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A natural cave located on the mountainside.
Gray rocks were rolling everywhere, and the surrounding walls, floors, and ceilings were all made of bedrock, with a little humid air floating around.
There was a faint phosphorescence flickering on the rock walls above and around me. Visibility was not very high. It was probably some luminous Tan-like creature.
A straight rock passage was under my feet. Even if I squinted my eyes and looked into the distance, it was difficult to see the end of the passage.
In addition, there are vertical caves in the corners of the walls that lead to the next floor like a well.
Although this trap looks ordinary, the difference in height between each level of the dungeon is quite large. If you underestimate it and accidentally fall into it, even a tough adventurer will suffer a lot.
But for Lieyan, this is a shortcut to the next level.
Because he is a hunter, he has a skill called Feather Fall in this world, which ignores falling damage.
"The characteristic of the 13th floor is that the passage connecting the cave rooms is very long. In order to fight safely, the first thing to do is to quickly reach the first cave room along the road, and then rely on the space of the cave room to fight the monster."
Raul explained the special features of the floor below, and Lieyan nodded slowly.
"Common monsters that appear on the thirteenth floor include unicorn rabbits and hellhounds. Minotaur also appears occasionally on this floor, but most Minotaur appears below the fifteenth floor. Even if you encounter a Minotaur, don't worry. Mr. Lieyan, you should have no problem defeating the Minotaur at your current level. What you need to pay attention to is the hellhound."
"Unlike the monsters on the upper floors, hellhounds can spit out flames. This flame is extremely powerful and can easily melt ordinary armor. Generally speaking, if an adventurer team is wiped out on the thirteenth or fourteenth floor, the cause is basically the hellhound."
Raul explained, and then his hearing, which was enhanced by his ability value, sent him a signal.
At the end of his sight, he could hear the sound of something running.
Raul was slightly stunned. This, just happened as he said?
"It seems that the opportunity to consolidate knowledge has arrived."
Lieyan glanced at Raul meaningfully.
I don't know why, but during the time we were moving around the dungeon, whenever Raul introduced a monster, a group of monsters would always appear at the right time to teach us on the spot.
This is the case with Goblins, War Shadows, and now Cerberus...
This kid,
I'm afraid it's not a bad luck...
Chapter 19: Wisdom and Tactics——
Raul's face turned into a bitter look.
Honestly speaking, he would rather not have such an opportunity to consolidate his knowledge. After all, this kind of mouth that can bring about any monster that comes along can be said to be a real crow's mouth in this dungeon. Even his companions from the same clan would choose to sew his mouth shut in such a situation.
Lieyan didn't pay attention to Raul's expression, but instead focused his gaze on the passage in the distance.
Under the faint phosphorescent light, three pitch-black quadrupeds stomped on the rocky floor, moving quickly towards this side as if they had found their target from the beginning.
"Help me get my cloak, please."
As he spoke, Lieyan first took off his sword and shield, and stabbed it into the ground with the blade on the shield. Then he put the backpack under his feet, and finally took off his cloak and handed it to Raul.
A cloak that can cover the equipment is still very important. After listening to Raul's introduction to the hellhound, Lieyan gave up the idea of wearing a cloak to fight the hellhound.
The equipment on him is not very afraid of fire, but the cloak is still very fragile. When facing the War Shadow before, it was cut because he did not have time to avoid it. Now facing the Hellhound whose specific strength is unclear and can breathe fire, it is afraid that it will be damaged if he is not careful.
Considering that he would continue to use the cloak to cover his equipment when he returned to the ground, Lieyan felt that he had to protect the cloak, so next, he would be fully armed.
Without any hurry, Lieyan took out a helmet from his backpack and put it on his head.
[Rock Dragon Helmet] is made of the skin of a pterosaur and three parts of the hardest chest shell material from a rock dragon. It is processed with a special adhesive obtained by heating and melting the poison sacks stripped from the rock dragon with red lotus stone. It is a rock dragon equipment. Its special appearance reminds people of the head of a rock dragon at first glance.
Just as Lieyan put on the Rock Dragon Helmet, with only his chin exposed and almost no blind spots on his body, Raul, who took the cloak at the side, looked at the full appearance of the armor equipped on Lieyan, his eyes full of envy.
Raul knew that Lieyan's equipment all came from monsters he hunted personally, and this could also be seen from the shape of the remaining materials on Mr. Lieyan's armor.
The armor on the waist and legs is iron-gray in appearance, just like the helmet. It is made of metal and the shell of some monster.
The chest armor was khaki in color, and was made of several pieces of bone or pottery with huge vertical edges. The shoulder armor looked like two holes were dug out of the material to place the arms.
The wrist armor seems to be made in a different way. The left wrist armor has a larger defensive area and is more ferocious, equipped with yellow spiked armor. The right wrist armor seems to take flexibility into consideration. Not only is it finger-exposed, but the blue armor used for protection is not as ferocious as the yellow armor.
Rock dragon helmet, earth and sand dragon breastplate, blue bear beast gauntlets, rock dragon waist armor, rock dragon leggings.
This is Mr. Flame's equipment...
Raul stared at the flames without blinking.
He is very clear,
The equipment on Lieyan is basically equivalent to the customized equipment of a first-level adventurer, and even better.
It would be difficult to find a more solid armor in the dungeon.
But having said that...
This equipment is not a complete set, it looks really uncoordinated, even a bit ugly, the difference between the upper and lower body armor styles is too big! !
Raul complained in his heart.
If Lieyan knew what he was complaining about, he would probably shed tears.
He was also desperate because there was no equipment transmogrification in the realistic world of Rise. He also wanted to be a handsome hunter, but isn't safety more important?
Although the Rock Dragon equipment and the Earth and Sand Dragon equipment mixed together are a bit ugly, it is very tough!
Defense 6!
The monster's footsteps were getting closer and closer, and then, its ferocious appearance also caught Lieyan's eye.
Its skin was like land ravaged by fire, and it was pitch black and uneven. Its shoulder height was over one meter. From the perspective of a canine, it was a large dog. Its ferocious-looking head was embedded with two red eyes that glowed in the dim light.
All in all, it is truly a being that looks like it came from hell.
"Hoo-woo-woo!"
At this time, in the distance, three hellhounds barked in unison, and their calf-sized bodies continued to speed up.
Throwing the backpack on the spot, Lieyan took a step forward and pulled out the sword and shield that were stuck in the ground with both hands. With a crisp cracking sound, Lieyan equipped the sword and shield.
The distance of dozens of meters was wiped out by the hellhound's extremely fast running. In a flash, the hellhound that first arrived less than ten meters in front of the flame used its hind legs to jump up.
A bloody mouth fell from the sky,
"They are very fast, but seem to be not very flexible. They are very aggressive and more proactive. They are small in size and good at using the environment to create advantages. Also, they fight in groups..."
His eyes quickly scanned the three-headed hellhound as it approached by flying, approaching on the ground, and crouching at a distance, as if it was accumulating energy. Lieyan came to a conclusion.
The intelligence and tactics of dungeon monsters should not be underestimated.
For the first time, Lieyan's heart began to heat up as he felt the intelligence of the dungeon monsters being upgraded. That's right, this kind of opponent is a real opponent!
Ignoring the hellhound approaching from the ground, Lieyan stared at the bloody mouth descending from the sky, and then swung his right arm.
Shield thrust!
The heavy shield made a sound of breaking through the air, and Lieyan used the shield as a spearhead to pierce the air. The heavy impact of the straight thrust squeezed into the sharp teeth, and the sharp blades around the shield directly wedged into the corner of the hellhound's mouth.
"Uh-oh——"
The hellhound that was held in the air screamed, but Lieyan did not stop. He continued to exert force with his arms and knocked the hellhound down from the sky.
The heavy shield blade pressed down the Cerberus's neck bone and smashed into the ground. With the sound of breaking, red and black blood gushed out.
It was unclear whether it was a smashing or cutting attack, and the first black dog died on the spot. Then, before the hellhound running on the ground could get close to him, Lieyan raised his shield, and a blue thread emerged from his right arm.
The glowing Kinsect flew straight, like a nail fixing itself in space. Lieyan grabbed the blue thread and pulled himself forward. At the same time, he inserted the sword into the special mechanism in the center of the shield with his left hand. With a slight sound, the sword and shield were fixed together by the mechanism. Along the special slide, the shield turned 180 degrees and slid to the top of the sword, revealing two huge blades.
But the flames did not stop. With the power of the Kinsect, he pressed the mechanism on the hilt and disassembled the shield again. The blade hidden in the mechanism stabbed the hellhound at a faster speed.
Kinsect Skill: Transform and Advance + Sword: Spinning Slash!!
Chapter 20: Harvest on the First Day
The blade alone was more than one meter long and it swept across.
The hellhound had no way to deal with the sudden attack, and could only watch as the sword cut its two eyes blind in one breath, and black and red blood spurted out. But before the hellhound could scream, Lieyan lowered his body, slid to the side of it, and chopped down the single-edged sword in his hand diagonally.
Sword: Move and slash!
A faint trace of blood appeared on the neck of the hellhound, and its head fell off. A large amount of blood gushed out like a riot. The body supported by four legs lost all strength, and it fell exhausted in a large pool of blood, making a sticky dull sound.
At this time, fierce flames came.
The flames that were compressed in the demon dog's mouth were all released.
When Lieyan killed two hellhounds at lightning speed, the third hellhound, which had been accumulating strength long ago, finally completed its attack preparations.
The crimson shells pierced the air in one go, creating a blazing heat wave.
"Mr. Flame!"
Not far away, Raul, holding the hilt of his sword at his waist and ready for battle, raised his voice.
"Don't worry."
A voice with strong confidence came out from Lieyan's mouth.
Flame. He had encountered so many creatures that could control flames, such as the Umbrella Bird, the Female Rathalos, the Fire Dragon, the Rock Dragon, the Barbarian Jaw Dragon...
But it was just a fireball spit out by a puppy.
Lieyan turned the shield around, inserted the single-edged sword in his hand into the shield, pressed the mechanism, and the bottom of the shield popped out with a clang, and the two sides also expanded outwards.
At the same time, on Lieyan's right arm, light blue threads flowed and transformed. The Kinsect followed his thoughts and leaped out from the special device under the arm armor. It spread its limbs and fixed itself on the inside of the shield, spitting out blue silk to connect with the shield.
Kinsect Skill: Fully Charged Counterattack!!
The light blue silk held the flames firmly in place. At the same time, the compressed fire bombs hit the shield that completely protected the flames behind it.
Flames burst out.
The red color that seemed to burn everything echoed in the straight passage, and the dark wolf beast showed a ferocious smile.
In his limited mind, he had this impression: if the enemy was not equipped with the clothes wrapped with fiery red particles, then after absorbing its flames, the enemy would definitely lose the ability to fight and directly turn into a ball of charcoal, or scream in pain from the burning flames.
But the next moment, a single-edged sword broke through the air and tore the fire curtain horizontally.
Release action cancel + attribute release spin slash!!
The energy stored in the special device [Bottle] thus poured into the shield, causing it to emit a faint red light. Lieyan held the red shield and stepped out of the flames unscathed.