I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse-Chapter 1274: Waves, Cave, Zombie, Bulge

The thought that the Snake Monster just now turned out to be the legendary Dragon still sends chills down your spine. Dragons—the most fierce and ferocious creatures in Western lore; the rulers of all beasts in Eastern mythology.

In both East and West, Dragons are symbols of immense martial power. The mere fact that you were fortunate enough to receive a gift from a Dragon fills your heart with gratitude, while your face can’t help but reflect your exhilaration.

Staring at the identified item in your hand, the attributes of the Blue Bracelet leave you thoroughly shocked!

The Ring of the Azure Dragon: Attack speed increased by 30%; reduces physical attacks by 30%; immunity to all Water Magic, except for banned curses; uniqueness!

The most crucial aspect is the uniqueness!

This thing is practically a custom-made masterpiece!

Your eyes now blaze with fanaticism. "A Divine Artifact! I never expected to be the first person in this game to own a Divine Artifact!"

With no one else around, only your voice echoes through the forest. If a few high-level players from the Heavenly Rankings happened to pass by, they’d definitely sneer endlessly.

Indeed, you do own a Divine Artifact, but you’re hardly the first. At the very start of the game, twenty players already had Divine Artifacts. Twenty artifacts scattered across different continents, some even in the hands of aliens. Among them, Eastern Cloud Dragon’s Dragon Spring Sword and Koizumi Tadashi’s Yucun Blade shine the brightest. ƒгeewёbnovel.com

If the artifacts had rankings, yours wouldn’t rank higher than mid-tier, somewhere between the tenth and fifteenth spot at best.

Such is this world—unfair by nature.

If you want the same status as theirs, you must shatter all restrictions and ascend to the pinnacle step by step!

As you put the Blue Bracelet on your left wrist, a melodious female voice reverberates across the skies: "Congratulations, player Mu Yun, on obtaining the Ring of the Azure Dragon, becoming the twenty-fifth person in the game to acquire a Divine Artifact. Your reputation increases by 50 points."

"What the heck, the twenty-fifth?!"

Without hesitation, you flip your middle finger toward the sky above.

Determined to quickly enhance your strength, you make up your mind to venture deeper into the Wilderness Woods.

It is nighttime.

Having just acquired the Ring of the Azure Dragon, your confidence surges. Secretly, you muse that if you can’t win in a fight, fleeing wouldn’t be an issue. After all, the artifact grants a unique ability to nullify 30% of opponents’ attacks.

After walking for over half an hour, your steps suddenly halt.

Eyes—pairs upon pairs of sharp, glowing eyes appear amidst the thickets. A quick scan reveals over forty enemies!

"Not good!"

You finally grasp the meaning behind the saying "Night roads are hard to tread." There’s no time for regret; gripping your Knife tightly, you dash forward.

As soon as you start fleeing, the owners of those eyes immediately begin pursuing. The monsters’ speed is astonishingly fast, and they quickly encircle you.

By the moonlight and the blue glow emitting from the Ring of the Azure Dragon on your wrist, you see your attackers—Wild Wolves, each twice the size of the ones you encountered in the Bamboo Forest!

"Woo—"

Off in the distance comes a wolf’s howl. The wolf pack launches their attack!

More than ten wolves charge at you simultaneously. You drop to the ground in a roll, swinging your Knife emitting a yellow light in a wide arc, severing several wolves’ legs instantly.

Before you can fully straighten up, the pack initiates a second wave of attacks. They act like a meticulously organized army—every wolf efficiently covering specific positions, while injured wolves are dragged away by their companions, clearing the battlefield.

The number of wolves is overwhelming, and their speed is unusually swift. Shrouded by the night, your defense becomes utterly ineffective.

Under one relentless wave after another of wolf attacks, shallow but painful wounds cover your body.

Realizing you can’t keep fighting like this, you fiercely decapitate one wolf, then as others prepare to lunge, you step onto a wolf’s back, leveraging its body to grab hold of a tree branch.

Without waiting for the wolves to leap up, you endure the pain and sprint across the treetops like a monkey.

No looking back—you mustn’t. A quick inadvertent glance showed some wolves miraculously mimicking your moves, using their companions to leap onto the trees.

"What kind of monsters are these?"

The wolves leave you utterly astonished. Who would have thought that wolves could possess intelligence rivaling humans?

Of course, in a race between humans and wolves, humans rarely prevail, especially when you’re injured and running atop trees.

"Bang!"

You suddenly feel a heavy weight slam into you from behind. You plummet from the tree, rolling directly into a mountain cave.

Luckily, the wolves don’t pursue you inside; instead, they linger outside reluctantly, seemingly hoping you’ll walk out yourself.

Do you look that stupid?

Of course not.

Struggling to your feet, you gesture disdainfully at the wolves outside. (︶︿︶)凸

If you can’t go outside, you’ll have to venture deeper within.

Taking a few deep breaths, you lean against the rocky wall to rest momentarily—finally adjusting somewhat.

Fortunately, your injuries aren’t severe, and as a Level 20 Samurai, your health tankiness is progressing steadily toward becoming a blood beast.

Knowing you still have 70-80% life value remaining, your mind eases somewhat.

Once your eyes adapt to the cave’s darkness, you start moving deeper into it.

About ten meters into the cave, the game’s realism immediately begins to reveal itself. Under the Blue Bracelet’s azure glow, the atmosphere inside grows eerily unsettling. The air is thick with unease and the stench of decay, coupled with piles of stark-white bones scattered in the corners, making the cave chillingly sinister.

The cave is shrouded in darkness. Using only the faint blue light of the Ring of the Azure Dragon, you cautiously advance. The soil around you begins to shift, and skeletal hands slowly emerge from the ground. Then, heads with sparse strands of hair, crawling with foul insects, come into view.

Zombies!

You suddenly realize that you are surrounded by Zombies!

These Zombies aren’t the vampiric kind that upgrade themselves by feeding—they are rotting corpses.

Now they’re already halfway out of the ground, wobbling as they advance to encircle you.

Attempting to turn and exit the cave, you notice over a dozen Zombies have already risen behind you, limping toward you.

Cursing under your breath, you swing your Knife at the Zombies. With the Ring of the Azure Dragon, your body feels significantly lighter, and your strikes are faster and fiercer.

Though there are many Zombies, their speed is sluggish. Enthusiastically, you cut down their heads one after another, decapitating more than ten. Unfortunately, the experience points gained from Zombies are meager; after all that effort, you’ve only leveled up once.

While immersed in the thrill of hunting, the Zombies begin retreating quickly. Regaining your senses, you realize you’ve become too absorbed in killing and have unwittingly ventured deeper into the cave’s interior.

The path back is now blocked by the Zombies clustering together. It seems these creatures are being summoned by some unseen force, crawling out of the earth continuously.

With no way to retreat, you have no choice but to press forward. Despite knowing danger lies ahead, you grit your teeth and summon your courage to proceed.

Suddenly!

A shadowy, gray-white figure lunges at you!