Monster collectors on the cross-platform

Fighting in the swamp inevitably leaves you with some of the swamp's stench.

Behind Huo Huan, Elise followed naturally into the bathroom.

Huo took an unusually long time to take a bath. When Huo came out, Yi Cuisi, who was sitting on the sofa, immediately looked over with an indescribable resentment in her eyes.

Huo Huan's response to this was to simply ignore it. After spending a lot of time with them, Huo Huan had pretty much figured out their personalities. For some reason, Yi Cui Si liked to stick to him, but she also liked to get jealous.

Huo Huan took out the food that had been sent to him earlier from his spatial backpack, and after calling out to the two people on the sofa, he began to enjoy it.

After finishing his meal, Huo, still holding his teacup, lay down on the sofa.

Watching the TV series playing on the projector, Huo couldn't help but sigh, "It's really convenient to have a variety show website."

Whatever you need, as long as you have Zongwang Coins, it will appear in front of you in the next second.

Even immortality, a dream of emperors throughout history, was readily available.

After a day of rest, Huo planned to enter the real battlefield again the next morning to collect collectibles to level up.

However, Huo still doesn't plan to go back into the previous battlefield.

Perhaps due to the corruption of the evil god's power, there are many monsters, but after Huo took them in, it did not greatly improve his strength; at most, it only increased the number of his collections.

Moreover, Huo Huan has already exchanged for the rare beasts that are useful to him, so other types of rare beasts are not of much use to him.

Anyway, there will never be a lack of enemies on a real battlefield, and there will be a considerable number of collectibles on any battlefield, so Huo is planning to change battlefields.

Although the previous battlefield has not ended, Huo can still choose whether to switch to a different battlefield, which can be considered a small perk given to players by the game platform.

If you encounter a battlefield that is not suitable for you, or a battlefield that is too difficult or too easy, you can simply switch to another one; there is no need to stick to it.

This is much more generous than the main gods in the infinite flow genre of novels.

After waiting for a short while, a new battlefield successfully appeared on Huo Huan's panel.

Seeing that a new battlefield called 'Mind Master' had appeared on the panel, Huo chose to enter without hesitation.

Stepping through the pale blue portal, Huo found himself in a brightly lit city.

Another underground world?

Looking at the somewhat familiar decorations around him, Huo realized that he had wandered back to the underground world.

It's unclear who the enemy is this time, but based on the name of the battlefield, Huo guesses that the enemy is most likely to be a mind flayer or a monster related to mind control.

This time, the start is also different from the previous underground world battlefield.

Last time it appeared inside a human city, but this time it appeared directly in the underground world.

Moreover, the allies are different now. Last time it was humans, but this time it's one of the native inhabitants of the underground world, the underground dwarfs.

Compared to the drow elves, who are of the evil alignment, the subterranean gnomes, who are also native to the subterranean world, are quite rare examples of being of the neutral good alignment.

In this treacherous underground world, the fact that the dwarves can establish themselves as benevolent beings is enough to demonstrate that they are not weak.

Of course, this is also closely related to the high intelligence of the underground dwarfs.

Chapter 199 Mind Devil

Compared to the drow elves who have Lolth, the Spider Queen, as their 'backer', the beliefs of the subterranean gnomes are incredibly diverse.

Besides worshipping Gar Shankin, the chief god of dwarves, they also worship other gods depending on their birth environment or profession, and even regard subterranean creatures as 'temporary bodyguards'.

For example, the absolutely neutral 'Deep Earth Brothers', the god of gnomes and minerals—Kalduran Slipper, and the absolutely neutral goddess of 'gems, stealth, and gambling'—Nevi Brilliant.

Some underground gnomes form alliances with creatures from the earth elemental plane, and even summon Thor stone golems as bodyguards.

In short, the beliefs of the underground dwarfs are quite diverse, and some even have scientific beliefs, believing that "technology is the primary productive force," just like modern people.

With their intelligence and the ability to hide and disguise themselves, the subterranean dwarfs successfully established themselves in this complex underground world.

Upon arriving in the city of dwarfs, Huo didn't rush out to hunt; instead, he planned to explore the city thoroughly.

Unlike conventional cities, the cities of the underground dwarfs are far more complex. Rather than cities, they are more like houses and roads carved out of a mountain.

Furthermore, the number of underground gnomes is not as large as that of drow elves, and they have a wider range of career options.

For example, the small shop in front of Huo Huan was filled with all kinds of mechanical parts, and it seemed that the owner must be an underground dwarf engineer.

Huo stood at the door and looked into the store, but did not see the owner. Only the occasional metallic knocking sound proved that the owner was still inside.

Since the shop owner was busy, Huo didn't interrupt and instead started looking at the merchandise in the shop.

The weapon resembles a pistol, but judging from the exposed wires, it's probably not as simple as an ordinary firearm.

A watch whose purpose is unknown, a palm-sized, seemingly ordinary iron box, and a small, unremarkable metal ball.

Huo also looked at most of the items with great interest, and found that the purpose of most of them was unclear.

"Is there anything the guest needs?"

A rough voice came from behind Huo Huan, who turned around to look.

A dwarf wearing work clothes, glasses, and a thick beard stood behind Huo Huan.

"What are the uses of these things?" Huo asked, pointing to the items on the shelf.

"Oh? The customer is also interested in machinery?" The dwarf shopkeeper looked at Huo Huan with a beaming face, as if he had rarely encountered someone interested in machinery.

Then the dwarf shopkeeper began to talk at length to Huo.

"This watch is no ordinary device; it's a mineral detector that can detect minerals up to 100 meters underground. And this small metal ball is actually a semi-automatic detector that can also go into stealth mode..."

With the dwarf shopkeeper's enthusiastic introduction, Huo also gained a comprehensive understanding of all the items in the store.

All the items in the shop were created by the shop owner by combining technology and magic. In a sense, each one is a unique item, because the shop owner disdains to make the same item a second time. He is either inventing or on his way to inventing every day.

Despite the dwarf shopkeeper's enthusiastic sales pitch, Huo eventually bought the watch that could detect minerals.

This watch is at least somewhat useful to Huo, whose Gold Devouring skill requires him to devour different metals to strengthen himself, and the underground world is a well-known place with abundant minerals.

As for the price, Huo took a ruby ​​from the dragon's treasury as currency. Judging from the dwarf shopkeeper's beaming face, he was quite satisfied with the ruby.

Legend has it that the gnomes were created by the chief god Garth Sharkin using rubies, and thus the gnomes have a love for gems ingrained in their DNA.

With his newly acquired watch in hand, Huo left the small mechanical shop.

Huo then browsed other shops, but compared to the previous mechanical shop, the remaining shops were not very attractive to him. They were mostly shops selling potions, scrolls, and food.

The city of the dwarfs is not large; it is more like a large town than a city.

Huo Huan quickly toured the entire dwarf city and, finding nothing of interest, left.

There weren't many players in the city. Huo had only encountered a total of less than a hundred players during his walk around, so it seemed to be a relatively small battlefield.

Opening the chat channel, the fact that there were fewer than a thousand players in the channel corroborated Huo Huan's guess.

After leaving the dwarf city, Huo began searching the vicinity for any worthwhile prey.

Perhaps because the underground dwarf city was so well hidden, Huo flew for a long time and only saw fluorescent moss and fungi that were ubiquitous in the underground world.

He took out the fungal communicator he hadn't used in a long time from his pocket, and soon the weak fungi around him connected to the network. In an instant, a jumble of information filled Huo Huan's mind.

Huo remained standing there, beginning to sort through the information in his mind.

Discarding the useless information, Huo quickly obtained general information about the surrounding area.

There aren't many powerful beings in the nearby underworld, or rather, there used to be, but they were quickly captured by the mind flayers and enslaved.

Therefore, the most powerful force in the vicinity is undoubtedly the Mind Flayer.

After using the fungal communicator in different regions, Ho received almost identical information.

Unable to find a target to hunt, Huo had no choice but to set his sights on the Mind Flayer.

As for the coordinates of the Mind Flayer City, Huo already knew its location quite well, both from the chat channels and from the information provided by the fungi.

Having identified his target, Huo quickly arrived in the city of the Mind Flayer.

Hidden in the darkness, the first thing Huo Huan saw was not the Mind Flayer, but all sorts of slaves.

Tauren, lizardmen, drow, humans, gnolls, goblins...

Various races mingled together, without quarrels or conflicts; all creatures maintained an eerie calm and stillness.

It seems that this city is undoubtedly the city of mind-stealers.

Mind Flayers, as one of the subterranean races, are not numerous. Often, a few hundred or even a thousand Mind Flayers will build an underground city, and the Mind Flayer city in front of us is undoubtedly quite large.

Information from the chat channel indicates that there are approximately 2000 Mind Flayers in the city, and the number of slaves is even greater, almost 10 times the number of Mind Flayers.

These slaves are not only the mind flayers' labor force and henchmen, but also their food.

Chapter 200 City

Hidden in the shadows, Huo looked at the Mind-Stealing City before him.

Apart from the spiral spire in the city center, all other buildings were shrouded in an eerie purple mist, obscuring the view of the city.

Looking at the city shrouded in purple mist, Huo hesitated to make any rash moves. There was still too little information about this Mind-Stealing Demon City; even the files in the chat channel contained very little information.

Huo planned to infiltrate the city to scout out the situation before making a decision.

Before that, however, Huo summoned the Book of Collections and loaded the gray dwarves' traits into the trait slots.

With the Grey Dwarf's psychic resilience and the Bewitching's mind resistance, ordinary mind control should have little effect on him.

Thinking this, Huo activated the Shadow Wolf's Shadow Stealth, disappearing from the spot.

As Huo Huan walked step by step toward the City of Mindslayers, the first thing he saw was a wide moat.

Huo looked left and right but couldn't find the bridge across the river. He only saw a group of Kou Tao fishmen carrying a glowing crystal swimming from the outside of the river into the inside, and then disappearing into the thick purple mist.

Huo looked at the seemingly ordinary moat in front of him, then suddenly picked a small piece of moss from a nearby rock and threw it directly into the moat.

A loud hissing sound rang out, and in just a few seconds, a patch of moss had vanished without a trace.

It turned out to be a river of corrosive acid. If someone saw that the fishman was fine after entering the river and went in himself, he would probably be corroded to the bone.

Of course, this assumption only applies to ordinary adventurers; Huo Huan himself is not among them.

Given Huo Huan's current physique, even if he were to directly enter this acidic moat, it wouldn't be able to completely corrode him; at most, it would only corrode some of his outer skin.

However, since it was just a river of corrosive acid, Huo Huan naturally wouldn't be foolish enough to enter it again. For Huo Huan, who could fly, crossing this river was never a problem.