nagpurpolice Chapter 277 Fire-Breathing Earth Dragon
Chapter 277 Fire-Breathing Earth Dragon
Chapter 281 Fire-Breathing Earth Dragon
The steak is gone.
Even the large bowl of raw steaks that had been marinated in sauce and were ready to be pan-fried was gone.
Two sheepdogs were fast asleep on the kitchen floor, their bellies round.
hateful!
Lina was so angry that she stomped her feet and wanted to kick them out without a second thought. Such a despicable act of stealing food happened in the manor.
"Don't be angry."
Richard chuckled, picked up his apron, wiped the sauce from the dogs' mouths, and said gently, "You have no proof that they ate it. Alright, go prepare some more ingredients. I want to eat chicken stew with mushrooms."
The lord was blatantly covering for them; what could the castle steward say?
Lina sighed and instructed the snow rabbit maid to catch a few chicks; the master's needs were the most important.
After a quick lunch, I comfortably dozed off on a deck chair on the rooftop. When I opened my eyes again, the sun was already setting.
Richard got up and stretched, then sent someone to inform Karl to bring a squad of Imperial Guards to wait in the open space east of the lord's mansion.
It's time to open the portal to the Skull Cave and continue the assault!
This time, Richard did not place the portal flat on the ground because he could sense that it was vertical.
After selecting the placement option in the system interface, a crack suddenly appeared in the ground, and a stone gate nearly ten meters long and wide slowly rose up.
On each side stands a heavy stone slab, which has been opened inwards, revealing a long passageway extending inwards.
This scene caused the more than fifty imperial guards present to gasp in hushed tones.
Carl peered into the passageway, its end shrouded in dim light, making it impossible to discern its exact direction.
He was no longer the guard who was terrified when he saw the lord using magic to transform the farmland.
Having followed the lord for so long, he had witnessed stone houses springing up out of thin air and packhorses turning into unicorns; he thought he had become numb.
But upon exiting the stone gate, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Sir, where does this gate lead?"
Richard was somewhat dissatisfied with his overly bland response, so he stepped over the stone gate and walked inside, casually replying.
"It's still a magic mine."
Karl let out a long "Oh," then casually made a hand gesture, and more than fifty guards merged with the unicorn and quickly followed.
Behind the door is a wide corridor with walls made of whole blocks of stone, rough in surface but tight in joints.
Unlike ordinary mines, this place has many wall lamps hanging on the walls, and the firelight illuminates the entire corridor.
As Richard walked, he looked up and examined the ceiling structure of the corridor, which was ten meters long and wide, allowing even the Universiade to enter and exit freely.
This detail isn't in the game.
But since the system has been adapted, it means that there are large monsters in the Skull Cave that require this kind of passage.
He recalled the information from the game: the Skull Cave was different from ordinary mines; it didn't have as much terrain, only a temple level.
In addition, there is a random special layer called the Prehistoric Layer, which contains several special monsters.
—A fire-breathing earth dragon!
In the game, this monster looks quite large, but in reality, judging from its name, it's probably a sub-dragon.
All sub-dragons share a common characteristic: they are much larger than most monsters.
The Great Luck is a case in point.
Thinking of this, Richard felt both expectant and apprehensive.
If a Soul Master could contract dozens of fire-breathing earth dragons as big as a Great Luck, and then equip them with heavy armor...
Whoops!
A wall of steel, spewing fire as it charges towards the enemy—who could possibly withstand that?!
Just imagining that scene makes Richard's skull tremble!
what...
What if they are riding on the backs of the Royal Guard, who are fused with unicorns, and using the Royal Guard's Wrath to perform ranged slashes?
Oh hoo!
However, there is a big problem.
If the fire-breathing earth dragon is a Star-level extraordinary being, then if the contracted soul master's level is lower than its level, then it is impossible to contract it.
The leveling system in the Skull Cave is definitely higher than that of a regular mine.
The Shadow Clan in the magma layer are all Star-level, so there's no reason why the Fire-Breathing Earth Dragon would be of a lower level. Even Da Yun was Star-level when he first appeared.
This analysis made Richard's brows furrow deeply.
We can only see it when we encounter the prehistoric layer.
After passing through a corridor several dozen meters long, a vast hall suddenly opened up before you, the entire space resembling the interior of a temple, with the floor paved with massive stone slabs of the same size, smooth but covered with fine cracks.
The wall extends upwards for several tens of meters before converging into a dome, where faded murals still remain.
It covers an area of about 30 acres, similar to the number of floors in a typical mine.
Nearby, many skeleton warriors were walking back and forth, carrying rusted daggers and broken shields.
Roughly counting them, there are about two hundred visible bodies alone.
Further into the shadows stood several human figures wrapped in strips of cloth, motionless, like old statues standing in a corner.
In the deepest part of the hall, several semi-transparent, blurry figures floated silently in mid-air, occasionally uttering faint whispers.
Richard's gaze swept over the monsters, and he quickly recognized their corresponding species in the game.
Skeleton warriors, death-whispering bats, vengeful spirits, mummies, liches, and so on—these are all undead monsters.
strange!
Based on the conversion of health bars in the game and in reality, the Skeleton Warrior should be a beginner-level transcendent, the Mummy a mid-level, the Coal Ghost a high-level, and the Lich a star-level.
Then, according to the settings, the first few floors should only have skeleton warriors.
The current situation is clearly due to system adaptation, which mixes all the monsters in the Skull Cave together instead of differentiating their strength levels by floor.
However, we didn't see any fire-breathing earth dragons on this floor. It's probably because this is a special floor and they don't participate in this mixed team building activity.
Do not understand.
Monsters are mixed together, and so do minerals.
The distribution of minerals in ordinary mines follows a pattern: copper and iron are found in the flat layer, gold and silver in the glacial layer, and iridium can only be found in the deepest magma layer.
In the case of the Skull Cave, the copper mine is right next to the iridium mine, and there are even a few ice crystals hanging on the walls, completely disregarding any rules.
fair enough.
Previously, ordinary mines produced too little iridium ore, so every piece had to be carefully calculated. Now, with iridium ore available on every level of the Skull Cave, the restrictions on iridium ore can finally be eased.
If we get another hundred iridium ingots, the next one will be the floating fortress.
The dozen or so monsters nearby seemed to sense the presence of living people, turned their heads in unison, and then swarmed over.
Karl glanced at Richard, and seeing that the lord had no new instructions, he strode forward to meet him.
The swords of the Imperial Guards suddenly flashed, and the dozen or so skeleton warriors at the front were instantly cleaved in two. The two mummies and the lich behind them didn't last a single round either.
"My lord," Karl turned and walked back to Richard's side, "why are some of the monsters here strong and some weak?"
"If the subsequent floors are also like this, I suggest that the Imperial Guards be divided into several groups, each leading a squad of city defense troops in for training. What do you think?"
Richard nodded and agreed to the request.
Although there is a slime prison, the variety of monsters is too limited, and once you are familiar with the slimes' fighting style, you can easily deal with them.
Here, monsters are mixed together; weak ones like skeletons are used by the city guards for practice, while strong ones like ghosts and liches are dealt with head-on by the royal guards.
It not only trains individual combat skills, but also allows the two legions to train in coordinated combat, just like in the early days, with guards and militia working together.
Once the city defense troops adapt to the rhythm here, their efficiency in subsequent assaults and their overall combat effectiveness will be significantly improved.
As for the servants, they continued to practice in the slime prison.