Chapter 24: Self-Strategy

"And what about your vocation?" Xu Shuo asked.

"My vocation ......," Lilian looked a little disappointed, "my vocation is to be a teacher, not a combat profession. ”

"Isn't a teacher also very good, it means that you are very good at teaching." Xu Shuo said.

"Although the teacher is also very good, I want a magician vocation that can use specialized magic to fight demons." Liliam talked about her ideal career with a look of yearning.

"Really? If it were me, I'd rather be a rich young master in a mansion, eating, drinking, and having fun, wouldn't it be more comfortable than fighting and killing outside? Xu Shuo began to speak as an otaku, "You can do whatever you want every day, and there are beautiful maids with you all day long, and it feels cool to think about it." ”

Lilian shook her head and said, "That's not the case, although it may be too ignorant to say this, but being born in a noble family is not so easy." Every day when you open your eyes, from getting up to walking, you have to pay attention to a lot of rules, and there are many requirements when talking to your subordinates and your family. It's really tiring to bear everyone's expectations......"

"Well, it doesn't look like what I imagined." Xu Shuo shrugged his shoulders as he spoke, continuing to explore.

"What about Mr. Xu Shuo, what is your vocation?" Lilian asked.

Xu Shuo hesitated for a moment, and finally said truthfully: "Thief, my vocation is to be a thief. ”

"Huh?" Blurting out an exclamation, Liliam hurriedly covered her mouth, but it was too late.

Xu Shuo turned his head and observed Lilian with the [Eye of Love].

The opinion rating is 11, which is down, and rightfully so.

"Are you scared?" Xu Shuo asked.

Lilian shook her head with a bad face.

"It's okay, if you can't believe me, you can part ways with me at any time, anyway, it's just a momentary kindness for me to save you, and I don't have any extra thoughts about you." Xu Shuo said dryly.

"No, it's not, it's just a little accident, I'm still very grateful to Mr. Xu Shuo for helping me, and I'm willing to believe in you, Mr. Xu Shuo, so, that ......" Lilian bowed to Xu Shuo in a panic and said, "Please let me follow you, please." ”

Are you afraid that you won't be able to live alone, that's why you said that, Xu Shuo thought to himself, but didn't say it.

At this moment, Xu Shuo noticed that the value on Lilian's head began to change strangely—it began to rise rapidly.

11——15——18——24——28……

The number finally stopped at "32", and the color of the number also changed from white to green when it broke through "30", which was the first time Xu Shuo saw a number color other than black and white.

(What, what's the situation?!) )

Xu Shuo was completely stunned, and just as he began to suspect that this skill was malfunctioning, Lilian spoke.

"Mr. Xu Shuo, I'm really sorry, my reaction just now must have been hurtful." Lilian blushed, clenched her fists tightly and said: "I obviously know that my vocation is not determined by people themselves, just like my vocation is a teacher, Mr. Xu Shuo's vocation is a thief and force majeure, but I was afraid for a moment because Mr. Xu Shuo is a thief, how shameless it is." ”

"Mr. Xu Shuo, you must have suffered a lot of misunderstandings because of your vocation, but even so, you have always maintained a kind heart, and did not hesitate to save me when I asked you for help, so Mr. Xu Shuo is a good person, I should know this better than others, but I am so gracious and have hurt you, I am really ...... I'm ......," Liliam said, sobbing, tears streaming down.

Xu Shuo was stupid.

(Whew!) Whatever! Play! Meaning! Wait a minute, hey! Girl, I didn't plan to attack you! You don't want to self-attack, okay?! You've got too much drama in your heart, right?! )

Worried that the situation would become serious, Xu Shuo hurriedly stepped forward and hurriedly comforted: "You, don't cry, in fact, I didn't take it to heart just now, it's okay, you calm down." ”

Lilian raised her head with sobs in her eyes and said with teary eyes, "Mr. Xu Shuo......"

Xu Shuo immediately stood upright: "The little one is here, the eldest lady, please speak." ”

Lilian hugged Xu Shuo and buried her face in Xu Shuo's neck.

Xu Shuo: "?! ”

"Thank you." Lilian said softly.

Xu Shuo's heart, the deer collided.

After taking a moment to calm Lilian's emotions, the two continued to explore the first level of the labyrinth, during which they did not make small talk except for necessary conversations, and the atmosphere was rather awkward.

Lilian seemed to want to say something to Xu Shuo along the way, but every time the words came to her lips, she couldn't come out, and the whole person had a tangled expression.

Two hours later, they found an iron gate, and behind the iron gate, there was an arena-like clearing, about the size of half a football field, and the moment they pushed the door open, countless torches lit up around the clearing, illuminating the entire clearing. Xu Shuo noticed that directly opposite him, there was also an iron door.

"It's ...... Boss room? ”

Xu Shuo took a few steps forward, and the door behind him suddenly "slammed" shut, startling both him and Lilian.

"What's the matter, this door won't open!" Liliam went to pull the iron door, but couldn't open it.

"Don't waste your efforts, this should be the floor master's room, and it can't be opened until we die or get the floor master." Xu Shuo is all too familiar with the rules of this kind of challenge boss.

As soon as the words fell, a huge figure fell from the sky and landed in the center of the clearing with a slight shake - it was a giant slime about the same height as Xu Shuo!

"It's so big?!"

This was completely beyond Xu Shuo's expectations, he originally thought that the slimes in this layer were so weak, and the boss was just a slightly larger slime at best, but he didn't expect it to be so big.

Lilien was almost fainting just by seeing such a large slime.

The core of the Giant Slime is easy to find, the size of a fist, and can be found at a glance in the slime's translucent body, but the problem is if it is destroyed.

Xu Shuo compared the length of his arm and found that if he wanted to touch the core of the giant slime, he would have to hold his body close to the other party so that his hand could be obtained, but if he did so, the giant slime would inevitably take the opportunity to devour him, and then things would be in trouble.

"Xu, Mr. Xu Shuo, it's coming!" Lilian patted Xu Shuo's shoulder and said loudly.

The giant slime began to slowly approach Xu Shuo and Lilian.

Xu Shuo didn't think of a countermeasure, so he had to say to Lilian: "Anyway, run first, don't let it get close." ”

The two of them began to run around the edge of the main room on the floor, and the giant slime followed closely behind the two, although the speed was not fast, but the room was so big, so there was no such thing as getting rid of it.

Xu Shuo grabbed a torch from the wall and threw it at the giant slime, but the torch made a "swish" sound and went out the moment it touched the other party, causing no substantial damage.

(Is fire useless...... Damn, it would be nice if the team had a sorcerer, and a magic attack with piercing magic should work. )

Xu Shuo clenched the dagger in his hand, his brain spun rapidly, now that he is level two, his magic value has doubled, there should be any skills that he can use.

(Okay, let's try that.) )

Xu Shuo stopped, turned back to face the giant slime, and threw the dagger in his hand towards the core of the giant slime.

"Eat me a dart!"

【Dart Throw】

The dagger "swished" towards the giant slime and sank into the giant slime's body in an instant, at the same time, Xu Shuo felt something in his body pass quickly, and a sea-like prostration surged towards him.

The giant slime squirmed forward a few times, then froze, and the slime around it began to disperse like melting ice cream.

"Did it work?"

Xu Shuo felt weak, and after confirming that the giant slime had no vital signs, he half-knelt on the floor and gasped.

(What's the matter, I'm so tired all of a sudden...... )

"Mr. Xu Shuo, are you alright?!" Lilian came to Xu Shuo's side and patted the latter on the back at a loss.

Xu Shuo shook his head, called up the attribute panel again, and found that the mana value column had changed.

『Mana: 2/72』

He looked at the skill bar again, and the skill he had just used appeared on it.

【Dart Throw】

"Throw the short bladed weapon in your hand with 120% power. Cost: 70 mana. Cooldown Duration: 5s

(It's so high mana consumption, almost all my mana value is used, it's only 120% of the strength, isn't it too low...... And this sense of prostration, can it be said that a large amount of mana is consumed like this? )

"What's strange." Angela's voice sounded, "Even if a normal human uses all his strength, he may not be able to throw 70% of his own strength, only when the potential is exploded, the adrenaline is full, and the perfect posture and muscle control can it be possible to use more than 90% of the strength, this skill allows you to exert more than normal." ”

(That's right.) )

Xu Shuo remembered that he still had a sapphire in his pocket, so he took out one and held it in his hand, and at the same time checked his mana status, and found that after taking the sapphire, his mana value began to recover at a rate of 1 point per second, and soon recovered more than half, with the recovery of mana value, the prostration in his body gradually disappeared.

During the time Xu Shuo recovered his mana, Lilian stayed by his side with a worried face.

It wasn't until Xu Shuo got back on her feet that Lilian breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm sorry, but I can't help anything." Lilian said with some guilt.

"Uh, it's okay, don't you care." Xu Shuo said.

The atmosphere between the two is still awkward.

Xu Shuo looked at the iron door on the side of the main room on the floor, and found that the iron door had opened at some point, and it was estimated that as long as he passed through the iron door, he could go to the next floor.

"Let's go."

Xu Shuo retrieved his dagger from the corpse of the giant slime and led Liriam to the iron gate.