Reincarnation Paradise: Giant Treasure Chest

Sephiria turned her face away, pretending not to hear what was said.

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Deep underground, the Harpies and a group of contractors from the Samsara Paradise, after a period of rest, left the cave in a fully prepared state and continued to explore downwards.

"Can we detect how deep it is?" After walking along the plank road for a long distance, the group did not encounter any danger and did not come across any new caves. Habis asked with some concern.

"No, the detection equipment will be pulled down if it flies to the center of the abyss, and climbing along the rock wall is too slow."

The contractor in charge of the investigation answered.

In fact, they were safe because this area was originally a safe rest area, and they would only encounter danger if they went further down.

However, after this, she needed to come into contact with Helena's plot. Ivia was delayed because of repairing her broken soul, so she simply made a few safe loops on this section of the plank road.

Now Avia has come underground and taken the dangerous area back, and the reconnaissance immediately made a discovery.

"About ten meters down, there's a new fork in the road, and be careful..."

Before the scout finished his words, Harbis had already walked forward quickly. Just as he turned the downward corner, a skeleton suddenly emerged from the wall and pushed Harbis.

On the narrow plank road without fences, Habis had no way to react and slipped and fell off the road.

Before being pulled down into the abyss, Harpies used his sickle as a pickaxe and hooked onto the plank road.

"Be careful on the left..." the contractor in charge of reconnaissance finished speaking in a low voice.

This skeleton was very weak and was hacked to death by the subsequent contractors.

Harbis turned over with a look of fear on his face and climbed back to the plank road before summarizing:

"We must not move forward too fast on the road ahead."

"Ah~~"

At this moment, a miserable voice sounded, and a figure fell from the sky. The light of props kept flashing on his body, but it was useless. He fell into the center of the abyss, and soon there was silence.

A large group of contractors nodded in agreement with Harbis's statement.

The contractors who used to be as swift as the wind crawled along the plank road at a snail's pace and arrived at the cave discovered by the reconnaissance institute.

The cave was dark, and Harbiss sneaked in to explore with his mist-like body. After finding the location of the torch, Harbiss lit it without hesitation.

The torches on the wall lit up one after another, illuminating the entire cave.

The cave was filled with sculptures of all sizes, but maggots were crawling in the broken parts of the sculptures, accompanied by a foul smell.

"Reconnaissance Scan!"

Harbis did not rush into the depths of the sculptures to prevent the emergence of living creatures among them.

"No abnormalities found!"

Even after getting the answer, Habis was still not reassured. After the lights came on, she called two contractors who were guarding the paradise and asked them to walk in front of her to explore the way.

This cautious behavior helped her escape disaster.

Two seemingly intact sculptures suddenly rushed out from the group of sculptures and roared towards the Harpies.

[You are affected by the Ratman's Roar, your movement speed is halved, your attack speed is halved, and the duration is 15 seconds]

Then two sculptures rushed up. Both of them looked like dark elves, holding stone weapons with traces of dark red blood and stabbing at the Harpies.

Fortunately, even though the movement speed and attack speed of the two contractors guarding the paradise were halved, their defense was not affected.

The two large shields protected the Harpies like a city wall.

"Set up the shield and enter the circle!"

Harbis knew that this attack was definitely not the only one and spoke immediately.

The long snake-like array of contractors obediently formed a circle, with contractors who were good at defense blocking the periphery.

Sure enough, the two howls were like a signal. All the statues that had originally shown no abnormalities came to life and roared together.

Dense abnormal status prompts filled up Harbis's status bar, almost reducing her movement speed and attack speed to the level of confinement.

After being attacked, the contractor in charge of defense found that the attack power of these dark elf statues was very average and it would be fine if they were directly hit.

However, as the attack was ineffective, the group of statues roared again, surrounded the contractors and began to self-destruct.

Maggots and rotten blood, mixed with the smell of dead rats, splashed all over the contractors. Even the Harbis who was at the center of the defense had a piece of rotten flesh on his body, and the rotten flesh was crawling with wriggling maggots.

Unfortunately, the combined control effects caused everyone to move slowly, as if running towards the cave entrance in slow motion.

A full three minutes later, the first group of contractors with higher control resistance ran out of the cave and lay on the side of the plank road vomiting.

In order to assign different levels of difficulty to the trials for them, there wasn't much combat power left for Ivia to set.

So even though Ivia was not very willing, she still placed a lot of these levels that did not increase the difficulty in the underground area.

But judging from the reactions of this group of contractors, this thing seems to be quite effective?

"Nothing abnormal???" Having vomited enough, Harbis angrily asked the contractor in charge of the investigation.

"I was investigating based on the level of danger. It's not my fault!"

Harbis knew it in her heart, but she didn't dare to scold the host of the trial. She was just angry at her companions.

"There should be clues to the mission in this cave. Who can go in and check it out?" asked Habis.

In the end, many contractors drew lots, and Harpies re-entered the cave.

After the sculpture was broken, the space in the cave became wider, but there were still several symmetrical protrusions that were very conspicuous. Harbis suppressed his nausea and pushed aside the flesh and blood outside the protrusions inside the cave.

Beneath the flesh and blood was a stone slab carved with exquisite reliefs, a style entirely different from the crudely made sculptures just now.

Harbis continued to peel away the flesh, trying to decipher the meaning of the relief.

The relief depicts the experiences of a group of ratmen. The claws of these ratmen are specially carved in the relief, indicating that they are very good at digging.

This stone tablet shows that they obtained many treasures by digging mines.

Harbis understood something, moved to the next stone slab, and continued to interpret after he smoothed away the flesh and blood.

This slab depicts the birth of a group of ratmen.

The order was wrong, so Harbis didn't continue looking and turned to walk to the other side, which should be in front of the third stone slab.

This stone tablet still does not contain any useful information, but only depicts the prosperity of the ratmen. Just as Habis speculated, this huge underground cavity is the ratmen's lair, and the exquisite stone carvings and buildings are all from their hands.

The fourth stone tablet finally contained useful information. During the excavation process, the rats discovered exquisite treasures underground and finally unearthed a huge corpse with a crown on its head.

Harbis continued to check and found that the fifth stone tablet only had half of its contents. When the rats were carrying the huge corpse, they knocked off the crown on the corpse's head and the corpse came back to life.

[You have triggered the side quest o Elf Savior, first round: Elf Crown.]

Mission Difficulty: LV80～LV???

Mission Description: Find and obtain the Elf Crown.

Mission deadline: before the end of the main mission.

Mission Reward: Obtained after completing this side mission.

(Note: Prop rewards obtained during missions are not included.)

Mission penalty: none

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Chapter 402: Cruel Rat

Looking at the contents recorded on the stone tablet and the tasks triggered, Harbis fell into deep thought.

To sum up the contents of the stone tablet, the ratmen were obsessed with treasure hunting and dug too deep into the ground, unearthing a disaster underground that led to their extinction. Even their corpses were made into sculptures and placed here.

The dark elves who have now built the ugly wooden frame plank road and are chasing after the contractors should be the derivative of the thing dug out by the ratmen.

But the problem arises. After the long-term sales of the violent rats and the occasional appearance of the elf clerks in the Anor Londo store.

All the contractors from the Paradise of Samsara know that no matter whether it is the so-called dark elves or ratmen, the boss behind them is Avia.

And judging from this stone tablet, the Dark Lord, the boss of the elves, seems to be a villain?

Thinking of this, Harbis's face turned ugly.

This group of Paradise's contractors all unanimously chose the Guiding Light camp and were hostile to the underground Dark Elf monarch.

In other words, now this group of people are going to fight the strongest Gwyn Ivy.

After a slight hesitation, Harbis walked out of the stinking cave and came to the plank road outside the door to explain his findings and speculations to the other contractors.

"The resurrection point I reserved is on the ground. Sorry everyone, we are going to find the guiding light."

The contractor of Apocalypse Paradise said this on the spot, and then jumped off the plank road with his two companions and was reborn back to the ground.

The other contractors were also interested and gathered on the plank road, each with their own thoughts.

"With every risk comes a great reward. Besides, that lord is known for his kindness. If you can't clear the level, the end result will be the same no matter which branch you take."

At this moment, a voice appeared from above, inspiring people.

Harbis was startled and raised his sickle. The sound did not come from between the contractors, but it was so close to them that they were not discovered.

On this dangerous plank road, if the enemy launches a sneak attack, it will cause them great losses.

Habis looked closely and saw that the source of the sound was a lizard lying on the steep rock wall. It was three meters long, its skin color blended with the rock wall, but it had a human head.

"Dawn?" Harbis became even more alert.

During the duration of Harbis's mist skill, she can obtain a high amount of all damage reduction, but even so, she was almost shot to death by the concentrated fire of the Soul Arrow.

The aura of this violator who was left behind had clearly disappeared at that time, but now he was following the main group in such a strange posture, and he appeared at a time when people's morale was low.

The sickle hummed softly, and the blade cut into the stone wall like tofu. Harbis held his weapon horizontally, ready to turn against him.

The reactions of the contractors and Harpies were similar. They all kept their distance from Dawn. Many contractors immediately retreated into the cave without being bothered by the foul smell.

"Don't worry, I'm indeed dead, but not completely. I'm just a parasite on this lizard. This kind of lizard has the ability to change color and hide. When you pass by, it will stick out its tongue and push you down. You will be able to see it when you look down again."

The half-violated person named Dawn explained.

"My goal is to meet Her Excellency Ivia. I cannot reach her in the void, and crossing the abyss is too difficult for me. I can only come here through trials."

Harbis didn't believe a single word of this and used his reconnaissance skills after locking onto the offender's presence.