Chapter 117 Underground Laboratory

Chapter 117 Underground Laboratory

Chapter 117 Underground Laboratory

Outside the Swamp Forest City, at the foot of a mountain.

The five members of the hunting team spent a lot of effort to kill and track the mad demonized beast, and finally set the target in front of them. When they pushed aside the lush thatch, a hidden passage more than half a person's height appeared.

This passage must have been dug by some demonic beast, and it has a faint fishy smell.

Inside the passage, several people could vaguely sense the breath of high-energy particles. Based on their experience, it was not difficult to judge that there were either ruins or abandoned laboratories underneath.

"Boss Walban, how about we go down tomorrow?"

Even for third-class apprentices, the darkness somewhat affects their vision, which is somewhat different from the daytime.

Walban said, "The passage goes deep underground. There is no difference between day and night. Let's go down."

This was indeed true. Under the leadership of Walban, several people stepped into the passage one after another and walked forward along the passage.

After a while, a stone staircase appeared at my feet. The staircase slanted downward and it was unknown where it led to.

With a wave of his hand, Walban lit up the wall lamps hanging on the side of the mountain wall. This action triggered some kind of setting, causing the wall lamps on both sides to light up one after another, all the way down the stairs.

"Haha, we are lucky."

"When it comes to tracking, our hunting team is professional. Those people from the enchanting team have been wandering around."

The passage they had just walked through came diagonally from the left mountain wall. It was an animal path. The steps under their feet must have been created by intelligent creatures, more likely humans, so there should be an abandoned laboratory below.

Under the green light of the lamp, you can see many messy claw marks on the steps.

The few people were not afraid and continued to move forward on the stairs.

"Squeak."

"What a fat rat."

Not far ahead, a fat rat came out and landed on the steps in front. Its body was half a meter long, and its red eyes were particularly conspicuous. Cook, one of the few people, took action first and a thumb-sized fireball flew out.

Rats are always timid creatures. After unaware of the few people, they were about to escape, but were hit by a small fireball.

Although Cook's fireball was small, its power was unmatched by ordinary fireballs. The fat rat was directly burned with a black hole that pierced its entire body, killing it on the spot.

"Cook, has your secondary fireball been optimized again?"

"It's just a minor change, not worth mentioning."

"I really don't know what you're thinking. Others are looking for bigger fireballs, but yours is getting smaller and smaller."

"You don't understand this, right? This kind of spell consumes little energy and is durable and long-lasting."

During the third-level apprenticeship stage, apprentices will spend a lot of energy on optimizing spells. The same basic spell can be developed into a variety of effects due to different personal ideas.

When they got closer, they found a small hole on the side of the stairs, and the mouse came out from it.

After this little episode, Walban and his companions continued to move downwards.

at the same time.

There was a skinny rat in the rat hole, crawling out quickly, going up along the winding passage, and finally climbing out of the mountain and coming to the ground. It walked through the dense thatch and appeared in front of a female apprentice.

"Squeaky-"

"Well, after searching for so long, they finally found the right place, hahahaha."

"Pass the order down. Cut off their retreat first, and then have some fun with them."

After hearing Skinny Rat's report, the female apprentice Melinda showed joy on her face. It was worth their efforts to set up this trap. It would not be easy to get out once you get into it.

The skinny rat seemed to understand and returned along the original path.

After a while, the thin rat led many of its kind to another passage, which was the passage that Walban and others had taken deep underground. The demonized rats dug frantically along the passage and cut off the reserved nodes.

"Boom." The huge sound of collapse spread far away and reached the apprentice's ears along the steps on the other side.

"What's that sound?" Cook's face changed slightly when he heard the sound coming from behind.

"It should be the previous passage that collapsed." Walban's face darkened. There must be someone plotting against them behind the scenes. He didn't expect that there was really someone behind the Swamp Forest City incident.

In addition to the sound of collapse, there were dense rustling sounds all around, and something was surrounding them.

There are now two paths in front of them: one is to go back, which took them a long time and a long distance; the other is to go deeper, the abandoned laboratory is not far away.

Creatures that made rustling sounds poked their heads out. There were demonized rats and demonized snakes, which kept falling down the stairs. There were them in front and behind, and their numbers kept increasing.

"Damn it, I fell into the enemy's trap."

Now, everyone came to their senses. They looked grim but not panicked.

In this dilemma, everyone looked at Walban, hoping that he could come up with an idea.

"Keep going down."

Comparing the situations on both sides, it is obvious that it is not easy to drill out of the ground successfully, so Walban chose to go deeper into the laboratory.

'Thunder Cloud Leap'

'Fireball'

There are enemies both in front and behind, and one of them is fighting against the enemy in the rear, while the other is suppressing the front.

In a moment, thick dark clouds appeared on the steps behind, with thunder moving above the clouds. The thunder turned into sickles that reaped the lives of wild beasts. Anyone who touched it would die, and screams rang out.

Ahead were many small fireballs spaced in an orderly manner, which also turned into stair sweepers. No matter whether it was the demonized rat or the demonized snake, they could not withstand the sharpness of the small fireballs and were killed by them in a string.

In this way, the apprentices attacked in batches, fighting their way to the front of the laboratory.

A layer of protective membrane blocked the way.

The five of them took the time to attack together, causing large ripples on the protective membrane, but it returned to calm in the blink of an eye.

The wizard's laboratory is usually guarded by rune arrays, some strong and some weak. The one in front of them is undoubtedly a tough guy.

Cook asked anxiously: "What should we do? With our strength, it will be difficult to break this protective array in a short time."

Along the way, the few people consumed a lot of mental energy and magic power. The demonized beasts behind them were still chasing them. They had killed a group of them, but the number of demonized rats and demonized snakes clearly did not decrease.

The bloody smell filled the passage, stimulating the demonized beasts to become more bloodthirsty and launch a relentless attack on the apprentices.

With the apprentices' orderly blocking, the demonized beast could not get close to them for the time being.

However, once their mental strength and magic power are exhausted, it would be wishful thinking to maintain the current situation.

"I have a solution."

Walban took out a small triangular cone with various runes all over the four sides. This was a special magic item.

"Breaking Array Cone, you still have this good thing."

Cook's eyes lit up when he saw what he had in his hands.

It's no wonder that he was so happy. The Breaking Array Cone was a well-known magical item specially used to break through protective magic arrays, but it was extremely rare and hard to come by. Unexpectedly, Walban had one.

Walban immediately took the Breaking Array Cone and stabbed it into the protective membrane. Ripples appeared on the protective membrane again, and complex lines emerged.

The lines on the Breaking Cone were also activated, spreading out from the triangular cone and falling onto the protective membrane. The lines came into contact with each other and slight collisions began to occur, causing more ripples on the protective membrane.

Behind them, the demonized beast showed its fearless side, and they had to increase their attack power, using offense instead of defense to protect their own safety.

(End of this chapter)