Don't call me evil god

Chapter 211 Where Do Monsters Come From?

In the extremely dark environment of the dungeon, if Pete had not observed carefully enough, it would have been easy to miss the gray mist floating in the air.

The location of the gray fog is very tricky.

The overall structure of this underground cave with 50 monsters is nearly circular, without much terrain undulation. After entering from the passage connected to the underground cave, the internal situation can be seen almost at a glance.

The gray fog just floated beside the connection between the passage and the cave, almost in the blind spot of vision.

This is also the reason why Reina didn't notice it after entering.

Pete hesitated for a moment, and simply sent the news of discovering the gray fog to his companions through the [Instant Messenger], without trying to get close to touch it or do further research.

"Record it first. The situation is unclear. Don't act rashly."

The main goal of their trip was exploration, and the exploration was centered on recording topographic map information.

What needs to be clarified more is what is in the cave and how it is distributed.

For example, there were 50 level 1 monsters in this cave. Pete observed them carefully.

The distortion phenomena that occurred to these dormant monsters were very uniform.

"Spider transformation."

Miranda frowned and murmured softly.

Born in the Crusaders, she has some understanding of the distortion phenomena that occur after being contaminated by various evil gods.

Spider distortion is a very dangerous type of contamination.

Regardless of whether it was originally a human, an animal or something else, after being contaminated, extremely sharp arthropod-like structures that look like spider legs will grow from the body, and the way of movement will also change to crawling on the ground.

After spider transformation, a cyst-like "abdominal bag" will appear on the original body, from which long, thin, fleshy ducts covered with villi will spread out, connected to the "spider legs", so that the sharp feet at the end of the limbs have the ability to spray out silky, quickly solidifying mucus.

After the life that originally had vocal organs was polluted, the organs became deformed and produced sharp screams, which had terrifying negative effects.

The defining feature of spider deformation is the monster's size.

The rating strength of monsters after spider contamination can be directly linked to their body size.

Level 0 is about the size of your open hands, and is usually the result of insects becoming larger after being contaminated;
The size of the first order is two to three times the size of a human brain;

Stage 2 reaches the size of a large mammal;

From level 3 upwards, the body size will become more and more exaggerated;

It is said that the most powerful 6th-order spider demon can be as big as a mound.

This is also the basis for Pete and his team to determine that all the monsters in the cave are level 1.

If we have to say it, with the strength of Pete's pioneering team, they can barely kill 50 spider monsters at a cost.

Both level 3 mages now have mastered group attack magic.

Miranda is there to provide healing and purification support at any time, and Brandon and Rena are there to fend off monsters in close combat.

There will definitely be no problem in destroying some level 1 monsters. At most, you will just get hurt.

The problem is that Pete and the others don’t know the exact situation in the cave!
What if they start fighting here, and the noise from chanting spells and fighting and attacking attracts the attention of other monsters?
Once they are surrounded, they will be no match for them.

When Yaan described it to them, he said that from the sound of the monsters chasing him, there were at least hundreds of them!
The large number of monsters that later appeared in the Misty Valley almost confirmed Yan's statement.

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The group carefully returned along the passage to the large cave where the dwarf's dagger was found, and entered several connecting passages of different sizes in a clockwise direction to investigate the situation.

The information finally collected made Pete look unhappy. Monsters! Lots of monsters!
The terrain structure within the dark dungeon is indeed extremely complex and huge.

The area of ​​the part they explored alone is about thousands of square meters.

With the large cave as the center, the surrounding small and medium-sized caves of varying sizes are radially connected.

The first passage they entered contained 50 spider demons, which was considered a relatively large cave, its main feature being its large number.

In other caves, several Level 2 monsters were found;

There were a dozen or so of mixed 1st and 2nd order specimens found;

The most dangerous cave has a small internal space of only about 100 square meters, but there are two level 3 monsters sleeping inside!
What these caves and monsters have in common is:

All the monsters were in a dormant state, and as long as Pete and the others didn't make too much noise they wouldn't be disturbed;

Every small and medium-sized cave connected by a passage has a very thin gray fog floating next to the entrance.

If you add up the number of monsters in this vicinity, it would almost be the large number of monsters that Yaan described.

Moreover, based on Yaan's experience, Pete could probably guess one thing:

"The monsters will be awakened, and in such a quiet environment, if there is a big noise, it will cause a chain reaction, and they might even alarm each other."

Since they were back to the large cave in the center, which was a relatively safe area without monsters for the time being, Pate and the others could save some life points and just lower their voices to communicate.

Gale frowned deeply. "That means we may have to fight against hundreds of monsters at once? And there are quite a few level 2 monsters, and even several level 3 monsters."

"I'm afraid so." Pete looked solemn.

It wouldn't be a problem to let them destroy the sleeping monsters in a cave alone.

But what if all the monsters nearby were alarmed at the same time?
Then they'd better do the same as Yaan did at that time and consider how to escape quickly.

Reina made a suggestion: "What if we set up a blocking line outside the dungeon, send people in to lure the monster out, and then everyone works together to destroy the monster?"

Brandon's eyes lit up. "That seems like a good suggestion! The entrance to the crypt isn't that big, they can't all rush out at once! Just block the exit!"

"Mr. Pete, what do you think? Is it feasible?" Lena asked softly when she saw Pete was still thinking.

Pete pondered for a long time, and finally shook his head slowly.

"…No, it shouldn't be like this."

"What?" Lena was stunned.

She asked whether the proposed method was feasible, but Pete's answer was a bit irrelevant.

“What I mean,” Pete explained, “is that your approach is feasible, but there’s something that doesn’t make sense.”

"Don't forget, the mission the Lord sent us is to let us explore the dark caves."

"Actually, when I saw the monsters here, I was thinking about a question."

"Yaan said that the monsters in the dungeon went berserk after they took the white ball away, and chased him all the way to the Misty Valley."

"Then where did the monsters sleeping here come from?"

"When the monsters are chasing, there is so much noise. How is it possible that only some of the monsters are alarmed while the others remain asleep?"

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(End of this chapter)