Chapter 189 Pisi escapes from the land of divine power
Soon after Kirito and his party entered the pyramid, they found the Fountain of Restoration not far from the entrance and were overjoyed.
But first we have to clean up the dozens of undead monsters around that seem to be very powerful just by their appearance and equipment.
They had estimated their opponent's strength relatively high, but as soon as the two sides came into close combat, they discovered that the opponent's equipment did not match it at all, just like the strongest armor was wrapped with a rotten flesh skeleton ready to fall apart.
"What's going on?" Kirito squatted down to look at the body that would not disappear and said.
"It is a monster that was transformed from the player's remains due to the special environment of this place." Yui said after searching, "But don't worry, being turned into this kind of zombie undead monster has nothing to do with the player's ID. In the words here
It just doesn’t have a soul.”
"Why is this happening? Are there traps around the Fountain of Recovery that can kill so many people? Or is there a problem with the water?" Kirito raised his hand to signal everyone not to drink water yet, and launched [Discovery] in all directions around him.
Hamster Pisi kicked away a half-broken skull head and said: "So that's it. The land of divine authority was supposed to set up many insurmountable obstacles for humans as a test. But when Aincrad was born, the goddess Stacia
Some kind of irresistible anomaly occurred, causing the land of divine authority to appear in the sphere of influence that you call the starting town of the American side. But since they did not obtain any information about the divine authority, they could not do anything.
Watch, 'Earth Cut' corrected this error, and the people guarding this place were trapped. It seems that these people didn't have any transfer crystals on them because they thought it was the safest place. Or do they have all the crystals?
It was used as war supplies and was rationed before going to war."
"If they rely on the army to take power, I think the latter is more likely. This was originally a safe zone and not a maze where monsters live, right?" Prosham asked.
"The maze where monsters live is on the lower level, but not here. As long as you don't provoke the guardian of the sacred land too much, you shouldn't be killed. It's just that the guardian is the strongest undead in Aincrad. The living will die.
It is inevitable to be affected here and become undead." Hamster Pisi smiled.
"Then, how did they die?" Prosham asked.
"Needless to say, you can tell at a glance that they are starving to death. There are obviously no monsters here, but they are gathering here. It is obvious that they can't do anything except grab water. After all, even if you venture out to hunt in the wind and sand, there will be nothing.
Prey that can be poisoned directly into the mouth." Hamster Pisi guessed.
"Isn't there a spring of recovery? Can't it detoxify?" Silica asked.
Crounpis was immediately happy: "Hehehehe, this seems to be a good idea. Who is willing to try it? Maybe a mouthful of poisonous meat and a mouthful of restoring spring water can make the monster's poison harmless and penetrate the whole body.
With the power of a monster, no matter how ordinary it is, it can become the strongest in the world?"
Everyone shook their heads. It seemed a bit tempting. It was a kind of protagonist template in a pretentious novel that first suppresses and then advances. However, if someone who is not the protagonist does this, it will definitely have the same result as killing those just now.
So, Hamster Pisi sneered instead: "Hehehe, it's your own fault. Divine power is not meant to be used by human adventurers. Even so, do you still want to move forward?"
But these somewhat empty words cannot deter these people.
Although the lower maze is large, the roads are quite simple and the monsters are very strong, but they are much easier to deal with than challenging the desert itself.
"Going through that kind of place can save some distance and the frequency of dealing with monsters. Do you want to go?" Hamster Pisi pointed at some cracks in the wall that looked like they were in disrepair and had big cracks.
It was not a size that an adult man could fit through. Fortunately, there were no such people here. Yui reported that there were monsters wandering across from the point, so they asked Pisi the hamster to go over first to keep watch and lure the monsters.
Although Hamster Skin is usually ignored by monsters, if you actively stimulate the opponent, it will still react a little bit. As long as it does not cause damage, it will not trigger a fight.
Everyone then started to pass sideways one by one. Unexpectedly, Leafa, who was quite slender, got stuck.
"Brother, here, help me." Lyfa was a little panicked because of the accident.
Kirito glanced at the other girls and did not dare to say clearly: "Nao-chan, bend your legs a little and squat down a little."
Leafa was able to escape smoothly. It was all the fault of her measurements. Thanks to the narrow gap in the wall, which was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, she had room to maneuver. Otherwise, she would have had to take off her equipment to make room.
"Lucos, you'd better crawl over later to be safer." Gawei, who was still lining up and guarding the back, whispered to Lucos.
"Hi?"
Similar cracks in the wall appeared several times along the way. Taking a shortcut through the wall saved everyone more than two hours.
Passing the stairs at the bottom and walking into a straight but very wide passage, Yui reminded: "We are about to reach the end of the maze."
"Is that the BOSS room?" Kirito asked, pointing to the door that could be seen in the distance. He always felt that the boxy functionalist shape of the room was a bit inconsistent with the fantasy style that was common in this world.
Clunpisi, who was walking at the front and already far away, laughed wildly: "Hehe, hehehehehe, who told you that the guardian must live in the guardian's room from the beginning? Hard.
If anything, this wide corridor itself is what you call the BOSS room."
"Dad, I don't have permission to inspect that room. I'm afraid-"
Before Yui finished speaking, Hamster Pisi immediately continued: "Speaking of which, these are the same area, and they are all within Silica's limited range of activities."
Kirito suddenly felt something bad, and sprinted forward, reaching out to grab the tail of the hamster's fur that was always "thundering" in front of him.
But she nimbly twisted her tail to avoid it, spread her legs and rushed forward at high speed, screaming at the same time with all her strength.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
!
!”
Making loud noises is one of the common ways to attract monsters in the maze, and it is normal for the guardian to be alarmed by the noise, right?
A skeleton-type undead who was several meters tall, wearing a black tattered robe and holding a long scythe appeared. He was obviously a skeleton, but his eyes were wrapped around each other as if they were lit up by blood vessels, but he looked at everyone as if they were about to shoot out death rays.
Ignoring the hamster skin that slipped past its feet, it raised its sickle and slashed at Kirito, who was standing in the C position.
The only teammates who can react with him and catch up are Prosham, who is currently the closest in formation, and King Kong, who is also included in the attack range due to his huge body.
Seeing that there was no way to avoid the scythe sweeping across the area, Prosham stepped forward and Kirito used the magic sword skills [Fearful Flame] and [Extreme Cold Blade] respectively at the same time. King Kong also struggled to swing the decapitating sword that the human race could never bear.