Demon King, Don’t Run Away

Chapter 99: You are my tool

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Dungeons exist to be conquered.

Going back along the original route, you can see a passage that has never appeared before. This design itself is deliberately designed to make the attacker aware of the strategy of this dungeon.

While explaining to Iyas, Yang Yu gently touched the wall at the end of the passage. The light on the wall suddenly became brighter, and a number 6 consisting only of horizontal and vertical lines appeared on the wall.

"What does this mean?" Iyas asked.

"This is the key I need to open the next passage. Iyas, you have long legs, and we need your help."

"What kind of favor do you need that requires long legs?" asked Iyas.

"A tool man."

"Tool man? What tool man?"

"A human pedometer."

Turning around and leaving the passage, Yang Yu couldn't help but smile.

If you don't understand the strategy, it may be difficult, but once you understand it, it's just that easy. This is the case for basically all puzzle games.

At first, although Yang Yu sorted out the general strategy from Kalugada's words, he didn't know where to start. It wasn't until he saw that the passage to rescue Kalugada suddenly disappeared that he suddenly realized it.

Following Yang Yu out of the passage, Iyas turned around and the passage behind her disappeared again, replaced by a cold wall.

Gently tap the wall with your hand, and the crisp sound echoes in the dungeon, as if the wall had never disappeared.

Just as Iyas was amazed at the magic of the underground maze, Yang Yu took out paper and pen from the system.

"I will draw the entire third floor. Then, we will conquer this underground maze as quickly as possible. Iyas, what I need you to do is to measure the length of each section of the maze with your steps."

The process of measuring the entire underground maze is not easy.

[Hall of Wisdom] has countless crossroads.

Every time he encountered a fork in the road, Yang Yu would make a mark on the sketch. After reaching the end, he would turn back and measure the forks one by one to determine where they would lead to.

In the passages of the underground maze, there are many teams of adventurers fighting with the Minotaur.

They were fighting the Minotaur fiercely and if they were not careful they would be dragged into it.

When he encountered those teams, Yang Yu helped them symbolically. He walked past the Minotaur while fighting and continued to use Iyas as a tool to measure the length of each road.

The entire underground maze is not too big and can be completed in more than an hour by stopping and walking.

The surveying was basically completed, and Yang Yu made the final stroke on the paper. Bai Jin and Iyas came to his side and looked at the crumpled paper in his hand.

The lines on the paper were crooked, and numbers were recorded on each line. If Yang Yu hadn't told her, Bai Jin would not have been able to tell that this was a map.

"I always feel that the drawing is very bad. Is there any problem with this map?"

Looking at the blurry map, Iyas glared at Yang Yu resentfully, "I walked for half a day and got this thing?"

"This is the initial map sketch, of course it looks like this. I'm not a great painter, can I draw all the lines straight while walking? Don't complain too much, a direction and scale are enough, as long as we have these data, I will show you the real map in a while."

Taking out a ruler, a table and new paper, Yang Yu began to make a real map. Perhaps because he hadn't used drawing tools to draw for a long time, his drawings were always slanted or a little too far out.

But these minor issues were not a big deal, and the full picture of the third floor gradually appeared on the map.

As Yang Yu expected, there was a huge square in the center of the map, and the third-level BOSS they were looking for was in it - behind a series of walls.

After finding all the places that looked like 6 on the map, Yang Yu led the team in the opposite direction of the road and finally opened the second door leading to "death".

There was a passage on the wall where there was no passage before. After entering the passage and walking a few dozen steps, you will reach the end of the passage. At the end of the passage, a blue female ghost has been waiting for a long time.

[Strange ghost level??? HP 500/500]

"Bai Jin, [Fireball]"

After taking a look at the ghost's attributes, Yang Yu issued an order. Bai Jin wove brilliant flames in her hands, condensed them into a ball, and smashed them hard at the ghost, which instantly turned into ashes.

In the passage, the glowing walls seeped out blue light, which sank into the bodies of Yang Yu and the other two. An icon shaped like a blue ghost suddenly appeared on the status bars of the three people.

[Touch of Death] - Increases damage to monsters in the dungeon by 50% and turns attacks into true damage.

The strength of this BUFF far exceeded Yang Yu's expectations.

"50% damage increase, and turning the attack into real damage. No wonder Kalugada's team is desperate to collect it."

Iyas also felt some indescribable changes in her body, as if in an instant, she was able to press those minotaurs to the ground and rub them. "Has Kalugada's team also realized the secret of the dungeon like us? Even with such a strong buff, we still failed. Do you really have a way to deal with the monsters that Kalugada mentioned?"

"Don't worry about that." Yang Yu smiled, his brows full of confidence, "As for whether they have discovered the correct strategy like us, that's hard to say.

No one can predict luck. If they were just fleeing in panic from the monsters, they might have accidentally seen a passage, hid in it, and discovered the secret. It is not impossible."

If there was no passage at the exit, I would never realize the truth of this maze and would not be able to find a way to conquer it.

It's a really friendly maze, I like it.

He put his hand on the wall, and new patterns immediately appeared on the wall. Yang Yu took out the drawn map and carefully looked for a path similar to the one on the map.

"Is there no one else who has noticed the strategy for conquering the maze like us?"

"It's possible, but it's definitely a minority. If it were you, would you tell others that defeating the blue ghost can quickly defeat the maze monster?"

Iyas said as a matter of course: "Of course, it will be much faster to conquer the maze together."

Yang Yu was speechless again.

"Okay, I asked the wrong question. If you were a profit-seeking adventurer, would you tell others about this? The answer is definitely not. So, even if some adventurer teams knew this secret, they would definitely not share it with others."

In order to prevent Iyas from playing against the rules again, Yang Yu asked himself questions and answered them, and then looked at the map with an increasingly determined gaze.

"However, we have no way of determining how many people have discovered this strategy just like us."

(End of this chapter)