Cataclysm King - #48 - Chapter 48: keeper

  Chapter 48 Keeper of Secrets

  Originally, the difficulty of the [Great Cemetery] maze was not so outrageous.

  The normal puzzle-solving procedure is that the hunters first solve the problem of the skeleton monster in the maze, whether it is horizontal push or card San value or other methods, until they find clues similar to adventurer’s notes in the monster pile.

   Then go to start to hide the plot.

   This is a long process that requires careful exploration.

  With clues, even if you encounter the [Keeper of Secrets] later, you will not be sure to die.

  But now someone directly triggered the hidden plot, which caused everyone to face a dead end as soon as they entered.

  Ji Xun was stuck with the three points as soon as he came in, so he was lucky and found a little clue.

   But the crisis of death still exists.

  The magic of the maze is that it is a “maze”.

  Before you walk through it, you don’t even know where the passage leads to.

  Even if you avoid it deliberately, after going around in a big circle, you may find yourself back in the same place.

   In addition, there are some passages that seem to lead to two completely different directions. You deliberately avoid a certain passage, but you may still find that the two passages converge at some point in the future.

  Ji Xun carefully avoided the direction of the battle news.

   But as he was walking, suddenly he felt something was wrong.

  In his mind, he has already drawn the route map of walking through the maze as a QR code. Although there is only one corner of the maze, he will not be allowed to take the same path.

  However, some channels in the brain are getting more and more offset, gradually converging in one direction.

  He tried his best to avoid it, but he couldn’t stop others from rushing around in the maze.

  After walking through a few forks in the road, Ji Xun suddenly heard the sound of fighting coming from the corridor, even though they were far away.

   “Boom”, “Boom”, “Boom”.

  Thunderstorm-like battle sounds came from all directions.

   It can only be the main force of the group of people in the Governor’s Mansion who can make such a big commotion.

   Ji Xun suddenly felt that something was wrong and wanted to avoid it.

  But no matter whether you go back or choose another corridor, the movement is still getting closer.

  Ji Xun frowned and said to himself, “It seems that we can’t avoid it.”

   After distinguishing the direction of the sound, he realized that the nearby corridors seemed to be connected corridors.

   That is to say, no matter which side you go, it seems that it may lead to the direction of the battle.

  Those guys moved very fast, and the noise of the battle became louder and louder, as if they were already in the next corridor in a blink of an eye.

  Ji Xun deduced the road map in his mind, knowing that he might encounter it no matter what he chose, so he simply didn’t choose it.

  He thought of the description of [Keeper of Secrets] in his notebook, so he didn’t choose to avoid it. Instead, he made a decisive decision, took advantage of the situation, and lay down in the corner of a dead end, choosing a place that was not easy to be trampled on.

   Then, stand up.

   This is the only way he can think of to avoid danger.

   It was precisely because he didn’t run around rashly that Ji Xun narrowly escaped this fatal crisis.

  Not long after he put on the clown mask and lay down, the end of the corridor suddenly exploded with a “boom”.

   Countless skeleton frames were blasted into pieces, splashing all over the sky like a torrential rain.

   Several bones “cracked” and hit Ji Xun on the ground, like shell fragments, and the pain made people gasp.

   Fortunately, he chose a blind spot to crawl on the ground, and the impact was relatively slight.

   Otherwise, if he was really on the main road, the shock wave of the battle would probably kill him half of his life.

   Immediately after the explosion, Ji Xun watched three blue cards flying out of the corner wrapped in a cyclone. The cyclone flew bigger and bigger, and turned into a jagged wind blade the size of a wheel.

  Three wind blade vortices covered the same cross-section, and the skeleton that passed by was instantly cut into two sections.

  Just three high-level wind blade cards, which cleared the entire tens of meters of maze corridor in one go.

   Immediately afterwards, I heard the hissing sound of the steam boiler deflating after accumulating energy, and there was a loud “bang”, and large pieces of skeletons in the entire tunnel were crushed into powder.

  The high pressure detonated and rolled like a dragon. Ji Xun was so shocked by the aftermath of the high pressure that he almost couldn’t hold back a mouthful of old blood, and complained in his heart: “The firepower of these guys in the Governor’s Mansion is really fierce!”

  The fighting strength of this group of people is indeed enough to sweep the skeleton monsters in the maze.

  However, the biggest advantage of skeleton monsters is their quantity. Once the hatred is attracted, a chain reaction will form.

  They pushed all the way in this way, not only were there no fewer monsters, but they attracted more and more monsters.

  Although Ji Xun didn’t see many people for the time being, but he heard the sound of dense footsteps, he estimated that there were quite a few people.

   And the footsteps were flustered, and it sounded like he was running away in embarrassment.

  The only one who can run after this group of people is the 【Keeper of Secrets】.

   “Protect the governor!”

   “Damn it, did you find the exit of the maze?”

   “Not yet. The exit in the hunter union’s information has been blocked by the door-blocking stone.”

  “.”

  The voices of those guys talking during the battle were loud, and they were heard far and wide in the maze.

   Those guys probably didn’t expect that a D-level space would trap them here.

  Hearing the movement getting closer, Ji Xun lowered his breath as much as possible.

   After a few breaths, a gust of wind passed over the scalp, and with slightly opened eyelids, I watched a group of frost knights rushing to protect the potbellied governor, there were hundreds of people rushing.

   Just the explosive momentum is like a torrent of steel.

  The Frost Knights Legion really lived up to their reputation.

  However, as soon as these groups of people left, the temperature in the huge corridor dropped sharply, accompanied by a strong gust of wind. The corpse collector is all too familiar with the rancid smell like a corpse crawling out of a tomb.

  Even if he didn’t look at it, Ji Xun knew that it was the 【Keeper of Secrets】 who had come.

   How terrifying is it to be able to chase down the monster that the elite knights in the Governor’s Mansion are panicking about?

  Ji Xun held his breath extremely low, quietly pretending to be dead, and was curious at the same time.

   Glancing slightly from the corner of the eye, a black mist appeared in his vision.

  In the thick black mist, tall figures riding rotten war horses passed quickly. Their skin has decayed beyond recognition, leaving only bones and flesh connected. And the shriveled mouth is stitched with needles and threads, which gives people a sense of penetration. When the monster approached, the surrounding air became heavy and distorted, making people inexplicably terrified.

  【Keeper】

  Detailed explanation: second-order S-level disasters; they are the guardians of the underground palace, the loyal keepers of the royal family; they are the death knights who control the destruction, they feed on the flesh and fear of living beings, and they are immortal;

   “It really is an S-class disaster.”

  Ji Xun heard from the hunters that all disasters above Grade A have some special abilities.

  The S-class disaster is a monster with some “special rules” endowed by different dimensions.

   This is usually an unbeatable rule.

   This is also the existence that the hunters are talking about.

  From the current point of view, the rule given to this secret keeper is—immortality and immortality.

   As long as the space is not destroyed, they will not die.

   Regardless of its rank and ability, it is just the characteristic of “immortality and immortality”, even if it is the strongest spell card master, it has to avoid it.

   And the horror of this monster is not only that it is not dead.

  Ji Xun just glanced at it, as if he had glimpsed some great horror beyond his cognition.

  Even his state of mind, which did not change his face in the face of death, seemed to be stabbed by a needle at this moment, and he was inexplicably surprised.

  This is not a person who can control fear subjectively.

   It was a kind of instinctive tremor caused by seeing some kind of indescribable demon.

   Immediately, enlightenment is displayed.

  「Corrupted by unknown pollution, the clown mask reduces the reduction by 70%, you have received fear +2, shock +1, soul pollution +1」

  「.”

   This is the glimpse.

  As if the soul was haunted by a nightmare, a more terrifying pollution came over.

  A series of negative states appear on the status panel.

   “Visual pollution?”

  Ji Xun was startled, and quickly closed his eyes.

  The picture in the eyes is broken, and the pollution ends.

  If it wasn’t for the clown mask, that glance just now might have caused a big problem.

   Fortunately, there is a group of people from the Governor’s Mansion to attract firepower.

   Chasing and fleeing, the speed was extremely fast, and the two groups of people rushed past with a “swish”.

   Just a moment after this feeling of terror hit my heart, the chill like ice knives scraping the bone completely disappeared.

  The secret keeper didn’t seem to see the “corpse” in the corner, and just chased the governor and his party in front of him.

  As if the scythe of death had scratched his scalp, Ji Xun felt the feeling of a poisonous snake climbing up his back and slipping away.

   Scalp tingling for a while.

   But not dead, this feeling makes people feel a little bit endless.

   Waiting for the lingering death crisis to completely subside, he stood up, squinted at the messy corridor in front of him, and pondered: “This monster is really terrifying.”

   Seeing a prompt is one thing.

   Witnessing that horrific pollution firsthand is another matter.

  Recalling the moment just now, he still has lingering fears.

   But he was also glad that he took a look at it.

  If he doesn’t watch a group of masters attracting hatred this time, the next time he may see this disaster, he will see the countdown to his own death.

   Ji Xun’s eyes trembled slightly.

   But it’s not all bad.

At this moment, Ji Xun’s thoughts were spinning, and he analyzed in his heart: “The description recorded in the adventurer’s notes before that ‘the monster’s perception of non-moving objects is slow’ is indeed correct. And not only non-moving objects, part of the transmission route of pollution is Through vision, closing the eyes can also reduce the hatred value.”

  Just now he lay down and pretended to be dead, avoiding the attention of the monster.

   And also confirmed a little new information, that is [Keeper]’s pollution transmission route.

   This is also very important.

   “The Keeper of Secrets is not sensitive to static objects, but he is not blind. And he can’t encounter it next time. Just close his eyes and pretend to be dead. No one attracts firepower, and he will be discovered sooner or later.”

  Ji Xun also felt a headache when he thought about it.

   This monster looks like a bug no matter what.

  So the only way out now is to decrypt it.

   Now that he has seen all the means behind the scenes, he feels that the people in the Governor’s Mansion are doomed.

  Hmm. I’m pretty much the same.

  Ji Xun laughed at himself, and didn’t bother with the unchangeable status quo.

   All he has to do now is stay away.

  Think about the good, at least not for yourself, the situation is not particularly bad.

  The advantage of having this group of people is that they will scurry around in the maze and concentrate all their firepower there.

  Ji Xun listened carefully to the direction of the fighting voices coming from the corridor.

   This time he didn’t choose the opposite passage, but chose to go back to the passage that a group of people from the Governor’s Mansion had walked through.

  Normally speaking, as long as those guys want to get out of the maze, they will never turn back.

  As long as you avoid them, you are avoiding the greatest danger.

   And there’s a little more.

  Anyway, any channel is dangerous.

   Why not go back and have a look, maybe there will be unexpected surprises.

  (end of this chapter)