The Synthesis Wizard

Chapter 98 Hundred-Armed Monster

Brad is very efficient.

The next day, the results of the investigation were presented to Key.

According to the investigation, it was most likely a herd of beasts that attacked the village. Many beast furs and incomplete claws and fangs were also found at the scene.

After confirming this, Brad immediately started searching around the village, looking for traces of the herd.

Soon he found a mess of footprints and then blood.

Finally, following these traces, he found a cave deep in the forest.

However, while investigating the situation inside the cave, they were attacked by monsters and had to temporarily withdraw.

After leaving some manpower to seal the cave, Brad immediately rushed back to report the results of the investigation.

"This is the monster Brad and the others encountered in the cave."

Key pointed to some portraits on the table.

Su Nan picked up the top portrait and looked at it, and couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

Isn't this the Dire Rat?

Dire rats are ferocious beasts and mutants. They are extremely ferocious and fast when attacking. They are good at biting and chewing their opponents with their sharp incisors.

But in reality, Dire Rats are about the same strength as ordinary people. If they are careful, ordinary adult men can deal with them.

A single dire rat is nothing. The key is that dire rats usually appear in groups, with hundreds of them appearing.

In addition, they carry a variety of germs, and there is a certain chance that people will be infected with diseases such as rotten fever and plague.

Therefore, even if a knight encounters a swarm of ferocious rats, he must avoid their sharp edges.

The second portrait showed a monster with a toad's head and thick limbs.

"Underground Toad Monster!"

Sunan was really surprised now.

If it was just a dire rat, he wasn't sure yet. After all, dire rats could appear in many places, but underground toad monsters only existed in the underground world. Could it be that the cave was still connected to the underground world?

Sunan couldn't help but be stunned.

Not long ago, he was still thinking about where to find the entrance to the underground world, but before he could take action, the goal was delivered directly in front of him.

Is his luck considered good or bad?

"You know this monster?" Key asked.

Su Nan nodded: "This is an underground toad monster, a monster living in the underground world. I suspect that the depths of the cave are probably connected to the underground world."

"Underground world?" Key became even more confused.

"A vast but very dangerous place where many powerful and terrifying monsters live."

After hearing this, Keyi's face suddenly became very solemn.

"Will that threaten Glitter City?"

Su Nan pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "Probably not."

"The creatures in the underground world live in the dark underground all year round and cannot adapt to the environment on the surface. At most, they occasionally come to the surface to enjoy the autumn wind, and they will not attack towns."

Key's expression suddenly relaxed a lot, but he still frowned: "In other words, those monsters may continue to attack other villages?"

"It's possible."

"What should we do? Seal the cave?"

"No, leave this matter to me." Sunan waved his hand.

After finally finding the entrance to the underground world, he was not willing to just block it.

At least explore it first.

"Send people to seal off the forest and cave to prevent the monsters inside from coming out to hurt people again, and don't let irrelevant people enter. As for the cave, leave it to me."

Seeing that Sunan had said so, Keyi agreed.

Half an hour later.

The Glitter City army was dispatched and sealed off the forest in the north, prohibiting anyone from entering or exiting.

Sunan also arrived in the forest with the army.

"Sir, this is the cave where the monster appears."

Deep in the forest, Brad pointed at the dark cave entrance under the mountain wall and said.

"Let people watch outside. If any monster comes out, kill it immediately."

Leaving behind an instruction, Sunan then walked into the cave alone.

There are torches hanging on both sides of the cave, left behind by soldiers who previously explored it.

But there is only a section of the road near the entrance of the cave, and beyond that there is darkness.

Su Nan picked up a stone and cast [Light Technique]. The gray stone suddenly glowed like a torch, dispelling the surrounding darkness.

As he moved forward, Sunan observed the signs around him.

It can be seen that the cave is not formed naturally, but is dug manually.

If nothing else, it was probably the residents of the underground world who did it.

Dire rats and underground toad monsters obviously do not have this ability. They should be some kind of humanoid creatures, such as kobolds, gray dwarves or myconids.

Going further, Sunan soon discovered a silver mine.

Now there is a bit more certainty in the speculation that the cave is connected to the underground world.

After all, the most abundant resources in the underground world are undoubtedly various mineral veins.

"Squeak!"

At this moment, a group of ferocious rats rushed out of the darkness ahead and attacked Sunan like a tide.

The number is estimated to be no less than a hundred.

Sunan didn't panic, stretched out his palm, and faced the rats with his palm.

Burning Hands!

Wow!

A raging wave of flames spurted out in an instant, covering almost the entire cave passage.

The swarm of rats that came to kill hit the blazing flames head-on, and instantly turned into **** of fire, rolling on the ground and wailing fiercely.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of ferocious rats were wiped out.

Several underground toad monsters that were driving the rats from behind were stunned on the spot, as if they didn't expect the coming people to be so ferocious.

When they reacted, what they saw were six fist-sized missiles.

Puff puff puff!

The missiles penetrated the heads of three underground toad monsters one after another, and then pierced the hearts and exited from the back, leaving only two shocking holes.

After just one encounter, the three underground toad monsters fell to the ground and turned into corpses.

Sunan slowly retracted his palm.

Underground toad monsters are not particularly powerful creatures. The strength level of adult underground toad monsters is generally between junior knights and intermediate knights. A few elites can reach senior knights.

In a dark environment, even a great knight may suffer a loss if he is suddenly attacked by multiple underground toad monsters.

However, for Sunan, who relied on his mind to sense his surroundings instead of observing with his naked eyes, the power of the underground toad monster was not enough.

Without looking at the body on the ground, Sunan continued to walk forward.

The deeper you go, the wider the cave becomes, and the more dim silver is exposed on the rock walls on both sides.

Su Nan felt a little happy

It seems that the silver mine reserves here are not low, and if they are all mined, it will be a big income.

Moreover, many silver mines are accompanied by gold mines. If you can find a gold mine, you will make a fortune.

Along the way, underground toad monsters and groups of ferocious rats kept jumping out to attack Sunan, but he easily dealt with them all.

In the end, Sunan became impatient and directly released more than a dozen black rock leopards and asked them to take care of the monsters.

As a puppet creature, the Black Rock Leopard is born with dark vision and is at home in dark caves. It is also good at cooperating with pincer attacks, and is good at dealing with underground toad monsters and groups of ferocious rats.

After having the experience of sneaking into the storm army camp, Sunan is now accustomed to putting dozens of black rock leopards and stone golems into the Rubik's Cube in case of emergency.

Not long after, Sunan found some bones with blood stains on the cave floor.

It is not difficult to identify these as human bones. Judging from the traces, they are still very fresh. They are probably those of the disappeared villagers.

Sunan sighed. It seemed that the people who were captured were in bad luck. After walking more than three hundred meters, there was a faint sound coming from the front.

A bit like the sound of a puppy barking.

Sunan's expression changed, and he cast a spell on himself.

The moment the spell took effect, the strange voice in front turned into a clearly identifiable unfamiliar language.

"Stop being lazy, you idiots! Hurry up and dig!"

"The food has been eaten. If I can't dig out enough ore to exchange for enough food today, I will use you to fill the master's belly!"

This is kobold language.

Su Nan looked down and found many plum blossom-shaped footprints on the ground.

"I see."

Sunan felt vaguely aware of it.

He had previously thought that omnivorous creatures such as underground toad monsters and dire rats would not be short of food in the underground world and would not take risks to hunt on the surface. Now that he saw the kobolds, he suddenly realized it.

Kobolds are common humanoid creatures in the underground world, and they breed everywhere like rats.

They are natural miners and are often used as slaves by other races.

From this point of view, there may be other masterminds behind this incident.

In a flash of thought, Su Nan already had an idea.

At the end of the passage, there is a steep and open basin.

A group of kobolds were waving mining pickaxes and digging for minerals.

Their heads look like dogs, with two small light-colored horns, bright eyes, and straight rat-like tails.

There was a bonfire burning not far away, next to their simple tents, some mushrooms and unknown meat were scattered on the ground, and the air was filled with the smell of feces. It seemed that these kobolds had been eating, drinking and littering here for a long time.

There are some mined ores piled up in the corner, full of silver mixed with little golden lights.

"It seems that this silver mine is indeed accompanied by a gold mine."

Su Nan felt happy and decisively issued the order.

More than a dozen black rock leopards immediately rushed out of the cave and rushed towards the kobolds.

"There are, there are intruders!"

"Black Leopard!"

"Can I eat it?"

Kobolds have very low intelligence and are often driven by instinct.

When they see the black rock leopards attacking, their first reaction is to rush forward to kill these sudden monsters to see if they can eat them.

It wasn't until the black rock leopard killed more than a dozen of his companions that he became frightened and ran away screaming.

"Don't run away!"

"Kill the intruder!"

A kobold leader who was one size larger and had dark brown scales stood up and brandished a whip to beat the escaping kobolds, forcing them to fight.

But in the next second, he was knocked down by the charging black rock leopard and bitten into pieces.

The combat effectiveness of kobolds is much weaker than that of underground toad monsters.

Even the leader of the kobolds only has the strength of a trainee knight.

It's no match for Black Rock Leopard.

Most of the hundreds of kobolds were quickly killed.

At this moment, a thunderous roar suddenly sounded.

It sounded like many people roaring at the same time.

Immediately afterwards, a ferocious monster suddenly rushed out from the hole deep in the basin.

The monster looks like a big tree with many protruding branches on its surface, or like a centipede with enough limbs. It is extremely large, with an upright height of more than 10 meters, and is covered with densely packed arms and head.

Each of its arms held a sword or a heavy hammer, and its lower body, or rather torso, was clad in half armor.

Judging from the enchanted runes on the armor's surface, it turned out to be a magic item.

"What kind of monster is this?"

In the shadow behind the cave entrance, Sunan's eyes widened in surprise.

I have never seen a monster like this before!

"The Hundred-Armed Giant? No, no, the Hundred-Armed Giant is humanoid after all. This monster has quite a few arms, but it has no legs, just roots."

Just when Sunan was in shock, the monster had already moved its densely packed legs like tree roots, and quickly rushed to a black rock leopard. Countless giant swords and heavy hammers were struck down at the same time, smashing the black rock leopard to pieces.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The strength of the hundred-armed monster seems to be much greater than that of the black rock leopard, and it can kill the latter with one blow.

In just a blink of an eye, more than ten black rock leopards were chopped or smashed by it and scattered into rubble on the ground.

Sunan couldn't help but take a breath.

"What a terrifying power!"

The real hundred-armed giant almost has the level of combat power of a second-level legendary knight.

The physical strength of the monster in front of him is no worse than that of the Hundred-Armed Giant, and the number of arms is only a lot more. The key is that it can also use weapons and wear armor, and its combat effectiveness is probably better than that of the Hundred-Armed Giant.

Even if it's not as good as the three-ring legendary knight, it's probably not that much different.

A monster comparable to a legendary knight with three rings!

Sunan never expected that such a terrifying thing was hidden in the cave near Glitter City.

If this monster went to the surface and started killing people, the consequences would be disastrous.

Su Nan suddenly felt that it was very wise that he did not show up rashly, but sent the Black Rock Leopard to test first.

Otherwise, he might run away now.

Even if he had five high-level rune gems, he couldn't guarantee that he could defeat this hundred-armed monster.

Taking a deep breath, Sunan quietly retreated towards the way he came.

Fortunately, after the hundred-armed monster took care of the black rock leopard, he looked left and right and found no one, so he grabbed a few kobold corpses and gnawed them while going back to the original cave entrance, without even noticing that there were other people nearby.

After a while, Sunan walked out of the cave safely.

"Your Mightiness."

Brad, who was standing outside, immediately came over.

Sunan said solemnly: "Seal the cave and don't let anyone in. If something comes out, tell me immediately!"

"Yes, Your Excellency."

Brad agreed immediately without asking any further questions.

Back in Glitter City, Sunan found Keyi and briefly explained the situation in the cave.

Hearing that there was a monster inside that was comparable to a three-ring legendary knight, Key's face suddenly became very solemn, and he immediately decided to send troops into the cave to kill the monster.

After all, if such a powerful monster was left next to Glitter City, he would not be able to sleep well.

But he was immediately stopped by Su Nan: "That monster has hundreds of arms. The thing it's least afraid of is the human sea tactic. Besides, the space in the cave is limited, and the army can't use it inside."

"What should we do?" Key was worried.

"We have to take a long-term approach."

Sunan also wanted to kill the hundred-armed monster so that he could develop the silver and gold mines inside.

The same goes for finding the entrance to the underground world. You can't go deeper without first killing the hundred-armed monster blocking the way.

But it is not advisable to act hastily.

The two discussed for a while, and finally decided to send additional troops to station near the forest. The monster must not be allowed to get close to Glitter City.

As for the next thing, let's figure it out slowly.

(End of chapter)