Chapter 138

Huff—puff—

Another magical bombardment exploded beside him, and the splashed mud hit his face.

The four-meter-tall Minotaur clutched his abdomen, which was a bloody mess after taking a few hits earlier. He knew he could no longer rely on his strong physique to tank attacks as he usually did.

Charging in mindlessly would only result in being blown to pieces, just like that giant spider nearby.

In fact, anywhere else, a one-on-one encounter between him and that giant spider would surely be a fight to the death.

But today, facing those Puji that had suddenly attacked and launched indiscriminate strikes, the two mortal enemy races had to temporarily join forces against the common foe.

Even now, he still needed to borrow the residual power of this giant spider.

More accurately, he needed to borrow the latter half of the giant spider's massive torso—its fat, thick rump.

The Minotaur turned and swung his giant axe, severing the rump of the dead giant spider. He grabbed the thick part with one hand and held it in front of him as a shield.

Pfft! Pfft!

Two more mushroom cannons fired, exploding against the spider's rump and spraying pale green body fluids, while the Minotaur behind it remained unharmed.

It works!

The Minotaur let out a low roar and, using the giant spider's rump as a meat shield, charged at the Puji.

There were far more than just the Minotaur attacking the Puji.

Mud monsters, crystal-shelled cluster beasts, magic-toothed wild boars, and the most numerous shadow bats... they all rushed toward the Puji from every corner of the cave.

This was a super-large cave with freshwater resources that were extremely rare in the deep layers, thus attracting many different types of monsters to inhabit the vicinity.

Any monster with basic survival intelligence would avoid fighting near water sources to prevent damaging this precious resource. But those mushrooms clearly lacked such intelligence.

They were conducting indiscriminate area-of-effect attacks, slaughtering every living thing in sight.

In the initial attack, they even blasted several poison lizards drinking by the lake into fragments, causing highly toxic body fluids to seep into the lake water and pollute the source.

This behavior undoubtedly stirred the hostility of all the monsters in the cave, temporarily uniting them under the goal of resisting a common threat.

Moo—!

Relying on the giant spider's rump and the other monsters to divert fire, the Minotaur charged into the midst of the Puji.

Tossing aside the spider rump that had been blown to almost nothing, the Minotaur swung his giant axe in a massive windmill motion!

The Puji's fragile bodies offered no resistance to the axe, even giving the Minotaur the illusion that he was swinging at empty air.

But in reality, this single strike had wiped out eight Puji.

The Minotaur swung his heavy giant axe again and again, creating afterimages.

In the end, they were just weaklings; once he got close, they were simply no match for him!

Immersed in the slaughter, the Minotaur didn't notice several red blood threads weaving rapidly through the Puji ranks.

By the time he smelled the pungent scent of blood, it was already too late.

His thick fur and tough muscles couldn't block these blood threads at all; in just an instant, several bloody holes were pierced through the Minotaur's body, and he was severely wounded.

The Minotaur knelt halfway in the Puji ranks, and a Puji aimed its mushroom cannon at him.

A pale yet powerful hand pressed down on the Puji's mushroom cap, gently turning it in another direction.

Louisa walked forward slowly, and the Puji voluntarily cleared a path.

At this moment, her face was full and her posture elegant; there was no trace of the disheveled look she had when she first came down a few days ago.

Clearly, for her, the food here was much better.

Louisa herself was two meters tall, and the Minotaur in front of her, even while kneeling, was a head taller than her.

However, she didn't take the Minotaur before her seriously at all.

The vampire directly inserted her fingers into the Minotaur's pierced arm, and accompanied by the Minotaur's muffled groan, she hooked out a stream of fresh blood and held it in her mouth. Her other hand supported her chin, and a satisfied expression appeared on her face.

Although it wasn't human, and although it carried a hint of bovine musk, it was at least the fresh blood of a humanoid intelligent creature, and it was so vivid, the vitality within the blood was so vigorous!

She was almost intoxicated by it.

While Louisa closed her eyes to savor the taste, the severely wounded Minotaur actually relied on a burst of willpower to stand up again.

His right hand, still dripping with fresh blood, raised the giant axe high and slashed fiercely at the woman who hadn't taken him seriously!

However, a palm steadily caught the axe handle, and no matter how hard the Minotaur pushed, he couldn't force it down even a fraction.

Only then did Louisa leisurely open her eyes again.

Although she wasn't a race specialized in strength like the Minotaur, the chasm in levels still gave Louisa higher strength attributes than this Minotaur, not to mention that the Minotaur was currently injured.

Looking at the Minotaur before her who still refused to give up and wanted to smash her with his fist.

Louisa gently flicked her fingers, and the blood from the Minotaur's wounds surged out, gathering in her hand.

Before long, the Minotaur was about to be drained dry.

"Cough!"

A cough suddenly came from the fungal network.

Louisa's hand shook instantly, and she almost scattered the blood orb in her hand.

The deliciousness of the blood had actually made her almost forget the task assigned by that terrifying existence!

She hurriedly stopped the action of extracting the Minotaur's blood, even controlling it to feed some back in.

The Boss's requirement—humanoid creatures, capture only, do not kill!

Thank goodness, the Minotaur still had a breath left; she didn't want to experience the ordeal of having mushrooms suddenly grow on her body again.

She watched with some reluctance as several Puji dragged away the unconscious Minotaur—the last bit of blood before a life dies is the most essential part.

Unfortunately, with the KPI set by the Boss looming, her little life was far more important than a bit of gluttony.

Work, work...

She casually hooked out some blood from dead monsters, condensed it into blood threads, and shot them at the shadow bats flying in the sky, knocking down the dozen or so that were closest.

Looking at the countless monsters in front of her, Louisa didn't intend to do everything herself.

With a thought, the elite Puji surrounded her and launched fierce attacks on the monsters.

And she was only responsible for dealing with the stragglers who managed to pass through the firepower net.

In this Puji expeditionary force, this elite Puji squad was the only one she could command directly, specifically responsible for assisting her in dealing with some higher-level monsters.

As for ordinary monsters, they were handled by countless ordinary Puji.

Just like now, after discovering that the real trouble in this cave was the group of shadow bats flying around in the air, the Puji soon dispatched their own bats!

The difficulty of the shadow bats lay in their elusive sneak attacks, while the speed of the bat Puji was not worth mentioning compared to the shadow bats.

But the bat Puji would explode the moment they were touched!

For a time, fireworks bloomed above the cave, and shattered fungal threads and the broken corpses of shadow bats fell together.

The situation in this cave was also settled.

Louisa drank the remaining Minotaur blood in her hand, her eyes becoming hazy again; she now only hoped to stay below forever and never return to that fifth layer filled with painful memories!