NOVEL WEB Chapter 60: Raid Monster in Fourth Floor Dark Pillar
Aaron and the others walked into the depths of the maze, clearly seeing other groups of adventurers taking different routes at the first intersection, some walking to the right and the other way around.
[ANNOUNCEMENT!]
[Dark Pillar Tower]
[Fourth Floor]
[Monster: Lv 41-43]
[Monster Boss: Green Slime Alien (Lv. 45)]
[Countdown for Closed Gate:]
[00:09:59:59]
The young man stopped walking when Isabella approached him. The woman bought something interesting from one of the shops that could help them find the best route to the floor boss.
[Map used]
[Number of monsters successfully mapped: 45]
[Number of intersections: 78]
[Fourth floor Dark Pillar Maze area: 250x250m]
Not only did the map's details appear, but the path route also appeared on the panel. Isabella's position as the person using the map was signaled by the ticking white dot in the bottom corner near the maze entrance.
"How much is the map worth?" Aaron asked.
"About 10,000 RL. You don't have to worry. I still have enough money for my needs."
"I'll pay for it later."
Isabella nodded, unable to refuse if Aaron wanted to pay the price of the map. From inside it, Isabella said that according to the map, the route to the floor boss was to turn right, turn left, turn left, turn right, turn left, and finally turn right.
There were six intersections they had to pass in total, and from those, they could potentially encounter at least 15 monsters at different monster levels.
Aaron cleared his throat, allowing Isabella to walk nearby as a guide.
They stepped through the first intersection well. Occasionally, Aaron looked back to ensure Sokia was okay. She was still walking after Aaron and Isabella towards the floor boss room.
Their steps stopped when they felt a strong fluctuation of magic energy from the front. Aaron stopped Isabella's steps, inviting her and Sokia to hide behind a rock.
[Monster Details:]
[Monster: Vaporseeker]
[Level: 41]
[HP: 44000/44000]
[MP: 46000/46000]
[Element: Wind]
Two monsters were shaped like lizards with the wind element plastered across Aaron's face. The two monsters unleashed attack after attack in the form of wind scythe slashes; two groups of adventurers were fighting them.
"Do we need to help them?" asked Isabella. Aaron shook his head silently.
"They can help us enough if they manage to defeat those monsters."
After an hour of waiting, Aaron and Isabella clearly saw two lizard monsters named Vaporseeker being defeated.
The carcasses of the monsters shattered and turned into small particles that flew into the sky.
As usual, the adventurers got reward items for defeating the monsters. Aaron didn't really care. His items were more than enough from the raid monsters so far, as well as the results of robbing items belonging to 21 mages the other day.
The two adventurer groups continued their journey, Aaron and Isabella followed behind. Sokia sometimes paid attention to the place where two Vaporseeker monsters died, trying to get something from it.
However, Sokia didn't get anything of what she was looking for. She followed Aaron and Isabella, who kept walking through the maze and several intersections.
Unlike the routes of the two groups earlier, Aaron's group met two monster level 42 with the water element at once. Aaron smiled as he invited Isabella to defeat the monster together.
"You stay behind, Sokia."
"I also want to help you guys."
Aaron gasped at the sight of Sokia's two hands turning into dragon claws. It wasn't the accumulated energy, but the shape actually turned into a dragon claw.
With a swift move, Sokia leaped quickly forward and lunged at the two monsters with two dragon claw slashes.
Each dragon claw attack released had a significant impact on the two monsters. The attack was also accompanied by hot flames, which burned their bodies until they suffered a considerable HP loss.
[Damage +15400]
[Damage +21400]
[Two Damage!]
[Monster: The Blue Plant]
[HP: 9200/46000] [-36800]
With two fire claw attacks, Sokia was able to deal significant damage. Isabella brought up her red rose talent and shot the rose thorn power to besiege the plant monster, then consumed the monster's HP in one blow.
[Damage +13200]
[Damage +14500]
[Two Damage!]
[Monster: The Blue Plant]
[HP: 0/46000] [-27700]
Because Isabella was the one who got the last hit, she had the right to get the items on the monster's body. Sokia appeared to be making a strange gesture; she stretched her hand forward as if she were capturing something.
[Initiate the accumulation of monsters' dark souls]
[Name: The Blue Plant]
[Element: Water]
[Starts the crystallization of the monster's life energy into a monster core crystal]
[Energy crystallization process successful]
[Item:]
[1. Monster Water Core Crystal Lv. 2]
Aaron stepped closer to Sokia, the woman held out the monster core crystal to Aaron, allowing him to see the item's details.
[Item Detail:]
[Name: Water Monster Core Crystal]
[Grade: 2]
[Description: Useful for increasing the magic attributes of a person with the base element of water. Useful for increasing the experience for a person of a mythological race]
"Oh, so you condensed the monster's life energy to be used to increase your EXP?" asked Aaron. Sokia nodded in favor.
Aaron returned the item to Sokia as he thought the girl needed it more than Aaron, especially realizing that Aaron and Isabella had different magic elements.
Sokia used the crystal by crushing it with her palm. The energy was absorbed into Sokia's forehead to increase the amount of EXP in her body.
[EXP +5000]
Getting a certain amount of EXP made Sokia nearly able to level up. She needed at least one or two monster core crystals to level up.
Isabella gave two MP Crystals level 2 to Aaron because she thought Aaron needed more MP Crystals than her. Aaron thanked her and promised to replace the MP Crystals with other items. Experience tales at empire
[MP Capacity +2000]
[Total MP Capacity: 60000/62000]
Having had enough of that, Aaron took Isabella and the others to leave the place to continue their journey to the floor boss room.
Five intersections were passed according to the route shown by the map earlier. In the end, the trio arrived at the doorstep of the floor boss's room, where a group of adventurers were challenging the floor boss.
Luckily for Aaron, the group seemed to have eliminated all the monsters in the maze path without exception. That made Aaron's journey much easier than he imagined.
"What are we gonna do now?" asked Sokia. Aaron smiled while looking at the door to the floor boss room.
"We'll wait."