As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 697 Li Nuo is a vengeful person, extremely vengeful.

The lobby on the first floor.

Cairo Girl hid behind the counter, shivering as she smoked.

"I must be dreaming..."

She looked around.

"It's not a dream...it's not a dream!"

All forty elite knights of the kingdom's army lay on the ground in the main hall, some dead, some unconscious. The culprit was a raven monster, which killed them in just ten seconds.

Sixty adventurers and twenty knights on the second floor gave chase, but it's estimated... their chances of survival are slim.

……

Marcus is an archaeologist who follows the Kingdom's army, and his current major is related to the Great Labyrinth.

Marcus is now on the second level of the maze.

Not long ago, an anomaly occurred in the maze, and they needed to search for the source of the anomaly from top to bottom. On the second level, Marcus found the most important thing, which will be a great discovery.

"Is this the minister's corpse?"

"It seems so."

He and his assistant squatted in front of the charred corpse, and the weighing equipment in their hands revealed that the charred corpse's genes were almost identical to those of the defector minister from the Kingdom of Haloran.

"Isn't this guy the master of the maze on the tenth floor?"

Marcus looked suspicious.

The more Marcus examined the components in the corpse, the more horrified he became.

The minister clearly showed signs of fleeing. A preliminary autopsy revealed that he possessed a magical element not belonging to this world. This magic permeated his body, likely caused by a creature that had invaded the ten-layered labyrinth.

This discovery may indicate that the labyrinth is undergoing an unprecedented transformation.

The items in the labyrinth were all transported from another world. It's very likely that some terrifying thing from another world was transported to the bottom of the labyrinth. That thing is not only powerful, but it can also make monsters evolve.

"Send the report to the Knight Commander on the fifth floor as soon as possible."

"quick!"

Marcus's shout frightened his assistant.

at this time.

There was a noise not far away.

A small, dark shadow passed by them, leaving almost no sound.

Just as Marcus and his group were feeling something was amiss, a large group of soldiers and players rushed towards them at breakneck speed.

"Did you see a crow?"

The soldiers shouted.

"crow!"

"There were no crows... but there was a dark shadow just now."

The assistant timidly pointed in a direction.

The soldiers shouted, "Chase!"

Marcus grabbed an adventurer (player) and asked, "What happened?"

The adventurer said, "The crow has become a spirit."

……

The maze has three levels.

Milo and the girl in black stockings walked through the cave, and footsteps came from behind them.

"Wait for us!"

They turned around and saw the seven players who had been in the lobby on the first floor.

The players who followed were all of high level; otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to defeat the gatekeeper bosses on the first and second floors again in such a short time.

Milo found their appearance strange.

"You guys aren't planning on doing something, are you?"

"Um……"

The speaker was a young man with spiky hair.

"When we got off the 'Immortal Train' back then... although our hands were covered in blood, the confidence we had back then seems like a dream now."

At this point, both Milo and the girl in black stockings understood.

Those who survive the "Immortality Train" either suffer mental breakdowns or quickly recover to face tomorrow's challenges, but regardless of their condition, they all experience a sense of "I'm awesome" after their victory.

Until they encounter other players in the corridor, and after experiencing setbacks time and time again, they all collapse. Their self-confidence vanishes with each failure, and they eventually become cowards, lying down and waiting to die in the "Endless Corridor".

Milo's attitude of continuing to conquer the maze despite its dangers reminded them of their past selves—the ones who would risk everything to become stronger.

Milo looked at the group of guys who had found their purpose again and smiled with satisfaction.

"Don't hold us back..."

Boom!
A crow suddenly appeared and swatted the guy to the ground with one wing.

Everyone froze in place.

The crow, holding a silver toothpick and wearing a black hat, is perched on the head of the player lying on the ground.

Just as the girl in black stockings was about to make a move, Milo stopped her with a wave of his hand.

Black hat.

Silver toothpicks that look like walking sticks.

Dead fish eyes.

There is a scar on my left eye.

Milo's face darkened.

He made way for the crow and gestured for it to move aside.

Li Nuo walked over with dead fish eyes and handed Milo a note. Clearly, he had discovered Milo's presence a long time ago, and the contents of the note had been prepared in advance.

Milo nodded, watching Li Nuo speed up and disappear before letting out a sigh of relief.

The girl in black stockings and the other players all seemed very strange.

"Milo...what's wrong? That bird..."

"Stop asking!"

Milo's roar, his face dark with anger, shocked everyone. What had that crow done?

The girl in black stockings grabbed Milo's shoulder: "What did it say on the note it gave you?"

Milo seemed to be provoked, stuffed the note into his mouth, and swallowed it with a laugh: "There's nothing there."

They thought Milo might have gone mad.

These guys, if they rehearsed a script with Li Nuo, they would understand that Milo is quite calm now.

The girl in black stockings pouted. She didn't like Milo keeping things from people like this, so she secretly used a mind-stealing skill to peek into the answer that Milo was afraid of. But what Milo was thinking was even darker than the girl in black stockings... She immediately withdrew from her consciousness and ended the skill.

That raven... is it some kind of strange summoned beast?

At this moment, a large number of soldiers arrived in pursuit.

"Have you seen a crow?"

Milo lowered his head and pointed behind him.

The soldiers gave chase.

"Adam!"

Milo suddenly said that name.

The soldiers stopped.

"Who?"

"Adam, Adam Ireland, the monster posing as an adventurer, that raven... he summoned this evil creature."

Milo was referring to what was written on the note by Lino.

……

A six-story ancient underground city.

The knight commander sat on a rock. Because there was a gas on the sixth floor that could drive people mad, the logistics mage team was trying to clean the gas, otherwise they would not be able to go down to the seventh floor.

"Dr. Marcus on the second floor discovered the body of the traitorous minister."

"According to the investigation, the corpse contains indelible remnants of otherworldly magic, indicating the presence of a very powerful creature... that entered the depths of the labyrinth, whose power may exceed our comprehension." "There is also a very terrifying message here."

A subordinate came over and handed the knight commander a photograph. The photograph was animated, showing what had just happened on the first floor.

As the knights prepared to attack the raven monster that had suddenly appeared on the first floor, the raven vanished into thin air, and then... all the knights fell to the ground.

"what is this?"

The subordinate didn't understand.

"Does that crow possess magic?"

"and many more."

The knight commander zoomed in on the photograph and then used a slowing spell to slow down the image.

Several streaks of silvery-white light appeared in the image.

There's no way to slow down any further.

But the knight commander broke out in a cold sweat.

His subordinates were all seasoned veterans, and they understood what was happening.

The crow that suddenly appeared used its silver toothpick to kill forty knights in an instant.

"What level of strength is this monster?"

The knight commander asked the recorder beside him.

The bespectacled recorder held a book and checked the classification of the maze monsters.

"Instantly defeated forty elite knights of the kingdom's army..."

"Sir..."

"No, there is no such classification."

Soon, new reports arrived.

"That adventurer named Milo said... there was an adventurer named Adam Ireland who was the instigator of everything."

The knight commander took the checked documents, which contained Adam's registration information.

"Who said that?"

"An adventurer named Milo, who is highly respected among adventurers, was the one who said he saw Olise defeat the Night Dragon."

The knight commander wasn't stupid; he sensed something was amiss.

However, a coincidence occurred.

Less than half an hour later, a merchant on the fifth floor was dug out of the ground.

The merchant said he was robbed, tied up, and stuffed into the ground by a woman.

"According to the information given by the businessman, it was a woman who covered her face."

"No other distinguishing features?" the knight commander asked.

"Great figure." The soldier pulled out an S-shaped line drawn by the businessman: "That's the kind of figure I'm talking about."

There's more news coming from the fifth floor.

“Many people saw Olise interacting with that woman. A man next to that woman seemed to have argued with Olise, but after they got to the sixth floor, the woman was no longer with Olise.”

Actually, it wasn't an argument at the time; it was just a cry for mercy that erupted when Li Nuo grabbed Olise's head and forced her to fight monsters.

The Knight Commander gathered all the information together.

"Milo, a highly respected adventurer... Adam Ireland, who can summon dark ravens... The masked woman with a stunning figure... Olise, who was kidnapped by that woman's accomplices... And then, Olise defeated the Night Dragon on the sixth floor..."

It's so confusing.

The knight commander couldn't think of an answer anymore; he was a soldier, not a detective.

"Summon the elf fortune teller."

A day has passed.

The elven diviner, hidden in a concealed area on the third level of the labyrinth, was brought before the knight commander.

“Olise, I want to see what she’s doing.”

The Elf Diviner's ability is to "monitor the native inhabitants of the labyrinth at any time." She is a surveillance system deployed by the kingdom in the Great Labyrinth, and she can see the location and live footage of any native inhabitant in the adventure area, even if they are taking a bath or sleeping.

The fortune teller twisted his hands, and a crystal ball appeared in his palm.

“Olise, is this the girl? She’s on the seventh floor.”

Accompanying the fortune teller's voice was a blonde elf girl named Olsie standing in the crystal ball image.

They saw that Olise had raised a worn-out longsword, pointing it at something, and was fighting against something.

The knight commander frowned and said, "Turn the angle."

The fortune teller rubbed the crystal ball, switching to Olise's third-person perspective. She was confronting a group of giant werewolves, mutated monsters that moved in lava and were extremely dangerous, so this scene stunned everyone.

Knight Commander: "Zoom in."

He wanted to see who Olise's companions were. If that masked woman with a huge figure was among them, it meant they were in cahoots, which meant that Milo was lying.

But Olise was accompanied by a green-skinned goblin, and behind them were two skeletons.

In the distance, a stunningly beautiful elven girl sat leaning against the ground, her haggard appearance clearly indicating that she was injured.

The knight commander, also an elf, couldn't help but feel his heart race and his thoughts become disordered when he saw this stunningly beautiful elf woman with a ponytail.

"We can't do this... women are like dull knives..."

He continued to look.

Night Dragon is in the distance... It looks like it has been subdued by Olise.

He didn't notice the iron ball (tea white) on the ground.

Suddenly, Olise in the scene shouted something and charged at the werewolves with the goblins. The injured elf with the ponytail anxiously shouted something (Butterfly, think about what you're going to eat later!). The knight commander was extremely anxious; he desperately wanted to know what the elf was saying...

After the Night Dragon unleashed its final breath, Olise and the goblin emerged from the frost, and the two creatures of different races joined forces to defeat the werewolves.

The crystal ball suddenly shattered.

"That's it, my magic is exhausted."

"That's what the fortune teller said."

But all the knights remained silent; this short scene contained an immense amount of information.

Olise tamed skeletons and night dragons to serve her. While there is indeed a precedent for taming monsters in "Adventure Labyrinth Village," the most terrifying issue is the goblin problem.

Goblins exist on the eighth floor of the Great Labyrinth. These goblins have been hostile to the native inhabitants of this place since ancient times, and they often clash. Even in the surface world, wars frequently break out between goblins and elves.

Oliche actually solved the racial problem by cooperating with the goblins...

"This woman...is she really the savior?"

All the thoughts in the knight commander's mind seemed to come together.

"Olise was kidnapped by the masked woman who robbed the merchant. On the sixth floor, due to the intervention of the Night Dragon, Olise escaped from the bandits and solved the Night Dragon problem at the critical moment, even subduing the Night Dragon. On the seventh floor, she subdued more monsters, encountered a goblin, and formed a cooperative relationship with the goblin. The ponytail elf girl was obviously being attacked by werewolves. Olise gathered all her strength and rescued the elf girl."

The knight commander had previously been thinking about finding Olise as soon as possible so that she wouldn't steal his job, but now... he decided to abandon his petty selfishness.

Oliche may be the only answer to all problems.

There's another issue here, namely, what Milo said about Adam and the black raven.

"The masked woman who robbed the merchant... Black Raven, Adam, they must be in cahoots, and the traitorous minister who was originally on the tenth floor bears traces of Adam Ireland... The answer is clear, everyone, listen up!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the knights straightened their backs in unison.

"Arrest Adam Ireland."

The knight commander stood up, his gaze resolute.

“If necessary, kill Adam Ireland with all your might. He is very likely... the culprit behind the labyrinth's mutation.”

"Yes--!"

On the tenth floor, the image of riders straightening their bodies flashed on the screen.

The eyes, fixed on the screen, were slightly closed.

He picked up the golden goblet from beside his throne, elegantly took a sip of the grape juice, slowly swirled the glass, rested his arm on the armrest made of golden magic stone, and let his slender fingers trace the sculpted jawline.

A strong, middle-aged man in sunglasses, dressed in a butler's uniform, stood beside him, taking away his wine glass and offering him a white tissue.

The man dabbed his lips with a tissue, and his narrow eyes suddenly became as deep as the night, revealing a kind of... disappointment.

"Still can't see the truth... It seems I need to increase the difficulty for you."

Then, slowly, he revealed a contemptuous, arrogant smile!

"Hmph, hmph... Hahaha, hahahahahahahahahahahaha!"

(End of this chapter)