Comprehensive Manga: The Master is not here today

"Um...okay..."

Mashu subconsciously worried about Fujimaru Ritsuka's safety, but when he thought of the other party's current state, he could only reluctantly accept it for the time being and make plans based on the next situation.

Let’s get back to the point.

The two of them continued deeper into the maze, and soon came to the entrance to the second underground floor. The front suddenly opened up——

The second underground floor is a completely different scene from the first underground floor. It is as if you have suddenly entered a forest area. What you see are towering trees, suspension bridges erected between trees, and artificial stone towers.

According to scholars' research, the Golden Kingdom Labyrinth should be composed of the King's Castle of the Golden Kingdom thousands of years ago and the nearby city area, and the second underground area corresponds to the spire of the castle.

Not only that, they were clearly underground, but for some reason they could still see the sun and the sky when they looked up.

"I'll go up and take a look."

"Well, senior, be careful."

Fujimaru Ritsuka flew directly into the sky to check the situation. After a while, he landed again, shook his head and said:

"The space above your head is distorted. Once you reach a certain height, you can't continue going up."

This result was within their expectations, Ma Xiu guessed:

"The sunshine and sky above our heads should also be the effects of magic, right? That crazy magician seems to have quite profound magical attainments."

Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled and said:

"After all, he is a magician who has controlled the Golden Labyrinth for thousands of years, and he can even cast immortal magic."

"indeed."

When this matter was mentioned, Mashu nodded in agreement. Compared to the magics in front of him, the magic of immortality was indeed more powerful.

The magical effect of [immortality] has been exerted on the maze area, which is also called the curse of immortality by some people.

Adventurers, to be precise, [Humans] and [Demi-Humans] will not really die in the maze area. As long as the body is relatively intact, it can still be resurrected.

This is also one of the few pieces of information that can surprise them.

Just as he was saying this, a scream suddenly came from the front. Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu looked at each other and walked towards the direction of the sound.

"Senior, look over there!"

After passing six suspension bridges, the suspension bridge in front suddenly connected to a damaged tower. At the same time, Matthew immediately noticed that there were three adventurer corpses lying on the platform of the tower. At the same time, a monster stood on the platform of the tower. In the center of the body, the identity of the murderer was unabashedly revealed.

After seeing the other party's figure clearly, Ma Xiu confirmed:

"It's a snake-tailed chicken."

As the name suggests, the snake-tailed chicken is a hybrid animal monster. Its body is a chicken, its tail is a snake, and its snake teeth and chicken spurs are highly poisonous. It is one of the most dangerous monsters on the second underground floor, not only for new adventurers, but also for veterans. They may all stumble.

"Since it's called a snake-tailed chicken, then you can kill it by just chopping off its head, right?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka's tone was a little uncertain, so she took out the "Monster Manual" again and looked through it, but found that there seemed to be no such knowledge recorded in it, so she simply decided:

"To be on the safe side, it's better to kill both heads together."

"Ma Xiu, I'm in charge of the snake head, and you're in charge of the chicken head."

"yes!"

After issuing the combat order, Fujimaru Ritsuka held the stick flower, carried the stick behind his back, and took the lead in sprinting towards the snake-tailed chicken. Mashu also immediately summoned a huge cross round table shield, following closely behind Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"Kuh-! Kick-kick--!"

"Hiss~! Hiss~~~!"

Soon the snake-tailed chicken also discovered them, so it immediately spread its wings vigorously, and its two heads simultaneously made a threatening sound, making a fighting posture.

The moment he left the suspension bridge and came to the tower, Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly jumped with force, or soared into the air, and came behind the snake-tailed chicken. He seemed to notice that there was Mashu, but the other party just separated a snake head and continued to hold on. Staring at Fujimaru Ritsuka.

At the same time, Matthew had already rushed in front of the snake-tailed chicken.

"Matthew!"

"yes!"

At this moment, the two launched attacks at the same time.

The heavy and clumsy giant shield in Mashu's hand cut through the air at a speed unbelievable to ordinary people, and he easily chopped off the chicken's head with the blade at the tail; on the other side, the stick in Fujimaru Ritsuka's hand hit the snake's head with the same precision, with a seemingly light strike. The blow directly dented the snake's head, causing brains to fly everywhere.

Losing two heads at the same time, the snake-tailed chicken fell to the ground helplessly, completely silent.

Fujimaru Ritsuka was about to shake off the blood from the tail of the stick, but found that the blood and impurities could not adhere to the stick at all, and automatically slipped down without her having to do anything.

It is indeed a gift given to her by Senior Sister Sun Wukong!

His attention returned to the present moment, and he looked at Mashu who had put away his shield. Fujimaru Ritsuka playfully gestured with the 'scissor hands' symbolizing victory and said:

"First time defeating monsters, successful!"

"Very good!"

Matthew also clapped his hands very cooperatively, as if it was indeed a very difficult thing for them and something worthy of celebration.

After a little fun, Fujimaru Ritsuka seemed to have thought of something and smiled again:

"Just now, the snake-tailed chicken didn't seem to make a decent counterattack at all, and it seemed to be frozen in place. Is this its weakness?"

"indeed……"

Matthew thought about it and said:

"That is to say, if you attack both of its heads at the same time, its body will not be able to handle it, and it will not know how to fight back, right?"

"It's possible. If we encounter snake-tailed chickens again in the future, we can verify it."

After saying this, Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the corpses of the adventurers on the ground with some curiosity.

Due to the resurrection mechanism in the maze, in addition to adventurers, a special profession called "Corpse Recycler" was born.

The main job of the corpse recycler is to find the corpses of adventurers who died in the maze, and then bring them back to the resurrection center for resurrection. The resurrected adventurers are obliged to pay ten to twenty percent of their belongings. Give it to the other person as a thank you.

Not only that, the owner of this island also provides an additional subsidy for corpse recovery, ensuring that as long as the corpse recyclers bring the corpse back to the resurrection center, even if the adventurers themselves are extremely poor and the remuneration provided cannot cover the cost, they will still get a certain amount. bounty.

Of course, if the body is eaten and completely digested by monsters, is too damaged, or dies in a place where no one can find it, then he will be unlucky.

On the second underground floor, these guys lying on the ground should soon be discovered by the corpse recovery people and taken back to the resurrection center, so there is no need for them to do anything.

It's just that she was very curious about how [immortality] was achieved in the maze, and there just happened to be fresh corpses available for her to observe.

"Huh?"

Just seeing this, Fujimaru Ritsuka immediately let out a cry of surprise, and Mashu quickly asked:

"Senior, what's wrong?"

"Can't you see?"

Is it because this is a different world?

Seeing Mashu shaking his head in confusion, Fujimaru Ritsuka thought for a moment, then grabbed her hand and gave her permission to the underworld.

"That should be fine."

"Eh...?"

Mashu's expression was still a little confused, but she followed Fujimaru Ritsuka's gaze and looked at the corpse on the ground again. The scene in front of her made her slightly open her eyes in surprise——

The souls of the adventurers slightly emerged from the surface of their bodies, but that was it. There seemed to be some kind of force that forcibly locked their souls, preventing them from leaving their bodies!