On the eleventh floor of the dim Goblin Maze, a crack appeared on the hardened body of Emperor Ci De. After a long wait, it finally underwent its first transformation.
The new body was conceived beneath the old shell, like a cicada shedding its shell. Emperor Ci De split the black shell into two and stood up from it.
After completing the first molting, the goblin characteristics of Emperor Ci De were reduced a little. The goblin's iconic long and narrow nose suddenly shortened, and the pointed ears gradually hardened and turned into keratin protrusions like ornaments, making it look like he had a pair of dragon horns.
The blood in his body was boiling, making Emperor Ci De feel extremely refreshed. He could clearly feel that his perception of magic had further increased.
But this is far from enough. With its current strength, if it goes out to act rashly, the strong men of this world will only put it back into the coffin, sing celebratory songs, dance happily, and bury it back in the underground maze.
In order to avoid this situation, Emperor Ci De plans to wait for two more moltings to restore his original strength before he can personally bury the strong man of this world.
The magic tools and potions hidden on the eleventh floor are enough to enable the Emperor to complete three moltings.
Having already waited for hundreds of years, Emperor Ci De didn't mind waiting a little longer. It was a pity that some people didn't intend to let it wait peacefully like this.
With a slight frown, Emperor Ci De realized that someone was using magic to explore this underground maze.
"What's going on? Why would someone use scrying magic to probe this underground maze
Has my secret been exposed
No, it’s possible that the adventurer simply wanted to explore whether there are any levels beyond the tenth level, to see if there are any other benefits to be gained.”
Emperor Ci De adopted a laissez-faire policy towards the detection magic he sensed.
The tenth and eleventh floors of the Goblin Maze are more than fifty meters apart. It is impossible for ordinary magicians to extend their magic power to here for exploration. Generally, after exploring about twenty to thirty meters down, they will determine that there is nothing else underground and withdraw their magic power.
This is what Emperor Ci De originally thought, but in his perception, the detecting magic actually compressed itself into a thin needle, as if it really knew that there was something underground. It moved forward courageously and probed more than 20 meters down in a few minutes.
"No way? Could it be that my existence has really been discovered? What on earth is going on? Didn't I say that I only wanted to build a maze suitable for novices? Such magic manipulation ability is simply not something a novice can have."
Without caring about his weak body that had just shed its skin, Emperor Ci De concentrated his mind on sensing the gradually approaching detection magic.
Generally speaking, as the thickness of a solid object increases, the difficulty of detecting magic will increase exponentially, but the detecting magic dropped more than 30 meters, and there was still no sign of any difficulty in operation.
As a new species, the Goblin King possesses a stronger magical perception ability than the average human, and can detect the magic used by others before they are aware of its magic.
But this also has its disadvantages. The magic power will gather around it, making it unable to conceal itself.
As the detection magic gets closer and closer, the person using the detection magic will sooner or later sense the surging magic power contained in it, and then discover the existence of the eleventh floor of this underground maze.
The current Emperor Ci De is still too weak. Moreover, he has just completed molting and cannot fight in a short period of time.
Anyone who could turn detection magic into a probe and send it down to such a depth must be no ordinary person, and it is definitely not someone it can deal with now.
While waiting for the scales on his body to harden, Emperor Ci De fell into deep thought. Within a minute, he made his decision.
After kicking the coffin roughly, Emperor Ci De found a mechanism underneath the coffin. He pounded it hard, and the walls around it opened one after another.
A wide variety of rare items filled the four walls, and each item was protected by the eleventh-layer barrier. Over the past hundreds of years, not even a speck of dust had fallen on them, let alone the slightest damage.
Every item here is priceless if taken individually.
These are the real treasures collected by the Goblin Emperor using the Goblin Empire. They are not comparable to the "legacy" mentioned above.
He was unclear about the situation above, and didn't know who they were or why they came. It was very dangerous to continue staying here, so Emperor Ci De prepared to run away.
Of course, it didn't want to give away its life savings for nothing, but the magic used for storage was too complicated. It took a lot of time just to draw it, and it took a lot of magic power to activate and store it.
At this point in time, it was unable to cast any storage magic that could take everything away, so it could only take as much as it could.
When packing up, Emperor Ci De saw that among all the treasures, the most conspicuous position was actually a very plain box.
When I opened it, I saw an extremely simple white key inside.
Picking up the key, Emperor Ci De clenched his fist to feel its texture, recalling the past.
"I remember that guy said that this key is the key to wake him up alone. Otherwise, at least five similar keys are needed to wake him up.
If one key can revive you, then why do you need five keys
I don't quite understand what he means, but I still keep it safe. Otherwise, if I lose it, I will have to spend some time looking for five keys that are the same as this one."
After packing up all his things and putting the white key on his chest, Emperor Ci De stood under the stalactite, his eyes like a giant dragon revealing a red light, looking around for the treasures he had not taken away.
"I'll let you keep the remaining treasures for me. One day, I will ask you to return them. Transmit."
A dazzling red light was released from the stalactites, covering the body of Emperor Ci De. After a short while, her figure completely disappeared in the underground maze.
On the tenth floor, Wanjing Zhihua showed a surprised expression as her probe hit a powerful barrier.
Perhaps, it is the eleventh floor that Yang Yu mentioned, but it is too troublesome to get there, and it really requires digging three feet into the ground.
Fortunately, every member of [Red Blood Rose] can contribute to the grave digging business.
Cher Bailey's fist can completely shatter the floor of the tenth floor. Gordon and Wanjing Zhihua can use magic to dig the soil, while Luo, driven by Sennasha, freezes the excavated soil into blocks that are easy to carry and hands them over to the hired novice magicians to transport them out.
After half a day of digging, [Red Blood Rose] hit a hard stone slab.
After confirming that the depth of the excavation was consistent with the detected depth, Wanjing Zhihua immediately dismissed the people around him and used powerful magic to blast the barrier at a single point, opening the way to the eleventh floor.
(End of this chapter)