Du You walked to the entrance of the mining cave, then turned his head helplessly to look at Xiaozi, who was at the entrance.
"It looks like you can’t come in. I’ll de-summon you for now." Du You was helpless, Xiaozi was looking dejected too.
The last time Du You crawled into a cave, the cave was much bigger, and Xiaozi wasn’t as big as now. At that point, she could not fly but was still able to keep up. Although it was uncomfortable, she could still participate in fighting.
But this time, it was different; this mining cave was clearly low in height, and Xiaozi, even stooping, could not get in. Even if she was forced in, there would be absolutely no room for her to move freely, let alone fight. In this low and narrow place, Du You himself felt uncomfortable walking inside, it was too oppressive.
The cave wall around him was covered with a type of moss faintly emitting a dull glow.
It’s by the virtue of this dim light that Du You’s eyes were able to see inside, just as if he was looking at things outside. Ever since he became a Dark Shaper, Du You discovered he had night vision ability.
Otherwise, he would not dare to easily enter this place.
"There’s something ahead, I don’t know what it is. Cursed Crow King, come out."
Du You considered for a moment and summoned the Cursed Crow King. Even though it reached level 4, its body size didn’t increase, but rather shrunk quite a bit. The current Cursed Crow King was only about 1.2 meters tall.
Though it remains a large bird, the Cursed Crow King felt much more comfortable in tight places than Du You.
Hearing Du You’s instruction, the Cursed Crow King let out a call, spreading an aura. The curse was cast, but the somewhat moving shadow before Du You showed no reaction, virtually ignoring them.
"That’s strange. Why is there no reaction? Could it be a Dispersing Curse, or a Misfortune Curse?"
The Cursed Crow King has five forms of curses, only these two wouldn’t visibly affect creatures directly, nor provoke their response due to attack. Du You also couldn’t see clearly because it was around the corner.
There was nothing else to do but wait. A minute later, the curse had changed, but there was still no reaction.
Du You continued to wait, unaware of what that thing was, he certainly didn’t want to approach carelessly.
"It’s strange, it’s been five minutes, and there’s still no movement. Maybe it’s bad luck. Or is it not really a creature at all? But the shadow of that thing was obviously moving."
Du You thought about it and finally came up with an ability he hadn’t used in a long time.
His hands formed a seal and a magic array slowly took shape. That’s right, this was the basic Random Summoning ability. As his leveling has improved, Du You hasn’t used this ability in a long time.
This was a Dark Attribute area, so the creatures summoned would also have a dark attribute. But why was there a rabbit? "I really can’t stand this ability, who came up with this?"
The initial universally applicable abilities were not evolved naturally, but were added into the rules by the elders to be passed down to future generations. The abilities they got were, in fact, gifts from their predecessors.
"Oh well, even a rabbit can bite, can’t it?" Du You didn’t even bother to look at the rabbit’s name and abilities, he directly ordered it to attack. The rabbit ran over and came back after a little while. That shadowy figure gradually walked over, swaying slightly.
"This is... an Undead, no wonder the curse didn’t work. By the looks of it, it’s clearly a miner. I can’t tell if it evolved naturally or was artificially made. Wait a second, this is... definitely man-made."
Du You squinted his eyes and suddenly noticed interesting details about this miner. There was a large cut in his stomach, and his intestines were gone. That wasn’t unusual, but the stomach was sewn back up, which was not something a regular person would do. It could only be for certain specific customs unless it was purely accidental death.
Moreover, Du You noticed that the miner himself was not a zombie, but a dried corpse. The entire body had been air-dried in a special way, becoming almost like a mummy. If it wasn’t for the mining clothes and pickaxe in his hand, Du You wouldn’t have known that this thing used to be a miner. The fact that this entity was created , definitely meant that it wasn’t a natural evolution.
"Never mind, you can go back as well. Your curses have no effect on these things." Du You sighed.
Dark creatures inherently had immunity or high resistance to most curses, and the undead creatures were worse. The curses carried by Cursed Crow, for undead creatures, were useless.
Watching the mummified miner slowly walk over and approaching a certain distance, Du You was able to see its features.
"I didn’t expect such a mummy to be at level 3, it’s severely influenced by this environment."
Du You stepped back, and the miner’s pickaxe smashed onto the ground, instantly splitting a stone on the ground in half. That was Black Flame Iron ore. Even if the iron content wasn’t high, it was extremely hard.
"Its speed is a bit faster than a regular zombie, and its strength is not much different, its quality is really not bad. If it was faster, it wouldn’t have many weaknesses. I wonder what its defense and resistance are like."
As Du You was speaking, he drew his warrior longsword and attacked the dried corpse.
"Ding" a feeling akin to poking a rock was conveyed. The warrior longsword, with Du You’s strength, only left a very slight wound on the dried corpse’s body. Although he didn’t strike with full force, the wound was just too small. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵·𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖·𝙣𝙚𝙩
"The dehydrated body indeed has a stronger defense. It’s just that the body weight has dropped significantly." The dried corpse was pushed back by him just a small step due to its insufficient weight. But this tight, dried flesh confers an immense increase in defense.
Securing his warrior longsword, Du You after all was not a warrior. After some thinking, Du You swung his hand and a Disintegration Spell was sent across. With the speed of the dried corpse, it was impossible to dodge, and to be fair the dried corpse didn’t possess the ability to dodge.
The disintegration spell accurately hit the shoulder of the dried corpse, not because of a misfire but because Du You was specifically aiming at that location. However, what Du You didn’t expect was the immediate effect of his Disintegration Spell. A large number of cracks appeared at the shoulder of the dried corpse, rapidly spreading throughout its body, and finally shattering into small fragments.
Du You casually glanced over, noting the most considerable piece to be no more significant than a palm-sized chunk, it can be said that the Disintegration Spell had a complete effect. "Its resistance is really so poor. This thing is made to deal with warriors."
Indeed, in this frontier area, there are too few mages and the most numerous are the warriors. If the number of such dried corpses were to reach a certain extent, that would be a nightmare for the regular army.