Wrong Ground, Spiral Twins

"It's not urgent, but I hope Miss Liu can provide the necessary protection to the Lord God, or Goddess Hestia, after midnight tonight until I come back next time."

"Protect Goddess Hestia? What happened?"

A god needs protection, which is definitely not a trivial matter.

The dark divine will has long since retreated. Who in Orario now dares to attack the gods?

Su Mo did not hide it and said bluntly: "Tonight, Loki's family will attack the nest of the dark faction. I am afraid that many members of the dark faction will come to the surface. Although the guild and the Ganesha family are prepared..."

"Wait, you said the lair of the dark faction?"

Before Su Mo could finish his words, he was interrupted by the elf girl.

This kind of rude behavior is something that an ordinary elf girl would never do, but at this moment, Su Mo saw another side of the elf in front of him.

Extreme anger, unconcealed hatred, bloodthirsty killing intent, and a hint of sick smile...

"I hope you can protect my God."

"You didn't answer my question, where is the nest?"

The two of them stared at each other for nearly half a minute. Su Mo could only smile bitterly and look away, truly feeling the elf girl's determination that left no room for negotiation.

"The man-made maze - Knossos. This is the lair of the dark faction."

"Where is it?"

Su Mo pointed to the ground and said, "It's right below here, around the underground city. It was built by the first master craftsman, Daedalus, and it's still under construction today. It has never stopped for thousands of years."

"!"

The elf girl's eyes widened in shock at the news.

But soon, the look of surprise quickly faded away, replaced by a sense of realization.

"I see... So that's how it is. No wonder I couldn't find so many people back then. They were hiding here..."

The elf girl smiled, an extremely cold smile.

"take me……"

"no!"

Su Mo decisively refused. "At midnight tonight, the guild will block the entrance to the dungeon. The Ganesha family will guard Orario, and only the Loki family will force their way in. This is both an exploration and a test."

"how about you?"

"I, I'm just a key."

Su Mo's eyes slowly fell on the knife in the girl's hand, "A human-shaped key that can open the door made of Olha steel and the many blockades inside the artificial maze."

"..."

Liu was stunned.

The fire of revenge in his eyes also subsided a lot at this moment.

"But you are only LV.2, why..."

"Because only I can open those blocked doors."

Su Mo explained in a calm tone: "In fact, whether it is the guild, the Ganesha family, or the secret investigators, they have been looking for the key to the artificial maze for a long time, but they have not found one yet. And because of what happened yesterday, I am afraid that my human-shaped key will not be kept secret for long."

"Take me there, I can at least..."

Liu's words stopped abruptly. Since the other party had the "key" to open the door, he would definitely go in with Loki's family. At that time, they would naturally be protected by Loki's family, and she would not need to do these things at all.

"Can you please protect my God?"

Once again, Su Mo bent down in front of the girl.

124

Chapter 124: Shock at the entrance.

“Ryu…?”

The gray-haired girl called out from behind, and the elf girl's hand that was tightly gripping the knife suddenly loosened a little.

"Why did you go over there? If you slack off, Mia's mom will be mad!"

Liu adjusted her breathing to relax her tense body, then turned around and was about to explain to the gray-haired girl, but suddenly, a slight vibration instantly struck her heart from under her feet, interrupting the words she was about to say.

"earthquake?"

This is the feeling of vibration where even a glass filled with water will cause the water surface to shake slightly.

This kind of earthquake has such a small shaking that ordinary people would hardly notice it unless they were very careful.

But why did it happen at this time... The elf girl's expression, which had just relaxed, suddenly tensed up again.

If it happened in an ordinary place, an earthquake would be just an earthquake, not to mention an earthquake with such a small tremor, not many people would care about it. But this is Orario, a world city built on top of an underground city to seal off a big hole.

This is definitely not accidental, there is also a man-made maze - Knossos...

"…It seems like there was an earthquake? Ryu, did you feel it?"

The elf girl nodded, but her thoughts could not be fully pulled back at this moment.

……——……

After leaving the 'Hostes of Abundance' tavern, Su Mo went straight to the headquarters of the Loki clan - Dusk Pavilion.

After talking for a while with the clan leaders including Loki in the Dusk Pavilion, he asked for a guest room and lay down to sleep.

He has made all the preparations that he could, and in the end, all that is left is to adjust his own condition back to the best possible state.

It is not advisable to use instant pressure to enter a sleeping state. It took Su Mo a long time to fall asleep.

No matter what time it is, deep rest like sleeping is the fastest way to restore the body. When Su Mo opened his eyes again, he felt that the mental and physical fatigue had disappeared, but he was a little hungry.

It was too dark outside the window to tell the time, so Su Mo left the room and asked someone about the time.

It was already a little after ten o'clock and I had slept for about six hours.

At this time, Loki's family has finished packing and is ready to set off at any time.

Taking advantage of the last bit of time, Su Mo came to someone else's cafeteria and started filling his stomach without any hesitation.

As they ate plate after plate of food, gradually more people's attention was attracted.

“…You’re really good at eating!”

Loki narrowed his eyes and smiled, then sat down opposite Su Mo. "This is indeed very similar to that dwarf. Is it a skill?"

Just looking at the pile of dishes on the side, you can tell that he ate one-third of his own body weight in one breath, but his stomach didn't bulge at all. This is abnormal no matter how you look at it.

"Fireworks will last forever."

Su Mo answered, but his eating did not slow down at all.

Hearing the name of this skill, Loki curled his lips in dissatisfaction. What is the name of the skill "Eternal Fireworks"? Why not just call it "Eternal Holy Fire"? Is it appropriate to call a skill that is obviously a recovery skill?

"Don't be so nervous. At least we can protect you."

"I just make it a habit to be prepared when I should."

"That's a good habit."

Su Mo didn't respond, but just silently increased his eating speed.

Loki stopped talking, but just supported his cheek with one hand and watched Su Mo eat quietly with an incomprehensible smile.

At the entrance of the restaurant, Diona looked at this scene and felt a little unbelievable, "This is the first time I see Loki being crazy about a boy!"

"Stupid Amazon, look at what I'm doing."

Seeing that the other party turned his eyes towards him while speaking, werewolf Bert immediately replied unhappily.

"There are some, right? For example, the captain?"

Dione thought for a moment and replied.

"Have it?"

"There should have been one at the beginning. After all, the leader is so handsome."

Diona: "..."

After finishing the last plate of food, Su Mo went to the yard to gather with Loki and the Amazon sisters.

When they arrived here, the dwarf Grace just walked down from the platform, and from the neat responses they heard when they approached, it was obvious that everything that needed to be explained had been explained.

Finally, Su Mo was also incorporated into the team, and was in a position relatively close to the center.

"Set off."

At the command, the team officially set off.

At dusk, the door of the museum opened and a team of nearly half a hundred people quickly blended into the night.

It was not difficult for the team to reach the eighteenth floor. It didn't even take the turn for the people in the middle of the team to take action. In less than an hour, the team arrived at the destination.

At the original camping site, the troops that were already in the underground city had already completed assembly. Hearing the sound, the lights in the tents quickly lit up, and fully armed personnel walked out of the tents in an orderly manner.

The three Loki giants reunited, talked for a few words, and then quickly issued orders one by one.

Some people started to move supplies, some started to build new tents, and some started to set up necessary protections on the periphery... Of course, none of this had anything to do with Su Mo, and he soon appeared among the cadres of the Loki clan.

From beginning to end, he only had time to say a few words to Bell and the others, and then followed this reorganized team, which was capable of expedition more than fifty floors underground, to the entrance of the artificial maze.

"Boom..."

The rock wall was shattered, the barriers were blasted open, and a passage large enough for large monsters to pass through appeared before everyone's eyes.

"Wow~ They are really man-made... This is the gate made of Olha steel..."

The style of the passage in front of us is very different from that of the passage in the underground floor, and the traces of human intervention are quite obvious.

"You can't open the door, move to the side."

Dione quickly pulled her sister, who was nodding in satisfaction at the metal door, to the side.

The metal gate was about five meters away from the rock wall of the dungeon. After entering the passage, Su Mo did not approach the gate immediately, but reached out to touch the artificial wall on one side of the passage.

"What did you find?"

Finn asked from the side.

“Although it looks like slate, it is undoubtedly metal, but there are many other things mixed in.”

As he spoke, Su Mo infused his magic power and manipulated part of the wall. Then he pulled out a piece of metal the size of a human head, and along with the metal came out an obsidian crystal.

"Super-hard metal..."

"The body stone of the Obsidian Guard..."

The dwarf Grace and the elf Livilia recognized both of them one after another.

"What? The walls here are made of super-hard metal?"

"It's also mixed with the body stones of the Obsidian Guards. This is the magic-removing stone produced by the Obsidian Monsters on the 37th floor. How could they be so extravagant as to use it to build the wall?"

At this moment, everyone present couldn't help but feel shocked.

Super-hard metals were extremely valuable, as were the Obsidian Guards' body stones, which were able to weaken the effects of magic. There was also the hardest metal, Olha Steel, which was certainly even more valuable. Just the value of everything they saw now was enough to equal what they had gained from an expedition.

I can only say that it is very heroic.

125

Chapter 125 The Master's Welcome.

When they truly realized just the tip of the iceberg of the man-made maze, speechless shock suddenly filled everyone's hearts.

The hardest metals and super-hard metals are rare metals that are extremely difficult to obtain. Collecting such a large amount of rare metals is definitely not something that can be done overnight. The manpower and material resources required are astonishing at first glance.

"As expected of a labyrinth that took a thousand years to build, that master craftsman... no, the remnants of the dark faction really built something that was beyond our imagination."

Finn expressed his thoughts intuitively, "Put away all your contemptuous mentality. After seeing this, if we still underestimate them, we will be the ones who suffer."

Everyone either restrained their smiles, nodded seriously, or had a solemn look on their faces, and the sense of relaxation was gone.

Su Mo looked carefully at the small hole dug on the wall. It was a little slow, but he could still see that it was being filled up little by little.