door, Xiao Hua discovered that the door had no lock, indicating another mechanism was at play. After circling around the area, he found the mechanism in another room. The room was haphazardly filled with three red stone blocks, each with several circuit-like lines on their surfaces. Seeing this familiar mechanism, Xiao Hua instinctively looked at the floor and, as expected, found several areas with patterns similar to those on the stones.

Based on his memory, moving the three red rocks to the corresponding positions on the floor would open the door. This should have been a simple task, but Xiao Hua soon found that the rocks could not be moved while stealthed. As soon as he pushed the rocks, his stealth was broken, and the decoy was swarmed by skeletons outside the room and destroyed.

This instance was full of physically demanding tasks. Xiao Hua was helpless and speechless about this and could only keep sending the decoy to move the rocks bit by bit. After great effort and ten decoy deaths, he finally pushed all three rocks into place!

Feeling the ground tremble slightly, Xiao Hua saw that the door to the central room finally opened. Although he felt there should be no danger inside, for safety, he still let the decoy enter the room and place the green magical energy crystal into the recess on the floor.

Next, the magical energy crystals in the four cardinal directions were also placed by Xiao Hua in their respective recesses in a similar manner. When the last fiery red magical energy crystal was placed, a massive underground magical array was finally activated!

Xiao Hua felt the ground shake heavily this time, and streams of various magical energies surged up from the five locations where the magical energy was placed, spreading rapidly through the labyrinth passages! Throughout the underground labyrinth, there were waves of magical energy lights wandering and surging, and the skeletons within were swiftly eliminated!

After the entire maze was filled with magical energy, a massive silver circular magical array pattern appeared on the top of the maze, about three to four meters above the ground, continuously absorbing the various magical energies!

Seeing the magical array activated, Xiao Hua retraced his steps, exited the maze, and returned to the village, only to find that all the skeletons in the village had disappeared. Looking up at the altar on the mountaintop, he saw that it was now covered by a semi-circular, five-colored magical barrier.

At the foot of the mountain, the skeletons on the steps had also been completely eliminated, leaving only piles of skeletal debris. Xiao Hua quickly climbed to the top of the mountain and saw that the original location of the altar, including the stone forest, was now enclosed within the magical barrier.

"If it's really as Tasi said, and the Bone Witch of the Undead can no longer recover her health, then...hei..hei..hei!" Xiao Hua looked at the glowing five-colored magical barrier and smiled sinisterly.

He summoned his decoy and let it enter the magical barrier. The scene inside the barrier was no different from what he had seen before. Avoiding the skeletons in the stone forest, Xiao Hua controlled the decoy to quickly walk to the front of the altar.

On the altar, the Bone Witch of the Undead was no longer sitting quietly on her bone chair but had stood up. She lightly held her skull staff in her right hand, and her head under the ceremonial hat was now slightly looking up at the dome-like magical barrier above. Around her, the many skeletons were restlessly shaking their skulls, their eye sockets without pupils seemingly looking around in alert.

Identification skill!

Controlling the decoy to walk in front of the layers of skeletons, Xiao Hua cast an identification skill on one of the skeletons in front of him!

Level 60, HP 50,000!

Damn it, even the small monsters have 50,000 HP, they clearly want to tire him to death!

Xiao Hua thought through gritted teeth. To get in contact with the Bone Witch of the Undead, he had to clear away the layers of monsters in front of her! How to clear them? The monsters couldn't recover HP, so he would use the decoy to self-destruct and wear down these bony guys!

Self-destruct! After obtaining the skeleton's HP with the identification skill, Xiao Hua immediately let the decoy self-destruct.

The self-destruction range was a radius of three meters, which had to be said was a considerable range, and at that moment, the area within three meters in front of the decoy was densely packed with skeletons, almost impermeable. With this explosion, the effect was astonishingly good! Dozens of -500 red numbers floated up from the skeleton group at the same time, one after another, overlapping and dazzling, a spectacular sight!

While the skill was on cooldown, Xiao Hua began to calculate how long it would take to kill this group of skeleton monsters. He could summon a decoy every three minutes, twenty times an hour, which meant he could kill ten thousand HP an hour. To kill this group of skeletons... it would take five hours!

What a bore, it would take five hours to get in contact with the Bone Witch of the Undead.

Xiao Hua sat bored on the stone steps, lamenting the boredom, and when the time was about right, he summoned a decoy to enter the magical barrier and continue his role as a human bomb.

Xiao Hua really wanted to take advantage of this idle time to practice his skills, but he found that all the remaining skills that needed practice were either required a practice target or needed to be in combat status to use. Now, there wasn't a single monster around, so he could only take a book from his backpack and read it slowly on the steps.

An hour passed...

Two hours passed...

Three hours passed...

...

In the blink of an eye, it was almost the fifth hour. Xiao Hua put away his book, stood up spiritedly from the ground, and the group of skeleton monsters only had 500 HP left. After this explosion, he would gain the experience of twenty or thirty level 60 monsters!

The skill cooldown ended, and controlling the decoy, he entered the magical barrier and came to the front of the skeleton group. Looking ahead, all the skeletons in front of him only had a sliver of health left!

Self-destruct!

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After a loud explosion, the two or three dozen skeletons fell to the ground like dominoes, scattering a variety of colored bones on the ground!

After the explosion, Xiao Hua looked with delight as his experience jumped from 32nd level 84% to 90%! This was just the experience from over twenty monsters, and it had increased by such a large amount! As for whether these skeletons would drop equipment, Xiao Hua did not hold out any hope. In the previous five hours of self-destruction, he would let the

decoy steal before each explosion, but after five hours, he did not obtain a single item, all thefts failed, making him suspect that these skeletons did not drop any items at all!

The skill cooled down quickly, and Xiao Hua once again controlled the decoy to go inside and saw that there was indeed nothing on the ground except a pile of bones, no items to pick up.

However, Xiao Hua did not have any hope for the items dropped by these small monsters, so he did not care. In front of him was a big BOSS waiting for him!

After blowing up the group of skeletons within three meters, there were still two circles of skeletons in front of the Bone Witch of the Undead, and the decoy still had to continue working hard to explode to get in contact with her, but at this distance, he could already use the identification skill.

Walking in front of the group of skeletons, Xiao Hua cast an identification skill on the Bone Witch of the Undead.

Identification successful!

Bone Witch of the Undead: LV65, HP500,000, physical attack ???, magic attack ???, physical defense ???, magic defense ???!

Xiao Hua looked speechlessly at the Bone Witch of the Undead's data, which was almost all question marks. Such a large level gap meant that even the master-level identification skill could only obtain the simplest two pieces of data.

500,000 HP, which means he would have to spend 50 hours to possibly blow up this BOSS!

50 hours, Xiao Hua wiped away a cold sweat! What a pain-staking 50 hours it would be!

After the identification, the decoy self-destructed!

After that, Xiao Hua sat back on the ground and entered the monotonous self-destruction program of the decoy. After blowing up for nearly an hour, the HP of the skeleton monsters decreased by nearly ten thousand points. Judging by the logic, the Bone Witch of the Undead should have also lost nearly ten thousand HP, but when Xiao Hua inadvertently let the decoy cast an identification skill, he was shocked to find that the Bone Witch of the Undead had not lost a single drop of blood!

What's going on? Could it be that the self-destruction has no effect on the Bone Witch of the Undead? Xiao Hua thought in great alarm. If that was the case, then he could forget about the Shadow Ring on his hand!

Then Xiao Hua tried hard to find the reason and discovered again with a wry smile that the range of the Bone Witch of the Undead and the decoy's self-destruction had a tiny, really tiny distance, which prevented the decoy's explosion from affecting the Bone Witch of the Undead!

As the saying goes, "A miss is as good as a mile." Xiao Hua felt that this saying was really correct. It was just this tiny distance that increased the time it took to blow up the Bone Witch of the Undead by another tenth!

Xiao Hua turned his anger into strength and worked hard to blow up the small monsters. Four hours later, he finally saw that the skeletons in front of the Bone Witch of the Undead were completely cleared, and the monsters in other directions were even more restless, with a few coming over to fill the position, but they did not all swarm over, giving the decoy space to approach the Bone Witch of the Undead!

Finally, he could get close to the Bone Witch of the Undead, this super high-level BOSS, and finally steal from the BOSS, but at this time, Xiao Hua hesitated!

Not to mention that continuous successful theft might cause the BOSS's absolute hatred, nor that multiple successful thefts might make the BOSS angry and gain the ability to evolve, even if he accidentally stole an item that was very important to the BOSS, it might prevent him from getting close to the Bone Witch of the Undead again! The scene of stealing from the Flame Giant and no longer being able to approach the Flame Giant was still fresh in his mind!

But not stealing, he also faced a big problem. As everyone knows, when the BOSS's HP drops to a certain extent, it will also undergo some mutations. This Bone Witch of the Undead should not be an exception, right? These mutations might also prevent him from sneaking up on the Bone Witch of the Undead, and Xiao Hua was not sure.

So Xiao Hua is now facing two possible rather tragic outcomes. One is that stealing from the Bone Witch of the Undead leads to the failure of the task, but at least he can gain something from the Bone Witch of the Undead; the other is not to steal from the Bone Witch of the Undead, and the result is nothing, he can't get anything from the Bone Witch of the Undead, and he can't get the quasi-divine artifact, leaving him empty-handed!

While bombing the Bone Witch of the Undead, Xiao Hua was thinking about how to choose. He would not steal from the BOSS before making a decision.

But this thinking did not last long. About ten minutes later, Xiao Hua had an answer, do not steal!

Compared with not stealing and the decoy being unable to sneak up on the BOSS because the BOSS's HP is reduced to a certain extent, Xiao Hua felt that the possibility of not being able to approach the Bone Witch of the Undead due to theft was greater. After all, judging from previous experiences, BOSSes basically developed the ability or means to see through stealth, and when the HP is reduced to a certain extent, the BOSS usually just becomes more powerful, and these changes did not have much impact on him.

More importantly, by completing the task, he could get a quasi-divine ring, but could he steal quasi-divine equipment or items of equal value from the Bone Witch of the Undead, a task BOSS? The answer was undoubtedly no!

Moreover, he has already made a profit in this copy. Even if the task really fails, he has not wasted his time in vain. He can only say that he was unlucky, gambled and failed, and lost a quasi-divine ring!

After making a decision, Xiao Hua also calmed down and wholeheartedly controlled the decoy to blow up the Bone Witch of the Undead.

After deciding not to steal, the original unknown interest in killing time was also eliminated. There was nothing he could do but read a book, thinking about the next 50 hours, and Xiao Hua felt a pain in his eggs. It's not that he could regard this as practicing skills.

It got dark, then it got light again, then it got dark again, then it got light again, then it got dark again, then it got light again, then it got dark again, then it got light again!

Counting, it seems that one more day has passed, did I make a mistake, or did someone copy too much?

Of course, this is impossible!

The first day's human bombing project was very successful. After 24 hours, Xiao Hua was very satisfied to see that the Bone Witch of the Undead had lost nearly half of her HP. As long as there were no accidents in the next 26 hours, he could finish work and go home with the quasi-divine ring to sleep with MM.

However, when the Bone Witch of the Undead was left with only 200,000 HP, her crystal-like, clear and transparent bones seemed to become a bit brighter. At first, Xiao Hua thought it was his illusion, after all, staring at something for 30 hours, it's normal to have some illusions. Thinking about the past, when he read XX books, he ended up dreaming of naked MMs waving at him! It's the same principle, and Xiao Hua didn't take it to heart.

Xiao Hua couldn't see the HP that the decoy exploded and bombed the Bone Witch of the Undead, after all, the decoy died, and there was no body. He couldn't see the damage caused by the explosion out of thin air. When several hours later, he felt that the bones of the Bone Witch of the Undead seemed to be brighter, he finally felt that something was not quite right, and then he cast an identification skill, and was shocked to see that the HP of the Bone Witch of the Undead was 175,680!

What does this mean? Xiao Hua understood after thinking about it. Under the continuous and long-term bombing of the decoy, the Bone Witch of the Undead actually began to develop corresponding resistance, making the damage caused by the decoy's self-destruction no longer a whole number of 500!

This is undoubtedly a very bad sign. Xiao Hua has every reason to believe that in the end, the decoy's self-destruction may no longer be effective at all!

The facts are not far from what Xiao Hua imagined. As time goes by, under the continuous bombing of the decoy, the crystal bones of the Bone Witch of the Undead are becoming brighter and brighter. At a glance, they have a smooth and bright metallic texture!

Not only that, but when the HP of the Bone Witch of the Undead dropped to 100,000, the Bone Witch of the Undead would occasionally release a range of plague magic, which included countless curse states. Without a master-level dispel skill from a priest, one would definitely be beaten to death by the Bone Witch of the Undead, even if she just used her skull staff to beat on the character! After being hit by the plague magic, the decoy not only broke stealth but also had all the negative states one could imagine, such as slowness, poisoning,

blindness, petrification, rigidity, freezing, and binding... It's really better to be dead than alive if a character is hit!

However, the range of these plague magic is not too large. If you step back and don't get too close to the Bone Witch of the Undead, you can still avoid it. On the contrary, the Bone Witch of the Undead sometimes uses the move Undead Disaster, which brings down a large number of undead creatures from the sky, which is really hard to guard against. Fortunately, these undead creatures will disappear after the skill ends, otherwise, Xiao Hua would really be spitting blood, clearing the summoned undead creatures again and again, how long would that take!

The Bone Witch of the Undead's resistance to the decoy's self-destruction is getting stronger and stronger. In the end, on the third day, when the Bone Witch of the Undead was left with only about ten thousand HP, Xiao Hua found that the self-destruction could only cause 100 HP of damage to the Bone Witch of the Undead, and when the HP of the Bone Witch of the Undead was really only ten thousand, Xiao Hua tragically found that the self-destruction was useless!

The bones of the Bone Witch of the Undead are no longer the substandard crystal but have evolved into top-quality bones that shine and dazzle like diamonds! The system made it clear that it would not allow cheating!

I'm going to cheat anyway! Xiao Hua thought fiercely, it's just 10,000 HP, I'll poison you to death!

He had already anticipated that self-destruction might not work and had already thought of a way to deal with it, which was to use poison! It seems that he had spent so much money learning this set of toxin skills, and it was not in vain. Now it has a super big use!

He summoned the decoy, let the decoy successfully poison the weapon and then sneak in, and he didn't believe that a skeleton would be immune to toxin damage!

In fact, Xiao Hua had already wanted to use the toxin skill to speed up the killing of the Bone Witch of the Undead, but thinking that the Bone Witch of the Undead might mutate when her HP drops to a certain extent, if his poison was used too much and he couldn't kill the Bone Witch of the Undead in the end, that would be a real big tragedy, so he held back and didn't use the toxin skill. Then, seeing that the Bone Witch of the Undead had developed resistance to the decoy's self-destruction, he was secretly grateful that his decision was really wise!

Not only that, but even the limit power that can greatly accelerate the drop of the Bone Witch of the Undead's HP and can be used once every two hours, Xiao Hua did not let the decoy use it. This skill also needs to consume poison to cause damage to the Bone Witch of the Undead. Just looking at the metallic texture of the Bone Witch of the Undead's bones, Xiao Hua knew that his attack could not break through her defense.

Moreover, using equipment skills is different from using the decoy's own skills. Equipment skills are shared with the character, which means that after using the equipment skill, the equipment skill will enter the cooldown. Not only the second summoned decoy cannot use it, but the character also cannot use it. Xiao Hua, of course, kept it in case of emergency, only using it at critical times.

And this time, at this moment, Xiao Hua decided to let the decoy use the limit power!

Even a 65-level BOSS like the Bone Witch of the Undead must lose a lot of HP under such a fast attack!