Comprehensive Manga: The Master is not here today.

"okay……"

Mashu subconsciously worried about Fujimaru Ritsuka's safety, but when she thought of his current condition, she could only reluctantly accept it temporarily and make plans based on what happened next.

Back to the point.

The two continued to go deeper into the maze, and soon came to the entrance of the second underground floor. The front was suddenly clear -

The second underground floor has an unusual scene that is completely different from the first underground floor. It is as if you have suddenly entered a forest area. What comes into view are towering trees, suspension bridges built between the trees, and man-made stone towers.

According to scholars' research, the Golden Kingdom Maze should be composed of the king's castle of the Golden Kingdom a thousand years ago and the nearby urban area, and the area on the second underground floor corresponds to the spire of the castle.

Not only that, they were clearly underground now, but for some reason they could still see the sun and the sky when they looked up.

"I'll go up and take a look."

"Well, be careful, senior."

Fujimaru Ritsuka flew directly into the sky to check the situation, then came back down after a while and shook his head:

"The space above my head is distorted. After reaching a certain height, I can't go any higher."

This result was within their expectations. Mashu guessed:

"The sunlight and sky above are probably also the effects of magic, right? That crazy magician seems to have quite profound magical attainments."

Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled and said:

"After all, he is a magician who has controlled the Golden Labyrinth for a thousand years and can even cast the magic of immortality."

"indeed."

Speaking of this, Mashu nodded in agreement. Compared to the magic in front of her, the magic of immortality was indeed more powerful.

The maze area is under the magical effect of "undeath", which is also called the curse of undeath by some people.

Adventurers, or more precisely, [humans] and [demihumans], will not truly die in the maze area. As long as the body is kept relatively intact, it can be resurrected.

This was one of the few pieces of information that surprised them.

Just as they were saying this, at this moment, a faint scream was suddenly heard from the front. Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu looked at each other and walked towards the direction of the sound.

"Senior, look over there!"

After walking across six suspension bridges, the suspension bridge in front suddenly connected to a damaged tower. At the same time, Mash immediately noticed that there were three bodies of adventurers lying on the platform of the tower. At the same time, a monster stood in the middle of the bodies, revealing its identity as the murderer without any concealment.

After seeing the other person's figure clearly, Mash confirmed:

"It's a snaketail chicken."

As the name suggests, the Snake-Tailed Chicken is a hybrid beast-monster. It has a chicken body and a snake tail. Both its snake fangs and chicken spurs are highly poisonous. It is one of the most dangerous monsters on the second underground floor. Not only new adventurers but even veterans may fall into its trap.

"Since it's called the Snake Tail Chicken, then we can kill it by just chopping off its head, right?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka's tone was a little uncertain, so he took out the "Monster Encyclopedia" again and flipped through it, but found that there seemed to be no record of this knowledge, so he simply decided:

"To be on the safe side, let's kill both heads at once."

"Mashu, I'll be in charge of the snake head, and you'll be in charge of the chicken head."

"Yes!"

After issuing the combat order, Fujimaru Ritsuka rolled up the stick, put the stick behind his back, and rushed towards the snake-tailed chicken first. Mashu also immediately summoned a huge cross round table shield and followed closely behind Fujimaru Ritsuka.

“Ka-! Ka-ka-ka!”

“Hiss! Hiss~~~!”

Soon the pheasant also discovered them, and immediately spread its wings hard, and both heads made threatening hissing sounds at the same time, taking a fighting stance.

The moment he left the suspension bridge and arrived at the high tower, Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly jumped hard, or rather, took off into the air, and came behind the Snake-tailed Chicken. It seemed that he noticed the existence of Mash, and the other party just separated one snake head and continued to stare at Fujimaru Ritsuka.

At the same time, Mashu had already rushed to the front of the Snake-tailed Chicken.

"Matthew!"

"Yes!"

At this moment, the two launched attacks at the same time.

The heavy and clumsy huge shield in Mash's hand cut through the air at a speed unbelievable to ordinary people, and the blade at the tail easily cut off the chicken's head; on the other side, the stick in Fujimaru Ritsuka's hand also hit the snake's head accurately. The seemingly light blow directly knocked the snake's head into a dent, and its brain matter splattered everywhere.

Having lost both heads at the same time, the snake-tail chicken fell to the ground helplessly, completely silent.

Fujimaru Ritsuka was about to shake off the blood on the end of the stick, but she found that she didn't need to do anything at all. The blood and impurities could not stick to the stick at all and slid down automatically.

It is worthy of being the gift given to her by Master Sister Sun Wukong!

Returning his attention to the present, looking at Mashu who had put away her shield, Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled and made a 'scissor hand gesture' representing victory and said:

"First time defeating a monster, success!"

"Great!"

Mashu also clapped cooperatively, as if this was indeed a very difficult thing for them and something worth celebrating.

After playing around for a while, Fujimaru Ritsuka seemed to have thought of something and smiled again:

"Just now, the Snaketail Chicken didn't seem to launch a decent counterattack, and it seemed to be frozen in place. Is this its weakness?"

"indeed……"

Mashu thought about it and said:

"That is to say, if you attack both of its heads at the same time, its body won't be able to handle it, and it won't know how to fight back, right?"

"It's possible. If you encounter a snake-tail chicken again, you can verify it."

After saying this, Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the bodies of the adventurers on the ground with some curiosity.

Due to the resurrection mechanism in the maze, in addition to adventurers, a special profession called "corpse recycler" was born.

The main job of the corpse recycler is to find the bodies of adventurers who died in the maze, and then bring them back to the resurrection center for resurrection. The resurrected adventurer is obliged to pay 10 to 20 percent of his belongings to the other party as a thank you.

Not only that, the owner of the island also provides additional subsidies for recycling corpses, ensuring that as long as the corpse recyclers bring the corpses back to the resurrection center, they can still get a certain reward even if the adventurer himself is penniless and the reward provided cannot cover the cost.

Of course, if the corpse was eaten and completely digested by monsters, or was badly damaged, or died in a place where no one could find it, then it would be his bad luck.

These guys lying on the second underground floor should soon be discovered by corpse recyclers and taken back to the resurrection center, so they don't have to do anything.

It's just that she was very curious about how "immortality" was achieved in the maze, and there happened to be a ready-made fresh corpse for her to observe, so she would be a waste not to take a look.

"what?"

Just by looking at it, Fujimaru Ritsuka immediately let out a cry of surprise, and Mash asked hurriedly:

"Senior, what's wrong?"

"Can't you see?"

Is it because this is a different world?

Seeing Mashu shaking her head in confusion, Fujimaru Ritsuka thought about it, then grabbed her hand and gave her some authority to the underworld.

"That should be fine."

"Eh……?"

Mashu's expression was still somewhat puzzled, but she followed Fujimaru Ritsuka's gaze and looked back at the body on the ground. The scene before her made her slightly widen her eyes in surprise -

The adventurers' souls were seen floating slightly above the surface of their bodies, but that was all. It seemed that there was some force that forcibly locked their souls and prevented them from leaving their bodies!