Chapter 16
1st Floor
Boom!
After exerting tremendous effort, Roger finally caught up with and defeated the Box Dog.
[You have defeated the Box Dog-Wood and gained battle experience. Your character level has increased.]
[Your current character level is 4, with 2 available attribute points.]
After killing the Box Dog, Roger finally let out a sigh of relief.
I must say, he never expected that the game “Mysterious Sea” would have such a fantastic crossover with certain old thief games, resulting in such a flashy operation.
It truly made him feel disgusted.
Old thief, I hopeyour toilet is the same.
Roger cursed in his heart and then began to check what the Box Dog had dropped.
Although the Box Dog is a monster, it also serves as a treasure chest that actually contains items in its belly.
[You found Tattered Armor x1.]
[You found Leather Shoes x1.]
[You found Ancient Bronze Coins x8.]
Roger couldn’t help but facepalm when he saw them. Why does this treasure chest only give useless items?
Upon closer inspection, he realized that the Tattered Armor and Leather Shoes were equipment, but their attributes were even lower than the clothes he was already wearing.
He identified them as pure trash.
Only the Ancient Bronze Coins might be worth some money, after all, they are coins.
Roger felt very frustrated.
Finally, he had opened a treasure chest, but it turned out to be filled with a bunch of junk. This was truly disappointing.
Next, he turned his attention to the fork in front of him.
There were virtual doors resembling rippling water in the left and right passages, seemingly teleportation gates.
Roger controlled his game character to touch the door of the passage, and ripples appeared on the surface upon contact.
After some thought, Roger decided to go right with his main body and left with his clone.
After splitting up, Roger entered the passage.
Upon crossing the passage, a vast square indoor pool with no end in sight came into view, with torches hanging on the walls and deep-looking water.
However, the large rat remained on land.
“One side is land, the other side is water…”
Roger pondered for a moment, took out a fish from his inventory, and controlled it to put it into the pool.
Meanwhile, the clone continued to explore.
To Roger’s shock, as soon as he put the fish into the pool, a blurry shadow flashed on the split screen and instantly killed the clone.
There was a fast monster in the water!
Roger frowned.
Fortunately, he had used the clone to explore cautiously first; otherwise, things could have easily gone wrong.
After giving it some thought, Roger controlled his character to retreat and walked toward the other passage.
His current ability to fight underwater was not good, so diving in recklessly would be risky.
Tomorrow, he would find a shark or something similar to control as a clone and then explore the water passage.
For now, he would explore the left side.
“Squeak squeak!”
During the exploration of the rat clone, dozens of Cave Meat-Eating Rats suddenly caught the scent of their kind and emerged, surrounding the clone and sniffing it.
Whether it was because the rat clone had crossed their territory or for some other reason, they started emitting low threatening sounds, seemingly wanting to drive away the rat clone.
Splat!
Dreadful Fiend’s claws were extremely sharp, almost taking out one rat per swipe. In just a short while, Roger sent several Cave Carnivorous Rats to the afterlife.
After collecting the meager spoils of war, Roger looked at the cracked stone wall ahead.
What could be behind it?
Roger felt a sense of anticipation.
After storing the spoils of war, he moved forward, pushed his hand, and the stone wall collapsed with a loud crash.
Amidst the dust, the blood-red and dusk scenery entered Roger’s eyes.
A huge circular village, with a twilight sky as bloodstained as the dusk, filled with ashes and smoke in the air. The raging and violent wind carries the scent of decay and ruin, wreaking havoc on the entire area.
【Gentle Breeze Cave, 1st Floor】
At this moment, the game provides information that means Roger has truly arrived at the first floor of the Gentle Breeze Cave.
“This…”
Roger’s pupils contracted, shocked beyond belief.
This isn’t a cave at all, it’s clearly another world.
And… this wind is almost tearing my face apart, why is it still called the Gentle Breeze Cave?
Roger couldn’t help but complain.
Complaints aside, the exploration must continue, and he doesn’t know what treasures this area holds.
Roger tore up his previous tattered armor and quickly tied it around his face to reduce the dust in the air.
Then, he stepped into this circular area.
The soil is very hard, as if it has been trampled by countless heavy iron hooves, thick and heavy, with muddy bloodstains on top.
After only a few steps, Roger encountered a special situation.
Clatter clatter…
A dark creature resembling a centipede slid into a pile of bones.
Then, the pile of bones on the ground began to automatically gather, even in the face of the raging wind and the inability to stop them from rising from the soil.
In the gaps between the bones, it is not difficult to see mysterious purple-black energy flowing.
Of course, Roger wouldn’t wait for it to transform completely. He swung his Dreadful Fiend claw and struck.
With a swipe, many bones were knocked off, but it did not interrupt the consolidation process of these things.
At this point, the pile of bones had gradually condensed into a monster shape as tall as a person.
Hiss!
Purple-black light flowed in its eyes as the pile of bones emitted a low growl.
【Skeletal Serpent】
【Type: Monster】
【Quality: Elite】
【Level: 3】
【Rank: Transcendent】
【Description: A Transcendent creature that often appears in large graveyards, with a strong preference for the spines of humanoid creatures.】
An elite monster!
“Boom!”
Smoke rose as a bullet hit the head of the Skeletal Serpent, smashing some bones and revealing a gap.
Immediately, Roger quickly changed his ammunition and fired another shot, knocking off a gap in the Skeletal Serpent’s bone armor.
But the Skeletal Serpent seemed to be unaffected by any fatal injuries. Instead, it became angry, bent over and leaped towards Roger.
“Oh my god, this thing is unharmed!”
Roger’s heart trembled, and he turned and ran.
Attacking this guy with the Dreadful Fiend claw didn’t do any damage at all.
Even shooting it in the head with a flintlock pistol didn’t work.
He definitely can’t defeat it right now.
Even if he could, it would come with great risks.
So, discretion is the better part of valor.
Whoosh~
Roger’s body turned into a black mist and quickly flew into the village along with the strong wind.
Hiss!
The Skeletal Manipulator spat out a mouthful of green acid, chased for a while, then stopped and stood still, its purple-black eyes staring at the black mist.
It couldn’t catch up.
…
After flying a long distance with the strong wind, Roger finally landed inside the village.
After glancing in the direction of the Skeletal Serpent and confirming that it hadn’t caught up, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, this guy couldn’t catch up.
If even his Mist Flash couldn’t escape, then this Skeletal Serpent would be too invincible.
However, even so, it’s clear how troublesome the Skeletal Serpent is.
And this is only the first floor!