At the same time Verdell was silently feeling relived having guessed that the crypt guardian rank necromancer from the Eternal Life Sanctum that he and Scaly would find themselves dealing with in the near future was someone inexperienced who had just recently reached the rank and was looking for quick success, back at the necromancer intelligence gathering outpost in charge of managing the bone birds keeping an eye on the situation across other battlefronts within the eighth floor of the dungeon, the younger necromancers had gathered together around one specific magical artifact connected to the bone bird in charge of keeping an eye on the approaching group of adventurers.
"Hehe, they are about to reach our trap."
"Indeed, I'm looking forward to seeing the looks on their faces afterwards. Even if we can't kill them with our strength and the few undead and skeletons available to us, we can at least disgust them enough, so they never dare taunt us like that again!"
