Chapter 34 New map! Sewer Corridor and Slime!
Accelerate.
Go up the wall.
Alatruru leaped over the obstacles nimbly, like a hunter in the shadows. While flying over the walls, he also locked his eyes on the target walking in the maze corridor.
Ejection——
Assault!
Alatrulu's hunting skills that kill with one hit were also displayed stably today! as always!
The swift forelimbs were about to knock the fragrant skeleton to the ground.
However, for some reason, the hard touch was different from what he expected.
The skeleton suddenly turned around and put up a shield with his backhand to block its attack.
Alatruru was taken aback and was about to use the force to jump back, but it was already too late.
The skeleton seemed to creak and shout——
"I caught it!!!"
Huwan had already stared at the sneaking spider behind him, and after completing the block, Huwan roared.
Almost at the same time as he finished speaking, Ichiba Zhiqiu, who had been waiting for a long time, slashed at the monster in front of him with his sword.
The sweeping sword energy instantly penetrated the skull of the cave spider, and red and yellow slurry spilled all over the ground.
Suffering a fatal blow, the crypt spider's HP instantly dropped to zero, and it fell to the ground with its legs curled up.
Alaturu’s mighty life has now become the legend of an unknown skeleton soldier.
Things happened too suddenly.
Hibernating in the shadows in the distance, the hunters in Shadow Weaver's lair were all stunned.
Especially Arakedo, who was so shocked that he almost fell off the maze wall.
That is...
The skills of adventurers? !
When the Demon King was still alive, he was lucky enough to see him once, and he almost died under that man's sword.
"Damn it - Alatruru!"
"Boss! I'm going to avenge Alatruru!"
"Wait!"
Looking at the angry men, Arlacto raised one leg to stop them.
Facing the sad and angry eyes of the hunters, it said in a low voice.
"These skeleton soldiers... are weird, they know the skills of adventurers!"
A crypt spider whose fur was so long that it almost covered its eyes looked at it and said in an excited voice.
"What are you talking about?! In this case, shouldn't it be more appropriate to nip them in the bud?!"
Looking at this stupid guy, the cautious Arakdo angrily rebuked.
"Idiot! That's a skeleton soldier! The servant of the necromancer! As long as the necromancer standing behind them thinks, there are as many of these things as there are. The most indispensable thing in the human world is bones! Pig bones, cattle bones, sheep bones, and dog bones can summon this thing!"
It's just that the skeleton soldiers summoned in this way are like the fire elements summoned by the fire mage, and require input of magic power to maintain them.
After hearing Arakto's words, the hunters immediately calmed down.
Indeed.
There is no point in killing several summons. Only then did they realize that they were carried away by anger.
They are all the mainstays of Shadowweaver's lair, giving birth to intelligent monsters!
If we let the other side know that just a few skeleton soldiers were used to destroy the great Shadowweaver lair, they would probably wake up laughing in their dreams!
"But...should we just let it go?" The crypt spider whose fluff dragged on the ground was indignant.
"Forget it? How is it possible!"
Squinting his scarlet eyes, the powerful and extremely cautious Arakdo watched the backs of the two skeletons disappear around the corner and walked forward slowly.
h "I will make them pay, including the necromancer who stands behind them...but not now."
h "Come with me to our destroyed outpost."
"Don't forget the mission given to us by Lord Arachinos, we are here to investigate."
...
The other side.
Ye Zhiqiu and Hu Wan continued to move along the corridor of the maze, looking for a more suitable spot to spawn monsters.
There is no mini-map in this game. They can only make some marks along the way. At the same time, they will go down the line every once in a while and draw the path they have traveled on paper.
Happily, the situation in this maze is better than that in the mine. Most of the roads are straight, and the corners are basically at right angles. Only some paths are crooked.
Hu Wan: "Speaking of which, the spider just now seems to be slightly stronger than the other spiders."
Yiye Zhiqiu: "Probably an elite monster."
Hu Wan: "The elite monsters are okay. No wonder the experience gained is more than before... But then again, are there no other monsters here except spiders?"
Or is it because it is a closed beta version and some completed models have not been put in yet?
Yiye Zhiqiu looked around, thought for a moment and then said.
"Perhaps... there is some "incident" that happened."
Huhwan: "The incident?"
Ye Zhiqiu nodded and continued.
"Although there doesn't seem to be much plot in this game, if you dig carefully, you can still see clues from many details."
Hu Wan: "For example?"
Ichiba Zhiqiu: "For example...remember the magician dragging the crystal ball we saw in the opening animation?"
Huwan: "Of course you remember...that guy is actually the Demon King, right?"
Ichiba Zhiqiu nodded with a smile.
"Yes, but he was obviously not a demon king at that time, but was studying in a place similar to a school, and he seemed to have participated in a graduation ceremony attended by many high-level demons at the end."
Hush Wan: "So?"
< br/> Ichiba Chiaki: "So, I can reasonably surmise that there is a high probability that it is a school similar to the demon world, which is mainly responsible for cultivating characters such as demon kings. And because the demon king here died or was transferred, our BOSS was sent over to serve as the new demon king of the necropolis."
Huchan looked at him in surprise.
This...
This is too imaginative, right? !
And what does this have to do with the fact that the only monsters in the maze are crypt spiders? !
「然后……呢？」 「然后，你就可以发挥你的想像了。」
一叶知秋环视了周围一眼，看着那挂在迷宫墙壁上的蛛网。
"The previous demon king died, but the monsters in the labyrinth are still there, so there is a vacuum in the order. Birds occupy the snake's nest, the snake drives away the spider, and the spider drives away the mouse... Before the new order is formed, some powerful monsters rise quickly. Some of them are because of their strong individual strength, some because of their amazing reproduction speed, or because of their super ecological adaptability. "
"The rat men we met in the mine were obviously driven out by the burrow spiders. And when we threw them back into the maze, they were almost immediately destroyed... So the question is, what does this mean?"
Hu Wan was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Brother Yiye to suddenly betray him, and hesitated for a moment before speaking.
"Explanation... the rat-men's combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Crypt Spiders?"
"Not good enough," Yiye Zhiqiu shook his head with a smile, and said to the point, "Organization."
"Organization?"
"That's right," Yiye Zhiqiu nodded and continued, "The advantage of civilization in the face of barbarism is nothing more than this. Being able to systematically eliminate the organized rat people and replace the latter's ecological niche in the maze only shows that the crypt spiders have also formed a strict organization."
"Is this okay?"
Although he felt that this brother's analysis was really reasonable, he also instinctively felt that a game should not be so detailed...
It should be just a coincidence!
Although he wanted to say this, he couldn't find a more rigorous reason to convince himself.
And at this moment, he suddenly realized a serious problem!
If Brother Yiye's speculation is correct, wouldn't they be walking on an extremely dangerous road?
"Wait, that is to say...if we continue to move forward, we may encounter the big mouse-like spider from before?!"
Looking at Kuwan who was facing a formidable enemy, Yiye Zhiqiu said with a smile.
"Don't be nervous, I specifically chose the road with less cobwebs. What's waiting for us in front is probably not a spider, but something else."
The emergence of separatist forces in the maze means that the monsters will no longer live together, but will have clear geographical divisions.
The entrance to the maze where they are has been included in the Crypt Spider's sphere of influence, so naturally no other monsters can appear.
But the power of the crypt spider alone is obviously not enough to occupy the entire maze.
In other words, as long as they take two more steps forward, they can see other monsters.
As he was speaking, the scenery ahead suddenly became clear.
Although they are still in a maze, both of them clearly feel that the atmosphere and scenery here are obviously different from the previous area.
If it was the spider spirit's silk cave just now, then this is the sewer of the human city-state.
The walls are filled with rusty pipes, and there are also a large number of scrapped wooden boxes and household garbage abandoned here.
It’s a pity that skeletons have no sense of smell.
Otherwise, you should be able to smell pungent ammonia.
"It seems to be as I guessed," Ichiyo continued as he looked around the scene, "This should be outside the sphere of influence of the burrowing spiders."
It stands to reason that spiders should like humid environments, but those burrowing spiders would rather drill into the mines than expand here.
I don’t know what the monster is that dominates this area.
Snake?
Or lizards and centipedes?
Or maybe other fantasy species——
Just when Yiye Zhiqiu was thinking this, he soon made a new discovery.
In the room at the end of the maze corridor, green dumplings were moving on the smooth floor.
"This is..."
"Slime?!"
The pupils of the two skeleton soldiers shook the soul fire of surprise in unison.
Just when they noticed the group of green creatures, the latter also noticed them.
Different from crypt spiders.
As scavengers in the maze, slimes showed far more interest in skeleton soldiers than crypt spiders. They moved their slimy bodies and squirmed in the direction of the players.
"It seems that this area is the territory of slimes." Huwan took half a step back with his scalp numb.
Compared to rats and spiders, he felt more physically uncomfortable with this booger-like thing.
Yiye Zhiqiu did not retreat, but observed the gelatinous monsters with interest.
"Interesting... The movement speed is not fast, and the attack power is unknown. Logically speaking, it should not be so fearful to the cave spiders."
While speaking, he pulled out his one-handed sword to charge up. When one of the slimes came close to the attack range, he immediately swung it out like lightning.
"Kill!"
The sweeping sword energy penetrated the slime without any suspense, and the latter burst into mucus all over the place like a punctured balloon.
"The experience is only one-third of that of a burrow spider, and only slightly higher than that of a rat man."
This strength is obviously not enough to make the Crypt Spider feel afraid. It is difficult for him to understand why the Crypt Spider has not expanded here based on the comparison of strength alone.
Is it because it’s not in the recipe?
Or... this place is not just slime, but also other more dangerous things, and slime has a symbiotic relationship with the latter, or is it just a domestic animal raised by the latter?
Hulwan also had a strange expression on his face.
"I also feel that these monsters are much weaker than the Crypt Spiders... Isn't this the place for novices to spawn monsters?"
Even professional players should be able to easily deal with these monsters.
Yiye Zhiqiu nodded.
"It's possible... Anyway, let's write down this area first."
The name of this area is... [Sewer Corridor]. The monsters that appear are mainly slimes, and the recommended leveling level is LV0~5.
The official did not give this area a name, so he had to do it for him.
Hitchhich was planning to leave before the slimes came around.
However, at this moment, Huwan discovered something strange on the slime's body.
"What is this?"
Suppressing the mental discomfort, he put his skeletal hand into the pool of green mucus and picked up a crystal the size of a rice grain.
"Let me see..."
Yiye Zhiqiu stretched out his hand to take it, held it in his hand and looked at it for a moment, he was confused at first.
However, at this moment, he suddenly remembered a comment he had seen on the forum before -
That was a comment from a netizen with an unappetizing ID.
As expected, that person is still banned.
"So...this thing is the magic crystal?"
Hushwan was stunned.
"Magic crystal? What's the use??"
"I don't know, but I always have a bad feeling," said Yiye Zhiqiu with a subtle expression on his face, "When we were killing monsters, we might have missed a lot of things..."
(End of this chapter)