I'm tied to Athena.

Li Yun took the lead and walked towards the cave, and the other three followed him with bated breath. This time they had to face Cadmus, an extremely powerful dragon among the LV6 level maze kings. With only four of them, they might fail if they were not careful.

"....." However, when he reached the cave, Li Yun suddenly stopped and his expression became serious, "No, there is a problem!"

He rushed in immediately. The three people were stunned by his sudden reaction, and then Diona hurriedly followed, "Wait, Liyun, you are rushing too far!"

Ais and Lefiya followed immediately.

When they entered the cave, they saw... a mess.

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Chapter 22: The powerful dragon was killed in advance

"What's going on..."

"Destroyed?" Diona and the others who had hurriedly chased after them were so frightened by the scene in front of them that they froze in place.

The cave was full of trees, which was a rare sight from the deepest part, but now... every tree was broken. The ground and walls around it also seemed to have been severely damaged, either full of cracks or shattered, with a large pile of debris scattered all over the ground.

Most importantly, there were traces of dissolution everywhere in this scene. Some parts of the trees had turned dark purple and were still emitting black smoke and an indescribable stench.

"It stinks..." Tiona frowned and covered her nose with her arm.

"The earth is crying...but there is no breath of monsters here. Don't be nervous." Li Yun sensed the situation here in advance, so he frowned deeply.

There's an unusual smell here.

Although there was no need to be nervous, Ai Si and the other two still kept their nerves tense as they passed through the fallen trees.

In the devastated landscape, only that place was protected like a sanctuary.

Ripples appeared on the beautiful blue water...that was the clear spring water.

Located at the deepest part of the cave, a small amount of mysterious spring water with a deep blue glow gushes out from the cracks in the wall from time to time.

The spring water was slowly accumulating in a low-lying area covered with flowers and plants, but in front of the spring, there was something that surprised Li Yun and the others!

"Is this... the corpse of a powerful dragon!?" Diona's mutterings echoed unusually loudly in the room.

Although I don't want to believe it, this huge corpse is almost the same size as the dragon in Diona's memory. And judging from the surrounding conditions... it's definitely the remains of a powerful dragon.

"Did a clan other than us defeat the powerful dragon?" Lefiya asked cautiously.

However, Tiona slowly shook her head. "There are only a limited number of teams that can reach such a deep level. I haven't heard of any clan whose expedition period overlaps with ours."

"There's more to it than that," Ais whispered, stopping beside the corpse and picking up an object buried underneath.

"The dropped item was not recovered." She took out a piece of wing membrane that shone with golden light. It was the drop of the powerful dragon Cadmus - Cadmus's membrane.

It goes without saying how powerful the floor master of the 51st floor is, and even if it is a floor master, it is impossible for him to drop items every time. In other words, it is like playing an RPG game, not every monster will drop materials.

In other words, once this kind of rare dropped item appears, it will definitely be recycled. Not to mention using it to forge weapons, just exchanging it for money can earn enough money to assemble all the equipment for a large-scale team.

Adventurers who have to spend a lot of money every time they explore a maze are unlikely to pass up such excellent loot.

"So...what is going on?" Lefiya's little head was not enough to handle the situation here.

"There are monsters that have broken in here, monsters that are powerful enough to kill a powerful dragon. And there are quite a few of them... plus the magic stone has disappeared. It is easy to deduce the answer." Li Yun said lightly, "It seems that something happened on the 51st floor."

"There are only two situations where monsters attack monsters. The first is a sudden fight, where monsters are harmed by chance or due to some accidents, and they fight each other in anger. Sometimes this kind of fight will even lead to a fight between two groups of monsters."

However, Li Yun raised his second finger, "The second possibility is that the monster has remembered the taste of the magic stone."

"The abilities of monsters are not always the same. Although some monsters stronger than ordinary monsters occasionally appear in the dungeon, they are considered special elite monsters and are not surprising."

"But some monsters that have eaten magic stones from other monsters will sometimes have their abilities changed, just like our ability values ​​are updated."

"That's what we call a strengthened species."

"A monster that eats too much magic stone will have completely different abilities."

"From the situation here... a group of monsters that ate magic stones reacted to the dragon and came together to kill it. After swallowing the dragon's magic stones, they also swallowed their companions' magic stones."

Silence fell between the four people. Diona frowned, while Aisi and Liyun stared at the golden membrane. Lefiya rubbed her thin upper arms, and her fairy intuition made her unable to help but speak, "I have a bad feeling. Go back quickly."

No one objected, because even Li Yun sensed a hint of unusual smell.

In order to convey the situation here to Finn, Ais collected Cadmus's membrane and some fragments of the color-changing tree. Lefiya, who was holding a backpack, took out a bottle from it and drew spring water from the low-lying area.

Originally, as soon as the spring water gushed out, it would be drunk up by the powerful dragon, so usually only a little spring water could be recovered. However, this time the most troublesome monster was no longer there, so it was easy to get a sufficient amount.

Seeing that the bottle was immediately filled with the amount of spring water specified by the adventurer, Lefiya closed the bottle cap with a complicated expression and put the bottle into her backpack.

"Let's go." Li Yun said calmly with his eyes narrowed.

The others nodded, left the cave, and returned to the camp along the same route. However, Li Yun and Ai Si walked side by side.

"You're right, it must have been done by other monsters, but..."

The powerful dragon that regards the cave where the spring is located as its territory is a rare species in the floor, and is also a powerful guardian of the spring.

Its power is the strongest on the 51st floor. It can even be said that if the floor masters that appear on other floors are not counted, among the monsters discovered so far, it is definitely the monster that sits firmly on the ability chart, that is, at the top of the pyramid.

No matter how many black rhinos and deformed spiders there are on the 51st floor, they can't deal with it.

In other words, there is no way a monster that can compete with the powerful dragon will appear on the 51st floor, and even if they gather together, they cannot defeat it. This is beyond doubt.... That is why the situation seems a bit bad.

"There's no point worrying about this kind of thing. Let's go back and discuss it with Finn and the others."

However, Li Yun suddenly stopped, stopped the three people, and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Someone is approaching us, followed by many monsters... It's Finn and the others!"

As soon as Li Yun finished speaking, a flurry of footsteps came from not far away. Then, Finn and his group appeared in front of Li Yun and the other four.

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Chapter 23 Kill Them All

"What is that!"

"Worm...Worm!!?"

Diona and Lefiya looked at the monster behind the group and spoke in shock. Even Aisi, a girl who didn't know how to express her feelings, widened her golden eyes.

It was a worm that was covered in yellow-green all over... No, it was too hard to describe, that was the appearance of a worm. It also had short legs on its lower body, and at this moment, it was using those short legs to chase Finn and the others in front of it.

Its upper body seemed to rest on a long lower body, bulging like a hill, with flat organs without thickness extending from both sides. There were four cracks at the front end, which looked a bit like fingers.

Not to mention Li Yunjiu, even Finn and his companions, who had been exploring the depths of the dungeon for a long time, had never seen this monster before.

A new kind of monster?

This possibility occurred to everyone's mind.

However, this monster does not move forward by crawling, but by jumping, just like a rabbit.

The horizontal width of the monster was almost equal to the two ends of the maze road. Seeing it blocking the passage and advancing forward, Aisi thought of the word "chariot".

"Captain!" The sudden shout made Ais and the others focus their attention on the second group including Finn, who were being chased by the monster and were desperately trying to escape.

The first-level adventurer, whose strength was comparable to Li Yun's, gave up the fight, turned his back to the monster and ran away. Tione, who was following Finn, let out a cry that was almost like a scream.

"Isn't it just a monster? Although it's a bit disgusting, there's nothing to be afraid of!" Diona was the first to react. She grasped the weapon and was about to rush forward, but Li Yun grabbed her arm in time.

"That's not just one monster, that's a group! There are many more behind!" Li Yun knew that they had encountered a group of monsters numbering at least hundreds.

“Eh…Eh!” Hearing Li Yun’s words, Lefiya was frightened all of a sudden. She really had no resistance to such a monster, so she immediately hid behind Ai Si, “Ms. Ai Si, let’s run!”

"Ah."

"...No, no need to run." Suddenly, Li Yun rubbed his head in distress, and then shouted, "Finn, come here! There are monsters ahead!"

Hearing Li Yun's words, Finn, who was running towards this side, understood immediately and said, "Quick, go to the cave room!"

Following the leader's instructions, the four men immediately came to the entrance of the cave, thinking they were going to fight the monsters here, but suddenly, several black rhinos appeared at the wall of the passage.

The black rhinos blocked the monster's way.

Then, the monster that was chasing Finn and the others bit the black rhino... Well, they should have teeth, right?

"Finn, how did you encounter this monster?" While the monsters were attacking the black rhino, Li Yun began to exchange information with Finn.

"Actually..." Finn took a breath. They arrived at the Cadmus Spring just like Li Yun. After defeating the powerful dragon, they obtained the spring water. Everything was going smoothly, but they accidentally encountered it on the way back to the camp.

Because it was a new monster, they had thought about fighting it at first, but they didn't expect that the monster had blood and attack methods that could melt weapons. They suffered from the intelligence loss and used up all their weapons. As a last resort, they had to choose to run away.

"Captain, are you injured?"

"We're fine. The monster isn't very strong, but its number and characteristics make it difficult to deal with." Finn shook his head, then looked at the monster that attacked the black rhino, "Liyun, do you know anything about monsters?"

In the passage, the black rhino had been dissolved by the corrosive liquid of the worm monster. Then, in its head... which could barely be called a head, a huge mouth opened and swallowed half of the black rhino's body in one gulp.

"I don't know much, and it's just a guess." Li Yun narrowed his eyes and looked at Ai Si. Ai Si seemed to understand what he meant, and then took out the wood chip in her arms.

"Captain, in fact, before we arrived, the Cadmus Spring had been destroyed. The powerful dragon turned into a skeleton, leaving only the dropped props. This piece of wood was also picked up there."

Then, Li Yun expressed his guess.

"Well... now it's confirmed. I didn't expect that they could even knock down a powerful dragon." Finn took the tree fragments, stared at them, and came to a conclusion.

Only this monster has the black and purple corrosive liquid... They don't believe in coincidences.

"I don't know if the monsters living on the deeper floors have come up, or if the dungeon has produced new monsters... Either way, it's going to be tricky." Grace sighed as he speculated.

"Finn, is there any way to defeat that monster?" Compared to the current situation, Ais is more concerned about how to defeat the monster.

"Come to think of it, shouldn't we run now?" Bert clicked his tongue and stared at Li Yun.

"There are monsters ahead." Li Yun spread his hands. "At least we can guarantee that there are no monsters behind us. But if we go out, we will be attacked from both sides."

Hearing this, an atmosphere of silence suddenly filled the surroundings.

Finn paused for a moment before answering, "The attack itself is effective. However, each time you attack, you have to sacrifice a weapon. If it were an ordinary weapon, it would be fine. But if our exclusive weapon is gone, it would be too uneconomical."

“Besides, it’s even more chaotic to deal with so many groups.”

"But..." Finn continued, "Magic is not limited to this. It may be difficult in this situation, but if we can buy enough time to chant and cast a powerful magic that can annihilate the group..."

Well, it’s a very rational judgment. Everyone, including Li Yun, focused their attention on someone.

Facing all eyes focused on her face, Lefiya looked around... and made a sound of disbelief.

“Eh, eh!?”

"Well, the situation is clear." Li Yun looked at Finn, and Finn also smiled, "Yeah, come to think of it, this is the first time we fight side by side."

"Our weapons are intact. Diona, give the weapons to Finn, and the shields to Grace. Finn and I will each block the attacks of those monsters, and then Lefiya, you chant the magic!"

"The others are on guard in the cave. If I'm not mistaken, it's coming..." Finn licked his thumb. Every time his thumb hurt, something bad would happen.

"Don't worry too much, Finn, these are the elite troops of Loki's clan.

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Chapter 24: Enhanced Seed

"Haha...that's true." Finn shook his head, then chuckled and stood side by side with Li Yun.

Although there is a big difference in height between the two, at this moment, they give the same feeling to the people behind them.

Although it is not very tall, it is like the most indestructible wall that can block all storms outside!

Just when Li Yun and Finn were showing off, cracks appeared on the wall of the cave...!

The only entrance and exit to the Strong Dragon Cavern they were in was the passage they were walking through. In the three directions of this space - the back, the left, and the right, the walls of these three sides all had cracks.

"Hey hey!!!" Bert and others' faces suddenly changed.

They have seen such scenes many times...This is a sign of the birth of monsters in the maze.

Not only that, the scale is huge. Except for the exit, monsters appear in other places. Obviously, the entire cave will be filled with monsters in a short time!

This scene of large-scale appearance of monsters is called...Monster Banquet!

Starting from the tenth floor, the phenomenon of a large number of monsters appearing in a certain area in an instant is called the Monster Feast.

This is a very dangerous phenomenon, especially if you encounter this situation in the center of a cave, you will be surrounded by monsters in an instant like now.

However, the situation is now more critical, the outer passage is occupied by new species, and the inside is surrounded by monsters that are about to appear. They now have no way to retreat.

As if it had been planned long ago, the dungeon launched an unreasonable trap, intending to push the adventurers who broke into its territory and slaughtered its children into the abyss of despair!

However, will the Monster Banquet also appear where the floor master is?