Chapter 38: The Beginning of the Battle
There is no specific entrance to the dungeon, the collapsed mine has exposed the first floor of the dungeon to the sun, and the giant cave on Alec's side is guarded by Alec's soldiers, and it cannot be entered from this side without permission.
Caleb and Ena have proof of the adventurer's guild's mission, so they can enter from here, while Maha and his gang have no adventurer certificate except for the human team, so they can only choose to go out of the city and enter secretly from the other side of the giant cave.
"Stop! The dungeon is dangerous, you can't enter it without a permit, please show your pass! β
As soon as they approached the giant cave of the dungeon, Caleb and the others were stopped by the soldiers.
"Hard work, this is my mission proof, it's a rescue mission, please hurry up."
Caleb took out the certificate of the Adventurer's Guild and handed it to the soldier who stopped him.
The soldier examined it carefully and made sure there was nothing wrong.
"It is indeed the proof of the Adventurer's Guild, you go in, please be careful of the danger of the dungeon."
Caleb nodded to the soldiers, and led Ena towards the giant cave, where a wooden ladder had been built, and a large number of people were building some kind of building here, which should be the sealing gate I heard about before, as long as the sealing door could be built, the dungeon could be controlled.
Before going down, Caleb didn't forget to ask Ena behind him:
"Did Ena feel anything?"
Ena shook her head, she didn't feel the aura of energy from last night.
"Brother, I don't feel any energy."
"Well, let's go down then."
Descending the wooden ladder, Caleb and the two descended more than 200 meters, and finally reached the first floor of the dungeon, Caleb saw the top of the mine when he descended to 100 meters, and heard that the height of the mine was 500 meters high, and now it seems that the mine should not only run through the first floor, but may even be penetrated by the second floor or even deeper.
As soon as he entered the dungeon, Caleb's bug connection in Alec City was disconnected, and another message was transmitted from the dungeon, which was from the bugs that Caleb had sent to the dungeon before.
Caleb stood there and digested the information from the bugs, the shape of the first floor of the dungeon, and the distribution of monsters.
'Ghost-faced spiders, goblins, and slimes are really monsters that fit the dungeon. β
Caleb digested the information of the bugs, and the monsters on the first floor were not threatening, and Caleb decided to destroy Ma Lan's troops on this layer first.
"Brother?"
Caleb stood still when he arrived at the dungeon, and Ena called out to Caleb strangely.
"It's fine."
Caleb released a large number of bugs, and he had to lock down the location of Maha's gang before he could make a decision.
"Let's go, let's go to the entrance on the second floor."
Caleb took out a torch and led Ena into the deep passage.
Somewhere in the giant cave outside the city, Ma Ha led two teams, Yin and Yin, a total of 30 people, and entered the dungeon along the rope ladder on the hidden place of the giant cave.
"Hidden team, you go in the direction of the entrance of the dungeon in the city, find out Caleb's movements, his target is the entrance to the second floor, follow him, we are waiting for you at the entrance of the second floor."
Everyone in the hidden team nodded, took off their cloaks, revealing a triangular head of a lizard, their eyes protruded, fine scales wrapped around their bodies, and behind them was a curly tail, they were not wearing any clothes under their cloaks, if they were lying on the ground, they would definitely be a large lizard.
The Hidden Team turned out to be the legendary extinct lizardmen, only to see their eyes roll around, their bodies gradually disappear into the air, and they disappear in place with silent steps.
Maha watched the lizardman disappear in place, a look of disgust on his face, and he remembered what he had seen before.
"Alien Beast Army, Ma Lan is really perverted, he actually breeds in captivity, if it is exposed, it will definitely cause a crusade from the whole world, right, Yin? It's the same with your race, don't you want revenge? β
"Isn't it not good for Lord Maha to say these words, if Lord Ma Lan knows, it will lead to death."
The captain of the Yin squad looked at Maha with a smile on his face, looking like a handsome uncle, and the three scars on his face did not destroy his charm in the slightest, but made him have a strong wildness.
"Then will you report me, Captain Yin, just report me and you can easily sit in my place with your strength."
Maha looked at Yin with interest, and Yin reluctantly raised his hands in surrender, and he said:
"Spare me, Lord Maha, I can't wait to eat his flesh and drink his blood, and if I could see Ma Lan directly like Lord Maha, I think I'd go crazy."
"Hahaha, who isn't, I hate him too, I want to kill him, but unfortunately we can't control our own freedom."
Maha sighed heavily as he looked at the tattoo of the skull on his arm that was wrapped around the poisonous snake.
"Caleb Liccock, don't blame me, blame you for messing with people you can't mess with, go!"
Maha and the Yin team prepared to go to the entrance of the second floor, and ambush Caleb near there.
They didn't notice that a few small bugs in the cracks of the dungeon were staring at him.
'Finally found it, learned smartly, knew to get together. β
Caleb received Maha's movements from the bug's message, and a sinister expression appeared on his face.
'If you want to ambush me, let you also taste the landmines.' β
Hundreds of glowworms and acid phagophants began to crawl in their direction, and once Maha had chosen a spot, Caleb would let them taste the heavens as well.
And those lizardmen, they can still be invisible, so be careful later. β
Five acid devourers surrounded Caleb and the two, flying out from time to time to slash the monsters that emerged.
Dingββ
"Kill a 'Ghost-faced Spider' and gain +200 experience"
"Your Demon Mi's level has been increased by 1 level"
Caleb was caught by the system's chime.
'It's finally upgraded.,Xiaomi's level 10 can add another chance to transform.,What to choose this time.γ β
With the current healing method, it should be enough, Caleb intends to unlock a higher healing transformation at level 20, and now the transformation of level 10 Caleb has two options according to the current situation, one is body enhancement, and the other is thermal energy detection.
"System, how long does it take to rebuild."
Dingββ
"It takes 2 hours for mechanization to be unified."
If you want to use it, you have to choose now, Caleb thought about it carefully.
"System, the key word I chose was 'physical strengthening'."
Dingββ
"The successful selection of keywords made the magic 'Xiaomi' begin to mechanize and transform."
Thermal detection can be effective against lizardmen, but this is not the only way, Caleb has other methods, stealth is only effective when he is unknowing, and now Caleb already knows that stealth is not too difficult to deal with.
The focus is still on strength, although Caleb has defeated people like Marcy who are several times stronger than himself, but in the final analysis, he is only a level 13 junior magician, even if he has mastered several powerful skills in the junior magician through the system, he has exceptional attack power.
It's still a small crispy one, with only 220 points of health, if it weren't for Caleb who has been relying on speed to play distance with Marcy, Marcy is also insane after devouring the soul, and only knows how to devour the soul, otherwise with Marcy's strength, a dead arrow is enough to send Caleb to the western sky.
This time, the leader of the opponent is undoubtedly a thief, and he has a great speed advantage, and he can rely on the speed bonus of the sneak attack, but Ena is not necessarily, if he and Ena are separated, with the help of Xiaomi, he should be able to survive until he comes back.
Ena sniffed, she smelled a strange smell from nearby, approached Caleb, took his hand, and wrote and drew with her fingers in the palm of Caleb's hand.
Something approached, as if it were a person, and I couldn't see them. β
Caleb grabbed Ena's hand with his backhand and covertly wrote a line on Ena's hand with his fingers.
'It's Ma Lan's troops, they will be invisible, leave them alone, and won't attack us for the time being. β
The two ignored the arrival of the lizardman team and let them follow them, Caleb was a little surprised by the speed of the lizardmen, he didn't expect them to be able to find himself so quickly, you must know that the roads in the dungeon are complicated, and it is already considered lucky not to get lost.
Summoned from the System Shop, Caleb picks one of the items.
Tiny matter drifted out of Caleb's body, gradually filling the air, and even the lizardmen inevitably got some of it.
'Pheromones'
The mall of the system is really magical, as long as the specified substance, the system can be accurately stripped out and recycled, and when Caleb was testing the function of the system mall, he coincidentally stripped off the pheromones secreted by Xiao Hei.
Pheromones, chemicals that interact with individual insects, can affect each other's behavior, habits, development and physiological activities, and play an important role in the orientation, summoning, mating, egg-laying, gathering, tracking, alarming, defense and recognition of insects
After Xiao Hei became a demon, he has left the original acid eater group, Caleb has done an experiment, the acid phagosome in the wild has no reaction to Xiao Hei's pheromones, Xiao Hei's pheromones are tasteless, and even Ena's nose can't smell it, which Caleb has tried.
Many insects must rely on their perception of smell to survive, insect pheromones are an important information chemical that regulates and controls insect behavior, and after judging that Blackie's pheromones have no smell, Caleb gave up the idea of using this trick to summon insects in the wild, but then invented a way to use it.
'Covert Information Tracking'
Relying on pheromones, Blackie is able to track targets up to three kilometers away, and it now seems that it can also be used to detect stealth units.
The acid phage began to send Caleb the message that it had detected the movement of the object, and Caleb smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth.
'Identification'
"Name: ? Level: Lv18....."
"Name: ? Level: Lv18....."
"Name: ? Level: Lv18....."
All 18 levels, the level of these 15 lizardmen is quite low, Caleb breathed a sigh of relief, such a low level, they can be easily solved.
The lizardmen's countermeasures are going well here, and the next step is to see the results of the ambushed glowworms. β
Caleb turns his attention to the bug that is following Maha.
Maha and the Yin team chose a necessary path to the entrance of the second floor, Maha looked left and right, and decided to wait here.
As soon as Maha waved his hand, the Yin team hid behind the rock and waited for Caleb to arrive.
'Strange.... It's weird....'
Looking at Maha's movements, Caleb's brow furrowed, and he had a very strange feeling.
'Untrue. β
An adjective came to Caleb's mind, Caleb cut off the bugs that were watching, and the glowworms that were in action also stopped.
'When was it discovered?' β
Caleb began to look at all the bugs in the dungeon, and he was 100% sure that the Maha and his men he had monitored before were fake.
Although Caleb didn't know what magic props he used, the illusion's movements were very natural, and it might be enough to deceive ordinary people, but it couldn't fool Caleb.
In the days of wandering, the greatest gain for Caleb is probably the ability to see people, the human heart is unpredictable, but the human eye can, the human face can, and the human body can also be.
This illusion is too standard, standard movements, not the slightest popularity, even if it is a rich expression, Caleb can see that it is fake.
'Where's the run....'
While Caleb was controlling the swarm to search around, where were Maha and the Yin team?
At the entrance of the second floor of the dungeon, Maha and the Yin team did not hide at all, and just stood near the entrance.
He watched with interest as an acid phant nailed to the dagger that Maha was holding, and the acid eater was stuck in Maha's dagger, and could only disappear as time passed, and his health returned to zero and turned into a bunch of blue points of light.
"Lord Maha, I don't understand, since you have used the Illusion Orb, why do you still take the initiative to show up, isn't it a waste?"
Yin Bai leaned against the wall boredly, holding a sharpening knife and sharpening the claws in his hand, and the sound of rubbing metal was unusually clear in the passages of the dungeon.
"We can't hide, I did plan to hide at first, but until I found out."
Maha stuck an acid phant out of the wall again.
"It's not a bug in a dungeon, and it's everywhere now, I guess that Caleb has already noticed that something is wrong with the illusion, maybe he's looking at me with the worm in my hand right now?"
"How is that possible? Hahaha...."
Yin looked at the little worm on Maha's dagger, and felt that Maha was joking, so he couldn't help laughing.
Yin stopped smiling, and he looked at the acid phagome curiously.
"If he could really see it, wouldn't he have come over?"
Maha watched the worm disappear from his dagger once more, and a smug smile appeared on his face.
"Wait, he will definitely come over, the Flying Feather Adventure Group trapped on the second floor is the niece of that Caleb's best friend Les, he will definitely go to save it, this is Yangmou."
Caleb, on the other hand, had a dark sneer on his face.
'If you think I'm going to think that, you're very wrong.....
Caleb doesn't have to think about it to know what is going on in Maha's head, doesn't he just think that he has a good relationship with Rice, and will do his best to rescue Dores on the second floor?
I heard about Rice's good relationship from another squad that hasn't shown up yet, the third squad with the adventurer's certificate, able to inquire about news from the guild, thinking that they have my information, but they don't know that I and Rice are just playing on the spot.
'Entering the dungeon, my goal has always been you and this dungeon, and you seem to be a little overconfident in your own strength, and you will come to me after a month. β
The two sides were only a few hundred meters apart, and they were already within Caleb's attack range, and Caleb's hand wrote a few words in Ena's palm.
Raising his right hand slightly, four acid devourers appeared in Caleb's hand.
I'll give you a welcome gift. β
'Sniper Bug Bullet Quadruple'