Monster collectors on the cross-platform

I've made up my mind. I'll just relax for the rest of the time.

Huo returned to the gravedigger's hut, moved a stool and sat down in front of the door. It was still early, with one or two hours until sunset.

Huo sat at the door for a while, then suddenly felt a little lost. He used to be at work at this time, or even on his day off, he would be in front of the computer or holding his phone.

But right now I have nothing, no one is urging me to work, and I don't have a phone or computer to play games or watch short videos, so I might as well go out and see the world.

The thought had barely formed in his mind when Huo could no longer sit still and immediately stood up.

Not far from the cabin was a large cemetery. Although the technology of the world Huo was in was close to that of the West in the 19th century, burial was still common, and the custom of burying the dead with funerary objects was still preserved.

Therefore, tomb raiding is rampant in this world, which has led to the emergence of the profession of tomb keeper.

Huo walked around the cemetery. The cemetery in front of him was where the residents of Rosent were buried. The cemetery was not far from Rosent, about a 30-minute walk away.

Thinking back on it, Huo also remembered from the original owner's memories that tomorrow seemed to be payday.

Huo was also employed by the mayor of Rosent as a gravedigger, earning 40 rolls a week.

The salary is not high, in fact, it's rather low, barely enough for an adult to make ends meet.

Although Huo Huan doesn't lack these meager sums, he still decides to go to the town to collect his salary tomorrow, mainly to see the town for himself, since there's always a difference between what he remembers and what he sees with his own eyes.

After circling around, Huo returned to the cabin. The cabin was located in the wild, so there was no need to worry about safety. Large wild animals in the vicinity had long been extinct due to human firearms, and even some small wild animals were not common anymore. The hunters in the town had to go deep into the mountains and forests to have any success.

Huo, sitting back on the bench, felt bored again. Without the internet, he could only kill time by chatting in chat channels.

While reviewing the chat history, Huo suddenly remembered something and opened someone's private chat.

A few minutes later, Huo was comfortably lying on the sofa with his tablet in his arms, a straw in his mouth, drinking a beverage whose name he couldn't recognize.

Huo almost forgot that if something doesn't exist in this world, surely it does exist on the Zongwang (a Chinese online platform for variety shows). The multiverse has given birth to countless diverse cultures, so Huo has no worries about not having good TV series, movies, novels, or all kinds of music. And with Zongwang's translations, there's no need to worry about not understanding them.

It's just that it's not the music from my hometown, so it lacks a certain nostalgia.

After sunset, Huo visited the Hope Restaurant again. Some people are like that; once they find a restaurant that suits their taste, they become regulars at that restaurant.

Huo is that kind of person; rather than going to a restaurant he doesn't know what it will taste like, he prefers a restaurant he has already chosen.

After dinner, Huo went to bed early, intending to go to sleep early tonight. The last time he went to bed early was probably when he was in school. After graduating and starting work, he often stayed up late, even when he was resting.

Huo Huan, lying on the bed, soon began to breathe evenly, and the small house fell silent, with only the chirping of insects still coming from outside.

A strange knocking sound woke Huo Huan from his sleep. Huo Huan put on his clothes, puzzled, and prepared to go out to see what was going on.

The darkness could not obstruct Huo Huan's vision; equipped with dark vision, the surrounding scenery appeared as bright as day in Huo Huan's eyes.

Following the sound toward the cemetery, Huo also encountered two men dressed in black robes, acting suspiciously, digging graves with shovels and picks. Not far away, another man, also dressed in black robes, was keeping watch.

"What are you doing!" Huo shouted, taking the initiative to intimidate the three tomb raiders.

The man in black robes on lookout visibly trembled, clearly frightened, while the two men digging up the grave remained unmoved, focused on their work.

Huo frowned, about to step forward to stop them, when he saw the black-robed man on guard mutter a few words, and the other two immediately put down their tools.

The man in black robes picked up his sword and turned around. A faint green light shimmered under his hood. Huo Huan looked closely and realized that the two figures under the black robes were not human beings at all, but two moving skeletons.

Huo raised an eyebrow in surprise. It was actually a native necromancer. As for why he was sure it wasn't another player from the Comprehensive Network, players from the Comprehensive Network wouldn't stoop so low as to come and steal corpses in the middle of the night. With such a huge platform as the Comprehensive Network, there's nothing else they could do that would be better than stealing corpses.

Facing the native superhumans for the first time, Huo didn't dare to be careless and immediately took out an axe and shield from his backpack.

To defeat a mage, you naturally need to get close first. However, the opponent clearly wouldn't let Huo get close easily. He immediately commanded two skeletons to attack while he hid behind them chanting incantations, seemingly casting some kind of spell.

With his shield blocking the attacks of two skeletons, Huo swung his axe backhand and struck one of the skeletons. The sharp axe blade sliced ​​through the bones as smoothly as a hot knife through butter, and in the next instant, the white skeleton scattered all over the ground.

So weak? Huo was somewhat surprised by how weak the skeleton was, but he didn't stop and quickly took down the other skeleton.

Seeing his skeleton dealt with so quickly, the necromancer standing at the back chanted incantations with increasing haste, finally completing the spell before Huo could kill him with a single axe blow.

A bone arrow, as long as a forearm and as thick as a thumb, appeared out of thin air in front of the mage and shot towards Huo Huan.

Huo quickly raised his shield to his chest, and the next moment, a dull thud came from the shield, along with a tremendous force.

Under the attack of this enormous force, Huo couldn't help but take two steps back, and then... that was the end of it.

Quickly catching up with the necromancer who was trying to escape, Huo chopped him to the ground with an axe. Just to be safe, he swung the axe at the necromancer's head and heart a few more times, fearing that the other party might have some strange tricks up his sleeve.

I didn't expect this necromancer to be so weak. However, the power of that bone arrow was not small, close to the ogre's full-force attack. But Huo's strength has increased a lot, and he also has a shield that absorbs a certain amount of kinetic energy, which makes the necromancer's spell seem so weak.

I searched through the necromancer's belongings and found that, despite being reduced to stealing corpses at night, he still had quite a lot of things on him: several books with unknown contents, a bunch of bottles and jars, and some money.

Huo also translated some books through the Zongwang website. One of the books was about meditation, another contained several necromancy spells, and the rest were theoretical books.

Name: White Bone Meditation Method (Gray)

Type: Meditation

Weight: 0.5 kg

Requirement: Intelligence 12

Description: A meditation method created by an unknown author. It has high entry requirements, slow progress, and a high probability of causing mental instability. Players are not advised to learn it.

The remaining necromancer spells are similar, all characterized by being difficult to learn, consuming a lot of energy, and having weak power.

The bottles and jars contained spellcasting materials such as bone meal, moss, and human skin, which were of no value to Huo.

Overall, apart from the 230 Rolls banknote which was somewhat useful to Hogans, the rest were practically garbage.

Of course, this is because Huo also has the behemoth platform Zongwang. For ordinary people, the allure of extraordinary power is immense, and even with risks, most would still seize it without hesitation.

Chapter 9 Purgatory Difficulty

Habitually summoning the Book of Collections, Huo also began to collect the three corpses on the ground.

The two skeletons were safely contained, but the necromancer's body remained lying on the ground, unchanged.

Is there something wrong? Huo looked at the necromancer's corpse with some confusion, touched his chin, thought for a while but couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

After restoring the grave destroyed by the skeleton, Huo also dug a pit nearby and hastily buried the necromancer's body.

Open the Book of Collections and see what traits the newly contained skeletons have.

Race Name: Skeleton

Description: A basic unit of undead creatures, which are not only widely present in the undead plane, but are also frequently summoned by necromancers using magic as cannon fodder.

Trait: Bone Strengthening

Skeletal Enhancement: For skeletons whose bodies are nothing but bones and soulfire, the skeleton is both the skeleton's body and its armor. When equipped, it provides a slight overall improvement to the player's skeleton.

It's a decent trait, but unfortunately, the inventory space is limited right now. Compared to skeletal enhancement, dark vision is clearly more helpful to Huo.

Looking at the time displayed on the website, it was clearly past midnight. The dungeon attempts had been refreshed, and new dungeons had appeared.

The newly appeared dungeon is called "The Noise of a Silent Town." Judging from the name, it's impossible to know what type of dungeon it is. Just as Huo was about to enter the new chat channel to check the situation, a message from the Kobolds dungeon chat channel caught Huo's attention.

[Holy Light of Faith]: Brothers, this is my last time running this dungeon. I'm quitting tomorrow. These are my last two runs of Inferno difficulty dungeons to help newbies.

[Want to lose weight]: Hey, is Holy Knight leaving?

[Nickname cannot be empty]: Another expert has reached level 6? Congratulations!

[Innocent and Introverted Dog]: Paladin, can you carry me through the Purgatory dungeon?

……

The message from the person who believed in the Holy Light immediately changed the chat content in the group, with everyone leaning towards the movement of veteran players.

When Holy Knight asked for the second time if there were any new recruits he wanted to mentor, Huo saw that there were still vacancies and tentatively signed up.

A dozen minutes later, after confirming the final members, Holy Knight pulled the remaining four teammates into the team chat channel.

[Holy Light of Faith]: Now everyone has time to run dungeons, right? If there are no problems, I'll start running one.

[Innocent and introverted dog]: I'm fine, I'm ready anytime.

[Want to lose weight]: +1

[Extremely terrified]: +2

[Flowers Bloom in Time]: 1111

When Huo entered the instance, there were already 4 players standing at the entrance of the kobold mine.

"Everyone's here. Let me introduce myself. I'm a Paladin who believes in the Holy Light and has a Level 6 Oath of Honesty," a handsome red-haired man in full plate armor said first.

"I want to lose weight..."

"I'm……"

Everyone gave a brief introduction. The innocent and introverted dog looks like a 6 or 7-year-old boy and is a level 2 animal friend of the elf race. The girl who wants to lose weight is a thin and petite human girl whose profession is a summoner and her level is 4.

The last player, Hua Kai Ze Ming, is of the Elf race and is a level 4 Mechanic.

With the addition of Level 2 Huo Huan, this small team was temporarily assembled.

"Then let's set off." As he spoke, Paladin raised his right hand to his chest, and golden rays of light enveloped each player.

With a wave of his hand, the Paladin cast four spells: Blessing, Blessing Weapon, Sanctuary, and Daylight for illumination.

After the other players were ready, Paladin Bro, with a shield in his left hand and a sword in his right, was the first to enter the cave.

After easily dealing with the two 'gatekeeper' kobolds, the next challenge is dealing with numerous traps.

Compared to the previous difficulties, the trap locations in Purgatory difficulty are not fixed. The Paladin originally thought he would just tough it out on his own, since there isn't much of a good way for a Paladin to deal with traps.

At this moment, Hana Kai Zeming from the group stepped forward.

"Leave the traps to me." Stopping the paladin who wanted to walk into the trap with his own body, Hua Kai Zeming took out a mechanical object that looked like a spider from his spatial backpack.

The mechanical spider emitted a faint red light from its head and began scanning its surroundings.

Soon, a soft beeping sound emanated from the mechanical spider's body, and all the traps were marked.

Following the route marked by the mechanical spiders, the group easily bypassed the traps set by the kobolds.

The mining area is just ahead. On Inferno difficulty, in addition to having more kobolds than on other difficulties, the commotion from the battle will also attract kobolds from other areas, so the area ahead is very likely the location of the final battle.

The Paladin stopped at the corner and began to apply buffs: Bull's Might, Eagle's Glory, Owl's Wisdom, Energy Resistance, and Advanced Enchanted Weapon.

Various magical lights shone on the Holy Knight, making Huo exclaim "Holy crap!" in his heart.

Dude, is your class even legal? How many spells have you cast since the beginning? What other paladin has so many spell slots?

"You guys stand at the back and be careful." After casting the spell, the Paladin entered the mining area and took the lead in the battle.