The Truth of Magic

Chapter 395

395 Life force

The tunnels of the mutated Scorpion’s nest were not the kind of flat tunnels that were maintained. Most of them corresponded to the characteristics of the mutated Scorpion’s body, showing a rugged path with potholes.

“It’s hard to believe that they can force their way in.” Zhao Xu commented.

He was blessed with God’s steps, which gave him perfect mobility, and he could even use the power of flight to move through the difficult tunnels.

However, Vivian, who was wearing heavy full-body armor, showed her limitations at this moment. Even though her heavy armor was much lighter with Mithril, it was still difficult for her to climb in the tunnel.

After trying it out a few times, she used her shapeshifting ability to make her original succubus wings grow out from her back and she started to flap and flap like Zhao Xu as she flew.

Succubi had the ability to fly.

At this moment, Zhao Xu also noticed that the wings on Vivian’s back weren’t the ugly bat-like wings that he had seen before.

Instead, it seemed to be formed by energy, appearing as a dark purple halo of particles. The light and shadow effects were pleasing to the eye.

Zhao Xu thought about how she was a secret vessel that Cang ye had created, and that she might be different from normal succubi, but he didn’t ask too many questions.

As the two flew together, they did not see any traces of the mutated scorpions, as if this was an empty nest.

“We might have taken another entrance.” Zhao Xu analyzed.

He had been flying for at least half an hour.

The adventurers who were snatching the treasure chests would definitely take more time since there was no flying spell in the nest. It would take less than two hours to make a round trip.

In fact, they would have been killed long ago while they were escaping from the nest.

a monster’s nest will have several exits, even if it’s an insect nest without intelligence. Vivian added.

This meant that they were not on the same path as the other adventurers.

Because Zhao Xu had used the item Locator spell to determine the distance in a straight line, and they had also moved a few hundred meters away from the entrance to the nest, and the underground tunnel was also crooked, it was completely possible that they were on a path that was further away from the treasure hidden in the nest.

During the flight, Vivian was already feeling a little tired because she was carrying a heavy full-body armor, even though the Mithril had reduced her weight.

This was also the norm for everyone when they were adventuring. They had to consider their physical strength, diet, breathing, sleep, and the comfort of their load.

Unless they were the children of great aristocrats, who had a multi-dimensional bag to reduce the load on their bodies, with an ain stone that prevented them from breathing and a stone that prevented them from eating.

“What?”

Suddenly, Vivian, who had been flying at a low altitude after entering a flat area, stopped flying and looked down.

It was a very deep hole, and the wall of the hole was quite smooth, which was not conducive to climbing.

The bottom of the pit was filled with all kinds of corpses.

From their spines, one could barely tell that most of them were ferocious beasts. Some of the wild beasts even had leg bones that were taller than humans.

But Zhao Xu had darksight, so he could also distinguish quite a few human heads. There were even halflings and dwarves.

“It’s a little strange.” Vivian’s brows furrowed.

Upon seeing this scene, she pulled out her original Holy Avenger and began to reveal her killing intent.

“No,” she said.

Zhao Xu explained, ” of course, you can swallow the entire thing and digest it, but you can’t swallow the small and medium-sized ones whole. You’ll only leave these bones behind.

His tone was slightly cold and carried a hint of ruthlessness.

In the past, most of Zhao Xu’s adventures had taken place on the surface or in the cities, so he rarely entered the lairs of these monsters.

However, he had explored similar places in his previous life and had seen many holes that were used to store corpses. These were the leftovers of the monsters ‘cooking.

Ever since humans on earth had mastered weapons, tools, and the ability to start a fire, they had occupied the top of the Earth’s food chain and cruelly exterminated all kinds of large animals.

Zhao Xu and the others didn’t see any mammoths in the zoo today because they had all been eaten up by the humans of the ancient era.

However, to Arthur ...

The original purpose of building a town was to form a formation to protect themselves from monsters. Even the villages outside the town were rarely in desolate places.

People could really die in the wilderness of Arthur.

Countless terrifying and powerful monsters roamed the area.

The corpse pit in front of them was a cruel display of the mutated Scorpion’s preying skills to Zhao Xu and the others.

The civilians who had no ability to protect themselves, even if they learned how to hunt with javelins, still couldn’t defeat the monsters that had grown strong natural armor due to Arthur’s environment.

Metal is protein’s number one killer was never wrong.

However, in Arthur and the others, they encountered monsters with natural armor and damage reduction abilities. The humans, who had the human wave tactic, were unable to fight against them before they obtained their profession level evolution.

“Let’s continue.” Zhao Xu said.

For the insects without intelligence, these were their food, and there was no point in being angry.

“What?”

Suddenly, Vivian snorted and immediately looked at the shadow of a gravel.

A small mutated Scorpion that was not much different from the ones you would see on a daily basis was hiding in there. When it saw Zhao Xu and the others, even though it didn’t have any ability to think, its survival instincts kicked in, and it immediately went around the gaps in the loose soil and crawled away.

The two of them had flown through the tunnels of medium, large, super large, and even giant mutated scorpions. These super small and small mutated scorpions had their own unique small tunnels.

Zhao Xu didn’t put too much effort into scouting the area when he entered this lair.

Because once a battle broke out, it would basically be a battle to the death against the endless stream of mutant scorpions in the nest.

That was why he needed to gain long-lasting close combat ability.

Just as Vivian was about to fly over and kill that small mutant Scorpion, Zhao Xu controlled the blade aura that was surrounded by the blade cloud spell.

In an instant, an invisible saber Qi shot out.

The small mutated Scorpion, which had half of its body buried in the soft soil, was cut in half at the waist by the blade Qi.

The Scorpion’s seemingly hard armor couldn’t block the sharp slash from the arcane ability. Half of the mutated Scorpion’s body, along with the Scorpion’s Stinger, was left outside.

The cut was extremely smooth, and the thick juice of the insect only flowed out after it was completely separated.

The super-sized and small-sized mutated scorpions didn’t have as much health as Zhao Xu could take.

And Zhao Xu could release this sword Qi that he could just kill as he pleased every single time, and he didn’t need to rest for the entire day.

It was as if he had a powerful crossbow on him, ready to shoot arrows at any time without any exhaustion.

A small mutant Scorpion had a defense of up to level 14. Even a level 1 Warrior among the players might not be able to hit it.

Only his innate level 20 blade aura attack could cut through scorpions like they were melons.

No one could see it in this stuffy tunnel in the cold winter. Otherwise, they would be amazed that a second-circle spell could be so powerful after such a long time.

“President?” Vivian saw that Zhao Xu was a little dazed, so she couldn’t help but ask.

“No, I just suddenly felt a trace of life energy.” Zhao Xu explained.

The players were suspicious of the existence of experience points in Arthur.

But after all this time, Zhao Xu had come to understand.

In Arthur, experience points were another form of ” life energy.

One of the necessary conditions for an upgrade was to accumulate enough life force. Only then would he be able to reach a new level of life.

Basically, eating, drinking, understanding, and accumulating one’s own vocational abilities was also an indirect way of accumulating life energy.

It was just that killing monsters was the fastest way to accumulate points.

However, simply killing monsters to gather enough life energy was only a necessary condition to complete the upgrade. The ‘enlightenment’ of breaking through the barrier was still indispensable.

Therefore, among the players, the warrior profession could accumulate life energy while fighting monsters and gain a breakthrough in combat experience. This was why they leveled up faster than the mages.

Most of the time, 30 years old was the age when a mage had just left the mountain for an adventure.

30 years old was also the age when a level 7 or 8 warrior was tired of fighting and was ready to return home to recuperate.

Zhao Xu had just casually swung his sword when he felt a trace of life energy floating over from the mutated Scorpion.

It made him suspect that it was the effect of the death God’s divine persona fragment.

At this moment, lacus had entered the critical stage of the fusion. She could no longer chat with him, nor could she find someone to answer his questions.

“Life force? Jumping?” Vivian’s nervous expression relaxed a little.

“Lady Cang ye once told me that some gods can see the flow of life energy.”

“Yes.”

Zhao Xu heard what Vivian said, but he didn’t go any further.

At this moment, in front of him were no less than a hundred medium to small ‘mutated scorpions’ that were crowding the pathway ahead.

They were like a small mountain of drill bits that were wriggling around each other.

The Scorpion’s bright eyes were like pale yellow glass orbs, and they stared at them with a consistent rhythm.

Many ants could bite an elephant to death. In a situation where the defense was insufficient, it was Arthur’s Way of winning against a stronger opponent.

The mutated scorpions waved their pincers and the pincers on their tails, ready to attack the two of them at any time.

But Zhao Xu wasn’t nervous at all. In fact, he was watching everything with great interest.

Unfortunately, there were too few of them.