adventurers in the sewers

Chapter 100 Louis: Rouan is a kind man

The commotion above the sewers, on the north side of the city wall, not only astonished Louis and his companions, but also seemed to have intimidated the monsters in the sewers, as none of them appeared.

Louis's squad, Ruan, and the soldiers were like groundhogs hiding in their burrows, huddled together in the face of external dangers, hoping that the conflicts outside would not affect them.

Time passed by, second by second.

Through the view outside the sewage outlet, Louis could see a large amount of rubble flying everywhere, as if the city wall was as fragile as a biscuit during the battle with the strong, and would break at the slightest touch.

"If it really is that woman in black armor who attacked, then Blackrock City's defenses will hold out for much longer than last night."

Louis estimated the duration of the battle above and secretly speculated, "Perhaps if we can hold off the woman in black armor, the strongmen in the city will have a way to kill her, or even capture her."

Louis did not believe that the Blackrock City leadership would be completely unprepared after receiving intelligence about the enemy and paying the price of Sir Carenno's life.

However, what happened next swiftly proved Louis wrong.

Outside the sewage outlet, a dazzling red light, as bright as the sun, rose—this red light shone through the sewage outlet into the sewer, illuminating the faces of the soldiers present.

After that, the vibration above the sewer disappeared.

Louis and his teammates exchanged glances and fell into a long silence.

Needless to say, the woman in black armor must have run away after unleashing her ultimate move. If the countermeasures of the Black Rock City's experts had been effective, her supermodel-like bust cannon wouldn't have been able to be unleashed.

However, none of this concerned Louis and his companions. They obediently stood guard at the sewage outlet, waiting for the monsters to attack.

The monster uprising came earlier than last night. Fortunately, after a day of clearing out the monsters, there weren't many left in the sewers. In addition, the defense was greatly strengthened, making this defensive battle much easier than before.

During the battle that lasted half the night, Louis fulfilled his duty as a shield guard, always stepping forward to block enemy attacks whenever a soldier or comrade was in danger.

Apart from that, he only used Giant Shield Impact once and Guardian Shield twice.

In an effort to even the score, Daina fought exceptionally bravely in this battle, even chipping her sword, bringing the team's results to about two-thirds of yesterday's.

Louis felt a pang of sympathy for Dina's sword.

This sword costs twenty silver coins, which is much more valuable than the longsword they bought when they first formed the team. — Later, we need to persuade Dana to go to the Warrior's Guild and buy a skill similar to "Magic Blade," preferably level 1.

Outside the team, Ruan's performance has also been remarkable.

He clearly wasn't using his full strength, but his speed in eliminating monsters had already surpassed Louis's last night, and he often had to stop because there weren't enough monsters.

Regardless of who killed the monster, Louis would touch it without hesitation.

Overnight, Louis gained 1.2 in extraordinary attributes and 1.7 in demonic transformation.

At this point, his magic adaptability had reached 19.8; he was just a little short of earning a star and becoming a level 1 magic user.

It's a level 1 star profession.

His total attribute after demonization reached 15.3.

The gap in combat strength between them and Lu An is rapidly narrowing.

As for the skills he gleaned from the monsters, Louis casually combined them in his spare time.

After fusing these level 0 skills into level 1 skills, he converted them all into experience and fed it to "Super Speed ​​Mind," instantly maxing out the skill proficiency.

Perfect-level skills consume less mana, last longer, have stronger effects, activate faster, and are less likely to be interrupted, offering many advantages.

At dawn, after the monsters' attack subsided, a svenish officer named Kuss returned with his men and began counting the monster corpses.

Before taking inventory, he also inquired about the soldiers' results, and after obtaining a number acceptable to both sides, he removed that portion of the monsters.

"Captain Louis, according to the statistics, your squad has killed 3188 low-level monsters worth 0.1 battle points and 204 powerful monsters worth 1 battle point; there were 0 professional-level monsters, which is much better than yesterday's results."

Kuss said with a smile.

As he spoke, he noticed a new face on the field, namely Lu An, and asked curiously, "By the way, is this gentleman a new member of your team?"

Louis paused for a moment, then quickly waved his hand and said, "No, he was just working with us—you didn't include his achievements in our team's count, did you?"

Kus flipped through his notebook and said with difficulty, "I don't have any records of anyone accepting the sewer guard duty—"

At this moment, Lu An stepped in to defuse the situation, saying, "It doesn't matter, just count all the monsters I killed tonight as part of Louis's team."

Upon hearing this, both Dina and Nora looked at Ruan with considerable surprise.

This is a battle achievement worth 5 gold, 22 silver and 80 copper, of which at least a quarter was earned by Lu An. How can he just give it up like that?

This is definitely a windfall.

However, Louis didn't stand on ceremony and, being quite the money-grubber, flattered her, saying, "Brother Ruan is truly too kind and righteous."

"Rest assured, we will cooperate with any work related to exploring the sewers, no matter how you ask us to."

Lu An didn't reply, but said calmly, "I'm just looking for the monster I want to see."

Upon hearing this, Louis's smile remained unchanged, but he became wary inwardly.

Is Ruan looking for a monster? What kind of monster is it?

Louis suddenly remembered the horde of deformed and bizarre monsters that had sprung up after the bodily fluids from the Fourth Hero's corpse fell into the sewage.

Could it be that Ruan is looking for a monster with distinctive features that is related to the hero's corpse?

He wanted to find the location of the hero's corpse by following the clues from the deformed monster.

Thinking of this, Louis felt a slight sense of relief.

The opponent's entry point was excellent, but unfortunately, the deformed monsters had already been wiped out by Nora's grenades in one go. No matter how much the demons outside tried to find the deformed monsters, they would not be able to.

"Brother Lu An, as long as you keep searching, you'll definitely find it."

Louis smiled and encouraged the other party, then said, "It's getting late, my teammates and I will go back to rest first. We'll probably have a tough battle tonight."

After saying goodbye to Cousse, Louis left.

Back on the street, Louis saw a large number of wounded being carried away. He turned to look at the north city wall and saw that there was another huge gap in the wall, which already had a gap a hundred meters wide.

Although the mages blocked it with earth magic, the scar-like opening was still conspicuous.

Louis also saw a bald, white-bearded old man standing at the foot of the city wall giving instructions; it was Ignis.

Thankfully, their backer wasn't killed by the black-armored woman's cannon.

He spoke with his teammates for a moment, and then they all walked toward Archmage Ignis.

He was about to ask Ignis about what had happened last night.