It wasn't just Little Demons.

Ordinary adventurers, unless they had taken a specific quest, would generally steer clear of this creature!

Although this guy's dropped Demon Crystals were large and valuable, grinding a few more Crack Ants would yield the same effect, with much lower risk compared to taking on the Giant Centipedes.

From an economic perspective, this indeed made sense, but from the perspective of "experience," it was a completely different story.

The motivation of players grinding monsters differed from that of adventurers; the latter did it for money, while the former did it more for experience.

As their character levels continued to rise, the experience provided by other monsters in the second level of the labyrinth became increasingly limited for Yiye Zhiqu and Hu Wan.

Especially since they had recently formed a team with two new members as the frontline, now the experience had to be shared among four people.

And to keep the pace of leveling up undisturbed, they had to challenge stronger monsters.

Which is why—

Once Yiye Zhiqu felt he had enough confidence, he immediately set his sights on the big guy.

Amidst the fierce and rapid onslaught of attacks, Hu Wan coolly rolled away to create distance, moving swiftly like a ghost, never giving the pincers a chance to hit him, while maintaining just enough distance to keep the monster's aggro.

For him, who had been through hundreds of battles both large and small, this was all too easy!

As the target entered the attack zone, the Lizardman and Skeleton Sword Shield Hand who were hiding behind the rocks decisively charged forward.

Minotaur Warrior, "Pighead, attack its head!"

Pighead Warrior, "Aooo Aooo Aooo!!"

A massive axe chopped into the top of the centipede's head, right at the base of its mandibles.

The centipede instinctively retracted its pincers, but the axe was too thick to be cut off and it immediately tried to back away.

The quick-witted Minotaur Warrior didn't give it a chance, ramming his shield into its upright belly, his sword piercing the fluttering segments, and wildly stabbing at its underside.

Unfortunately, he still fell short of twelve buffs compared to Bond, and despite scraping up the centipede painfully, he didn't inflict a fatal wound.

"Hss—!"

The Giant Centipede hissed, twisted its mandibles, and flung the Lizardman holding the double axe away; then, with a fierce push of its front dozen segments, it directly kicked the Skeleton with the shield away.

"Damn—!"

The Minotaur Warrior rolled several times on the ground before stopping.

If he didn't possess peak black iron strength, his bones would have probably disintegrated!

"This guy really has to be bronze— No, Gold!" the limping Pighead Knight grumbled as he got up from the ground, just having picked up his axe when a chilling sensation crept up his spine.

He saw that the centipede completely ignored the Minotaur Warrior, who was all bones with no flesh, staring intently at him, the fleshiest of them all.

The Pighead Knight panicked at that moment, cursing himself for foolishly picking such a damned race.

If he'd known he'd be challenging a Giant Centipede, he would have chosen a Little Demon instead!

"Fuck! Don't come any closer!"

Sensing his prey's fear, the Giant Centipede's mandibles emitted a sinister hissing laugh.

However, just as it was about to bite down on the Lizardman in front of it, a dazzling light suddenly burst into its field of vision.

Before it could react, a huge fireball struck its face.

Scorched by the flames, it let out a piercing, agonized scream.

Yiye Zhiqu, who had completed the spell, didn't stop, immediately throwing another fireball, coordinating with Hu Wan's oil flask thrown into the air, delivering a combo attack.

Sizzle—!

Accompanied by the sound of shattering glass, the burst of ignited oil instantly blossomed into a shower of flames.

Drenched in the burning flame rain, the Giant Centipede was instantly engulfed in a sea of fire, writhing in agony before collapsing heavily onto the ground.

Seeing that the monster was no longer stirring, Hu Wan, who was hiding behind the rocks, breathed a sigh of relief and gave Yiye Zhiqu a thumbs up in his direction.

"Nicely done!"

Yiye Zhiqu smiled and gestured.

"You too."

Watching the dust settle from the battle, the Minotaur Warrior got up and said with a wry smile, "Sorry... I've been a drag."

Unlike his good brother Pighead, he was of the kind that cared about saving face.

"Not at all," Yiye Zhiqu smiled warmly, "Without your support, I couldn't have cast spells so effortlessly."

It was the truth.

He and Hu Wan had tried foregoing a frontliner before, but it proved to be too risky.

For the time being, he still couldn't manage slashing while casting fireballs.

That entailed two entirely different power systems, with a difficulty level higher than casting Fireball Technique and Water Ball Technique simultaneously!

With his current proficiency and stats, he was not yet up to multitasking.

"Exactly, even cannon fodder has its value!"

The pig-headed Knight, who had narrowly escaped death, came over with a grin and helped the Bull-headed Warrior up from the ground, shamelessly saying.

"If it weren't for my leap slash, could our Brother Yiye have taken heads so smoothly?"

Yiye Zhiqu smiled, while Hu Wan couldn't be bothered to respond.

Looking at this shameless guy, the Bull-headed Warrior snorted in disdain.

"You've got some nerve!"

The pig-headed Knight chuckled.

"What's there to be embarrassed about... Holy shit, I leveled up!"

It wasn't just him who had leveled up.

Just then, Yiye Zhiqu also noticed the changes in his attribute panel.

[

ID: Yiye Zhiqu

Race: Skeleton

Soul Level: Bronze (Level Cap LV30)

Level: LV.15 (+1)

Constitution: 11

Strength: 9

Agility: 6

Intelligence: 7 (+1)

Spirit: 9 (+1)

]

Due to casting spells frequently, his spiritual power and intelligence had each grown a point.

Yiye Zhiqu was quite satisfied with his current pace of attribute growth.

As he quietly felt the change in his spiritual power, the pig-headed Knight suddenly said.

"Guys, since there's not much challenge left on the second floor, why don't we check out the third floor?"

Bull-headed Warrior: "No challenge left? You think that last fight was easy?"

Pig-headed Knight: "Cough... no one got hurt, right?"

Bull-headed Warrior: "..."

Hu Wan pondered and then said.

"It's actually not a bad idea... I also think we're about ready to push on to the lower floors."

Yiye Zhiqu said with a smile.

"Since no one has objections, then let's go together... I was planning to check out Iron Teeth City on the third floor too, heard there are some good stuff there."

The pig-headed Knight grinned bashfully.

"Heh, I was thinking the same... Yesterday, Brother Bond even promised me on the forum that he'd enchant my axe for free. I'll figure something out and get you guys a freebie too."

At the word 'free,' Hu Wan's expression became subtly amused.

Intuition told him it wasn't going to be cheap.

"No need... If necessary, I'll have an NPC do the enchantment for me."

The pig-headed Knight's face showed disappointment.

"That's too bad... I heard he came up with a lot of good stuff."

The Bull-headed Warrior said, sweating profusely.

"Bro, calm down. You know his reputation if you search the forum. You think he'd let you get a good deal?"

Hu Wan nodded.

"+1, his understanding of 'good stuff' probably isn't on the same plane as normal people."

No sooner had he said this than he remembered that the guy in front of him wasn't exactly normal, either.

Two abnormal guys together... maybe birds of a feather wasn't so wrong after all?

Sure enough—

The pig-headed brother was still trying to justify the chemical pool incident to Bond.

"It's different! This time it's Netherworld Language, not explosives!"

Watching the pig-headed Knight passionately explain, Yiye Zhiqu stepped forward, patted him on the shoulder, and smoothed things over with a laugh.

"Either way, we'll find out once we go have a look."

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