The flame compressed to the extreme expands rapidly, and the result is an explosion.

The fireball spell can release thousands of degrees of high-temperature flames. If it hits directly, it will be blown up and you will be unable to pick it up. Even if it is affected, you will be severely burned. It is a powerful spell that the Evocation School is proud of.

However, precisely because its damage is too single, it is not impossible to protect it.

When the liquid-like flames spread in all directions, a shield flashing with intense red light appeared behind the smoke. The flames bypassed the shield as if it had encountered a natural enemy, leaving large burn marks in the wide passage.

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The effect of the magic spell of protecting energy damage is already marked in the name. Even the fireball spell cannot be defeated in one shot. The disadvantage is that each time it is used, it can only choose one type of energy damage to defend, and cannot defend against other energies.

Anyway, they know that the most threatening thing about the Flaming Skull is the fireball spell, which only needs to defend against fire damage, so they say that knowing yourself and the enemy is a great advantage.

However, fire damage can be defended, but the shock wave generated by the explosion will still sweep away.

Dwarves are short in stature but their weight is almost the same as that of humans. This means that dwarves have strong bodies, low chassis and low center of gravity.

Even so, Vondar, who was facing the fireball spell, had to use all his strength to hold up his shield to avoid being blown away by the storm.

As for Pei Renli, he simply fell down on the ground when the explosion came. He would definitely be swept down anyway, so it was better to lie down first to avoid falling.

The two people in the back row were temporarily unable to launch a counterattack immediately and needed to slow down. Alton and Gary, who were rushing on the front line, had already taken the opportunity to approach the distance that their weapons could reach.

Sharp weapons are not effective against undead creatures like skeletons, so Alton pulled out a spare torch and used it as a hammer, aiming at the skull's chin and sweeping across it.

The old bones, which had little resistance to blunt blows, were immediately hit with a crack, and the jaw was almost knocked off. At this time, Gale, who was a step too late, also raised his shield and hit it hard from top to bottom.

The Burning Skull itself is not resistant to beatings, that is, the health bar is very short, and it will certainly not be able to withstand an extremely effective blunt blow. Maybe Gary can smash it to pieces with a drop of his shield.

However, the Flame Skull can only throw one fireball, which does not mean that it cannot use other spells after using the fireball.

Before the shield fell, I saw that the skull of the Burning Skull, wrapped in green flames, became extremely blurry. Its image was like a person with seven or eight hundred degree myopia without eyes. A shield strike that might have killed him

It fell into the air, and the wind pressure it brought only caused the floating flaming skull to sway.

Blur, a type of illusion, can blur the shape of the subject and avoid attacks, so Gary missed the target.

When Gary missed the target, a magic missile shot out of its eye, hitting Alton at close range as he tried to strike again.

The power of the magic missile is indeed not high, it is equivalent to an adult punching with all his strength, but Alton, a halfling, is obviously not as resistant as a dwarf. After being hit by a magic missile, he was immediately pushed away two or three meters away.

Converting it into text and comparing it with ink, in fact, the flames of the fireball spell have just completely dissipated at this time. Vondar, who was standing behind, raised the hammer:

"Holy Fire Technique!"

A large piece of golden divine Holy Spirit light poured down from the head of the Flaming Skull, completely submerging the skull.

Gary took two steps back to avoid being accidentally injured. When the holy light disappeared, he raised his shield again and charged forward again with Alton who had regrouped.

Pei Renli had also stood up at this time, and continued to weave the runes of magic missiles with his fingers. Judging from the current situation, two more hits of the Flaming Skull would kill him completely.

However, unlike what was expected, the air around the Flaming Skull, which should have had no chance, fluctuated like a tremor. Alton and Gary, who rushed over, immediately felt as if they had hit a cow head-on, and were stunned.

It bounced back.

"It's a vertical wave. The Flame Skull shouldn't have this kind of spell!"

The monster manual that Pei Renli had read clearly stated what spells the Flaming Skull could use, which did not include the position wave that pushed the two people away.

This made him immediately realize that the situation was somewhat beyond expectation.

The runes for the magic missile happened to be completed at this moment. After reminding everyone, the position missile flew towards the Burning Skull again.

However, it didn't work this time. An oval shield stood between the magic missiles and the flaming skull. The magic missiles were like throwing a stone into a pond, causing only a few ripples.

That's a shield technique. The defensive effect is not as good as the mage armor, but its biggest feature is that it can absorb magic missiles.

Being able to take effect at first is equivalent to being caught off guard, and it is indeed unlikely to be affected the second time.

This was a psychological expectation. The Monster Manual stated that the Flaming Skull could use the shielding technique, but its previous stance gave Pei Renli an unpleasant premonition.

As expected, after blocking the magic missile, the flame-like eyes of the Burning Skull once again lit up with strong magic aura, and another flame as big as a broad bean flew out...

"This is completely wrong! It's clearly written in the book that it can only use one fireball!"

"Stop talking nonsense! Run!"

Perhaps in order to avoid hurting himself, the fireball technique still aimed at the back row, but this time it flew towards Vondar, who would do the most damage to it.

Of course, Pei Renli is still within the range of the fireball spell. After all, everyone thinks that it can only use one fireball spell, and after using it, there is no need to spread the team too thin.

Without bothering to express what the hell, Pei Renli and Feng Daer immediately jumped to the side, jumping to the left and right sides respectively.

Fireball has no tracking ability, and will explode immediately if it hits something while flying.

--boom!

Roaring shock waves and deafening sound waves erupted behind him. The hot temperature came a little late, but it also chased after him like a beast.

Pei Renli felt like he was being pushed away by the shock wave like a ball. However, because he did not aim at him and avoided it in time, the thousand-degree flames did not directly catch up with him, but only caused his hair to be slightly roasted.

curly.

Fondar on the other side was in a worse situation. The fireball was aimed at him. Although he was not completely eaten, it was also affected.

The shock wave blew him away and hit him head first against the wall. This was a dwarf-headed iron. If he had been a human, he would have probably fainted on the spot.

Fortunately, the effect of the spell to protect against energy damage did not disappear completely. It helped Fondal block most of the fire damage, and his whole body was protected by heavy armor. Otherwise, it would not be his bald head that was injured, but his whole body would be injured.

After using a fireball again, you can clearly see that the green flames around the Flaming Skull have shrunk significantly. It feels like a lot of power has been consumed, as if the battery is dead.,

Regardless of looking at the situation in the back row, Alton and Gary immediately went up when they saw this. Although the Flaming Skull was protected by the haze spell, it was only an illusion, not a rigid defensive shield. It would be impossible to hit it in one hit.

Hit it twice more.

The Flaming Skull, which had consumed too much power, was unable to even float. Pei Renli, who extinguished the flames on his cloak and stood up, and Feng Daal, who was holding his head and gasping for air, did not need to take action anymore. They heard a few crisp bangs.

Sound, this flaming skull, which was very different from the monster illustrated book, finally turned into bone fragments...

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Writing the Monster Manual is not a job that can be joked about casually, because many people need the information support provided by the Monster Manual, and you cannot write randomly even if it is blank.

This is especially true for the Monster Manual of the Adventurer School. The consequences of transmitting wrong information will be very serious. At the very least, if you are cheated, the adventurer will never let the author go, and his ashes will be raised for you.

Therefore, if there is any discrepancy with the information in the Monster Manual, it should be an individual case affected by other factors.

Perrenli used his writing staff, which was actually a mop stick, to fiddle with the bone fragments, and found a square crystal that looked like crystal from inside the skull.

If it were before time travel, Pei Renli would definitely not do this. It would feel disgusting, but now it seems that he has been trained to be quite strong.

Alton looked at that thing and said strangely:

"What is this, a gem?"

After poking it to confirm that there was no danger, Pei Renli picked up the crystal:

"It doesn't seem like it. It feels more like glass."

He illuminated the crystal with the magic lamp on one side and found that the crystal was densely engraved with runes the size of rice grains.

"This should be a magic device, probably put in by the mages twenty years ago."

The magic guide is an important item to assist rune magic. When releasing certain specific spells, it can reduce the number of runes required.

However, because he didn't recognize most of the runes, Pei Renli didn't know the specific effect of this thing. The Flaming Skull was different from what was said in the illustration, which was probably the influence of this thing.

"Is it valuable?"

"It's probably worth three or four gold coins if you sell it to interested mages, but not all mages want it. It's better to hand it over to the school."

As he said that, Pei Renli took out his notebook and charcoal pen and copied down all the runes, keeping them for future study. This stuff only has this value.

Magical devices are all specially customized, and no one knows how to activate them except the maker himself. Strictly speaking, they can only be regarded as semi-magical items, similar to the magic circle drawn by Pei Renli on paper.

Since it's not valuable, there's nothing to pay attention to.

Vondar, who had a big bruise on his head, took out something like a flat wine flask, poured out some latex-like white liquid from it, and poured it on the bone fragments of the Flaming Skull.

Even if this kind of undead creature is crushed to pieces, it can be resurrected after an hour. Only holy water or some specific spells can make it completely dead.

Holy water is similar to magical consumables such as blazing glue, which can only be made by priests. Vondar also made some preparations before coming. After all, undead creatures are easy to appear in the underground environment of the school. Holy water has special effects on undead creatures.

Of course you have to have something.

After finishing the work, everyone gathered in front of the entrance to the third floor to look around, first to see if there were any flaming skulls hiding nearby. They didn't want to encounter this thing that was worse than the ordinary flaming skulls again.

Second time.

Pei Renli, who copied the runes, stuffed the magic device into Gary's backpack. He leaned against the door frame, but he was thinking about other things.

Except for the Fireball, which poses the greatest threat, the Flaming Skull's other abilities are relatively weak, especially since it is extremely fragile, so it is not difficult to deal with.

But according to the information he learned yesterday about the school's underground, the Flaming Skull usually only appears on the fourth underground floor.

Because the Burning Skulls were originally used by Necromancers as guards or sentries, they would only move along fixed routes and usually would not run around.

In this case, why does the Flaming Skull appear on the second floor?

Recalling the description of undead creatures in the Monster Manual, Pei Renli remembered that undead creatures have a characteristic, that is, low-level undead creatures will be dominated by high-level undead creatures.

Perhaps, there is a high-level undead creature below, so the Flaming Skull was squeezed to the second floor?

Thinking of this, he lowered his head and glanced at the shadow under his feet.

Ravna quietly stretched out her hand and made an OK gesture.
Chapter completed!