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They could only touch the walls with their hands to move forward.
Because if a light appeared in this place, it would trigger a small rockfall.
There was definitely a light-sensitive mechanism. Unfortunately it was too complex, and even the strongest Thief of the Wolf Spider mercenaries couldn’t remove it. As for Pale Hand Sky, although he was a Legend, he was specialized in slaughter, not in removing traps and mechanisms.
If it was a genuine [Trap Master], there might have been hope of settling this problem.
“Be as silent as possible. Those with Darkvision have priority. It’s better to get past this part quickly.” Rem’s voice echoed in the darkness.
Because of the previous explanations, everyone remained calm and moved forward in succession while touching the wall.
But this was completely unneeded for Marvin, whose Darksight let him see clearly.
It wasn’t a long tunnel, and a large curve appeared at the end. There, he saw a shadow.
Recalling the path in his memories, Marvin came to a conclusion. ‘Turns out the Wolf Spider mercenary group found the back door!’
‘I knew this path didn’t feel too familiar…’
‘Oh shit, if this is the back door, then the first monsters would be those things!’
Marvin’s expression sank. If the Wolf Spiders didn’t make proper preparations and directly came across these monsters, they might suffer!
But Marvin continued hiding his own strength. The Pale Hand in the group made him very worried. Even though he could see clearly, he still pretended.
Because he could feel that a pair of eyes was watching him and Gwyn.
The other side might have Darkvision or Infrared Vision.
He had to be low-key and make himself look weak.
…
The group moved forward and soon arrived at that curve. The scout in front found the mark he left previously and quietly told Rem, “It’s about here. After this part we can light our torches.”
Rem nodded and urged everyone forward.
Soon, everyone had crossed that trapped area.
Light began to illuminate the dark tunnel, coming from all kinds of lighting equipments.
In the western seashore, the trade and smuggle of Alchemy items was quite popular. Wizards’ crafts could be freely auctioned here and thus a lot of useful items would end up in the hands of wealthy adventurers.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, this is more or less where we stopped exploring.”
Rem held a two-handed greatsword, seriousness showing on his face. “We might meet a lot of monsters from now on, so be alert!”
They all nodded and drew their weapons.
The Wolf Spider mercenaries spontaneously stepped into a formation, while the hired outsiders were more adept at fighting alone so they moved to the surroundings of the formation.
They walked slightly ahead. After all, adventurers were greedy.
But Marvin and Gwyn were hanging at the rear of the formation.
“Why are you standing back here?” Marvin asked.
The latter’s answer made Marvin speechless. “Because you are in the rear. My luck shouldn’t be too bad if I follow you.”
As the two were talking, the person at the forefront already turned the corner.
Marvin squinted.
In that instant, a strange “Zzzz” sound burst out of the tunnel. A few tentacles dripping light yellow liquid rushed out from the dark stone walls and coiled against a few scouts at the front!
As everyone recoiled in shock, the walls on both sides slowly split open and turned into bloody maws!
“Heavens!”
“What is this thing!”
“Save me, quick!”
Shouts rang out in an instant.
“Cut off those tentacles!” Rem loudly ordered.
He moved quickly and took the lead to chop off a thick tentacle to save a scout.
But the others weren’t that lucky. They were dragged one by one to the bloody maws and were chewed on in front of everyone!
Blood splattered and pieces of bones were spit out!
Even Marvin couldn’t help but feel numb when looking at this scene!
He had only heard that Saruha’s back door had a group of Tentacle Horrors hiding and waiting for prey, but he had never seen them with his own eyes!
“This is an Evil Spirit!” the Wizard Lilia cried out in alarm, “How could there be Evil Spirits in Saruha?”
In the confusion, everyone kept retreating backward. At that time, a loud “Stop!” startled everyone.
Marvin, who was standing at the end, had suddenly shouted.
“What the hell are you doing?”
“Hiding behind all of us and yelling at us to stop, are you trying to show off?”
The others were quite dissatisfied with Marvin.
Marvin pointed at the yellow line on the ground and mocked sarcastically, “Then let’s retreat into a rockfall.”
They all paled!
They were carrying light sources!
Just as Marvin said, if they moved past the line, it would trigger the trap in the tunnel. What they would face at that time would be a lot worse than the Tentacle Horrors. A large scale rockfall was enough to bury them all!
For a moment, their gazes toward Marvin became quite complex.
Did this guy recover his wits at this moment, or had he kept his calm all along?
During such a chaotic and panic-filled situation, he was still able to pay attention to this detail.
As they had retreated, the Tentacle Horrors didn’t let them off.
Those tentacles with light yellow liquid crackled through the walls as they rushed over.
“What should we do!”
“Leader?”
They shouted in alarm. They didn’t think that the Tentacle Horrors would able to move this far.
“You can’t use large scale spells here, the tunnel is too weak! The gathering and release of spell energy might lead to a collapse!”
Lilia’s expression was quite unsightly.
Rem stood at the front. He bit his lip as he watched the approaching Tentacle Horrors. “Kill them!”
But a lazy voice resounded at that time. “Forget it. Since I asked for a favor, I might as well help this time.”
The Pale Hand.
He had been watching indolently from within the group, not wanting to help at all.
But what disappointed him was that they hadn’t even reached a room yet and the Wolf Spider mercenaries were already pushed into a corner!
But then again, Tentacle Horrors were one of the Evil Spirits that were troublesome to handle, perhaps second only to Brain Eating Monsters!
Sky’s figure suddenly disappeared!
“Die!”
A simple word.
A shadow flew past the light and began to slash left and right in the tunnel.
Most people couldn’t even see his hands move.
Marvin could actually barely keep up with the other side’s attack speed. His killing efficiency almost made Marvin blush with shame!
He figured he could deal with the Tentacle Horrors quite easily. After all, he had his exceptional daggers and #4 Holy Water.
But it wouldn’t have been as smooth as it was for Sky.
He was simply moving back and forth, constantly skipping through the Shadow Plane, passing through a Tentacle Horror each time he made a move!
The daggers in his hands were slightly longer, but very light. Each time the shadow flashed past, a Tentacle Horror would fall to the ground.
“Woosh!”
In a mere ten seconds, more than twenty Tentacle Horrors hiding on the walls were cleanly cut down!
This was the strength of a Legend.
Marvin took a deep breath. He could also do it, but he wouldn’t have finished as quickly.
Even though they both had Godly Dexterity, the Pale Hand had other specialties and skills to increase his speed. Marvin estimated that he would on
ly last ten moves against him!
Even if he transformed into the Fierce Asuran Bear, Sky would easily behead him!
Pale Hands were the strongest Assassins. Even an Ancient Dragon’s defense could be easily torn through, let alone a lifeform like an Asuran Bear.
‘I’m not match against him, but what about fleeing?’
Marvin made calculations.
He was quite pleased with the results. His Night Walker skills should still allow him to escape.
Pale Hands pursued peak killing abilities but gave up on a lot of tracking methods and utility. He wouldn’t be a match for him in a fight, but escaping should be fine.
Thinking of this, he felt a bit more at ease.
…
“Let’s go.”
Along the tunnel, tentacles were continuously squirming on the ground.
Sky didn’t pay attention to them, and even stepped on a throbbing tentacle and crushed it, as he impatiently said, “Rem, surely this should count as repaying the favor?”
Rem quickly nodded.
But a shadow appeared in his heart.
He hadn’t expected Saruha to be this frightening. The Wolf Spider group had just entered and already met this kind of challenge!
What would they encounter if they kept exploring?
This Pale Hand wouldn’t help all the way.
He got a headache thinking of this but immediately waved his hand. “Let’s go!”
…
The remaining scouts looked at each other, but didn’t dare walk forward.
It was the same for the hired adventurers.
The recent attack of the Tentacle Horrors had startled them and three people were swallowed whole by the monsters. They didn’t want to end up the same.
Rem slightly frowned. No one dared to walk forward!
He fiercely said, “Who can find a path?”
“Scouts will have the highest priority over choosing loot. At the same time, if you find something, it’ll be yours!”
With such a heavy reward, a few Thieves among the Wolf Spider mercenaries became restless.
But with their companions’ flesh beside them, they were still hesitating.
Rem almost wanted to curse them.
The Wolf Spider mercenaries were considered the most famous in Ruins City. They took countless risks, but had never met this kind of situation!
Losing people when they just entered had cast a shadow on their hearts!
After all, these Tentacle Horrors were very unfamiliar lifeforms to them!
It was pretty normal that no one dared to scout in this situation.
But finally, a soft voice could be heard from the back of the group. “I’ll do it.”
Marvin pushed through and arrived at the front.
He looked straight at Rem. “The stuff I find will belong to me?”
Rem saw a ray of hope. How could he not agree? He immediately nodded.
Marvin inwardly sneered. After the Tentacle Horrors would be a small scale treasury.
His luck was pretty good this time.
Suddenly, another voice spoke out. “I’ll go together with Mister Kerry.”
The cloaked Gwyn also followed closely.
Marvin had a wry expression.
This guy was very crafty! But it was just as well.
“Being alone isn’t safe. With two people, we can look after each other,” Gwyn suggested. “To avoid another disaster, we will keep a certain distance from the main group.”
Rem almost applauded Gwyn!
Where could he find such an agreeable kind of scout?
He immediately promised, “When we return, both of your rewards will be doubled!”
Marvin didn’t respond and walked past the area where the Tentacle Horrors had appeared to plunge toward the depths of the tunnel.
The Vampire Gwyn was following along, sticking close to him.
And from within the big group, Sky was watching Gwyn’s back attentively. After a while, he grinned.
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A/N (Translator summary): Today’s chapter is big, 6000 characters. Coconut also said it is inferior to the previous ‘outburst’ and it’s mostly due to Coconut being ill, so it has been very hard for him. However this note was also to say that the book reached one million characters and had reached a third of the story.
“See you at two million characters”.
T/N: I rarely do put a word about the Author’s notes in here because they’re mostly related to the daily release or related to the chinese site of the website or the chinese side in general, and those are unrelated to us international readers. But here is the short summary of the note following this double chapter.
The author has mentioned being sick a few chapters ago which was why there were a few shorter chapters recently.
Also, my birthday is the 30th, so better give me a rain of power stones on that day!
Chapter 335: Nightmare Crystal
Chapter 335: Nightmare Crystal
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
A dark hall spread in front of Marvin after turning the corner.
However, he unhesitantly broke into a sprint!
His movement was still utterly silent, and he quickly approached the limits of Human running speed!
Gwyn was briefly surprised, but he didn’t think too much about it and chased after him.
“What are you doing?” he asked in a low voice.
Frankly, if it weren’t for Gwyn being so confident in Marvin, along with his previous dazzling performances, he wouldn’t be fine with following him to run around all over the place in here!
This was Saruha, and he had seen how those previous scouts died.
If the first wave was an ambush of Tentacle Horrors, then wouldn’t there be even more powerful monsters inside?
Gwyn didn’t dare imagine. He came to join in on the fun this time after losing trace of the Holy Blood and not having anything else to do. He heard that Saruha had an extremely valuable medicinal herb that could suppress the outburst of Bloodthirst. It apparently could help with the reverse transformation from the Dark Side.
But he didn’t come to throw away his life.
Marvin running so crazily. Even if it was quiet, what if he activated a trap?
The young Vampire slightly hesitated.
But Marvin simply ignored him.
He used his Godly Dexterity to continue running at breakneck speed through the dark hall!
Gwyn ground his teeth but ultimately still chose to follow him.
His Dexterity wasn’t as high as Marvin’s, but with some of his innate Vampire skills, he could still barely manage to follow him.
But it was quite strenuous!
Two minutes later, Marvin abruptly stopped. The Vampire was startled and came to a stop shortly after.
“What the hell are you doing?” Gwyn was slightly angry.
Marvin looked at him coldly. “I am saving your life.”
Gwyn froze.
Marvin disdainfully told him, “Take off your cloak, don’t think you are hiding properly. In fact, you have already been found.”
“Besides, haven’t people told you that your surprised expression is quite effeminate?”
After saying this, he ignored the flabbergasted Vampire and turned to face three stone doors in front of him!
…
Saruha’s back door lead to the [Crystal Hall].
There wasn’t any danger in the Crystal Hall, in the darkness at least. In order to save time, Marvin had sprinted crazily across.
But with light, the hall would become a big obstacle to the adventurers.
The reason was simple. There was a [Nightmare Crystal] in the hall. When light shone onto it, it would automatically reflect the thing that they longed for the most in their hearts.
In other words, the Nightmare Crystal was a fairly troublesome test. The adventurers unable to pass the willpower test would sink into the Nightmare Crystal forever.
In fact, the moment the Pale Hand appeared, Marvin had lost all intention of exploring Saruha with the Wolf Spider mercenaries.
He had a bad feeling about this guy who was an unstable variable, and it was better to be as far from him as possible.
Marvin would rather charge into Saruha alone than have a bomb that could explode at any minute next to him.
…
Of course, the young Vampire didn’t know of Marvin’s thoughts.
He asked in bafflement, “What do your words mean? Saving my life?”
Marvin’s gaze still on those three doors. As for Gwyn’s question, he shook his head inwardly.
No wonder he didn’t hear this name in the past. If not for him, Gwyn would most likely die at this point in time!
Because he could feel that the Pale Hand had evil intent toward Gwyn.
He had surely appeared here in order to kill Gwyn!
A Legend Advanced Assassin class killing a Marquis of the Bright Side should be easy, and making a move in the sealed Saruha would keep it hidden.
Faced with Gwyn’s question, Marvin explained his point of view without any hesitation. “Although he hides his Bloodthirst perfectly, he can’t hide his identity from me.”
“If I’m not wrong, Pale Hand Sky is the person the Dark Side sent to kill you!”
“Wait until it’s an open area and a chaotic battle starts. He would probably make a move on you then. Since you were smart and decided to follow me, your luck could be considered pretty good.”
“He isn’t chasing after you for now. I guess he wants to play the cat toying with the mouse. Feel free to breathe, by the way.”
While he explained, he gently touched the inscriptions on the three doors.
Although Marvin deemphasized it, the young Vampire was still frightened by Marvin’s words!
A Pale Hand sent by the Dark Side wanted to assassinate him!
Even the always calm Gwyn couldn’t help but have a flustered expression.
“Hold on… This is impossible.”
“We have clear rules. Vampire Dukes can’t attack the other side unless provoked.”