Chapter 309 – Evil God Temple (2/2)

In the ten seconds of X-Ray, Fatty saw clearly the situation around him. Aside from the broken pillars in this front hall, there were also piles of dry bones and damaged weapons on their way of corroding into powder. Since there was nothing valuable here, Fatty needed to keep going further in.

Memorizing the route, Fatty continued to feel his way in the dark. After just two steps, a whoosh rang out, accompanied by a breeze blowing past his face. Fatty felt a pricking pain in his head and his health began to drop steadily.

“Inky!” Fatty called out. The Dark Sacrificer, who was hovering above him, instantly cast Mental Breakdown and blasted away the monster on his head.

Flaf flaf… The sound of wings flapping echoed in the darkness. Fatty instantly threw Appraisal in the direction of that sound.

Crafty Spike Insect

Level: 68

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Notes: Originally an inner servant of the Evil God Temple. For some reason, it died an unnatural death, after which its seething resentment and hatred took a solid form and turned into the Crafty Spike Insect, a gregarious monster that can operate only in darkness and has a fancy for sucking brains. Small and fast, it’s very difficult to guard against.

“A fancy for sucking brains?” Fatty sucked in a cold breath and instinctively touched his head. There, he felt a puncture like that made by a needle. Apparently, the insect had stuck something into his head to suck out his brains.

“F*ck!” Just imagining how something would poke a straw into his head and drink his brains like drinking water, Fatty’s stomach churned acutely.

“Screech screech!!” A shrill scream rang out from above him. Suddenly, a white light flashed, briefly illuminating a mass of flying black spots. And then, Inky returned to the pet inventory.

Fatty used Stealth once again and didn’t dare to wander wildly. These kinds of insects that hid in the dark were too dangerous. Ignoring the damage, it was already disgusting enough when they stuck to your head.

Just now, Fatty appeared from Stealth because he used the Crystal Maze of Terror, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been attacked.

The Crafty Spike Insects were gregarious, which meant there were a bunch of them lurking around full of thirst right at this very moment. At the thought of this, Fatty felt his scalp tingle.

What a blunder, I was too focused on the ground and overlooked them. But when the Pentaband Krait King went in just now, why didn’t those little things attack it?

Fatty couldn’t figure this out no matter how hard he pondered, so he simply stopped thinking. Then, he decided to just use Earthwalk to explore the area.

The Evil God Temple was quite expansive, composed of the front hall, back hall, and two side halls. Fatty made a round trip and meticulously checked the place but was unable to find anything of value. Either there was nothing left behind in the first place, or someone else had already taken it away if there ever was.

“Such a big shrine yet there’s nothing here?!”

Fatty huffed in anger. He had entered all excited, only to be bitten in vain. This was simply a waste of time and nearly a waste of life.

“Huh, where’s that snake boss by the way?” He suddenly remembered the Pentaband Krait King. He had run through the whole place without seeing any sign of it.

“Could it be…?” A lightbulb went off in his head, and Fatty took out the Crystal Maze of Terror again. After confirming that there weren’t any of those irritating Crafty Spike Insects around, he used the X-Ray function.

X-Ray displayed everything in the one-kilometer radius around him on the mirror. This time, Fatty found something new about the ground under his feet. It should have been all soil, but here under a thick layer of soil, the underground turned completely black and allowed him to see nothing within.

The Crystal Maze of Terror was a merger of the Celestial remnant X-Ray Mirror and the Celestial artifact Crystal Maze. With the power of those two combined, it could see through pretty much anything. Now that the mirror showed nothing but darkness, there must be something strange about that underground area.

“Do I have to drill down again?” Fatty stroked his chin.

Using Earthwalk, Fatty easily teleported into the underground.

Not long after he Earthwalked, a commotion echoed outside.

“It’s here, we’ve finally found it.”

A group of tattered players covered in dust entered the square. From their appearances, they obviously had gone through a long journey with many battles along the way.

“This is the Evil God Temple?” A warrior dismounted and looked up at the nearly unreadable plaque.

This warrior who was standing straight had a sword at his waist and was dressed in a full set of equipment glowing with violet light. From his familiar face, Fatty would have recognized him as the guild master of the Sun Moon Cult, Invincible East.

“The Evil God’s legacy… Humph! Golden Scale TheMighty thinks he’s something just because he inherited the Misfortune God’s legacy. I shall let him know the God of Misfortune is but a small character! Everyone take a short rest and get yourselves ready.” Invincible East swung his arm.

“Big Bro, we can’t rest.” DoWhateverIWish pointed at a line of footsteps on the ground with an extremely ugly face.