Chapter 50 - 47: The Boss at the Center of the Gate World
Chapter 50: Chapter 47: The Boss at the Center of the Gate World
They had just entered the Seventh Gate World.
Succubus Kajimi had immediately killed three Level 15 Demon Beasts—Great Omen Insects.
And it was an effortless, one-shot kill.
Staring at the three massive insects before him.
Since Kajimi had killed them, their guts had burst open.
Fang Xiu felt a wave of disgust.
But he had to stay and wait to see if they would drop anything good.
Soon, a cyan glow emanated from the body of one of the Great Omen Insects.
The light gradually faded, leaving behind something that looked like an insect pupa.
"What’s this?"
Fang Xiu walked over and picked up the pupa.
’It’s an item drop, anyway.’
Fang Xiu wasn’t worried about it being dangerous.
[Great Omen Insect Pupa: A material used to craft Low Level defensive gear.]
"Not bad!"
Fang Xiu put it away with satisfaction.
This item wasn’t very useful to Fang Xiu himself.
But it could be sold for money.
And its price was much higher than Scorpion Gold.
Besides, Fang Xiu didn’t have any defensive gear yet.
If worse came to worst, he could just gather the materials himself and find a Tailor to craft a piece for him.
"An item drop right after we got here. My luck isn’t half bad!"
Fang Xiu was very satisfied.
He had only just entered the Seventh Gate World, and something had already dropped.
It was a good omen.
"Kajimi, let’s go!"
Of course, to Fang Xiu, these Level 15 Great Omen Insects were just a peripheral gain. They weren’t his real target.
Fang Xiu didn’t have a destination in mind. He just wanted to venture deeper into the Seventh Gate World.
Into the unexplored regions.
Perhaps there was something special that could be used for Sacrifice.
"Master, there’s movement ahead!"
At this moment, Kajimi warned him.
"Humans or Demon Beasts?"
Fang Xiu asked.
"Humans!"
Kajimi replied.
"Let’s go around them!"
At this time, Fang Xiu didn’t want to come into contact with strangers.
Inside this Gate World, besides dangerous Demon Beasts, people also needed to be guarded against.
Because you never knew if the partner who was just fighting Demon Beasts back-to-back with you would suddenly stab you in the back.
"Master, why are there still unexplored areas in this Gate World? There are plenty of strong people in the city, like that principal. Why don’t they come explore?"
Kajimi led Fang Xiu, avoiding the group of people.
She asked curiously.
"They’re leaving opportunities for others."
Fang Xiu replied.
"Huh?"
Kajimi was stunned, not understanding.
"Think about it. If the powerful explored all the Gate Worlds and took all the good stuff, would anyone else be happy about it?"
Fang Xiu explained, "If they weren’t, those Awakened would rebel. They’d become difficult to control. You’d have to deal with not only Demon Beasts but also enraged Awakened. It would be overwhelming."
"I see!"
Kajimi nodded slightly.
’She didn’t fully understand this approach. After all, if they resisted, couldn’t you just kill them?’
’But Kajimi knew to trust what her master said. She shouldn’t voice her own opinion.’
"You could kill them, yes. But if you run out of low-level Awakened, who’s going to be the cannon fodder when the Demon Beasts attack?"
Although Kajimi didn’t say it out loud,
Fang Xiu still guessed what she was thinking.
A Succubus was not a being to be trifled with in the first place.
Fang Xiu naturally knew what she was thinking.
"Cannon fodder?"
Kajimi seemed to half-understand.
"It’s the group that charges at the very front during a battle."
Fang Xiu explained.
Kajimi nodded. She understood.
"Besides, powerful Awakened have Gate Worlds appropriate to their own Level to explore. They naturally wouldn’t come to a small-fry instance like this to kill-steal."
As they walked, Fang Xiu continued, "The drops here are all relatively Low Level. Stronger Awakened need different things and won’t waste their time here."
"Demon Beasts, Master, Level 12!"
Just then, Kajimi saw a group of Level 12 Demon Beasts not far away.
"I’ll give it a try!"
Level 12?
The same level as Fang Xiu.
In that case, he wanted to test the power of the Nether King’s True Eye.
"Yes!"
Kajimi nodded.
With her here, Demon Beasts of this level couldn’t hurt Fang Xiu.
"Profound Wood Spiders?"
Looking at the Demon Beasts before him, Fang Xiu recognized them.
These were Level 12 Profound Wood Spiders.
Their Attack Skill was Poison Net Binding.
Its attack range was three meters.
Beyond three meters, its power would be halved.
They could use Spider Webs to trap enemies. The webs were poisonous and had a paralyzing effect.
Once touched, it was very difficult to break free in a short time.
And as the toxin accumulated, it became even harder to deal with.
’There aren’t that many of them. A random barrage should be enough to kill them!’
Fang Xiu didn’t know how to control the Thunder.
The targets seemed to be random.
Whether it could distinguish between friend and foe, Fang Xiu didn’t know.
"Netherworld Thunder Fall!"
Fang Xiu raised his Magic Staff and directly used the Skill.
In an instant, dark clouds gathered, and countless black bolts of Thunder fell from them.
Seemingly sensing the terror of the black Thunder overhead, the Profound Wood Spiders retreated one after another.
But the Thunder was already falling. How could these Profound Wood Spiders possibly escape?
BOOM! RUMBLE!
The black Thunder fell, striking the bodies of the Profound Wood Spiders.
Just a single bolt of Thunder directly struck and killed a Level 12 Profound Wood Spider.
’Damn, it’s this powerful?’
Although Fang Xiu already knew that the Netherworld Thunder Fall he obtained from absorbing the Magic Core was very powerful,
he hadn’t expected it to be powerful to this extent.
A Profound Wood Spider of the same level as him was killed by a single bolt of Thunder.
And the Thunder he summoned was so numerous, there weren’t even enough spiders below to strike!
’At this rate, I could probably take down even a Level 15 or 16 Demon Beast!’
Fang Xiu felt a surge of excitement.
This one Skill, for a Sacrificial Master like him with no Attack Power, was extremely useful.
It was a massive power-up, to say the least.
Before, Fang Xiu had felt that this Skill’s Spiritual Power consumption was a bit too high.
And it couldn’t lock onto a target, nor could it be controlled.
It felt a bit impractical.
But now... impractical be damned. This skill was a thing of beauty.
With such devastating power, let alone consuming half his Spiritual Power, it would be worth it even if it drained him completely in an instant.
Although it couldn’t lock on, with such a dense barrage of Thunder, it would be difficult to avoid unless it was a Speed System Demon Beast.
BOOM! RUMBLE!
When the last bolt of Thunder fell,
only the charred black corpses of the Profound Wood Spiders were left on the ground.
"Seventeen of them!"
Fang Xiu counted. A total of seventeen Level 12 Profound Wood Spiders were struck dead without any chance to release their Spider Webs.
’Let’s see who dares look down on a Sacrificial Master’s Attack Power now!’
Fang Xiu was very satisfied with this Skill.
As several beams of light appeared,
Fang Xiu’s harvest this time was thirteen Spider Webs.
This kind of thing, like the Insect Pupa he just got, was a material for crafting Equipment.
But this Spider Web was better because it was sturdy enough that it could even be incorporated into some weapons.
Afterward, Fang Xiu and Kajimi continued walking towards the depths of the Seventh Gate World.
The deeper they went, the higher the Level of the Demon Beasts.
But the fewer people there were.
After all, this wasn’t an online game; you couldn’t resurrect after dying.
There weren’t that many Awakened willing to risk their lives to come explore.
Hunting Demon Beasts that weren’t very high-level in the outer areas could also earn them a lot of money.
This was much easier than how ordinary people earned money.
Fang Xiu had originally been a little worried.
If they encountered a powerful Demon Beast, could Kajimi handle it?
But when he saw two Level 25 Demon Beasts get one-shot by Kajimi’s Skill,
he knew that the task of exploring this Seventh Gate World had fallen on his shoulders.
Unfortunately, those two Level 25 Demon Beasts didn’t drop anything.
And for more than an hour after that, Fang Xiu didn’t encounter any more Demon Beasts of that Level.
"Master, how is the exploration of a Gate World considered complete?"
Kajimi was curious.
The Gate World is so big, how do you know if the exploration is successful or not?
It would be normal to miss some spots, right?
"It’s said that in the center of every Gate World, there is a powerful Demon Beast standing guard. If you kill that Demon Beast, it’s considered a complete exploration of the entire Gate World."
Fang Xiu told Kajimi what he knew.
Because the Demon Beast in the very center is the most powerful, the Awakened also call this Demon Beast a BOSS.
As long as you kill the BOSS, the Gate World is considered fully explored.
This is because in the entire vicinity of the BOSS—front, back, left, or right—no Demon Beast exists with a higher Level.
In other words, that BOSS is the strongest in this Gate World, and this also allows one to know what the highest Level in this Gate World is.
This in turn helps determine the Gate World’s specific Level and danger rating.
"So that’s how it is. Then can’t I just go directly to the center and kill that BOSS?"
Kajimi became a little eager to try.
"Let’s take our time. That BOSS is only one of my objectives!"
Fang Xiu wasn’t in a hurry.
This Seventh Gate World had existed for a very long time.
But it still hadn’t been fully explored.
He wasn’t in a rush and didn’t need to worry about the BOSS being stolen by someone else.
After all, this Gate World had Level 10 Demon Beasts, so it was classified as a not-so-high-level Gate World.
Generally speaking, the more powerful Gate Worlds wouldn’t have Level 10 Demon Beasts.
According to the Gate Worlds discovered so far, there is one classified as B Level, and the weakest Demon Beasts in there are all Level 50.
No one has ever seen a Demon Beast below Level 50 in that Gate World.
And the Level classification of Gate Worlds is based on this.
As Fang Xiu walked, he explained some things to Kajimi that all Awakened knew, but she didn’t.
"Huh? What’s that?"
Just then, Fang Xiu suddenly saw a small hill appear not far ahead.
Although it wasn’t strange for a hill to appear in a forest, the strange thing was that there was a cave entrance on this hill.
It looked perfectly constructed. ’Was it man-made?’
"Let’s go take a look!"
Since they were already here, Fang Xiu wasn’t about to pass up a place like this.
’Isn’t finding things to Sacrifice the whole reason I came to this Gate World?’
Things found in places like this were often far more special than anything a Demon Beast might drop!
"Master, there seem to be Demon Beasts inside!"
Kajimi reminded him.
"Mm-hm."
’A random hill with Demon Beasts inside? Isn’t that perfectly normal?’
"It seems... there are people too!"
Kajimi added.
"People?"
This time, Fang Xiu was a bit surprised.
’People and Demon Beasts in there together, and not fighting? That’s a bit strange!’