Act 105 The Dark Hive II
"Ding, enter the new map 'Dark Hive'. ()”
The translucent message panel in front of Tang Ze's eyes pulsed out of new information, and he casually removed the panel and looked at the surrounding scenery.
The deep underground passages, the walls made of black, as hard as steel, the larvae crawled in and out of the holes in the walls, not noticing Tang Ze, an uninvited guest.
Of course, this is also the reason why he has restrained his momentum, if he really lets go of his momentum as a Demon Sinking Lord, these larvae will probably freeze to death in an instant.
When the time comes, the other swarms will flee in a hurry, and it will not be good for the sandworm leaders to scatter in all directions.
"However, this is not a 'maggot nest', the location of the 'dark worm nest' has never been seen before, and it is not an area in the game."
Tang Ze groaned for a while, the dark worm nest may be connected to the maggot nest, and he just went on.
Click, click
Lv21, Lv19, ordinary scarabs, they are curled up in warm bubble bags, just blocking Tang Ze's way.
Hearing Tang Ze's undisguised footsteps, the two ordinary scarab beetles suddenly opened their compound eyes, and their cold and sharp gaze instantly fell on Tang Ze.
Translucent bubble bags exploded, and with the sound of wings vibrating, the two scarabs wanted to take off and disappear into the darkness.
"Don't be so nervous."
Tang Ze's expression was calm, and he continued to walk forward, "The experience points provided by low-level monsters are too small, you should be glad. ”
As soon as his mind moved, the rich evil breath gathered on his body, and the hideous and terrifying dark green armor spread with fine magic patterns, and the green light flashed away, and the wings behind the two ordinary scarabs evaporated out of thin air, and the soaring body slowed down and fell to the ground.
It landed right in front of Tang Ze's heels.
Zizi, zizi.
The mouthparts of the two ordinary scarab beetles twitched, bouncing up like cheetahs, and their sharp forelimbs slashed towards Tang Ze's legs.
Woohoo.
The sound of breaking through the air was a flash, followed by a hard grinding sound, and the two ordinary scarab beetles slid past Hei Kai's surface, only to find that the sharp teeth of their forelimbs seemed to be showing signs of melting.
"Oh, the current dark green armor doesn't activate the erosion pattern, but it also has the power of erosion?"
Tang Ze's eyes flickered, and he said in surprise, "It's really interesting." ”
Originally, the dark green armor could only play a defensive role without releasing the green magic pattern, but recently it seems to have changed again, not only the sharp forelimbs of ordinary scarabs, but even the elemental power that has been bombarded can dissolve part of it, perhaps the essential power that inspired the evil breath.
This change of events was beneficial to Tang Ze.
Realizing the strength of the other party, the two ordinary scarab beetles cautiously stepped back and pulled away from each other, almost a meter away, their tails shining with white arcs.
Thunder is the scarab's last attack, and this attack is very costly, and it is not usually used.
If Tang Ze was still standing stupidly, resisting these powerless thunders with terrifying defenses, it would be too boring.
"Huh."
Zla! Tang Ze's chuckle was overshadowed by the sound of thunder, he raised his hands at an unimaginable speed, the fine green magic patterns instantly lit up, and the big hand filled with black gas grabbed the surging lightning, like a tiger biting a flying bird.
Forcibly stop the momentum of the thunder rush.
Zizizizi
The terrifying big hand grasped all the outward expansion of thunder in the palm of his hand, and then clenched it slowly and firmly, accompanied by the crackling arc sound, the dazzling white lightning gradually shrank, and finally made a dull sound, turning into smoke and dissipating in Tang Ze's palm.
Vanish.
"I can't imagine that I'll have a day when I crush elemental magic with pure physical strength."
Tang Ze was very satisfied, looked at the palm of his left hand with light smoke, and sighed.
With his strength, he grasped the incredible magic and pinched the magic to burst, which was absolutely impossible in the past.
First of all, there must be the amazing reflexes to keep up with the thunder, there is also the subtle control that does not let the thunder overflow from the palm of the hand, and secondly, there must be a terrifying grip to make those inflated subtle lightning elements shatter into something more essential.
It's not so much a pinch explosion as an instant decomposition.
With sheer strength, the Demon Lord has reached a new stage of biological power.
However, these two ordinary scarab beetles would not understand Tang Ze's strength, they just began to instinctively fear, and the thunder they used with all their strength did not defeat the enemy, and they were undoubtedly fish and meat to be slaughtered at this moment.
"Well, if you keep walking, you should be able to see a blue boss-level scarab, and maybe a dark gold scarab, just like the one that crawled out of the sand."
Glancing at the two ordinary scarab beetles that were limp on the ground, Tang Ze prepared to step over them and continue forward.
The spirit of perception was shocked, and the new news was reported.
In the front and back of the passage where Tang Ze was, there were a large number of scarab beetles quickly approaching, they should have sensed the vibration of the thunder shattering just now, and realized that there was a foreign enemy invading this place.
"I wanted to go on a little longer."
Tang Ze stopped, he believed that there must be a wisdom leader in the scarab swarm, and talking to the wisdom leader was the most effective and direct means, so there was no need for him to continue wandering aimlessly.
Rata la rat, rata rat rat.
There were several large scarab beetles pouring out of the darkness, they were the leaders of the blue level of Lv20-Lv23, and the pattern on their tails was much more complex than that of ordinary scarabs, as monsters with rudimentary intelligence, their eyes moved back and forth between the two scarabs and Tang Ze who were paralyzed on the ground, obviously analyzing the situation.
They were very wary of Tang Ze, after all, there were two limp companions at the other party's feet.
The noise was getting denser and denser, and more and more scarabs were blocking the front and rear passages.
Tang Ze probed the strength of these scarab beetles clearly.
"There are thirty-five ordinary scarabs around Lv20, seven blue scarabs at Lv23-Lv24, and two dark gold scarabs at Lv27-Lv28."
Tang Ze analyzed the strength of this group of scarab beetles and found that the strength of the monsters in this place was still relatively strong.
With the scarab beetles that surrounded Tang Ze now, with their hard carapaces and excellent speed, as well as the unstoppable thunder, they could fight against all of Lu Gaoin's professions, and even have the potential to win.
"It seems that Aranok has been corrupted by demons a little deeper than Canduras... No, if I take over Canduras... Never mind. ”
Tang Ze was ridiculous at the idea of comparing himself to the forces of hell, shook his head slightly, and then his gaze fell on the two dark gold scarabs that slowly pushed aside the swarm and walked towards the two dark gold scarabs that came to him.
Different from the general scarab beetle's red carapace and pitch-black limbs, the carapace pattern of the dark gold scarab beetle is complex, showing gray-white, and the limbs are not all pitch black, with some fine red lines wrapped around it.
Compared to the normal scarab beetle and the blue leader scarab beetle, their size is the largest, which is also in line with the characteristics of ordinary monsters, the stronger the strength, the larger the size.
Their red compound eyes reflected Tang Ze's hideous figure, as if they were observing.
"They all got together, and I didn't have to find them one by one."
Tang Ze naturally took a step forward, but this step was undoubtedly a signal of battle in the eyes of the scarab swarm.
A terrible scream echoed in the passage, and the two dark gold scarabs quickly retreated, and more than ten ordinary scarabs swept to the front, pressing down their bodies slightly, which was a sign that they were about to release thunder, Tang Ze had already paid attention to them when dealing with those two ordinary scarabs before.
Crackling, white lightning leaped at their tails, but only flickered twice, silent like the muzzle of a dumb gun.
In a solemn atmosphere, these scarab beetles looked vigilantly at Tang Ze's location.
At some point, a thick, fog-like evil breath spread out from the passage, and these evil breaths seemed to be alive, suppressing all the surrounding elemental power, not only thunder, but also frost flames.
"You."
Tang Ze's green eyes panned, and his gaze directly crossed the row of ordinary scarabs that were slumped on the ground in front of him, and looked at the nearest blue leader-level scarab.
As soon as the words fell, this blue leader-level scarab beetle melted at a terrifying speed, and its body instantly decomposed into an evil breath and dissipated, and a large cloud of white qi was also swallowed by the evil breath surging around it and controlled by Tang Ze.
+479 XP.
Lv25's experience bar changed, and he also heard a beep for the success of gaining experience points.
It's too simple, and this ability to manipulate the Breath of Evil with his mind gives him an absolute advantage when it comes to dealing with any monster weaker than himself.
An icy pressure descended on all the scarabs around them, and fine black frost clung to their carapaces, immobilizing them.
"Seven blue bosses and two dark gold bosses are worth the trip."
Tang Ze's eyes froze, and the remaining six blue leader-level scarab beetles hidden in the swarm also quickly melted, like ice and snow baked by flames. The other two dark gold scarabs resisted for a while, forcibly breaking free from the evil breath that permeated them, and wanted to escape.
However, it was entangled in the dark green threads, and it was dragged back into the black mist, slowly dissolving in a terrible scream, turning into white gas and dispersing the black mist.
In a short time, Tang Ze had digested all the experience points and evil breath, and the surging black qi was all withdrawn to the surface of the dark green armor on his body, and only thirty-seven ordinary scarab beetles were left in this place.
Tang Ze didn't exterminate all the scarabs in this place, on the one hand, it was unnecessary, on the other hand, he found through the spirit of perception that there were still some of these ordinary scarabs with advanced potential, and when they advanced, it would not be too late to harvest them.
He won't do this way of killing chickens and taking eggs.
"This place seems to be just the outer edge of the dark hive, and it seems that there are better surprises waiting for me inside."
Tang Ze's spirit of perception found that there was a fork in the passage in front of him, and these scarab beetles that fell to the ground seemed to come from the passage on the left, since these scarab beetles had lost their value, then he walked along the passage on the right.
After advancing about five hundred meters, two huge, pitch-black pincer sandworms slowly crawled over, they seemed to be stone worms in charge of patrolling, this sandworm has a pitch-black carapace on the surface, several times harder than ordinary yellow carapaces, and their food is a special mineral.
However, their perception range is far less than that of Tang Ze, and he has not yet been discovered.
"Stone worms, this kind of monster I remember can only be seen in maggot nests."
Tang Ze kept an eye on it, although the map now showed that he was still in the dark worm nest, he could already be sure that the maggot nest was connected to the dark worm nest, and even if it was not connected, there must be a huge bug monster boss like the mother of sandworms here.
It's time to get intel
With this in mind, Tang Ze's body was shrouded in the diffuse evil breath, turning into darkness and moving closer to the position of the two stone worms.
Five meters, three meters, one meter.
It was almost as close as the two stone worms noticed that something was wrong, and their tiny bead-like eyes moved, but it was too late.
The swollen evil breath pierced into their heads, and with a twitch of their bodies, their life force vanished at a terrifying rate, and not only that, but some of their memories were captured by the magic pattern and fed back to Tang Ze in the form of images.
Quickly filtering out the spam messages, Tang Ze selected a few key images.
There are eight huge nest squares connected to at least eight passages, and there are eight huge dark gold stone insects alone, in addition to countless yellow sandworms, there are more than three honeycomb-like nests, and in the center of the nest, a huge red fat worm undulates and seems to be breathing.
It seems that this red worm mother should be the mother worm of the dark worm nest, and its appearance reminds Tang Ze of the mother of the sandworm in the Diablo 2 game, but the worm mother in the game is in the maggot nest and is yellow.
"It seems that the level of this insect mother is not low, and it will take a lot of effort to count the dark gold insects entrenched around."
Tang Ze flipped through the images when he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something in the depths of the three hives.
If you look closely, it seems to be human.
What's going on?
The clarity of the image is limited by the stone worm's vision, and even if it is magnified several times, it is still very blurry, and it is impossible to see what is inside through the hole in the hive.
Some conjectures took shape in Donzawa's mind, and he closed the panel.
"The Authority of the Dead."
Casually unleashing the skill of greedy power, in a swirling black mist, skeleton warriors in excellent armor gradually appeared, their deep eye sockets swaying bright red soul fire, a total of five, respectfully kneeling to Tang Ze.
These are Lv21's blue boss-level skeleton warriors, whose combat power is comparable to that of stone insects of the same level, and they move quickly, so they can find the passage to the main lair as soon as possible and save time.
"Remember to avoid stone insects when you encounter them."
Generally, the speed of stone worms can't keep up with these skeleton warriors, and they can be summoned back when they die anyway, and they can efficiently find the right passage with them.
Soon, at Tang Ze's signal, the five skeleton warriors dispersed, and Tang Ze himself found a passage to advance.