Because of the enormous amount of information about the terrain and paths that needed to be verified, Kain spent a full five days piecing it all together before drawing the actual map.
During this ti, Kain did not touch any monsters, he only used the bait thod to temporarily bypass the position where the monsters were guarding, from there continuing to go deeper into the labyrinth.
And as he stood before a giant stone door, the map in Kain's mind was complete.
He hesitated for a mont, then stepped inside, pushing to open the heavy stone door.
A long corridor appeared in front of Kain, he carefully stepped in, at the sa ti looking at the structure that appeared at the end of the corridor.
From the depth and curvature of the structure, it seed that the guardian monster's room was cylindrical in shape, not much different from the guardian monster rooms he had seen before.
At the center of the room, a shapeless mass of sli was constantly moving and pulsating like a living creature breathing. This thing was ash-grey in color, and above this sli mass were Eyels that were constantly moving back and forth.
Mutated Sli? Symbiotic with Eyel?
Kain wondered in his mind, as he stepped into the guardian monster's room.
Almost at that mont, the grey Sli beca abnormal. Its body made of sli, which had always been in a balled up state, suddenly stretched out, causing the Sli to instantly transform into a diamond-shaped object that was about three tis as tall as Kain.
This transformation took even Kain by surprise, but that was not all.
In his line of sight, the tall Sli suddenly grew four arms, or rather tentacles.
Before Kain could realize it, tentacles sprouting from the monster's amorphous body had closed the distance with Kain at an incredible speed.
"A Sli can be that fast?"
A thought flashed through Kain's mind, his body unconsciously leaning back.
Kain realized now that he could have died if he had reacted just a little slower. In other words, Kain was very close to death.
A drop of blood ran down from a shallow cut on his cheek.
His heartbeat was starting to accelerate violently.
His body tensed, hormones pumping straight into his muscles and brain.
In his eyes, the entire world around him seed to be slowed down and stretched out in an extrely strange way.
However, all of this could not affect Kain's mind.
These things do not make his mind dull and feeble, but on the contrary make his mind sharper.
That was what was going on in his mind, but in reality, everything had just passed by in a mont.
Suddenly, Kain crouched down, taking a sowhat deford stance to quickly move to the left flank. At the sa ti, one of his hands raised, lightning accumulating extrely quickly.
[Thunder Bullet].
The lightning ball shot towards the monster at high speed, but the monster reacted even faster.
Only to see a tentacle of the monster swing horizontally, a long and flat shaped water blister imdiately hit the lightning ball, causing the lightning ball to only be able to rage in the air but unable to touch the monster even a little bit.
This caused Kain's eyebrows to furrow.
From the start, he didn't expect this [Thunder Bullet] to be able to cause any damage to the enemy, after all, this was just a probe.
What truly surprised Kain was how the Sli responded to his attack. This ans that this monster does not fight based on primitive instincts, or at least the instinct this monster possesses is also a fighting instinct.
Otherwise, this monster wouldn't have received that attack like that instead of using primitive actions like dodging or using its body to retreat.
This is very valuable information.
"So how about this!"
Kain's arm rotated, another magic skill was activated.
In the air, lightning began to flash and converge, forming a beam of lightning that struck downwards, straight towards the monster.
[Thunder Summon].
This was a magic skill with a large attack range, a large coverage area, and of course it wasn't the predetermined attack pattern of [Thunder Bullet], so Kain wanted to know how this Sli would counter it.
And once again, this monster did not fail to surprise Kain.
Two of the Sli's four tentacles rose up, then these tentacles began to shoot out long and flat shaped water blisters at different frequencies, just like the one that had previously blocked Kain's [Thunder Bullet]. And all the water blisters that were shot out ford a large net, accurately blocking all the lightning strikes within the Sli's range.
At the sa ti, the Sli's two remaining tentacles did not stop in their pursuit of Kain.
The versatility and flexibility of this monster is astounding.
Kain's attention was drawn to the Eyels that were constantly moving within the Sli's liquid body. He suspected that these symbiotic monsters were the reason why the Sli had such good spatial vision, able to accurately lock onto the location of multiple lightning strikes in an unpredictable manner.
This ans... Kain's enemy this ti has basically no blind spots.
Kain sighed, deciding to retreat.
That's enough exploration for now.
Kain quickly left the guardian monster's room. As he did so, the Sli's mutated body beca still. The diamond-shaped liquid mass also shrinks into a fluid, irregular mass as before.
Seeing this, Kain narrowed his eyes slightly.
…
It took Kain another day to return to the campsite where Myra and ra were camping. The two girls were already fed up with sitting still.
"How is it Kain? Have you got the map yet?"
Myra asked symbolically, but deep down she didn't have high expectations, she thought that Kain was just trying to find an excuse so they could rest.
ra was no different from her sister, she assud that the "map" that Kain had promised was a path to the guardian monster's room or sothing like that, not a map of the entire labyrinth.
But as Kain began to draw lines on the ground, the expressions on both of their faces beca increasingly foolish.
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