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Chapter 680 Slime in the Bottomless Maze

"Finally... finally stopped?"

Darkness wiped the sweat from her forehead.

The strength of this stone statue was very strong, and in addition, it still held Aqua in its hand, which made them unable to deal with it as much as they wanted. If Miss Liu Zi hadn't turned the tide in the end, they might have wasted even more time.

"Woooooooo..."

Aqua slowly got up from the ground, crying and aggrieved: "I'm the only one injured again... I've really had enough, I want to go back."

No, no, no, it's just her fault.

Xiaolin scratched his head and said unconfidently: "I always feel that it is different from ordinary stone statues, and it is so powerful. Is it a special stone statue prepared by Rafe? It makes me very troublesome when I think about the maze being full of such things. Ah...huh?"

"What's the matter, Xiaolin?"

"No, the gap in the stone statue...ah, it seems to be open. Hehe."

Under the strange looks of Darkness and the others, Xiaolin opened the baffle on the back of the stone statue and took out a very familiar prop from it.

"What is this?"

"If it's not similar to something else... I think this is the magic sword Gram that was stored in Uncle Lundberg's place, the sword-riding Kyouya, right?"

Xiao Lin looked through it uncertainly.

To be honest, he didn't know if it was true or not. After all, only the owner of the magic sword Gram could use it, and Xiaolin could not exert its original strength.

Aqua also joined in.

"Speaking of which, Sena said it's not in Lundberg's mansion either."

She took the magic sword and examined it carefully.

After all, she was the goddess who gave the magic sword to the sword-wielding Kyouya. Aqua should know whether it was real or fake.

Megumin was stunned for a moment, then said as if she had thought of something: "Could it be that... before Uncle Lundberg was arrested by Sena, Rafe stole the magic sword Gram and hid it privately?"

"That's probably true."

Xiao Lin twitched the corner of his mouth.

It seems to have been completely taken advantage of, which is really irritating.

"Aqua, is this true?"

"It's a real magic sword. Compared to this, my ribbon is also in the hand of that researcher, right?"

"The magic sword that was stored together is here, so the possibility is very high."

Youyou answered.

Aqua clenched her fists and said unhappily: "You stole my streamer and hid it in such a strange place without permission. It's so annoying! Let's go, Xiaolin! Give him a divine fist now and let him He knows the wrath of the goddess!"

After saying that, she angrily walked towards the depths of the bottomless maze.

In addition to being angry, she was probably anxious to get her ribbon back, but she was too reckless.

Darkness shouted anxiously: "Wait, wait, Aqua! It's dangerous to go forward alone!"

"Xiao Lin, Aqua has to leave first."

"Wait a minute, I will recover the magic sword now... Hmm, it's a bit heavy. Okay, anyway, let's take the magic sword first and go after Aqua."

They ran towards the depths of the maze with long strides.

No more stone statues were encountered along the way. No, it should be said that other monsters were not encountered either. It seemed that they had been cleared away in advance.

It was probably Rafe who did it.

That's fine, it saves them wasted effort.

I don’t know how many floors I went down, and I came to a very spacious floor that had been specially renovated.

There, there was a very slovenly man in a white coat standing with his back to them. He seemed to be doing some experiment and looked very involved.

Xiao Lin greeted him.

"Hey, we meet again."

"I said you! Where did you get my ribbon? Now, right away! Give it back to me!"

Aqua yelled loudly when they met.

"...Huh?" As if he had just come to his senses, he slowly turned around and said in slight surprise: "Oh, hello, hello. Isn't this Mr. Xiaolin and you? What are you doing here?"

It seems that their intrusion was not discovered.

By the way, as a scientific researcher, to prevent others from disturbing the experiment, shouldn't you set multiple traps on the road? Why did you let them in so easily?

Aqua cursed loudly.

"What are you doing! I thought I had defeated the magical creature Varavi, but the super-small guys appeared one after another, causing us a lot of trouble! Even you were there when we came to investigate the source, no? Maybe it doesn’t matter?”

"Ah...ah, that's it."

Rafe seemed to understand, and he suddenly said: "Mr. Xiaolin has discovered the ones outside. It's really unexpected."

Is this guy serious?

It's impossible not to know this kind of thing, right?

Darkness also took out his weapon and said, "There's no point in pretending to be stupid. Raph, you'd better explain your intentions honestly."

"Thanks to everyone, I discovered Varavi's weaknesses and new possibilities. Thank you very much." Raf bowed slightly to everyone, looking grateful.

"Why did Valavi, who should have been defeated, come back to life even though he has become smaller? Please explain briefly."

"Ah, in that battle, Mr. Kobayashi, you performed very well. You saw through Varavi's body's weak air-conditioning characteristics and used magic to freeze him! It was great. If that's the case, Varavi Wei would have been literally shattered, but...that happened to be right in front of my eyes."

"That, what is that?"

Aqua asked anxiously.

Kobayashi also frowned subconsciously, wondering what strange thing it would be.

Rafe couldn't help but chuckle.

"The core of Valavi. As if to avoid the cold air, the core moved and appeared in front of me."

Core.

Kobayashi was slightly stunned.

All creatures like slimes have cores. Unless their cores are destroyed, they cannot be completely destroyed. Hans, the former cadre of the Demon King's Army, was completely purified by Aqua's purification of his core.

I thought Valavi was frozen and even his core was destroyed, but I didn't expect...

"Mr. Kobayashi's excellent wit made me ready for Valavi to be destroyed, but the unexpected luck made me ecstatic. This is undoubtedly the arrangement of fate!"

Rafe laughed loudly, very proud and arrogant.

"After taking back the core, I decided to feed it here while waiting for it to grow again."

"I thought I had defeated it at that time, but I didn't expect that I couldn't give it a fatal blow..."

Xiao Lin covered his forehead in pain.

Youyou asked in a strange way: "But, isn't this very strange? Even if the core is safe, it will take a lot of magic power to grow again. And just a few days after the crusade, people have witnessed a large number of super-small Walavi. This is too strange."

Indeed, the speed of proliferation is ridiculously fast.

You know, it took them several days to eradicate those Walavi, but the more they eradicated, the more it appeared, and the speed was unnatural.

Laf laughed.

"That's because, in the past few days, it has absorbed magic power from many monsters. The monsters in this area are very powerful. Not only can they recover, but they can also achieve rapid growth. After growing up, Walavi's efficiency in absorbing magic power is getting higher and higher."

"In other words, it has restored its strength with the magic power of monsters, and is now using its clones to continue to grow?"

I see, is that the case.

The bottomless maze is famous for its invisibility, which means there are many monsters here, and those monsters are the nutrients of Walavi.

No wonder there were no monsters blocking their way when they came down.

In this way, the reason why the sightings of super small Walavi suddenly increased in the past few days can be explained.

"But unfortunately, because a large number of super small Walavi were released, it aroused the vigilance of the guild, and a large number of adventurers have been sent to fight. Everyone knows that Walavi is weak to ice magic. Soon, all the super small Walavi should be repelled, and your conspiracy ends here!"

Huihui shouted triumphantly.

And Rafe suddenly lost his balance, his eyes widened in disbelief, and he muttered, "What, what, is the situation on the ground like this? It's terrible... I didn't want to do something that would cause too much commotion, but I can only try to get the main body."

"The main body?"

Kobayashi was slightly stunned and asked, "By the way, where is the big one now? We haven't seen it anywhere in the maze, right?"

He asked his companions and saw confusion in their eyes.

Rafe kindly said; "Ah, ah, the main body can't enter the maze, so it's waiting outside in a place where it can't be found."

"...Hey, wait, what did you say just now?"

"Waiting outside. However, it won't listen to people's orders, it's just inducing its actions."

As expected, he couldn't control Walavi either?

Kobayashi felt something was wrong.

If Rafe had secretly kept the information about controlling Valavi, he should have had more sophisticated control in the previous battle, but he just let Valavi jump out and make a scene, and then used teleportation to escape when he saw that the situation was not good.

Just then——

"Wow, what, what happened?!"

Suddenly, the entire bottomless maze began to shake, the floors were shaking, and stones and dust fell down.

Kobayashi and the others staggered and supported each other.

Darkness looked at the upper floor and wondered: "Is it an earthquake? But we are so deep in the place, and there is such a clear tremor. The shaking is more intense than expected..."

"No, no, no..."

Rafe hurriedly explained: "It's probably just moving. If the clones begin to be destroyed, I think the main body will also react. Do you want to see it? You can see the outside with the magic props used for surveillance."

He kindly motioned everyone to come here.

This is a huge virtual screen that shows the situation outside.

And in the picture...

"You must be kidding, is this really Valavi?"

"I can't believe it, it looks bigger than before."

"It's not good..."

Just as Aqua, Huihui and Darkness said, the Valavi in ​​the picture is huge, like a behemoth covering the sky. The picture is pulled up very high, but with Axel under it as a comparison, you can see how big this guy is.

It's really not good.

But Raph shouted crazily: "Haha! Great, so energetic! Now I can make many clones, I can't help it, it's so cute!"

We didn't ask you what you think of the pervert standard.

Youyou said with some worry: "Could it be that the rumbling just now was not an earthquake, but the movement of Walavi... If so, there would be such a strong vibration from such a distance, then Axel...!?"

His words made everyone silent.

Soon, Aqua shouted anxiously: "I say, Xiaolin! What should we do? I don't think we can defeat that thing?!"

"Don't ask me. Although we were asked to investigate, I didn't hear that we should find a way to solve that kind of thing."

Xiaolin pulled the corner of his mouth.

Without his own strength restored, he really didn't know what to do with that behemoth. To be honest, it was more than twice as big as the white whale he had seen!

"No way, go back to Sena first and discuss what to do next..."

Xiaolin suddenly saw someone sneaking out of the side door.

"Wait, where are you going, Raf!"

"Ah, me, me? No, that, I have something else to do next, it's almost time to say goodbye..."

Raf continued to retreat.

Aqua yelled, "Don't run away! Anyway, didn't I ask you to give me my ribbon back?!"

"Ribbon...?"

Laf was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, "Ah, yes! Come to think of it, I did borrow it! Here, I'll give it back to you, please accept it."

After that, he clapped his hands.

With a bang, a blue stone statue jumped out from the ceiling and stood between them.

"Hey, hey, hey, isn't this the same stone statue as the one with the magic sword Gram?"

"Well, well, I'm sorry, I'll be rude first."

While talking, Laf took out a magic item and said to everyone, "As long as you defeat the guards, you can get the ribbon back. I thought it could be used for negotiations, so I hid it on purpose, but now it's no longer necessary. So, everyone, come on, and go first!"

Before he finished speaking, he disappeared.

"Hey, wait!"

Kobayashi looked at the empty room.

"Tsk, he just ran away as he pleased, it's like this again, damn it!"

Just now, all kinds of messes happened one after another, making him forget to let Liu Zi catch that guy again. By the way, how come he ran faster than Liu Zi.

"What does it matter."

Aqua came up and shouted: "Don't worry about that guy, compared to that, Xiaolin, quickly knock down this stone statue! My streamer, it's hidden in it, give it back to me quickly!"

The stupid goddess screamed.

Darkness also said: "Xiaolin, let's focus on the present first, we still have to go back and deal with the huge Walavi quickly."

"Tsk, there's no way, I know."

The silk thread in Xiaolin's hand was activated instantly.

"Come on, let's quickly deal with it, and then go back to save Axel!"