The maggot nest is divided into 3 layers like the sewer, but the maggot nest is much smaller than the sewer, but the structure of the maggot nest is a little more complicated.

First of all, in the maggot nest, the map has no effect, because the passages here are not constant, some passages will collapse over time, and some new passages will be excavated by the sandworms, so it doesn't make any sense to map the place.

However, the entrance to each floor of the maggot's nest does not change, so it is not too difficult to reach the entrance of the next floor as long as you need to find the right direction.

According to the original plan, everyone in the Scarlet Squad went straight to the third layer of the lair, after all, their experience this time will last a long time, if they go to kill the dark gold boss of the lair first, maybe the boss can be refreshed again before the end of the experience.

The maggot's nest's dark gold boss is called the "Ice Worm Burrowing into the Ground", which is a very large sandworm that is too fat to even move easily, so it can only bury itself in the sand.

For this boss, in fact, most professionals are reluctant to face it, because the ice worm that burrows into the ground has a very terrifying aura skill - Divine Frozen.

As a paladin's fourth-order offensive aura, Divine Freeze is naturally extremely powerful, and any enemy shrouded in the Divine Frozen Aura will fall into a frozen state and take continuous damage.

However, Divine Freeze is not the only attack method of this boss, in addition to casting the Holy Freeze Aura, the Ice Worm that burrows into the ground has 3 characteristics - Cold Enhancement, Magic Resistance and Rapid Spawning.

The Icy Buff means that the Burrowing Sandworm's Holy Freeze will be more powerful than a regular paladin, and will definitely cast a Frost Nova of the same level as it upon death.

Magical resistance means that the damage that magic skills or elemental attacks can inflict on it will be extremely limited, and whether it is Xiang Yuanyang's death breath or Luni and Nina's magic, they are mainly elemental and magical attacks.

None of the above is a big deal, but what really annoys the pros is the spawning fast.

Whenever an enemy comes close to an ice worm that burrows into the ground, it will start laying eggs at a frantic rate, about 12 eggs per minute on average, and each egg will take less than ten seconds to hatch, and most importantly, these eggs will hatch from adult sandworms instead of larvae!

Just imagine what a headache it would be to face the harassment of swarms of sandworms while facing the continuous slowdowns and damage of the sacred ice, and what is even more troublesome is that the amount of blood of the ice insects burrowing into the ground is abnormally large, and it is almost impossible for an ordinary team to kill it in half an hour.

Because of the above points, the Ice Worm that burrows into the ground can be said to be the most unpopular dark gold boss among professionals in the entire Aranoqi Desert, and there is no one!

However, these are not too big problems for the Scarlet Squad, whether it is the camouflage suit of Death Soaring Far Away, Karin's Arctic Device set, or Anies's Gods' Twilight Helmet, all of them have the attribute of not being able to freeze, and Lin Ling's Iresa Refining Furnace also has the attribute of halving the freezing time.

In addition, the cold resistance of everyone in the team is not low, if Matthew turns on the anti-cold aura again, then the sacred frozen aura of the ice worm that burrows into the ground will not be able to cause too much trouble to everyone.

As for the eggs laid by the ice worm every 5 seconds, it only takes Lin Ling to solve it alone, as long as the minions around the ice worm that burrows into the ground are quickly cleaned up, then breaking an insect egg in 5 seconds is more than enough for Lin Ling's high damage.

In fact, the dark gold boss that no one cares about like the ice worm that burrows into the ground has always been the favorite of the blood red team, mainly because the longer the monsters exist, the better the things on their bodies will be, especially the dark gold boss.

As the so-called high risk and high reward, these bosses that ordinary people are unwilling to face are often those who have not been killed for a long time, so the explosion rate of the equipment is far higher than that of other dark gold bosses, coupled with Xiang Yuanyang's inhumane explosion rate, which makes the blood red team have the strength it has today.

Although the maggot nest is far less large than that of the sewers, the scope is not small, and when everyone came to the second floor, it was already 2 days later.

The monsters on the first floor of the maggot's nest are mainly three types: the death beetle, the scarab beetle, and the sandworm, and on the second floor, the stone worm, the evolution of the sandworm, will also appear.

However, even with the addition of sandworms, it could not have any effect on the people of the Blood Red Squad, and after another 2 days, everyone came to the third floor of the lair.

Once you reach the third floor, you will encounter the black locusts that are disgusting to the professionals, but as mentioned before, these black locusts will not cause much disturbance to the blood red team.

If you come across a spacious area with swarms of death beetles and black locusts, then you only need to stay at the entrance of the passage, with Jason and Anies fending off the monsters, and then the people behind you attacking, and these monsters can be easily eliminated.

The location of the Ice Worm that burrows into the ground is the same as the entrance to each level, so the Scarlet Team found it on the second day after entering the third floor.

On the way from the first layer of the maggot nest to the location of the ice worm that burrowed into the ground, everyone's harvest was already not small, and due to the long-term absence of professionals, the number of boss monsters and bright gold bosses here was obviously much higher than in other places.

Along the way, everyone has already harvested 3 pieces of bright gold equipment, and Nina's level is about to be raised to level 13, probably after killing the ice worm that drilled into the ground, Nina should be upgraded.

Coming to the entrance of the cave where the ice worm was, everyone did not rush to make a move, but slightly observed the distribution of monsters inside.

In a cave of about 30 square meters, the fat ice worm is in the center of the cave, and around it, there are about 40 sandworms and stone worms, of which 1 stone worm is still a bright gold boss, and there are 6 or 7 boss-level sandworms and stone worms at the boss level.

After a little deliberation, the battle plan was quickly drawn up, and according to Matthew's intentions, everyone rushed directly into the cave, and no one paid attention to the ice worms in the center, but directly began to slaughter the surrounding sandworms and stone worms.

Of course, they didn't forget to let Jason summon a ghost wolf to wait at the entrance of the cave, God knows if the people of the Redemption Legion will take advantage of them to suddenly come out while fighting the boss, so it's naturally better to be careful.

It turns out that the reason why the ice worm burrowing into the ground is called "the most disgusting dark gold boss" is not for nothing, although Matthew activated the anti-icy aura before starting the battle, except for Xiang Yuanyang, Karin, and Anies, everyone else fell into a frozen state the moment they entered the cave.

Although Lin Ling's Eressa's refining furnace has the effect of halving the freezing time, the divine freeze is an aura-type skill, so Lin Ling will fall into the frozen state again less than 1 second after recovering from the frozen state.

However, everyone had already expected this, it didn't take much time to clean up the monsters around the ice worm, and with the support of everyone's super cold resistance, the ice worm's sacred frozen aura did not cause too much damage to everyone, and everyone only needed to drink a few bottles of life potions to completely offset these damages.

Ten minutes later, only the boss of the ice worm that burrowed into the ground was left in the entire cave, and all the other monsters were solved one by one.

After that, there was no difference from everyone's original plan, Lin Ling was responsible for cleaning up the eggs laid by the ice worms, while the others began to launch a crazy attack on the ice worms.

At this time, the disadvantage of the ice worm itself being unable to attack was reflected, although its health was very high, but after ten minutes, it was still helplessly killed by everyone.

It is worth mentioning that the ice worm will not only cast the frost nova in the moment of death, but will also shoot out pieces of venom from its body wildly in all directions, which are very poisonous and last for a long time.

However, everyone had been prepared for this for a long time, so after the ice worm's health was gone, they began to retreat one after another, leaving only Xiang Yuanyang, who had the highest explosion rate, to continue attacking.

With Xiang Yuanyang's skills, it was naturally impossible to be attacked by the frost nova and venom of the ice worm, and at the moment when the ice worm died, Xiang Yuanyang directly used the super high speed of Chengfeng to dodge it.

The fountain-like venom spray of the ice worm lasted for more than ten seconds before stopping, although it did not cause any harm to everyone, but it still made everyone feel a little sore, just imagine how much they would have suffered if they didn't know these characteristics of the ice worm before.

However, when everyone saw the 1 piece of dark gold equipment dropped by the sandworm, the rest of their minds were gone, and all that was left was impatience.

Burke's Hand

Leather gloves

Defense: 14

Durability: 12-12

Required Level: 5

3% Steal Mana from Hit

3% Steals Life from Hit

+20% Defense Enhancement

+10 Defense

+20 mana

+10% Poison Resistance

Overall, this is a piece of equipment that is more suitable for witches or necromancers, and since Nina's current level is too poor, Matthew assigned this equipment to Nina.

I have to say that there are also disadvantages to joining the blood red team, at least Matthew was so excited that they couldn't sleep all night when they got their first dark gold equipment, but now Nina, on the other hand, didn't react at all after getting her first dark gold equipment.

In fact, it's no wonder that after Nina joined the Scarlet Squad, Matthew and the others directly got her a bright gold outfit, and the starting point was so high, and her vision naturally became higher.

Of course, everyone who got the dark gold equipment was happy, but they didn't forget that there was still a treasure chest in the cave that had not been opened!

Yes, there is a treasure chest next to the ice worm that burrows into the ground, and the Seven Heroes of the Human Race got the King's Staff, one of the accessories for synthesizing the Heradic Staff, from this treasure chest, and this treasure chest has obviously not been opened for a long time, and everyone is looking forward to what kind of good things will be in it.

And when Xiang Yuanyang opened the treasure chest, a look of disappointment appeared on everyone's faces, because the things that fell out of the box except for 1 piece of bright gold equipment were only some gold coins and potions, and there were no dark gold equipment or green suit components that everyone expected.

However, when everyone saw the appearance of the bright gold equipment clearly, the disappointment on their faces suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by a surprised expression, the reason why everyone had such a performance was because the bright gold equipment was actually a small talisman!

Trainer of the Sea Serpent

Small amulet

Required Level: 12

+1 Summoning Skills (Druids Only)

+20 mana