Chapter 7
The monster has reached the second floor. Its movement speed is much slower than when it finds its target, but it can use the flesh worms to occupy its own territory.
[Remaining time: 15 minutes]
At this time, Su Xingyuan was on the third floor.
He stood at the corner of the stairs, watching the monster's trajectory from top to bottom without any emotion.
The waving tentacles gradually appeared in his field of vision, clearly reflected in those turquoise eyes.
Then, the moment the monster's true form appeared—
The black-haired boy grasped the sword in both hands, suddenly jumped up, and chopped straight down at the body!
“Clang!!”
The heavy sword and the tentacles that were rushing back to defend collided with each other, making a sound like metal hitting stone.
Is it blocked?
It did block it.
but--
He has more than one weapon.
The next moment, the four magic stone slabs that had been placed long ago suddenly released high-temperature flames from different directions!
The monster's body was caught off guard and burned by the flames. It screamed in pain. The tentacles that blocked the heavy sword's attack began to dance uncontrollably and directly threw Su Xingyuan out.
Su Xingyuan slammed into the wall with a bang. Even though he didn't feel any pain, the feeling of a broken spine made him gasp.
…It’s such a thrilling experience.
He took out a heavy sword again, supported himself on the ground and managed to stand up.
[Physical Strength: 4]
ok,fine.
Still able to survive.
Su Xingyuan thought optimistically.
As long as the player's physical strength does not return to 0, he will always have the strength to fight.
——Otherwise, why is it called the fourth disaster?
The monster didn't care about him at all at this moment, as it was extremely anxious about the difficult-to-extinguish fire on its body.
[You attacked the weakness of [Librarian-Demonization]! 】
[[Librarian - Demonization] Gained negative effect - Burning! 】
[[Librarian - Demonic] HP-10]
[[Librarian - Demonic] HP-10]
…
[[Librarian - Demonic] HP-10]
[[Librarian - Demonization] 290/400]
"boom!"
After madly wreaking havoc on its surroundings, the flames on its body finally went out.
It did not continue to move, but instead used its tentacles to surround its body, as if it had fallen into a dormant state.
From Su Xingyuan's perspective, its health bar began to recover at a slow pace.
[Remaining time: 12 minutes]
Su Xingyuan opened the monster encyclopedia.
The original purpose of his attack this time was not to defeat the demonized librarian. It is understandable that the task was to keep him alive for 30 minutes instead of killing the monster because it would be difficult to kill it with his current strength.
Therefore, Suxingyuan has only one goal, which is to cause effective damage to it so as to meet the conditions for including it in the atlas.
[Monster Name: Librarian-Demonized]
[There is a small chance that one of the humans will be completely invaded by the evil energy emanating from the [Gate], and his body will be mutated, relying mainly on hearing to move. They retain a certain level of human intelligence, but their self-perception is no longer human, and they like to eat raw meat. [+]
Su Xingyuan looked up at the monster that was still dormant and fell into deep thought.
It seems that in addition to the monsters pouring out of the portal, there are more dangers hidden deep inside.
The wandering man before didn't tell him about this.
Even if it was a small probability demonized creature, it would be impossible for it not to be discovered with such strength, so it was very likely that the news was blocked by someone.
But the most important thing now is the task at hand.
[Remaining time: 7 minutes]
The sound of limbs moving came from behind again.
As Su Xingyuan walked up, he clicked on the [+] symbol in the monster encyclopedia description and added:
[The main attack method is tentacles, which are fast, powerful, and have thick defenses, making them difficult to break through. The weakness is the body. After the HP drops sharply in a short period of time, the player will fall into a defensive state which lasts for five minutes, during which time the HP will recover by about 10%. 】
[System is judging...]
[Congratulations on making a very valuable supplement, and you will receive bonus coins*150]
Su Xingyuan continued: [Afraid of high temperature. 】
The system is not responding.
Su Xingyuan: [Tolerant to high temperatures, afraid of cold. 】
[Congratulations on making a very valuable supplement and receiving 100 bonus coins! 】
Su Xingyuan narrowed his eyes.
Guessed it right.
When he saw that the magic flame could be extinguished by the monster, he realized that it might have a certain resistance to fire magic.
After all, this was something he had forcibly obtained from the novice trial and used as a checkpoint. Even iron could burn it to ashes in an instant.
Such a domineering flame could only reduce ten points of HP at a time when attacking the [Librarian - Demonized] body.
Since it is so resistant to fire, then... what about ice?
He took out the magic slate engraved with an ice magic circle.
…
[Remaining time: 3 minutes]
The monster is searching Suxingyuan quickly.
As time passed, its patience gradually wore away, and its rising anger drove it even more frantic.
He was clearly just a human with only low magical powers! !
It should not even have hurt its fur, but it was forced into a defensive state!
Must eat him! Break his bones and stuff them into his mouth! !
Suddenly, it sensed a slight movement coming from the next room.
Although the movement was very slight, it was immediately detected by it when it was concentrating on finding the human being.
It was so excited that its whole body twitched, and countless tentacles pierced through the wall directly.
In its opinion, at such a speed, there was no way the human could escape.
"laugh."
The sound of a sharp weapon entering flesh was heard, and some tentacles immediately felt the warm flesh and blood.
It pierced the human's body.
This realization made it instantly ecstatic, and it stretched out its tentacles to drag him directly into the intake device, but suddenly it felt something was wrong.
Why... is it so cold?
yes.
It's too cold.
Too cold to move...
It has no eyes, so it cannot be seen. The boy, who was nailed to the wall by several tentacles, had black hair hanging down, covering his beautiful turquoise eyes.
However, the corner of his lips, which was not covered, slightly formed an arc that was totally inconsistent with the tragic situation at the moment.
——He was sitting on the ground leaning against the wall, and on his chest was a magic slate.
The moment the tentacles reached the attack range of the stone slab's magic circle -
The suddenly generated ice followed the tentacles connected to the main body and completely froze the monster in an instant!
The cold air spread, and the blood flowing from the black-haired boy's body solidified and formed a layer of frost.
【warn! You are seriously injured! 】
[Current negative status: Cold - Level 2]
[Blood loss rate slows down]
You have frostbite! 】
Just when HP was about to reach zero—
[You have defeated the monster [Librarian-Demonized]! ! 】
——He won the bet.
The monster's health was depleted faster than his.
[You have obtained the title [Desperate Speculator]! 】
You have achieved amazing results! You received bonus coins*1000! 】
[Congratulations on gaining experience*2500]
[You have been upgraded!] 】
[You have been upgraded!] 】
…
[You have been upgraded!] 】
【Your current level is lv.9! 】
All status indicators were instantly restored, and the HP that was originally only a line of HP turned into a healthy and reassuring green.
There is a novice protection period in the game. Before level 10, all status will be refreshed when upgrading.
Su Xingyuan let out a breath, ignored the endless pop-up windows, and closed his eyes to rest.
About five minutes later, he opened his eyes again and put the ice magic slate back into his backpack.
Durability: 54%
Just in case, he injected the magic power in his body into the stone slab without any instruction the moment the tentacles arrived.
The effect was beyond his imagination, but the loss was also increased a lot. And because he had a little extra time to charge his weapon, he suffered several puncture wounds and almost flipped over.
However, Su Xing had never expected to rely on these magic tablets forever. Firstly, his attack methods were limited, and secondly, it was easy to hurt himself accidentally. Just now, as the person closest to the stone slab, he was almost frozen to death.
Besides, equipment and props are external things. If he really wants to become stronger, combat awareness and various data are what he should really pay attention to.
He found the four fire magic slabs that had been placed there earlier. One of them was damaged by the attack of the tentacles, but the other three could still be used.
Although the loss is not small, the gains are equally huge.
Su Xingyuan then began to check the accumulated pop-up windows.
[Congratulations on obtaining [Magic Core]*1]
[Description: The power core of the monster, contains some impurities. Can be used for equipment upgrades and equipment casting]
[You have exceeded the time-limited task!] 】
[Congratulations on receiving the [Book of Wisdom of Carterfield]]
[Due to your amazing performance, you have obtained the passive skill [Reading Lover] - When holding a book in your hand and the player is stationary, intelligence recovers 1% per second]
Su Xingyuan opened the "Book of Wisdom of Carterfield" and found that there was no specific description. It was not even as good as the garbage he picked up on the roadside. At least the garbage had a line of "Useless Music".
The cover of this book is a not-so-eye-catching dark blue color with a line of incomprehensible text on it. Su Xingyuan tried to open the first page, but felt a sharp pain in his brain the moment he saw the content.
He stopped moving. He felt no pain from all the injuries he had suffered before. He thought this single-player game didn't have a pain setting. It turns out there is one?
It seems that even though physical pain is not set to prevent players from suffering psychological trauma, the game is still designed to provide the necessary mental difficulties.
Su Xingyuan didn't worry too much about this.
He found that as long as his eyes touched the contents of the book, his brain became a mess.
It seems that this is not something he can watch at his current level.
Su Xingyuan was not disappointed and calmly put the book back into his backpack.
——After all, the higher the threshold, the greater the value of the book, and for players, there is no threshold that cannot be reached.
Then he has nothing to worry about.
Su Xingyuan checked the details of the first title that dropped.
[Title: Desperate Speculator]
[Description: When your health is 1-3% remaining and your attack hits the enemy's weak point, your attack power will increase by 200%]
Su Xingyuan: “Wow.”
It’s a bit like the BOSS’s low-health frenzy.
I just don't know if NPCs can see this title... Anyway, it doesn't matter whether they can see it or not.
[People who love reading] is also very practical. The passive skill does not consume intelligence, so it can be used while [Attribute Enhancement].
Finally, there are the free attribute points that come with leveling up.
Including the 5 attribute points he retained, he now has a total of 45 attribute points at his disposal.
Su Xingyuan thought about the upcoming dungeon strategy, so he simply added up all the attribute points. At worst he could just spend money to reset them later.
[Physical Strength: 23.7 (+1); Intelligence: 18; Strength: 25 (+1); Agility: 28 (+1); Defense: 24]
He took one last look at the attribute panel and returned to the small park he had been to before.
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