This is not an MMO game copy

Seeing this scene, the three girls from Loki's clan immediately recognized that this was the dungeon maze where monsters were spawning.

All monsters born in the maze, in addition to reproducing with each other, are born from "stone" - as for the principle behind this, no one understands it to this day. It is only certain that the monsters are conceived and formed within the maze's absolutely stone "walls" and then squeezed out.

"Waaaaagh—"

Then, the green-skinned goblin let out a loud war cry, and picked up the stone sticks and stone axes that were given to him when he was born, and rushed towards the silver-white giant.

The next moment, the giant swung the long-handled warhammer in one hand, turning most of the goblins into a bloody mist. His other hand suddenly popped out, grabbed the last goblin and held it in front of him.

Then, a beam of azure light shot out from its helmet, sweeping across the goblin in front of it.

Immediately afterwards, Sword Lady and the Amazon sisters suddenly felt a strong sense of crisis spreading from the giant.

Chirp.

The giant crushed the goblin in his hand into a pool of bloody mud, and threw away the goblin that gradually turned into ashes after death. He held the huge long-handled hammer in both hands at the same time, and with the roar of the turbine turning, he raised the hammer high and smashed it into the stone wall of the maze in front of him.

Boom.

A strong shock wave roared out, mixed with a circle of neon energy light that quickly spread outward, engulfing the entire fork in the road.

"Danger!"

The three girls from Loki's clan immediately dodged and sprinted and jumped with all their strength to escape the sweeping range of the shock wave and neon energy light, but before they could react, they sensed the outbreak of a second round of shock waves and neon energy light.

And the third, fourth, fifth...

(Refer to the holographic 6 hammers hitting the ground continuously)

Boom boom boom boom——

As a last resort, the three of them had to run. After just a few breaths, they saw the tunnel behind them collapsed amid continuous roars and shaking.

At the same time, due to the cover of the tunnel collapse, they did not notice that the silver-white giant disappeared into a wormhole composed of neon-colored streams of light shortly after smashing the wall and collapsing the tunnel. They also did not see the silver-white giant smashing a huge, deep gap in the stone wall, and the exposed rock wall had a large outline similar to the appearance of a goblin.

Soon, at the other end of the shallow dungeon maze, a data wormhole with neon light emerged, and a five-meter-tall silver-white giant appeared in front of Xia Yan, Irena and Asthesia who had also entered the dungeon maze.

Then, a virtual light screen was projected in front of the three people.

【Based on scan inspection and data model deduction】

[Dungeon Maze Monster: Goblin - There is a perfect natural evolutionary genetic sequence...]

[Dungeon maze architecture: Stone walls—Based on geological scans, it's confirmed they weren't naturally formed, and have existed longer than the three thousand years since the dungeon maze was known to have appeared in the Netherworld...]

[Dungeon Maze Monster - Goblin Breeding Method: Unknown - After destroying the stone walls and tunnels, no carbon-based cloning channels were found. However, behind the shattered stone walls, numerous 'murals' depicting goblins appeared...]

Based on known information, the current speculation is as follows: the goblin monsters in the dungeon maze are most likely constructed from silicon-based structures within the stone walls and rock face behind the tunnels, then transformed from silicon-based structures into carbon-based flesh and blood through unknown means... The goblin-like 'mural' is a cloning machine...

[Supporting evidence for the speculation: The flesh and blood left behind after the goblin's death underwent a collapse and decomposition at the level of its basic material particle structure... This does not conform to the speed and method of decomposition of the corpse of a flesh-and-blood creature after its death...]

【…】

[According to calculations, the dungeon maze possesses the ability to clone and replicate silicon-based structures, as well as convert silicon-based structures into carbon-based structures... The goblins in the dungeon maze possess naturally evolved genetic sequences...]

"Just tell me the conclusion!"

[Calculation Conclusion: Assuming the entire dungeon maze is a living thing, the man-made structures within the maze are most likely assimilated ancient ruins. The monsters bred within the dungeon maze are likely to be similarly assimilated ancient creatures.]

(PS: It somehow worked, and then I connected to the magic modification of the dungeon maze in my outline - by the way, I want to say in advance that this part of the magic modification is not separate from the previous one, but is related. I will talk about it in detail later... In short, my coding state has survived again, emmmm...)

The fourth instance: 116. Dungeon Maze = Corpse Transformation (4k+)

The dungeon maze is alive.

This is a fact that is almost universally known among adventurers in the Netherworld.

But almost no one has ever thought about why there are so many architectural ruins in a 'living' maze?

After all, it was obvious that those were not monsters bred in the dungeon maze, at least they were monsters that had not yet become heretics and gained independent personalities and selves, and were still only capable of killing and reproducing. They should only belong to the creations of "civilization", and their distribution was extremely dispersed, appearing in the shallow layer close to the surface and also in the deep layer.

But no one cares.

No one has ever paid attention to the adventurers and adventure guilds in Orario.

The gods who came down from Heaven to have fun didn't care at all.

Anyway, as long as the dungeon maze can continue to breed monsters, magic stones can be peeled out from the monsters' corpses after being killed, and there is a stable output of enough magic stones to maintain the operation of a series of industrial chains, no one will care.

The magic stones produced in the bodies of low-level monsters that a LV1 adventurer can kill can serve as energy to provide a magic item with a considerable period of operation. A LV1 adventurer can bring back a considerable amount of these low-level magic stones in a day after entering the maze.

Magic stones produced by monsters comparable to LV4 adventurers can easily keep a city's public magic props, such as street lights, running for more than a year.

As for the magic stones produced by higher-level monsters, they are simply comparable to strategic resources such as uranium on Earth.

In short, every magic stone contains pure magic power...

...And Xia Yan needs magic power, enough magic power, more magic power than the [Great Holy Grail] that can start the Holy Grail War ceremony.

This is not for the upgrade of the [Great Holy Grail].

First of all, the process of Astesia dismantling the godhood and divinity of the 'Meteor Goddess' and integrating it into the [Holy Grail] was not accomplished overnight. Even at the fastest speed, it would take more than a year.

Secondly, the gods of this "copy" world, even if their divine nature and divine qualities are not suitable for combat in the conventional sense, their own size and status are not small.

Without the sealing divine power that can be called the law of the world, one can leave the restrictions of [Heaven].

Any god who uses his divine power at will can affect the entire underworld.

Even gods representing concepts like love and beauty may not have much physical destructive power, but they can arbitrarily tamper with and distort all definitions related to "love" and "beauty". If a god of love or beauty feels that tentacle monsters are true love and true beauty, they can make all creatures in the underworld inevitably "corrupted" from a cognitive perspective and gradually become tentacle monsters with twisted flesh and blood. It only takes a little time to turn the underworld into a world covered with flesh and blood tentacles.

As for those deities and divine qualities that are suitable for conventional combat, for example: the God of Light can make the entire world turn into light, similar to the first world being engulfed by the flood of light in FF14;

The water god and the sea god can cause the sea level to rise and submerge the land until the entire world is submerged in water...

...Astesia, who is ostensibly the goddess of 'shooting stars' but is actually the goddess of 'celestial gravity', can manipulate celestial bodies in the simplest and most direct way by dragging them down. Zhu Yue, the UO Moon King, uses fantasy materialization to temporarily materialize a 'moon' and drop it. However, the goddess of 'celestial gravity' has no restrictions on using her divine power in the lower realm, and is able to use gravity to push the moon to create a true Earth-Moon opposition.

When Asthesia felt that dismantling her former deity and upgrading the [Holy Grail] with the size and status of the 'Meteor Goddess' was not enough, it could only be said to be a sheer waste of resources.

Therefore, upgrading the [Holy Grail] does not require magic power, but Xia Yan feels that he may need to upgrade it as well.

Otherwise, after the [Great Holy Grail] is upgraded, even if the spirit of the weapon is willing to obey orders, he will not be able to use this magic weapon.

But upgrading is not something you can do just by thinking about it.

Xia Yan's foundation is the Qingyun Sect character from the original MMO game, which was materialized into the Tai Chi Xuanqing Dao Shangqing Realm cultivation system that is biased towards the classical immortal cultivation system.

After the second dungeon, he relied on the [Great Holy Grail] to create the spiritual base of 'Qingyun Sect Monk - Xia Yan', and only then did he truly master the power bestowed by the system initiation.

And in the third copy, due to various coincidences, he came up with a 'Monkey King Visualization Method' and cultivated a more special way of ghost immortals, transcending the foundation of the Shangqing Realm cultivation bestowed by the system initiation.

You can stop here.

He has also reached a limit in his unconventional ways.

The 'Soul' that was pieced together by the 'Ghost Immortal-Xia Yan' spiritual base generated by the [Great Holy Grail] also had an upper limit. It was impossible to unlimitedly transform and absorb every 'Ghost Immortal-Xia Yan' into a 'thought'. Even by superimposing the mana limit raised by the 'Ghost Immortal-Xia Yan' spiritual base, it also reached the limit.

Although it is possible to increase the magic power by adding more "thoughts".

But if there is even the slightest mistake in controlling the magic power, one will immediately turn into a human bomb.

Therefore, he must find other ways to upgrade, and the best directions at present are, one is the divine path of [Essence], and the other is undoubtedly the [Golden Scripture of the Sun] and [Black Scripture of Death] obtained after killing the ancient Egyptian high priest Imhotep who was destroyed by love, which makes him qualified to reproduce the ascension ritual.

Performing the ascension ritual requires a large amount of magical power.

The ancient Egyptian high priest brought the entire City of the Dead that came with it into the real world, as well as a bunch of artifacts, magical items and mummies that were buried there by successive ancient Egyptian dynasties. He also stole the energy of sunlight in the Sahara Desert, and only then was he able to complete the ascension ritual that could only be used once.

Xia Yan wanted to reproduce the ascension ritual, but he did not have the convenience of the ancient Egyptian high priest. Moreover, he did not want to use it just for himself. Irena also needed to be upgraded. Otherwise, if she only relied on the spirit base of the female Merlin, she would not be able to keep up sooner or later.

Even after leaving this "copy" world, he also needed an ascension ritual to knock himself off the throne and completely transform into an ordinary Terran in exchange for Astesia who left with him.

So, on the second day after entering this "copy" world and arriving at the maze city of Orario, Xia Yan took Irena and Asthesia into the dungeon maze.

After casually killing a goblin and digging out a not-so-big magic stone from the corpse, he asked the spirit of the [Great Holy Grail] to detect and check the magic power in the magic stone, and confirmed again and again that it was not the contaminated alien magic power like the black mud that was the evil of all the world.

To be on the safe side, Xia Yan simply summoned the [Error of No Return] and let this humanoid mecha proactively hunt the lowest-level monsters, the goblins, in the shallow maze, and use its own scanning and analysis modules to conduct further inspections.

however.

Xia Yan had not expected that by letting the AI ​​of the humanoid mecha [Wugui's Error] collect intelligence on its own, it would actually bring him such a big surprise.

The monsters born from the dungeon maze actually have a complete natural evolution genetic sequence?

The remains of the dungeon maze's buildings have existed longer than the known time of its appearance in the Nether?

Also, what does it mean to construct in the form of a silicon-based structure and then transform from the silicon-based structure into carbon-based flesh and blood in an unknown form?

The flesh and blood curse of the Ancient Gods?

So, after hearing the answer given by [Wugui's Error], Xia Yan immediately had a face full of question marks.

Irena and Asthesia had the same expression.

Wait until you react.

"Xia Yan, does it mean that the architectural ruins and monsters in the dungeon maze were all 'assimilated' by the dungeon maze in the past?"

Irena widened her eyes, looking at the maze rock wall beside her in horror, and said in disbelief:

"Isn't this 'assimilation' meant literally?"

"It might not just be literal, but also take a physical form, like eating... After all, a dungeon is alive, so it makes sense that a living thing needs to eat to replenish its business or grow."

Xia Yan turned his gaze to Asthesia.

"Is it true that the gods of the [Heavenly Realm] first noticed the existence of the underground maze in the Netherworld three thousand years ago?"

"Yes."

Asthesia nodded.

"Three thousand years ago, when the monsters bred in the underground city labyrinth invaded the surface, the gods who were still in the [Heaven] noticed its appearance."

"Earlier?"

"Then I don't know."

Asthesia spread her hands helplessly.

"The 'me' in the [Heaven] before didn't really care about these things."

"Then let me ask another question. Has the Lower Realm experienced a period of civilizational discontinuity in the past few thousand or tens of thousands of years? And before the civilizations that formed the various races and nations of the current world emerged, did other civilizations appear in the Lower Realm?"

"Hmm, let me think...it seems that there is."

Asthesia pondered for a moment and said:

"Xia Yan, you should be aware of the custom among the Orario clan gods that they collectively assign titles to high-level adventurers with potential during their divine meetings, right?"

"Um...wait, you mean?"

Xia Yan was stunned for a moment, then reacted.

In the story of Dicuo, the Council of Gods, initiated by the Lord of the Orario Families, is explained to the outside world as a place for the gods to exchange information with each other, and also a place for the Families and Guilds to discuss the municipal activities of the maze city. Although it is only an information agency and has no actual right to manage the municipal affairs, it has a very high influence on the group of adventurers.

In reality, it was a public execution ground, because the gods in the underworld generally regarded the members of their clans as their 'children', or the 'game characters' they had trained, and they often liked to choose a better 'game ID', which was the name of an adventurer.

But the decision-making power is not entirely in one's own hands, but is voted on by the collective in this Council of God.

Therefore, in the eyes of a group of people who like to have fun, this is the best place to trip each other up. They often deliberately come up with some childish-sounding names and rely on the "number of people" to vote. Amid the wailing of the person who wants to come up with a more normal "game ID", they give the other party's favorite "child" or "game character" a shameful name that people in the lower world cannot understand, but gods can fully understand.

Just like the title of "Sword Princess" of the heroine Ess Wallenstein, it was a relatively "normal" ID that was decided by Loki because of his strong power and his reputation in the "Heaven" that was intimidating enough.

As for abnormal IDs... such as the Holy Dragon Knight of Dawn, the Future Galaxy, the Scattered Saint... and even some non-mainstream titles... people in the lower realms don't understand why. They just think they sound impressive, but for the gods who have worked so hard to raise their "children" and "game characters", it is extremely embarrassing.

But Xia Yan suddenly realized that, apart from the plot and settings of the "original work", if it were substituted into a real world, many of those names would be relatively modern, and the gods who could feel the shame and immaturity in them were also too modern, as if he had seen or personally used such shameful and immature IDs as online names in the past.

After all, you can't say that this was just something the original author did intentionally in a world that has already become real. If you want to blame someone, blame the author who wrote this plot and added this setting, right?

If there weren't such far-fetched reasons for breaking the fourth wall.

In a real world, gods from the [Heaven] can get more modern names, which contain shame and immaturity.

The only explanation is that they themselves have this knowledge and experience.

"Has a highly technologically advanced civilization ever existed in the lower realm?"

Xia Yan asked in a deep voice:

"And the gods of the [Heavenly Realm] also have a deep understanding of and exposure to things like computers, the internet, online games, online IDs... or similar things?"

Asthesia nodded slightly.

Seeing this, Xia Yan and Irena looked at each other... Unlike Astesia, who directly possessed and completely integrated herself into the intelligent NPC Xingji in this "copy" world, they were still in the modern society of the 21st century the day before yesterday, and now naturally thought of a possibility.

If before this sword-and-magic fantasy society and civilization, other styles of civilizations and societies had been born in the underworld, such as mechanical technology civilization, fairy cultivation civilization, etc., but they have now disappeared, combined with the intelligence actively collected and brought back by the AI ​​of [No Return].