novelonline Chapter 680 Slime in the Bottomless Maze
Chapter 680 Slime in the Bottomless Maze
Chapter 680 Slime in the Bottomless Maze
"Finally...finally stopped?"
Darkness wiped the sweat from her forehead.
The stone statue was very powerful, and it was holding Aqua in its hand, so they were restricted and couldn't attack as much as they wanted. If it weren't for Miss Liu Zi who saved the day at the last minute, they might have wasted even more time.
"Woooooooo..."
Aqua slowly got up from the ground and cried aggrievedly: "I'm the only one injured again... I've had enough, I want to go back."
No, no, no, it's purely her own fault.
Xiaolin scratched his head and said unconfidently, "I feel like this statue is different from ordinary statues and is extremely powerful. Is it a special statue prepared by Raph? It's really annoying to think that the maze is full of these things... huh?"
"What's the matter, Xiaolin?"
"No, the crack in the statue... ah, seems to have opened up. Hey."
Under the strange gazes of Darkness and the others, Kobayashi pried open the panel on the back of the statue and took out a very familiar prop.
"what is this?"
"If it doesn't look very similar, then it's something else... I think this is the magic sword Gram that Mitsurugi Hibiki kept with Uncle Lundberg, right?"
Xiaolin flipped through it uncertainly.
To be honest, he didn't know whether it was true or not. After all, the Demon Sword Gram could only be used by its owner, and Xiaolin could not bring out its original power.
Aqua also came over.
"Come to think of it, Sena said it wasn't inside Lundberg's mansion either."
She took the magic sword and examined it carefully.
After all, she is the goddess who gave the magic sword to Mitsurugi Hibiki, so Aqua should know whether it is real or fake.
Huihui was slightly stunned, and then she said as if she had thought of something, "Could it be that... before Uncle Lundberg was arrested by Sena, Raf had already stolen the magic sword Gram and hidden it away?"
"That's probably right."
Xiaolin twitched the corner of his mouth.
It feels like I've been completely taken advantage of. It's really infuriating.
"Aqua, is this true?"
"It's the real magic sword, for sure. Compared to this, my ribbon is also in the hands of that researcher, right?"
"The magic sword that was deposited with us is probably here."
Youyou continued.
Aqua clenched her fist and said unhappily, "You stole my ribbon and hid it in such a strange place without my permission. It's really infuriating! Let's go, Xiaolin! Let's give him a divine fist right now and let him know the anger of the goddess!"
After saying that, she walked angrily towards the depths of the bottomless maze.
Besides being angry, she was probably anxious to get her ribbon back, but she was really too reckless.
Darkness shouted anxiously, “Wait, wait a minute, Aqua! It’s dangerous to go forward alone!”
"Xiaolin, Aqua left first."
“Wait a moment, I’ll retrieve the magic sword now… Hmm, it’s a bit heavy. Okay, let’s take the magic sword and go after Aqua.”
They ran towards the depths of the maze with big strides.
I didn't encounter any stone statues along the way. No, I should say I didn't encounter any other monsters either. It seemed that they had been cleared out in advance.
It must have been Raff who did it.
That's good, it saves them from wasting effort.
I don’t know how many floors I went down, but I arrived at a very spacious floor that had been specially renovated.
There, there was a sloppy man in a white coat standing with his back to them. He seemed to be doing some experiment and looked very focused.
Xiaolin greeted him.
"Hey, we meet again."
"I'm telling you! Where did you put my ribbon? Give it back to me now, right now!"
Aqua yelled as soon as they met.
"...Hmm?" He seemed to have just realized something, turned around slowly, and said in surprise: "Oh, hello, hello, isn't this Mr. Kobayashi? What are you doing here?"
It seemed that they did not notice their invasion.
By the way, as a scientific researcher, shouldn't you have set up multiple traps on the road to prevent others from disturbing your experiment? How could they have been allowed in so easily?
Aqua cursed.
"What are you doing? We thought we had defeated the magical creature Valavi, but the super-small creatures kept showing up, causing us a lot of trouble! You were there when we came to investigate, so you can't be related, right?"
“Ah…ah, I see.”
Rafe seemed to understand. He suddenly said, "The one outside has been discovered by you, Mr. Kobayashi. It's really unexpected."
Is this guy serious?
There's no way you don't know about this kind of thing, right?
Darkness also took out his weapon and said, "There's no point in playing dumb. Raph, you better tell me what you're up to."
"Thanks to everyone, I discovered Valavi's weaknesses and new possibilities. Thank you very much." Raf bowed slightly to everyone, looking very grateful.
"Why did Walavi, who should have been defeated, come back to life even though he became smaller? Please explain it briefly."
"Ah, in that battle, Kobayashi-san, you guys performed really well. You saw through the fact that Valavi's body was weak to cold air and froze him with magic! That was amazing. If that was the case, Valavi would have been literally shattered, but... that happened to appear right before my eyes."
"That, what is that?"
Aqua asked anxiously.
Kobayashi also frowned subconsciously, not knowing what kind of strange thing it would be.
Raph couldn't help but chuckle.
"The core of Valavi. As if to avoid the cold air, the core moved and appeared before my eyes."
core.
Xiao Lin was slightly stunned.
Slimes are creatures that have cores. Unless their cores are destroyed, they cannot be completely destroyed. Hans, a cadre of the Demon King's Army, was completely purified after Aqua purified his core.
I thought Valavi was frozen and even its core was destroyed, but I didn't expect...
"Mr. Kobayashi's excellent wit made me ready for the destruction of Walavi, but the unexpected good luck made me ecstatic. This is undoubtedly the arrangement of fate!"
Rafe laughed loudly, feeling very proud and arrogant.
"After retrieving the core, I decided to feed it here while waiting for it to grow again."
"I thought I had defeated it at that time, but I didn't expect that I couldn't give it a fatal blow..."
Kobayashi covered his forehead in pain.
Yunyun asked in surprise, "But isn't this very strange? Even if the core is safe, it will take a lot of magic power to grow again. And it's only been a few days since the crusade, and a large number of super-small Walavi have been witnessed. This is too strange."
Indeed, the rate of proliferation is incredibly fast.
You know, it took them several days to eradicate those Walavi, but the more they eradicated them, the more they appeared, and the speed was unnaturally fast.
Raph chuckled.
"That's because I've absorbed magic power from many monsters in the past few days. The monsters in this area are very powerful. Not only can they recover, but they can also grow rapidly. After growing up, Walavi's efficiency in absorbing magic power is getting higher and higher."
"So, he used the monster's magic to restore his strength, and is now using his clone to continue growing?"
I see. Is that so?
The bottomless maze is famous for having no end in sight, which means there are many monsters here, and those monsters are the nutrients of Walavi.
No wonder there were no monsters blocking their way when they came down.
In this case, the reason for the sudden increase in sightings of the ultra-small Walavi in recent days can be explained.
"But unfortunately, because of the release of a large number of super small Walavi, the guild has become alert and has begun to send a large number of adventurers to fight against them. Everyone knows that Walavi is weak to ice magic. Soon, all the super small Walavi will be repelled, and your conspiracy will end here!"
Megumin shouted triumphantly.
Raph suddenly lost his balance, his eyes widened in disbelief, and he muttered, "Wha, what, is the situation on the ground like this? This is terrible... I didn't want to do anything that would cause too much commotion, but I can only try my best to get the real body."
"Original body?"
Xiao Lin was slightly stunned and asked, "By the way, where is the big one now? We haven't seen it anywhere in the maze, right?"
He asked his companions and saw confusion in their eyes.
Raph said kindly, "Ah, ah, the main body can't enter the maze, so wait outside where you can't be found."
"…Hey, wait, what did you just say?"
"It's waiting outside. However, it won't obey orders from humans. We are just guiding its actions."
Is it true that he can't control Walavi either?
Xiaolin felt something was wrong.
If Raf had secretly kept the information to control Valavi, he should have had more sophisticated control in the previous battle, but he just let Valavi jump out and make a big fuss, and then escaped using teleportation when he saw that the situation was not good.
at this time--
"Wow, w-what happened?!"
Suddenly, the entire bottomless maze began to shake, the floors vibrated, and rocks and dust fell down.
Xiaolin and the others staggered and supported each other.
Darkness looked up at the floor and asked in confusion, “Is it an earthquake? But we are so deep down, and we can still feel the tremors so clearly. The shaking is more intense than we imagined…”
"No no no no……"
Raph quickly explained, "It's probably just moving. If the clones start to be destroyed, I think the main body will react. Do you want to take a look? You can see outside with the magic props for surveillance."
He kindly motioned for everyone to come over here.
This is a huge virtual screen that shows the situation outside.
And in the picture...
"You must be kidding. Is this really Walavi?"
"I can't believe it. It looks bigger than before."
"Things are not good..."
Just as Aqua, Huihui and Darkness said, the Walavi in the picture is huge, like a behemoth covering the sky. The picture is pulled very high, but with Axel under it for comparison, you can see how big this guy is.
Things are indeed not good.
Raph, however, shouted crazily, "Haha! That's great, so energetic! Now I can create many clones, I can't help it, it's so cute!"
We didn't ask you what you thought about the perverted benchmark.
Youyou said with some worry: "Could it be that the rumbling just now was not an earthquake, but the influence of the movement of Walavi... If so, there would be such a strong vibration from such a distance, then Axel...!?"
His words caused everyone to fall into silence.
Soon, Aqua shouted anxiously: "Hey, Xiaolin! What should we do? I don't think we can defeat that thing?!"
"Don't ask me. Although we were asked to investigate, I didn't hear that we had to find a way to solve the problem."
Xiaolin twitched the corner of his mouth.
Without his own strength restored, he really didn't know what to do with that huge monster. To be honest, it was more than twice as big as the white whale he had seen!
"No choice, let's go back to Sena first and discuss the next steps..."
Xiao Lin suddenly saw someone trying to sneak out through the side door.
"Wait, where are you going, Raph!"
“Ah, me? No, I have something else to do, so I should leave now…”
Raph continued to back away.
Aqua yelled, "Don't run away! Anyway, didn't I tell you to give me my ribbon back?!"
"ribbon……?"
Rafe was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, "Ah, yes! Come to think of it, I did borrow it! Here, I'm returning it to you, please accept it."
After saying that, he clapped his hands.
With a loud bang, a blue stone statue jumped out from the ceiling and stood between them.
"Hey, hey, hey, isn't this the same stone statue as the one that appeared back then with the Devil Sword Gram?"
"Well, then, I'm sorry, I'll be rude first."
As Raph spoke, he took out a magic item and said to everyone, "If we defeat the guards, we can retrieve the ribbon. I thought I could use it for negotiations, so I hid it on purpose, but it's no longer necessary now. So, everyone, please do your best and go ahead!"
Before he could finish his words, he disappeared.
"Hey, wait!"
Xiaolin looked at the empty room.
"Tsk, he just ran away as he pleased. It's like this again. Damn it!"
Just now, a lot of messy things happened one after another, making him forget to let Liu Zi catch that guy. How come he ran away faster than Liu Zi?
"what is the relationship."
Aqua came up and shouted, "Don't worry about that guy. Instead, Xiaolin, knock down this statue! My ribbon is hidden in it, give it back to me quickly!"
The stupid goddess screamed.
Darkness also said, "Xiaolin, let's focus on the present. We still have to go back and deal with that huge Walavi quickly."
"Tsk, there's nothing I can do about it. I get it."
The silk thread in Kobayashi's hand started moving instantly.
"Come on, let's just get this over with and go back to save Axel!"
(End of this chapter)