Chapter 915 Gaote’s Gossip

The Cave of Styx is a very magical place. Because I didn’t study literature well, I could only use poor words like magical, indeed magical, really magical to describe what I saw.

Different from the place where I was deceived by the old man in Tualatin last time, this place is not so much an island-like terrain composed of lava rocks of different sizes fixedly floating on the sea of ​​lava. It is better to say that this place looks like an abandoned place. , an abandoned temple that once enshrined a powerful being such as a great demon.

The reason is that this place is full of man-made traces. For example, the ground is not exposed and rough lava rock ground, but a neat flat ground paved with square stone slabs. From time to time, some ruins can be seen around it. It can be vaguely seen that the structure is somewhat similar to the church. The only difference is that the church is carved with angels and the Son, while here are huge demons and skeletons.

The devil-carved stone bridges connecting each lava stone platform are very complete and regular, one after another. As you walk, you will gradually not feel that you are on the lava stone, but as if you are on a criss-crossed landscape. If you are not lucky enough to travel through the demon palaces, you may even get lost.

Fortunately, although this place seems to be a projection of the hell area, the scroll of return to the city can still be used here. Even if I get lost, it is no big deal. I breathed a sigh of relief.

Of course, I am relieved for those adventurers who have struggled with the maze terrain. For me, who has climbed to the peak of the Maze Runner, this terrain is a piece of cake. You can walk back and forth even with your eyes closed. , Huhu~~, yes, even if I throw away all the scrolls of return to the city, I can do it, I absolutely can do it! !

My brain was buzzing and hot as if steam had been poured into it. My red eyes were wide open and I was breathing heavily. I walked stiffly to the edge of the lava stone, and tremblingly took out all the scrolls to return to the city and looked at them. There was only one thought in my mind as the sea of ​​molten heat rolled beneath my feet.

That’s right, the scroll to return to the city is simply evil. I’m... I’m... I’m the Maze Killer! ! ! ! ! ! !

"Boom——!"

There was a crisp knocking sound from the pan.

"Really, as long as you leave the adults alone for a while, you will do some stupid things."

Holding the pan that was still buzzing, Willas sighed troubledly, squatted down and quickly picked up the book of return to the city and the scroll of the return to the city scattered on the ground one by one.

"Hmph, you are so naive. What you are seeing now is just one percent of Xiaofan's stupid behavior. To take care of Xiaofan like this all the way and still be alive and kicking now is like playing a game with the good God. How much sweat do you think I put in?"

The little ghost held his head high and spoke with the poignancy and pride of a peasant mother who raised a hundred disabled sons, recounting some things that were wantonly fabricated.

"Fortunately, I have sister Alice."

Sarah patted her little chest and cast a grateful look at the proud little ghost.

But...damn it, has even Sarah, who protects me the most, defected to the enemy? This stupid ghost really chose a very good time to add insult to injury and step on my head to improve his own image.

At this time, Gaut suddenly made a seemingly wise contemplation. He deliberately walked to the center of everyone's sight, assumed the posture of a thinker, and then looked at everyone with an inscrutable look. His voice suddenly became hoarse and vicissitudes of life. .

"Don't blame Wu too much. If you stay in this lava sea environment for a long time, your mood will indeed become very depressed."

After a pause, seeing that everyone seemed to be calmed down by his "intelligent" speech, he curled his lips and continued.

"I have heard that many adventurers who have stayed here have become very emotionally unstable, sensitive and irritable over a period of time, losing their temper at every turn, as if they have become completely different. but……"

Gott suddenly raised his voice with a twist, as if he had grasped some important clue.

"But it was the first time I heard about the scroll that was thrown back to the city, and it was the first time I saw it. Sure enough... it was just as I guessed. Was it because of [that] that Wu became like this?! !”

Seeing the worried expressions of Vilas and the others, who were waiting attentively for his next speech, Gott couldn't help but cheer up.

"Actually, I have suspected it a long time ago. I have been observing and observing again and again these days, and now I can finally confirm my original guess. Regarding Wu's behavior that is different from ordinary people, that's it!!!"

As he spoke, his eyes widened with a very imposing expression. Under the focus of all eyes, Gott pointed his hand high and landed on someone.

"That means...Wu is an idiot!!"

"..."

The atmosphere was silent for a moment, and everyone stared blankly at Gott, motionless.

"I'm sorry, my Gott has caused trouble to everyone again."

First, Karina bowed to everyone, and then Vilas and the others breathed a sigh of relief, showing expressions like "So that's how it is."

Don't be relieved! ! Aren't you going to refute it for me? ! !

"Did you not realize it until now? You are indeed an idiot."

The little ghost sighed in boredom, hugged a crystal tree branch, stepped aside and began to chew on it.

Very good, will you knock both me and Gott into the water with one stroke? This poisonous tongue saint.

"So that's it. That's great. I thought you had some kind of disease." Vilas was a little scared and covered her chest with a reassuring expression.

That’s not good at all. Is it normal that I’m an idiot? ! ! !

"This has nothing to do with big brother being an idiot."

Sarah, who defended me the most, stood up and retorted angrily in a sweet and lovely voice.

Thank you... Thank you so much, Sarah, only you... only you... But why do you feel that the meaning of this sentence is a bit subtle? Have you refuted Gaut's idiot theory? still none? Is it my imagination?

Pull~~Tear~~~ The corner of my clothes was pulled.

Looking back, I saw the expressionless Princess Sanwu, who swung a book into my arms.

Is it another weird book with a long title? I opened it curiously and saw, uh, it's not? ! ! ! !

It is difficult for ordinary people to understand my shock now, because this is the first time I have received non-H books from Princess Sanwu.

Idiot Philosophy: A fool's way to live happily.

That's the title of the book.

"..."

Comforted? Or was it complained about? My eyes were blurry and I couldn't figure it out.

"that……"

Linya always felt that she should say something now. After thinking about it again and again, she suddenly remembered the topic that had been discussed before - about the word "tsundere" which was very new to her.

Should this be done? It sounds like Brother Wu likes his tone very much.

So, Linya, who came to such a conclusion, took a deep breath, tried to make her look and tone arrogant, and then pointed at the other party fiercely.

"It's wordy, wordy, wordy, listen to me, you idiot, Brother Wu... Brother Wu is not an idiot!!"

After stammering, Linya rolled her eyes in circles, and she couldn't figure out what she meant. After all, it was an attribute that was completely contrary to hers.

"..."

How to describe this feeling? Although the imitation was a mess, I still felt healed by Linya's care and cute look now.

"Don't worry, Wu."

Gott, who changed from wise man mode to friendship mode, patted my shoulder, flashed his bright white teeth, and gave me a thumbs up thinking he was very handsome.

"No matter what you become, we are still brothers, right?"

"Vlas."

I indifferently stretched out my hand to Vilas, and she handed over the pan with understanding.

Turn into a shooting star, you idiot! !

This was a farce that happened during the break on the second day after entering the Cave of Styx. Thanks to this, the girls, who were originally in such a depressing environment and whose morale was gradually low, smiled again.

As Karina said, most of the monsters in the Cave of Styx are monsters like the Styx Witch. Of course, most are not all, because where there are monsters like the Styx Witch, there will inevitably be monsters like the Styx Witch. Accompanied by another kind of monster, just like the relationship between the Sinking Demon and the Sinking Demon Wizard, unless the number is very small, it is rare to be alone.

This kind of monster is the Moon King, or its advanced Body and Blood King type of monster.

The Styx Witch cooperates with the Moon King. Their attack pattern is very monotonous, that is, one move. However, as the saying goes, one move can be eaten all over the world. Even if they know that it is an unchanging attack pattern, it can still give many adventurers a headache. .

The Stygian Witch has a curse ability, which can weaken the enemy's defense and attack, while the tank-type Moon King is a high-attack and high-defense character. The attack set formed by combining the two is simple and effective. Many adventurers have suffered at the hands of this pair.

In addition, the Styx Witches also have a very famous name, that is, the mage nemesis, because they can cast a curse called bloody mana. When the mana value is greater than the health value, this curse will take effect. The effect is that when you cast a skill, the more mana the skill consumes, the more damage you will suffer.

To put it simply, as long as you are a mage, your mana value will definitely be higher than your health value. There is no doubt about this. And this curse of bloody mana allows you to cast skills from mana consumption to blood consumption. For mages, Generally speaking, this is a very fatal skill. Any mage who has been hit by the bloody magic will immediately become mute, and at most he can only use some low-level skills.

Because of this, the mage's firepower is suppressed, and the defense and attack that warriors rely on for survival are weakened. The combination of the Styx Witch and the Moon King is extremely cumbersome. If there is a long-range expert like Amazon in the team , it’s easier to deal with. You can use long-range physical attacks to kill the Stygian Witch first. If everyone is a bad archer and there are only mages and warriors in the team, then I’m sorry, it’s best to take a detour when encountering such a combination. .

Karina naturally has her reasons for choosing to deal with this pair of adulterers and prostitutes who are famous in Harrogas, because the Moon King can be left to me and Gott to deal with, while the remaining Styx Witches... …

Although they are known as mage nemesis, it does not sound like a good opponent for the five mage-professional girls, but... But they don't use magic, they use swords to chop.

Encountering this kind of alternative mage, the Stygian Witches could only do nothing. All their abilities were spent on curses. Their physical attack power, defense power, and blood volume were all pitifully low. They were held by five people. Fire weapons, the girl is approaching menacingly, one sword is one, there is no second result.

Probably a special type of cursed mage monster. Although the Styx Witch is weak, the experience points it gives are very powerful, and it can almost catch up with a tall Blood King.

In addition, this place is called the Styx Cave, which coincides with the name of the Styx Witch. The number is naturally very considerable. Even in the area near the exit, the common combination is dozens of Styx Witches plus A small team of Blood Kings.

As long as Gott and I can block all the Blood Kings, then Willas and the others will be able to cut them off one by one even if they face several large groups of hundreds of Styx Witches.

In Bloody Hills, once the number of Baal's servants reaches a hundred, it will be a bit difficult for them to deal with it. In addition, the experience value of the Styx Witch is several times that of a small minion like Baal's servant. This is the reason for the card. The reason why Lina chose this place.

After thinking about this, my admiration for Karina is like a surging river. A veteran is a veteran. There are some things that no matter how fast my strength improves, I can't compare with these solid steps from a novice. Compared with the experienced adventurers who came up.

The course of the battle is insignificant. Just like the monotonous attack pattern of the combination of the Styx Temptress and the Blood King, our attack pattern is also a trick - hearing the flapping of the wings of the Styx Temptress, Gott and I sacrificed our lives heroically. , rushed forward, accepted the baptism of various curses, and then swatted away the blood kings who jumped out from the corner. At this time, the five girls could confidently carry the sickle to harvest the experience of the Styx Witch. .

If there is anything special about it, it is something. Because this is not the first time, I will call this incident "the speechlessness of the Gauts".

That was what happened shortly after we arrived at the Styx Cave and met the first group of Styx Temptresses and the Blood King.

Following the move we had planned, Gott and I, with the cursed rain of the Styx Witch on our heads, rushed towards the ferocious-faced Blood King's smallest giant axe, and then Vilas and the others rushed towards us. Go up.

At this time, the speechless incident called the Gaut couple began to happen.

The first is the little ghost, who bears the name of the saint, but this guy is the most violent, and he is the first one to rush forward.

The little ghost's attribute points are full energy. Due to the influence of the soul chain, my current energy attributes are all contributed by the little ghost.

Naturally, her mana was obviously much higher than her health, so she was given bloody mana by the Styx Witch - a sphere that looked like condensed blood was suspended on the head of the little ghost, which was very conspicuous. This was called a mage. The nemesis's famous bloody curse curse, if the little ghost uses the skill at this time, it will definitely be tragic.

At this moment, everything was normal, but then something abnormal happened.

Sarah, who was the most agile, followed the little ghost with a flaming sword and staff, and entered the range of the curse of the Styx Witch. However, the situation from a distance of the Gauts was - Sarah seemed to be infected with three diseases. Princess Wu's non-existent energy was actually ignored by the Stygian Witch. She just symbolically threw a rain of curses on her head that intensified the damage. The bloody mana that the mage was most afraid of, dozens of them. But not one of the Styx temptresses thought of using it on Sarah.

Then came Princess Sanwu and Linya. As soon as they got close to the curse range, the damage amplification and bloody mana were hung on her head, which made the Gaut couple's expressions return to normal a little bit - maybe Sarah was just an accident.

But then they were speechless again, with slightly lower agility. Vilas, who followed at the end, was also ignored by the curse of bloody mana, just like Sarah.

What exactly is going on? It has never been heard that a mage will not be cursed with bloody magic when he encounters monsters like the Styx Witch. The Gott couple's brains were a little dizzy, but fortunately they had seen a lot of weird things from these people before. The incident raised their psychological endurance to a higher level, and they waited until the battle ended safely before they vomited out all their inner doubts.

In fact, such a result is, to put it bluntly, caused by the soul interlocking. The little ghost has all the mana points, and it is natural to be cursed by the bloody mana. Linya and Princess Sanwu both had it before they soul interlocked with me. After reaching a certain level and adding a lot of energy points, the mana is higher than the life.

Only Vilas and Sarah have soul-linked with me just after changing jobs and enjoy the attribute bonuses they get from me. Naturally, they don't have to rush to add all their attribute points to the energy attribute, thus causing life. A special case where the value is higher than the mana, so it is not favored by bloody mana.

The soul interlocking thing is hard to explain. Sarah can say that, as a part-time melee sword mage, it is reasonable to occasionally have one or two aliens with higher health than mana, but Vilas... well, I will still be beaten by me. It passed vaguely.

In all the subsequent battles, Sarah and Vilas have never enjoyed the greeting of bloody magic. The Gauts seem to have gradually become numb to this abnormal situation, even if one of us suddenly transforms into Andariel or It's Diavolo, and I'm afraid he can't change their calm, ice-like expressions.

Should I say this is a good phenomenon?

Unknowingly, they spent two days in the Cave of the River Styx. Before setting off, the levels of Vilas and the others were.

Vilas is level 30, Sarah is level 30, Princess Sanwu is level 32, Little Ghost is level 32, and Linya is level 39.

After five days of wandering in the Bloody Hills, plus three days on the Arreat Plateau, in these eight days, Vilas and Sara went from the original empty experience bar to full experience bar, rising to a sufficient level, and in addition The three people have also advanced one level each in terms of their original experience points.

After two days of wandering in the Styx Cave, with the selfless dedication of the Styx Temptress, Willas and Sarah's experience bar reached three-quarters, which means that they spent two days practicing in the Styx Cave. The experience gained is almost equivalent to eight days outside.

Also in the Harrogas area, the huge gap in experience gained in different places made me deeply feel the importance of wisdom and experience.

Princess Sanwu and Linya are at a higher level, and they need more experience to level up. However, the little ghost, who exists like a bug, ignores everyone's smacking of tongues and keeps gnawing on trees while banging bricks, a two-pronged upgrade. mode, which allowed her to distance herself from Princess Sanwu, and her level was raised to level 34, which is still a quarter more.

Of course, it was replaced by extreme fatigue. The reason why the little ghost was called the God of Sleep was because she had to turn the diamonds she ate into the energy necessary for her body through deep sleep. Originally, as she gradually became accustomed to this way of absorbing energy , coupled with the improvement in strength, this absorption process, that is, the time of sleep, has been greatly shortened, but before I could make me happy, the food came again, this time it was the crystal tree, so the little ghost fell into sleep mode again. among.

But now, in order to practice leveling with Vilas and the others every day, the little ghost's sleeping time has become the same as that of ordinary people. As a result, her physical burden is several times that of Vilas and the others. Although I have the intention to stop it, But the little ghost tried to fool him by acting like a spoiled brat, and was very determined to improve his strength.

Regarding the things she has made up her mind, I can only watch silently from the side and give her a hug when she can't support it anymore, just like Sister Sharna. Although the two people have completely different personalities, they are so awkward. Exactly the same, once you decide something, it is difficult to persuade you to go back.

After the second day in the Cave of Styx, Karina kept track of the time very accurately. I don’t know if she had a biological clock in her head. She followed her orders and returned to Harrogath from the exit of the Cave of Styx. It's almost nightfall and the wind is starting to pick up on the Snowy Mountains. It's still too late to set up camp. If it were a few moments later, we would have to spend the night in a ghostly place like the Cave of the Styx.

Just like in the desert, pitching a tent is not the best way to spend the night in the Snowy Mountains. Unless you can find a canyon surrounded by mountains, or bring a steel fortress over, in most cases, you and your tent will be swept away by the wind. .

When you can't find a suitable terrain, the most appropriate way is to use the environment and add a little adventurer's power to build an ice cave to live in.

After all, I have lived here in Harrogath, and the Gotts can be called Harrogath experts. With the tinkering of the three of us, a suitable residence was built in less than a while. When we started a bonfire and took a rest, Gott and I even made several more rooms, toilets, kitchens, bedrooms... a simple and fully functional residence, which was easily built with the combined efforts of two master adventurers. It was done, even if Karina dubbed it the stupid gopher combination because of this, we are still happy. That kind of high achievement is like building a gorgeous castle out of sand. It is difficult for onlookers to understand this joy.

We excitedly made a mark, and decided to use this place as our base during the period of experience in the Styx Cave.

Now, all eight people gathered in the cave named the outer hall by Gott and I, warming themselves around a huge bonfire. Willas was humming a tune and cooking dinner using the blazing bonfire.

As soon as he came out of the Styx Cave, the little ghost buried his body in my arms, closed his eyes, and snorted evenly the next second.

This speed of falling asleep can probably overlook the ancestors and descendants of the entire Dark Continent.

He hugged the little saint tightly and pulled up the blanket covering her body. Under the warm firelight, only Willas's unconsciously humming sweet tune echoed in the entire hall. Everyone listened quietly. At this moment, the whole cave was peaceful, and the blood and killings all day long seemed to be washed away by this moment.

At this moment, Gott, the restless gorilla and the problem child, moved over to my position.

"Shh~~~"

I gently stretched out my hand to stop Gott's voice and movements, and looked down at the sweet sleeping face of the little ghost in my arms.

The little ghost's warning range is very wide. Even in such a tired state, I can't be careless, so I chose the last one and sat across the bonfire opposite the Gaut couple. In the middle of the circle were Willas, Sarah, and Linya. The familiar scents of Princess Sanwu and Princess Sanwu finally allowed this little saint who was leaning on my arms and refused to go back to the necklace to stay safely in the dream fragrance.

Gott opened his mouth, and after realizing what I meant, he immediately stopped moving over and sucked back the sound that was about to come out of his loud voice.

Then, from a distance, he wrote something on the ground with his finger.

I stretched my neck to look over, and my first reaction was that I was very relieved.

It turns out that this orangutan’s handwriting is as ugly as mine.

[There is a rumor circulating in the Cave of Styx, do you want to listen to it]

Gott looked mysterious and left this line of writing on the ground.