Chapter 40: 41 Initial Clues

While chewing the still-twisting Puji, it easily dodged the mushroom cannon shots.

This dragon-man actually had a happy expression on its face?

Good fellow, you think my Puji are delicious, right?

Lin Jun simply stepped in to assist with aiming.

Prediction, blocking the path in advance, firepower coverage—

Very good... not a single hit...

This dragon-man's speed was the fastest he had ever seen.

It wasn't just fast in a straight line; it was fast at accelerating, fast at decelerating, and fast at turning.

This guy was fast in every aspect!

While being fast, its destructive power was quite terrifying to the mushroom.

It was definitely a super-model among super-models.

After trying to attack a few times, Lin Jun gave up—it was a waste of energy.

And other monsters were coming out of the rift; it was inevitable that this side would fall...

Just as Lin Jun thought this, the dragon-man rushed up in the blink of an eye and plucked the heads off two monsters.

After the monsters came out, they intended to eat the Puji in front of them.

Hmm?

Protecting food!?

Lin Jun didn't let the remaining Puji fight anymore, just gathered them all in front of the rift, ensuring that the monsters coming out would notice them first.

He intended to use the dragon-man's food protection, but the next monster that came out still surprised him a bit.

Just by extending a claw from the rift, a cold aura swept over.

A giant monster with bulging muscles all over and a large number of sharp external bones.

It squeezed out of the rift quite reluctantly.

[Race: Rat-kin - Frost Skeleton Giant Rat]

[Level: LV54]

Calling it a rat-kin, but with a huge body nearly seven meters tall, it was really hard to associate it with a mouse.

If one had to say, only the pointed head could show a bit of similarity.

Dragon-man and Giant Rat, both were powerful monsters over level fifty.

The monsters coming out of this rift seemed much stronger than the other side.

After the Giant Rat came out, it naturally noticed the Puji frozen half-stiff in front of it.

Its thick forelimbs extended, preparing to slap these little things to death casually.

Before the claws could fall, that black figure rushed straight over.

Compared to the Giant Rat, the dragon-man, who seemed very small, knocked the Giant Rat directly to the ground.

The dragon-man's sharp claws swept across, tearing the flesh on the Giant Rat's chest, causing it to wail incessantly in pain.

The Giant Rat roared, spraying a large amount of frost at the dragon-man in front of it.

The two monsters fought in front of the rift; although the dragon-man had the upper hand, the Giant Rat wasn't without the power to resist.

Subsequent monsters that drilled out were all affected without exception; they were either crushed to death or frozen to death.

And the Puji hid in the distance, preparing to become snacks for the winner.

Lin Jun even specially adjusted a dozen hallucinogenic Puji as extra food, which were rushing over.

He didn't know if he could reap the benefits as a fisherman.

In short, the trouble on this side of the rift was at least temporarily resolved.

But Lin Jun didn't feel much relief...

Following the two rifts, a third trouble appeared—monsters from the lower floors started rushing to the fifth floor.

Looking down from the edge of the stairs, monsters of different species were like insects, layered on top of each other, swarming up.

The originally spacious circular stairs were so crowded there was no extra space, and from time to time, a few were squeezed off.

There was almost no mutual attack between the monsters.

Lin Jun even saw a scene where natural enemies were going up side by side.

How come it feels like other monsters are members of the dungeon family, and he's the only outsider...

Not playing with me?

Then go die!

More than a hundred Puji stood along the edge of the corridor, pouring mushroom cannon shots from top to bottom.

Monsters with nowhere to hide took full damage, and those rushing at the front were even directly plastered to the wall.

Of course, there wouldn't be no counterattack, but due to the height difference, not many could hurt the Puji.

The spikes and water guns shot from below would take away one or two Puji from time to time.

But new Puji would immediately fill the vacancy, and it didn't have much impact.

Most of the ones coming now were monsters from the sixth floor, so the pressure wasn't great yet.

But later on, monsters from the lower floors, or even the deep zone, would probably appear.

And, such black rifts shouldn't be such a coincidence that they only appeared on the fifth floor, right...

——

In front of the Amethyst Dungeon gate.

Adventurers were shooting at the monsters rushing the roadblocks through the slits.

These monsters weren't high level.

It's just that a question lingered in everyone's mind.

In the monster team, besides the few common ones on the first and second floors, there seemed to be some they hadn't seen before?

Flying worms with terrifying mouthparts, one meter long.

Small dragon beasts with thick hind limbs that ran very fast.

Were these things in the Amethyst Dungeon before?

However, in the middle of the battle, no one brought this up to distract themselves.

Anyway, these new species weren't very strong and had no impact.

Adventurer's Guild, inside the branch president's office.

Oberon, who had been using the monitoring crystal to watch the situation at the gate, breathed a small sigh of relief.

Not directly connected to the lower areas of the Dragon Cliff Dungeon; it was truly a blessing in misfortune.

If this rhythm could be maintained...

In the crystal screen, the adventurers standing at the gate seemed to see something and became obviously panicked.

People fled to both sides one after another, and only one adventurer was still leaning against the slit and looking inside hard.

This scene also made Oberon nervous.

No way...

As if the more one feared something, the more it came.

The exit blocked by wooden boards and stones burst like a fragile eggshell in front of the giant body covered in scales.

A giant lizard two zhang high, swinging a long tail covered in bone spurs, rushed out from the sky full of debris.

That poor guy who didn't escape in time was directly pressed under the rolling rubble, life or death unknown.

Facing the mutation, the adventurers on the scene had their hair stand on end.

Marshall was worthy of being an old-school Gold-rank adventurer; he was the first to react, roaring to wake everyone up:

"What are you all stunned for? Attack!"

Saying this, he was the first to rush up.

Although the giant lizard had a huge body, its charge was also amazingly powerful.

Although the giant lizard was massive in size, its charge was also terrifyingly powerful.

Under the concentrated fire of the adventurers, it soon fell down.

However, the gate had been breached, and the monsters were no longer obstructed, rushing out one after another.

For a time, the scene fell into chaos.

——

The scimitar stabbed into the abdomen of a flying worm, slicing it open.

Vera hurriedly used a cloth to wipe the blood on the blade clean.

It wasn't because he cherished this ordinary scimitar, but because he discovered that the blood of these flying worms was corrosive.

If he let the blood stick to it, before today was over, this scimitar would turn into rotten iron.

"Feiling, Feiyin, don't leave my side."

After getting a positive response from behind, Vera looked around.

Although many monsters rushed out, the scene hadn't reached the point of being out of control.

Several mages joined forces to temporarily block the subsequent monsters with magic.

Although there were quite a few monsters that had already run out, their levels weren't very high.

Most of the people on the scene were experienced adventurers, including many Silver-rank ones like himself.

There were even more than ten Gold-rank adventurers with strength comparable to Marshall.

It should be cleared soon.

However, Vera was still very worried in his heart.

Wasn't it said that the intensity of the magic tide wasn't high in the first few days?

As a result, the gate was breached on the first day.

Looking at the two sisters behind him, Vera made up his mind.

If the situation was really bad, even if he faced the punishment of the guild canceling his adventurer status, he would take them and evacuate early.

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