Chapter 67

With a crisp sound, Fang Yi felt as if he had been hit by a wall, flying straight into the air and landing heavily on the ground not far away.

Fang Yi looked at the Blade of Hope for the End of Days in his left hand, the skill of the former king's protection had already entered cooldown. A level three deflection field, broken by the eight-legged monster, and he had taken 72 points of damage! Just how much strength did this monster have...

No matter how many calculations he made, he never expected that the Rock Eater Spider would have gained an illusion-type spell. Looking up, he saw that the new dark golden copper door had disappeared, replaced by a gray-brown expanse of hard rock. If he hadn't noticed in time—Fang Yi thought of the lion-headed beast squad leader in the Karin Desert who had crashed into an air wall, and his teeth felt a bit sour.

Fortunately, with the protection of the deflection field, he didn't immediately enter a critical state. Fang Yi gathered his strength, got up from the ground, and drank a healing potion. His mind raced: as a quasi-boss, the mutated Rock Eater Spider had excellent strength and agility. In his current state, he was likely to become the spider's meal.

Thinking of this, Fang Yi subconsciously reached back with his right hand, wanting to retreat to the wall. Unexpectedly, he found nothing. Fang Yi was taken aback and turned around to see a pitch-black cave entrance only three feet wide behind him. Next to it were scattered wooden buckets for drawing water, the ropes tied to them long since rotted away, leaving only some fragments due to the dry air.

The dwarves lived underground year-round, drawing their drinking water directly from underground rivers. Underground settlements that were not deep enough often had wells.

Fang Yi glanced back at the mutated Rock Eater Spider crawling towards him, took a deep breath, and steeled his resolve: "If worst comes to worst, I'll just do another drift in the underground river. I seem to have a connection with it."

He made a goodbye gesture to the Rock Eater Spider, twisted his body, and plunged straight into the dark, deep well. The eight-legged monster's不甘的嘶吼 (unwilling roar) echoed from the well's opening, still making him feel a bit uneasy.

The shaft was deeper than he had imagined, but it wasn't straight. The well walls wound down, left and right, allowing Fang Yi to maintain balance by holding the stone wall with his right hand and slowing down by inserting his dagger into the well wall. The well was dark and dim, but occasionally, moonstones embedded in the rock would reveal a corner, so Fang Yi wasn't completely blind.

Fang Yi controlled his descent, and suddenly, the downward momentum slowed, followed by his feet losing contact with the ground. Fang Yi immediately spread his body and relaxed his legs. A second later, he felt his feet touch the ground, rolled to the side, and stood up, drawing his blood.

After a long time underground, Fang Yi had become accustomed to the darkness. This was a narrow underground space, with the terrain on the left continuing downward. In front of him was a damaged stone door. Fang Yi equipped his thief's tools and approached to examine it carefully.

The cave on the left was pitch-black and seemed to have no bottom, with only the faint sound of the underground river's roar. The stone door in front of him clearly had a long history, with thick layers of spider webs and dust extending into the passage behind the door. After observing, Fang Yi found no traps and crouched to enter.

Why crouch? Because this passage was clearly designed for smaller creatures, such as dwarves, halflings, and gnomes. It was not only low but also narrow. Fang Yi squatted on the ground and slowly inched forward, thinking about the game designers. If a barbarian came here, how would they get through?

Just as Fang Yi was about to lose patience, a faint light finally appeared not far ahead. Fang Yi took a deep breath, rubbed his sore arms, and entered stealth mode, inching forward a few steps to the end of the passage.

The light outside the passage made Fang Yi's eyes somewhat unaccustomed. After four or five seconds, he slowly adjusted to the light and saw the scene in front of him, standing dumbfounded at the passage's exit, his eyes wide with amazement.

Before him was a vast dome, with light from an unknown source illuminating the enormous cave. The bottom of the cave was densely packed with buildings, rising and falling with the terrain, extending to the farthest reaches of his vision. A grand hall, towering over the surrounding buildings by ten times, stood at the boundary of light and darkness. Due to the distance and insufficient light, with his 16 points of perception, Fang Yi could only vaguely see the hall's dwarf-style architecture.

Fang Yi was utterly amazed by the scene before him. It took him a while to recover—how lucky he was to find such an epic dwarf city through an ordinary mine.

However, he couldn't just admire the scenery; he still had a mission. Fang Yi soon discovered a small path on the left, winding down the cliff. Before long, he was walking on the wide stone roads of the city. The inscriptions on the stone markers on the streets were clearly visible, and the city's name, Kantor—Fang Yi swore he had never heard of this dwarf city.

Kantor was eerily quiet, with no sounds of small animals or insects. Compared to the bustling Farview Town, it was like a dead city. Fang Yi moved stealthily through the residential areas, even hearing his own heartbeat.

Every object in the city was covered in dust. With every step, a cloud of dust rose. The stone houses were empty, with almost no living utensils, no anvils or minerals, nothing—like the city's inhabitants had collectively migrated, moving their homes elsewhere.

After a fruitless search, Fang Yi turned his gaze to the grand hall in the distance.

***

In the Greenwind Canyon, a boss battle was in full swing. The Spider Eater boss, though agile, was no match for the players, who averaged level 16. A level 15 non-leader boss was hard-pressed to defend itself.

Before long, the Spider Eater was left with only a thin layer of health. On the team leader's command, the group left the boss, leaving only a bald monk and a tank by its side.

The monk was the leader of the World Conquest guild, Qi Tianshanhe. The boss's last few hundred points of health couldn't withstand the monk's elite equipment, and it soon fell with a mournful cry. Qi Tianshanhe's body glowed, receiving an additional 5% experience for delivering the final blow, which immediately leveled him up.

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