Spawning outside the Dread Mausoleum, they possess two points of armor and a full fifty health.
Besides their basic strength, they can summon minions that are quite formidable.
Although they are undead creatures, they do not burn in the sunlight. He released a Bone Dragon to eliminate them.
There were four of them in total, dropping bones, Dread Shards, and a Dread Lich Staff.
The bones were just standard bones, and the shards could be crafted into Dread Blocks, but the most important item was the Lich Staff.
The Dread Lich Staff is the weapon of a Dread Lich and serves as the medium for their spellcasting.
Holding the Dread Lich Staff and right-clicking allows one to fire Ice Soul Skulls just like a Dread Lich.
The blue skulls looked impressive, but their damage was pathetic.
He gave it a few experimental swings before stashing it in his backpack and turning his gaze back toward the mausoleum.
"If I'm not mistaken, shouldn't the Liches drop a key?"
"Is his luck that bad? Not a single key dropped?"
"Then it's over. Without a key, he can't open the Dread Mausoleum!"
"The spawn rate for this structure is incredibly low. God Yu spent forever just to find this one!"
"The Lich spawn rate is even lower. Why is getting into a Dread Mausoleum such a pain?"
"The walls can't be broken, so how long is he going to have to hunt for a key!"
Without a key, there was no way to open the main gates.
That was the conventional logic, but Galen Yu knew better.
"As everyone knows, when a door is sturdier than the wall, the wall becomes the door!"
The door was indeed unbreakable, but nobody said the walls were!
"Cover me for a second, I'm digging through the wall!"
He pulled out his Dragonsteel Pickaxe and began to mine. Over time, cracks gradually appeared on the hardened surface of the wall.
"You can do that?"
Standing before a skull-shaped relief carved from Dreadstone—with a door made of Dreadwood Planks and a Dreadwood keyhole below it—the Wandering Mage watched in a daze.
He had always entered and exited through main gates, forgetting that the Block World didn't restrict you to just one entrance!
As long as you were willing, any part of a room could become a door!
"What a unique perspective! I almost forgot!"
"Who says you can only enter a building through the front door? If I say this is the door, then it's the door!"
"I have to say, that's just the Block World for you!"
"More like that's Steve. If his constitution were any weaker, he wouldn't be able to mine it even with a pickaxe!"
"By the way, I've been meaning to ask since the beginning—who exactly is Steve?"
"With such a strong constitution, could he be some kind of Large Chunk Lord?"
"Then he'd be invincible!"
Watching the speculations in the bullet chat, Headmaster Quill's thoughts began to wander.
From the very first reward to the global awakening of Steve's power, there was one key question that remained unanswered.
Who exactly was Steve?
Why had they never seen a person or creature by that name?
Immunity to fatal damage, infinite stamina, digging iron with bare hands, and the ability to break even Obsidian given enough time...
Such special mechanics would be terrifying on any creature.
And yet, aside from appearing in rewards, the name was never heard anywhere else.
"Someone that powerful can't be a nobody."
Regardless, it was a good thing. Carrying this question, he continued to watch.
Upon entering the Dread Mausoleum, the monsters inside were immediately alerted to Galen Yu's presence.
Generally speaking, the interior of a Dread Mausoleum isn't very large and is generated with a fixed layout.
Starting from the entrance, to the right is a dead end containing a monster spawner and a chest.
To the left is a winding corridor, where a certain number of chests and spawners appear at the corners.
Dread Thralls, Dread Beasts, Dread Ghouls...
They were stronger than normal zombies, but they were no match for the current Galen Yu.
He broke the spawners and took the chests. Passing through the short corridor, he reached an upward staircase decorated with Dreadwood Planks.
After heading up, he encountered several simple alcoves containing spawners and chests. At the end of the alcove section was a spiral staircase.
Descending the stairs and clearing one more alcove, he finally found the Dread Mausoleum's main burial chamber.
The main burial chamber was quite large, occupying the entire back half of the mausoleum, with spawners in all four corners.
In the center of the chamber, within a space enclosed by four pillars, stood a damaged Dragonsteel Forge.
"Found it. The portal to the Dread Realm!"