Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 500 Convergence
Three days later, the world was in the wrong place.

"Lefiya, behind!"

"Pierce through them, the elves' flaming arrows!!

boom--! !

A deafening explosion sounded from the gray-white maze that looked like a palace. In the corridor built with a large number of gray-white rock bridges, an orange-haired elf girl holding a staff rolled over, nimbly avoiding several flying bone spurs while quickly chanting a prayer. With a point of the staff, a flaming arrow pierced through the skeleton sheep that rushed forward.

“Ouch!” “Ouch——!!”

Suddenly, sounds like wolf howls came from the passages on the gray-white walls all around, echoing in the corridor. Then, dozens of monsters with human heads and wolf faces rushed out from all directions, flexibly leaping between the rock bridges, quickly approaching the group of Loki's family in the middle of the corridor, and were about to surround everyone:
Zheng——! !

A crisp sound of sword clanging rang out from the corridor, and then a giant sword over two meters long slashed through the air with a whoosh, and swung out an arc-shaped sword light that was hundreds of meters wide, cutting all the monsters that rushed forward into two.

"Everyone, the road ahead is open! Leave now!"

Dao Ji, who was charging in the front, shouted urgently. Beside him, four skeleton warriors about three meters tall froze in unison, and then their magic cores with extremely smooth cross-sections shattered into powder on the ground.

Not only that, one can see that in the cave entrance located a hundred meters in front of him, broken magic cores are scattered there. The cross-section of each magic core is exactly the same smooth, giving people a strange sense of neatness.

"Let's go! I'll cover you!"

Finn, who was at the back, was moved when he heard the words. He immediately slid and used his small body to pass through the gaps between the other people. He thrust his spear through a skeleton sheep that just emerged from the shadows and shouted to the members of Loki's family behind him.

"Let's go!" "Ais, protect Lefiya!"

"——Spirit of the wind, bless this place!"

Without any hesitation, the tall green-haired elf in the middle position immediately tapped his staff, releasing a wind magic barrier to wrap up the group of people. Then he was picked up by his companion who rushed over from behind, and rushed towards Dao Ji with the others at the fastest speed.

Dangdang Dangdang!
The crisp sound of weapons clashing was heard. The leader of the dwarf tribe stood alone on the rock bridge. The spear in his hand swept across like lightning, accurately hitting the blades of the three bone knives that were chopped towards him, blocking all the attacks of the three giant barbarians who rushed forward.

"Roar--!!"

A terrifying roar sounded, and a blood-red monster as big as a hill, shaped like a cross between a lizard and a toad, suddenly rushed out of the cave above, opened its bloody mouth and bit Finn, and then...

boom!
Almost at the moment when the blood dragon in front of him pounced towards Finn, the giant sword that was originally floating in the air suddenly moved, and instantly turned into a residual image, bombarding the blood dragon and nailing it to the distant wall.

"Captain Finn, let's go!"

A low shout sounded from a distance, and Finn heard it without any hesitation. He rolled over to avoid the three bone knives that were chopped down again, and stepped with all his strength. The terrifying force caused the rock bridge under his feet to crack section by section, and the whole person crashed into the cave where Dao Ji was like a cannonball.

Rumble——! !

The next second, a series of deafening sounds of rock collapse rang out from the maze, and the rock bridge in the entire corridor began to produce a chain reaction due to Finn's destruction and collapsed completely.

Whoosh!
Huge rocks fell like a waterfall, and a giant sword more than one person tall rushed out from the rock waterfall, passed Finn who had escaped, and stopped next to Dao Ji who was standing at the front of the crowd.

"Huh...Mr. Dao Ji, thank you very much!"

Finn let out a long sigh, turned his head, and thanked Dao Ji, who was emitting a sharp sword intent and had a completely different temperament from when he was resting.

"Captain Finn, you are too polite. I am just doing my duty."

Dao Ji shook his head and then sat cross-legged on the spot to regulate his breathing.

When Finn and other members of Loki's family saw this, they didn't say much. They just nodded, followed Dao Ji's example, sat cross-legged on the ground, and calmed their breathing.

In fact, originally, the members of Loki's clan did not rest in this way during the few minutes of rest after the battle, but after the other party taught them the breathing method called "breathing method" and the posture called "meditation", they all started to do so.

——After all, whether it is to relax the mind or relieve physical fatigue, or to stabilize the injuries left in battle, the "breathing method" taught to them by Dao Ji is more than ten times stronger than their folk methods.

"Huh... Bert, Neona, are you all right?"

After a few minutes, Finn, whose breathing had completely calmed down, opened his eyes, let out a long sigh, and after looking at everyone, his eyes fell on the silver-haired werewolf youth and the Amazon girl wrapped in bandages, and asked a question.

"Tsk, didn't I say it's all right?"

"Don't worry, Captain. The medicine that Brother Daoji gave me is very effective. I feel even better now than before I was injured!"

In response to Finn's question, the silver-haired werewolf youth Bert clicked his tongue and turned his head away with a defiant look, while the more cheerful Tiona patted her wound directly and revealed a sunny smile, which was in sharp contrast to the werewolf youth next to her.

"Well, that's good, but you guys should be responsible for covering the rest of the battle. Let Ai Si and Grace be the vanguard for now."

"Great!" "Tsk, whatever you want."

Two completely different responses were heard again, and when Finn saw that both of them agreed, he didn't say anything more.

"By the way, after coming back from the 69th floor, it feels like I feel a lot more relaxed looking at these monsters on the 30th floor again."

Tiona, who had nothing to do, looked at the completely collapsed corridor outside the cave entrance and couldn't help but complain.

On the surface, the scene of them forcing their way back just now seemed very thrilling, but to them, the risk just now was not even as great as if they encountered a group of monsters on the 60th floor.

"Well... this is only natural, right? After all, that's the sixty-ninth floor. In the past, it was a place only Zeus's followers had been to. After walking through a place like this and then returning to the 30th floor, it would be very relaxing anyway, right?"

Tione, who was standing by, also finished her breathing exercises, shrugged her shoulders, and stated her opinion:

"On the 30th floor, at least we can have 10 minutes to breathe after each fight, but on the 60th floor, we can't even stay there for half a minute."

The Amazon girl said this, rubbing her neck, obviously recalling the thrilling encounters she had in the area below the 60th floor.

"Indeed, the monsters below the 60th floor are too far away..."

Boom——! !

Suddenly, an unusually loud thunder roared from afar, causing the entire ground to tremble slightly. The Loki family members, including Aisi, who were originally meditating and regulating their breathing, immediately opened their eyes and instantly entered a fighting stance as if in a stress response, and then...

boom!
I saw a gray-white rock wall at the corner in front suddenly exploded, and tiny golden arcs of lightning scattered all over the sky, revealing the scene on the other side of the passage:

"Hey, brother Daoji, we shouldn't be late, right?"

The next second, a blond young man jumped down from the cave entrance, holding a knife in his right hand and a cigarette in his left hand. After blowing out a smoke ring, he smiled and greeted Dao Ji in the astonished eyes of the Loki family members.

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The world of Dicuo, the 18th floor. [Identification completed, the name of the item "???" has been changed to "Rock Crusher Rat"]

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【Rock-crushing rat】

Place of Origin: Sanctuary Paradise·Black Sword

Quality: purple

Category: Alchemical Creatures

Health: 100%
Mana: 200/200
Power: 25
Stamina: 20
Agility: 39
Intelligence: 10
Charisma: 8
Skill 1, Alchemical Creature (Passive, LV.10): This alchemical creature is created through the living transformation of the "Digger Rat". It has additional mana circuits and life energy storage units in its body, mana +100, health +200.

Skill 2, Rock Crusher (Passive, LV.15): Bring out the rock element in the magic core to specialize itself, basic excavation speed +45%, destructive effect on soil and rock-like objects +45%.

Skill 3, Extreme Digging (Active, LV.10): Can activate the "Extreme" form. After entering the "Extreme" form, 20 mana points are consumed per minute, the digging speed is increased by an additional 55%, and the destructive effect on soil and rock objects is increased by an additional 55%.

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At the door of an inconspicuous-looking building, Xin Lailai stood in front of a blood-stained laboratory table, looking at the mouse in front of him, which was about the size of a domestic cat, with a yellowish-brown body and a bunch of scaly rock-like skin on its limbs and head. He nodded with satisfaction and threw the mouse into a basket beside him.

Then he opened the rock cage beside him and picked up a mouse that was sleeping in the cage. The mouse looked about the same size as the alchemical biological mouse, but with gray-brown fur. He placed it on the experimental table, fixed its limbs and head, picked up the scalpel beside him, removed the soul anesthesia, and inserted it accurately into the mouse's abdomen before the mouse could react.

"squeak--!!"

A shrill rat cry came from the experimental table, but it stopped abruptly after a while. Xin Lailai quickly cut open the abdominal cavity of the "digging rat" in front of him and started operating quickly.

Laparotomy, heart removal, replacement of alchemical pump, craniotomy, insertion of alchemical core...

The pungent smell of blood filled the air, but was diluted by the strong smell of disinfectant the next second. Ten minutes later, with a prompt sound, another new "Rock-Crushing Rat" appeared on the experimental table.

Then, Xin Lailai continued to open the cage and choose the next "lucky mouse".

To create alchemical creatures, the most important thing is to have sufficient materials. The problem is that when he came in this time, most of the storage space was occupied by various supplies, props and the mecha built by Xiaobai, and not much alchemical materials could be inserted.

In this case, it is obviously unrealistic to use pure alchemical materials to create alchemical creatures, and he only has three days of free time in total. If he makes an alchemical creature from scratch, even if there are sufficient materials, he will not be able to make many in three days.

Therefore, Xin Lailai chose a more efficient and convenient approach:

Take local materials.

Creating alchemical creatures from scratch is too slow, and the alchemical materials on hand are not enough. In this case, why not just use ready-made "materials"?

——After all, compared to creating a pure alchemical creature from scratch, it is much more convenient and faster to directly transform a creature into an alchemical life.

For example, these "Digger Rats" are a kind of monster he captured from the 16th floor. With the materials and technology at his disposal, he transformed them into alchemical life forms called "Rock Crusher Rat" specifically for digging.

As for why they had to capture them alive instead of using corpses directly?

This is because the monsters in the world of Dicuo have the characteristic that once they die or their magic cores shatter their corpses, they will disintegrate, so "dead body transformation" is definitely not feasible. It must be "living body transformation" that does not damage the "magic core" in the monster's body and keeps the monster alive.

By the way, the reason why he specially created this kind of alchemical life for digging the ground after mastering rock magic was not because he was bored, but because his rock magic was not suitable for use in dungeons.

In the setting of Dicuo, the dungeon is not a dead thing, but a small living world. Therefore, once an outsider causes serious damage to the dungeon, the dungeon will immediately counterattack and send out a special monster "Zagnate" that is specifically used to hunt down the enemy.

Although this thing has little health, its attack power is off the charts, and it also has the ability to reflect magic. In the original novel, Bel Kronny was tortured to death by this thing after it was upgraded to LV.4. Although he is not inferior to this thing, he is not interested in being chased and hacked by it every day.

Therefore, he would definitely try not to use his rock magic, which would easily cause huge changes to the terrain. Otherwise, even if he didn't summon "Jagnat", he would have to worry about causing a large-scale landslide and burying him alive.

As for whether using the Rock Crusher to change the terrain would cause any problems, we have to mention the cleverness of the "living transformation" at this time.

Simply put, although those "Rock-Crushing Rats" have become alchemical life forms completely under his control, the "magic cores" in their bodies still exist stably. The entire transformation process has been carried out while the "Digger Demon Rat", the predecessor of the "Rock-Crushing Rats", is still alive. Therefore, in the perception of the dungeon, these "Rock-Crushing Rats" have always been the "locals" of the dungeon, rather than "outsiders".

As long as they are certified "locals" of the dungeon, no matter what kind of damage they cause to the dungeon, the dungeon's "self-defense mechanism" will not be triggered. This is also the biggest purpose of Sinlailai's creation of the "Rock Crusher Rat".

Not only that, in fact, in addition to the "Rock Crusher", Xinlailai actually transformed a lot of small gadgets in these three days:

For example, by using the "Dark Mushroom" on the 19th floor, which can continuously regenerate other parts as long as the "Magic Core" is not damaged, they successfully created a "White Meat Mushroom" that can absorb the "Magic Core" of other monsters to grow meat, which tastes particularly good and is rich in nutrition; for example, by using the "Young Earth Dragon" to transform the "Rock Camel Earth Dragon", which can easily carry dozens of tons of supplies and crawl quickly; and the "Shadow Lurker" with specialized detection and concealment capabilities, which was transformed based on the "Little Shadow Demon"...

It can be said that within the maze from the 1st to the 20th floor, basically any monster he felt could be used would be captured and modified, resulting in the fact that there is now a warehouse in the town on the 18th floor dedicated to storing his alchemical creations.

"Hmm? Have you used them all up?"

Suddenly, after transforming two more "Rock-Crushing Rats", Xin Lailai looked at the empty cage and the basket filled with 30 "Rock-Crushing Rats" and was startled, then shook his head.

Just use it up. Anyway, 30 of these things are enough. I can go and see if there are any other ones...

【Ding~! You have a new message prompt]

Before Xin Lailai could decide which monster to favor next, a cold reminder sound suddenly sounded in his mind. Seeing this, Xin Lailai looked at the branding interface at the edge of his vision:

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Yamu: "It's done. Come here quickly, or the monsters on the road will spawn again."

Black Sword: "OK, I'll take them there right away."

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After a simple reply, Xin Lailai put away the laboratory table, picked up the basket on the ground, and with a thought, the cloak behind him spread out like wings, and the whole person turned into a shadow and rushed into the town.

This morning Hephaestus had already completed the forging of four pieces of black dragon armor and was waiting for news from below. All he had to do was to escort the people over.

This is the advantage of having a few top teammates behind you. You just sit at home and don’t have to go anywhere, while your teammates have already pushed the battle line forward.

It can be said that although he has encountered so many contractors along the way, no team has ever made Xin Lailai feel so at ease as it does now.

——Although he estimated that no one wanted to get together and form a team in such a world.

——After all, no matter how reassuring a horror story is, it still cannot change the fact that it is a horror story.

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(End of this chapter)