NOVEL WEB Chapter 780: A Strange Discovery
Wang Tao thought carefully and felt that the destruction-level monster should be beneath the rift, because in the previous life, when the destruction-level monster appeared, he could still feel heat underfoot in the rift...
"So, do we keep digging down?"
Wang Tao frowned a little but eventually decided to take a pause. He hadn't had the chance to fully explore this rift space yet, and wasn't sure if there were any dangers inside. He needed to be cautious; after all, finding so many mutant pangolins wasn't easy. If something went wrong, he wouldn't be able to find such helpers again easily.
From the experiences in the previous life, rift spaces were generally quite large. Even the smallest rift space would take a significant amount of time to thoroughly explore.
But the rift space before him was much smaller than Wang Tao imagined. While hunting mutant beasts and exploring at the same time, it only took him a little over an hour to walk through the entire rift space.
To Wang Tao's disappointment, although there were elites and lords here, they were all just one kind of mutant beast, and they didn't resist at all, or Wang Tao didn't give them the chance to resist. This made him a bit bored. However, to his surprise, he found the entrance to the second layer!
In the rift spaces from the previous life, some had only one layer, some had two, and some had three layers. There were no more than three layers in any case, and Wang Tao had never encountered a rift with more than three layers.
If there were monsters in the rift, generally monsters in the first layer would be fourth-order, occasionally having fifth-order; monsters in the second layer would basically be fifth-order, occasionally having sixth-order; and monsters in the third layer were all sixth-order, with sixth-order being the highest level in the rift, no higher levels existed.
So now, discovering this second layer entrance made Wang Tao a bit excited. If there were fifth-order mutant creatures inside, wouldn't he be able to continue enhancing his strength?
"Let's go and take a look."
Wang Tao cautiously entered the second-level passage with the three mutant beasts.
The moment he arrived there, Wang Tao sensed the presence of a fifth-order creature!
"There really is a fifth-order creature!"
Wang Tao showed a gleeful expression and followed the aura, soon seeing a tall mutated plant.
It seemed to be a kind of mutated man-eating flower, about three meters tall, with a huge body, entirely pitch black, its mouth was blood red, covered with countless sticky black fine teeth, looking extremely terrifying.
As he got closer, a faint fragrance could be smelled. This scent was very pleasant, giving people a desire to get closer.
At this point, whether it was Lightning, Taxue, or the Golden Eagle, they involuntarily moved toward the mutated man-eating flower.
Wang Tao hurriedly stopped the three of them and used his spiritual power to deter them. Only then did they come to their senses, having been alarmed. If Wang Tao hadn't stopped them, they might have walked straight into the flower's open mouth.
This man-eating flower, after all, was a fifth-order lord, while they were merely third or fourth-order lords. Even though this mutated man-eating flower was dormant, they couldn't withstand the passive awakening of the mutated man-eating flower.
[HP: 800000/800000]
[Mana: 300000/300000]
[Grade: Level 5 - Lord]
[Awakening: Aromatic Venom]
[Aromatic Venom: Emits a fragrance loved by creatures, causing paralysis upon contact.]
[Status: Dormant]
The awakening of this mutated man-eating flower is passive, so even if it is dormant, it will still release automatically. If it weren't for Wang Tao, the three mutant beasts would have been in danger.
Wang Tao had them move far away, then he initiated an attack on the mutated man-eating flower.
Mutant animals might have a possibility of communication, but mutant plants offered no means of communication, so Wang Tao's goal was clear: to take it down.
Fizzle—
Two heat energy beams instantly struck the mutated man-eating flower, with huge damage numbers popping up above its head. Against such a stationary target, heat energy beams were quite an excellent ability, with virtually no loss, all hitting the target.
At the same time, Wang Tao's hands didn't stop moving; wearing his charged finger tigers, he hammered at the mutated man-eating flower relentlessly.
Even though this was a Level 5 Lord, in front of Wang Tao, compared to a Level 4 Lord, it could be said to only be more durable. Especially since it wouldn't resist, fighting it felt pretty much the same as fighting a Level 4 Lord. In a blink, it was down to half blood.
Like the dormant fourth-order mutant beasts on the first level, once at half blood, it was finally about to awaken.
This time, Wang Tao did not kill it before it awoke but waited for it to fully awaken to see how its strength fared.
Unfortunately, after waking up, this mutated man-eating flower fell into a weakened state of 30%. It already wasn't a match for Wang Tao, and now in a half-blood weakened state, it was even less of a match.
Even after awakening, its awakening effect became stronger, even slightly affecting Wang Tao, but that was about it.
Pomf!
With a punch from Wang Tao, he shattered the large mouth of the mutated man-eating flower, ending its bewildered life.
Crash—
The crystal core and a loot item orb burst out.
It was the first time in this life that Wang Tao had killed a fifth-order monster. Skipping over several superpower crystal cores, Wang Tao looked at the items inside the loot orb.
[Obtained: Poison Coating Potion x2]
[Obtained: Awakening Key x1]
[Obtained: Cannibal Flower Hat x1]