There's a skull dungeon attached to my basement

Taking a step, a mushroom suddenly sprouted from the brick floor beneath Xiao Yang's feet. A portal opened, and a large number of slimes poured out from it. Xiao Yang, charging forward, lost his footing on the mushroom and slipped, falling headfirst into the sewage.

This hag was even more troublesome than Xiao Yang had anticipated.

A sharp, raspy voice rang out.

"Give me the soul crystal!"

Brushing aside the green slimes clinging to his helmet, trying to squeeze through the cracks, Xiao Yang slowly rose from the sewage. The hag's attacks had little effect on him. Xiao Yang was an all-around warrior with high health, high defense, all-elemental resistance, damage immunity, health regeneration, and curse resistance.

The slime tasted like jelly with a hint of grass, but unfortunately, it was mixed with the stinky wastewater from the tunnel. Fighting in this foul and filthy environment inevitably meant getting some of it on you.

Xiao Yang didn't have any good solutions for dealing with the hag. This guy had too many crowd control skills.

The battle fell into a stalemate. Xiao Yang couldn't get close due to the various control methods. The hag was also prepared to flee.

Xiao Yang's sneak attack had caused her great psychological trauma, and she was developing a tendency to become easily frightened.

This made Xiao Yang somewhat hesitant. He could, of course, activate Lesser Dragon Flame and charge at the hag in front of him, but that might cause this rare elite monster, already at half health, to escape and disappear.

This was truly a tricky situation, but it wasn't without a solution. The soul crystal seemed to hold an unspeakable desire for the hag, which might be something to exploit.

Xiao Yang suddenly produced a cloudy crystal. The appearance of this crystal made the hag's eyes widen.

"Give it to me!"

The hag shrieked impatiently, but a hint of a smile appeared on Xiao Yang's lips. Perhaps because the soul crystal was too eye-catching, the hag didn't notice another item in Xiao Yang's hand besides the soul crystal—an ordinary silver pocket watch.

Perhaps because of the somewhat abstract Freedom Spatula, Xiao Yang was generally more curious about special oddities. Leaving aside the legendary-grade Cauldron of Greed, the overly free Freedom Spatula wasn't a good example either. Xiao Yang felt that both of these things were overpowered.

So now, the only thing that could serve as an example and reference was one thing: the Bloodstained Pocket Watch that could conduct violent transactions.

"You want me to give you the soul crystal without giving anything in return?"

Xiao Yang asked the hag in front of him, followed by the hag's incoherent reply.

"As long as you give it to me, I can give you anything!"

Xiao Yang noticed a trace of blood slowly creeping out of the silver pocket watch in his hand.

Perhaps because Xiao Yang had awakened his Spirit attribute, he felt the sudden appearance of ethereal figures at this moment.

A transaction was about to take place. The hag had offered a bargaining chip, and now it was Xiao Yang's turn to demand a reward.

"Alright, then the reward I want is!" Suddenly, Xiao Yang tossed the soul crystal in his hand towards the hag in front of him. At the moment she frantically caught the soul crystal, the reward Xiao Yang demanded appeared: "Release all defensive magic and don't move!"

This was a very nonsensical request, causing a trace of astonishment to appear on the face of the frantic hag. She thought the adventurer in front of her probably regarded her as a fool. She certainly wouldn't abide by the agreement. As long as one or two spells were cast, she would completely disappear from this space.

The fool in front of her was just waiting there!

The hag's ecstasy halted after the appearance of these words. "Transaction completed!" Layers upon layers of voices represented the ethereal figures' judgment of this transaction.

The transaction was completed, and an invisible force descended. The hag found that all the defensive magic on her body had shattered at this moment, and her body was frozen, unable to move.

At this moment, Xiao Yang grinned and strode forward.

"You tricked me!" The hag, with only her mouth able to move, roared angrily and sharply.

But what greeted her was the grinning Xiao Yang.

"You can't say that, this is a transaction that you and I both acknowledged."

In the hag's despairing and resentful expression, Xiao Yang's staff fell.

【Justice Sanction Advancement Quest Activated, True Justice.】

【True Justice: Use deception, trickery, or sneak attacks to kill three high-intelligence, evil-aligned powerful monsters.

Those guys always slander me as being underhanded, but I will tell them that only justice that lands is true justice.】

He accepted the Justice Sanction advancement quest. Xiao Yang was quite comfortable using this short staff, but its attributes were already somewhat lacking. This advancement quest came at just the right time.

As for this advancement quest being too dishonorable, it wasn't a big problem. After all, it was limited to evil-aligned monsters. As long as he didn't use the world chat, would drugging, ganging up, or bludgeoning be a problem? Xiao Yang was a game player, what strange methods hadn't he used when grinding monsters?

No big deal.

The hag contributed two blue items, one purple item, and three pieces of equipment.

The two blue items were a pair of beautiful white boots and a leather notebook.

【Hag's Boots

Quality: Excellent

Effect: Grants the ability to summon slime followers

Description: These are beautiful boots made from the best birch bark that the hag stole from the Forest of Nature.】

【Robert's Adventure Notes

Quality: Excellent

Effect: Automatically draws the paths traveled, automatically records information about encountered monsters, provides one Clairvoyance spell per dungeon level

Description: These are the adventure notes of the excellent adventurer Robert. As for why these adventure notes ended up in your hands, the story probably starts with the excellent adventurer waking up one morning to find a hag by his side.】

The last item was a gray-black backpack.

【Hag's Backpack

Quality: Epic

Type: Special Item

Effect: Provides a storage space of 50 meters in length, width, and height.

Description: Many people believe that the hag's backpack may contain souls. Is this a rumor? Worth investigating!】

Of these three items, Xiao Yang liked the blue-quality adventure notes the most, although they might contain a sad story.

Looking at the hag lying lifeless on the ground, and thinking about what might have happened, Xiao Yang could only say silently.

"It's okay, be strong, people always have to experience a lot, take care, Senior Robert!"