Chapter 1 The Beginning

A cold wind howled and wailed, and sharp screeches echoed from the darkness. Under Nie Yan's control, five Rom Spiders headed into the darkness, attacking other Rom Spiders at will, causing a commotion in the wilderness.

Groups of Rom Spiders surrounded them. Under Nie Yan's control, the five Rom Spiders started to run back, followed by a large swarm, densely packed and spectacular.

Seeing more and more Rom Spiders appearing ahead, Nie Yan shook off a high-level scroll and uttered a series of obscure incantations. Elements of magic gathered around him.

Humans have a higher intelligence bonus. In addition, Nie Yan had many pieces of equipment that increased intelligence, making his intelligence very high, reaching an astonishing 122. This was definitely very rare among all thieves.

High intelligence allowed Nie Yan to smoothly cast most scrolls and magical items.

The Rom Spiders in the distance were getting closer and closer. Within a radius of dozens of yards, there were hundreds of Rom Spiders gathered.

At this moment, the last syllable in Nie Yan's mouth came to an abrupt end. The magic spell was completed just in time. Red clouds rolled in the sky, and scorching flames poured down like a rainstorm.

In an instant, in the 20x20 yard area, flames raged, like a purgatory on earth. The Rom Spiders in the flames let out sharp screams, and waves of damage floated up. After dozens of seconds, the ground was cleared, and all the Rom Spiders fell to the ground.

Nie Yan looked at the experience bar, which soared to 73%! He had only just reached Level 40!

After a while, the flames gradually died down, leaving only a ground of corpses and scattered equipment. Two of the five Rom Spiders commanded by Nie Yan were also killed. After cleaning up the remaining Rom Spiders with low health nearby, Nie Yan began to pick up the equipment on the ground.

He picked up three gold coins just from money, as well as a lot of other junk. He kept all the valuable items and threw away the worthless ones to avoid taking up space.

Among the Rom Spiders, one item caught his attention.

It was a small skull, about the size of a palm, jet black, with a blue gem embedded in it. Green flames burned in the eye sockets, constantly jumping, and the shape was quite unique.

Necromantic Skull: Medium item, requires Intelligence: 500.

Item Description: Necromancers can use this item as a medium to summon undead creatures, vassal souls, and broken Bone Mammoths.

Nie Yan didn't know what this Necromantic Skull was for. It was an item for necromancers, and it looked like a special item. He wondered how much it was worth. After thinking about it, Nie Yan didn't care too much and threw it directly into his backpack.

Besides this Necromantic Skull, there were no other discoveries. The Rom Spiders near Nie Yan were all dissolved and disappeared into the air. All the corpses of these Rom Spiders were purified.

Nie Yan continued to attract and kill monsters, and time passed little by little.

By the time he logged off, Nie Yan had reached Level 43. During this time, the Golden Earth Dragon had also reached Level 39, just one step away from Level 40. The Golden Earth Dragon learned a new skill, Flame Envelopment, which caused a ring of flames to burn around its body, inflicting flame damage on all creatures within a 5-yard radius.

As time went on, more and more players had pets, but most of them were low-level and had poor growth. His Golden Earth Dragon was definitely one of the best among all pets.

If it continued to grow like this, even Nie Yan himself could hardly imagine how much the Golden Earth Dragon would grow.

For two consecutive days, he ran out of scrolls, so he controlled the Golden Earth Dragon to kill monsters and level up. Leveling up was still relatively fast, and he reached Level 47, and he also dropped a lot of items.

Nie Yan looked at the level rankings. The highest-level player, Tang Yao, was already Level 53, and Blood狂刀 was also Level 53, but his experience was still a little behind Tang Yao. This underground world was not Nie Yan's familiar territory after all. If he returned to the surface, Nie Yan's leveling speed would definitely be several times faster.

After killing thousands of Rom Spiders, Nie Yan didn't drop anything similar to the Necromantic Skull again. He was certain that this thing was not something you could find everywhere, and things with low drop rates were often more valuable.

Nie Yan summoned the Golden Earth Dragon back and glanced into the distance. He wondered what was at the center of this Spider Canyon. He had been here for two days, but he had not been able to go inside to see.

Nie Yan used the skill on the Crawler Ring, sticking to the rock wall and moving towards the inside. Occasionally, when he encountered spider nests hanging on the rock wall, he quickly detoured far away.

After passing through a narrow valley, some buildings appeared vaguely in the darkness in the distance, with a few scattered lights, which were not very clear in the night.

The ball of light around Nie Yan seemed to sense something and trembled violently.

System: You have discovered the Karas Spiderling Tribe.

It might be related to the quest. Nie Yan climbed forward. A stream more than ten yards wide appeared ahead, cutting off the rock wall. The stream water churned, emitting a strong stench. This river was full of poison! He put on the skill on the Jumper Ring, and then jumped from the rock wall on this side to the rock wall on the other side, like a gecko, sticking to the rock wall on the opposite side.

Nie Yan came down from the rock wall, entered stealth, and walked towards the village in the distance.

After observing, he found that the terrain here was a closed area, with closed rock walls on three sides, and the front was cut off by the river. The village in the distance could be said to be isolated from the world.

Unless there were special items such as the Jumper Ring or the Floating Ring, it would be possible to reach the other side.

Nie Yan shuttled through the wilderness. A Spiderling appeared not far away. He slowly sneaked over and threw a reconnaissance at the Spiderling.

Spiderling: Level 60, HP 3000/3000.

There were no other Spiderlings active nearby. Nie Yan sneaked over and went behind the Spiderling.

The Spiderling was hunting insects. Nie Yan suddenly burst out, and the Sword of Zenernard in his hand plunged into the back of the Spiderling's head.

The Spiderling慌张 wanted to escape.

But if he let it run away, Nie Yan would be in trouble. He hit it with one sword, and the Sword of Zenernard in his hand performed a Backstab and then an Eviscerate. The Spiderling fell to the ground and became a corpse before it could react.

Nie Yan activated Disguise, and his body slowly transformed into the image of a Spiderling, and then he walked towards the village in the distance.

Along the way, Nie Yan encountered many Spiderlings, either foraging or making various tools.

"dahud...." They uttered some strange sounds, as if they were saying something, but Nie Yan couldn't understand.

Nie Yan didn't know Spiderling language, which was a very small language.

The language settings of Faith were very peculiar, divided into various language families, with hundreds and thousands of languages. For example, there were five or six kinds of Undead language circulating in the Undead Empire, with some subtle deviations. Players in the Undead Empire communicated with each other in Undead language. If Nie Yan had not learned Van比亚 Undead language, he would not be able to understand what they were saying. If he learned Undead language, the system would automatically translate it. When switching to Undead language, what Nie Yan said naturally became Undead language. If players wanted to go to the library to learn the languages of other races, especially the languages of hostile camps, it would cost tens of thousands of gold coins.

In this way, ordinary lawful evil players and ordinary lawful good players could not communicate normally. This added to the mystery of the hostile camp.

Having not learned Spiderling language, Nie Yan couldn't understand anything, so he could only remain silent. As soon as he opened his mouth, he would be discovered.

The ball of light still surrounded Nie Yan. Elite-level Spiderlings had already appeared nearby. Nie Yan was afraid of being discovered, so he clenched the Random Teleport Scroll in his hand, and would teleport away immediately if something went wrong.

These Spiderlings brushed past Nie Yan, and Nie Yan suddenly discovered that these Spiderlings could not see this ball of light.

The faint fluorescence, like an elf, danced around Nie Yan.

It should be Bennett's soul. Nie Yan thought for a while, did this ball of light contain some of Bennett's memories? Could he find some clues by using Soul Potion?

After thinking about it, he decided to wait until he got out first.

Nie Yan walked into the Spiderling village. Some Spiderlings in the Spiderling village were talking to each other in whispers. These ugly creatures looked very terrifying in the night.

It felt like entering a ghost village.

Nie Yan was silent. Some Spiderlings said some obscure and difficult-to-understand sentences after seeing Nie Yan. He couldn't understand, so he could only continue to remain silent.

Shuttling through the muddy roads in the middle of the village, brushing past one Spiderling after another, there was a relatively magnificent building in front, a three-story building with a staircase connecting the second floor.

This building looked a bit old, but it was the most conspicuous building Nie Yan had seen so far.

Seeing this building, Nie Yan confirmed that there would definitely be some important information inside this building.

After thinking about it, Nie Yan walked in, carefully searching, and climbed up the stairs all the way. When he reached the second floor, he still didn't find anything. There was also a wooden staircase in the center of the second floor. He climbed up the stairs and secretly glanced around the third floor. He found two Spiderlings wearing iron armor, and in the corner of the wall not far away, there was a Dark Gold-level treasure chest. He didn't know what material this box was made of. It was engraved with mysterious runes and patterns.

The two Spiderlings seemed to sense something, looked around, their eyes swept across the stairwell, but found nothing, and returned to normal.

Nie Yan threw reconnaissance at the two Spiderlings separately.

Spiderling Ilvich: Level 60 Elite, HP 12000.

Spiderling Israel: Level 60 Elite, HP 11700.

They were two elites. Nie Yan frowned. It was really a bit difficult for Nie Yan to take down two elites at once, and the movements couldn't be too big, otherwise it would be troublesome if other Spiderlings were attracted.