Chapter 93:
The choker on the wall, an evil small predator.
They like to lurk near ceilings, arches, wells or necrotic stairwells, sneaking up on any prey that happens to pass by. Their hands and feet
have spiny pads that can grab onto the surface of almost any object. They quietly attack when lurking. He is extremely quick when attacking and is a natural assassin.
Although choke monsters are small in size, they possess combat power comparable to peak knights.
Even a great knight would suffer a big loss if he was caught off guard and attacked by a choke monster.
"They actually placed a chokehold monster in the maze."
Pei Ze clicked his tongue.
But he did understand the maze designer's intention.
A complex environment like a maze is best suited for an assassin-type predator like the Choke.
More importantly, the reason why choke monsters are called choke monsters is because they like to strangle the necks of their prey, making them unable to speak. Naturally, they cannot cast spells that require spells.
It can be said that the choke monster restrains the wizard apprentice to a certain extent.
It's a pity that Pei Ze is not among this group.
Not to mention that he has mastered the skill of silent spell casting and super magic. Even if he can't make a sound, he can still cast spells without any hindrance.
Just because of his peak knight-level physique, it was destined that the choke monster would not even be able to hurt him with a sneak attack.
"Squeak!"
The throat-locking monster screamed in pain. A long and narrow wound penetrated its entire chest and abdomen diagonally, and blood flowed out of it like a spring.
Obviously Pei Ze's sword just now caused a lot of damage to it.
As if aware of the power of the person in front of him, the choke monster turned around and ran away without hesitation. His body nimbly jumped up to the ceiling, walking on the smooth stone surface as if on the ground, and quickly fled into the distance.
Want to escape?
Pei Ze sneered, suddenly flashed out, and the sword in his hand instantly turned into a bolt of lightning and shot out.
Extremely flashy!
After Qinglan's Breathing Technique was upgraded to the Omniscient Breathing Technique, Storm Slash and Extreme Flash were still retained and even more powerful.
This strike was as fast as lightning, spanning hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye, and stabbed the choke monster in the back like a meteor.
The choke monster only had time to let out a short scream, and then it was exploded into a bloody mist by the violent fighting spirit that exploded.
Pei Ze swung his sword again, whipping up the strong wind to disperse the diffuse blood mist. Looking up, he happened to see several choke monsters escaping along the ceiling three to four hundred meters away.
The tragic deaths of their companions frightened the predators.
Pei Zeran smiled and did not pursue. He continued walking along the corridor. Whenever he encountered a fork in the road, he used the fog crow to explore the path and clear the monsters in the room.
Almost every room you encounter along the way has various monsters wandering around.
From the knight-level reinforced skeleton soldiers, bugbears, zombies, and direclaws to the great knight-level three-armed trolls, bodak zombies, and skeleton knights.
Pei Ze even encountered a shape-shifting spider and a chi beast.
The former is a medium-sized magical creature that can freely switch between spider form and humanoid form. In addition to possessing the poison and web abilities of spider creatures, it can also cast phantom sounds, light, silent phantoms, and sleep spells. Spells.
The combat power of a shape-shifting spider is comparable to that of a mid-level knight.
If you step into its territory without knowing it and are bound by the spider web, even a high-ranking knight can easily lose his life.
Especially for wizard apprentices, shape-shifting spiders with certain spell resistance are very troublesome monsters.
As for the spirit beast, it is a magical creature that lives in the etheric plane.
Their body color ranges between bright blue and deep purple. When standing upright, the height is only 1.23 meters, but the total length of the body can reach over 2 meters.
They usually lurk in the etheric plane in spirit form, but once they find prey, they will immediately switch to the main material plane to attack and kill the prey. They are more terrifying assassins than the choke monster.
Even Pei Ze couldn't react in time when the spirit beast appeared and attacked. He relied on the defense of the magic heavy armor to block the spirit beast's attack, and then killed it in turn.
In addition to a large number of monsters, the maze also hides many traps.
A floor that suddenly softens and turns into a quagmire when stepped on.
Inlaid on the stone door, it emits colorful lights when approached, making people fall into hallucinations.
There is also a room that looks empty, but when you walk in, the stone door will suddenly close, and then raging flames will spray out from all directions.
It’s really hard to guard against.
A wizard apprentice who does not have adequate defenses may fall under endless traps before reaching the center of the maze.
As you go deeper into the maze, the strength of the monsters and traps encountered along the way gradually increases.
After exploring a three-way intersection again, Pei Ze stopped and looked thoughtful.
Using the fog crow to explore the path is indeed very effective. So far, he has not encountered a dead end.
But problems also arise.
One is that the further you go to the back, the more forks there are, and there is often more than one room behind each path, and sometimes there is another forked road.
Pei Ze must explore all possible paths before finally determining the correct path, which is very time-consuming and labor-intensive.
The other was a casualty of the Mist Crow.
In just over an hour of exploring the road, Pei Ze had already lost more than 300 fog crows.
And it can be predicted that as the number and strength of monsters gradually increase in the future, the damage rate of Mist Crow will further accelerate.
Pei Ze could not guarantee that the number of fog crows would be enough to reach the center of the maze.
"We still have to think of other ways."
Pei Ze looked back and forth on the surrounding walls. Suddenly, an idea flashed and he stepped forward and knocked on the wall.
Ta-ta!
"Judging from the sound, the thickness of the wall should not be large, so it would not be difficult to destroy it."
Pei Ze thought thoughtfully.
If you can destroy the wall and go directly through the corridor, you can save a lot of time in exploration and detours, and reach the center of the maze faster.
Is it really that easy and simple?
Would a maze designer leave such an obvious loophole for participants to exploit?
Pei Ze was a little skeptical.
However, doubts remain doubts, and he still plans to give it a try.
Just in case, Pei Ze gave up on using fireball and spell missile spells that would make huge noises to avoid attracting a large number of monsters, and instead used acid corrosion.
After reciting the spell silently in his mind, Pei Ze pointed his hand, and a ball of acid the size of a basketball appeared instantly and hit the wall of the corridor like a cannonball.
Immediately, there was a continuous roar, a large amount of green smoke came out of the wall, and a pit was visible to the naked eye.
However, at this moment, the wall suddenly trembled violently, as if someone was vigorously shaking the thick blanket. Violent distortions suddenly appeared on the surface of the wall, as well as a mouth with pale lips.
The next moment, these mouths opened suddenly and let out bursts of sharp and shrill screams.
The harsh sound swept through the entire corridor in an instant and spread far away.
Caught off guard, Pei Ze felt his eardrums hurt and quickly covered his ears.
It lasted for more than ten seconds before the sound gradually weakened, turning from screams to low sobs and moans. Pei Ze frowned and looked around, and found that centered on the place where the acid was hit, there were densely packed mouths that were opening and closing on the wall about a hundred meters long, which looked extremely scary.
But soon he couldn't care less about it.
From the corner at the end of the corridor, there was already a dense and chaotic sound of footsteps.
A few seconds later, a large group of monsters suddenly burst out from the corner.
Bugbears, zombies, skeletal warriors, and boda zombies were monsters of different races that could never live in peace under normal circumstances, but now they were crowded together and charging towards Pei Ze with murderous intent.
Pei Ze's eyes fell on one of the bugbears.
The opponent's state was obviously somewhat unusual. His eyes were red and saliva was dripping from the corner of his mouth. He seemed to be in some kind of violent state.
Obviously, the sounds made by those mouths just now should contain some ability to lure monsters to gather and make them go berserk.
"I knew it wouldn't be that easy."
Pei Ze sighed, swiping his fingers quickly in the void, and in a blink of an eye, a mysterious and complex blue talisman was formed in the sky.
Then he reached out and grasped the rune, slapped the sword, and instantly heard a crackling sound, and countless tiny arcs appeared on the surface of the sword.
Immediately afterwards, Pei Ze quickly drew an earthy yellow rune and a cyan rune, and patted himself one after another.
Under the intertwining of green and yellow light, his whole aura surged greatly out of thin air.
After doing all this, Pei Ze's eyes narrowed, and his whole body shot out like a sharp arrow, brazenly facing the group of monsters.
boom!
The two parties met in the middle of the corridor in an instant and bumped into each other hard!
There were obviously more monsters, but the result of the collision was that they were all turned upside down.
The dozen or so monsters that rushed forward were instantly blasted into charcoal by the spreading arc, and fell straight to the ground lifeless.
Pei Ze is like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, frantically harvesting the lives of monsters one after another.
The shining arc of electricity almost illuminated the entire corridor as if it were daytime.
With the blessing of the wind rune, Pei Ze's speed was unusually fast. He was like a ghost jumping among the dense monsters. Most of the monsters' attacks could not even touch the corners of his clothes.
The occasional hits on Pei Ze were blocked by the yellow halo that enveloped his body, not even damaging his fur.
High-pitched beast roars and crisp crackles of lightning echoed endlessly in the corridor.
The one-sided battle lasted less than five minutes.
Then the roar of the beast changed from strong to weak, gradually weakened, and finally disappeared.
As the last monster fell, the entire corridor suddenly returned to silence.
Standing among the corpses on the ground, Pei Ze waved his sword and shook off the blood stained on it.
He glanced at the sword body, and there were only a few arcs on it.
Looking at the yellow halo and cyan halo on his body, they have become extremely dim and are almost about to dissipate.
Obviously the three elemental runes are on the verge of reaching their limits.
But Pei Ze is already very satisfied.
There were at least two to three hundred monsters in the group just now, and more than half of them were at the Grand Knight level.
Only three elemental runes can annihilate so many monsters. The actual combat effect of the elemental runes is even more powerful than he expected.
"This is still a normal elemental rune. After being improved with the Eye of Omniscient, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the effect!" A
flash of expectation flashed in Pei Ze's eyes.
After coming back to his senses, he turned back and looked at the wall.
Those densely packed grotesque mouths had disappeared, leaving only an ugly dent in the wall.
"It seems that the method of destroying the wall will not work."
Pei Ze sighed with regret.
Sure enough, the maze designer would not leave such obvious loopholes.
As long as the wall is destroyed, a large number of monsters will besieged.
It was okay once or twice, but if it happened too many times, even Pei Ze couldn't hold it back.
If you use this method to rush, even if you can quickly reach the center of the maze, you will probably run out of energy by the time you get there.
If there are other dangers at the location of the iridescent gem, the consequences would be disastrous.
Thinking deeper, before reaching the depths of the maze, mid-to-high-level knight-level monsters have already appeared.
When you reach the depths of the maze, there will most likely be magical creatures of the legendary knight level.
If the destruction of the wall leads to a siege by a large number of magical creatures of the legendary knight level, no wizard apprentice would dare to say that he can break out of the siege.
Including Pei Ze himself.
"We can only use the fog crow to explore
the path." Pei Ze looked away from the wall and rushed towards the end of the corridor.
On the next road, he summoned the fog crow as usual to explore the way.
As Mist Crow's casualties mount, he moves deeper and deeper into the maze.
Until a certain moment, Pei Ze suddenly discovered that the color of the surrounding walls suddenly changed from blue-gray to blue-white.
He vaguely understood that he should have entered the depths of the maze from the periphery.
The monster he encountered next confirmed his guess.
From here on, all the monsters encountered turned into knight-level magical creatures.
'Weak' monsters such as bugbears and zombies have disappeared.
Facing so many great knight-level monsters, Pei Ze struggled with his sword skills and elemental runes alone.
He simply used the first-level monster summoning technique and summoned a ferocious wild boar to act as a pioneer and clean up the monsters for him.
The first-level summon monster spell summons an outside creature (usually an alien, elemental, or magical creature from another plane).
Summoned creatures will obey the caster's orders to fight or protect.
Its strength level and duration depend on the caster's mental strength and spell attainments.
Pei Ze has done tests and found that with his current mental attributes, using the improved version of the first-level monster summoning technique is enough to summon powerful monsters that are close to the level of a first-level legendary knight.
"A ferocious wild boar man?"
Pei Ze nodded with satisfaction as he looked at the oppressive giant who was over five meters tall in front of him.
Dire boars are a subspecies of hill giants. They are natural lycanthropes with immense strength. They like to use giant wooden clubs to smash the heads of all enemies.
The adult ferocious boar man's physique is not inferior to that of a first-level legendary knight, but he does not have any magical power, so he cannot compare with the real legendary knight.
But compared to ordinary peak knights, they are undoubtedly crushingly powerful.
"It's a pity that only one level one summoned monster can exist at a time. Otherwise, we could use this spell to create a small monster army."
Pei Ze thought with some regret, and then continued to explore the maze with the ferocious wild boar.
(End of chapter)