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Chapter 652 - 349: Initial Exploration of the Underground City_2

Chapter 652: Chapter 349: Initial Exploration of the Underground City_2

As soon as this post was released, healers instantly became highly sought after.

"Searching for a professional healing teammate. A purple-tier item as a gift for the qualified..."

"Willing to pay for long-term healers. Good rewards..."

"Skywolf Guild is hiring healing professionals at a high price. Quantity unlimited. The more, the better..."

...

Suddenly, a large number of recruitment posts for healers flooded the forum’s team-building page.

The value of healers skyrocketed, many posts were arguing and bidding frantically for a single healer, resembling an auction scene.

Lin Hai, being a renowned livestreamer, many people knew that he had a Sister Skin. He had outstanding healing volumes and could use various common auxiliary magic. His high level made him an ideal auxiliary team member for the underground city dungeon.

Within a few minutes after the post, Lin Hai received thousands of team invitations in his inbox, including propositions from various well-known forces and experts, as well as colleagues from Commerce Alliance seeking to team up with him.

However, Lin Hai politely rejected all of these offers, even those from his daily companions in the Commerce Alliance, and his reason was robust: "I have been invited by the City Lord!"

These six words silenced everyone: If it were another character, some experts might still try to compete, but against the Ghost Captain - who could claim their team was stronger? Moreover, buttering up the City Lord would help cement a long-term stable position easily. Under these conditions which they couldn’t possibly match, everyone had to give up.

At this time, Mu You had already gathered his troops and arrived at the entrance to the underground city.

Apart from Lin Hai, he had also specifically invited another member of the Commerce Alliance: Xia Chongyu Bing.

His main goal in entering the underground city was to advance the dungeon progress as quickly as possible. Hence, he needed to find the exit to the second floor as soon as possible.

For that purpose, the first thing Mu You thought of was Xia Chongyu Bing’s ’Honest Coin’.

The coin would guide her to the ’most correct path’ with each step, in a maze-like underground city, the most correct location would either be a place with valuable treasures or an exit. Mu You leaned towards the latter.

Xia Chongyu Bing was somewhat surprised when she suddenly received an invitation from the City Lord, after hearing the explanation from Mu You, she understood. Besides, Mu You promised her a long-term highly ranked job as a reward, and Xia Chongyu Bing agreed to the task without much hesitation.

[You, Red Sickle Girl, Qing Ya Shu Xiang, Lin Haihai, Xia Chongyu Bing formed a team and collectively entered the first layer of the underground city.]

[You have illuminated the soul lamp of the first layer of the underground city. When entering the underground city, you can choose to appear at any layer where the soul lamp has been lit.]

The ’Qing Ya Shu Xiang’ in the team is the name of Little Ya’s newly activated Avatar Card.

Upon entering the underground city, Mu You tried casting Dark Transfer first.

But a prompt appeared: [The underground city is a special environment, all space-related magic cannot be cast.]

Indeed, couldn’t set up a teleportation array...

Mu You wasn’t too surprised. However, the blocking of all space magic also implied that teleport and teleportation spells couldn’t be used either.

[Your team appears before a cluster of crystals. To your left is a cluster of green crystals, do you mine them?]

"Yes."

Luckily, they encountered a cluster of gems as soon as they entered. Mu You tried mining it for the first time.

[You approach the crystal mine, team action points -1. Mining is in progress. It is expected to end in five minutes...]

[You have gained 2 x Green Demon Crystals.]

[Green Demon Crystal: One of the most common low-rank gems in the first layer of the underground city. It is full of ample magic power and has decent hardness. It can be used to make various parts of Black Iron Rank Sky Suits.]

[You see the crystal cluster you mined retracts into the rocks and disappears. When it grows to a sufficient size, it can reappear.]

It seems that the mines in this dungeon are all specially equipped with resource protection mechanisms. After mining the gems on the surface, they will automatically retract to prevent greedy people from mining the roots too, leading to a depletion of fish in the pond.

That being said, it takes five minutes to complete a single mining operation, which is quite inefficient. A dungeon raid only lasts an hour in total.

Therefore, when asked again whether to continue mining the nearby crystal mine, Mu You chose no without hesitation.

Just understanding the mechanism once through mining is enough. They were here for a speed run and couldn’t waste too much time on mining.

[Xia Chongyu Bing: We should take the middle path next.]

The team continued to move forward. When they encountered the next fork, Xia Chongyu Bing provided the necessary guidance timely.

As the team leader, Mu You was responsible for controlling the team’s direction. He chose the middle path and recorded the route on his a piece of paper.

[You chose to proceed straight ahead.]

[You see three green jelly-like creatures blocking the path in front of you. Upon spotting you, they immediately move towards you.]

[Acid Spray Slime: Level 11, Attack power 15-17, Defensive power 35, HP: 4000, Abilities: Acid Spray, Death trigger: Toxic Trap.]

[You used the Fire Spear Technique on the slime, a succession of fire spears shot out from your hand, igniting all of the slime.]

[Under the high burning damage, the HP of the three slimes quickly declined until they died.]

[You have killed 3 x slimes. HP+3, Experience+10, Obtained: Slime Gel*3, Poison Gland*3.]