Monster Cave

The peculiar figures had long integrated with the surroundings.

In Liu Ming's field of vision, those monsters looked like wriggling rocks, which gave him the chills.

Liu Ming took a few steps closer and finally saw the true appearance of the few monsters.

They were massive spiders the size of human heads. They had translucent bodies; if one did not look closely, they would basically be unable to spot the spiders.

That was also the reason that Liu Ming thought the walls and rocks were moving.

After seeing those creatures' true appearance, Liu Ming finally saw the information on the monsters.

Phantom Spider: Level 7

Health Points: 200/200

Introduction: Spiders that have been forced to metamorphose by unknown forces, using magical creatures of another world as a catalyst. In dim environments, they will transform into terrifying hunters, but their bodies will be extremely weak.

After seeing the information, Liu Ming finally knew that the monsters in front of him were the Phantom Spiders that had previously launched a sneak attack on him in the mining cave.

Upon seeing the wriggling figures in the cave, Liu Ming reckoned that he had probably fallen into the lair of the Phantom Spiders. After all, Liu Ming took a slightly closer look and found that there were at least 100 Phantom Spiders in the cave.

Although the mine in the East Region was not considered a part of the map, it was not a regular map for leveling. If regular leveling maps caused so much trouble to the players, the game planners would be cursed at.

Given the high damage of the Phantom Spiders, ordinary players would probably have to rest for a long time after killing one.

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Liu Ming's approaching figure soon alarmed a few Phantom Spiders. Thus, the Phantom Spiders charged towards Liu Ming at an extremely fast speed.

Most importantly, spiders of that size would definitely be noisy when moving at such a fast speed under normal circumstances. However, the Phantom Spiders did not make a single sound at all; they were truly silent.

Had Liu Ming not taken precautions beforehand and discovered their presence, they would probably take away more than 100 of his HP. Hence, before the few spiders attacked, Liu Ming attacked first and slashed one of them.

Heavy Slash!

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After killing a Phantom Spider, Liu Ming did not hesitate to slash another spider with the longsword in his hand…

The frail spiders were soon killed by Liu Ming, and Liu Ming's HP was also depleted. When Liu Ming was killing the monsters, his lost HP was almost fully restored thanks to the passive Leech effect of the Bloodthirsty Berserking Hound King Sword.

However, Liu Ming's face immediately grew sullen after killing the few spiders.

The fact that those few spiders and the ones earlier had taken the initiative to launch sneak attacks meant that these spiders weren't like the hares and hounds outside the novice village. Instead, they were much more aggressive monsters.

Previously, Liu Ming had killed plenty of Berserking Hounds, thus leading him to the Boss-level Berserking Hound King. God knows when the Boss-level Phantom Spider would appear. In fact, there was no need for a leader. As long as the hundreds of Phantom Spiders swarmed forward, it would be hard for Liu Ming to sustain for long.

With hundreds of aggressive spiders besieging them, the other players at their current level probably wouldn't be able to resist a round of attacks. Even Liu Ming had to activate Holy Protection to be able to survive.

Those creatures had too high Attacking Power. Hence, Liu Ming gave up on killing those spiders and instead continued to look around for terrain he could make use of.

Liu Ming soon discovered that there was an ordinary passage behind him that could allow one person to pass through.

If Liu Ming stood in that passage, at least he wouldn't have to face the spiders' attacks as they came from all directions like he was now, even if he still had to face the siege of plenty of them.

After finding a suitable location, Liu Ming immediately activated his Holy Protection and began to annihilate the Phantom Spiders in the cave.

As expected, Liu Ming only killed more than 30 Phantom Spiders before the rest in the cave seemed to have lost their minds as they charged towards Liu Ming.

In fact, most Phantom Spiders could no longer be bothered to hide. As they moved, Liu Ming could hear many rustling sounds.

After the Phantom Spiders went into an uproar, Liu Ming ran into the passage that was not too far behind him.

The Phantom Spiders also charged into the passage that Liu Ming went in without giving up. However, the passage was rather narrow. The hundreds of Phantom Spiders—each the size of a human head—could not fit at all.

In fact, once there were more than 20 spiders inside, their movements were affected. Thus, Liu Ming basically only faced ten-odd Phantom Spiders at once.

After the Phantom Spiders were split into several hordes, the battle became rather simple for Liu Ming.

Under the attacks and the healing abilities of Holy Protection and the Bloodthirsty Berserking Hound King's Sword, the ten-odd Phantom Spiders no longer posed a threat to Liu Ming.

Besides, the frail Phantom Spiders could only take a few stabs from Liu Ming. This caused the battle to become almost one-sided.

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Ten minutes later, the hundreds of Phantom Spiders that had gathered around Liu Ming were all killed by him. Liu Ming's Level 6 EXP bar suddenly increased by more than 20%.

Apart from that, the Phantom Spiders had even given him a pile of Copper Coins and Silver Coins. Together, they were almost the equivalent of two Gold Coins.

There was actually nothing much to say about the equipment. Under the circumstances where he did not activate Blessing Of Lady Luck, only four White equipment of his were destroyed while he had 99 Luck points.

The equipment drop rate in God Domain was inexplicable.

After picking up the monster drops, Liu Ming continued to advance forward.

As he continued to head deeper into the cave, Liu Ming did not encounter any more monsters. However, there were some rare traps.

There were Fire Traps, Ice Traps, Poisonous Arrow Traps, and so on. Although they did not deal much damage to Liu Ming, who had Holy Protection activated, he was extremely frustrated. However, Liu Ming was becoming more and more certain that he had almost reached his true destination.

After all, the miners could not reach that area.

The one who had created so many traps to stop outsiders from entering was none other than the mastermind behind the encroachment on the mining cave.

Besides, Liu Ming reckoned that the mastermind probably wasn't too strong judging from the damage done by those traps.

After spending some time, Liu Ming finally arrived inside the cave's deeper layer.

The scene inside the cave's deeper layer was completely different from what Liu Ming had seen previously, apart from the creepy aura that still lingered.

On both sides of the cave's inner part were two rows of green Ghostly Flame torches, which made the dark and creepy cave even more terrifying. In the middle of the cave was a large rat that was the size of a calf.

At this moment, the rat was lying on the ground and dozing off. However, Liu Ming did not doubt at all that the rat would wake up and attack him as long as he came within a certain distance of it.

After all, the creature was clearly the Boss-level monster of the mining cave.