Chapter 190: Clearing the Mine Tunnel, Evil Blood Pool
The holder of the Magic Staff can earn different amounts of Slaughter Points by slaying monsters of various tiers.
In this way, the efficiency of accumulating Slaughter Points can be significantly improved.
Right now, during the Burrow Challenge period, everything is in short supply outside the Territory, except for monsters.
As long as manpower can be organized to cooperate with Favide using the Slaughter Staff to hunt monsters, I believe it won't take long to have a summoned army at our disposal!
Although those summoned creatures cannot level up, they are nonetheless a formidable force for the current stage of the Territory.
This staff certainly has some features that greatly please Zong Shen, but unfortunately, he does not have the Mage Talent to wield this staff effectively.
If only he could obtain a Slaughter Charged War Sword or War Blade.
Zong Shen thought to himself as he handed the staff back to Favide.
If this weapon is used well, it would be no less than gaining a squad of soldiers for free.
"Work hard, Favide!"
"Don't let me down."
Zong Shen patted his shoulder, offering some encouragement.
Favide held the staff with both hands, single knee on the ground with devout expression.
"My lord, Favide will dedicate his life to you!"
As the saying goes, talented horses are common, but Bo Le is rare. Being given valuable equipment and entrusted with important tasks is a form of trust.
To have the proud Mage comply willingly demonstrates Zong Shen's absolute authority in Favide's eyes.
At this moment, Favide feels very grateful to him. For these warriors, their lifelong mission and pursuit is to gain honor and respect.
Following Zong Shen in constant adventure and battle, Favide sees hope for the future.
They will eventually rise, starting from the ancient ruins of Azshara!
The equipment around has almost all been collected, totaling 6 pieces of blue-grade equipment, 13 green-grade equipment, and 21 white-grade equipment.
Most of these are the light armor and longswords from the Spider Web Monster Warriors, many of which have severe damage and low Durability, requiring Forging and Repair.
There are still one or two hundred Spider Web Monster corpses to disassemble. Their Blade Legs and durable shells are excellent materials for forging.
The Spider Web Monsters also contain Poison Sacs, which are good Special Materials for making Poisoned Arrows and weapons, but the Spider Web Monster meat is of no use to Zong Shen.
Of course, if other Lords do not mind, the poison sacs can be removed, and the meat dried into jerky.
As for Zong, with his backing from Sitanos Village and holding six or seven ten thousand Mainland Continent Universal Dinars, he can purchase plenty of food and supplies, making it unnecessary for warriors and subjects to eat such things.
Given the urgency of time, the disassembly of these Spider Web Monster corpses can only be considered after the complete destruction of the Spider Web Monster Lord. Otherwise, if delayed too long and the Spider Web Monster Lord completes its Magical Transformation, launching a head-on strategy to conquer the mine will be very difficult.
It's time to act; take advantage of the momentum when opportunity arises!
Under the miraculous effects of the Moon God Spring, all soldiers' Life Values have been restored.
However, everyone's Weapon Equipment is heavily worn out, especially the Wolf Cavalry. Their sabres have begun to chip, and even some blades are slightly deformed.
Combat Equipment wear is a significant issue. The more frequent and intense the battles, the greater the Weapon Equipment wear, which is a crucial factor that can affect combat effectiveness.
Pierce's Tearer Mecha just withstood a Chaos Undead Arrow in the recent fight, leaving a large hole on the Mecha's surface. Its Durability Value decreased significantly, and even the hard-to-repair Durability dropped by 20 points. These are problems that need to be considered.
Zong Shen reorganized the team and destroyed all the remaining Spider Eggs in the open space. The mucus flowed out, trickling toward the low-lying areas of the Mining Hall.
They maintained their original formation and continued to advance toward the tunnel ahead.
This tunnel leads directly to the miners' quarters in the Mining Area, reaching deep inside the Spider Web Monster Nest.
The interior is narrower than the right-side path they took earlier.
The four Dragonized Spear and Shield Warriors can block the passage side by side.
The tunnel has various debris and corpses, along with many eggshells and severed Blade Legs from the fallen Spider Web Monsters.
"Boom!"
Just as the group proceeded along the tunnel for several minutes, nearing the exit, a loud crash came from the tunnel ahead, causing the whole tunnel to tremble slightly.
The rock wall at the tunnel exit not far away began to crack, with large chunks of stone falling and quickly accumulating at the tunnel entrance, as dust blew across to the other end of the tunnel.
The group watched helplessly as the tunnel exit was blocked by rubble, unable to do anything.
Originally, they just needed to pass through this tunnel to reach the deepest part of the Spider Web Monster Nest.
"They are trying to buy time!"
"This indicates that the Spider Web Monster Lord's Magical Transformation is indeed at a critical stage."
Zong Shen quickly walked forward to the pile of debris at the cavern's entrance.
The explosive power just now was not small, as the area three to four meters inward from the entrance is entirely filled with fallen rocks.
Clearing this four-to-five-meter section of the tunnel won't be easy.
Fortunately, Zong Shen still had quite a few [Mining Goblin Detonators] on hand, these things were good for mining, with moderate power and a rock-breaking effect, capable of destroying rocks and altering the terrain.
"Everyone fall back, Favide stay here and help me."
"I want to blast open this tunnel!"
Zong Shen took out three goblin detonators, these things were like large, oversized firecrackers.
Each detonator had a very long fuse that needed to be lit to ignite.
It could also be broken based on actual use to control the detonation time.
He stuffed one of the detonators into the cracks of the rubble.
Leaving only half a meter of the fuse exposed, then he pulled Favide back to twenty meters away, having him aim at the detonator and chant a fireball spell.
A perfectly good fire mage was forcibly turned into a human remote lighter by Zong Shen.
Favide raised his magic staff without hesitation and began to chant.
A fireball quickly formed, shot out, and accurately struck the rubble wedged with the detonator, emitting a large spray of sparks that ignited the fuse on the detonator.
The half-meter fuse quickly burned out, and Zong Shen pulled Favide tight against a recess in the tunnel to avoid the upcoming explosion.
"Boom!"
With an explosion, the airflow once again swept dust through the entire tunnel and vented out.
Zong Shen, who was close to the rock wall, could feel the tunnel wall slightly trembling.
Once the dust settled, Zong Shen walked over.
The place exploded into about half a meter of rubble, truly living up to the power of mining detonators, performing even better than Zong Shen expected.
At this rate, about seven or eight detonators would be enough to clear the tunnel.
The Spider Web Monsters theoretically had no means to destroy the tunnel.
Even the strong Spider Web Monster Queen, singing Chaos Undead Arrow at the rock wall, could only knock down a piece or so.
Because the tunnel walls were reinforced with rune magic, only items like bombs or detonators with an accompanying explosive and rock-breaking effect could achieve significant breaking results.
These Spider Web Monsters had long inhabited the mines, perhaps they also obtained a batch of mining bombs or detonators, who knows.
Zong Shen inserted another detonator and began to copy the explosion operation gourd-based.
Over ten minutes later, the blockage area of the tunnel was down to the last half meter, only one last explosion was needed to clear it.
The main force began to regroup, and Zong Shen inserted the final detonator, instructing Favide to ignite it with a fireball!
After a loud noise, rubble flew everywhere, and a thick layer of shattered rock was laid near the tunnel exit.
This time, nothing else happened, it seemed their explosive means were limited, no wonder the explosion power just now was so enormous.
Nine times out of ten, these Spider Web Monsters found ancient explosive tools.
The gun and shield warriors held their shields and charged forward, with the main force following closely behind, swiftly exiting the tunnel.
Fearing any more surprises, if another explosive went off at the mine's entrance now, the falling rubble would surely give Zong Shen and his men some trouble.
Successfully, everyone exited the tunnel and found themselves facing a large mining hall, the rock ceiling was hemispherical, like a massive rock dome.
This was a circular mining hall, with a ring of stone houses forcibly carved out along the rock wall, the entire hall was spacious with no obstructions, except for two diverging paths, there were no tunnels for further advancement, this was clearly the end of the line in this direction.
In the center of the mining hall was a square pool about a hundred meters on each side, conspicuously visible in the hall.
Also forcibly carved out from the rock floor.
At this time, the small pool was filled with scarlet liquid.
In the corner of the mining hall were piled the decapitated, blood-drained corpses of kobolds.
Besides those, there were also many human and various common wild beasts' bodies from pastures.
Without exception, all were decapitated and drained of blood.
This pool turned out to be a veritable evil blood pool!
The entire mining hall was densely packed with Spider Web Monsters, forming a thick defensive circle centered around the blood pool.
In the center of that pool stood an over five-meter-tall giant Spider Web Monster, its body covered with golden lines, wearing dark golden armor, the upper body also humanoid, looking particularly strong, a black long spear was plunged into the pool next to it.
This guy was the ruler of this Spider Web Monster race, the Spider Web Monster Lord!
It stood in the blood pool, a mass of black light throbbing at its heart.
The entire blood pool was steaming with black mist.
Wisps of black mist swirled around it; with each heartbeat, a massive amount of black mist was absorbed, while the rest dispersed, being absorbed by other Spider Web Monsters.
All Spider Web Monsters that absorbed black mist underwent terrifying transformations.
This evil blood pool was the fundamental reason causing the Spider Web Monsters to become demonized!
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