Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!
Chapter 352: Insufficient Clues

Chapter 352: Chapter 352: Insufficient Clues

Even though he realized that Yang Yu was not a rookie adventurer, Kegro still endlessly talked about the Underground Maze during their journey.

This Underground Maze was similar to ordinary underground mazes, yet completely different.

Since defeating monsters in this maze yielded almost no loot, no one ventured into its deeper levels.

The thought of tirelessly defeating monsters only to find that they dropped neither Gold Coins nor Equipment would dampen any adventurer’s enthusiasm by half.

There were only two kinds of people who would persist in delving deeper into such an Underground Maze.

One kind was like the "Red Blood Rose", powerful individuals who wanted to see what lay at the end of this Underground Maze. It was such people who proved that the maze wasn’t entirely devoid of drops, it was just that the probability was bizarrely low.

The other kind, most likely as described by Yang Yu, were people like Sekamens who genuinely desired to become stronger and did not care about how little they might gain.

When the "Red Blood Rose" undertook their strategy, Kegro was also present; in just one hour, the "Red Blood Rose" had completely cleared the entire Underground Maze, leaving not a single monster behind.

This had caused Kegro’s business to be suspended for a long time.

When Yang Yu asked Kegro if he took the opportunity to venture deeper into the maze then, Kegro shook his head.

Knowing his own strengths and acknowledging that he couldn’t keep up with his friends in more challenging mazes, Kegro had come here to do business.

He had also experienced many things in the past and knew that the Underground Maze was fraught with dangers; one should never step into places beyond their ability just out of curiosity.

This was also the embodiment of the saying, "Curiosity killed the cat."

However, there really were people who after the "Red Blood Rose" cleared out the monsters on the road, went to the last level.

It was these people who spread the news of strange doors within the Goblin Underground Maze.

As they traversed through the maze, the goblins in front of Yang Yu and his group became increasingly robust and massive,

The goblins active on the first floor only reached up to Yang Yu’s hips, but those on the fifth floor were already as tall as Yang Yu’s chest, with the majority being Level 20 and above.

By this level, one seldom encountered other adventurers; the time spent handling these weaklings could better be spent accepting more Tasks or searching other Underground Mazes with treasures.

Along the way, Yang Yu saw many strange goblins wrapped in bandages.

The form and size of each floor’s Goblin Mummies changed along with the goblins of each level.

However, the color of the Goblin Mummies—unlike that of wandering goblin monsters—and the loose bandages revealed that their body color was darker and bore strange black patterns.

According to Kegro, those bandage-wrapped Goblin Mummies were elite monsters of each level, extremely difficult to deal with, and might even swarm like living goblins; one should not attempt to anger them.

Yang Yu used his panel to gather information about the bandage-wrapped goblins. The category of monster they all fell into was Goblin Mummies, and these bandaged Goblin Mummies were clearly stronger, with attributes and Blood Volume usually doubling, or even tripling, that of ordinary goblins.

It wasn’t wrong to say they were all elite.

Winding through the maze, Kegro finally led them to the entrance of the seventh floor, asking Yang Yu if this was really okay before watching them enter the Goblin Maze’s seventh floor.

Upon reaching this level, the goblins were the size of average humans, no longer potbellied but rather standing tall and proud, resembling well-trained warriors.

The goblins on this layer were above Level 30, and this was the level where Sekamens and his group were most likely to train.

Yang Yu drew his sword and shield, instructing Bai Jin and Iyas to stay close, and continued deeper into the Underground Maze.

Like typical underground mazes, the monsters here seldom initiated attacks, unless someone lingered in front of them for too long.

The goblins on this level were too fragile in the presence of Yang Yu and his group; a few Frost Ice Arrows from Bai Jin could completely wipe out one.

Unfortunately, Yang Yu and his team had searched the entire seventh floor without finding a trace of Sekamens. The eighth floor was even quieter, and the ninth floor was just as silent.

Even when Yang Yu pressed his ear against the wall, he still couldn’t hear any sounds of fighting.

Yang Yu was suddenly puzzled.

That shouldn’t be right?

The goblins on the ninth floor were already over Level 40 and had grown to over two meters tall...

To be honest, seeing those goblins, Yang Yu was no longer sure if they could still be called goblins.

What surprised Yang Yu even more was that the attributes of these wandering goblins had become extreme.

For example, some goblin monsters had completely given up on attack and speed, with their defense attribute extremely outstanding, a single attribute value over four hundred. Luckily, Bai Jin’s Intelligence had already surpassed seven hundred, and Iyas had armor-breaking attacks, which made dealing with them relatively easy.

As for those who gave up defense and focused on speed and attack, they were firmly countered by Yang Yu, the defensive warrior.

Although they were somewhat troublesome to deal with, they weren’t difficult to the extent of posing a real challenge.

Yet, such difficulty was quite strenuous for Sekamens’ team.

The training limit should have been this floor, yet why hadn’t they found Sekamens and his team’s tracks?

It’s impossible that in just a few short days, they had made a breakthrough, dealing with this place as if it were a piece of cake.

Could it be that they had gone back early, leaving us chasing shadows?

The monsters on the ninth floor were already so powerful, Yang Yu thought about whether to check out the last floor when suddenly Iyas alertly pulled her bow.

Because of Iyas’s action, Yang Yu sensed something.

"Bai Jin, upper right corner, ’Frost Ice Arrow’ fire!"

"Received... huh?"

Iyas’s bow-drawing hand hesitated, looking incredulously at Yang Yu, while Bai Jin immediately followed Yang Yu’s command and shot a frost ice arrow toward the upper right corner of the corner.

In the dark corner, a "squeak" was heard, followed by a small black figure falling vertically down.

Yang Yu passed by the stunned Iyas and went straight to the dark shadow.

It was a black bat, flapping its wings vigorously on the ground, but unable to take flight again due to a large hole pierced through its wings by Bai Jin’s attack.

After a struggle, the black bat turned into black dust and completely disappeared.

At this moment, a new task popped up on Yang Yu’s panel, but...

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Task Requirement: ????

Task Reward: ????

Note, insufficient clues for display of task.

Please collect enough clues to unlock this task.

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