Chapter 22: The Beginning of the Crisis
Artoria led the Molten Steel Slime around, provoking it with rocks from time to time, causing it to keep attacking her so that Zhao Tian and them could escape.
And on the first floor of the cave, Zhao Tianhe encountered an elite slime again!
This is a big fire slime that can breathe flames, and Zhao Tianhe's left hand was burned a little, but fortunately, Leenys's healing technique had a miraculous effect on this kind of flesh wound, so it didn't affect him in any way.
After grinding for two minutes, Zhao Tianhe finally killed the flame slime and rushed out of the cave.
"There's a lot of change in there, right?" Pixie asked, playing with his phone.
"Well, it's big, how do you know?" Zhao Tianhe nodded and asked with some curiosity.
"When the child grows up, he doesn't like to talk to an old man like me......" Pickey wrinkled a small face, hammered his waist and squinted his eyes, pretending to be an old man.
It seems that she still remembers what her words were ignored by Zhao Tian and a few people just now.
"I'm sorry, Grandma Pixi~~" Zhao Tianhe stepped forward and pressed her shoulder with a smile, looking like a filial son and grandson.
can't shout the price like this, Pixie is more than ten times older than Zhao Tian and grandma.
"Okay, okay~~ Anyway, I saw through the magical fairy eye that the entire slime cave was being eroded by a red energy from the bottom up." Picky said as he clasped his left index finger and thumb together over his eye, and flew up. "The super intense energy~~ is even bigger than the place called the Shadow Cave!"
Although the description is a little strange, Zhao Tianhe understands that this slime cave is more dangerous than the Shadow Cave now!
At this time, on the second floor of the cave, Artoria was slashing at the molten steel slime with a sword.
The strange thing is that this monster actually trembled and looked very weak, and its whole body also shrunk in a circle, and it only spewed out a small pool of molten steel to fight back after being hit by this sword.
Artoria avoided it in time, looked at the appearance of the monster, and sighed regretfully.
"Unfortunately, there is not enough time."
The next moment, her whole person disappeared directly, and the time for the soldier mode was up.
At the entrance of the cave, Zhao Tianhe was also relieved to see Artoria's successful return.
If you die in Soldier mode, Artoria will disappear completely!
"Anyway, let's report to the association." Rhaenys said. "I don't know Miss Saber ...... her"
"Saber is fine, we'll see you again tomorrow." Zhao Tianhe said with a smile.
"Great!" Rhaenys smiled and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
The two of them drove the flying boat back to the town quickly, and went straight to the branch of the Dungeon Management Association.
"What?! Is it so serious?! Liu Caier listened to the report of the two, and the whole person was a little confused.
Since she was born, there has been no major incident in several dungeons within a radius of 100 miles, and an E+-level boss has to be encircled and suppressed by the whole town.
And now, the most dissipating slime cave has actually had an accident! And it's a big deal!
"It is preliminarily presumed that the boss level is above E level, and judging from its clone, I'm afraid it is also possible to be above D level!" Zhao Tianhe thought back to the posture of the steel ball and the power of the flame ray, and said with a serious expression. "I suggest applying for a high-level combat support investigation, but I'm afraid the town's brave team won't be able to deal with that monster! In addition, someone needs to be stationed outside the cave, and the dungeon seal on the first and second floors may be broken at any time! ”
The so-called seal is the light curtain at the entrance of the dungeon. Don't think it's a bit funny just to prevent the doorway, in fact, the light curtain is wrapped around the entire dungeon, and the door is just the tip of the iceberg.
And the light curtain at the door is the weakest link of the seal, and the rest of the place is a dynamic defense that is integrated, if you want to break through the seal of even an F-level dungeon, you need to penetrate the firepower of the mountain level, in contrast, breaking through the door is the most cost-effective, of course, this is also the purpose of the designer.
It's better to be blocked, even if things deteriorate to the extreme, monsters break through the dungeon and expand wildly, at least people know where the source is.
"Okay, I'm going to apply to the upper echelons!" Liu Cai'er nodded and began to manipulate the magic props beside her.
"Okay, the message has been sent, and the headquarters should reply in a while......" Liu Cai'er said to Zhao Tian and the two. As for the entrance to the cave, please! In addition, go and call Uncle Zhao too, and I'll inform the others. ”
In a hilltop hut outside of Rogue Town, a dark shadow looked at the black box in his hand and smiled.
"As long as you get the relay station, how much can it drag on for two days, right? I didn't expect it to be discovered so quickly, and I thought it would take about two days for that waste heroic spirit to enter the deepest depths. A dark shadow next to him walked over.
At the window, a sturdy middle-aged woman sat on a wicker chair with her head tilted, and it was obvious that she was dead from the bleeding from her seven orifices.
This is the relay station of the magic network, which is equivalent to a mobile phone signal station, and there is only one within a radius of dozens of miles. Once truncated, Rogue will remain an isolated city until the next relay maintenance personnel arrive.
Even if the next maintenance worker is killed, if the middle-aged woman does not go to the town to check in within three days, the problem will be discovered.
"Uh-huh...... The taste is okay and the amount is a lot, but that's not what you do, right? Artoria-chan asked, dressed in suspender shorts and shorts, looking at the large amount of barbecue on the table here.
This is the barbecue that Zhao Tianhe bought in his shop by the way when he went to find the former slime cave cleaner named Zhao Ming.
"Alas, I can't help it......" Zhao Tianhe sighed helplessly and explained to Artoria.
"Okay, okay...... But it's a pity today, if you give me some more time, I should be able to kill that very powerful monster. Artoria said as she ate.
It turned out that she saw through the weakness of the monster's attack power, but the consumption was also large, and after dragging it for more than ten minutes, it was directly weakened, most of the attack methods could not be used, and the movement speed and defense also decreased significantly.
"But you can't kill it even if you wear it down to extreme weakness." Artoria seemed to be a little moved after seeing Zhao Tianhe listen to her words, and hurriedly reminded. "Its body structure is very stable, I can use the Wind King Enchantment to directly interfere with and shatter its magical body structure, but you can't, even I can't do it if you destroy it by brute force alone."
Zhao Tianhe's shoulders slumped when he heard this, and he suddenly became a little deflated.
"There's nothing to worry about, no matter who you are, there are times when you're weak." Artoria smiled and handed him a piece of roast meat. "As long as you work hard, one day you can also gallop freely on the battlefield!"
"Well, I hope so......" Zhao Tianhe nodded. But in fact, I would rather see you gallop on the battlefield without me, and I will lie down and gain experience......