Dota: Becoming a God Starting with Dragon Knight

"Boom!"

A violent explosion rang out, and all the glowing grass near the signal transmission point vanished, revealing scorched ground.

"There was definitely a trap!"

"It seems that the changes in this secret realm were most likely caused by human intervention."

Although it's not completely confirmed yet, this discovery has put Li Ming at ease quite a bit.

He lay quietly in the grass, waiting for what would happen next. Since someone had set a trap, someone would definitely come to check it out once it was triggered.

Sure enough, after more than ten minutes, a green figure emerged from the glowing grass.

"Goblins again?"

The goblin ran to the edge of the explosion and took a look. It found that there were only traces of the explosion (the summoned ethereal beings were directly restored to elements after they died), and no remains of any living beings that had been killed. It stood there for a few seconds, stunned, and then quickly ran back.

Li Ming followed behind him, passing through a large patch of glowing grass, and entered a cave buried by the glowing grass.

"What a well-hidden cave! I wouldn't have found it if this goblin hadn't led the way!"

Li Ming remained invisible and walked into the cave passage.

Deep inside the cave, a large goblin listened to the report from the little goblin.

He announced loudly, "Everyone, pack up and get ready to leave. The trap has exploded, but no one has been found injured. It's probably not an accident; it's more likely that it was discovered."

Suddenly, something occurred to him, and he questioned the little goblin, "Bag, did you notice you were being followed when you came back?"

The little goblin waved his hands repeatedly, saying that he had deliberately circled around several times before coming back and had not noticed that he was being followed.

"Hurry up and pack your things! Cloth Bag, scatter the rest of the medicine out there, and come over immediately after you're done."

"yes!"

The bag took several bottles from the big goblin and ran out of the cave.

He went to the glowing plains outside, ran to a small hill, and prepared to scatter the potion against the wind.

At that moment, a knife appeared out of nowhere behind him, and the cloth bag was decapitated.

Li Ming appeared behind him, picked up the medicine bottle that had almost broken on the ground, and upon closer inspection, found that the bottle contained some ordinary white powder.

"Could these things be the culprits behind the problems in the Glowing Plains?"

He carefully put the medicine bottles into his backpack, then turned and crawled back into the cave.

He moved quickly, and the goblins in the cave finished cleaning up the debris on the ground.

The goblin shouted, "Let's go! We need to retreat immediately!"

None of the other goblins mentioned whether they wanted to wait for the bag; they followed the big goblin and ran quickly into the depths of the cave.

As Li Ming followed the goblins deeper into the cave, he was surprised to discover that the ecology of this cave was completely different from that of the glowing grassland above.

Mushrooms grew everywhere in the cave, and spider-like monsters roamed about.

The goblins skillfully avoided the spider monsters, passed through narrow passages, and finally arrived at the entrance to a secret realm.

"Entrance?"

"There's actually another entrance to a secret realm here?"

Li Ming couldn't understand what was going on; all he knew was that the goblins were trying to escape.

If they escaped, he didn't know if his mission was complete, because he hadn't found the person who sent the distress signal; he hadn't seen the person or the body.

So he had no choice but to use the Breaking Stealth Strike to knock the big goblin unconscious, and then behead it with a single blow.

The other goblins screamed and fled when they saw Li Ming standing menacingly at the entrance to the secret realm with a blood-dripping knife.

Unfortunately, they encountered Li Ming, whose hero template at this time was Enigma, whose innate skill—Event Vision—slowed down all the goblins trying to escape him, and then Li Ming calmly caught them.

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Event Vision: Within a 700-meter radius of the Enigma, all enemy units will suffer a movement speed penalty when moving away from the Enigma.

Movement speed reduced: 35%

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Then he strung the captured goblins together like a candied hawthorn skewer, dragged them along, and killed spiders all the way back to the Glowing Grassland.

The spider monsters inside the cave are of a higher level than those in the Glowing Plains, with a larger proportion being second-tier monsters.

Therefore, when Li Ming returned to the Glowing Grassland, his experience gain from this trip to the secret realm reached 10000.

These 10000 experience points raised his mystery level by 3.

"This level progression is happening much, much slower than I expected!"

Li Ming looked at his level and sighed heavily.

The situation is easy to understand. If the mystery's level is calculated from level 0, then 1 experience points should have been enough for him to reach level 10 or higher.

He has only leveled up 3 times, and there is only one possible reason for that.

That means his character level increased from 30 to 33, and the 3-level boost was added to the newly loaded Enigma hero template.

This means that it will become increasingly difficult to upgrade hero templates that are loaded in the future.

Li Ming transformed into a giant dragon and swiftly swept across the glowing grassland, killing all the second-tier magical beasts he found. He also casually killed a bunch of first-tier magical beasts that looked a bit abnormal, gaining another 5000 experience points and successfully leveling up by 1.

However, his commotion this time was too great, and the magical beasts of the Glowing Grassland that still had a shred of reason all huddled under the protection of the glowing grass, not daring to move.

"Forget it, let's go back. It seems these magical beasts haven't been completely affected by the powder; they still have some sense, they've all hidden themselves away..."

Reluctantly, he carried his spoils through the entrance to the secret realm, returned to the patrol mission center, and turned in his mission.

"What? Goblins are conducting experiments and randomly sprinkling powder in the secret realm, causing all the magical beasts there to mutate?"

"What? You discovered other entrances within the secret realm?"

Li Ming handed over the confiscated medicine bottles and goblins to the mission center, which immediately caused a huge uproar.

Although he couldn't save the herb gatherer who sent the distress signal, the information he brought back was enough for him to complete his mission.

After receiving the 100 million Elf Coins reward from the patrol team, Li Ming sat down in the mission hall to rest and see if there were any other suitable missions.

Then he heard a flurry of footsteps outside the mission hall.

"Hurry, hurry, everyone!"

A large number of patrol team members suddenly appeared, gathered in front of the teleportation array, stepped into it, and disappeared.

"What happened?"

"I heard something big happened in the Glowing Realm."

Beside Li Ming, two members of the centaur tribe were whispering among themselves.

"What happened?"

"How should I know? It seems like the person who completed the Glowing Grassland quest discovered something."

"Strange! What's so special about a third-tier secret realm that warrants such a fuss? Even if it's a tourist attraction, it doesn't need to be like this."

Li Ming listened with a smile, though he didn't know what hidden information his message contained.

However, as someone who experienced the mission firsthand, I felt a strange sense of amusement watching the people around me making wild guesses.