Goddess Wanhua Mirror

"This is the second easter egg I mentioned before. There are eight lotus ponds in the boss room on the second floor, one of which is completely immune to the impact of water elements. There is a hidden door at the bottom of the pond. The key to open the door is the first The hilt of the key sword on the first floor. Through the secret door, they can directly enter the third floor maze without defeating Brother Four Dog, but... there is a price to pay for taking shortcuts."

For the design of the hidden mechanism of the level, Lude's core concept is "whatever you gain, you must lose", which is the so-called "price"!

As the price for opening the hidden door and jumping through the level, Tring and his party have two major losses. One is that they cannot get the clearance rewards on the second floor, and the other is that when all the level breakers leave the boss room, the four dogs who are not killed by lightning Brother will open the main gate leading to the third floor by himself, and hunt down the escaped passers-by, which is tantamount to increasing the overall difficulty of the third floor in disguise.

What is a surprise?This is called a surprise!

Denzel, who didn't know Lude's sinister intentions, had already opened the mechanism hidden at the bottom of the pool with the hilt of his sword. The water in the pool was quickly emptied by the mechanism, revealing a very Mario-style green sewer pipe.

The pipe was originally covered by a huge metal plug. Denzel, who fell into the water, just discovered that the size and pattern of the recess on the plug were exactly the same as the hilt of the key sword from the first floor, so he tried it out and used the hilt Plugged it in, and it turned on the mechanism.

Looking at the black hole, Denzel doesn't know where the other end of the pipe leads to, but he has no other choice at the moment, the battle above his head is no different from a fight between gods and gods, and getting involved There is only one dead end, it is better to gamble that there is a living end in front of you.

So after hesitating for less than three seconds, Denzel closed his eyes and his heart, gritted his teeth and jumped in.

"Ah ah ah ah..."

Under the watchful eyes of Tring, Denzel, who jumped into the pipeline, screamed and disappeared quickly, and soon there was no movement, leaving him and the magician looking at each other, and the battle not far away was still in full swing.Tring, who was already at a loss, simply gave up thinking.

"Ah~! Let's dance."

End of this chapter

As Tring and his party entered the third floor of the maze through the secret door (sewer) of the BOSS room, Lude, who wanted to continue "chasing the drama", suddenly discovered that there was the sound of chickens crowing in the morning outside the window, and he had already seen it unconsciously. ten hours.

Thinking that there are still many jobs waiting for him to deal with here in the town, Lu De can only get up and pat the food residue on his body, and go out to work.

Although he stayed up all night, Lu De was physically young and blessed with magical powers, so the crickets stayed up for 24 hours, which did not cause him to show obvious fatigue.

Back on the ground, as soon as Lude arrived at the hall of the temple, he saw Romean, who got up early, kneeling and sitting in front of the statue, praying devoutly in the morning.The morning light coming in from the skylight in the hall happened to shine on Long Niang, making the whole scene look full of holiness.

Looking at this scene, Lu De remained silent, and Romean didn't realize that the mentor was behind him until he got up after praying.

"Good morning, master."

"Good morning, Romean. I saw you praying when I came here, so I don't have the nerve to interrupt you."

Lude looked around. The hall of the temple was clean, and there were still some water stains on the wooden benches. It was obvious that Romean had cleaned it just now. The little girl probably got up to clean it before dawn. Hygienic, this pious and pure diligence is the only one in the whole family.

Lude thought for a while, and thought that it would be unreasonable not to praise such a good girl, but just as he was about to speak, there was a rush of knocking and urgent shouting at the gate of the temple.

"Open the door! I am the messenger of the Steel Whip Clan. I have an urgent message to be delivered to Master Lu De. Open the door!"

Hearing someone shouting at the door, and it was obviously a dwarf, Lude guessed that someone from the maze should have come to inform him.

It was at dusk yesterday afternoon that Tring and others broke through the first floor of the maze. The monument at the main entrance of the maze changed immediately, causing quite a commotion among the adventurers waiting outside the door.The messenger rushed to Songshu Village overnight with the news, and it will be delivered right now, which can be said to be quite fast.

So Lude hurriedly opened the door to welcome the dwarven messenger into the room, and then pretended not to know anything and listened to the other party's explanation of the situation. Sure enough, as he expected, he was reporting the changes that occurred on the other side of the maze. Uncle Gulig and himself sent urgent letters respectively.

"Until I set off, the information we have is still very limited. We only speculate that some adventurers have successfully broken through the first floor of the maze. Captain Jon thinks that he has limited knowledge of the maze and demons, so I implore you, Master, to go through it yourself. .”

"Well, I understand the situation, thank you for your hard work."

After listening to the report of the dwarf messenger, Lude praised the other party a few words, and then threw a low-level magic spell. The dwarf messenger who was tired and sleepy immediately felt refreshed, and his whole body suddenly stood up again. I felt a sense of gratitude and respect for Ludden in my heart.

"Thank you, Master."

"It doesn't matter, you believers of the three goddesses are also my brothers and sisters of the God of Medicine Sect, and everyone should help each other. Romean, arrange a place for this dwarf brother to rest. Get ready, set off for a trip to the maze after a while."

After sending away the dwarf messenger who was seeing him off, Lude thought about it, and he really should go to the maze.As the most famous person in the local area, he showed that he was too careless about the maze, which seemed unnatural.

Ever since, Lu De personally approached the old lady Sirina, who was currently acting as the baron's administrator, and asked for the temporary secondment of thirty soldiers from the town guard.

With Lude's undeniable prestige in the town, even if he didn't ask the Baron for instructions on borrowing soldiers, he went directly to the guard station and shouted, most of the soldiers who were originally from the police regiment would follow the priest without hesitation, but Lude can't do this, otherwise it will damage the face of the Baron's family.

Fortunately, the two sides are getting along well at the moment, and Mrs. Sirina readily agreed to lend Lude the cavalry squad that had just completed initial training, and also sent Aramis, one of the three knights, to help out.

After a little preparation, the group set off at noon. In addition to the [-] cavalry of the town guard, Lude also called Hume and Shanisi, two combat forces, to accompany them.

It is worth mentioning that just last week, Shanisi broke through to the second level smoothly, and the three sisters also showed signs of changing.

The first breakthrough is generally not difficult, as long as the total amount of faith collected reaches a certain level.And after completing the breakthrough, the goddesses who have risen to the second level will usually get enhanced abilities related to the god position.

For example, after Aina's breakthrough, her pharmaceutical ability has been greatly improved.In the past, it was necessary to extract body fluids, so it was cut onions and evaporated to take them. Now, as long as you concentrate your mind, and then stretch out a little finger into the water and stir it a little, you can achieve the same effect as in the past.

In a sense, Aina has become better than before!

And Shanisi's breakthrough allowed her to obtain a rather subtle blessing ability.All men and women who have been buffed by her, regardless of age, health or not, can be sent to their souls.

This evolutionary route goes directly to the Songzi Guanyin.

Thanks to the excellent infrastructure capabilities of the dwarves, after the maze was discovered, their engineering team quickly built a sidewalk leading to the gate, allowing Ludd and his party to ride directly to the location of the maze.

When the cavalry team arrived at the entrance of the maze, it was already nightfall, but the surrounding campsites were still brightly lit.Adventurers and mercenaries are not considered regular armies, and the so-called regular armies in this world are not groups with strict military discipline.

Therefore, whenever such a place where desperadoes gather, there will always be various peddlers and ostentatious warblers. Lude doesn't like this kind of smoky atmosphere very much, but Shanis is beaming because she smells "snacks" smell.

The group dismounted in front of the camp, and adventurers nearby soon noticed their arrival and recognized the leader, Lude.

At this time, a group of dwarf soldiers rushed over, led by Jon.Although Lude was a little face-blind to the bearded dwarves, he was very impressed with Gulig's nephew Jon, and remembered his face after seeing him once.

Even among the dwarves, Jorn's beard is extremely thick and thick, and the beard, hair and eyebrows are all connected together, and two-thirds of the entire face is covered with hair, which is very recognizable.

"Master, I'm looking forward to you!"

"What's the specific situation? Are there any new changes?"

For what happened in the maze, Lu De, who had watched the "live broadcast", actually knew the truth, but deliberately pretended not to know.

So Jon recounted the series of situations that happened during the day to Lude in as much detail as possible, and took him to check the monument at the entrance of the maze. The maze tree above had already bloomed the second flower, but compared Since the first flower was fully open, the second blue flower only opened half of its petals.

The people on the ground didn't know what happened below, so they didn't understand what the half-bloomed flower meant.

"Master, can you see what this means?"

"The general meaning can still be deduced. This first flower should symbolize that the guardian of the first floor of the maze was broken through, but the second flower is only half open... maybe someone broke through the level, But it failed to defeat the second layer of guardians. You see, the part of the branch connecting the flowers is already lit up, which should mean that the person has passed by."

After pretentious reasoning, Lu De immediately said, do you know who are the current "first kill" teams?Jon immediately took out a newly compiled list and showed it to Lude.

On the list are all adventurer teams that entered the maze before breaking through the first floor and have not come out until now. There are eleven teams in total, and each team is marked with the number of teams.Lude saw Tring's team at a glance. They were at the bottom of the list, the only eight-member team on the list.

If Jon had to guess for himself, he would probably think that the team with the smallest number was the least likely.

"Have you informed the Viscount about the situation here?"

"I have notified you, but Uncle... No, Mr. Viscount, he used an owl to send a reply. I will make my own decision on this matter."

Jon scratched his head shyly.Obviously!Gulig didn't pay much attention to the labyrinth, so he didn't plan to be there in person.But this is good news for Lude.

Soon, Lude came to the hall of enlightenment located underground. The crowds of people queuing up had disappeared. Most of the adventure teams who were not on board did not want to enter the dangerous maze in a tired state, so they chose to go back to the camp to rest and recharge their batteries. Do not act until the next day.

However, there are still some people guarding here. They are waiting for the returned teams to come out, hoping to get some useful news from them.

"Master, this is the starting hall. My subordinates are here to maintain order while studying this maze. We dwarves must admit that this is a very incredible building, even if it was made by demons!"

Stretching out his hand and pointing to the maze in front of him, Jon had mixed feelings.The dwarves are a race that advocates wisdom and creativity, so this underground labyrinth with all kinds of exquisiteness in front of them is very appetizing to them.

Lude actually knew that when the dwarves just sent people to take over the maze, they first sent an exploration team to enter the maze. The risk is even greater than entering the maze!

The latter is like squatting in a dry toilet. If you make a mistake, you can at least climb up again. The former is like throwing firecrackers into the cesspit!

Coupled with the protests from the human adventurer's guild, the dwarves of the Steel Whip Clan had to give up their monopoly of the maze after weighing the pros and cons, and became the gatekeepers to maintain law and order.

Considering that it was getting dark now, and the people he brought were hurrying all the way, Lu De said that to be on the safe side, he should rest on the ground for one night first, and then enter the maze the next morning.

As a result, a group of people left the starting hall and returned to the ground. At the same time, on the third floor of the underground maze, Tlin and others, who had escaped by chance, were hiding in a small room that had just cleared the trap. Take a break inside.Since passing through the secret door to the third floor of the maze, their game experience has changed from the previous "meat pigeon lake" to "horror escape".

The overall style of the third floor of the maze is cold and dark. The room temperature in most areas is in the single digits, and in a few areas it will directly drop below freezing point, making people shiver in the cold.The most wicked thing is that this place is still very dark, and there are many light-sensitive and heat-sensitive traps.

When Tring and the others arrived here along the secret door sewer, they were almost soaked in the pipe, and the sudden drop in the indoor temperature made them trembling like sifting chaff.

So the surviving magician brother took out the camping oil stove he was carrying and wanted to light a fire to keep warm, but as soon as he lit the stove, it triggered the heat-sensitive mechanism nearby, and was pierced into a sieve by more than a dozen ice cones. More transparent.

This is also another pitfall of the secret door, that is, the exit is directly in the area with traps, instead of the "safe house" where the first room is located after opening the second floor normally.

After the magician brother died suddenly, Tring and Denzel were left in the same place, facing each other and trembling. Fortunately, after a while, the old housekeeper who couldn't hold on also slid down the pipe from above.The return of the strongest combat power made Tring feel a little more at ease.

The situation has developed to this point, and Tring no longer has the extravagant hope of conquering the maze to find artifacts and the like. He just wants to leave this ghostly place quickly, join the brigade of people staying on the ground, and then find a chance to kill that damn necromancer dick.

But the problem now is that the secret door passage sent them to the middle area of ​​the third floor. There are doors on all sides of the room, but no one knows which door is the way to go back.

In desperation, the three of them could only try to move in one direction first, but after walking not far, they heard a familiar and heavy footstep behind them.Everyone was shocked to find out that it was the master of the second floor who had chased him down.

No one thought that the price of jumping the level would be to be chased and killed by the boss on the second floor.As soon as Brother Sigou met, he started attacking without saying a word, and the three of them could only turn around and run away in embarrassment.

Fortunately, after Brother Sigou entered the third floor, his original charging skills were gone, so his movement speed and flexibility were not as good as those of the three big living people. Any chance to break through alone, and they always follow behind a few people, even if they throw away a short distance, as long as they are delayed by the trap mechanism for a while, they will catch up again, giving them great spirit invisibly oppression.

The adventure experience on the third floor is no different from a nightmare for them that is hard to wake up from!

End of this chapter

In the dark and cold labyrinth room, the trio of Trin who temporarily got rid of Brother Four huddled up in a corner to rest.

Because the rest of the accompanying guards were finished, and the chased along the way threw away almost all of their luggage, so the three of them found out in embarrassment that all the food and water on hand had been exhausted. Feeling hungry and thirsty all of a sudden, but don't know where to go back?

Although the old housekeeper is highly skilled and a peerless master in practicing ancient martial arts, he has not surpassed the physical limits of mortals after all, and still needs to eat, drink and drink.The previous battles had consumed a lot of energy, but now that they had no food or drink and could not get enough rest, no matter how powerful an expert was, he would turn into a soft-legged shrimp.

Seeing that the situation has developed to this point, Tring no longer has the calmness he had when he was on the first floor, and a sense of despair arises spontaneously.

He began to regret it, wishing he could travel through time and space, go back to a day ago, and slap himself hard at the time when he decided to move on.He even resented Denzel who didn't give him the right advice in time at that time. The other party didn't fulfill his obligation as a guide at all!

"The food and water are gone, and we can't find a way out. If we don't kill those four monsters, we will all starve to death in this ghost place!"

"Master Tring, don't be so pessimistic, there is still hope."

"Hope? Haha! What hope? The hope that the gods will suddenly come down to earth and pick us up!?"

"Master Tring, please calm down first. Think about it! Our team of adventurers is not the only one active in this maze. Your family guards and local hired personnel also entered the maze, but they didn't go with us. On the same route. We defeated the floor masters on the first floor before, and lured the four on the second floor to the third floor. Some people follow the path we opened up to the third floor, they are our hope!"

"This……"

After hearing Denzel's analysis, Tring calmed down a little, realizing that what the other party said was indeed reasonable.

The guards I brought from my hometown, although not all of them are as powerful as the old butler Sagin, but they are also elites with common sense.As long as we can meet them, at least returning to the ground by the same route will not be a problem.

Thinking of this, Tring rekindled his hope, but soon he was half-cooled because of his hungry stomach.Hope is indeed not dead, but the question now is, can they last until then?

The third floor of the entire maze seems to be based on the theme of "cold". The average temperature is around single digits, and some areas directly drop below freezing point.It was midsummer on the ground at this time, so Tring, who hadn't thought about going so deep at first, didn't prepare cold-proof equipment at all.

Poor Tlin, a rich young master, when has he experienced such a feeling of hunger and cold!

"It's so cold in this damn place, I can't control my hands and feet! We have to find a way to warm ourselves up."

"How about...do some warm-up exercises?"

"You are stupid! Aren't you even more hungry?"

Denzel scratched his head helplessly. At this time, there was a slight vibration from the ground again. It seemed that a giant was approaching them. The three of them looked at each other silently, and couldn't help but let out a groan in unison.

"Hurry up and transfer."

Before Brother Sigou could be killed, the three of them quickly moved to other areas.

Since the large map was accidentally lost during the previous escape, the three of them could only rely on Denzel's general memory to grope forward, trying to find the safe house on the third floor.

The safe house is the regular starting point for each floor of the maze, with a path leading to the upper floor, and it is theoretically the easiest place to meet other adventurers.

The three of them soon came to another area, and a large empty square appeared in front of them. The exit at the other end was only a hundred meters away, and there was ice under their feet.Denzel stepped up tentatively, without saying how much force he used, and a large "spider web" burst out on the ice instantly, scaring him and hurried back.

"No! The ice is too thin to stand on!"

"……senior!"

Seeing that the ice surface was so thin, and the pursuers were getting closer and closer behind him, Tring had almost instinctively turned to the old housekeeper for help.

The old butler is also in a bit of trouble at the moment. If he is alone, with his martial arts and body skills, let alone a thin layer of ice, with a few dead leaves floating on the water, he can fly like a dragonfly on water, but if he wants to Jumping with other people is more difficult.

Fortunately, Denzel tried it unbelievingly at this time, and was very pleasantly surprised to find that although the ice on the surface is very thin, there is actually a hidden road underneath, even if the ice is broken, it will not fall off. into the water.

But based on the experience and lessons Denzel has learned from exploring the maze many times, the builders of this ghostly place would never have designed such a simple and easy-to-break trap.

So with the cautiousness of exploring and moving forward, Denzel took the initiative to break through the ice surface, revealing the plank road below. The plank road is less than ten centimeters from the water surface, and the foot just stepped on it just below the instep, not even reaching the ankle.However, the width of the plank road is less than one meter, and there are bottomless orchid pools on both sides.

However, this is not the most frightening thing. The old butler has seen a lot, and he found that the pool water is unusual at a glance, so he took out a piece of paper and threw it into the water. The thin papyrus sank the moment it entered the water. go down.

"It turned out to be dense water!"

"Senior, what is dense water?"

"A liquid made by a dwarf alchemist. At first glance, it looks like ordinary clear water, but it can't float anything. Dwarf craftsmen use this thing to quench weapons. Be careful, if it falls , but I really can’t come up!”