The lair passages of the mutant scorpions are not the kind of smooth and smooth passages. Most of them correspond to the physical characteristics of the mutant scorpions themselves, showing rugged paths with pits and bumps.
"It's hard for them to force their way in." Zhao Xu commented.
He is blessed with the "God's Step" that has long-lasting perfect mobility, and he can also rely on the perfect mobility to control and move around in these difficult passages by relying on the power of flight.
But Vivian, who was wearing heavy full-body armor, showed limitations at this moment. Even if her heavy armor was mixed with mithril and became much lighter, it was still difficult to climb in the corridor.
After several attempts, she directly used her transformation ability to make the original succubus wings grow from her back, and began to flutter like Zhao Xu.
Succubi themselves have the ability to fly.
At this moment, Zhao Xu also noticed that the wings spread out behind Vivian were not the ugly bat-like wings of the demon clan that he had seen before.
Instead, it seems to be formed by the concentration of energy, which appears as a dark purple particle aperture. The light and shadow effect is quite pleasing to the eye.
Thinking that the other party was a secret container created by Cang Ye, and that it might be different from ordinary succubi, Zhao Xu didn't bother much.
While the two were flying together, they saw no trace of the mutant scorpion, as if this was an empty nest.
"We may take another entrance." Zhao Xu analyzed.
He has been flying for at least half an hour since he came in.
Those adventurers who snatched the treasure chest would definitely have to spend more time without flying skills in the lair, and they would not be able to make the two-hour round trip.
Even on the way to escape from the lair, he was intercepted and killed long ago.
"The monster's nest will have several exits, even if it is an insect nest without intelligence." Vivian added.
This means that they and those adventurers are not walking on the same path.
Because Zhao Xu used the object positioning technique to locate the distance in a straight line, and their search for the entrance to the nest was also offset by hundreds of meters. At the same time, the underground passage was crooked, and it was entirely possible that it was a road farther away from the treasure hidden in the nest.
During Vivian's flight, she was carrying a heavy-duty full-body armor, and even though it was mixed with mithril to reduce the weight, she already felt a little tired.
This is also normal for everyone to take adventures. Physical strength, diet, breathing, sleep, and the comfort level of the load on the body need to be considered.
Unless he is a child of a great noble, he has a dimensional bag hanging on his body to reduce the load, and there is an Ioin stone on his head that does not require breathing, and an Ioin stone that does not require eating.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Vivian, who was flying at low altitude after entering a section of flat land, stopped flying and stayed in the air to observe the bottom.
It was a deeply dug hole, and the walls of the hole were polished quite smooth, which was not conducive to climbing.
All the piles under the cave were filled with corpses of all kinds.
Judging from the spine, it can be barely distinguished that most of them are ferocious animals, and the leg bones of some beasts are even taller than humans.
But Zhao Xu, who was blessed with dark vision, could also distinguish many human heads, even halfling dwarves.
"It's a bit strange." Vivian frowned.
Seeing this scene, she directly pulled out her original Holy Avenger, and her murderous intent began to show.
"No."
Zhao Xu explained, "The giant ones can naturally be swallowed whole and digested, but the small and medium-sized ones cannot be swallowed whole, and these bones will be left."
His tone was a little cold and a bit cold.
In the past, Zhao Xu's adventures mostly took place on the surface and in towns, and rarely entered the lairs of such monsters.
However, he had explored similar places in his previous life and had seen many such pits containing corpses. These were the leftover food leftovers eaten by monsters.
Ever since humans on earth mastered weapons and tools and could make fire, they have occupied the top of the earth's food chain and brutally exterminated various large animals.
Like Zhao Xu and others, we can't see mammoths in the zoo today. That's because they were eaten by ancient humans long ago.
However, for Arthur.
The original purpose of establishing towns was to form formations to protect themselves against monsters, and even villages outside various towns were rarely in deserted places.
People really die in Arthur's wilderness.
Countless terrifying and powerful monsters are rampant among them.
The corpse pit in front of them cruelly showed Zhao Xu and the others the results of the mutant scorpion's predation.
Civilians who have no ability to protect themselves, even if they learn from ancient humans to hunt with javelins, they still can't defeat these monsters with extremely tough natural armor due to Arthur's environment.
It has never been wrong that metals are the number one killer of proteins.
It's just that Arthur and the others encountered monsters that also had natural armor and damage reduction capabilities, leaving humans with human sea tactics unable to fight until they obtained professional level evolution.
"Keep walking." Zhao Xu said.
For insects without intelligence, these are their food, and there is no point in him being angry.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Vivian let out a soft hum, and immediately she looked towards the shadow of a rubble.
A small mutant scorpion that was not much different from what you see every day was hiding in it. When it saw Zhao Xu and others, although it had no ability to think, its own survival instinct immediately burrowed around the gaps in the loose soil.
The corridors the two of them flew through were passages for medium, large, extra large and even giant mutant scorpions. For these ultra-small and small mutant scorpions, they have their own unique small passages.
Zhao Xu entered this lair and did not put much effort into reconnaissance.
Because once a battle breaks out, it will basically be a fight to the death against a steady stream of mutant scorpions in this lair.
That's why he needs to acquire long-lasting melee capabilities.
Just when Vivian wanted to fly over and kill the small mutant scorpion, Zhao Xu directly controlled the sword energy surrounded by the "Cloud of Blades" spell on his body.
In an instant, the invisible sword energy shot away.
The small mutant scorpion, which had already buried most of its body into the soft soil, was about five centimeters wide and was cut in half by the sword energy on the spot.
Even the seemingly hard scorpion armor could not stop this sharp slash from the arcane ability, and most of the mutant scorpion's body was left outside with the scorpion tail sting.
The incision is extremely smooth and flat, and only after it is completely separated does the insect's own juice slowly reveal itself.
Ultra-small and small mutant scorpions basically can't withstand a blow like Zhao Xu's health.
And Zhao Xu can release this sword energy to kill at will once every round, all day and night without interruption.
He is equivalent to having a crossbowman with powerful attack power stationed on his body, ready to fire arrows at any time without any loss.
A small mutant scorpion has a defense level of up to 14. Even a level 1 warrior among the players may not be able to hit it if it chops it down.
In other words, his sword energy has a natural attack level of 20, and he can cut scorpions like melons.
In this twelfth lunar month of winter, no one can be seen in the still sultry corridor, otherwise they would be extremely surprised that a second-ring spell can produce such power after a long period of time.
"President?" Vivian couldn't help but ask when she saw Zhao Xu was in a daze.
"No, I just suddenly felt a surge of life energy." Zhao Xu explained.
Players are extremely doubtful whether Arthur has experience points.
But Zhao Xu has become clear after this period of time.
Experience points are an alternative "life energy" in Arthur.
One of the necessary conditions for upgrading is to accumulate enough life energy before you can reach a new level of life.
Basically, if you eat, drink, and experience your own professional abilities to accumulate them, you are also accumulating life energy in disguise.
It’s just that killing monsters is the fastest way to accumulate.
However, simply defeating monsters to collect enough life energy is only a necessary condition to complete the upgrade. The "perception" of breaking through barriers is still indispensable.
Therefore, among players, warriors can advance in level faster than mages because they can accumulate life energy while fighting monsters, and gain breakthroughs in combat experience while fighting monsters.
Many times, the age of 30 is the stage when a mage has just started to venture out into the mountains.
And 30 years old is also the age when a seventh-level or eighth-level warrior is tired of fighting and is ready to return home to recuperate.
Zhao Xu just made such a casual slash, and actually felt a trace of life energy floating from the mutant scorpion.
It made him a little suspicious that it was the effect of the fragments of the Death Godhead on his body.
At this time, Lux has entered the critical stage of fusion, and she can no longer chat with him, and can't find anyone to answer his questions.
"Life energy? Vibration?" Vivian's original nervous look relaxed a little.
"Ms. Cang Ye once told me that some gods can see the flow of life energy."
"Um."
Zhao Xu heard Vivian's words, but did not go any further.
At this moment, in front of him, there were no less than a hundred medium to small "mutant scorpions", crowding the corridor in front of him.
They were piled up like a hill in front of them like pieces of drill bits, and they were constantly squirming with each other.
Scorpion's eyes were as bright as yellowish glass beads, staring at them in unison.
There are too many ants to bite the elephant to death. When the defense is not enough, this is Arthur's way of defeating the strong with the weak in battle.
These mutant scorpions opened and shook the two claws on their front bodies, while the stingers on their tails also kept swinging, ready to attack the two of them at any time.
But Zhao Xu was not nervous at all, but looked at everything in front of him with interest.
It's a pity that there are too few.
Four updates, posted as I write.
(End of chapter)