Chapter 192 191. No Hope
After sensing that the signals from Inanna and Adin had finally moved away from the range of the Chiss Rift, Lin Jun controlled the Puji army to quietly turn back.
This time, they entered the cave battlefield where they had been unable to move forward before with almost no hindrance.
After all…how can a pile of corpses stop the invasion of Puji?
The entire cave is now dyed purple. When Puji arrived, the low temperature had already frozen all the purple blood.
Unlike Fifteen who fought his way in and out of the Puji army and strangled all the Puji around him into pieces, all the Qis here were killed with a single sword.
Either their heads fell off or they were chopped in half. None of the bodies had any traces of the second sword, not even the evil eye.
The huge eyeball was cut in half vertically, and then dropped from a high altitude, with juice flying everywhere.
Damn, that’s too strong!
Due to the distance caused by Chis clearing the fungal mat, Lin Jun was unable to directly obtain the battle scene, but from a distance, he perceived that Inanna and Adin only paused for a short time before passing through the cave.
In other words, all these more than a thousand Chiss can do is to make the Sword Master pause for a while. What about the Puji army?
Although he was very wary of this sword master, Lin Jun still sent a scout Puji to follow them from a distance, wanting to see where the core was.
As for now?
Considering that Sword Master and his men might return the same way, it would be meaningless to occupy the place now, so Lin Jun decisively began to move the bodies.
And Chis seemed to have become autistic as a result of the beating. He now hid behind a crack and refused to come out.
Maybe it was the lighting!
However, the Puji that Lin Jun sent to test will still be eliminated in the first place, so it should not be without the ability to resist, right?
Once humans repair the core, these cracks will disappear, right?
Thinking of this, Lin Jun felt a little reluctant to part with Qis.
Unlike those miscellaneous monsters with messy skills, Chis' skills are relatively uniform.
By decomposing the same number of corpses, the monster will provide Lin Jun with 10 different LV3 skills, while Qis will provide 2 LV5 skills.
It's really hard not to love.
After more than half a month of love-hate relationship, [Refractive Invisibility] and [Cold Resistance] have both reached Level 7, not to mention getting the Evil Eye's [Petrification Ray] and [Magic Shield].
Among them, the [Magic Shield] is relatively easy to deal with. Puji and his men have successfully installed it and applied it in actual combat. The second-level magic shield allowed Puji to hold on for 5 more seconds under the gaze of the evil eye.
Lin Jun understood the level issue. Considering the number of evil eyes, this thing could only be learned by practicing slowly on one's own.
But [Petrification Ray] is a bit subtle - poof... no eyes can grow!
I have obtained skills similar to [Farsight] by disassembling other monsters before, but unfortunately there was no change after Puji equipped it.
[Petrification Ray] is not that bad, it still has some effect, but only a little...
The fluorescent light emitted by Puji will have a petrifying effect with a very small range and a very weak degree.
There is no way to control the direction, range, and power. It's like spraying poison all around, causing area damage.
But unlike the ones that spray hallucinogenic spores, other Pujis and fungal mats are not afraid of hallucinogenic spores, but they are afraid of petrification!
So when the petrification Puji is activated, the first thing that will be petrified is the surrounding fungal carpets and other Pujis. Moreover, the petrification efficiency is quite impressive. It takes an hour or so to petrify a layer of mycelium on the Puji. It's so subtle...
It's not that it's useless. Converting biomass into stone does have some applications, but it's a stretch to use it against the enemy.
Sudden……
The scout was killed.
…
With a faint flash of silver light under his feet, Sword Saint Alvian took off and landed a few times and caught up with the people who had stopped where they were because of his sudden departure from the team earlier.
"I was wondering what was following me quietly. It turned out to be this little thing." He swung the long sword in his hand. A winged Pooji was attached to the tip of the sword. "Here, it's this thing again."
Fifteen stared at the impaled Puji and suddenly thought of something: "Come to think of it, weren't there some Puji corpses scattered in the cave where the Qisi was just now? It seems that they are active not only in the first ten layers, but also in the deeper areas. I just don't know... if they are the same group as those above."
This was just a minor incident. The Sword Master threw the reconnaissance tool on the ground and the team continued on their journey.
However, even though the wound was so small, Detective Puji was not able to revive...
After two days of trekking following the guidance of the positioning crystal, the team finally approached the core area of this trip.
Since the second half of the journey, the number of hideous monsters of various shapes and sizes has increased suddenly.
The cunning giant crypt spiders, the swarms of shadow bats, the poisonous worms hiding in the cracks of the rocks...it seemed as if at this moment we had truly stepped into the primitive ecology of the deep zone, which is full of dangers.
They even encountered a super giant earthworm that was over level sixty!
Its huge body is like a moving fortress. Its thick rock armor and ferocious mouth bring an unprecedented sense of oppression.
It was this huge monster that became the only monster in the entire journey that forced the Sword Saint Alvion to swing the sword a second time.
The team finally reached a platform that was clearly different from a natural cave. It was paved with some kind of smooth, cold black stone with regular edges, as if it was cut by a master craftsman.
No monsters would try to enter the platform, just like they would not approach the stairs on the first ten floors, making this a dead silent and safe island.
At one end of the platform near the entrance, there was a dusty instrument standing alone. Its metal shell had long lost its luster and was covered with dust, and only a few dim magic circles could be barely discerned.
An extremely weak magical fluctuation emanated from its interior like a candle in the wind - this was the magical fluctuation collection device that had long been eliminated by the times.
At the end of the platform stood a daunting, seamless black door. On both sides of the door, two stone statues more than ten meters tall, with strange but majestic shapes, stood silently.
No one tried to get close to the gate or the statue.
"It's right here." Under Guge's command, the accompanying mages skillfully opened the heavy boxes that they had carried carefully all the way.
Inside are a large number of precision components that sparkle with mithril luster, crystal prisms engraved with micro runes, and energy conduits.
They started the assembly work right next to the dusty old instrument.
Half a day later, a new instrument with a strange shape and full of magical technology stood next to the old instrument.
With the assistance of other mages, Guger operated the device himself, magic power flowing through his skinny fingers, guiding the powerful flow of detection energy.
The energy fluctuations emitted by the instrument even caused the air at the edge of the platform to slightly distort.
As time passed, the serious and focused expression on Guge's old face gradually faded, and was replaced by an expression of incredible astonishment. His brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and his expression became more and more uglier.
"What's wrong?" Everyone noticed that something was wrong, but only the Sword Master asked directly without hesitation.
The old wizard Gu Ge finally raised his head slowly, his wrinkles seemed to have deepened, his Adam's apple rolled with difficulty, his voice was dry and heavy: "We... I'm afraid we will... lose the Amethyst Dungeon..."
"Why?"
"Because... it seems now," Gu Ge's voice was filled with a sense of helplessness as if he had witnessed a disaster, "this is no longer a problem of the expected level of magic turbulence and disorder. The core... the operation of the core itself is gradually approaching stagnation, as if the heart is about to stop beating. The current situation is like trying to feed a healing potion to a cold corpse... Even if we exhaust our energy to sort out the magic, it will be in vain..."
Gu Ge then continued to explain a lot of complicated terms, leaving the others confused. But the core meaning was cold and clear: this was beyond the capabilities of their formation maintenance experts, and the problem could no longer be fixed.
The Sword Master gripped the hilt of the sword at his waist, his eyes as sharp as a knife, looking across the platform and landing on the two silent and oppressive stone statues: "What if I let you go directly into the core? Is there any hope?"
Gu Ge shook his head: "It's useless. After all, what we have is only the core maintenance method, and the most basic technology of the dungeon core... we have never had it."
Gu Ge said this, and the Sword Saint was at a loss. He glanced at the gate in the distance and said helplessly: "Then... we can only prepare to return."
Aidin on the side was slightly stunned, while Inanna covered her mouth with her hands, her eyes darting around, not knowing what she was thinking.
(End of this chapter)
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