Wrong Ground, Spiral Twins

But Su Mo did not feel discouraged by this. Only by discovering his own shortcomings can he make progress.

Set a clear goal, and all that’s left is to fight!

Taking a step forward in pursuit, Su Mo quickly killed the injured gray wolf with his sword. The only remaining gray wolf followed the same fate as his brothers a few seconds later.

Fight, fight, fight—

Su Mo fought all the way until he could see the entrance to the third floor in the distance. Then he took out a bottle of healing elixir, drank half of it directly, and applied the other half on the wound. Then he took out some water and a lunch box and started to eat and rest.

While eating, he also killed a frog shooter.

Human beings are so adaptable that before traveling through time, Su Mo had never imagined that one day he would be able to stand next to a pool of blood with a pungent smell and rest and eat in peace.

After spending more than half an hour eating and drinking, and resting, Su Mo grasped the hilt of the sword and walked to the third floor...

Chapter 7: Rob, Rob, Rob

"You are not a qualified adventurer."

He received treatment at the Dean Kate Family Pharmacy, where the prices were more favorable, and bought two bottles of the cheapest stamina-restoring elixir. Just as Su Mo turned around, the 'sign girl' who had been sitting quietly behind the counter suddenly spoke up and said this.

The Saint of the battlefield - Amid Teasanare, the best healer in Orario.

The girl's cold voice was the most obvious reminder and warning.

But in response, Su Mo just nodded, turned around and left the pharmacy without saying a word.

He had already made his choice between 'death' and 'chronic death'.

Night had fallen, but today, Su Mo did not go back to the hotel directly. Instead, he dragged his tired body to the 'Hostes of Richness' tavern.

Alcohol can paralyze the nerves and even erode one's will, so Su Mo ordered a bowl of pasta and a glass of juice that seemed very unmanly to outsiders.

A man sat quietly in a corner and silently finished his dinner called "midnight snack". When it was time to pay the bill, his eyes finally met the elf who came to pay the bill.

"Thank you for saving me!"

Liu Leon was stunned for a moment, and looked at Su Mo carefully for a few times before reacting, "Are you that child?"

Su Mo nodded, "Hestia Familia - Su Mo, I owe you a favor."

Liu wanted the other party not to worry about it, but before she could say anything, the figure in front of her put down the money and left first.

Looking at the back of the person leaving the tavern, Liu couldn't help but frown. As an adventurer, she felt that the other person had some crazy tendencies.

“It’s a little different!”

Hearing the voice, Liu turned his head to look at Hill who came to his side, "What's different?"

Hill pointed at the receding figure and said with a smile: "He may become a great adventurer, Ryu!"

Just as the purest and most beautiful flowers can bloom in the dirty mud, the faint light nurtured within the turbid color of the soul will surely shine brightly if it can break out of the cocoon!

……——……

"Today someone finally agreed to join our clan."

In the evening, when updating her ability values, Hestia recounted what she had gained that day.

"Reject!" Su Mo, lying on the bed, refused without even raising his head.

"why?"

Many days of hard work were negated in an instant, and Hestia immediately looked aggrieved.

"There is no need to recruit clansmen for the sake of stationing and funding."

The other party agreed, but did not hold the clan ceremony immediately. This hesitation already explains many problems.

"If it's really a Familiar you like and approve of, there's no need to hesitate, just introduce them to me. When you need to ask for my opinion, my answer will only be 'no', because I believe in your judgment."

Hearing this, the grievance on Hestia's face was immediately replaced by a smile, "That child is actually quite good. If he joins, it will be a good thing for the family."

Good to the family?

He was the only member of Hestia's Familia, so it was clear who would really benefit.

"Lord God, my only opponent is myself, and everything I do is for myself. It's not that I can't give you a rich material life, but I'm selfish and don't do that. So, please don't force yourself because of me, it will only make me feel extremely ashamed."

"Well, it's not entirely for you! When I came to the underworld and met Loki, I decided that my family must surpass Loki's family."

"Hestia's Familia will shine one day."

——Even without me.

"Well, I believe it!"

After updating her ability values, Hestia stepped down from the bed.

Looking back again, the exhausted figure on the bed was motionless. He had already fallen asleep with his eyes closed.

"Good night--"

……——……

When Su Mo woke up, his face was as dark as it could be.

If the last battle with the adventure team was just an unexpected encounter, then this direct attack on others was obviously not something that could be dismissed as an "accident". His target was already very clear, which was the adventurer team with many magic stones.

If you want magic stones, don't use them to kill monsters, but attack the adventurer team instead... It's like others store food and I store guns, others are my granary!

No wonder he played a game with the adventurer team last time for so long. Now that he thought about it, it was probably not a game at all, but a way to familiarize himself with the fighting style of intelligent races, to confirm the strength of the adventurers and himself, and to prepare for the next robbery.

After looking at the sky outside the window, Su Mo got up and put on his clothes.

He must become stronger as quickly as possible in order to defeat 'him' and to stop the unnecessary killing.

Dungeons, dungeons, dungeons...

Day after day, as his ability value increased, Su Mo spent longer and longer time in the dungeon.

Set out at 4 o'clock every day to go to the dungeon to fight monsters. In addition to ensuring basic expenses, absorb all the excess magic stones. Return at night, take a bath, exchange money, treat, repair equipment, replenish necessary food and props, return to the hotel to eat, update ability values, learn common characters, and sleep.

Gradually, this kind of life between two points became Su Mo's daily routine. And perhaps because of over-exerting himself and getting injured more frequently, among the five basic attributes, the attribute of 'durability' gradually stood out.

The main attribute was neither agility nor strength, which made Su Mo feel like he had added the wrong points.

However, the effect of the improvement of the 'durability' attribute is also obvious. Fighting is not an easy thing. After more than a week of high-intensity fighting every day, this kind of burden and consumption would probably collapse the body of an ordinary person. But his body has been able to hold on step by step until now, not only has it not collapsed, it is even getting used to it.

God's grace, or perhaps it can also be called God's protection.

The illusion of burning sensation rose from his back and instantly spread to his whole body. Su Mo kicked the gray wolf away and pierced the suicidal rabbit in front of him with a sword. Then he did not dare to stop for a moment, turned sideways, stepped on the raised wall, and jumped to avoid the frog archer's long tongue, while jumping out of the encirclement.

The types of monsters on the fifth floor haven't changed much, but the number of monsters and the refresh rate are much more and faster than those on the fourth floor.

But that's about it.

The sword blade spun in a circle, and the full-force slash from top to bottom instantly split the frog archer in two.

He stabilized his body's center of gravity, and his five senses became sharp, easily capturing the direction of the monster behind him. He turned around and chopped off the gray wolf's head with a sword. With his left hand, he grabbed the needle rabbit's neck accurately, and stabbed the sharp horn at another needle rabbit...

After staying on the fifth floor for four days, even though he was besieged by more than a dozen monsters, Su Mo had become more and more calm in handling them.

On the eighth day after receiving God's favor, he reached the fifth floor. After another four days, he got used to the pace here. As a true rookie adventurer, this speed can be said to be quite fast, but Su Mo was not satisfied.

The 1st to 5th floors of the dungeon are recognized as the novice area, but it is the th floor that really changes the difficulty of danger.

Moreover, if he remembered correctly, the fastest white rabbit who was about to come to Orila only took one and a half months to reach LV.2. Compared with him, it took him twelve days to actually stand at the door of the sixth floor. He had nothing to be proud of.

After slaying the last monster in sight with his sword, Su Mo took a look at the weapon that had accompanied him in the novice zone.

Due to its owner's poor use and continuous fighting, the originally smooth and bright blade is now covered with scratches, and in order to maintain its sharpness, frequent grinding has caused the blade to shrink by a whole circle. Whether it is sharpness or firmness, it is not suitable for more difficult challenges.

Now that I have saved enough money to buy new weapons, it's time to head to the sixth floor.

Chapter 8 Silent Sorrow

The 1st to 12th floors of the dungeon are defined as the 'upper level'. Starting from the sixth floor, the passages in the dungeon will become extremely narrow, the structure of the maze will become more complicated, and finally the types of monsters will no longer be low-level monsters.

The challenge of the sixth level is not just a step up, but a big leap.

For an immature newcomer, setting foot below the fifth floor alone is tantamount to suicide... Although this statement is a bit exaggerated, it is by no means false.

At least, Su Mo thought so.

If you can't win, you can run away. This is a wise choice. But for Su Mo, spending too much time on escaping is a waste.

He needed magic stones, lots and lots of them. His left eye was like a bottomless pit, absorbing the energy of more than a hundred magic stone fragments but still had no new reaction. It was obvious that the magic stones he needed were far from enough.

Make money to buy high-level magic stones?

Su Mo had this idea before, but he quickly gave it up. Buying and selling magic stones for no reason would be too eye-catching, and he didn't have the capital. If he focused on making money from business, it would be putting the cart before the horse. He did need magic stones, but he also needed 'experience points'.

For this reason, all he could do was to pay more attention to the efficiency of defeating monsters. It was also because of this that he chose to spend nearly 3 Faris to buy a new weapon before entering the sixth floor.

But he obviously underestimated the strength of the monsters on the sixth floor.

One of the new monsters that appears most frequently on the sixth floor is the Purple Moth, a monster that sprinkles poisonous scale powder.

If you get stained by its scale powder, although it won't cause an immediate attack, you will develop "poisoning" symptoms over time. Therefore, when you come to this level, antidote is a must, at least for new adventurers who haven't developed the ability of "abnormal resistance".

However, the most dangerous thing about the purple moth is its toxicity. As long as there is enough antidote, the threat is not that big. What really made Su Mo feel a strong sense of oppression and life-and-death crisis was another kind of monster.

New killer - Shadow Ghost.

As the most powerful monster in the upper layer, the black monster like a shadow has long arms, and the front of his hands have three fingers shaped like daggers, which are even sharper than the sword in his hand. Whether it is the movement speed or the attack speed, it is obviously not comparable to the low-level monsters.

The dark arms with impressive attack range stretched out from all strange angles, and each attack carried astonishing power and speed, and there was more than one such enemy. The three shadow monsters cooperated very well, with a decisive range gap, overwhelming attack speed and frequency, forcing Su Mo to dodge and parry constantly, and he couldn't even get close to the opponent.

Unable to take advantage of the opportunity to attack, unable to fight back, unable to escape... The monster before him was completely different from the monsters he had encountered before.

At the same time, the weakness of the left eye's lack of vision was fully exposed in this battle.

Three black blades bent into the shape of bird claws were approaching rapidly from the corner of his vision. He finally dodged them, but another attack came from the blind spot of his vision, leaving Su Mo with no time to dodge and his skin was cut in an instant.

Front, side, rear——

A total of six long black arms continuously attacked from various angles. Their attack methods were simple but extremely deadly.

A lot of sweat and red blood were flying in the shaking field of vision. Su Mo, with his heart beating violently, felt like he was dancing for his life on a cliff. Perhaps he would fall off the cliff in the next moment and there would be no recovery.

My breathing has completely lost its calmness.

Su Mo realized that he was being forced into death step by step. He began to feel anxious, but at the same time, he also had a strong sense of abruptness.

Although he was extremely anxious inside, his brain was becoming calmer and he was thinking more and more. Even the pain seemed to have faded away. When he came to his senses, he had already come out of the state of being distracted.

It was a very strange feeling. Su Mo felt as if his rationality had completely overwhelmed his sensibility. He was no longer disturbed by any emotions and began to examine himself from a purely rational perspective.

Then, he saw...

'……Chance!'

Su Mo let the sharp arm pierce his collarbone, and took the opportunity to grab Shadow Ghost's arm. With the help of the opponent's retracted arm, Su Mo suddenly jumped up. The attacking black arm instantly cut his back and arm, but Su Mo, who was indomitable, finally approached the enemy for the first time.

The field of vision was becoming increasingly narrow. The shadow ghost raised his other arm high, preparing to give him the final blow. However, in such a situation, Su Mo did not roar or vent his emotions. Instead, he only thought more calmly.

The passage of time seemed to slow down at this moment. The sharp arm slowly fell down, and the forward-moving sword tip was approaching the body of the shadow monster.

"……Ding!"

There was a crisp sound; that was the sound of the magic stone being shattered.

There are two more——

Blood was flowing from his shoulder blade, but Su Mo seemed to be completely unaware of it. He supported himself with one hand and somersaulted to avoid the two dark arms. The sword in his hand immediately turned into an arrow and shot towards the shadow ghost in the distance. He stood up straight without any pause, and rushed towards the shadow ghost less than three meters in front of him like a cheetah.

"Shh-"

Su Mo turned his head to avoid, but the long black arm still brushed across his cheek, cutting off a piece of flesh.

The three-meter distance was crossed, Su Mo had already clenched his fist and punched the enemy hard in the face.

The heavy sound of breaking echoed all around.

Su Mo used all his strength to punch the enemy, breaking the mirror on his face and penetrating his head.

A muddy black liquid gushed out from the back of his head. After a brief spasm, the shadow ghost lost all strength in his body, and his knees softened and he collapsed.

And the last one——

Looking at the last shadow ghost that dodged the long sword attack and was about to launch a new attack, Su Mo quickly pulled his arm out from the monster's face and approached quickly... With a slide and a roll, he dodged the arm attack that was like a sharp blade, came behind the shadow ghost, and re-grasped the one-handed sword stuck in the wall.