Chapter 3434: Third Floor

They didn't stay on the first floor for long. After politely saying goodbye to this friendly god and returning to the platform between the first floor and the second floor, Xia De put forward his thoughts to Miss Novare:

"The dried corpse that took the key knew the third floor best, so I guess the key was highly likely obtained on the third floor. Since the key is on the third floor, maybe the elevator is also on the third floor. We can try to go to the third floor to find the elevator first. We harvested matches from the dried corpse just now, which is enough for us to consume."

And the vampire lady, who had just recovered a bit, asked in surprise:

"Why do you speak as if the one we met just now was not a god, but an ordinary innkeeper? That is... a god. Shouldn't we be feeling how powerful the god's power is now, then discuss the relationship between this inn and that god, represent mortals to thank this god for protecting the material world, and finally guess the whereabouts of the God-Chosen Ones who once managed this inn?"

It seemed that although she was afraid just now, her brain had been thinking.

Xia De pointed out:

"Didn't I say it? I have met many Old Gods and have had quite deep connections with several of them. This 【Lord of the Walls】 is a benevolent god and is willing to help us under certain conditions, isn't that very good? As for those things you mentioned, it's not too late to sigh about them when we have time.

Speaking of which, He also put forward opinions on our respective purposes. I see the god warning you not to be too greedy; the blood of evil things is not so easy to absorb."

The red-haired vampire lady was noncommittal about this, and then asked:

"I heard all the conversations between you and that god just now. It sounds like your situation is different from ours?"

Xia De then told the truth at this time:

"I come from other space-times, and this time I can only stay here for fifty minutes. I know the space-time here is chaotic, so this is my own subjective time. Let's act as quickly as possible. I am currently trapped in the 【House of Falsehoods】. If I go back empty-handed this time, I won't be able to come back next time."

"You can still come back?"

She was even more surprised:

"You come back to this kind of ghost place... I mean, what are you doing at this inn?"

"This matter is complicated to explain. In short, you believe that I am helping you."

Miss Novare trusted him enough at this time, so she went to the third floor with him:

"However, you are not the first time-traveler I have encountered here."

"Oh? Who else have you encountered?"

Xia De asked curiously. After Emilia became a time-chosen one, theoretically, she could also use time keys like Xia De to truly experience the stories of past times. But unlike Xia De, who was keen on adventure, Emilia was not interested in such things. Even if Xia De and Iluna were there during the experience at the Otherworld Academy, she fully realized how terrifying the authenticity of the time key was.

And the vampire lady said, of course, not the elf with pointed ears:

"That was before I met Miss Kearns and Ms. Gerd. I mistakenly entered this place on the 15th floor, and then I immediately encountered an accident in the corridor. It was that witch who called herself a time-traveler who saved me and shared a room with me.

But she left quickly, and she hoped that I could keep it secret and not tell others about her, unless it was another time-traveler. Unfortunately, that empty room did not have the protection of the Old God statue, so I encountered danger later, and was rescued by Kearns and the others."

When they arrived at the stairwell on the third floor, she finally finished recalling the past:

"That was a werewolf witch. I only thought werewolves were a branch of orcs before. I didn't expect to be saved by a werewolf one day. She said her surname was Beast. I remember that this surname itself means beast in ancient text, right?"

The image of the girl with wolf ears jumped into Xia De's mind. He had only seen her once in a dream not long ago, and didn't expect to hear news of her here again. When Xia De met her, it was in the Ash River Valley in the year 3733 of the Fifth Era, which was more than three thousand years later.

It was just a pity that the girl was no longer here.

"Sibel Beast, I also know her."

Xia De said, and the red-haired vampire lady showed a smile:

"I guessed it. The moonlight she used was also so pure. I just thought there would be a relationship between you... what kind of time-traveler organization do you belong to?"

"No, no, there is no such thing. Actually, I haven't seen her for a long time."

"She told me that she was following the moon on a pilgrimage, just running too fast and mistakenly entering time after time. She came here because there was an ancient evil thing-Moon Beast that had once come into contact with the primitive moon here. When I met her, she had already achieved her purpose."

After finishing, she paused:

"I don't know how she dealt with that Moon Beast, but she said that the Moon Beast was in Room 2530 on the 25th floor. I don't suggest you go there to look for traces of past friends. After all, the 25th floor is really too high."

While talking, the two had already arrived at the third floor of the inn. The spatial anomaly characteristic of course also took effect in the stairwell, but the stairwell was forcibly given a certain order, otherwise they would not be able to determine which floor they had arrived at.

The temperature of the corridor on the third floor was even lower than that of the tenth floor corridor, and the two took a step away from the direction of the stairs, and the golden light emitted by the key in Xia De's hand immediately emitted a faint golden light. And the golden light spots drifted toward the right hand side.

"It seems it is indeed the third floor."

Xia De returned the lantern to Miss Novare, and the range that the lamp fire in the vampire girl's hand could illuminate was slightly larger than on the tenth floor, but it was also quite limited.

They walked toward the right side, and when the stairwell could no longer be seen, Miss Novare, who had a very sensitive sense of smell, suddenly asked:

"Did you smell anything?"

Xia De also frowned and sniffed, and then distinguished a kind of... strange floral scent.

The expressions of the two suddenly became ugly. The normal smell of the corridor was the smell of decay. Having other smells meant that there were other things in the darkness of this corridor. And that thing approached only after they moved away from the stairwell, which meant that the other party was definitely coming for them.

So Xia De couldn't care about saving matches, ignited the candle, and stood back-to-back with her, each facing one direction.

He held the candle in his left hand to illuminate as large a range as possible, of course, also to guard against attacks from the ceiling. The 【Dawn of Daybreak】 in his right hand could bring Xia De a sense of security. Although the danger level of this relic long sword was not as good as 【Night Watcher】, it was very coincidental that this sword also had a function similar to 【Night Watcher】—sensing evil.

Suddenly, the dim dawn luster on the surface of the long sword bloomed for a second. Xia De, who was well-prepared, swung the long sword forward, and the double-colored sword mark of holy moonlight and golden dawn whipped toward the darkness with a swish~ sound.

A sharp cry sounded the next moment. Miss Novare, who understood that the enemy was in Xia De's direction, also hurriedly turned around, and then together with Xia De, saw a very beautiful face flash into the darkness at the edge of the area illuminated by the two lamps.

There were traces of being whipped on the left side of that face, but this was enough to show the other party's power. That was a spell cast by "Moonlight Greatsword" through "Steel Snake," and even the hardest special steel in the Sixth Era could be easily split, but the other party was only red and swollen on the face.

And Miss Novare recognized what it was from the horns on the other party's head and the smell, which could be considered "famous" for the Outsider.

"Succubus!"

The vampire girl said quite certainly:

"I dealt with this kind of thing for a while half a century ago, it's definitely correct."

The two faced the darkness where the succubus disappeared. Xia De was quite puzzled:

"Why can't we see through this darkness, but these monsters can see through it without a lamp?"

The vampire girl explained in a low voice:

"I know this. Ms. Gerd warned us that if we can see through the darkness, it means we have adapted to the environment here, but it also means we are becoming a part of this inn. By then, we really can't leave."

She said, and released a large group of bats toward the front to test. Those bats flew out from under her skirt.

"Found it!"

She said softly and snapped her fingers, and then groups of blood light exploded in the darkness. The succubus chased by the self-exploding bats rushed toward the two again, and the target seemed to be Xia De, who was a male.

Xia De then raised his long sword with a serious expression, and then slashed with a fierce roundhouse, cutting off a pale right hand that had already reached their heads from behind.

The hand was a human hand, but the arm was extremely long, stretching from the depths of the darkness behind.

At the moment the long sword hit the pale right hand, the succubus that ran out from the darkness disappeared like a bubble. 【Dawn of Daybreak】 intersected with the wrist, colliding with the sound of metal clashing.

But that pale right hand was still slashed with a huge gap by Xia De, so the bare wrist retreated toward the darkness quickly.

At this moment, Xia De and Miss Novare made exactly the same action, clenching their fists and crossing their arms in front of their chests:

"Moonlight Slash!"

The blood-red and silver moonlight great cross slashed toward that arm at the same time. The two moonlights crossed the stairwell and hit that arm on the side of the Room 0397 door, successfully cutting that right hand from the wrist.

But they ultimately didn't see what the other party's main body was, because that slender right hand was actually stretched out from the door gap of Room 0397. At the same time the pale right hand fell to the ground, the bare wrist disappeared into the darkness inside the door.

But that door did not close because of this, still maintaining the amplitude of opening a gap. Anyone could push it open completely or close it as long as they reached out. ===== CHAPTER 3435 =====