Re:Zero - Starting Life in Chaos.

As it turned out, Beichen's idea was right.

Soon after he left the Slime Cave, he felt a frightening energy coming from above the passage.

The strength is comparable to that of a level 8 peak transcendent.

Not only that, this energy is still growing, and there are signs that it is about to break through to the early stage of level 9.

Beichen frowned, a little confused.

In the original work, this final boss - the Demon Overlord, or the Demon Lord, is a superior demon of over level 60.

If we refer to the monsters he has encountered in the maze so far, this boss is at most level 7. How come he suddenly jumped to level 9?

"Strengthened by the world's rules?"

Beichen guessed it, but then denied his idea.

"No, the self-preservation rule of this world is to suppress visitors from other worlds. How can it be strengthened?"

"Since it's not affected by the rules, then what kind of change would cause such a big change in the plot?"

After thinking for a while, Beichen came to a more reasonable conclusion, which was the change in the number of sacrifices.

“As the saying goes, quantitative change leads to qualitative change!”

"If my guess is correct, it should be the existence of those 'Golden Ke La' that makes the boss advance and the maze more difficult!"

In the original work, there were not many people trapped in the maze, only one or two hundred, and in the end half of them survived.

Today's maze has swallowed up more than 10,000 people, including many extraordinary people.

It is common for fantasy races like demons to increase their strength by absorbing the negative emotions, souls and bodies of living beings.

However, there are always two sides to every coin.

In Beichen's opinion, it is not entirely a bad thing for the boss to be strengthened.

As we all know, the rarer the boss, the better the loot it drops.

Of course, provided you are not the chief.

Even so, he was still a little unhappy.

After all, this is a forced intensity exercise, and no one would be happy about it.

"It's really like I have to cause trouble to others even after I die!"

Beichen kicked the stone pillar beside him and broke it into pieces. He did not stop, concealed his breath and quickened his pace.

Now that things have come to this, I can only go to the boss room to check the situation and then make the next decision.

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Not only Beichen.

The two level 7 transcendents from the Shinomiya family were also very unhappy.

Under the instruction of Kaguya Shinomiya, Hayasaka dispatched two level 7 and several level 4 and 5 transcendents from the main family to form an exploration team and enter the maze from the ground on the ground, on the grounds of "exploring monster nests and searching for training resources before other families."

Since there were no spawning wild monsters in the passage leading directly to the ground, they did not encounter any danger.

Things didn't start to change until they pushed open the giant 20-meter-high door and entered a hall as wide as two football stadiums.

As if being targeted by the maze, a large army of skeletons suddenly appeared in the hall where there were originally few monsters, and surrounded them.

Not only that, the creator of this maze incident, Big Eyes, also appeared on the scene and gave them a round of "confusement" right from the start.

The level 7 transcendent was fine, just feeling a little uncomfortable, but the other mid-level transcendents couldn't bear it.

They all fell into Big Eyes' mental confusion and started killing each other.

Fortunately, because Big Eyes looked too sanity-destroying, Hayasaka Ai had the foresight to dispatch two level 7 transcendents with light abilities.

Moreover, these two are brothers. The elder brother, Ichiro Yamano, is 39 years old and has light-related supernatural powers, while the younger brother, Jiro Yamano, is 37 years old and is proficient in light-related magic.

With the close cooperation between the two, it is not a problem to withstand the attacks of a level 8 transcendent.

What's more, Big Eyes is only level 5 and has attributes that restrain it.

Therefore, after only a brief moment of confusion, a group of mid-level extraordinary beings were awakened by the two men's sticks of light and began to clear out the monsters in the hall in an orderly manner.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Big Eyes did not hesitate at all. He sacrificed himself and summoned out the Demon Overlord.

This "can't afford to play" behavior made the two brothers hate it.

Faced with the Demon Overlord who was at the peak of level 8, they could only fight and retreat, preparing to return to the ground and call for external assistance.

Since Big Eyes can call for foreign aid, why can't they?

Unfortunately, ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

At some point, the door that was originally open was now tightly closed, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't push it open!

There is no way. Since the retreat is blocked, let’s continue going down.

Anyway, they were sent down to explore, and it was only a matter of time before they went deeper into the maze.

As a result, before he could rush out of the hall, the entrance was blocked by a group of level 6 and 7 monsters.

It turned out to be the boss's skill 'Create Companion'.

Helplessly, they could only defend against the boss's attacks while moving along the wall towards the passage entrance.

Due to the attributes of the two people, the initial situation could still be stabilized.

But as more and more team members were injured, the intensity of their healing magic gradually increased.

This is going to cost me my life!

Being in a dark monster maze, the light energy in the air is extremely scarce.

With only outflow and no income, even with their abilities, it is somewhat beyond their capacity.

Then the situation began to deteriorate.

When one team member failed to defend properly and was killed by a single blow, their coordination began to suffer.

The two brothers were very annoyed as they watched their teammates fall one by one.

It’s not that I feel sorry for these team members. As guests of honor of the Shinomiya family, they don’t take these mid-level extraordinary people seriously at all.

What annoyed them was that ever since this group of people started dying, the aura on the boss's body began to boil violently like water in a frying pan, evolving to a higher level.

They wanted to interrupt its progress, but the boss was smarter.

He retreated to a metal gate far away from them, set up a protective barrier and summoned more monsters to consume them.

Put them in a dilemma.

"Nissan! We can't waste any more time. Use them as bait!"

The younger brother, Yamano Jiro, leaned over and whispered in his brother's ear.

In his opinion, using healing magic on this group of mid-level extraordinary people was a waste of magic power.

Since the boss' advancement is a foregone conclusion, the best way to deal with it at this time is to preserve your strength as much as possible, then go deeper into the maze, find a place to recuperate, and wait for more combat forces to be sent from the ground.

As for these level 4 and 5 extraordinary people, they will die anyway if they waste time, so wouldn’t it be more valuable to help attract the attention of the two brothers before they die?

"No! We can only take action after the entourage is dead."

Although Ichiro Yamano agreed with his brother's idea, he was more cautious.

He had to see with his own eyes the death of the extraordinary person planted by Hayasaka before taking any action. Now was the beginning of the internal strife in the Shinomiya family, and he couldn't let anyone catch him.

"Okay! Nissan!"

Hearing his brother's words, Jiro quickly nodded in agreement, then pretended nothing had happened and continued to treat the injured team members.

However, the healing light on the wounded was much dimmer than before, and the effect of wound recovery also began to gradually deteriorate.

The wounded were not fools, so they naturally noticed the clues.

He wanted to ask, but after seeing the cold light in Yamano Jiro's eyes, he dared not say anything more.

After hastily bandaging it with a bandage, he stood up again and joined the battle.

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