This time, I won't be the devil.

"Rock pillar." In an instant, a rock pillar rose from under Frey, lifting him and Noel on his back, leaving the monster empty-handed.

Afterwards, a large number of monsters surrounded the rock pillar. At first, they just circled around the rock pillar blindly, but soon, this group of monsters started playing stacking games tacitly. The height in the maze was limited, and it didn't take long for these monsters to rush up the rock pillar by stacking human ladders.

Through these days of maze exploration, Frey discovered that unlike the Iron Fool in the game who could be trapped by card gates, height differences, and kite-flings at will, the monsters in this world possessed certain thinking abilities.

Monsters, mainly skeleton beasts and skeleton soldiers, are crowded together, with bones and rotten flesh piled on top of each other, like a wriggling Jingguan, which looks very scary.

"Nowen, inject magic power into the bronze sword and prepare to activate the Leap."

"But, there are so many monsters..."

"Do as I say."

Frey certainly understood the reason for Noelle's doubts. Although Rep was powerful, it was essentially just a weapon enchantment with a limited attack range. It could not deal with such a large group of monsters.

But Frey had anticipated this situation and prepared corresponding tactics.

Just as the monster was about to climb up the rock pillar, the ground around the rock pillar suddenly collapsed, forming a funnel-shaped pit.

The monsters stacked up around the rock pillar, as well as the monsters rushing upwards, all fell into it.

At this point, Noelle finally understood what Frey meant, and he asked:

"Frey, do you want to do it? Right now, right here?"

"That's right, let's use this move to decide the outcome."

"Use Rip on me!"

After receiving the order, Noelle raised the bronze sword surrounded by terrifying electric current and slashed at Frey with a rip.

Frey stretched out his right hand, and just before the bronze sword touched his skin, a huge column of water spurted out from his right hand.

"Tide, I have returned."

Frey once again activated his magic power, causing the water column to rotate, and the electric current on Noel's bronze sword was also conducted along the water flow.

In this way, Noel kept hitting Frey, and Frey kept spraying water.

The electrified water jets hit every monster that fell into the pit from all directions without any blind spots, leaving them with no way to escape.

This Repga Water Spray was a combination technique that Frey and Noelle had practiced in advance, specifically used to deal with groups of monsters.

From the moment the Minotaur let out its war cry, Frey pressed all four limbs to the ground, desperately outputting magic power, manipulating the earth element to create this pit under the ground, in order to catch these monsters in one fell swoop.

This "lifting the floor" tactic was inspired by a civil engineering master, Lelouch, who was also called the "Demon King".

Soon, all the monsters in the pit were eliminated, and Noelle breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, Frey leaned close to his ear and whispered:

"Execute Plan F."

After receiving Frey's instructions, Noelle lit the magic crystal lamp on her waist and turned to leave.

After a moment, Frey glanced at his watch.

Five minutes passed and Noelle had already run away.

Frey looked at the large number of monster corpses piled up in the deep pit. According to the maze's monster spawning mechanism, this place will become a safe zone without monsters for the next hour.

But Frey understood that the battle was not over yet, it should be said that it had just begun.

"Then, if my guess is correct, you should be showing up soon, right?"

Just as he finished saying this, the wall behind Frey suddenly broke open and a huge stone hammer smashed towards him.

Chapter 11 Rotten Giant

As the earth wall behind him broke open, a huge stone hammer smashed towards Frey.

At the critical moment, Frey jumped up and dodged it with great effort.

The ground where he was standing just now had a big hole smashed into it.

If Frey had not relied on his shadow perception to detect the attack from behind in advance, he would probably have become a two-dimensional paper man in the physical sense.

Obviously, he was ambushed, and this also confirmed his speculation that the monsters in the maze have the ability to think.

Frey's location was already the darkest area on the 9th floor, and through the previous battle, a large number of monster corpses were gathered in the same place.

In other words, the conditions for the appearance of the Rotten Giant have been met.

If following the ideal plan A, Frey should have ambushed the Rotten Giant together with Noelle.

But assuming the Rotten Giant has a certain level of intelligence, then it must understand that the MyGO team, which can destroy hordes of monsters, is not easy to deal with.

And if the other party chooses to escape, Frey and his men will not be able to chase them in the maze full of monsters.

That's why Frey asked Noelle to leave temporarily and stayed behind alone to act as bait.

After dodging the attack, Frey first launched a probe into the wall with a hole in it. He discovered that there was a hidden path inside the wall.

The existence of the hidden road surprised Frey a little, but after thinking about it carefully, it made sense.

Since he, an outsider, can use the terrain of the maze, then the monsters born in the maze are obviously more familiar with its structure.

It was even possible that the rotting giant had been hiding behind the wall and observing them from the very beginning.

Frey turned around and finally saw the monster clearly.

Its body was 5 meters tall, its skin was covered with rotten pustules, from which foul-smelling mucus kept dripping, and on its head was a human head with a cracked jaw.

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It has a sharp claw in its left hand and a huge stone hammer in its right hand. Although it is called a "giant", its body looks more like the corpses of various monsters stitched together.

Behind the rotten giant, there are several human heads embedded. They are obviously the Black Iron-level adventurers who died in the maze recently.

There was a head among them that Frey recognized.

Isn't this a Zaku?

Now I really see you again.

After witnessing the horrific appearance of the rotting giant with his own eyes, Frey's various speculations were confirmed.

According to the information collected by Frey, unlike ordinary monsters, the elite monster Rotten Giant was not born out of thin air, but was resurrected with the help of the corpses of humans or other monsters.

After resurrection, the Rotten Giant will continue to collect corpses and transform them into body parts, thereby continuously strengthening itself.

After Frey used [Identify] on the monster, the worst possible scenario he had anticipated occurred.

[Rotten Giant, Tier 3]

Due to devouring a large number of adventurers, this rotten giant has completed its evolution, rising from level 2 to level 3.

In the past, most Iron-level adventurers would just fight Tier 8 monsters in the first 1 floors. Once the elite monsters were confirmed to have refreshed, the Adventurer's Association would quickly organize a subjugation team. Therefore, the Rotten Giant had no room to grow.

But now, with the price of magic stones falling, many people have to take risks and come to the 9th floor for their livelihood, including many inexperienced novices.

This provides the best "monster spawning ground" for the newly born Rotten Giants.

If a Tier 2 Rotten Titan possessed strength comparable to a Tier 3 Titan, then the evolved version before Frey's eyes might have combat power close to Tier 4.

As for the level 4 monster, even if a team of gold-level adventurers came, they could not guarantee a % victory.

It's no wonder that there has been no sighting of the Rotten Giant until now. This monster not only knows how to use the terrain of the maze to hide itself, but also given its status, I'm afraid everyone who has seen it has been killed without a single one left.

While Frey was thinking about this, the Rotten Giant had already walked out of the hidden path, ready to launch a new attack.

With Frey's strength, he has no chance of winning in a head-on battle, so he can only try to outsmart him.

And since the Rotten Giants have intelligence, there is a possibility of negotiation.

Frey prostrated himself on the ground again and said, "Can we talk?"

Hearing Frey's words, the human head on the rotten giant's neck reacted slightly.

But soon, it shook its head, then raised the stone hammer again and let out a roar full of fighting spirit.

From the roar of the rotten giant, Frey seemed to hear a familiar voice:

"Fighting is fun!"

The stone hammer fell again. Although Frey dodged in time, he was still knocked away and hit the wall heavily.

Frey felt a sharp pain in his chest. If it weren't for the protection of this armor, his ribs would have been broken.

This was when he successfully dodged. If he had taken a head-on hit, he would have definitely died.

Facing such a powerful opponent, Frey did not dare to relax at all. He stood up immediately regardless of the pain in his body, but the stone hammer of the rotten giant had already struck again.

Just as the Rotten Giant's stone hammer was about to hit, the ground beneath its feet suddenly turned to mud, causing it to lose its balance.

The reason why Frey knelt down just now was not to beg for mercy, but to inject magic power into the ground.

He clapped his hands on the ground and activated the Burial Technique, burying the Rotten Giant's legs in the ground.

But this time, Frey's signature skill failed to work smoothly. After discovering that his legs were fixed, the rotten giant swung the stone hammer and smashed it to the ground.

As the stone hammer fell, the ground in front of the rotten giant was smashed open, and its legs became free again.

It seems that Frey is not the only one who can use the floor-lifting tactic.

After breaking free from control, the Rotten Giant swung his stone hammer and swept it towards Frey.

Frey suddenly shrank his body, then jumped up like a cat, avoiding the attack of the stone hammer.

But this played into the Rotten Giant's hands. After the stone hammer in its right hand missed, it attacked Frey with the sharp claws in its left hand.

Frey, who was in the air, was unable to dodge and was about to be pierced by the sharp claws.

At the critical moment, Frey once again sprayed out a column of water from his hands.

Of course, the water column could not cause effective damage to the level 3 Rotten Giant, but relying on the reaction force of the impact, Frey forcibly changed direction in the air and barely avoided the attack.

After landing, Frey immediately rolled backwards, trying to create distance between himself and the Rotten Giant, but the other party did not intend to give him this opportunity.

Facing the retreating Frey, the Rotten Giant used the skill [Corrosive Acid].

A stream of brown acid shot out from the giant's body, and Frey quickly jumped sideways to avoid it.

The acid only lightly touched Frey's shoulder, but it corroded a large piece of the armor there.

The Rotten Giant continued to shoot out new acid, and Frey continued to dodge it using the same left and right jumps as Boss Sakamoto, and the acid formed bubbling acid pits on the ground.