Blooming lightning filled the basilica. Electricity sizzled.
The Stinging Beetle's body was charred black. It landed heavily on the ground with sizzling white smoke and disintegrated into light spots that returned to the spell tablet.
Moonlight landed in a half-crouch and swept her sword. Electricity exploded in the air, and her flying hair fell gently.
"Beautiful." The masked man took back the card and nodded approvingly. "Although in the beginning, when I sensed the strength level of you and your spell spirit, I wondered if you could pass this trial…"
… but congratulations on doing it.
Take your reward, brave warrior. That is what you deserve."
With that, he turned into a faint shadow and disappeared into thin air.
As the masked man had explained at the beginning, he was not a real person. He was just an afterimage that had been set up here.
Now that the trial had been broken, his mission was over. Naturally, it dissipated and no longer existed.
At the same time, the badge on the hilt of the Moonlight's sword in the hall gradually became transparent and disappeared.
However, there was indeed something on the ground where he had just stood. It seemed to be the reward he had mentioned.
You Chu finally relaxed and heaved a sigh of relief.
What the hell? A Silver-level Summoner's afterimage summoned a Level Two spell spirit through a spirit carving. Its skin was so thick that even Moonlight could not cut through. Not only could it fly, but it could also fly with poisonous scale powder…
'You're telling me this is an alternate dimension with only a low danger rating?'
'Is this the weight a Bronze like me should be carrying?'
'Thank God I'm more skilled.'
The continuous summoning of spell spirits and the high-intensity activation of spell cards had already made You Chu a little breathless. It felt as if he had been exercising for an entire night.
Now that he had finally settled it, his legs went limp and he wanted to sit down and take a breather.
Unexpectedly, instead of sitting on the ground, he fell into the girl's soft arms.
As if seeing that her master was about to collapse, Moonlight immediately flashed forward to catch him.
You Chu did not know whether to laugh or cry. "I'm fine. I'm just sitting down and resting for a while… Compared to this, let's go and see what our reward is."
However, You Chu was still quite touched by his spell spirit's concern.
More and more, he felt that he was really lucky to draw Moonlight in the beginning. She could fight, looks good, and even dote on her master. She was simply full of support.
It was just that it was a little too peaceful. His head felt like it was crawling.
But it wasn't a big problem.
With so many advantages, not to mention this insignificant little flaw, he could even accept a loophole.
Besides, men were good at filling loopholes.
Moonlight nodded and let him sit down. Then she immediately went to pick up what had been left after the masked afterimage had disappeared.
You Chu took it and examined it.
There were only two things. A roll of some kind of animal skin paper and a dark stone.
You Chu had just touched the animal skin paper and had yet to open it when the system notification appeared in front of him.
"A card creating formula that can be learned requires 300 potential points."
Will you consume Potential Points to learn?"
Hiss ~ What kind of lousy formula costs 300 points?
300 points, which was 3,000 reputation points. However, since the end of the assessment for exploring the dimensional space, You Chu's reputation points had already approached 6,000. When he went out this time, he could harvest another wave. It was not impossible for him to learn it.
But first, he had to see what was in the scroll.
He unwrapped the hide paper and scanned it.
You Chu: (O_o)??
…I can't understand it at all.
And it was not quite the same as the formula he had failed to learn before.
In the past, he recognized every word of those card creating formulas, but when those words were connected, he could not recognize them.
But this time, he really didn't recognize a single word…
This was because what was written on this paper was not modern language. What was written densely on the paper was like some kind of hieroglyphic language. It was impossible to understand…
You Chu looked at the moonlight without much hope. "Do you recognize the words on it?"
Moonlight shook her little head.
That was true. After all, she didn't even remember who she was. It was asking too much.
'Whatever. It's not a big problem.'
Anyway, he had cheats. If he really wanted to learn it, he could just cheat. He didn't have to understand it.
Then he examined the dark stone.
He didn't recognize it, but the almighty system recognized everything.
[Obsidian]
[Introduction: Crafting material for a magic user's clan spell tablet, dark attribute spell tablet, or spell tablet. High-level material.]
He didn't see anything special about it. Moreover, this "high-level material" added that it was the first time You Chu had seen it. He didn't know what the difference was.
But in any case, You Chu still accepted it first.
He regained his strength and stood up to call for Moonlight to leave. However, he realized that the girl had already carried the large bundle of swords, spears, and halberds that she had temporarily abandoned before the battle. She waited silently for her master to signal her to leave.
You Chu was amused.
Indeed, the mental strength he had expended was recovering, so it was not suitable for him to summon a new spell spirit to carry bricks.
However, the attentive Moonlight had obviously sensed this, so before her master could say anything, she had taken on this responsibility.
After all, only she could stay by You Chu's side and not absorb his mental strength.
Could other spell spirits do such a thing?
If it were any other spell spirit who did not return to the card vault to maintain the summoning state, with You Chu's current state, he would probably be sucked dry in a day.
You Chu left the palace. A few seconds after he left, the official-issue communicator rang.
You Chu picked it up and realized that more than ten minutes ago, the camp had issued a notice asking all Summoners in the Dark Forest to evacuate urgently.
In the end, he hadn't received it until now.
Could it be that there was no signal in the palace just now?
You Chu felt a little strange.
The official communication device was specially equipped for exploration activities. Logically speaking, there should be a signal at every corner of the Dark Forest space.
It was indeed a little abnormal that he could not receive any information in that palace.
However, since they had such a reason to inform the camp, You Chu did not court death. He immediately turned around and rushed back to the entrance.
…
Some time later, most of the Summoners had retreated to their camps as requested.
Because most of them could only stay in the perimeter after entering and did not have the strength to go deeper, they immediately came out after receiving the notice.
What stood out was how quickly they gathered.
The Summoners, already out, gathered in the clearing of the camp, chatting idly.
"I thought it was a dimensional space with the lowest difficulty. I really thought it was easy. I didn't expect it to be so difficult…"
'Yeah, well, they might not even be able to take out a lone Beetle Killer on the perimeter. I don't even know what I'm here for.'
"Only those big shots with powerful teams can break into the inner circle…"
Actually, it was said that the Dark Forest space was open to society, but probably no one expected the Bronze Summoners of Blue City to really break through this dimension.
However, this dimension was relatively less dangerous and would not be life-threatening. Therefore, by giving them this opportunity to go in and train, they could also earn some resources and benefits.
After the public exploration period ended, the official team should still be in charge of conquering this dimension.
As they were talking, Duan Wu and his convoy came out of the entrance.
As the only big shot with 90 points during the assessment, some curious people quickly asked him about the situation inside.
"Although the strength of those Beetle Killers surprised us at first, they weren't too strong. It wasn't difficult for our team to deal with them." Duan Wu thought for a moment and said, "It was a little troublesome when we encountered a formation of ten of it in a group, but we still went through with some effort."
Many people had already started to stare when they heard this.
'Shit, there's a team of ten?'
Many people could not even defeat a Beetle Killer. When they encountered groups of three to five, they could only turn around and run. However, from this big shot's tone, it seemed like ten Beetle Killers was nothing?
Duan Wu shook his head. "But the huge Beetle commander that appeared next was too strong and ridiculously hard. Its attack power was also very high. In terms of attack power, it should be the strongest among the Level 1 spell spirits.
"Moreover, it also has the ability to absorb the strengthening abilities of the dead Beetle Killers. It's very difficult to deal with. In the end, we didn't find a way to defeat it…"
Everyone felt that this was even more ridiculous.
They thought that ten Beetle Killers in a hoard was scary enough. They did not expect the big shot to say that there was a more heavyweight boss behind them.
What was even more ridiculous was that even the Boss couldn't defeat the big shot. How strong was he?
"Someone else is coming out." There was a reminder.
The deeper they went into the Dark Forest, the further away they were from the entrance, and the longer it would take for them to come out. Therefore, those who were still inside were basically the gods this time.
Everyone's eyes focused on him, trying to see which big shot had come out this time.
Under everyone's gaze, a pretty boy appeared with a cute spell spirit girl. The girl was carrying a huge bundle of knives and spears on her back…
Everyone was speechless.