On the crystal energy stove, the thick soup gradually stirred up strings of bubbles, the milky white soup exuded the aroma of cream, and small gray-brown pieces of meat rolled in the soup, accompanied by the brown tubers of Vaughn vine. The soup was tumbling, and steaming heat wafted out of the pot and swirled toward the top of the cave. Several girls lay tired beside the crystal energy furnace, staring blankly at the starry spars on the top of the high cave with their arms on their pillows. Pannis held a calf-thick Arrangan in his hand, and the knife in his right hand dexterously roamed over the Arrangan, and the thick skin of the Arrangan fell to the ground with the swing of the knife, revealing the white and tender fleshy part inside.

"When you're ready to eat, get up. The knife made a flexible turn between Pannis's fingers, and the trend changed from longitudinal to horizontal, and in the blink of an eye, Aran Gen, which exuded the peculiar fragrance of plants, was cut into thick slices of half a centimeter thick and equal size, and flew out of Pannis's hand, and the pieces were connected in a line in the air, falling directly into the boiling broth. As soon as they enter the water, the originally white fleshy root slices turn into a faint goose yellow color under the action of temperature, and they appear more crystal clear as they roll in the water.

"It smells so enticing. Catherine sat up cross-legged, looked at the soup in the pot with her chin in her hand, and said with a wry smile: "But I'm afraid everyone won't have any appetite, after all, the last battle just now was really ...... Tsk tsk. ”

A few hours ago, after everyone rushed out of the cave without any danger, they did not encounter any enemies along the way, and broke through the fifth and sixth layers in a row, and directly entered the seventh layer. After entering the seventh layer, the light here was even brighter than the first two layers, and large hedrons of hedron grew together in clusters, which looked dazzling. The girls then discovered that sometimes the environment with light is more of a headache than the darkness, and when it is bright everywhere, people in it will soon feel a wave of vertigo, and after a long time, there will even be ghosts in front of them, and it is impossible to observe the surrounding environment to find enemies. In this case, it may be effective to wear sunglasses to mitigate the effects of bright light, but who would carry sunglasses with them during their adventures deep underground, except for Ike, who knows the situation and is also a crypt dwarf?

In desperation, the girls only squinted their eyes as much as possible through the clusters of hedrons, but fortunately Ike introduced that there were only a few places where this kind of hedron would grow intensively, and everything would be normal after leaving here. But this road is not smooth, there are a large number of snake-like insects growing in these spar clusters, they are about the thickness of a thumb, but the length of the body can often reach three meters after stretching the body, the body shell is dazzling bright white, the tail is tightly wrapped around the spar cluster, the body shrinks to a length of tens of centimeters one by one, straight and straight across the highest brightness of a cluster of spars, it looks like a horizontal spar, under the interference of strong light, it is almost impossible to find their abnormality. Once a creature passes by, the insect will pop out like a spring compressed to the limit, returning to its original length, and the cone-shaped carapace of the head can penetrate deeply into the body of the prey, followed by the whole body will quickly burrow in, and start to gnaw on the prey's ** from the inside.

This is a mutant of the arrow bug, the girls used to see the distant relatives of this bug in the forest of mist in the glittering forest, when they were hidden in the trees, and only about thirty centimeters in size, but now these are not only ten times larger in size, but also mutated to grow with the hedron. When they first walked here, if it weren't for Ike explaining in advance that there would be arrow bugs here, the girls wouldn't have been able to find these insects disguised as hedrons, and even if they were reminded in advance, they would have squinted and searched for a long time before they barely found these insidious bugs.

No one knows if the power of these bugs can break through the shield of the legendary level, and no one wants to test it with their bodies, so whenever they pass through the large crystal clusters that can't be bypassed, Catherine will use two iris shields to tightly block all parts of the body, and the others hide on the other side of Catherine and pass carefully, during which the arrow worms were alarmed a few times, but they still stopped in front of the metal cast iris shield, but after the dull impact sound, a few shallow depressions were left on the iris shield, and the arrow worms that were hit back on the crystal clusters were unscathed, and the carapace of the head was unscathed, which shows how hard the arrow part is。

Leaving the bright and dazzling area, the density of the surrounding spars returned to its normal sparseness, and the girls could finally open their eyes without scruples, but as soon as they opened their eyes, everyone encountered the fiercest battle since this adventure. It was in a sparse environment of spars, the existence of a small amount of spars above the head allowed everyone to see the surrounding things clearly, as soon as they entered this area, the five people of the adventure group felt a very strong demonic energy, this is also the first time that everyone knows, in addition to sunlight, the high concentration of spar brilliance can also inhibit the spread of demonic energy, because of this, the dark space above the fifth layer has not been eroded by demonic energy, and below the fifth layer, I am afraid that except for the area illuminated by a large number of spars, the other positions have all been occupied by demonic energy。

Not long after everyone walked into this area, they were suddenly attacked by a large number of demonized insects. The natural desire to attack living beings makes these demonic insects extremely fierce, and their intelligence is extremely low, in order to kill living beings, they have no regard for their own lives, as long as they can bite a living being, it doesn't matter if they are torn to pieces.

Because the demonic energy is afraid of the light of the hedrons, the demonized creatures also dare not leave this area, so there are quite a lot of demonic insects gathered here, although the adventure group sensed the demonic energy and prepared in advance, but never expected that such a large number of demonized creatures would come at the same time, and for a while, all the space around the team was filled by demonized creatures, and there was even very little room to move.

The battle has been at a fever pitch from the very beginning, and the insects have made them ignore the terrain, whether it is the roof of the cave or the ground, they can come from any direction like a tide, and they can look the same way, surrounded by overlapping insects as high as a hill, and the visual effect alone will bring endless pressure to people's hearts.

Faced with this situation, Pannis directly expanded the inherent spiritual realm, bringing more than half of the bugs into it, and also giving the girls room to adjust their tactics. In a desperate situation, Catherine directly turned on the legion's defenses, and the knights' phantoms occupied all the space around the girls, following Lina to call out an invisible barrier, blocking the insects' intention to pass through the gaps of the knights.

But it can defend against the ground, but it can't defend against the air, whether it is a flying bug, or a bug with climbing ability, it can easily break through mid-air and drop directly to the top of the girls' heads, fortunately, there are Vivian and Freya, Vivian does not dare to use fire attribute magic easily, and can only replace it with a large area of wind attribute magic. In an instant, she saw a colorful crystal bottle flying upwards from her hand, exploding in mid-air and creating violent magic fluctuations. Countless blades of wind swirled above the girls' heads, grinding all the fallen insects into pieces like a meat grinder, and the minced flesh of the insects and juice rained down from mid-air, and the girls were covered in a foul-smelling liquid. If an extraordinarily powerful insect breaks through Vivien's Wind Blade Purgatory, the roar of the Crystal Gun will sound, and the cold energy will bombard the broken bug in time, freezing the demonized insect into a ball of solid ice and flying backwards, crashing into several pieces on the rock wall.

As for Ike as a guide, he now knows that he is actually a special kind of long-range axe warrior, he uses a throwing type of whirling axe, two whirling battle axes fly out of his left and right hands, hovering in the air like butterflies, and working with Freya to clean up the worms that have slipped through the net.

The high-intensity battle lasted for half an hour, and when Pannis returned from the space of the inherent spiritual realm for the second time, the five people had fallen to the ground exhausted, and they didn't care about the overflowing insect juice and the broken flesh and limbs all over the ground, so they collapsed with the broken flesh on their pillows, and they didn't want to move a finger, and roughly estimated, not counting the bugs that were taken away and cleaned up by Pannis twice, only the five legends destroyed them by their own hands, the number was more than 50,000.

At the urging of Pannis, the five people barely got up, exhausted and advanced for another hour, and only stopped to camp and rest before entering the entrance to the eighth floor.

"It's my fault. Ike also followed Catherine to prop up his body, his hands were trembling slightly from the loss of strength, and took the broth handed by Pannis: "When I came here before, the number of demonized creatures was still very small, but I didn't expect to gather so many this time." I'm really sorry that my negligence almost caused irreparable damage. ”

"I can't blame you either. Catherine shook her head and said, "The concentration and range of demonic energy will always change at any time, and no one can predict it, not to mention that the last time you came was ten years ago." In fact, if I had been fully prepared when I entered the Demonic Energy Zone, I wouldn't have been so miserable now. Okay, let's do the things that have been learned later, you guys, hurry up, and eat something before resting anyway. ”

"But, big sister, we really can't eat it. Freya sat up with a bitter face and said sadly, "When I think of the feeling I just felt, I ...... ...... vomit"

The corners of Catherine's mouth twitched, and she seemed to feel the fishy and slippery insect juice staining her body again, and although it had been washed five or six times in a row, the disgusting touch could not be diluted. She gritted her teeth hard, barely suppressed the desire to vomit, and said astringently: "In order to replenish your strength, you have to eat if you can't eat, even if you vomit it out after eating, you can absorb a little, hurry up and get it up for me." (To be continued.) )