Chapter 56: Chapter 56: The Witch Demon Appears – Terrifying Stage 2 Challenge!

The Necromancer was directly engulfed by the Holy Light.

Once the Holy Light dissipated, the gloom that had enveloped the entire town vanished completely. Looking up, one could see the magnificent starry sky.

However, in the cemetery, the once powerful Necromancer was now just a pile of rotten bones scattered on the ground.

“No loot?”

Lin Ye’s eyebrows slightly raised.

Every boss should drop loot!

No matter how bad it is, there should at least be a piece of green equipment as a consolation.

Now that there’s no loot at all, something must have happened.

At this moment, a prompt appeared in front of Lin Ye…

[Completed ’Ruined Town (Abyss Level)’ without consuming Holy Water, and gained the qualification to open hidden mode. Do you want to open it? (Warning: Opening hidden mode means that if you exit the Secret Realm without completing the mission, you will lose all rewards obtained from this challenge and cannot enter this Secret Realm again!)]

Lin Ye’s eyebrows raised slightly, and as he expected, there was indeed hidden content after defeating the Necromancer without fully consuming the Holy Water.

“Open it!”

Lin Ye directly chose to activate this hidden mode.

This penalty meant nothing to Lin Ye.

Being unable to enter the ’Ruined Town’ Secret Realm again, there were still other Secret Realms. As for the rewards…

It would be a pity to lose them, but the attributes Lin Ye gained were still there, not leaving empty-handed.

Moreover…

Who says he definitely can’t complete the mission?

If he didn’t dare to attempt such an adventure, what would be the point of living another life?

[Successfully opened!]

[Entering hidden mode!]

At this moment, the death aura that had been purged by Lin Ye surged up once again, even more intensely than before!

“Heh heh heh…”

It was that classic laughter again, but compared to before, it was even colder and more chilling.

“I should thank you. If you hadn’t been stingy with those few bottles of Holy Water, I might not have completed the final step of my transformation.”

The hoarse voice of the Necromancer sounded once again.

Lin Ye raised an eyebrow…

So, not using any Holy Water at all would trigger the Necromancer’s second phase?

Lin Ye took a few steps back, ready to counterattack at any moment.

Among the scattered bones of the Necromancer, its skull, with hollow eye sockets, lit up with a ghostly green glow once more.

Then the skull rose, and the surrounding bones casually assembled on it.

“Witch Demon…”

Lin Ye murmured to himself, surprised that the second phase was a Witch Demon form!

“As a reward, I can give you an opportunity to leave here, but you are not allowed to set foot in this town again… Of course, you can also choose to stay and become my servant!”

The Witch Demon’s green eyes stared at Lin Ye.

Obviously, defeating the Witch Demon was the next task. If you chose to leave, as per the previous warning, you would not only lose all the previous rewards, but also be forever barred from entering the ’Ruined Town’.

Normally, challenging a Witch Demon alone had an extremely high risk of death…

However, faced with the Witch Demon’s offer, Lin Ye calmly raised his Magic Staff.

The light of the Punishment Technique illuminated the surroundings once again.

-5289!

Blood-red numbers floated above the Witch Demon’s head as Lin Ye made his choice through action!

He had slain dozens if not hundreds of Witch Demons in his past life!

He was already quite familiar with the skills and mechanics of such monsters.

And yet a Witch Demon of mere Level 8 Secret Realm dared to boast about making him a slave?

Absolutely laughable!

“You are seeking your own death!” The Witch Demon was infuriated.

Immediately, it began to launch its attack.

“Resentful Spirit Storm!”

A surge of extremely malevolent force rose around the Witch Demon, rushing outward in all directions.

The Witch Demon’s offensive methods were clearly more fierce and varied than before.

Compared to the Necromancer, who could only summon Skeleton Warriors and conjure Highly Poisonous Corpse Balls, the Witch Demon’s aggression was fully unleashed!

Lin Ye moved swiftly like the wind, dodging the rolling storm while casting the Punishment Technique.

-5410!

-2908!

This time, the Punishment Technique triggered Multi-Spellcasting.

At this moment, Lin Ye casually tapped his Spatial Bag, dropping a Sheep Puppet behind him.

“A puppet with no offensive capabilities? Pathetic toy!” The Witch Demon sneered, continuing its assault on Lin Ye.

This time, with a wave of its hand, a string of Highly Poisonous Corpse Balls were hurled toward Lin Ye’s position.

Faced with this overwhelming barrage of Highly Poisonous Corpse Balls, Lin Ye had no room to evade, but he didn’t choose to withstand them directly either.

He threw out another Sheep Puppet and hid behind it.

Perfectly dodging those Highly Poisonous Corpse Balls!

Though these attacks couldn’t kill him, they would slow any hit target’s movement speed—very annoying.

“You sly little brat!”

The Witch Demon was furious, feeling that Lin Ye was mocking him!

But Lin Ye naturally ignored that. He continued to maneuver while casting spells and kept releasing Sheep Puppets one after another.

Even more agile Mechanical Crows and Mechanical Rats…

Once these mechanical animals were released, they quickly scattered, positioned at various corners of the cemetery.

With Lin Ye’s ghost-like body technique, the Witch Demon’s attacks frequently missed their mark.

Especially with the appearance of the Sheep Puppets, they provided Lin Ye with additional room to evade the Witch Demon’s attacks.

But the more it went on, the more cruelly the Witch Demon laughed…

“Kid, you’ve forced me to use this move!”

Lin Ye knew the big move was coming!

He was thoroughly familiar with the Witch Demon’s skills, and upon hearing this monologue, Lin Ye immediately drew another Magic Staff.

Left hand holding the Rage Wave Staff, right hand holding the Silver Hand Staff!

Dual-wielding the Two-Handed Staff, Lin Ye stopped and confronted the Witch Demon head-on!

The fierce and fearless momentum even made the Witch Demon hesitate for a moment.

If it was a Paladin, that would be one thing, but for a Healer to dual-wield Two-Handed Staves…

Does this make sense?

But…

“It’s meaningless! Even dual-wielding staves, you’ll still die! Death Finger!” The Witch Demon sneered, raising a hand to point a red lightning bolt at Lin Ye.

Almost simultaneously, Lin Ye also raised his Silver Hand Staff.

“Soul Chain!”

The flash of Soul Chain instantly linked Lin Ye with all the surrounding Sheep Puppets and mechanical animals.

The red lightning from the Witch Demon, imbued with the power of death, hit Lin Ye completely at this moment.

The skill Death Finger has a guaranteed hit attribute, which cannot be dodged by simple body technique alone…

The effect of this skill is pure and brutal, directly inflicting 1 million points of true damage on the target!

This level of damage is essentially fatal to most Novice Professionals.

Seeing the red lightning hit Lin Ye, the Witch Demon’s ghostly flames in its eyes flared up.

Finally, this annoying brat can be killed!

But in the next moment, Lin Ye seemed unfazed, waving his staff toward the Witch Demon once more,

the deadly Holy Light scorching the Witch Demon once again!

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