adventurers in the sewers

Chapter 111 Do you remember how many slices of bread you've eaten?

"Who exactly researched these brain-eating monkeys? That's interesting."

After a brief moment of surprise, Louis quickly understood why this thing had so many skills.

Because brain-eating monkeys eat this stuff as food.

In the literal sense.

As a powerful social monster with a 30% chance of reaching level 1 once it reaches adulthood, they are led by large monkeys during their infancy and are basically at the top of the food chain in some areas of the Monster Wasteland after they grow up.

Goblins are like dessert after a meal to them.

Clearly, this monkey has eaten as many prey brains in its lifetime as a human has eaten bread in their lifetime.

Do you remember how many slices of bread you've eaten?

If you eat one meal today and another meal tomorrow, the number of skills you accumulate in your mind will naturally increase.

However, most of these skills are useless, such as Bite, Goblin Axe, Claw Strike, and other useless things.

If it were truly a powerful skill, its original owner wouldn't have ended up in the stomach of a brain-eating monkey.

This results in the fact that although the brain-eating monkeys have many skills, their actual combat strength is only average, and they cannot compare with the group of naturally strong monsters of the same level.

In short, Louis has found a treasure.

Previously, he could only acquire skills by killing monsters all night, but now he can get them by killing a single brain-eating monkey.

Moreover, the two are independent riding areas and do not interfere with each other.

Louis glanced at the descriptions of these skills and found that the effects of both level 0 and level 1 skills were rather mediocre.

But it doesn't matter. It would be best if we could extract excellent skills from the brain-eating monkeys, but we won't force it if we can't.

Even if you only use these skills as experience points, you'll still make a huge profit.

Louis acted immediately, merging all the skills he had just acquired to increase his skill experience points.

Through his actions, the two level 0 skills, "Basic Assassination Technique" and "Ghostly Steps," were upgraded to level 1 skills, reaching the maximum level.

Louis assigned both of these skills to Shadow Sword Technique.

Before long, a new Shadow Sword Technique was created.

【Shadow Sword Technique (Level 1: 5/5): New effect: Can penetrate the target's blind spots; movement speed is further increased after activation; swordsmanship techniques incorporate the essence of assassination.】

Skill Proficiency: Perfect (100/100)

Louis silently experienced the new effects of the Shadow Sword Technique and was very satisfied.

His swordsmanship became increasingly unpredictable, and as his movement speed increased, his footwork became even more elusive to his enemies.

This single skill encapsulates the essence of a level 1 assassin.

The reason this skill hasn't been upgraded is simply because it's stuck at its own level cap.

Once you change jobs, Shadow Sword Technique, which has already fused five level 1 skills, can instantly transform into a rare level 2 skill, and its effects may also change.

"Perhaps, as my skill fusion develops further, the effect of a single skill will represent the entire essence of an entire class."

Louis thought to himself.

He realized that this was the right path for his class's talent.

Shadow Sword Technique representing the Assassin class, Physical Barrier representing the Warrior class, and Guardian Shield representing the Shieldbearer class —

Even the skills of the demon race.

As long as he integrates and advances these skills step by step, in the end, he will lack nothing.

Shortly after the brain-eating monkeys were dealt with, reinforcements from the Black Rock Legion arrived and took over from the previous team, which was in dire straits.

Louis and Dinah were planning to leave immediately.

But he suddenly realized that the reinforcements belonged to the reserve team that was waiting outside and had just climbed down the manhole cover.

In other words, they witnessed the fierce battle taking place on the city walls, so perhaps we could ask them for relevant information.

Louis called over the squad leader and asked, "How's the battle on the north city wall going? Has the woman emitting the red light been captured?"

Upon hearing Louis's question, the captain and the soldiers behind him all showed indignation.

Then the captain gritted his teeth and said, "Although I don't know the big shot's plan, I saw with my own eyes that the black panther orc who was in charge of confronting the black-armored female demon actually escaped at the last moment!"

"After he escaped, that bald-headed mage suffered the consequences!"

Louis's eyelids twitched.

In the entire Blackrock City, there was only one mage with a completely bald head, and that was Ignis.

Louis hurriedly asked, "How is the archmage?"

The soldier captain hesitated and said, "I don't think so. I saw other mages rush up and save him after the red light ended, but from a distance, we could see that he seemed to be seriously injured."

Louis felt a slight sense of relief.

It's good that he's not dead.

Having already witnessed two "superhuman assassins," even if Morgon fled the scene, Ignis should still have a chance to escape.

However, the effects of the superhuman killer are so terrifying that even a slight scratch will prevent the superhuman properties from being restored in the short term.

This made Louis feel somewhat heavy-hearted.

One issue is that the supporter is temporarily offline; another is how to retrieve the body of the hero Molly after Ignis is injured.

Is this really going to attract the arrival of Level 4 professionals?

The captain of the soldiers, unaware of Louis's thoughts, continued indignantly, "Those damned orcs, I knew they weren't trustworthy!"

"Their chieftain dared to betray us at such a crucial moment, causing us such great losses. They're finished!"

"I heard from the officer in charge of our unit that he's going to suggest to the higher-ups that the Frostclaw tribe be put in charge of guarding the sewers, forcing them to do the hardest and most tiring work!"

Upon hearing this, Louis raised an eyebrow again.

Having a bunch of orcs with a keen sense of smell work in the sewers? That would be truly torture.

Felines have noses that are just as good as canines.

Moergang has really screwed over his tribe.

Who would have thought that an orc tribe that always valued the continuation of its race would produce a chieftain who abandoned all his people and fled in order to save his own life?

This is something that even the higher-ups in Blackrock City probably didn't anticipate.

Since Morgon has committed a grave error and fled, the tribe must bear the consequences of all his sins.

The Frostclaw tribe, already dependent on others, will only have an even worse time now.

To gain the approval of the higher-ups in humanity and become a legitimate resident of the Kingdom of Lortheran, who knows how long it will take, and how many lives will be sacrificed in the process?

"However, despite his cowardice, the beastmen are no pushovers."

"With so many orcs guarding the sewers, our team can have it much easier."

Louis thought to himself, secretly hoping that the Frostclaw tribe would be demoted.

After leaving Zone 13, Louis and Dana headed towards Zone 25, where they had originally been stationed.

Of course, they also brought along the level 1 monster corpse that Nora had instructed them to bring. At this moment, Louis was carrying half of the brain-eating monkey's corpse in one hand.

On the way back, Louis suddenly realized something.

Level 1 monsters are different from low-level cannon fodder.

The demon in charge of attacking the sewers probably didn't have many level 1 monsters; these monsters were enough to be considered his personal guards.

So, is it possible to pinpoint the exact location of that demon by examining the memories of the brain-eating monkey?

Louis was also very interested in the skills and talents of the demon race.

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