Chapter 514 - 482: Assault on the Fifth Prison Level
After devouring the body of the Crystal Turtle Shell Giant Beast while eating and shedding flesh, Douglas’s appearance had dramatically changed. He transformed from a blob of flesh into a massive armadillo covered in fleshy armor! At this point, its basic defense was close to 100 points, and its health had surpassed the 30,000 mark!
Still unsatisfied after consuming the Crystal Giant Beast, Douglas set his sights on the corpses of medium and small-sized monsters. The gluttonous feast began anew, and during its devouring process, terrifying and massive spikes grew from its back!
Such an astonishing rate of metabolic evolution was beyond imagination! Was this the power of the Divine Level Fragment? How far ahead had I progressed?
"Don’t be surprised," Hangeval, who was watching coldly from the side, remarked calmly, "Every rare monster here possesses certain divinity. These are creatures we captured with great effort, using all our wisdom and at enormous expense. Only monsters of this caliber are worthy of becoming sacrifices for the fragments of the Evil God’s divine level. Such rapid growth is only to be expected. For ordinary creatures, no matter how much they consume, it would only restore some stamina. Who would have thought—"
At this point, Hangeval couldn’t help but laugh excitedly, "Who would have thought that the outrageous things we once did have become our saving grace in the end? We were prepared for significant sacrifices on the fifth floor, but with such a powerful divine-level creature on our side, our chances of escape have greatly increased!"
Da Fei was also invigorated and laughed heartily, "Good! The stronger, the better!"
I didn’t expect it either! I didn’t expect that opening a door I would never have been able to open under normal circumstances would be the key to breaking through! Not to mention rescuing the female clan leader, it’s not impossible to protect everyone!
Hangeval said solemnly, "However, my friend, this creature ultimately evolved from the divine level of an Evil God. Perhaps the Evil God is not conscious yet, but it could become dangerous once it grows to a certain extent! You must maintain control!"
Da Fei was suddenly taken aback as well, of course! Would a god easily be manipulated by mortals? Becoming absurdly advanced wasn’t just nonsense!
Da Fei said seriously, "Thank you for the warning, friend! I’ll be careful!"
Devouring the bodies of these ordinary medium and small-sized monsters was much faster and easier, and in no time, the monster corpses were nearly all disposed of. As Hangeval suggested, Douglas didn’t even glance at the ordinary dwarf corpses, as they held no value for it.
However, the weapons dropped from these corpses became spoils of war for the team once again. It must be said, this was yet another advantage of having NPCs in the team. These NPCs seemed to have unrestrained plundering and clearing capabilities. If a player achieved victory with regular units, they’d still have to learn the Lord System’s War Plunder Skill to have a chance of gaining more spoils of war.
And now, the broadcast that echoed throughout the prison finally had new content:
— "The Kingdom Suppression Force has regrouped. This is another warning to the rebellious prisoners: if you give up resisting and surrender voluntarily, you will still have a final chance at a reprieve to save your lives. Those who resist will be executed on the spot without mercy!"
Hearing this broadcast, the dwarves laughed uproariously!
Hangeval could only shake his head with a wry smile, "Talberon still won’t give up our wealth, huh? Blame it on my booze-induced bravado back then, bragging our asset figures up by a zero. That not only got us in this prison mess, but also became our last straw of survival—what a twist of fate!"
The dwarves roared with laughter, "We won’t tell him how much we really have!"
Ah, you’re not telling me how much you have either; are you afraid I’ll deem you worthless? You underestimate my level of understanding. Your mere existence is valuable in itself!
Hangeval said seriously, "Friend, it’s time to set off! I don’t know what’s imprisoned on the fifth floor, but I have faith in our creature!"
Da Fei nodded, "Let’s move!"
Da Fei opened Douglas’s Equipment Bar once more, and this time, the glow of the Divine Level Fragment was conspicuously different from just moments ago.
When Da Fei chose to remove the fragment, Douglas still shouted, "Douglas dedicates his life to the Master!"
Perhaps moved by the previous conversation, Da Fei suddenly thought of a question and asked, "Douglas, if the dwarves also wanted your Life Core, why would you give it to me and not to them?"
Douglas responded sullenly, "The greedy dwarves want to extract my core power and eventually devour me. But the Master will certainly not do that; the Master will nurture Douglas, allowing Douglas to serve the Master better!"
Hangeval laughed heartily, "He’s right, that’s precisely the kind of thing Talberon would do!"
Da Fei was astonished and nodded repeatedly, "I see!"
To be so good at assessing situations, to feign ignorance, and to curry favor with the Master—just how clever was this Douglas!
By this time, Douglas had evolved into a Turtle Shell Giant Beast with 35,000 health, 100 attack and defense, 50% magic defense, and spikes covering its entire body. Each step it took raised a cloud of dust on the ground. If it could survive this battle and bring it back to Radiant City, there was no fear of the Demon Army besieging the city, and even the Eight-Headed Snake in the passageway could be dealt with!
However, the system never made things so easy, did it? If I protected it, then these dwarf minions wouldn’t survive. In the end, what’s more valuable—the dwarves or Douglas? Ah, I won’t bother calculating that, because as this dwarf hero says, fate is unpredictable, and who cares!
The gates to the fifth floor roared open, with Da Fei’s Blood Eagle scouting ahead.
At this moment, alarms were blaring on the fifth floor as well. At the entrance stood two enormous rune mechanical guards, gleaming with demon light, as gigantic as Titans! Damn, so these were robots that don’t drink and don’t make mistakes! This was absolutely a high-end product of the dwarf’s rune technology combined with the Mage Academy’s machinery technology! No wonder there’s chaos above while it’s entirely quiet below.
And just then, a red light exploded in the Blood Eagle’s field of view!
— System Prompt: Reconnaissance Skill Warning! Your Reconnaissance Eagle has entered the alert range of the Rune Guard and is about to be attacked!
Da Fei’s eyebrows twitched in surprise! Damn, they even have anti-invisibility! If the Blood Eagle’s plane invisibility can’t pass, then neither can my God-level Stealth, can it? Is this what they call S-level vigilance?
Under normal circumstances, this level of vigilance would mean that my infiltration and rescue had failed. But fate is unpredictable; I no longer need to sneak around, and I don’t care how much vigilance it has—I will crush it head-on!
"The wheel of history cannot be stopped!" Douglas roared, rolling down like a massive spiked steel ball!
— "Alert! Intruders have entered the fifth floor; eliminate them with the Rune Guard!"
Two beams of enormous demon light shot at the rolling steel ball. -1520! -1540! Two exaggerated and explosive damage figures popped up!
Da Fei was so surprised his jaw dropped to the ground! Damn these gate gods! If they blasted these NPCs, wouldn’t they be killed instantly? How many ordinary soldiers could be obliterated by that shot!
— Boom Crash!!! Knockdown damage -430! -416! The two gigantes managed only one volley before being knocked over by Douglas! That’s right, large-sized, especially giant-sized combat units are very susceptible to knockdown effects!
Da Fei called out, "Attack, take them down!"
"Charge!" The leading group of five burly dwarves leapt forward, followed closely by the other dwarves who immediately surrounded the fallen Rune Guards, slashing vigorously! Huge swathes of 40, 50, 60 damage numbers filled the screen, dealing over a thousand damage in barely a few seconds!
The colossal alarm once again echoed through the prison layers:
— "Alert! Intruders have entered the fifth floor; the Rune Mechanical Patrol is on its way to eliminate them!"
— "Alert! The rioting prisoners have entered the fifth floor; the Kingdom Suppression Force is heading to pursue and eradicate them!"
A large patrol of medium and small-sized mechanical guards emerged in front of the passageway, Da Fei’s eyebrows raised, thankfully! If they were all like those two gate gods at the entrance, my thousand-strong force would have been wiped out here!
Nothing more to say, just charge and crush them!
"Under the crushing wheel of history, turn to dust!"
Douglas rolled forward again, and dozens of demon light beams blasted massive -100, -100 damage on it!
Da Fei watched with eyebrows twitching wildly! Although these ordinary mechanical guards weren’t as deadly as the gate gods, there were too many of them! If they were flesh and blood, I could use the Suture Monster’s infamous hit-and-eat tactic to constantly heal, but alas, they’re all machines! Then it’s hopeless; if I’m to protect the dwarves, chances are Douglas will meet his end here!
But—it won’t do, it can’t die here; after all, isn’t there still a Magma Dragon guarding the space gate? Who knows what level of threat that is, and how many more must die to break through that?
In his anxiety, Da Fei scanned the nearby cages once more, and locked eyes with a yellow-name white-bearded old man!
Da Fei was startled? A dwarf old man? Demigod?
The frail old man, bound by silver chains, saw Da Fei looking at him, he was instantly overwhelmed with tears, opening and closing his mouth as if trying to say something, but no sound came out!
Got it, I get it! I’ll get you out! You better unleash some spectacular move to help me out! And it was only now that Da Fei realized the nearby cages held only these old men!
— Ah er! Da Fei spat out a mouthful of saliva, there was no way they could all be demigods, right? They didn’t remotely look the part with their misfortunate appearances!
No need to think anymore, Da Fei immediately told Hangeval, "You command here, I’m going to unlock and save people!"
Hangeval laughed heartily, "There are too many doors to unlock one by one, don’t cram everyone in here, send hundreds of brothers to use giant axes and big hammers to smash the doors open and break the chains!"
The dwarves roared in unison, "Smash the doors!"
Indeed, since we’re not bothering with stealth anyway, why bother with locks! Da Fei exclaimed excitedly, "Alright! We’ll smash it open then!"
(Ah, the thrill of frenetically updating, my eyes hurt for a day! Brothers, hang in there, vote!)