Chapter 34 New Map! Sewer Corridor and Slime!

accelerate.

On the wall.

Alatrulu nimbly jumped over the obstacles like a hunter in the shadows. While climbing walls and flying over eaves, he also locked his eyes on the target walking in the corridors of the maze.

catapult--

Raid!

Alatrulu's one-hit-kill hunting technique was also in stable use today! As always!

The swift forelimbs were about to press the fragrant skeleton to the ground.

However, for some reason, the hard touch was not quite what it expected.

The skeleton suddenly turned around and raised its shield to block its attack.

“Duang——!”

Alatrulu was shocked and was about to use the momentum to jump back, but it was too late.

The skeleton seemed to creak and shout -

“I caught it!!!”

Hu Wan, who had already been keeping an eye on the lurking spider behind him, roared after completing the block.

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, Yi Ye Zhiqiu, who had been accumulating strength and waiting for a long time, slashed at the monster in front of him with his sword.

“Behead——!”

The sweeping sword energy instantly pierced through the skull of the burrow spider, and red and yellow slurry spilled all over the ground.

After receiving a fatal blow, the crypt spider's HP instantly dropped to zero, and it fell to the ground with its legs curled up.

Aratlulu's mighty life has now created the legend of an unknown skeleton soldier.

It happened so suddenly.

Lurking in the shadows in the distance, the hunters of the Shadow Weaver Lair all froze in place.

Arakdo, in particular, was so shocked that he almost fell off the wall of the maze.

That is...

Adventurers' skills?!

It had the opportunity to see the devil once when he was still alive, and it almost died under that man's sword at that time.

"Damn it--Alatruru!"

"Boss! I'm going to avenge Alatrulu!"

“Wait!”

Looking at his angry subordinates, Arakdo raised one leg to stop them.

Facing the hunters' sad and angry eyes, it spoke in a low, hissing voice.

"These skeleton soldiers... are weird. They have the abilities of adventurers!"

A burrow spider with fur that almost covered its eyes looked at it and spoke excitedly.

"What are you talking about?! If that's the case, shouldn't we nip them in the bud?!"

Looking at this stupid guy, the cautious Arakdo scolded.

"Idiot! Those are skeleton soldiers! The Necromancer's minions! As long as the Necromancer standing behind them wants, he can have as many of these things as he wants. The thing the human world lacks the least is bones! Pig bones, cow bones, sheep bones, and dog bones can all be used to summon these things!"

"Do you want me to use your lives to exchange for the lives of those rotten bones?"

Even if there are no bones, bones can appear out of thin air.

The only difference is that the skeleton soldiers summoned in this way are like the fire elements summoned by a fire mage, and they require magic power to maintain.

After hearing what Arakdo said, the hunters immediately calmed down.

really.

There was no point in killing a few summons, and they realized that they were blinded by anger.

They are the backbone of the Shadow Weaver Lair, breeding intelligent monsters!

If the other party knew that only a few skeleton soldiers were used to cause the loss of the Great Weaver Nest, I'm afraid they would laugh in their dreams! "But... are we just going to let it go like this?" The crypt spider with its hair dragging on the ground said indignantly.

"Forget it? How is that possible!"

Squinting his scarlet eyes, the powerful and extremely cautious Arakdo watched the backs of the two skeletons disappear around the corner, and slowly walked forward.

"I will make them pay, including the necromancer standing behind them... but not now."

"Come with me, to our destroyed outpost."

"Don't forget the mission Lord Arachnos gave us. We are here to conduct reconnaissance."

…

The other side.

Yiye Zhiqiu and Hu Wan continued to move forward along the corridor of the maze, looking for a more suitable monster spawning spot.

This game doesn't have a minimap, so they can only make some marks along the way, and log off every once in a while to draw the route they have traveled on paper.

Fortunately, this maze is better than the mine. Most of the roads are straight and the turns are basically right angles. Only some small roads are crooked.

Hu Wan: "Come to think of it, the spider just now seemed to be slightly stronger than the other spiders."

Yi Ye Zhi Qiu: "Maybe it's an elite monster."

Hu Wan: "Elite monsters are okay, no wonder the experience points are higher than before... But then again, are there no other monsters here besides spiders?"

Or is it that because it is a closed beta version, some finished models have not been included yet?

Yi Ye Zhi Qiu looked around and said after thinking for a moment.

"Maybe...something happened."

Hu Wan: "Incident?"

Yiye Zhiqiu nodded and continued.

“Although this game doesn’t seem to have much plot, if you dig deep enough, you can still find clues from many details.”

Hu Wan: "For example?"

Yi Ye Zhi Qiu: "For example... remember the magician dragging the crystal ball we saw in the opening animation?"

Hu Wan: "Of course I remember... That guy is actually the Demon King, right?"

Yi Ye Zhi Qiu smiled and nodded.

"Yes, but he was obviously not a demon king at the time. Instead, he was studying in a place similar to a school, and he was suspected to have participated in a graduation ceremony attended by many high-level demons at the end."

Hu Wan: "So?"

Yi Ye Zhi Qiu: "So, I can reasonably speculate that it is most likely a school similar to the demon world, mainly responsible for training characters such as demon kings. And because the demon king here died or was transferred away, our boss was sent here to serve as the new demon king of the cemetery."

Hu Wan looked at him in surprise.

this……

Isn’t this a bit too imaginative? !

And what does this have to do with the fact that the only monsters in the maze are crypt spiders? ! "And...?"

“Then, you can use your imagination.”

Yi Ye Zhi Qiu glanced around and looked at the spider web hanging on the wall of the maze.

"The previous demon king died, but the monsters in the maze are still there, so there is a vacuum of order. Birds occupied the snakes' nests, the snakes drove away the spiders, and the spiders drove away the mice... Before the new order was formed, some powerful monsters rose up quickly. Some of them were because of their individual strength, some because of their amazing reproduction speed, or because of their super strong ecological adaptability."

"The ratmen we encountered in the mines were obviously driven out by the crypt spiders. When we threw them back into the maze, they were almost killed immediately... So the question is, what does this mean?"

Hu Wan, who was listening intently, was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that Brother Yi Ye would suddenly keep him in suspense. He hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"This means... the fighting power of the ratmen is not as good as that of the crypt spiders?"

"That's not right," Yiye Zhiqiu smiled and shook his head, saying bluntly, "Organization."

"organize?"

"That's right," Yi Ye Zhi Qiu nodded and continued, "The advantage of civilization over barbarism is nothing more than this. The fact that they were able to systematically eliminate the organized ratmen and replace the latter's ecological niche in the maze can only mean that the crypt spiders have also formed a strict organization."

"Is this possible?" Hu Wan stared at the guy in front of him in amazement.

Although he felt that this brother's analysis made sense, he also instinctively felt that a game shouldn't be so detailed...

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It should be just a coincidence! Although he wanted to say so, 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, then aren't they walking on an extremely dangerous road? "Wait, that means...if we continue to move forward, we might run into that giant rat-like spider?!"

Looking at Hu Wan who was as if facing a great enemy, Yiye Zhiqiu said with a smile.

"Don't be nervous. I specifically chose a road with fewer spider webs. What's waiting for us ahead may not be spiders, but something else."

The emergence of separatist forces in the maze means that monsters will no longer live together, but will have clear regional divisions.

The entrance to the maze where they were located had already been brought into the sphere of influence of the subterranean spiders, so naturally it was impossible for other monsters to appear there.

But the power of the crypt spiders alone is obviously not enough to occupy the entire maze.

In other words, if they just take two more steps forward, they will be able to see other monsters.

As we were talking, the scenery ahead suddenly became clear.

Although they were still in the maze, both of them could clearly feel that the atmosphere and scenery here were significantly different from the previous areas.

If the previous scene was the spider spirit's web-like cave, then this place must be 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.

Too bad skeletons have no sense of smell.

Otherwise you should be able to smell a pungent ammonia smell.

"It seems to be just as I guessed," Yi Ye Zhi Qiu continued, looking around at the surroundings, "This should be outside the sphere of influence of the crypt spiders."

Logically speaking, spiders should like humid environments, but those burrow spiders would rather drill into mines than expand here.

I don't know what kind of monster controls this area.

Snake?

Or lizards and centipedes? Or other fantasy creatures—

Just as Yiye Zhiqiu was thinking this, he soon made a new discovery.

In the room at the end of the maze corridor, green balls were moving on the shiny and oily floor.

"This is……"

"Slime?!"

The soul fire of surprise flickered in the pupils of the two skeleton soldiers at the same time.

Just as they noticed the group of green creatures, they also noticed them.

Unlike Crypt Spiders.

As scavengers in the maze, slimes showed much more interest in skeleton soldiers than crypt spiders, and they moved their slimy bodies and crawled towards the players.

"It seems that this area is the territory of the slimes." Hu Wan took a half step back with a tingling scalp.

He felt more physically uncomfortable with these booger-like creatures than with mice and spiders.

Yiye Zhiqiu did not retreat, but just observed those gelatinous monsters with interest.

"Interesting... It doesn't move very fast, and its aggressiveness is unknown. Logically, it shouldn't be something that the crypt spiders are so afraid of."

As he spoke, he drew out his one-handed sword and prepared to charge it. When one of the slimes came within the attack range, he immediately swung it out like lightning.

“Behead!”

The sweeping sword energy pierced through the slime without any suspense, and the latter burst into slime all over the ground like a punctured balloon.

"The experience is only one-third of that of a crypt spider, and only slightly higher than that of a ratman."

This strength was obviously not enough to scare the burrow spiders. Just comparing the strength, it was difficult for him to understand why the burrow spiders had not expanded here.

Is it because it’s not in the recipe?

Or... is it that there are not only slimes here, but also other more dangerous things, and the slimes have a symbiotic relationship with the latter, or are they just livestock raised by the latter?

Suddenly, a strange expression appeared on Wan's face.

"I also feel that these monsters are much weaker than the crypt spiders...Isn't this the place where novices spawn monsters?"

Even professional life players should be able to easily deal with these monsters.

Yiye Zhiqiu nodded.

"It's possible... Anyway, let's remember this area first."

The name of this area is... [Sewer Corridor]. The monsters that appear here are mainly slimes, and the recommended level is LV0~5.

The official authorities had not given this area a name, so he had to do it for them.

Yiye Zhiqiu was planning to leave here before the slimes surrounded him.

However, at this moment, Hu Wan discovered something unusual on the slime's body.

"What's this?"

Restraining his mental discomfort, he reached his skeleton hand into the pool of green slime and picked up a crystal the size of a grain of rice.

"Let me see..."

Yi Ye Zhi Qiu reached out to take it, held it in his hand and looked at it for a moment, and was also confused at first.

However, at this moment, he suddenly remembered a comment he had seen on the forum before -

That was a statement from a netizen with the ID "Losing Appetite".

As expected, that person is still under ban.

"I see... this thing is the magic crystal?"

Hu Wan was stunned.

"Magic crystal? What's the use?"

"I don't know either, but I always have a bad feeling," Yiye Zhiqiu said with a subtle expression, "We might have missed a lot of things when we were killing monsters..."

(End of this chapter)