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Cao Xing nodded, "Yes, the location shown on the coordinates is nearby."

After listening, everyone looked around.

However, there seems to be no treasure house door here, only huge rocks sliding down from the hillside.

After some observation, no relevant clues were found.

Cao Xing fell into deep thought.

Because the system will not make mistakes. According to the coordinates on the key, it is nearby.

But they didn't find it.

This means that this goblin treasure house is likely to be a hidden area.

So, Cao Xing gave the order: "Search around to see if there are any hidden passages or something like that."

Andrew, Assam and others received the order and began to search everywhere.

As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. They quickly searched every corner of the area.

A moment later, Sarah was the first to discover it.

She stopped at the foot of the mountain, in front of a pile of collapsed rubble.

"I'm here, and I sense a faint magical fluctuation."

Hearing this, Cao Xing's eyes suddenly lit up. He controlled the tracked robot and came to Sarah's side with a "grunt".

Perhaps because Cao Xing's level was not high, he did not sense any magical fluctuations here.

But Sarah would not lie.

So he called the shovel robot over and ordered, "Shovel this pile of rubble for me."

The forklift robot immediately did so.

Buzz buzz buzz!

The energy core begins operating at full power.

A huge shovel picked up the rubble and moved it aside.

It shoveled away pieces of rubble one by one, gradually revealing the scene behind the pile of rubble.

Faintly, Cao Xing seemed to see a corner of a gray door.

When the pile of rubble was completely removed.

Cao Xing saw a gray stone gate about five meters high and three meters wide.

【Goblin Treasure House Gate】

[Armor: 500]

[Durability: 100000/100000]

[Additional Effect 1: Intermediate Damage Reduction (Reduces magic damage and physical damage received by 20%)]

[Attached special effect 2: Chain detonation. If forcibly broken, it will cause the collapse of the treasure house passage. ]

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"Oh my god, 100,000 durability, 500 armor, this gate is really strong!"

With the current strength of Cao Xing's men.

Except for Sarah and Baymax, the attacks of others didn't even cause much damage.

It will take a long time just to break down this door.

Moreover, due to the second special effect, this gate cannot be broken down by brute force.

If you force it open, the passage inside will collapse.

Fortunately, Cao Xing came prepared.

He took out the [Goblin Treasure House Key] from his backpack and approached the treasure house door.

The system prompt appeared as expected.

[Do you want to use the Goblin Treasure House Key to open the Treasure House door? ]

"yes."

The next moment, the key in Cao Xing's hand disappeared.

Crunch! Crunch!

Cao Xing heard the sound of keys turning.

A few seconds later, everyone felt a vibration under their feet.

"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"

Cao Xing saw that the door of the treasure house was gradually rising.

Then a dark passage appeared behind the door.

As the vibration continued.

A system prompt appears.

[The door to the treasure house is slowly opening...]

Boom!

The ground was shaking.

After about thirty seconds, the door was fully raised.

[You have discovered the hidden area: the underground palace of the goblins]

(Map introduction: There used to be a group of goblins who worshipped the ancient gods living here. They offered many treasures to the gods they believed in. Until one day, the goblins' sacrifice brought them an unknown disaster. In order to curb the spread of this disaster, the goblins chose to seal the entrance of the palace.)

After reading the map introduction, Cao Xing was stunned.

"So it's not a treasury, but an underground palace?"

[Note: The Goblin Palace is a high-level area. It is recommended that you form a team of at least 4 survivors with second-level strength to explore it.]

Hearing this system prompt, Cao Xing frowned.

It requires four survivors of level 2 or above to form a team, which means that the monsters inside may be of high level.

"I have ten level 2 creatures under my command, including robots and Baymax."

"And they all have my buff bonus, so their actual combat power is much stronger than ordinary second-level creatures."

"According to this calculation, my combat power should be stronger than that of four second-level survivors."

Thinking of this, Cao Xing's eyes lit up.

According to his calculations, his combat power should be able to challenge this area.

Cao Xing made up his mind, that is, to go in!

However, before entering, he can still improve his strength.

So he took out the scroll.

[Do you want to use the Charr Shaman recruitment scroll? ]

"yes."

The moment Cao Xing clicked to confirm, a thick, choking smoke appeared in front of him.

The thick smoke seemed to come from a furnace, with a scorching temperature.

At the same time, as the thick smoke rolled, a humanoid creature nearly two meters tall and with a strong physique could be vaguely seen in it.

Strong magical fluctuations emanated from this humanoid creature.

After the thick smoke dissipated.

A creature with a black leopard head, wearing a robe printed with bell flowers and a long tail, suddenly appeared.

"The war will never end. Steel, blood, fire..."

"These are the themes of war, turning everything to ashes."

"We embrace peace, but war leaves us homeless."

"This Lord, the Charr Shaman: Blot Brimstone, reports to you."

This is the Shire clan, whom Cao Xing had seen once before.

He stepped down from the crawler robot, came to the tall Charles, and said solemnly: "Welcome, Blot, let us build a peaceful territory together."

This time, Cao Xing was not wrong.

When the Charr heard the word "peace", his eyes lit up immediately.

"My dear lord, do you also believe in peace?"

Cao Xing shook his head and said, "Blot, no one likes war, not even the powerful knights."

After listening to this, Xiaershaman asked excitedly: "Then, my honorable lord, I want to know, can the future development of the territory be inclined towards scientific research or agricultural planting?"

He spoke sincerely, but this made Cao Xing fall into deep thought.

The shaman meant that he should concentrate on farming in the future instead of fighting frequently.

But it was clear that the shaman's ideas were naive.

In this world full of monsters and often dangerous, it is impossible not to fight.

Cao Xing shook his head and said, "Blot, you are wrong. The premise of peace is to have enough power to crush the enemy."

"If you don't even have the strength to defend your territory, you will eventually be trampled to pieces by the invaders' horses."

"Perhaps the war you experienced caused you to lose your home, your loved ones, and everything else, and it even made you begin to hate power."

"But you have to know that power is not to be feared, but its owner is."

When Blot Brimstone heard the last sentence, his cat eyes suddenly widened.

"Power is not scary...what is scary is its master..."

"Strength is not something to be afraid of..."

He kept muttering, as if he understood something.

Brent Brimstone said excitedly: "You are right, Lord!"

"If I had the strength of a sixth-tier hero or even a legendary warrior, I could have fought against the entire Blood Legion and prevented all the tragedies from happening!"

"I want to have a stronger power, enough to shake the entire Charles Empire!"

"Thank you for your advice, wise lord!"

[Your territory member: Blot Brimstone was moved by your words and his loyalty has increased. Current loyalty: 71]

Cao Xing was stunned, looking at the surging fighting spirit in Xia'er's eyes with a strange look.

He stroked his chin and thought, "Why do I feel like I turned this peace defender into a war fanatic?"

He shook his head and thought that this was not a bad thing for Cao Xing.

Then he checked the shaman's attributes.

[Black Smoke Shaman: Brot Brimstone]

[Race: Ciel]

[Level: Level 15 2731/50000 (Second-level boss creature)]

[Health: 6720/6720]

[Attack power: 537~551]

[Armor: 131~142]

[Attributes: Strength 217, Agility 204, Spirit 253, Constitution 237]

[Skill: Black Smoke Totem (Place a black smoke totem, and cast a thick smoke every 10 seconds, causing enemies in the surrounding area to enter a short-term blind state. The totem lasts for 30 seconds and has a cooldown of 90 seconds.)

Resonance Totem (places a Resonance Totem, increasing the critical strike rate and hit rate of all friendly units by 20%. The totem lasts for 100 seconds and has a cooldown of 200 seconds)

Smoke Shock (Condenses a cloud of smoke, causing 144% damage to a single enemy. If used on a friendly unit, it restores health equal to Spirit*1.5. Cooldown time 60 seconds)

Black Smoke Storm (sets off a violent black smoke storm. Enemies in the black smoke storm will receive 88% attack damage per second and their agility will be reduced by 50 points. The storm lasts for 10 seconds and has a cooldown of 300 seconds)]

【Talent: Natural Selection】

[Satisfaction: 68]

【Loyalty: 71】

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"So strong!"

Cao Xing sincerely praised: "As expected of a leader-level shaman!"

But unfortunately, the four skills of this shaman are all inclined towards damage or totem skills, and there is no such continuous BUFF skill.

As for the two totem skills.

The first one, [Black Smoke Totem], is obviously not a buff effect. It should not be affected by [Eternal Power].

The second one is [Resonating Totem]. Although this is a buff effect, because Totem is a domain-type skill, it will only be effective within the totem range.

So Cao Xing was not sure whether this thing could become permanent.

But on second thought, even if it can't receive the bonus, it's pretty good. After all, the attributes of Black Smoke Shaman are there.

Moreover, he now officially possesses four boss-level creatures, which can be said to be a surge in strength.

Then, as usual, he threw [Ice Armor], [Ice Healing], and [Frost Shield] to Blot Brimstone.

Then he asked Liu Muxue to bless him with two states.

Like other members of the territory, Blot expressed his gratitude to Cao Xing and increased his loyalty by 6 points.

All of a sudden, his loyalty reached 77 points.

"Thank you, great lord, beautiful lady."

"Your power is as great as that of the gods."

Cao Xing nodded and looked at the time.

[Distance until nightfall: 5 hours and 32 minutes…]

【Current temperature: -52℃】

There were still five hours until dark, which was more than enough time for him to explore the goblin treasure trove and return to his territory.

So Cao Xing ordered, "Then let us in!"

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