Outer Gods invade, stuff them all into your equipment inventory.

Before Sean lay the entrance to a monster's lair.

It was different from the entrance to the monster's lair that he had seen in the Silver Plains.

This is a huge archway made of rusted metal and precision gears.

Countless gears of varying sizes were embedded in the edge of the door frame, some of which were still slowly turning, making a dull "click" sound.

Some were completely stuck, their surfaces covered with dark red rust, like congealed blood.

Two bronze-green columns stand on either side of the archway, their shafts engraved with spiral tooth-like patterns.

They look like two long screws.

Above the arch, a giant gear, nearly two meters in diameter, is embedded diagonally in the wall.

Several broken connecting rods and a piece of bone belonging to some unknown creature were caught between the gear teeth.

Sean went straight in without hesitation.

This is a monster's lair that has only recently appeared, and no one has completed the walkthrough yet.

Upon entering the monster's lair, Sean's first sight was a long corridor made up of countless gears.

The ground beneath your feet is made up of thousands of gears of different sizes that mesh together tightly.

They rotated slowly, emitting a low, rhythmic metallic scraping sound.

The walls on both sides are also made up of layers of gears, some of which are stationary, while others are still linked with the gears on the ground.

These gears make a dull clattering sound as they turn.

The corridor is about five meters high, and at intervals, there is an energy lamp that emits a dim yellow light embedded in the wall.

Sean stopped and glanced at the gear-like corridor that seemed to lead to the gaping maw of an abyss.

So far, he has not found any monsters in the Gear Corridor.

"That's not normal."

He said in a low voice.

This was the first time he had ever seen the entrance to a monster's lair, a place completely devoid of monsters.

"Then..."

"Let's send in a decoy and see."

With a wave of his hand, a swordsman mechanical blade demon walked onto the gear corridor.

As the swordsman Blade Demon took his first step.

The gears beneath its feet dipped slightly, then slowly returned to their original positions, making a crisp clicking sound.

As it continued to move forward, the rhythm of the gears behind it seemed to undergo a subtle change.

The rotation became faster and faster, more and more rapid.

The swordsman, Blade Demon, did not stop and continued forward.

Step two, step three, step four...

With each step, the gears beneath your feet briefly accelerate their rotation.

When it lifted its foot away, the gears not only did not return to their original speed, but instead spun faster and faster, emitting increasingly rapid metallic friction sounds.

When the swordsman Blade Demon reached one-third of the way down the corridor—

"Snap!"

A dull thud of a mechanism snapping shut came from deep within the walls on either side of the corridor.

Immediately afterwards, the previously stationary gears on the wall suddenly began to rotate in reverse!

Accompanied by a piercing metallic scraping sound, the walls on both sides suddenly and slowly flipped inward, revealing dark firing ports behind the walls.

Through those firing ports, the tips of metal arrows could be faintly seen gleaming coldly in the dim light.

The arrows were all aimed at the swordsman mechanical blade demon in the center of the corridor.

The mechanism has been triggered.

The next second, a volley of arrows was fired.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!!!"

A series of sharp, whistling sounds suddenly ripped through the oppressive silence of the corridor.

Arrows shot out simultaneously from the firing ports on both sides of the wall like a torrential rain.

With enough kinetic energy to pierce through steel plates, it poured down towards the swordsman mechanical blade demon in the center of the corridor!

The swordsman's mechanical blade was instantly transformed into a living hedgehog by the magic projectiles.

Sean couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.

If it weren't for him, anyone else would probably have been riddled with bullets by now.

With a wave of his hand, a second swordsman, the Mechanical Blade Demon, walked out.

Its situation was similar to that of the first swordsman mechanical blade demon.

This time, the swordsman mechanical blade demon only triggered the mechanism after reaching two-thirds of the way through.

The second swordsman, the Mechanical Blade Demon, was also riddled with arrows.

Next up is the third swordsman, the Mechanical Blade Demon.

This time, the swordsman mechanical blade demon completed the entire journey without triggering any mechanisms.

Sean was a little worried.

Then the swordsman mechanical blade demon came back, and then walked over again.

After trying it three times to confirm that there was no problem, he finally stepped onto the gear corridor himself.

He soon reached the end of the long corridor, where a rather spacious square appeared before him.

A large number of gear-type monsters gathered in the square, the most numerous of which Sean called the Gear Engineers.

This monster has a humanoid skeleton, limbs made of chains and gears, and a single lens on its head.

Its body structure is very simple, but this monster is a social monster.

They usually like to gather several cog engineers together.

Power is transmitted between meshing gears, and the more gear engineers that are grouped together, the faster they move.

These gear engineers were the first to discover Sean.

A gear-shaped sapper located at the edge of the square inadvertently glanced towards the exit of the corridor through its monocular lens.

Then, it turned its head slightly, and the lens focused on Sean.

"Beep—!"

A short, sharp metallic clang came from the gear-like engineer's body.

The next moment, the dozen or so gear-engineered soldiers around it stopped moving at the same time, and their lenses all turned towards Sean.

Their gears began to spin faster, making an increasingly rapid clicking sound.

These gear engineers gathered together, linked themselves in pairs, and then—they moved.

The gear-engineered soldiers, by meshing their gears and transmitting power, surged toward Sean's location like a silver-gray metallic wave.

Sean's face turned almost green.

"Is it really that brutal?"

There were 16 gear engineers gathered together, and their movement speed was astonishing.

If someone like that were to bump into you, even he would probably feel a lot of pain.

"If that's the case, then don't let them get close."

"Lightning Bone Spear!"

He muttered something, leaned his arm back, and then threw it out suddenly!

The bone spear, enveloped in lightning, tore through the air with a piercing shriek, piercing the very center of the wave of geared engineers like a meteor.

"BOOM—!!!"

The bone spear accurately struck one of the leading gear-wielding sappers.

The gear-working soldier's body exploded the instant he was hit.

His entire upper body was torn apart by the combined force of the violent lightning and physical impact, with metal fragments and chain remnants exploding in all directions.

However, this is just the beginning—

The bone spear suddenly split apart the instant it hit its target.

Three bolts of lightning, slightly thinner than an arm, shot out and accurately leaped onto the next gear engineer!

"Crackling! Crackling! Crackling!"

Three crisp electric shocks rang out almost simultaneously.

The gear-shaped sapper struck by the chain lightning suddenly stiffened and was also destroyed.

Another instant sell-out.