Woke Up to Find the Game I Made Came True

Ye Bai was momentarily stunned by the donkey's antics but quickly realized that not getting on the wagon was a blessing in disguise.

The donkey stepped on the head of a dragonkin undead and swiftly made its escape, drawing the attention of all the undead. This was her perfect chance to slip away.

The dragonkin lich on the bone altar let out a furious roar, the surging energy from its body causing several waves of shockwave damage to Ye Bai.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Ye Bai quickly dashed toward the nearest group of undead. Midway, she leveled up, replenishing her half-depleted health amidst the shockwaves. Like a fish diving into water, she seamlessly blended into the undead horde once more.

The dragonkin undead, following the lich's command, began chasing after the donkey.

With so many undead crowding toward one direction, the entire island gradually descended into chaos, starting from the area around the altar.

The undead were all focused on chasing the donkey, paying no attention to Ye Bai. Compared to the towering dragonkin undead, her "short" figure allowed her to weave through the crowd, moving against the flow of the undead as she steadily made her way out.

Forced to leave the treasure vault and come to this place, she had thought helping the donkey would allow her to escape. Although the plot had taken an unexpected turn, the outcome was still achieved in a different way.

Just then—

The lich on the bone altar cursed and roared again, turning its gaze toward the dragon corpse.

The mysterious force that had been reviving the dragon had been weakened after the donkey bit off a large chunk of the soul fire's essence.

The faint glimmer of soul fire in the dragon's eyes dimmed, and it returned to its slumber. The eyelids that had been open began to droop, as if about to close.

The lich, unable to leave the altar during the ritual, stomped its foot in frustration. Seeing that the donkey was still out of reach, it turned its attention to the dragonkin undead still gathered around the altar.

"Whoosh..."

A soul-sucking force emanated from the lich's outstretched palm, forming a vortex that indiscriminately targeted all nearby undead.

Focused on her escape, Ye Bai didn't notice what was happening. She only felt a chill run through her skull and saw ghostly blue flames of soul fire fly out from the heads of the undead around her, drifting backward.

"Clatter..."

The moment their soul fire left their bodies, the undead collapsed like puppets with their strings cut. Those with less decayed bodies "slumped," while the more decayed ones simply fell apart.

The demigod lich gathered the soul fire from the surrounding undead, replenishing the previously damaged soul fire. As its gaze swept the area, it paused, the flickering flames in its eye sockets locking onto a particular direction.

Amidst the chaotic pile of rotting bones, Ye Bai, who had been perfectly hidden among the tall dragonkin undead, now stood out like a sore thumb, the only living being still standing in the vicinity.

Oh no.

Before she could even turn around, Ye Bai felt an icy, piercing gaze land on her.

Crap. In the lich's eyes, she had probably become a substitute for the donkey.

Ye Bai glanced at her status bar and saw a new debuff.

【Soul Drain】: Absorbs the soul fire of undead creatures.

Ye Bai wasn't an undead creature, so the debuff had no effect on her. However, under the effect of 【Perfect Mask】, the lich saw her as an undead creature.

In this bizarre and slightly awkward moment, Ye Bai couldn't help but think of a dark joke.

Faced with an undead creature whose soul fire couldn't be absorbed, was the demigod lich feeling the same way a zombie would when encountering someone with no brains?

Of course, while she thought this, Ye Bai quickly pulled out a high-level magic protection scroll, 【Elemental Sanctuary】, from her inventory and rolled away.

The other undead were mindless brutes, and Ye Bai could continue her act, but the lich was an advanced boss with intelligence comparable to a living person. In its past life, it had been a well-traveled mage, so it wasn't hard for it to guess that her anomaly was due to some kind of disguise tool.

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Sure enough, the spot where Ye Bai had been standing exploded the next moment. The already decayed undead remains around her turned into pale ash as a second-tier undead spell, 【Death Ray】, struck.

Having narrowly dodged the attack, Ye Bai heard a relieved voice from the magic scroll in her hand: "You finally let me out! I sense the Codex... it's in the hands of that demigod lich... huh?"

The paper figure clearly hadn't expected to be released from its "detention" into such a dire situation.

"Another rat?!"

The dragonkin lich, surprised that its attack had missed, roared in anger as the flames in its eyes flared. With a wave of its hand, three dark red, scythe-like arcs of light flew toward Ye Bai, as if guided by an unseen force.

Targeted skill!

Ye Bai knew there was no dodging this. Her mind raced through various powerful undead spells before she made her choice.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

‘-658’, ‘-632’, ‘-632’

Each of the 【Death Scythe】 spells cast by the level 80 demigod lich dealt over a thousand damage, but the 【Crocodile King Bracer】 reduced the damage by 500. At level 22 with 700 health, Ye Bai tanked the remaining damage and leveled up three times.

"Still alive?"

The demigod lich, having already retracted its hand, was shocked to find that the little rat it thought it could crush with a finger was still standing. While continuing to manipulate the soul fire, it flicked its fingers, sending out a wisp of gray, dust-like mist—another unavoidable targeted skill.

It was a damage-over-time spell, 【Mind Plague】.

Once infected, the target would lose 10% of their health every second. Even a tank wouldn't survive long.

This was why Ye Bai had chosen a magic-based class—versatile and adaptable. Even if you dodged one spell, there was always another waiting for you.

To counter this, Ye Bai, still sprinting, activated the 【Elemental Sanctuary】 in her hand. A barrier of multicolored elemental light enveloped her, shielding her from the ominous gray mist.

But blocking even this casual attack caused the high-level protection scroll to dissipate into light.

Ye Bai had no choice but to pull out another life-saving scroll from her inventory.

"Heh... You can't escape."

The lich let out a cold sneer, glancing at the soul flames formed by the gathering of other dragon-kin undead that filled the void. With bony fingers, it flipped a page of the pitch-black codex in its hand, and a dark light shot out from the tome.

After issuing a command to the undead further away, the lich no longer paid any attention to Ye Bai, focusing entirely on the ritual.

"Watch out, be careful of your footing!"

The voice of the paper figure rang out again. After the previous spell scroll was used, it had disappeared, but when Ye Bai pulled out another scroll, it reappeared.

The next moment, Ye Bai felt the ground beneath her feet and the debris suddenly soften, transforming into a twisted, sinking swamp of bones in an instant.

Thanks to the agility of her Featherlight Cloak, Ye Bai managed to step onto the relatively sturdy skull of an undead to escape.

But this was only the beginning. Immediately after, a series of rattling sounds echoed as countless skeletal hands burst from the ground, desperately trying to grab anything on the surface.

Ye Bai's scalp tingled as she immediately recognized this as the legendary necromantic spell, [Bone Domain].

She wanted to cry but had no tears. This was too much! The dragon-kin lich was being overly cautious! She wanted to shout at it, "Don't use a cannon to kill a mosquito!" Using a legendary spell against her, who was only level 25, was just ridiculous!

Legendary magic represented the pinnacle of spellcasting, and those who mastered it earned the title of 'Legendary Mage.'

A Legendary Mage was undoubtedly a demigod, though not all demigods were Legendary Mages, highlighting the prestige of the title.

Meanwhile, under the lich's command, more dragon-kin undead began to close in on Ye Bai, unaffected by the Bone Domain.

"Click..."

Even with the Featherlight effect, Ye Bai couldn't find a safe footing. Before she could run ten meters, a skeletal hand grabbed her firmly.

Within the Bone Domain, Ye Bai's elemental magic was completely nullified, while all necromantic spells received a significant boost.

She could still use some physical attacks, but the physical damage of her Snowblade... well, it was better not to mention it.

As if things weren't bad enough, the altar began to rumble violently.

As the soul flames gathered once more, the massive corpse of the ancient dragon began to glow. Its dull, lifeless scales started to undergo a strange transformation, taking on a decayed hue, while eerie flames flickered from its wounds.

"Boom!"

The soul flames completely merged into the dragon's pitch-black eyes, like ink dropped into water, instantly dyeing them with the unique color of soul fire.

"Rumble..."

Amid the sound of falling stones, the dead ancient dragon slowly rose, its body propping up in a terrifying, grotesque manner as it stood once more.

Its tattered wings spread wide, sharp bone spikes growing from them. Even underground, one could imagine how it once roared across the skies. The ancient dragon opened its mouth and let out a long, decaying howl.

"Rooooar..."

At that moment, time seemed to stand still.

Under the overwhelming pressure of this being from the apex of the divine realm, the Bone Domain that had been trying to drag Ye Bai in calmed down, and the other approaching undead halted in their tracks.

Despite the donkey's interference and the loss of numerous dragon-kin undead, the dragon-kin lich's transformation ritual was finally complete.

"Ahahahaha..." The dragon-kin lich let out a shrill, grating laugh, like fingers scraping against wood. Finally free from the ritual, it held the pitch-black codex and floated in the air, gazing from a distance at Ye Bai, trapped in the Bone Domain.

Following the lich's gaze, the creature now referred to as the Bone Dragon also turned its attention toward Ye Bai.

A health bar as wide as the two wings spread behind it appeared in Ye Bai's vision.

The dragon-kin lich sneered, "Give thanks to the great Zelus! I shall grant you a glorious end—death in the jaws of the Bone Dragon!"