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"Level 4, second-level adventurer..."

"Why is Super Ordinary Man here? And who is the person behind him?"

"The cloak also has the symbol of Loki's Familia. He must be a new member of Loki's Familia."

"A new member is being looked after by a second-level adventurer? Damn you, Loki clan!!"

Feeling the jealous, surprised, or fearful gazes of the adventurers around him, Lieyan's originally heavy mood gradually improved, and in the end he even felt like laughing.

Well, it’s confirmed that Loki’s family is the overlord of Orario.

Following the path created by the crowd, Raul, with no change in expression, as if he was already accustomed to this, arrived smoothly at the final destination.

The underground level of the Chalk Tower.

Scattered around the blue and white main hall are pitch-black stone tablets with the names of many adventurers engraved on them.

Thick and long marble columns are set at equal intervals, with exquisite carvings on them, supporting the huge tower above. There are an astonishing number of them. If you look up in the direction of the stone columns, you will see the sky that fills the entire ceiling. As if it was painted by the hand of a painting god, the entire sky even gives people a sense of flow, as if a corner of the real sky has been moved here.

The world-famous underground city is located right below this huge space with gorgeous decorations that looks like a temple.

There is a huge hole in the center of the space, and huge spiral silver stone steps lead deep into the hole. This is the entrance to the underground city. As long as you walk to the end of the stairs, you will enter the devil's realm far away from the human world.

"Underground city..."

Lieyan muttered to himself.

Chapter 17: Deep into the Dungeon

"Gah——"

On the first floor of the dungeon, he swung the one-handed sword in his hand and cruelly cut the short humanoid monster [Goblin] in front of him in two from head to toe. The flaming chest rose and fell slowly. Then, the shield emitting red light in his right hand moved slightly horizontally to block a claw attacking from the side. The one-handed sword swept across.

The blade wrapped with golden electric current easily tore open the Goblin's defenseless skin, creating a wound between the Goblin's big belly and shriveled chest that almost cut the body off. Dark red blood spurted out, and was immediately blocked by the shield, without a single drop splashing on Lieyan's body.

The goblin screamed and turned into smoke and disappeared. A magic stone about the size of a finger fell to the ground along with a sharp black nail.

Lieyan glanced down at the nails on the ground without relaxing his vigilance.

Unlike the Hunter World where materials can only be obtained by destroying parts of the monsters and skinning them after hunting, monsters killed in the dungeon will turn into ash in a very short time and drop magic stones at the same time. Some monsters also have certain parts of their bodies that are stronger. After they turn into ash, this part of the body tissue can still exist independently. This is the so-called dropped props.

There are many magic stones and dropped items like this scattered on the ground beside Lieyan, shining with a special luster like stars in the dark night.

Patrolling the battlefield steadily, Lieyan checked the bodies of the goblins that had not yet turned to ashes, and made finishing blows to prevent any goblins pretending to be dead from slipping through the net.

Seeing that there seemed to be no more monsters appearing around, Lieyan put away his sword and shield, recalled the battle just now, and couldn't help shaking his head.

Too weak, no threat felt at all.

As soon as he entered the dungeon, he could clearly feel as if he was being stared at by something, and the surrounding walls began to break, giving birth to ugly monsters with red eyes. It was very scary in every sense. If an ordinary adventurer saw this scene, he would have slipped away long ago.

But the goblin army that brought nightmares to countless novice adventurers is like taking a fighter pilot on a roller coaster to today's Lieyan.

He killed dozens of goblin armies one by one with one sword. The army was enough to make a team of adventurers with some adventuring experience flee crying for their parents. Lieyan didn't even feel any loss of his physical strength.

Regardless of the threat level or ability, these monsters are completely incomparable to the difficulties that have been overcome in the past. It is no exaggeration to say that these goblins are not even as good as a single hair of the wild boars that have been hunted before.

At least the wild boar charge could cause unexpected trouble, but these goblins couldn't even waste their energy.

"As expected, Mr. Lieyan's fighting method and style are quite proficient, and he is quite accustomed to fighting."

Raul, who was watching the battle from a distance, came over and helped Lieyan pick up the magic stones and dropped items on the ground like a supporter.

"It's okay. Although the number of monsters in the dungeon is greater than any enemy I have encountered in previous battles, the individual strength is much worse."

Lieyan opened the package, and Raul poured the goblin's magic stone and dropped items into it.

Even though Raul and Lieyan didn't think highly of the goblin's magic stones and dropped items, every little bit counts, and these magic stones and dropped items could still be exchanged for some money for wine if they were taken to the guild window.

Furthermore, adventurers have the obligation to clean up the magic stones.

If you discard the magic stones carelessly, the monsters in the dungeon will likely absorb them to strengthen their own strength. The individuals strengthened in this way will have stronger growth and intelligence than ordinary monsters, and they are extremely dangerous.

Some abnormal individuals will be rewarded by the guild, requiring high-level adventurers to eliminate them. There are even some more difficult enhanced species that even high-level adventurers don't want to take on, so you can imagine how dangerous they are.

"So what should we do next?" Raul asked after cleaning up the battlefield.

"...?"

Lieyan tilted his head. "That's not right. I'm a newbie, and you're asking me this question? I don't even know the monsters distributed on each floor of the dungeon."

"Uh, no, what I mean is, Mr. Flame, do you want to try to go to the deeper floors?"

Being stared at by Lieyan's suspicious eyes, Lao, who felt that he had said something wrong, was immediately confused.

"It's not impossible to go to deeper floors, but remember, don't be too greedy and rush in. Although it's true that I have your help, I still want to know how far I can go in this dungeon with my current abilities."

"clear."

Raul, who was totally unaware of the role reversal, smiled a little embarrassedly and gave professional advice.

"From the battle just now, the monsters on the upper floors are no match for you, Mr. Lieyan. Although I really want to go straight to the middle floor... But for the sake of safety, let's go to the sixth floor first. There will be humanoid monsters with higher overall strength, the War Shadows. In the dungeons from the first floor to the twelfth floor, which are defined as the upper floor, the War Shadows are second to none in terms of strength. Basically, they are the most difficult existence for novice adventurers to deal with. In addition, where the War Shadows appear, it is very easy to have a 'Monster Feast', that is, a large number of maze monsters will appear."

"Just do as you say."

Lieyan nodded, agreeing with Raul's words.

Then--

Looking at the torn cloak on his body, the 22nd battle shadow lying in front of him, the one-eyed giant frog called the archer frog and the giant lizard called the dungeon lizard that inexplicably appeared, and feeling his slightly depleted physical strength, Lieyan fell silent.

After entering the sixth floor, he felt that the malice directed at him seemed to have become stronger. Then, as if to confirm his thoughts, the walls on his left and right sides made shattering sounds, and from them emerged two battle figures that were completely black, as if they were pressed into a paint bucket and painted.

In the subsequent battles, Lieyan also personally experienced the strength of War Shadow. Generally speaking, it was indeed much stronger than the Goblins. After more than 20 consecutive battles, a hole was cut on his cloak. But it seemed that it had only evolved from wild boar hair to the wild boar itself. Its single-body strength was not even as good as that of the sickle-weasel dragon, but its appearance was indeed quite intimidating.

Most adventurers would probably be terrified when they see the dark, human-like figure of the War Shadow struggling to break free from the walls of the maze.

"Mr. Lieyan... do you want to continue going deeper into the dungeon?"

"it is good."

Chapter 18: This kid is probably unlucky...

After a moment of silence, Lieyan agreed with Raul's idea. The two of them quickly collected Zhanying's magic stones and dropped items, quickened their pace, and headed deeper into the dungeon.

Starting from the fifth floor of the dungeon, the frequency of monster spawning will increase significantly.

In these floors, although the types of monsters have increased a bit, there will be monsters such as silver-backed monkeys, little devils, and hard-shelled rats.

But overall, the strength of the monsters has not increased much. If they can deal with the War Shadow, they will be able to deal with any ordinary monsters that appear in the remaining upper environment.

So what is the difficulty of the dungeon strategy located further down?

It's the quantity.

After going deeper into the fifth floor, the individual monsters that used to appear frequently have basically turned into small-scale monster groups.

That is to say, after the fifth floor, the chances of adventurers fighting monsters alone will be greatly reduced.

Instead,

It is an offensive and defensive battle against a small number or a large number of groups of the same monsters.

As far as scale is concerned, the group of battle shadows + the intrusive monsters that Lieyan had cleared on the sixth floor at this time could already be regarded as the highest-level lineup that adventurers could encounter in the entire upper layer. If one is not careful, even an adventurer of level 2 might suffer a bitter defeat here.

Lieyan completely wiped out the large group of monsters by himself, and except for the fact that his cloak was scratched at the beginning because he was not used to the sharp fingers of War Shadow, he was not hit even once. Even the sneak attacks from the archer frog that ambushed in the shadows and the dungeon lizard that crawled from the ceiling could not touch him at all. He blocked them all.

If someone else saw this kind of battle, they might think that it was a high-level adventurer who was in a bad mood and was slaughtering monsters on the upper level, and then they would take a detour and walk away...

Judging from the current situation, it is meaningless for Mr. Lieyan to stay in the upper level. If he continues to stay in the upper level, even the growth of his attribute values ​​will be affected.

No, it cannot be said that it will be affected. It should be said that it will not grow at all, because Mr. Lie Yan was too relaxed when dealing with monsters.

Raul thought to himself.

This is also a major feature of the growth of adventurers in the world of Dicuo.

The experience points accumulated by adventurers are not the kind of experience points that can allow players to rank up once they have accumulated enough. The Sword God of Shilipo does not exist in the world of Dicuo.

Because the adventurer's body's thirst for experience will grow day by day.

The best way to gain experience points is to take risks, explore the unknown, and defeat powerful enemies.

And now, the most difficult tests on the upper level have been easily passed by Mr. Lieyan, so Raul made a decision based on his own judgment.

They were heading to the middle level.

Although there are powerful and rare monsters like [Baby Dragons] roaming on the eleventh and twelfth floors, the number of baby dragons is worthy of its reputation as a rare species. Generally speaking, there are only about five baby dragons in the vast two-story dungeon. It takes an incalculable amount of time to find them, and there is also the risk of them being hunted by others.

Moreover, Raul did not think that the young dragon could pose any threat to the Flame... Although the young dragon itself was rated LV·2 and had a record of annihilating a group of junior adventurers, in the upper layers without the "Lone Labyrinth King", that kind of dragon was actually the master of the floor...

But after all, Mr. Lieyan is an expert in dealing with dragons...

So it’s better to go to the middle level.

Compared to the hard-to-find baby dragon, the middle levels starting from the thirteenth floor of the dungeon are much bigger targets.

It has a larger area and the structure of the dungeon is also different.

Most importantly, some of the monsters were rated as Level 2.

For example, the most famous one is the Minotaur.

Going to the middle level can fully verify Mr. Lieyan's ability, and it is also within the range that he, a LV 4 adventurer, can handle.

Perfect.

"But there is a problem. Since we didn't plan to go to the middle level before coming to the dungeon this time, our supplies are not complete. We also didn't bring the fireproof item [Fire Weave] which is especially important for conquering the middle level."

Raul felt distressed, feeling like he was witnessing history. On the one hand, he was expecting Lieyan to enter the middle level on his first adventure, but on the other hand, he was also worried about how he would be able to explain to Finn if Lieyan was injured because of this reckless behavior.

But in the end, he convinced himself.

If it's Mr. Flame, there shouldn't be any problem.

Thinking of this, Raul took the lead and entered the middle level of the dungeon.

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Lieyan raised his head and looked at the suddenly changing scene around him. Different from the scenery on the upper level which was like a dead forest in the fog, the assessment scene of the first level of entering the middle level, also known as the first death line, was imprinted in Lieyan's eyes.

The first impression is.