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The firelight illuminated something about two meters away...
It was a tentacle, flesh-red in color, its severed ends charred and emitting a foul odor.
The veins covering the tentacles pulsated, still in the same state as when they attacked Lycorina, creating an indescribably strange effect.
……
pain!
Yes, it doesn't show any signs of pain.
It looks like a living thing, yet it's like a dead thing—that's what makes it so strange!
The tentacle was clearly stunned for a moment, then it quickly disappeared into the depths of the forest.
[Sword Hero: Rise, everyone! The enemy has appeared!]
Layton, who was sleeping, was jolted awake by the words that suddenly appeared in his mind.
As he sprang to his feet and raised his shield, he realized that Miluko had vanished.
"Where is Miss Miluko?!"
Layton looked around warily and shouted a question.
"She'll be fine. Take care of yourself first," An Yi's voice came from the side.
Milu is the fastest person in the team, and she has also undergone professional assassin training. If she suddenly disappears, it can only mean that she must have hidden herself away immediately.
After all, the system would give a notification if she died.
"Whoosh-"
A fleshy tentacle pierced towards Layton, who had just gotten up, at an extremely fast speed.
"Oh!"
A loud bang rang out as the shield blocked the attack. Layton had taken the blow squarely, but he was forced back several steps, his arm numb from the shock.
"The enemy's strength is greater than mine!" Layton immediately realized.
"Behind."
Annie's voice suddenly came from beside Layton's ear.
In that instant when he turned around, he saw An Yi wielding a longsword and severing the tentacle that had attacked him from behind.
Meanwhile, he was holding Lycorina in his other hand.
“Thank you!” Layton said.
"You look ahead, I'll look behind. Her Highness, use your skill to attack the direction the tentacles are coming from," An Yi immediately began to give instructions.
"it is good!"
They both answered at the same time.
Annie put Lycorina down and shielded her between herself and Layton.
"Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-"
One after another, tentacles pierced out from the shadows of the forest, attacking the three people in the center of the empty space.
An Yi skillfully wielded his sword, severing all the tentacles.
Layton couldn't keep up with the speed of the tentacles at all, and was caught off guard and even hit many times.
Lycorina didn't have the luxury of attacking the base of the tentacles, so she could only keep helping Layton attack the tentacles.
If she doesn't help, she herself will be attacked, because Layton can't completely block all attacks for her.
An Yi had actually anticipated this.
Rather, this was exactly how he envisioned things to develop.
It would be incredible if Layton could easily defend against the tentacle attacks, and if Lycorina could follow his instructions and attack the root of the tentacles directly.
[Rank F Dungeon: Slime Forest]
Mission objective: Kill the Slime King
Recommended by: 4+
Recommended level: Lv5
The level 5 here refers to level 5 under the condition that all attributes are evenly distributed.
If your attributes are severely "unbalanced", you need to raise both Agility and Stamina to at least 7 points to handle this dungeon.
Slimes are indeed weak; compared to goblins of the same level, they are nothing at all.
However, the weakness of slimes is compensated by the fact that they are extremely difficult to defeat in the early stages of the game, namely the Slime King.
[First Phase of the Dungeon:]
Surviving the attack of the Slime King's tentacles and finding the Slime King's true form.
The difficulty of this dungeon lies in the fact that the system will not display any dungeon information until the Slime King is found for the first time and a prompt appears.
As a boss with a perverse sense of humor that is triggered by "medicine," its first wave of attacks is a sudden and unexpected attack without any warning.
Even in the game, many players die after enduring the tentacles for a long time without realizing they have to find the main body in the forest.
In this world, such a mechanism is enough to eliminate a large number of heroes.
This isn't a God's-eye view, and you can't respawn in the main city and then look up guides online.
Only those heroes who resist the attacks while searching for the source of the tentacles will eventually find the Slime King's true form.
However, Annie believes that this team should have no problem dealing with the Slime King.
because……
……
"Where...is the source of the attack...?"
Miru can speed through the forest, easily dodging one tentacle attack after another.
These tentacles were indeed moving very fast, but to her they were no different from slow motion.
She definitely couldn't win a head-on fight against the tentacles, but if she couldn't win, couldn't she at least dodge them?
While the other three were resisting the tentacle attacks, she had already completed a basic investigation around the open area.
All the tentacles originated from the ground, as if they grew out of thin air, bursting out of the soil and launching an attack.
The source of the attack was underground.
This seems like a pointless statement, but...
Is the entire land their enemy, or are each tentacle an independent creature, or do they share a single, independent body?
If this forest is their enemy, then they'd better flee here tonight, or burn the forest down.
If each tentacle is an independent organism, then with Miluko's speed and Lycorina's Holy Judgment, they can be broken through one by one.
If they share a single entity, the problem is even easier to solve; all that's needed is to find where the entity is located.
However, Milu tends to prefer the last answer.
Through observation, she discovered that the movements of these tentacles actually follow a certain pattern.
If the entire land is under attack, or if the tentacles are individual creatures, the attack method should be chaotic.
Forests don't have brains; they might just attack indiscriminately out of instinct.
Individual creatures should exhibit a "each doing their own thing" mentality, and even if they have a certain rhythm, they shouldn't appear too orderly.
The attack methods we've seen so far are basically just having a dozen or so tentacles strike at intervals.
The three people being attacked might not be able to see it clearly, but from Miluko's perspective, it was perfectly clear.
If she wasn't mistaken, the creature controlling the tentacles from behind must be rather dim-witted, because its attack methods were far too rigid.
Just then, a tentacle flashed before her eyes.
A severed tentacle.
Suddenly, the severed tentacle secreted a gel-like substance, quickly restored itself to its original shape, and then turned back to the color of flesh and blood.
"etc!"
In other words, those fleshy tentacles were faked?!
The other side is a slime!
It's disguising its true identity as a slime!
Since the other party is a slime...
Then there must be a core!
So once you find the main body, you can kill it!
"I doubt anyone has noticed this yet, right?"
Milu was secretly delighted.
If the three of them were still on guard, and she had single-handedly taken down the main bodies of those tentacles, she would have been worshipped by the three of them to no end!
"Alright! Now it's my performance time!"
Suddenly, a message appeared in the chat group.
[Sword Hero: Miss Miluko, have you found the other party's true form?]
Miluko: "..."
[The Hero of Thorns has joined the chat group!]
Hero of the Thorns: Ah, not yet.
Why did he notice it too?!
Chapter 41 I can never repay such a great kindness!
"Milu can go find the original body? What is the original body?" Lycorina asked in confusion.