Wizard: I'm leveling up by AFK in another world

As the two bodies of the sea creature undercover agents grew cold, Claire did not rush to leave, but instead began to dissect the bodies on the spot.

These two brothers are too big; he doesn't want to carry them around everywhere.

The methods of collection were already well-known in my mind.

He quickly fed the system two pieces of fish spirit spine and then set the scene ablaze.

After doing all this, he turned and left, returning to his dormitory.

To his surprise, it was eerily quiet.

The people who should have been waiting in the room were nowhere to be found. Only the red alarm lights in the corridor kept spinning, casting his shadow long and short.

Where are they?

Claire pushed open several slightly ajar dormitory doors.

empty.

The beds were in disarray, with some even containing uneaten food, indicating the owner's haste in leaving.

"They've all been conscripted?" Claire frowned.

The situation has deteriorated so quickly?

Claire walked to the window at the end of the corridor and looked out.

Although the specific details of the battle were unclear, the intense vibrations transmitted through the thick glass indicated that the fighting was still ongoing.

Just as he was pondering what to do next, his ears suddenly caught a familiar voice.

"Help! Don't come any closer! You two monsters!"

A bloodcurdling scream, like a pig being slaughtered, suddenly came from the other end of the corridor, breaking the deathly silence.

Claire quickly pressed herself against the wall, clutching a makeshift bomb made of exploding fire crystal powder in her hand.

Pat, pat, pat.

The hurried footsteps grew closer.

Immediately afterwards, a white, fleshy ball rolled out from around the corner.

It's Rhodes.

This guy's appearance at this moment can only be described as utterly appalling.

He was wearing only a pair of shorts, with one foot in a leather boot and the other bare.

His fair back was covered in scratches and bleeding profusely, a truly pitiful sight.

"Claire? Claire! Help me! Please help me!"

Upon seeing Claire, Rod rushed over as if he had seen his own father, tears and snot streaming down his face.

"Shut up!" Claire shoved a hand over his mouth and dragged him into the shadows behind her.

"Waaaah..." Rod struggled desperately, his finger trembling as he pointed behind him.

Claire looked in the direction he was pointing.

The next second, even Claire, with her strong mental fortitude, couldn't help but gasp.

Two monsters rushed out from around the corner.

Their jawbones were split open all the way to their ears, their mouths were full of barbed teeth like sharks, and a purple tongue with suckers was flicking in and out like a snake's tongue.

Claire's pupils contracted slightly.

The energy fluctuations emanating from these two monsters are already close to those of advanced apprentices!

"What the hell is this thing?"

"I...I just used the Sea Dragon's Might that the old blind man sold me..." Rhodes said with a mournful face. "At first, I was taking good care of them, but then suddenly there was a loud bang outside, and they...they were acting strange! If I hadn't reacted quickly, I wouldn't be able to call you brother anymore!"

"Groove-like".

Claire understood instantly.

These two monsters were actually the twin sisters who had been entangled with Rhodes for two days.

I just don't know why they turned out this way.

"roar!"

The two monsters spotted Claire and Rhodes, let out a roar, and pounced on all fours like spiders with astonishing speed.

"Run!"

Claire realized what was happening, pointed a finger in the distance, and uttered a short syllable.

Immediately afterwards, a layer of yellowish-brown mud appeared on the metal floor of the corridor.

Anna, who was at the forefront—or perhaps Bella—suddenly froze, as if she had gotten stuck in a quagmire, her movements slowing down by half a beat.

Taking advantage of the lull, Claire pulled the pin on the makeshift grenade in her hand and threw it toward the fire sprinkler system on the ceiling of the corridor.

boom!

Although the bomb wasn't very powerful, it was enough to trigger the system.

A large amount of high-pressure fire-fighting water gushed out, mixed with the smoke and dust from the explosion, forming a temporary barrier that blocked the monster's vision.

"Over here!"

Without hesitation, Claire used her wizard's hand to grab the belt of Rhodes's big shorts.

Like picking up a chick, they forcefully pulled the terrified guy up and threw him toward the side road.

"Ouch!"

Rhodes fell flat on his face, but he didn't care about the pain and scrambled after Claire as fast as he could.

The two of them dashed through the maze-like corridors, passing through three airtight doors before finally managing to shake off the two crazed monsters.

……

……

Inside a room in the living area.

This room, which was originally a storage room for cleaning tools, has now become a temporary refuge for the two.

Claire quickly set up a simple magic circle to conceal her presence before sitting down against the wall, panting heavily.

The series of actions he had just performed had nearly exhausted his mental and physical strength.

"Phew...phew...I survived...oh my god..."

Rod collapsed to the ground, trembling.

"Put your clothes on." Claire tossed him a spare cleaner's uniform.

Rhodes frantically put on his clothes, barely managing to regain some composure: "Claire, what happened? Why did Anna and the others turn out like that? They're such lovely human girls!"

"Because they weren't human to begin with," Claire sneered. "They were sea creature spies. And, I'm afraid it wasn't just them."

First Seth and Ryan, then Anna and Bella.

Just how many sea creatures are lurking in the entire base?

Originally, in order to conceal their presence, they were weak and could only do petty theft.

Now that the mutation has occurred, no one except formal wizards and advanced apprentices can stop it.

"It's over, the surface defense line is probably in complete chaos now."

"But we still need to go to the water, right? There are official wizards there; no matter how many monsters there are, they're no match for them..."

"No," Claire shook her head. "The situation up there is unclear, and there's an internal crisis. The current situation is extremely bad. With our strength, going up now would only be sending us to our deaths as cannon fodder."

Upon hearing this, Rhodes, who had just calmed down, became fearful again.

"Then... what should we do?"

Claire also fell silent for a moment.

The only way to leave this deep-sea base is by taking a ship on the surface of the water.

However, the ships that undertake daily personnel transportation tasks are mainly from Whale City, and the base's port only has some patrol boats and emergency rescue ships docked there.

It's obvious to anyone with a brain that even if the base's fall is irreversible, these ships will never be available for them to use.

Maybe I'm just overthinking it, and these indigenous schemes are no match for the absolute power of the wizard?

The idea was rejected by Claire as soon as it came to mind.

If those wizards were truly capable, the base would have been infiltrated far beyond being riddled with holes.