Chapter 393: Typhon's Shame-Induced Rage

Under the dim candlelight, shadows crawled up the grey-black stone walls like ghosts, making the passageway, constructed entirely of dark grey masonry, look like a demon's den.

Inside such a passageway.

Figures with bull heads and human bodies, wearing tattered rags around their waists, carried heavy, blood-stained stone axes; they breathed heavily, their red eyes wide open as if suppressing something, moving in groups of three or five with a stumbling gait along the passage, seemingly on patrol.

When three Minotaurs passed through the corridor and left from around the corner, the candlelight shone onto the shadows in the corner of the wall.

Five eyes slowly opened, rolling around to observe the surroundings.

After another eleven passed by in formation, taking advantage of the time gap in the patrol rotation, two pitch-black shadows slowly rose from the ground.

The shadows dripped onto the ground like liquid and sank into the floor, revealing a young man, a girl with rice-ear hair wearing archaic armor, and a one-eyed crow on the boy's shoulder.

After appearing, Sun Wukong's eyes gradually grew heavy, and she said with a serious expression.

"This doesn't match the intelligence provided by the World King, Heavenly Lord. The aura on these passing Minotaurs is at least Four-Digit Exceptional level."

"The intelligence said they were only Five-digit."

"That's normal; after all, it isn't Xiao Ju who is controlling the game now, but in all likelihood, it is that King of All Demons."

Adjusting his clothes, Su Nian looked around and sighed at the Minotaurs, who had clearly been demonized.

As expected, Two-digit beings are almost all monsters among monsters; any one of these Minotaurs here could easily crush a planet, right?

As for the extent of the Minotaur guarding the Sun Authority deep inside, Su Nian didn't even dare to imagine.

He reckoned it would be hard to say if even Hou Jie could be the opponent's match.

For some reason, Su Nian felt a spirit of perseverance from these Minotaurs.

That must be an illusion, right?

Afterwards, Su Nian reached out and slashed through the void, and a piece of black sheepskin parchment immediately appeared in his hand.

"Sure enough, the Demon King Game is truly a part of Little Garden one must taste."

Su Nian was not surprised to see the black sheepskin parchment; he took it casually and looked at the white text on it.

【Gift Game: The Great Labyrinth of the Minotaur】

Organizer: Typhon

Participants: Everyone who enters the labyrinth.

Game Scope: Within the Great Labyrinth.

Game Summary: Defeat all Minotaur guards and the Minotaur who acts as the King to obtain the glory of the Minotaur.

Victory Condition: Obtain the glory of the Minotaur.

Oath: Respecting the above content, based on glory and the flag, the 【King of All Demons】 hosts this Gift Game.

Looking at the content of the Gift Game before him, Su Nian handed the parchment to Sun Wukong with a strange expression.

"This Gift Game is a bit too simple and straightforward. I thought it would be a more interesting Gift Game."

Sun Wukong took the game document, her expression also slightly strange as she said.

"Are there still people in Little Garden who host this kind of simple obstacle-course game?"

Who hosts a Gift Game these days without hiding a few key conditions, creating some terms favorable to themselves, or digging a few pits?

In this day and age, such a pure and honest Gift Game is truly rare.

"But don't say that; although this game is simple, the difficulty is actually quite high."

Sun Wukong looked at the Minotaurs in the distance and couldn't help but click her tongue; at least Four-Digit Exceptional Minotaurs.

It is estimated that there are definitely no small number of Three-digit Minotaurs inside.

"But why do I feel like the guy who designed this Gift Game couldn't design an interesting one, and could only increase the difficulty by increasing the strength of the monsters?"

Su Nian curled his lips; he didn't know why he saw a sense of simplicity and honesty in this Gift Game.

This must be a wrong feeling, right? They are already at the Two-digit level, they shouldn't be this pure, right?

"And this victory condition is a bit too vague."

Just looking at this Gift Game, Su Nian could think of countless underhanded tricks to use.

Who would confront them head-on if they were a proper person?

With so many Minotaurs, even if Sun Wukong knocked them down one by one with her staff, it would take quite a lot of time, right?

Saying this, Su Nian looked at Sun Wukong and Odin, and said with some hesitation.

"So, should we try something... underhanded?"

"It says here to defeat all the Minotaurs, but it doesn't say we have to defeat them head-on, right?"

However, the risk of doing so is indeed very high; after all, this is a game hosted by Typhon, and not following the organizer's wishes—

The consequence might be that Typhon will likely not be very happy.

Understanding this, Sun Wukong looked at Su Nian.

"So? Are you really going to play like that? Fighting through one level at a time would only cost a bit of time."

"I don't think it's just a matter of costing a bit of time."

Su Nian glanced at Sun Wukong and said irritably.

"Do you believe that Minotaurs with strength equal to yours might jump out and gang up on you?"

He has always been accustomed to speculating about others with the most malicious thoughts, although he doesn't know what Typhon's attitude is toward them collecting the Sun Authority.

But that doesn't stop Su Nian from treating Typhon as a potential enemy, or perhaps the other party has no ill intent?

Do you believe that? With this group of Minotaurs starting at Four-Digit Exceptional, Su Nian certainly doesn't.

And actually fighting them? That would be too much of a waste of time.

He doesn't want to waste days and nights here.

"Then forget it."

Sun Wukong prides herself on having unparalleled martial power in Little Garden, but she can't stand others using brute force to pad the data, right?

How do you deal with stat-monsters? Although the minotaurs here don't have any Authority or power, every single one of them is a stat-monster that has been demonized.

They rely purely on their stats to reach the level of Four-Digit Exceptional.

She knows all too well just how disgusting stat-monsters are.

"However, how do you plan to play this?"

Sun Wukong looked at Su Nian with curiosity, wondering what kind of devious idea Su Nian would come up with to deal with this group of minotaurs at this moment.

"Wait for me to study these minotaurs. Hou Jie, go grab two minotaurs."

A flash of light crossed Su Nian's eyes; if he wasn't mistaken, these demonized minotaurs were created based on the minotaurs that Kurma had created.

But it is a well-known fact that Kurma's craftsmanship when it comes to creating races is a little bit lacking.

The best example is the Little Garden Vampire race; heaven knows why the Vampire race would have a problem with fearing sunlight, and a catastrophic one at that.

As for her initial reason for creating the Vampire race, it was to monitor the System Tree. After all, she understood her own level; not to mention comparing herself to Nüwa, she probably couldn't even beat those Three-digit beings who were skilled in the field of the Authority of Life.

After all, every trade has its master; Kurma boasted that she was unrivaled when it came to worlds, but in other aspects, it was a bit hard to describe.

Especially in terms of creating races, it is probably a bit difficult to be perfect and have no problems.

So after the Vampires, Kurma honestly stopped trying to create any new races.

However, when holding a Gift Game, it is still simple enough to pinch out a few monsters.

Just stitch together a few templates, and you have a monster.

A moment later, Sun Wukong walked over, dragging two minotaurs she had knocked unconscious.

Su Nian had the Little Garden Central identify them.

Hmm, mass-produced items; even their genetic information is exactly the same, and heaven knows how Kurma created these monsters.

The immune systems of these minotaurs don't seem to be very good—no, to be more precise, they are in a state of near-stagnation.

It's just that ordinary viruses cannot enter the bodies of these minotaurs.

They can be considered qualified creations, and this flaw is something an ordinary person would really never discover.

Even if they did discover it, it wouldn't be so easy to exploit.

But who told them that the one who came to participate in the Gift Game this time was him?

"Alright, that's settled."

Su Nian snapped his fingers, and a test tube containing the Blacklight Virus stock solution appeared in Su Nian's hand.

"The immune system strength of these minotaurs is very low, even worse than that of an ordinary person, so an ordinary virus can take them out."

Although a regular virus wouldn't be able to take down these minotaurs, it was clear that the virus Su Nian was playing with was not a regular one.

Normally, it would take at least a month for the Blacklight Virus to infect an ordinary Four-digit being, and that is assuming this Four-digit being hasn't discovered they are infected with the virus; otherwise, they would just deal with it.

The infection progress would drop straight to zero.

After all, an increase in digits is an increase in the essence of life, an all-around evolution; naturally, there wouldn't be any loopholes.

But these minotaurs are different; they are man-made monsters.

As Su Nian crushed the virus in his hand, the virus rapidly spread with the wind, sweeping through the entire labyrinth.

Countless minotaurs fell ill one after another; their bodies underwent mutations on top of their demonized foundation.

For a moment, their auras seemed vaguely more vigorous.

"Are you sure you didn't strengthen them?"

Sun Wukong gave Su Nian a strange look; her intuition told her that these monsters seemed even harder to deal with after being infected with the virus.

"Should be..."

Su Nian said uncertainly.

"But now that they have all fallen, isn't this an opportunity? Take the Taurus while taking advantage of the situation."

"Oh, that's right."

Sun Wukong reacted quickly, grabbed Su Nian directly, and piloted the Somersault Cloud toward the center of the labyrinth.

Relying on the Fiery Golden Eyes, this labyrinth could almost never stop her.

Only Typhon, who was outside, was dumbfounded; she looked at the minotaurs that had fallen in a patch inside the labyrinth and stomped her feet viciously.

"Cheating, he is cheating!!!"

"A real man should fight his way through fair and square, and then when he can't win, have a power-up, right?"

Typhon gritted her teeth; for some reason, she suddenly didn't want to give the Taurus to Su Nian and the others.

"And Kurma, what kind of monster did you create? How could such a problem occur?"

As she spoke, Typhon pointed her spear at Kurma, while Kurma just shrugged her shoulders casually and glanced at Typhon indifferently.

Then Typhon stopped talking; she silently faded away.

She appeared next to the Taurus.

(End of chapter)