……

The gray light flashed, and the heavy armor on one of the minotaurs instantly turned to ashes!

He looked down with a distressed expression.

Can be a second.

All that left his face was pain—

A sharp arrow burst through the air and pierced his heart with great force!

The minotaur roared angrily.

As a member of the demons, he obviously possessed extremely strong vitality, and he didn't even look at the arrow again, and he roared in Matthew's direction with another companion!

Little Parton dodged, but instead of escaping, he picked up his one-handed sword from the ground and leaned against the stone wall to wait for an opportunity.

Buzz!

The sound of sharp arrows from the strings was endless, and Renysme, holding the emerald trade wind, shot at the unarmored minotaur in a burst of fire, shooting him into a sieve in the blink of an eye!

He glared angrily and yelled, but his knees involuntarily went limp.

Rumble!

The minotaur fell to his knees.

A cold light flashed in the darkness, and Ah Bing appeared at the right time, and a pair of scimitars circled around the neck of the minotaur, and a large amount of blood instantly flew out!

The demon screamed so hard that he was about to die.

At this time, another minotaur was still advancing.

However, Matthew had already activated Estelo's Claw as a response.

But the tentacles full of negative energy skillfully tripped the minotaur, and the latter's huge body suddenly fell forward.

Burst!

The minotaur fell and gnawed on the mud.

Matthew took the opportunity to lose a few more control tricks, the toughness of the minotaur is not low, and he could have easily waived these controls, but now he fell dizzy, and he won't be able to get up for a while.

Right now.

Little Parton seized the opportunity, clenched his sword, and rushed forward, stabbing and picking.

Kala!

It's the sound of a rope breaking.

Rumble!

The minotaur rolled over, and the giant axe in his hand slashed into the ground next to him, and little Parton hurriedly dodged to the side.

The demon still wants to chase after him.

But Matthew's Estro claws wrapped around him like appendages.

The tentacles kept giving the minotaur a loop, so that he couldn't get up from the ground.

Little Patton shouted as he ran:

"I cut off his belt and rip off the armor of his lower body!"

When Matthew heard this, he immediately canceled the dissociation technique that he was about to release.

The armor on the Minotaur looks quite good, so don't use dissociation to affect the income if you can get it down.

Now, he summoned the Silver Moon Zombies who were patrolling the mines.

The zombies swarmed up, and with the help of Estro's Claws, they crushed the minotaur to the ground!

Ah Bing took the opportunity to strike and slashed at his wrist twice in succession, forcing him to let go of the giant axe.

The minotaur lay on the ground, making an earth-shattering roar.

If Renysme hadn't taken the right time and struck an arrow at his upper and lower jaws, this guy's screams could have been heard more than a dozen miles away!

Ultimately.

Under the suppression and drag of the zombies, the minotaur's leg armor and pants were pulled away.

Face the bare nakedness of the minotaur.

A ghostly wolf with "Pale Fangs" rushed up and took a few bites.

Click, click!

There was a tooth-aching chewing sound from the cavern.

At this moment, the minotaur could no longer hold back the pain, and fainted without a sound.

……

"Hint: Your pale fangs (ghost wolves) have crushed the minotaur's balls.

Pale Fang triggers a summary judgment!

You killed a minotaur.

You have gained a set of "Minotaur's Silver Scale Heavy Armor" (Armor 16/Strength +1/Intelligence -1)"

……

"Stop!"

Once it was determined that the enemy was dead, Matthew hurried to stop his undead from grabbing and biting.

Wait until the black-pressed zombies disperse.

Matthew was able to get a miserable corpse covered in zombie saliva and scratches.

"The tactical order to rush up is a bit too rough, zombies usually don't have a chance to eat meat, so why don't you bite a few bites when you get the chance now?"

"In the future, if you want to preserve the whole picture of the corpse as much as possible, you have to give more detailed instructions."

Matthew looked at the blood on the minotaur's crotch and his broken wrist and shook his head slightly.

The other end is even more ugly, and the brain seeds are about to be unloaded by Ah Bing, and it will take a lot of effort to re-sew them.

Overall, though, the results were pleasant.

This is the first time Matthew has obtained the corpse of a demon, so naturally he has to get it back and study it carefully.

It is certain to become an immortal, the question is which one to make.

And before that, he also intends to conduct a more detailed dissection of the two corpses.

"Send them back to the cemetery."

Matthew asks Renysmay to lead a team of zombies to collect the corpses.

And he himself found little Patton who was a little frightened:

"Are you okay?"

Little Parton adapts quickly:

"There's no problem, it's the first time I've seen such a cruel death, even if it's on the enemy, I always feel a chill down there."

As he spoke, he tightened his belt.

"Very well, the evacuation and reassurance of the workers will be left to you, and I intend to seal off the sulfur mines for a while."

Matthew arranged.

Little Parton nodded:

"Then I'll let them go back for the holidays?"

"Reason...... The reason is that a more comprehensive magical exploration of the mine is to be conducted, and a large number of people will affect the results of magical exploration. ”

Matthew hesitated:

"Could any of them have heard the commotion here and need to give them some money?"

Little Patton shook his head without hesitation and said:

"No, I'll tell them that the sound was the sound I made when I hit the rock, and given the reason I gave for the holiday, they would be suspicious of it."

"And if you take the initiative to give money, then they will most likely know that something is going on here, and when the rumors spread, it will not be so easy for you to recruit workers again."

"Of course, only the locals of Rolling Stone will ask for so much, and if you are willing to find a high-leaf collar or a golden-fertile outcast, even if the salary is lower, they will not be crooked."

Seeing that he was thinking clearly, Matthew stopped interfering in the matter and left little Parton to deal with it.

He himself walked around the scene of the incident quickly.

This time.

He discovered three rifts in space.

The largest of these is located in the ceiling of the mine, which is a 6-meter-long opening, usually closed, and occasionally opens up to 2 meters wide.

The sulphur ore that often flies in the mine fell through this opening.

But according to Matthew's observations, this opening is extremely unstable.

It spat out a burst of sulfur, and it didn't take long for it to close on its own.

The concealment of this opening is also very strong, and even the survey spells of the slightly low-level points cannot be checked.

The second fissure is located deep in the mine, near an underground river.

It was an arched opening, hidden behind a rock, and Matthew had been negligent before, and he hadn't noticed that there was something else behind it.

The gap is not large, and it can barely accommodate one person to pass through.

Matthew guessed that the two minotaurs had come over with cats on their waists.

This crack is characterized by relative stability.

Matthew has been observing it for a long time, and it doesn't even have a tendency to close automatically, and it is estimated that it will not disappear anytime soon.

The third crack is located on the gravel beach of the underground river.

It's the size of a fist, and it's so stable that it's going to disappear at some point.

Matthew hadn't seen anything coming out of it yet.

After a thorough investigation.

Matthew brought in more zombies and surrounded the three cracks.

And he himself went straight to the crucible house.

The rift of time and space is both an opportunity and a crisis for him.

If he guessed correctly, it is very likely that this is the "Escana" between the purgatory that Rhaegar set out to go!

This means that at any moment a demon or demon from Escana may come to the material realm through the rift.

That's no joke.

Matthew rushed to the Alliance's large library as soon as possible, in order to inquire about materials related to the space-time rift.

At least.

He had to find a way to close the crack steadily.

An hour later.

After paying a knowledge point to the Dragon of the Great Library, Matthew was given a large amount of information on the rift in space.

He selectively and quickly read several authoritative works, and summed up four ways to deal with the rift in time and space.

The first is to let it go away on its own.

The main material realm is the most stable world, with complete elements, strong barriers, and the most perfect laws.

Therefore, even if a space-time rift appears, if it is not deliberately maintained, it will most likely disappear on its own after a period of time.

Of course, this approach is a bit of a stroke of luck.

The second is to repeatedly use fourth-order and above plastic energy spells to super-saturate the space-time rift and its surrounding areas to achieve the effect of blowing up the space-time rift.

According to the book called "The Wizard Teaches You How to Deal with the Turbulence of Time and Space".

In this way, the success rate of closing the space-time rift is as high as 95%.

However, there is a 5% chance that the remaining five percent will blow up the space-time rift bigger and bigger, and even attract the monsters of the astral plane.

But there is such an opinion circulating within the Wizard Mechanic.

If it fails to blow up the space-time rift, then the bombing yield must not be large enough.

The only thing the handler needs to do is-

Intensify efforts.

The third type, the "Time and Space Gate Stabilization Technique", invites an experienced array mage to take action to stabilize the crack into a fixed time and space gate.

There are many advantages to this method, and when stabilized, the door will become something like Rhaegar's Infernal Portal.

You can open it when you want it, close it when you want to, and the door itself is relatively safe and stable.

The only downside is that it's expensive.

Matthew had heard from Margaret about the prices of the middle and high-level formation mages in the alliance, and their labor costs were sky-high, not to mention the material costs.

Fourth, you can concoct a magical material called "Giant Tree Amber" to repair the rift in time and space.

The advantage of this method is that the space-time rift that is patched with amber will not disappear anytime soon, and you can tear the amber open if you want to use it in the meantime.

The downside is that the giant tree amber is a bit troublesome to tear.

And the cracks repaired in this way still have a low probability of being discovered from that end.

The above are the four methods.

When Matthew is left to choose, there are really only one and four.

Second, he really didn't dare;

Third, he really has no money.

"The specific response method should be taken into account what the situation is on the other side of the crack and the stability of the crack to be observed."

Matthew pondered in the library for a while, but didn't make a decision right away.

However, he still deliberately went to the alliance's mall and bought a series of materials-

Primordial Amber Stone*60;

Camouflage Scroll*6;

Zorotten*10 servings;

some astral dust;

Mineral Pack*6;

Shrinking Scroll*3;

Several other magical aids.

This expense cost 30,000 gold coins, and Matthew's liquidity was completely drained.

"I should have bought one less scroll for the Shrinkage Scroll."

When leaving the Crucible House.

His heart was filled with repentance.

After returning to the cemetery.

Matthew set up a cauldron in the studio, poured several magical semi-finished potions into the pot, and added a large amount of water and a small amount of alcohol.

Stay until the pot is boiling.

He poured half of the zoro vine into the pot.

There was a clattering noise in the pot.

Matthew hurriedly found something to cover it.

After boiling for about five minutes, the pot was silent, and he lifted the lid and poured the viscous green liquid inside into the glass bottle that had been prepared.

This pot can fill six bottles.

After Matthew added a little clove and mint to the bottle, the "Primary Change Potion" was officially formed.

He was going to take a look at the rift.

But a human swaggering through the territory of a demon or devil is undoubtedly looking for death.

He wanted to borrow the Minotaur's vest to wear it.

A moment later.

Matthew left the workshop with the potion in his hand, and he went to the minotaur corpse and took some of their hair and fingernails.

It didn't take long.

Little Parton returned to the cemetery.

He said to Matthew very easily:

"I've pacified the workers."

"Not only the mine, but also the underground factory, I also found a reason to give them a holiday, which is a special branch of the province."

Matthew was a little surprised at how efficient he was.

After collecting the elements on the corpse, he casually asked as he put the minotaur's nails and hair into two bottles of potion:

"If it were you, what would you do with the rift in time and space that suddenly appeared around the territory?"

He recounted the four ways he had found.

Little Patton thought for a moment and replied:

"It depends on what's on the other side of the crack, judging from the reactions of those monsters, they are most likely disorganized - even if they are, those two minotaurs obviously stumbled upon the crack, otherwise we must have bumped into regular troops, not three or two kittens."

"If it were me, I'd go to the crack first and then make a decision."

Matthew gave him an approving look and handed one of the bottles to little Parton.

"What do you mean?"

Little Parton was a little dazed.

"I'm going to go over and have a look, as you think."

"I can't understand the language of these demon birds, I need your translator, you should have the courage to go with me, right?"

Matthew smiled and said:

"But don't worry, let's go to the mine first, and wait for the undead to complete the most basic pathfinding work, and then we will drink the potion."

Little Parton readily agreed.

However, he looked at the bottle of dark green potion, and his eyes looked a little suspicious:

"Isn't this thing really going to have diarrhea when you drink it?"

"Probably not."

Matthew patted his bag confidently:

"Yes, it's okay, I've got antidiarrheal pills ready."

As he spoke, under the more suspicious gaze of Little Paton, the two of them hurried back to the mine.

Three rifts in space-time, two of which are unsuitable for passing through people, Matthew walked himself to the back of the rock.

At first, he sent a skeleton soldier over to see what was going on.

The instructions he gave to the skeletons were-

After passing through the temporal rift, it can only move in an area with a radius of five meters centered on the same place.

After the skeleton soldier passed, there was no movement for ten minutes.

The stats also don't indicate that the skeleton has been damaged, which means that the situation over there is still safe.

Later, Matthew asked Ah Bing to explore the way, and the results were similar.

Because he crossed the plane, he couldn't communicate with Ah Bing through the contract.

It wasn't until five minutes later that Ah Bing came back on his own initiative.

He reported his findings to Matthew fairly completely:

"A big house with the door closed."

"There was very little furniture, there was a very bright thing, I used to be under the bed, and the bed was also very large."

Matthew probably understood.

It was probably the two minotaurs who appeared in this rift in space.

It has not yet been discovered by anyone else.

As for the two flies, they were probably minions of the Minotaur.

Matthew then repeatedly tested the strength of the space-time rift.

Leave some precautions in case of accidents.

Then he drank the potion with little Paton.

Two minutes later, the potion took effect, and the bodies of the two men skyrocketed, turning into demons that resembled minotaurs.

However, after all, it is a primary change potion, and there are flaws in many details.

Matthew unhurriedly took out the disguise scroll he had prepared in advance, and gave himself and little Parton a disguise, and at this time their images were exactly the same as those two minotaurs.

Unless you encounter a unit with superior perception, it will not be able to show your stuff.

"The lasting effect of the change lasts for about six hours, so let's get over it quickly."

After Matthew finished speaking, he turned into a cat and took the lead in crossing the space-time rift.

Little Parton followed.

The two of them came to an extremely cramped space, and after struggling to climb out from under the bed, the skeleton soldier that Matthew had originally sent was still twisting his hips in the room.

As Bing said, the furniture in the room is very simple, even the windows are broken, and you can vaguely see some scenes outside.

The first thing that caught Matthew's eye was an electric lamp hanging from the ceiling and glowing white!

"This is the very bright thing that Ah Bing said?"

"Minotaurs can use electric lights?"

Matthew was stunned.

If there was a glowing night pearl or a broken illuminated crystal hanging above his head, he could accept it.

Even if it's an ever-bright flame!

Only the electric light is a little unacceptable.

"And wires...... There are runestones that resemble telephone poles on the side of the road? ”

"What do you mean, the demons have entered an industrialized society?"

Matthew's scalp is a little numb.

It is not that he did not consider this situation, after all, the main material world is suppressed by the mystery of civilization, development is stagnant, the mainstream society is in a feudal state, and the overall structure is closer to the agricultural society.

It is possible for the development of the outer world to surpass that of the main material world.

But he didn't expect such an exaggeration.

"In case the demons and demons have completed industrialization, and at this time, Tianlun Palace secretly makes trouble and pries open the barrier of the plane, and these creatures rush in...... Can Aindo handle it? ”

In an instant, countless possibilities flashed through his mind.

Matthew calmed down and watched the room with little Parton for a while.

After a while, they cautiously pushed open the door and came out into the street.

Matthew breathed a sigh of relief at what he saw when he went out.

It's not a busy skyscraper outside.

Rather, it is a two- or three-story building that is no different from your own cottage.

The pavement is also not paved.

It's a bumpy dirt road.

Except for the fact that there were more buildings than expected, and the installations that resembled telephone poles.

It doesn't seem to be any different from the town of Aiindo.

The sky here is blood-red.

Matthew couldn't tell the time, but the street lights on both sides of the road were on, probably at night?

The two walked down the street.

It didn't take long to see a minotaur full of decadent temperament on the street.

He was half-leaning against the wall, his body in tatters, like a vagabond.

He looked weak, but oblivious to the approach of Matthew, his hands clutching something underneath.

A moment later.

The minotaur had an extra syringe in his hand.

The syringe was filled with dark green liquid.

The minotaur glared at Matthew and slammed the syringe into his thigh.

"Woo~!"

The next moment, the green tendons on the minotaur's neck flare up, but there was a huge look of satisfaction on his face.

It didn't take long.

And he fainted in a deep state.

Empty syringes were also thrown aside.

Matthew silently glanced at the data bar, wondering if he was in the wrong place.

……

"Log: You passed through the space-time rift and reached the interdimensional (Escana).

You've encountered a minotaur.

The Minotaur used a syringe (suspected sulfur extract) on himself.

The Minotaur is dead!"

……

That's right, this is the corner of Escana, and it's where Rhaegar just went.

However, it is not difficult to judge from the minotaur on the street that this place should belong to the sphere of influence of the Blue tribe.

It's just that what he saw and heard in front of him really made Matthew dumbfounded.

The two walked down the street for a while.

Turn a corner.

Similar minotaurs or demon-men are almost all over the streets.

In stark contrast to these demons' addiction to sulfur extracts.

The city does seem to have a level of technology far beyond Eindo.

In addition to street lights and telephone poles, Matthew saw several one-man flying machines flying over the city;

There is a telephone booth on the street corner, but it needs to be used by coins;

The huge building in the center of the city rides a chimney that rises into the sky, and the chimney is full of smoke, and there is a portrait of a blonde man on its surface;

Every now and then, sleek-looking, sturdy mining trucks emerge from the factory, driving the streets with impunity, splashing mud on both sides.

After the two of them deliberately inquired, they learned that this place was called Bigfoot City, which was originally the territory of a group of Bigfoot monsters, and was later captured by the demon people and the minotaur and became part of the Blue tribe.

In front of it is the square of Bigfoot City.

Matthew just wanted to go over and join in the fun.

At this moment, a mining cart passed by the edge of the square, and there was a well-mannered demon man in the car who was scolding his subordinates, and his voice was loud:

"The sulphur mine is still disappearing?"

"Damn, if you can't find a reason, then you, the director, will apologize to me!"

"Wait...... Park, park, park! ”

Under the curious gaze of Matthew and the others, the mining truck slowly stopped.

The demon-man in the suit looked Matthew up and down through the window, and said with interest:

"It's been a long time since I've seen such a healthy minotaur, would you be interested in working at Sturluk Industries?"

"Of course, you have to wait for the rules to understand, you can't steal sulfur during work, Sturluk Industries is not here to spread advanced technology, and you are not here for pleasure."

(Note: Sturuk, the original hometown of the orc female swordwoman Saint Clegg, has been mentioned to have been taken over by the Space Necro Force of the Antu Empire)

……

Yesterday I stayed up late at the codeword, and today I woke up in an extremely bad state, my mind was blank all day, I was sleepy in front of the screen, and I was bad at the plague king in the afternoon, and it seems that I still have to adjust. Next, I tried to write the second watch as much as possible while ensuring that the 11 o'clock watch was made, but don't expect too much, my body is really not very strong.

(End of chapter)