Chapter 586 “Subscribe Request” The Second Holy Sword (5k)
“Beast King Fist!”
The lion beast bellowed loudly, sending an energy wave that obliterated the two frenzied monsters into powder, then proceeded forward.
“Greed Slime II” kept calling from atop his head, directing him to adjust his direction.
Dark followed behind, clearly hearing that the calls of “Greed Slime II” were becoming more urgent, which meant the treasure emitting the aura of a “Holy Sword” was close.
Before entering the dungeon, he had set the goal of finding the “Holy Sword,” but it was merely a small goal, not one he was determined to achieve.
After all, his need for the “Holy Sword” wasn’t a pressing one.
He was not the “Hero.”
Of course, if he could find the “Holy Sword,” he would be very happy.
Thus, tonight’s outing was a pleasant surprise.
But after the excitement, Dark quickly calmed down.
Obtaining the first “Holy Sword” was actually not easy and carried extremely high risks.
Even with the “Mana Nightmare Demon” as a powerful weapon, if there were multiple monsters he couldn’t fight against, even “Same Life” would lose its meaning.
“I wonder if this ‘Holy Sword’ is also in the Hidden Space? I hope the difficulty isn’t too great.”
As he pondered, Dark suddenly looked up and noticed the Lion Beast had stopped just before turning the corner.
He immediately asked, “What’s wrong?”
The Lion Beast frowned and hesitated, “Perhaps we’ve arrived?”
“Is that so?” Dark’s expression changed slightly, quickening his pace to reach its side.
Peering around the corner, a huge stone door hidden in the darkness suddenly came into view.
The door was over ten meters high, with intricate patterns carved on both doors, but they were somewhat blurred due to the dim light.
The door was thick, with a gap in the middle, but it wasn’t wide enough for a person to pass through.
Dark couldn’t help but frown because such a prominent door directly appearing in the labyrinth was likely leading to the room of the floor boss.
But regarding the floor boss of the tenth level of the dungeon…
He had clearly assigned someone to clear it last week, and the person who took the task was Senior Sister Maly.
“Is it a weekly reset?”
“Speaking of which, the coordinates on that information…”
Dark suddenly changed his expression and took out the “Mana Needle” to calculate.
A few minutes later, his face gradually darkened.
In the dungeon, the so-called “coordinates” were calculated starting from mana markers, and then according to direction.
Although the safe zones where mana markers were located might change due to terrain, the calculation method remained unchanged.
If his calculations weren’t significantly off, this stone door room should be very close to the coordinates described in the information.
Considering calculation errors, saying they were at the same coordinates was completely reasonable!
“In other words, after all this, I’ve finally come here?”
“But… Senior Sister Maly described the boss room as being behind an iron door, which doesn’t match the current situation.”
“Last week, this week. Assuming the tenth-floor terrain has changed due to the refresh mechanism, the relative position of the floor boss should theoretically have changed as well.”
“After all, what is the probability that the boss room’s coordinates are the same?”
“And how did the other party know this coordinate a week ago?”
“Through divination?”
Dark’s mind raced.
He knew nothing about the other party’s purpose, unable to discern whether it was good or bad intentions.
But if the information provided by the other party was merely the coordinates of the tenth-floor boss from last week, the possibility of coincidence wasn’t low.
On the contrary, if the information from the start pointed to the coordinates of this week’s tenth-floor boss, the likelihood of the other party having a powerful seer was very high.
Of course, there was another possibility.
That the other party possessed some key factor that determined the position of the tenth-floor boss.
He didn’t learn it through divination but knew from the beginning that the boss’s position would still be here because of some critical factor.
Although it seemed unbelievable, Dark was “well-traveled” and had considered various possibilities.
Moreover, he could indeed speculate what the so-called key factor might be.
Assuming…
If the assumption held true.
The so-called key factor would probably be the “Holy Sword.”
…
Because the “Holy Sword” was too special.
And “Greed Slime II” happened to smell the aura of the “Holy Sword” here.
So Dark made this connection.
But if we reverse-engineer from this basis…
“Could it be that the purpose of giving me this information is because of the ‘Holy Sword’?”
“That’s not right! If it’s because of the ‘Holy Sword,’ shouldn’t the information be given to the ‘Hero’s Child’?”
Dark couldn’t help but hesitate.
Before understanding the other party’s true intention, he really couldn’t act rashly.
But the “Holy Sword” was right in front of him, guarded only by the tenth-floor floor boss, almost within reach.
Could he give up just because of this unfounded speculation?
Clearly, it was impossible.
“Come to think of it, in the original game, since players could control the protagonist to defeat the Demon King in the academy, there should indeed be quite a few ‘Holy Swords’ in the academy capable of purifying the ‘Hero’s Bloodline.'”
“Even though I haven’t played that game, the ‘Holy Sword’ might be a collection element used to increase user engagement and interest.”
“Dungeon, secret passage, thick forest, these…”
In the scene, there should be a “Holy Sword” hidden somewhere.
“If we extrapolate from this, it is indeed possible that there is someone who possesses information about the ‘Holy Sword,’ guiding the protagonist by passing on intelligence to collect the ‘Holy Sword.'”
“So the question comes back to whether he shouldn’t give the intelligence to the protagonist, the ‘Hero’s Child’—Wit Gold—who needs the ‘Holy Sword’ to purify his bloodline?”
“It can’t be that he got the wrong person, right?”
Thinking of this, even Dark chuckled.
He shook his head and looked again at the enormous stone door that seemed to blend into the darkness.
As the saying goes, when the enemy comes, the general blocks; when water comes, the earth damns. No matter what, he couldn’t ignore such a huge treasure.
However, before entering, he needed to prepare.
…
Two minutes later.
Dark brought the golems to the stone door, carefully searched for a moment, confirmed there were no other traps, then retracted the degenerated “Trash Slime” back into the mana card.
Then he reached into his mana card deck and pondered carefully.
“The rooms of floor bosses generally come in two types. The most common is a single large room where you can see the boss type as soon as you enter.
The other type has a complex structure like a large dungeon, requiring one to pass through multiple stages before seeing the final boss.”
“And unlike games, floor bosses can be prematurely awakened.”
“If they aren’t dealt with promptly, they could burst out of their rooms and pose a threat to other adventurers on the same floor.”
“To deal with the latter situation, it’s not suitable to use too much force before opening the door.”
“In short, first confirm the cooldown of the ‘Capital Sin Cards.'”
“Except for ‘Gluttony III,’ all other ‘Capital Sin Cards’ can be used.”
“There is also an uncontrollable ‘Bliss III? Moon,’ two controllable ‘Bliss III Moons,’ a standard ‘Bliss III,’ ‘Pride III,’ and another ‘Pride IV!'”
“Firstly, the unique strategic weapon ‘Pride IV’ cannot be used recklessly.”
“I can first use the uncontrollable ‘Bliss III? Moon’ with a ‘Pride I.’ The target will be…”
Dark raised his head and looked at the little Mana Spirit playing in the air.
…
Half a minute later, a “Mana Nightmare Demon,” with a slightly proud expression, appeared before him.
It floated quietly in the air, its head shaped like a magical girl wearing a wizard hat, and its body draped in a deep blue wizard robe.
Three red gems on its flat chest emitted a powerful aura of mana.
“A five-star ‘Mana Nightmare Demon’ and a five-star ‘Lion Beast’ should be enough…”
Dark thought for a moment, feeling it was not entirely secure, so he summoned “Huhu” to his side as well.
After taking a deep breath, he said, “Lion Beast, open the door!”
…
The Lion Beast stretched out both hands and pressed them against the stone door, bursting forth with full strength!
“Rumble!”
From inside the stone door came the sound of grinding, and the right stone door was slowly pushed open by the Lion Beast.
Inside the stone door was pitch black, and the faint light outside suddenly made a rustling noise as it entered.
The Lion Beast frowned and cautiously observed the interior.
Where the Illusionary Worm’s white light shone, about one square meter of stone tiles were neatly laid out, with red liquid emitting white smoke flowing through the gaps between the stones. An intense heat rushed over instantly.
Looking to the side, two rows of statues were lined up, each separated by a stone tile, stretching into the impenetrable darkness.
The commotion just now came from those statues!
“Prepare for battle!”
The Lion Beast shouted abruptly!
Suddenly, flames lit up on both sides of the hall, torches hanging on the walls spontaneously ignited, and the intense flames illuminated the entire vast hall.
From the stone door inward, it wasn’t until after more than forty stone tiles that a staircase began to ascend to a square platform.
But there was no floor boss sitting on a throne atop the platform—only a transparent jar filled with red liquid!
The red liquid inside boiled continuously, causing red mist to rise through a tube in the middle.
The tube bent backward and pierced into the wall.
Clearly, behind the wall, there must be other spaces.
“It seems this is a type of boss room with stages!”
Dark quickly made his judgment.
Almost simultaneously, the grinding sound of the stone door closing echoed, and the massive stone door began to close automatically.
On the statues lining both sides of the hall, numerous cracks appeared, releasing thick steam.
“Bang!”
The great door slammed shut.
On both sides, two statues completely split apart, and magma-like creatures emerged, roaring.
“Crimson Rock Fiends!”
Dark immediately recognized the origins of these two creatures, instantly becoming wary, and urgently said, “Four-star creatures, Crimson Rock Fiends, fire and rock attributes, elemental species, be careful!”
The golem elves, already possessing basic knowledge, immediately became alert. Even the casually lounging Meow opened its eyes, its expression serious.
Elemental species were among the hardest to deal with.
They were almost impossible to kill, needing to find and destroy their core.
Moreover, elemental species of the fire attribute usually possessed long-range explosive fire spells as ultimate skills.
Rock attribute elemental species typically boosted their defense with rock armor, making their defenses skyrocket.
Immortal, high burst, strong defense—this is what a four-star creature, the Crimson Rock Fiend, was like!
Without sufficient defense, even touching the
The skin would be scorched.
For magic golems like MeowMeow, their compatibility with the Flaming Red Demons was extremely poor.
“Take it.”
Dark briefly pondered and then pulled out the “Gale Dagger” hanging from his thigh, throwing it over.
“Meow!”
MeowMeow immediately caught the dagger and spun it nimbly between his fingers.
Although he was only a three-star magic golem, his attack power had already reached the pinnacle of three stars. With the “Gale Dagger” in hand, dealing with one or two Flaming Red Demons was not difficult.
At the same time, LionBeast drew the “Solo Sword Sheath” from its sheath.
Deoxys, on the other hand, pulled the “Dragon Tooth Sword,” which might have been forged from dragon teeth, from behind and then unslung all the bags on him, placing them in the middle of a stone slab.
Afterward, he slightly bent down, pushed off with his feet, and shot out like an arrow!
There were forty-some stone statues in the arena. Two of them had already resurrected. Deoxys chose the right side, so LionBeast naturally charged toward the left.
The battle instantly triggered.
Though the “Dragon Tooth Sword” in Deoxys’s hand was still sharp, it could never compare to the “Solo Sword Sheath,” which was a Holy Sword.
Upon reaching the Flaming Red Demon, he attempted to decapitate it in one stroke.
However, the sword blade only cut in half an inch before being blocked by the hard rock shell.
Then, a sudden burst of red light exploded from the Flaming Red Demon’s body, and scorching flames spewed out from the cracks in the rock shell, heading straight for Deoxys.
Deoxys raised an eyebrow, then instantly burst forth with power, swinging his right arm holding the sword, sending the heavy Flaming Red Demon flying back!
“Meow.”
He sneered and charged again.
When the core of the Flaming Red Demon burst into red light, it was exposed.
Located above its navel, the fiery red core continued to shine.
Deoxys pursued relentlessly, and the next strike pierced through the red core.
“BOOM!”
Almost instantaneously, the Flaming Red Demon self-destructed as soon as its core was shattered.
Deoxys’ eyes widened. In a split second, he abandoned the Dragon Tooth Sword and retreated several meters away at an incredibly swift speed.
In his vision, the Flaming Red Demon exploded into a ball of flames.
The Dragon Tooth Sword stabbed into its body was also blown away.
Then, two more Flaming Red Demons emerged from adjacent stone statues in front of Deoxys.
…
On the other side…
LionBeast completed his first kill cleanly and decisively.
Without hesitation, he charged towards the neighboring statue—despite the Flaming Red Demon inside not having fully emerged yet!
Reality wasn’t a game.
No one would wait for you to slowly complete a “resurrection scene.”
LionBeast wielded the “Holy Sword” and swept across, instantly destroying rows of stone statues.
But after destroying nearly ten statues, the remaining dozen or so broke free simultaneously.
It seemed they sensed a threat, or perhaps the death of their comrades enraged them.
Over a dozen Flaming Red Demons spread their arms and roared at the sky the moment they emerged, flames dancing wildly from their cores. The crimson rocks started spreading from their feet, enveloping their entire bodies in a flash.
Clad in “rock armor” and encircled by flames, the Flaming Red Demons surrounded LionBeast.
But LionBeast, armed with a sword, remained calm.
In an instant, sword light flashed, and red flames surged. A fierce battle ensued.
…
Just after slaying the second and third Flaming Red Demons, Deoxys glanced in LionBeast’s direction, then snorted coldly, glaring fiercely at the fourth Flaming Red Demon.
Humility is a virtue, pride is the essence.
Deoxys’ strikes grew increasingly sharp. His eyes glowed red, and every time his gaze met that of the Flaming Red Demon, it caused the demon to fall into confusion for a short while, followed by a fatal blow.
…
The battle itself wasn’t particularly perilous.
MeowMeow, wielding the “Gale Dagger,” guarded beside Dark, and even the five-star Mana Nightmare Demon did not intervene.
With just LionBeast and Deoxys being active, all forty-odd Flaming Red Demons were eliminated.
But after their deaths, the red substance forming their bodies flowed into the gaps in the stone slabs, slowly seeping out and gradually submerging the outer slabs.
Dark had no choice but to carry his backpack and walk up to the dais.
Upon reaching the dais, Dark suddenly noticed a passage leading inside, understanding immediately.
“It seems this hall is just an entrance; there’s more space inside.”
He turned around and looked at the transparent jar filled with red liquid, contemplating.
The red liquid inside was hotter than what flowed outside, giving a burning sensation upon approach.
Without much thought, it was clear this was no mere decoration.
The jar felt somewhat like a “distillation apparatus,” heating and vaporizing the red liquid inside, then condensing it through pipes somewhere else to purify it.
With the Flaming Red Demons exterminated, the red substance forming their bodies flowed into the stone slab gaps, recirculating and being absorbed back into the jar. Now, the level of liquid in the jar had visibly risen.
Dark sensed something and immediately led the magic golems down the dais and into the passage.
Then, turning slightly, he said to the Mana Nightmare Demon, “Go, destroy it!”
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[5000 words, will add another 5000 in the morning, cheering myself on o（~ヘ~o#).]
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