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"I just had a vague premonition..."

Karian calmly replied, then shifted his gaze from the more conspicuous stone coffin to the surrounding white bones, his expression becoming more serious.

"And who said there's no danger here?"

As he spoke, he raised a finger and pointed to the bones:

"This guy won't be easy to deal with."

"What?"

Vladimir just showed a puzzled expression.

Suddenly, as Karian's voice fell, the bones scattered on the ground began to react strangely... First, they trembled, then began to emit a dense death magic. Then, like gravity, the scattered bones were quickly gathered together. In no more than three seconds, all the bones were assembled into a huge bone monster.

Its entire body is made of bones, and it stands over four meters tall. Its cage-like shape looks bulky but brings a very strong sense of oppression.

From within the massive, pieced-together head, a wisp of soul fire rose, filled with despair and resentment, unleashing a silent roar towards Victor and the others... An exaggerated surge of magical energy crashed down, causing Victor to frown.

"This is... a skeleton golem?"

Nina gasped in shock.

He then quickly pulled Viktor back a few steps and cast another shield on the two of them.

Meanwhile, Vladimir and Lina had already walked up to Karian's side, their expressions turning serious.

"It's a bone golem! Karian, do you have any good ideas on how to deal with this guy?"

Karian didn't answer immediately, but instead carefully examined the undead monster in front of him—the Bone Golem, a genuine man-made undead biological weapon. It had a powerful body, a built-in magic shield, and was immune to curse-type witchcraft and many other forms of witchcraft. It could also create bone bombs to throw, making it a common weapon of war in the undead legions of many necromancers.

Although its combat power is not as strong as that of some high-level undead such as death knights and vampires, it is not something that ordinary undead creatures can easily mess with.

Even for them, high-level wizard apprentices, dealing with this guy was quite troublesome—because he was a self-destructing undead type, and the power of his self-destruction was great, especially in this confined environment where there was nowhere to hide!

But this skeletal golem seems a bit off... First of all, there's its own existence. Although the skeleton looks incredibly hard, upon closer inspection, you can see cracks everywhere and defects in many places.

Secondly, there's the magical shield that comes with his body. This guy doesn't have a shield; his entire body is exposed to the air, which suggests there's something wrong with his magical structure.

Finally, there's the raging soul fire... This restless soul fire clearly shouldn't exist within the Bone Golem, because it would make the Bone Golem difficult to control, and might even cause it to disobey commands. But more importantly, it would affect the power of its self-destruction, and might even cause it to fail.

This means that the guy's value has been greatly reduced, which is unacceptable to any necromancer.

So quickly, Karian already knew what was going on:

"Don't worry."

"This guy isn't a complete skeleton golem, but a flawed one. It doesn't have its own magic shield and can't resist your witchcraft... Lina, your elemental witchcraft is the most effective against this guy, so it's up to you."

Are you sure?

Lina glanced at him, frowned, but her hands moved quickly.

Magic surged forth rapidly, quickly condensing into a flame in her hand, which then rapidly expanded into a miniature fireball the size of a fist.

She aimed at the skeletal golem in front of her and threw the fireball. The fireball shot out in a flash and arrived in front of the skeletal golem in the blink of an eye.

The skeletal golem reacted unusually slowly. Even as the fireball reached it, it didn't react at all before being struck directly in the head... Then, the fireball exploded, with a sound like a grenade.

"boom------!!"

The head of the skeletal golem was instantly blasted to pieces.

Almost simultaneously, the undead monster, which had been so intimidating just moments before, suddenly lost all its power, and its magical energy began to dissipate uncontrollably.

In less than ten seconds, the monsters that had just gathered together were scattered into a pile of bones, lying everywhere.

"this one?"

An expression of disbelief appeared on Lina's beautiful face.

She was just testing the waters, and didn't even go all out. She was just trying to test the guy's defense, but she was blown up by him in one go... Has her elemental magic become this powerful?

Karian glanced at her:

"That's normal. I've already said it, this guy is just a defective product."

"It must be because the supply of magic has been cut off for too long. It's already very difficult to gather it back, let alone use it in actual combat."

"If it were a complete skeleton golem, we could defeat it, but I would also make sure you retreat immediately here. Otherwise, if this thing explodes, it will cause a lot of trouble."

Vladimir glanced at Karian from the side and silently scoffed.

Nina and Victor came up again, and Nina asked:

"So what should we do with this guy?"

"Even a broken bone golem is quite valuable, isn't it, Karian?"

Karian nodded upon hearing this:

"That's right."

"It would take at least several hundred magic stones to create this."

"I can give up the other gains; this broken skeleton golem is mine now, and I can try to repair it."

Vladimir spoke somewhat irritably:

"But what if there are no other gains?"

Karian looked at him, his eyes darkening, and he seemed somewhat angry.

"Then I'll pay you some extra magic stones."

"Don't rush into arguing!"

Nina once again acted as a peacemaker:

"This skeletal golem seems to be something the wizard left behind to protect his coffin; there might be other things inside."

"Besides, this bone golem might not be the last resort. If there are other dangers, is it really a good idea for you to fight amongst yourselves now?"

Karian and Vladimir both shut their mouths and walked silently toward the sarcophagus.

Nina and Lina exchanged a glance, shook their heads helplessly, and followed with Victor.

Upon reaching the steps, the stone coffin was now fully visible to everyone... Contrary to expectations, this stone coffin did not appear to have been made casually.

First of all, this material is not an ordinary stone. Its surface is smooth and delicate. Although it looks similar to ordinary stones, you can even feel the warmth and smoothness of jade when you touch it.

Secondly, the surface of the stone coffin is also engraved with a large number of patterns.

It resembles the magical structure of some witchcraft, but it also seems somewhat different.

On both sides of the stone coffin, there is a dense ring of ancient runes, which faintly shimmer and seem to still be in operation.

Karian and the others studied it for a long time, but they still had no clue. They couldn't even figure out what the runes on the outside meant, let alone open the sarcophagus. As mentioned before, ancient rune technology was an advanced subject that only formal wizards would be involved in, and among them, only Nina had some exposure to it.

But Nina's vision went black at that moment as well:

"We can't seem to open this thing..."

Vladimir frowned and looked at her:

"Can't we just use witchcraft to break it open?"

Nina shook her head:

"It might be feasible... but if we use witchcraft to break it open, can you guarantee you won't damage anything valuable inside?"

Vladimir frowned and shut his mouth.

At that moment, Victor stepped forward and suddenly spoke:

"How about I give it a try?"