CHAPTER 159: CHAPTER 159 NO MORE COMPETITORS (EXTRA CHAPTER 1/5 FOR THE ALLIANCE LEADER)

The nightmare vanished, leaving behind a pile of black ashes, and the sense of danger subsided.

It seems this nightmare has finally been defeated.

Kane dismissed the launcher in his hand and sat heavily on the ground. Although the attack was satisfying, it consumed a lot of magic power, and he needed to rest a bit.

The spider silk that covered their surroundings also turned to ash.

After drinking a bottle of magic potion, Kane was helped up by Longbei, and after resting for a while, the feeling of weakness went away.

"Is that a new weapon? It looks really impressive!"

Longbei praised Kane’s recent attack.

Kane smiled and then patted the silly ghost at his side.

Though it looked silly, it made a great contribution.

Leading everyone to the pile of ashes, they began to search for the loot dropped by the nightmare.

If Kane hadn’t used spider silk to enclose them in the middle, preventing the nightmare from getting close and attacking at will, the penetrating power of the nightmare’s attack would have definitely caused them significant harm.

After clearing away the ashes, the nightmare dropped two pieces of loot, a medium amount of magic materials and a pair of black, fingerless leather gloves.

After storing the magic materials in space equipment, he picked up the leather gloves and started to identify them.

[Shadow Entanglement]

[Gloves]

[Color: Copper]

[Attributes:]

[Slightly increases agility]

[Attack inflicts Shadow Damage]

[Skill: Shadow Entanglement] (Once per day, entangle shadows around a weapon, granting it powerful shadow damage)

[Description: The nightmare is not an undead creature but a shadow creature from a deeper plane. Equipment made from its cloak will give you mastery over shadows.]

This piece of equipment is considerably better than the gloves Kane currently has. After sharing the attributes with everyone, the equipment ends up on Kane’s hand.

They arrived at the church entrance, protected by a golden film. Inside, a pale golden, ghost-like nun had been waiting for them.

"I didn’t expect you to succeed in vanquishing that shadow creature. Thank you, my name is Anita."

Kane smiled and then asked, "What’s going on with this city, and what’s with this church?"

Upon hearing Kane’s question, Anita’s expression darkened: "This city was invaded by an enemy nation. During the spread of the war, the entire world suddenly began to shake. Thankfully, with divine protection, this church was blessed and shielded.

Then, all the living people in the city disappeared, and the remaining skeletons inexplicably turned into the undead and rose up.

You must be a warrior from outside. Actually, I know that our world is already broken. Every now and then, I see people like you, clearing out these undead outside.

But for some reason, these undead are never completely cleared, and those warriors always come over curiously, only to be killed by the shadow creatures ambushed around here."

After listening to her story, Kane and the others were somewhat shocked. She was actually a Spirit of Freedom.

A Spirit of Freedom is a native of the Dungeon World, who has either escaped the dungeon’s control or was never controlled by it.

Kane pondered for a moment before continuing, "Do you know where the tunnel leading to the lower levels of this city is?"

"I don’t know where the tunnel to the lower levels is, but if you mean the opening surrounded by white mist, it’s inside the church."

So, the nightmare was the guardian of the entrance just now.

Knocking on the golden film in front of him, it made a metallic clanging sound.

So, the question is, how do we get inside now?

Anita seemed to understand Kane’s query and said, "If you want this layer of film to disappear, you’ll need to cleanse the entire city of all the undead. However, so far, no one has managed to clear the city’s monsters completely."

So what she means is that the explorer teams who have had the bad luck to encounter this layer have either failed or fallen here.

Why does their team always encounter the worst-case scenarios in randomness?

But now there’s no other way, they can only follow her advice and clean out all the monsters in the city, which will be quite the chore.

"Let’s go. Today’s goal is to purge the entire city."

With that, he led his team down the street.

This is the time when they need to use the map step by step to check every place they’ve never been, leaving no undead unturned. Any place with a magic reaction is smashed to pieces.

Soon, various large white flashes of light would illuminate different parts of the city, or various huge explosion sounds would ring out.

The team of the [Fury] exploration group, which had just entered the city not long ago, found themselves in deep thought, seeing the dusty scene and the streets without a single skeleton, following the direction of the sounds and lights.

Finally, they saw Kane and his team from afar.

Watching Kane and his team effortlessly destroy the undead that would have given them a lot of trouble, with various flashy, spectacular skills like it was as easy as eating and drinking, right beside them.

Skeleton soldiers coming in groups and invisible wraiths were pinched and crushed with ease.

A member behind Sack poked their captain’s body and asked, "Do we still compete with them, or should we just give up and leave?"

Hearing the words from behind, Sack turned around to his teammates, "Do you all think the same?"

Everyone nodded.

"Well, I think so too. But we can’t leave without saying anything, we should go say hello to them and then teleport away in front of them, maybe we can make some friends."

"High" everyone gave a thumbs up.

When Kane and the others finished clearing the nearby undead, Sack’s squad stepped out.

Kane looked at them and frowned, then led his teammates to meet them.

"Captain Sack, is there something you need?"

Hearing Kane’s unfriendly tone, Shaq smiled and waved his hand at him, "Nothing, we just realized Kane brother, your strength surpasses ours, so we’ve decided to withdraw from this competition. Hopefully, when you emerge, we can have a drink together."

Without waiting for Kane and his team to reply, they took out their town recall scrolls and spread them open with their teammates.

Then, under the blue rings of light, they disappeared.

Longbei watched them disappear and said, "That Sack and his team are quite interesting, aren’t they?"

"Yes, not bad. But since we no longer have competitors, let’s quickly clean up the city and rest for a night."

Afterwards, Kane and the others began to speed up their efforts to purge the undead creatures in the city.