Don't call me evil god

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Others felt similarly.

When this idea comes to mind, it becomes terrifying when you think about it carefully.

It would be fine if this place was dug out by the wild pickaxe dwarves. Every wrong has its perpetrator, and it is very common for cultists to dig holes and hide in the dark underground to carry out secret conspiracies.

But if this stone chamber was not built by the dwarves, how did it appear here?

What were the ideas of its original builders?
Sam plucked up his courage and decided to get closer to take a closer look at the shriveled tentacle.

"It should be dead, there's nothing to be afraid of!"

"If there really was a threat, our bodies would be cold by now!"

Walk carefully to the root of the tentacle in the wall of the stone chamber.

When Sam got closer, he realized that the part that was exposed motionlessly in the stone chamber was far from the entire tentacle.

Looking through the protruding hole into the dark interior, one can vaguely see its larger body part looming inside.

"hiss……"

Sam's scalp tingled.

He made a rough estimate.

The swirling mass of shriveled tentacles "roots" in the stone chamber alone are estimated to be several dozen meters long.

If you count the inside part.

If the body of this monster were fully spread out, wouldn't it be at least hundreds of meters long? !
What kind of concept is that? !
Level 2 monsters are already quite oppressive, and are generally 5 to times the size of a normal adult male human, depending on the type of monster.

But it is at most 3 or 4 meters high, about the height of 1 or 2 floors.

Fourth-order monsters are considered a strategic force among monsters. If they are allowed to destroy freely, their huge bodies nearly 10 meters tall will pose a serious threat to the thick city walls.

The size of a fifth-tier monster is not much different from that of a fourth-tier monster, the difference lies in the severity of the pollution they can cause.

If level 4 monsters are the main force in breaking through cities, then level 5 monsters will bring void pollution that is even more difficult to purify. Before they are eliminated, the concentration of void pollution nearby will be so high that even [Purify Evil] will find it difficult to dispel it.

Level 6 monsters, which are the most dangerous, usually exist as "generals". There are usually only a few of them during the annual monster red tide. Their bodies can often reach tens of meters in height, and their movements are like a landslide.

But the shriveled tentacle in the stone chamber, its complete body is probably beyond the scope of a regular level 6 monster.

Think further.

"How did it die?"

The only explanation Sam could think of was: "Which great god sent down the power of divine punishment, executed it, and then suppressed it here?"

"This horrible monster even broke the stone wall in its last resistance before death, so its tentacles are exposed?"

"No, that's not right. It's probably worse than that." Dolan's voice came without warning from the side, and Sam was so scared that his whole body tensed up.

Dolan's expression wasn't looking good either. He pointed to the hole in the stone wall where the tentacles were sticking out.

“Have you found the problem?”

Sam was stunned: "Huh? What's the problem?"

When the other two heard Dolan's words, they came closer curiously.

"Look, there is a subtle mark at this location."

Dolan stretched out his finger and poked the surface of the tentacle.

It feels dry, inelastic and lifeless.

Sam looked in the direction Dolan pointed, but after looking for a long time he couldn't see anything different.

"Are there any traces?"

Dolan had no choice but to tiptoe and scratch the tentacle with his finger.

"Here, it has signs of being squeezed, but it's not very obvious after it shriveled up. It will probably be visible after it becomes engorged with blood."

Dolan made a simple movement, putting his left index finger and thumb in a circle, and letting his right index finger move freely in and out of the circle.

Then the circle suddenly narrowed.

The index finger of my right hand was stuck inside and couldn't move.

"If nothing unexpected happens, this is not an attempt by it to resist, but it was designed this way when it was suppressed."

"The size of this hole is just a few sizes smaller than its tentacles."

"Its tentacles are stuck here. They can neither be retracted nor extended further out."

"Also, there are no radial cracks at the hole's entrance, which means it wasn't shattered by violence. Instead, this hole was left at the beginning of the design in order to... trap one of its tentacles."

Forget about Sam and Bacon.

Lancelot looked at Dolan in doubt.

"How did you find all this?!"

In his impression, his childhood friend was just an ordinary person who was quick-witted, smart, good at sweet talk, and had some juggling skills at the level of a triangular cat. How come he suddenly turned into an investigation expert?

And when Dolan escaped earlier, his movements were also very skillful.

First, they blocked the guards' blind spots and took advantage of the chaos to attack the cultists, killing them in one blow;
The tightly tied rope can be untied in just a few seconds;

When stealing weapons from guards in dangerous battles, you can even take a purse with you.

Lancelot was so skilled in this guy's series of operations that he could hardly recognize his childhood friend.

Dolan scratched his head modestly.

"I only know a little bit, a little bit!"

"Mainly because I've heard of similar scenes before."

"Some merchants use this method to trap a monster called the Magic Essence Bear Beast, so as to safely and regularly extract the magic essence from its body. I heard that thing, hehe... is an aphrodisiac."

"Moreover, the prisoners themselves are built as part of the prison, making the building a prisoner. This is also the most difficult escape proposition in escape art."

Lancelot was shocked: "You can get away with it like that?"

Dolan laughed: "I know a little bit! I haven't actually experienced it, so I know a little bit!"

"In the past, I was just talking about it on paper most of the time. I could only simulate it in private, but I didn't have the opportunity or the courage to actually practice it."

"Praise Nowen, now it seems that the actual situation is similar to what I simulated."

Bacon looked at the shriveled tentacles in shock.

If Dolan's inferences based on these phenomena are correct, no, even if only half of them are correct, it means something extremely terrifying:

The reason why the stone chamber was built was not to execute and suppress this terrifying monster, but... to obtain something from its tentacles? !

It is common to collect materials from monster corpses.

Collecting from living monsters, this is something Bacon has never heard of or seen before!

Don't mention anything else.

If such a huge and terrifying monster were to lurk here, the Lingyi Wetland within dozens of miles would probably become a serious void pollution area.

Mortals who simply get close will have to endure severe pollution.

Bacon realized that things had gotten serious.

This is no longer just a simple cult organization.

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(End of this chapter)