The dungeon staircase is quite steep, and with the dust and dirt that has accumulated over the years, it has actually become a slope, and it is quite dangerous to walk on it, and it is possible to roll down if you are not careful.

Fortunately, the members of the expedition team are all experienced and high-level mercenaries, and in addition to specially sending people to guard Jialan, a magician, they have traveled smoothly along the way.

The golden thief who was scouting his way ahead was quite experienced in his reconnaissance skills, and his seemingly tiptoeing movements were actually very fast, carefully checking the spiral ladder for traps and traps, while crouching down from time to time to check some subtle marks on the dirt of the staircase.

The thief in front of him stopped, turned around and said, "Be careful, everyone, there are creatures here, and it's not sure what kind of creature it is, but ......"

He spread out his palm and gestured at the marks left on the ground, which were five finger prints the size of a human palm, but the knuckles were much longer than ordinary human fingers, and there were sharp curved claws on the fingertips.

"It's... Some kind of rodent paw print!?But how can it be so big? Visually check the distance between the front and rear paw prints, this big mouse is at least two meters long, if you don't count the tail!"

The old thief Jimmy bent down and picked up a pale bone, looked at the tooth marks left on it, and then patrolled the surrounding traces, and said with some surprise: "Is it a giant rat? But even a giant rat can't grow so big!"

"The senior is right!"

The gold thief nodded to old Jimmy, not disdainful that he was not as senior as himself and that he was a disabled person, then looked up to his regimental commander and said, "Head, there is good news and bad news, do you want to hear that?"

Kenmet laughed and scolded, "Damn! I hate this kind of multiple-choice question the most!

"The good news is that the flying head did fly down here!"

The gold thief rubbed his fingers. Showing everyone the stains on his fingers, which were the blood dripping from the flying man's body, he shrugged his shoulders: "The bad news is that there is a big rat nest down here! Giant rats are social animals, and judging from the number of claw marks distributed on the ground, I am afraid that the number will be huge!"

The giant rat is one of the most common monsters encountered by mercenaries in the exploration of ruins, this small monster can grow up to more than a meter long when it is an adult, except for its size, other characteristics and habits are no different from ordinary rats, and it is not too difficult to deal with.

But this kind of demonic beast, which is always in a state of hunger, has much higher aggression than ordinary mice. Depending on the level of hunger, their guts will also be different, and if they are hungry, they will definitely be even more terrifying than the wolves, because their greatest advantage is their numbers!

There are as few as a dozen giant rats in a litter. There are hundreds of them, and if they are swarmed up. With their razor-sharp teeth that can crush rocks. It's definitely a headache.

Although he said "bad news" in his mouth, both Kenmet and the mercenaries behind him were smiling, and they didn't show any nervousness because of the presence of the giant rat swarm, because of them. But they are all silver-level and even gold-level warriors, while the giant rat is only a black iron-level demonic beast at most.

"Maybe there's another piece of good news or bad news... The good news is that judging by the distribution of paw prints. The further down the dungeon becomes, the denser it becomes, and the ground at the entrance to the dungeon is almost nonexistent, which shows that these giant rats are quite photophobic, and their range of activity is limited to the bottom of this dungeon, and they rarely haunt the ground!"

Old Jimmy imitated the tone of the gold thief and interrupted the mercenary's joke: "And the bad news is that the giant rat with this characteristic is probably more dangerous than the ordinary giant rat, the dark demon rat that lives deep underground!"

Everyone looked at each other, subconsciously looking at the paw print spacing on the ground that was twice as wide as the average giant rat, and couldn't help frowning, and all creatures associated with the words "darkness" and "demon" were usually not too pleasing to the eye and happy existence.

"Whatever it is, just kill it all!"

Kenmet waved the two-handed sword in his hand, and said confidently: "Don't say it's a two-meter-long mouse, it's a three-meter-long ......" Kenmet, who was about to say something bold to encourage morale, suddenly fell silent, and looked straight at the bottom of the spiral staircase.

Everyone was startled, and subconsciously turned their heads to look, but they were all so shocked that they almost jumped up, only to see that in the darkness that the eternal light rod could not shine, a dense blood-red small light spot suddenly appeared, and a huge mouse was slowly leaning out of the darkness!

"My lord is above!"

One of the mercenaries lost his voice and said, "This is a mouse?"

He couldn't be blamed for making a fuss, and the rat that was crawling out of the darkness slowly in a hunting posture was indeed huge and somewhat exaggerated, and it was not two meters long as they had predicted, but three meters long as Kenmet blurted out!!

The size of the giant rat does not look like a slender rat at first glance, but is strong and brutal like a ferocious wild boar, and the large muscles are hidden under the mane that stands up like steel needles, and the thick and strong bone spurs penetrate the skin and expose the surface of the body!

The mercenaries, including Kenmet's gold-level great swordsman, collectively gasped, and before Kenmet gave the order to retreat, the giant rat "squeak~" screamed, and countless rats, large and small, poured out of the darkness behind it like a tide, crawling directly over its body, screaming madly and rushing straight over.

"Block!"

Kenmet roared, and the two shield warriors rushed forward, side by side on the narrow spiral ladder, using their heavy armor and metal shields in their hands to block the way of the giant rats, while the three sword warriors in light armor rushed behind their peers, resisting their backs with their shoulders.

The giant rats that rushed up along the spiral ladder collided with the shield, and the five people who took advantage of the slope above were still squeezed by the rats and kept retreating, and the five people roared in unison, and the "boom" on their bodies burst into flames of various colors, and at the same time, under the force, they barely blocked the charge of the rats, and stopped them alive!

The spiral ladder was only two or three people wide in total, and it was blocked by five silver high-level mercenaries, with the size of a giant rat, it was impossible to pounce too much at the same time, and the three silver sword fighters took the opportunity to wave the war blades in their hands, and from the gap between the two shield battle companions, they slashed at the rat group that rushed up.

In the flickering sword light and the flesh and blood flying, Jialan, who stayed behind, stared at the light flames that burst out on the silver warriors, and asked the old Jimmy who was guarding him in a surprised whisper: "What is that?"

Old Jimmy was stunned by Jialan's question, turned his head and looked at it, only to realize that Jialan was talking about the silver-white light flame on the soldiers' bodies, and suddenly looked at him with a strange face and said: "That's the Dou Qi, to be precise, that layer of light flame, is the Dou Qi Flame formed by burning in the air when the Dou Qi is released to protect the body...... You haven't seen it?"

"Uh~"

Jialan laughed dryly, not knowing how to explain to old Jimmy, the last time in Corran City, when the Iguana Fang and the Storm Wolf mercenary group were fighting, they hadn't seen them use this skill?

Old Jimmy didn't care, thinking that Jialan had lived in the Academy of Science and Magic for a long time and rarely dealt with the fighters, so he had never seen the fighting spirit flames that the fighters would only release when they were fighting.

"The various systems of fighting qi cultivated by warriors will be violently released from their bodies during the battle, forming this kind of substance that looks like a flame, and the reason why it will take on different colors is related to the attributes of the fighting qi in their bodies. ”

Old Jimmy explained loudly while paying attention to the battle situation: "The cyan is the wind type fighting energy, the red one is the fire type fighting energy, the blue is the water type fighting energy, the yellow one is the earth type fighting energy, and the green one is the wood type fighting energy...... There are also some more special types of vindictive spirit. ”

Jialan was speechless for a while, "fighting energy" or something, he really hadn't heard of it, in the previous era, what the fighters used to enhance their strength was a kind of "fighting qi" that was invisible and substantial, and only existed in the body, and the sound and light effects were really not as fancy as this "fighting spirit".

After careful observation for a while, Jialan found that the "Fighting Qi" seemed to be a completely different substance from the "Battle Qi" of the Dao he knew, just like the "Ao Neng" was to the caster, and the "Battle Qi" was the source of the strength of the Warrior.

However, fighting spirit, in Jialan's view, is purely another mode of use of elemental energy, and the warriors of this era are all elemental war mages?

It's a pity that the battle situation is urgent at this time, and he can't study it carefully, in addition to the old Jimmy, who is responsible for protecting him, the head of Kenmet and the other two gold-level mercenaries also pressed up.

The most conspicuous thing is the gold-level archer, in the trembling sound of the bowstring of the "Qiang Qiang" explosion, the whistling arrows shot the giant rats that jumped up one by one and tried to cross the human wall, and many of them screamed and fell into the bottom of the deep spiral ladder with the arrows on their bodies!

However, there are too many giant rats, although most of them are just ordinary giant rats, but these giant rats that are more than a meter long and comparable in size to jackals, their fangs are no worse than wolf fangs, and they will even bite the sword body directly at them without fear of death, so that several silver warriors have to shake off the heavy rat body hanging on the weapon.

As a result, the frequency of attacks became slower, and it was impossible to completely protect the two shield warriors who were carrying iron shields to block the rats.

"Get out of the way!

A layer of blazing dark golden light rose from Captain Kenmet's body, and he jumped over the heads of his companions, shouted, and fell into the swarm of rats with a heavy slash from the air! (To be continued......)