Chapter 277: Cave Roaming (I)

The Crystal Lizard is a large, dark yellow, six-legged lizard that bears a slight resemblance to the petrified lizard, and is estimated to have had the same ancestor hundreds of thousands of years ago. Although the Crystal Scale Lizard is much worse than the Petrified Lizard in terms of size, it is also nearly two meters long from head to tail.

Its scales are smooth and shiny, able to stand up slightly at an angle, and the joints of its head and six legs are covered in sky-blue crystals. When this monster uses its innate spell-like ability, 'Crystal Shine', its eyes and the crystal clusters on its body burst into intense light at the same time in an instant.

The light becomes even more dazzling when reflected by the scales on its body, causing all enemies in front of the Crystal Lizard to fall into blindness and a brief coma for a certain period of time.

However, with the obsidian monocle in the way, this rather powerful skill is no longer a big deal.

Barrett finished using his skills on the crystal scale lizard in front of him before opening his right eye, which had been closed. The brute found that the big lizard was rushing towards him at a very fast speed, apparently trying to knock him to the ground in one fell swoop, and then bite his throat to achieve a fatal effect.

This Crystal Lizard is quite sophisticated, and it is very proficient in using the attack method of using the stun skill and then following a set of combos.

After Barrett saw such a situation, his body did not retreat but advanced, and directly collided with the other party. He used the small round shield in his right hand to easily block the fierce attack of the crystal-scaled lizard, and the long dagger in his left hand stabbed into the opponent's eye with precision, and stirred it vigorously......

The third one, done! Barrett wiped the sweat from his face and silently counted in his heart.

Adequate preparation, combined with the barbarian's extremely sophisticated combat skills, made the hunt process quite easy. However, the sweltering and closed environment here made him feel a little uncomfortable.

It would be nice to bring a magic trinket or leather armor that always has a 'endure environment'! Barrett thought to his wish list again.

I'll talk about that later.

Helping the lizard's corpse turn over, the brute stabbed the lizard's jaw with a long steel dagger, then slashed along the softer abdomen all the way to the tip of the tail, and began to peel the skin.

Although the corpse could be packed into the spatial ring in its entirety, the mission required the skins of thirteen crystal-scaled lizards, which was a little too much, and Barrett was worried that his mental power might be exhausted.

And if you just fold the peeled lizard scales and put them into the space ring, then the volume and weight of the item will be reduced by a large part, and the consumption of mental power will be much smaller.

The adventure in the underground cannot be slackened, and the barbarian needs to retain enough mental strength to prevent accidents from happening.

Packing the perfectly peeled scales, which were cut together with the crystal clusters on the joints of the lizard's head and legs, Barrett was pleased with the proficiency of his skinning skills.

He washed his bloodied hands and dagger with a water bag, took a sip of cool well water (from the deep well in the inn of Crystal Shine), picked up the glowing stones he had thrown on the ground during the battle, and continued along the tracks in the abandoned mine.

Occasionally, one or two branch tunnels can be found in the mine, but those tunnels have not really taken shape, and they have only been dug for a short period before stopping.

Barrett encounters the first Shining Lizard in one of the branch tunnels, and finds a mine hoe and a miner's lamp at the end of the tunnel. The miner's lamp had been broken, and the oil inside had seeped into the ground, leaving a dark brown oil mark.

And in the other branch tunnel, there is actually a nearly ten-meter-long reticulated python. The thick reticulated python was entrenched on the ground, with a bulging belly, as if it was full and taking a nap.

Our barbarian adventurer hesitated for a moment, then turned back and left, ready to wait until he returned from his mission, and then decide whether to pack it up or not. The main reason is that this guy's size is really big, and it will be more difficult to retract the space ring after killing, and its value is not too high, only the leather will be worth some money.

After all, the reticulated python belongs to ordinary beasts, and compared to the Titan python in the Misty Forest, it is too inferior in terms of size, attack speed and destructive power, and the toughness of the leather.

Barrett actually wanted a leather armor suit made of Titan python skin, but that thing wasn't easy to touch, and it wasn't easy to kill......

The empty giant crystal cave was at the end of the track, and the space inside was quite large, the size of a small human village, and the vertical height was more than twenty meters.

There was a drop of nearly twenty meters between the bottom of the crystal cave and the end of the track, and Barrett threw the glowing stone in his hand and looked down.

The point of light illuminated the two vertical tracks and ziplines used to transport minecarts on the rock wall, and next to the vertical tracks was an old ladder with several boards that had broken and appeared to have been broken by something.

The glowing stone fell to the ground and bounced a few times, revealing a small area at the bottom, and it didn't seem to be dangerous.

Barrett tried the old wooden ladder with his feet, and the ladder was made of hard, flexible ash wood, and although several of the boards on the wooden ladder were broken, it felt much stronger than the brute had imagined, and it seemed that it should still work.

Since the young man's companions were able to go down the ladder, it meant that the problem was not too great. Barrett stepped cautiously on the ladder and slowly reached the bottom of the cave step by step.

He picked up the glowing stone and looked around briefly. There were many traces of excavation on the nearest rock face, and even now, you can still see many extremely small white crystals, black ink crystals, brown smoky crystals, and rainbow crystals containing bubbles, reflecting the glow on the glowing stones.

These scattered remnants of crystals are all left after the excavation of the crystal pillars, and most of their surface and interior have some ice cracks due to the excavation process, and their value is already very low. But even so, only the middle and upper parts of the tall rock wall still remained, and the lower part was already pitch black, and had long been dug up by some idle people who tried their luck, and there was no trace of crystal.

Barrett imagined that those crystal pillars more than ten meters long were crisscrossing the entire cavern like a sharp sword, growing wildly from all sides to the center, and the scene should be very shocking.

Just as he was hesitating where to go, he suddenly heard a faint sound of footsteps in the darkness in the distance. Immediately afterward, the footsteps grew louder and louder, mixed with some sounds of fighting and shouting.

Barrett pinned the long dagger to his waist, pressed the glowing stone into a hole in the nearby rock wall, reached out and drew his twin knives, 'Uno's fangs', and stood in place and waited quietly.

After a dozen heartbeats, a dim light appeared in the darkness in the distance. The light was at the corner of a corridor that connected to the cave, and the brightness grew higher and higher with the sound of footsteps.

The next moment, three humans and a dwarf ran out of the corner, and they didn't take two steps to spot Barrett after turning the corner, and then they were collectively stunned.

The human at the back of the line was the first to react, glancing at the other side of the corner of the corridor, and then shouted, "Don't be stunned, run!"

After that, all of them rushed in the direction of Barrett.

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