The afternoon sun was not dazzling, and there were only twos and threes of pedestrians on the street, including Xiao Lin and Liu Zi.
There’s no need to ask anyone for directions to the dungeon, as everything is marked by the giant chalk tower that rises into the clouds.
Fame, strength, money, encounters, anything you want can be obtained through dungeons.
"...The premise is that you can survive."
Xiao Lin looked at the huge dungeon entrance and the stone steps extending downwards, and couldn't help but mutter to himself.
The extremely dark corridor is like a beast lurking in the shadows. It is opening its big mouth to welcome adventurers who are not afraid of death, and bites them hard at the moment when their minds are relaxed, eating up their bones and flesh, turning them into monsters. Become your own nourishment. Then it continues to produce magic stones and rare materials, attracting adventurers, and so on.
Like a Venus flytrap.
"What's wrong, Master Xiaolin, are you trembling with fear?" Liu Zi asked with concern when she saw Xiaolin standing still.
If her venomous tongue could be considered concern.
Xiao Lin shook his head and said, "No, I'm just looking forward to it. Okay, let's get started."
The two of them went deeper one after the other.
The entrance to the dungeon is on the basement level of the Tower of Babel. In the center of the room is a ten-meter-long hole that leads directly to the dungeon. The circular room has multiple equidistant pillars with a beautiful blue sky image that resembles the real sky. Along the circle are gentle stairs that spiral down into the dungeon.
This place is different from Kiel's dungeon.
Kiel's dungeon is a real dungeon with walls made of stone. There is no light in the passage, and if you are not careful, you will fall into a trap and be surrounded by a terrifying number of undead.
The underground city here is a complex corridor extending all around. There are also dots of starlight embellishments on the walls of the corridor, allowing adventurers to barely see without torches.
There is nothing else except a slightly depressing and cramped feeling, and it seems to be quite friendly to adventurers.
As soon as I arrived on the first floor, a cold breath hit my face. There was a constant cool breeze coming from the surrounding corridors, and at the same time, a vague gaze fell on him.
"Um?"
Probably because of [Five Sights], Xiaolin is particularly sensitive to sight.
He frowned slightly, then quickly let go.
He remembered that Eina had said that the dungeon was alive. There was nothing special about this gaze, because he didn't feel any malice, it was just that he was looking at him.
Keep moving forward.
In many corridors, I saw people fighting against monsters. They come in groups, at least two and at most five or six. The attack methods are different, but the only thing that is the same is that they cooperate with each other.
Eina said that if you are not sure, try to team up with others to enter the dungeon. At least this way you will have some protection.
Of course, it's not absolute.
When adventurers form a team, they don't look at their race but their Familia. They usually only trust members of their own Familia. If they come to join other members of the Familia, they have to be cautious.
Xiao Lin doesn't have to worry, because he doesn't know how to form a team, so he won't have any worries in this regard.
At this moment he felt a vigilant gaze.
It turned out that he had been standing here for so long that a few people in the team not far away mistakenly thought that Xiao Lin wanted to snatch their loot.
Xiao Lin waved his hand to indicate that he had no ill intentions.
But they still stared at Xiao Lin closely, fearing that he would make any strange moves. They did not relax until Xiao Lin's figure disappeared in the corridor.
This is common in dungeons.
Even if the guild strictly prohibits the various clans in the dungeon from killing each other, this kind of thing cannot be eradicated, so we can only keep a close eye on it.
I don’t know whether it was good luck or bad luck, but Xiao Lin and Liu Zi didn’t encounter any monsters along the way.
I came to the 2nd floor very simply.
Just looking at the scenery, there is no difference between here and above. In fact, the monsters that appear here are no different from those on the first floor.
In the dungeon, the strength of monsters increases by one level every five levels. Among them, the 17th floor is the lord floor, which is also the watershed after the 18th floor.
The first time you venture into a dungeon, you will be considered successful if you can reach the 18th floor safety zone.
Walking in the corridor, feeling a little depressed, Xiaolin deliberately set up a flag to adjust the atmosphere and said: "Liu Zi, do you think we will encounter [Monster Feast], [Abnormal Situation], [Monster Progress] and [Enhanced Species] An emergency like that?"
Because if so, the protagonist will encounter a difficult event for the first time, learn a profound lesson, and then grow through this event.
"Master Xiaolin, you seem to be looking forward to it." Liu Zi said coldly.
"Ah, I'm really looking forward to it!"
"I'm sorry. Please allow me to ask first, are you expecting something strange like Lord Darkness?"
"……How can it be."
Liu Zi's poisonous tongue made Xiao Lin unable to help but complain, and instantly dispelled his expectations.
But maybe the dungeon responded to Xiaolin's expectations. A hole was opened on both sides of the wall. Like a caesarean section, two monsters about 1.5 meters tall, Goblins, squeezed out of the hole. .
It is not much different from the goblin in "Su Qing".
He has a stooped and short body, green skin, a long pointed nose, a hooked nose, and goldfish eyes. He spits out a wide, smelly mouth, and his eyes widen and look fierce.
"Oh? Are you here? Liu Zi... Well, judging from your disgust, I guess you won't be willing to take action."
Xiao Lin also wanted to tell Liu Zi not to steal experience, but the waiter's disgusted expression seemed to be very resistant to such an ugly monster.
Speaking of which, Liu Zi also hates giant toads and the undead.
Thoughts are scattered but actions are constant.
Xiao Lin flicked his right hand and counted the threads heading straight towards the two goblins from all directions. A less obvious silver light flashed past in the dim corridor, and the two goblins were torn into pieces in the blink of an eye. .
"Boxers, boxers."
The monsters in the first few floors of the dungeon are very weak and are just for adventurers to practice their skills.
But when you think about it being alive, it's hard not to wonder whether it has the purpose of deliberately showing weakness and luring adventurers to swell and go deeper and then have their leeks cut off.
But it's not a problem for Xiaolin.
The chance of encountering monsters is much higher on the second floor, with goblins and kobolds attacking from both sides. Xiao Lin also solved a lot of them along the way, but unfortunately these monsters did not produce even a single magic stone.
This isn't fun anymore.
The purpose of coming to the dungeon is not only to improve your proficiency, level up and become stronger, but also to earn a lot of money. After all, if you want the gods to forge weapons, you will definitely need an exorbitant amount of craftsmanship.
However, half an hour has passed now, and both of them have arrived on the fourth floor, and he hasn't opened yet.
So much so that Xiao Lin sighed and said, "Ah ah ah, please come to [Monster Feast]! I can't wait to mow the grass with Wushuang!"
With such a weak goblin, Darkness couldn't kill him even if he wanted to.
Goblin x female knight?
Haha, you can't break the defense at all, okay?
Complaining was nothing but complaining, but Xiao Lin kept going deeper. Finally, before he was about to enter the fifth game, he harvested a small piece of magic stone.
It's about the size of a small fingernail and contains a tiny amount of magic power, so it doesn't take much to figure out that it's not worth much. But it was a good sign, so I put it away.
Come to the 5th floor.
The corridor is still the same corridor, but the whole atmosphere has changed. As the strength of the monster increases, the amount of magic contained in the surrounding area increases, and the level of danger also increases.
It seems that we can look forward to it a little longer.
...is impossible.
From the 5th floor to the 10th floor, the monsters here have become stronger, but only a little bit stronger, and the magic stone fragments that fall are about the same size as those on the 4th floor.
The monsters include lizards, frog shooters, war shadows, killer ants, etc., and the most important thing is that the birth time of monsters here is faster.
Similarly, Eina said that floors 5 to 7 are where many novice adventurers begin to die. It is recommended that LV1 adventurers can only explore these floors when their basic abilities reach at least G level... However, Xiaolin does not have a [favor], Therefore, the half-elf consultant strongly requested that he can only move before the fifth floor.
If you just want to make money for food, only the upper floors are most suitable. Because the monsters are weak, the frequency of their production is not high. Most people who are low-level or have just become adventurers are active on these floors.
But if you want to earn more, you have to go below level 5.
The number and size of rooms on the 8th to 9th floors has increased, and the length of the corridors between them has become shorter.
In addition, the ceiling height changed from three to four meters on the floors above to almost ten meters higher. Moss covers the brown walls, and the ground beneath becomes a plain of short grass. The intense light from the phosphorescence above resembles sunlight. No new monsters appear, but monsters from levels 1 to 7 appear again and become more powerful.
As for the 10th floor and beyond, due to time and considerations for Xiaolin's safety, Aina did not tell him the habits and distribution of monsters.
After all, adventurers are a group of curious guys. If Xiaolin rushes to the 10th floor recklessly, an accident will definitely happen.
It’s just that Xiao Lin is not a good boy who listens to advice.
After arriving on the 10th floor, the structure remains the same as the 8th to 9th floors, but the light above is reminiscent of morning fog.
The 11th and 12th floors are extremely dangerous for LV1 adventurers, because more powerful monsters such as silverback beasts and hard-armored beasts will appear here, but they are not a threat to Xiaolin.
The fog on the 12th floor is much thicker than that on the 10th and 11th floors, and large monsters such as orcs and baby dragons begin to appear on these floors.
These floors are also where monsters first use landforms such as trees as weapons.
A baby dragon that is classified as LV2 and is considered the floor boss of the area will also appear, but rarely. It is recommended that level 1 adventurers have at least level B in basic ability before they can explore these floors. Those who explore these floors are usually those who are ready to venture into the middle floors for the first time.
In order to verify what he was thinking, Xiaolin specially used [Five Visions and All-Purpose] to find a young dragon.
Seeing the little dragon, which is about 150 centimeters tall and 4 meters long, Xiao Lin compared it with the giant toad in "Su Qing".
In fact there is no difference between the two.
They are all the same giant monsters, giving almost the same sense of oppression.
Not much different except that giant toads hate iron objects. Even because it is a toad, its tongue is fast and accurate and it can attack from a distance, making it much more difficult to deal with than a young dragon.
Look at it this way.
In fact, "Su Qing" is the beginning of hell?
Then the young dragon was easily solved by Xiao Lin, and the dropped items were nothing but a large piece of magic stone. It was really embarrassing to be regarded as the upper-level overlord of LV2.
The 13th floor begins to be called the cave maze.
The walls, floors, and ceilings here are all made of bedrock, and while the upper levels are just flat, circular mazes, the middle levels have a more complex layout, including intertwined upper and lower tunnels.
The light becomes darker, the air seems to become moister, and the feeling of depression and crampedness becomes stronger.
He thought that the monsters here would be more powerful than the ones on the previous floor, but weak monsters such as jackalopes, hellhounds, and crystal mantises made him not interested at all.
Groups of monsters can still be a bit threatening, but individuals are not really aggressive. Even if you stay here for a year, it will be difficult to reach LV2.
Simply continue on.
When Xiao Lin reached the 15th floor, he became energetic.
Because here are all tauren!
It's that kind of humanoid bull monster with horns on its head, just like the bull spirit in mythology.
Although the Minotaur is slow and simple, it is one of the strongest monsters in the mid-tier. Its howling will make level 1 adventurers feel paralyzed and frightened, rendering them unable to move.
That was the case with Bell back then.
After being yelled by the minotaur, his hands and feet became stiff and huddled in the corner, unable to move. If the swordswoman Ace Wallenstein hadn't arrived in time, he would have gone to heaven to fall in love with Freya.
But this is of no use to Krillin because he has skills.
[Immune to all negative effects during battle, all abilities are greatly increased, and physical and mental strength are continuously restored. 】
Sorry!
If you have skills, you can do whatever you want!
Next, there is the drama of the pure love war god Gossamer Minotaur.
On the 15th and 16th floors, I saw a handsome man swinging his reins, howling loudly like a savage while constantly chasing the fleeing tauren, killing them one by one.
Even though the tauren groaned in pain when his neck was strangled, the man strangled the monster to death without hesitation. The blood on his face made him look quite ferocious and terrifying. I have no idea who is the monster and who is the adventurer among them.
It wasn't until Xiaolin wiped out all the tauren on this level that he stopped with satisfaction.
"I feel comfortable, I feel great."
Xiao Lin smiled happily.
The Minotaur's strength is not weak, and it seems that it can increase its proficiency a lot this time. We also harvested a large amount of magic stones and horns and hides. Overall, it was a fruitful harvest.
Liu Zi stepped forward and helped him clean up the mess while saying venomously: "Master Xiaolin, compared with the group of tauren you destroyed, you are more like a tauren."
"Huh?" Xiao Lin blinked and asked uncertainly: "Miss Liuzi, are you hinting at something?"
"…………"
"Miss Liuzi——?!"
Liu Zi's silent expression made Xiao Lin feel hurt.
Our waiters are very good. If I had to find something wrong with them, it would be that they are a little bit venomous... No, they are very venomous.
He sighed helplessly.
After picking up the materials scattered on the ground with Liu Zi, he headed deeper again. He did not forget that his goal this time was to reach the safe zone.
However, it should be noted that there will be a floor master named Goliath on the 17th floor. It is very powerful and is a level LV4 monster.
Xiaolin is ready to challenge it.
It doesn't matter, even if he can't beat him, he can let Liu Zi take him to escape at any time. He is already invincible before the battle starts.
Let him see how strong the LV4 monster is!
Xiaolin came to the 17th floor full of expectations.
He saw Goliath.
However, this LV4 floor master, who was regarded as a powerful enemy by Xiao Lin, was already cut in two. And in front of the dead floor master, a pig appeared in front of him... No, it was a pig man.
——The fierce Ota!
Speed up the plot and pass these unimportant floors in just one sentence.
(End of chapter)
