"The next thing is that several elite monsters appear at the same time, or directly encounter the boss."

The Tieflin sorcerer looked at Charles a few more times with dissatisfaction, and continued his unfinished words, reprimanding mercilessly, "There is no need to hide it at this time. ”

"It's just speculation, it's inconclusive." Charles shrugged, his eyes full of interest, "Keep walking, I feel like after encountering the boss and killing the boss, this dungeon maze exploration can be over." ”

Half an hour later.

With an explosion, a strong rancid smell emanated from the dungeon's passages.

The fourteen people ran a long way to avoid the boss's 'death self-explosion' before he died, and when the explosion subsided, the group stepped on the broken stone floor covered with a layer of slimy lichen and returned to the boss's death area.

The cell collapsed in large swaths, a strange creature in the shape of a sphere that took up the entire space of the cell, its body was covered in mud and gravel, and the exposed areas were also incomplete, and a green bubbling liquid was gurgling from the opening, and a strong foul smell filled the air.

"[Rancid fungus] (canon, lord), death ......"

Looking at the corpse information, Charles completely ignored the foul smell and circled around the huge body of the boss.

"Luckily, the boss died."

Oster and the others all clenched their noses tightly, with fear and fear in their eyes.

Not long ago, except for the warriors and priests with higher physique attributes, everyone else in the team was affected by the foul smell aura of the boss, and they were nauseated and dizzy. Even if the antidote is swallowed, the negative state does not improve.

The female members of 'Meow Meow' and Anya all subconsciously stayed away from Charles. In the previous boss battle. Charles is the main player, and the scene of him fighting the giant orb fungus with the flail still lingers in the minds of the female members.

The rancid fungus is actually a filthy bryophyte that feeds on decaying flesh. Charles put away his shield and shackles, and felt his chin to look at the boss's mutilated corpse.

Odd.

It's weird.

Although he has been promoted to the canon, he will not feel much pressure to deal with lord creatures of the same rank. However, the battle was too simple, and Charles killed the rancid fungus with just a swing of the flail.

I'm thinking about it. Charr's pupils shrank slightly, and he watched the faint magical light that suddenly appeared on the surface of the rancid fungus corpse.

In less than a second, the monster's corpse seemed to have been disintegrated by the spell light, leaving the collapsed cell with only sand and green filthy liquid.

The members of Nodashir watched in amazement as their environment changed. I can't even turn my head.

"What's going on......"

"What's going on with those spell aura...... Could it be this boss. And the strange plants in front of them are just the illusions of the El Archmage? ”

Ignoring the voices of his friends behind him, Charles raised his eyebrows and walked into the cell, digging through the dirt to find a green sign, which looked like some kind of pass.

"Look, there's a change at the end of the passage!" Oster's exclamation drew the group to turn their heads.

The dungeon passage, which was originally deep and endless, I don't know when a few rootless ghost fires floated up, green and faint. But fortunately, this ghost fire has no life, and is obviously a pure lighting tool. In the green glow of the ghostfire, the darkness at the end of the passage was dispelled, replaced by an illusory stone arch.

"What the hell is this place?" Seeing the door, Charles couldn't help but frown.

The dungeon world behind the secret door was already unexpected, and he thought that behind the door was the mage's study, but now it looks more like a laboratory in the mage tower.

In the mage tower of the ancient mage, the laboratory is not what people know, the space full of utensils seems cramped, more like a half-plane!

"If it's a lab......"

Thinking of the strangely shaped monster corpses in the dungeon, and the cells where some of the doors were open and the prisoners were missing, I shuddered through Charles's heart.

Although the monsters that escaped may have died for a long time, if any monsters survived, it would be a nightmare for the Nordasil team.

However, there is only one way in front of us.

Charles looked back, and since he entered through the secret door, he couldn't sense the breath of the main material plane.

Moreover, due to the existence of the [Return of the Demon Aoi - Awakening the Ancient Altar (1)] mission, he had to break through this mysterious space.

"Huh?" Charles opened the task box and found that there was an extra row of small print prompts in the mission description information:

"You've found the 'El's Hill', which was once the home of a high-level spellcaster, and may have hidden the records of the ancient Activation Altar."

Seeing this row of words, Chardon was in good spirits, and his previous hesitation was swept away.

The system prompt is undoubtedly more credible than his speculation, and since the mission system is marked as such, it means that he and the team must have gained something here!

"Enter!"

Charles beckoned to his friends, and he walked to the stone arch illuminated by green ghostfire, before disappearing through the magic curtain.

Swish.

The dazzling light made Charles, who had just come out of the darkness, quite uncomfortable.

Stepping out of the arch with his eyes covered, Charles was stunned by the cheers of the mountains and the tsunami.

He turned his head around mechanically, horror in his eyes.

An ancient arena, not a laboratory!

"The dungeon is used to hold slaves in the arena?" Charles's thoughts turned.

At this moment, he was fighting at the entrance of the arena, enjoying the warm welcome of tens of thousands of spectators on stage. The screams and eardrums vibrate, the feeling was similar to attending a concert, and Charles suppressed his heartbeat and forced himself to calm down and observe the arena.

"Challenger, welcome to the Bloody Arena."

A middle-aged male referee dressed in aristocratic attire greeted Charles with a smile.

"Undead?" Charles wrinkled his nose as the middle-aged man approached, and he immediately smelled a strong evil aura. But he was a follower of Ogma, and the teachings did not force him to purify every evil creature.

So, Charles suppressed his doubts and decided to listen to what the middle-aged man had to say.

"Pastor, I know you're confused, but in the Bloody Arena, only the victors are qualified to ask questions, and the losers can only return to the Styx......" The man chuckled with a certain sense of danger.

"Loser, will it really die?"

Charles couldn't figure out the form of this middle-aged man's existence for the time being, so he simply didn't think about it anymore, "Who are you?" ”

"Me?"

The middle-aged man gracefully took off his black high-brimmed hat, leaned over to perform a standard ancient aristocratic etiquette, bared his white teeth, and said, "I am the administrator of the Bloody Arena, Turce, but others like to call me another name, 'Butcher of Purgatory'." (To be continued.) )