The benefits of entering a secret realm were self-evident.
Lin Mo rembered that in the treasure chest he obtained from the last secret realm, besides the most basic money, there were many other rewards.
There was equipnt, fla reagents, and magic stones...
But unexpected dangers could also be encountered inside secret realms. No one knew how many magical creatures were inside, how strong they were, and most importantly, there were no fixed exits in secret realms. If one was unlucky and couldn't find the exit, they might be trapped inside.
Lin Mo frowned tightly, finding it difficult to make a decision for a mont.
Actually, most of the ti before this, he had followed a relatively safe route and wouldn't actively take risks in most situations.
But the current situation was different...
Silverstream City faced so many problems, and it was already difficult for him to remain uninvolved.
Whether it was Flora or Finnie, including City Lord Bessie, they had all provided him with much help. Finnie was also his current and future teammate. With Silverstream City in trouble, both emotionally and logically, he couldn't just leave.
But to be useful in the current complex situation, his current strength was sowhat awkward.
It wasn't completely useless, but there wasn't much he could actually do to change the overall situation.
Entering the secret realm would most likely allow his strength to advance by leaps and bounds.
Lin Mo looked at the rift before him and finally made a decision.
He had to enter this secret realm - he couldn't miss this opportunity!
But since he ca out alone, he couldn't communicate with Silverstream City. If he stayed inside for too long, it would probably make Ellie and Finnie worry.
However, secret realms were unpredictable - they might disappear or change location at any ti. If he went back first, he might miss this chance.
...
"Are you going in?"
Just as Lin Mo was extrely conflicted, a voice suddenly sounded behind him, startling him.
Turning his head, he saw it was Sherfilia.
Lin Mo was stunned for a mont and asked, "Why are you following ?"
He really didn't know about this.
Logically, Sherfilia was Finnie's maid, soone arranged by Finnie's mother to protect her. The reason she had been following them on their previous adventures was because Finnie was there.
But now Finnie was clearly in the city focusing on her promotion, and he had co out alone. Why was this maid still following him?
Sherfilia responded indifferently, "You are also a target of the mission."
At this point, there was nothing left to hide.
Mission target... aning soone to protect?
Lin Mo gradually understood the reasoning. Probably because his displayed talent was too astonishing, Lady Bessie was worried sothing might happen to him. Ɽ𝓪NỔᛒĚS
That strengthened his determination to enter the Black Iron realm to improve his strength and help Silverstream City overco its difficulties.
"So, are you planning to enter?"
Sherfilia asked again.
Lin Mo nodded: "Actually, I was once forced to enter a secret realm due to an accident and gained so benefits from it... I haven't encountered one again for a long ti since then. Now that the opportunity is right before , of course I can't miss it."
"Okay."
Sherfilia nodded, walking to a position half a step behind Lin Mo and stopping: "I'll accompany you."
Few words, just three characters, but they made Lin Mo look at her sideways, carefully examining the expressionless beautiful face before him.
"What about Silverstream City..."
"Madam will receive the ssage and inform everyone."
As Sherfilia spoke, she stretched out her hand, and soon a white pigeon flew over, landing on her arm.
Sherfilia took a slip of paper from the pigeon's leg, wrote a few strokes quickly, then put the paper back.
The white pigeon imdiately flew away at an astonishing speed.
With that, there were no more concerns.
Lin Mo took a deep breath, calming his breathing, and slowly stepped into the rift.
Sherfilia followed closely behind, grabbing the corner of his clothes to prevent any accidents.
Similar to the last ti he entered a secret realm, Lin Mo felt his vision go black, all his senses instantly sealed off.
Extre emptiness passed in an instant, followed by a weightless dizziness, feeling the gravity around him disappear and reappear, constantly flipping...
Even with one experience already, it still made Lin Mo quite uncomfortable. He shook his head and took a while to recover.
Looking at Sherfilia beside him, she was clearly affected too, but even before her vision recovered, she imdiately pulled out throwing knives from her waist, her body tense, ready for combat preparation at the first mont.
As the saying goes, such rigorous training really didn't seem like that of a maid...
More like a retainer or death soldier specifically trained from childhood.
Lin Mo discovered that the effects he experienced when entering the secret realm seed smaller than Sherfilia's, and much smaller than during his last entry.
Was it because of experience, or due to the improvent in his ntal attributes?
As his senses returned, Sherfilia observed their surroundings and only relaxed slightly after confirming there was no danger.
Lin Mo looked at the surrounding scene - it looked very familiar. Sure enough, it was exactly the maze secret realm he had entered last ti!
"Underground dungeon."
Sherfilia's theoretical knowledge was clearly quite extensive, quickly confirming the type of secret realm before them,
and it was most likely a tomb-type underground dungeon.
"If that's the case, the danger coefficient isn't too high."
This kind of artificially created secret realm was always better than those purely composed of countless monsters' sacred grounds.
After speaking, she turned her gaze to Lin Mo, clearly indicating that the next actions would be led by him, following his ideas.
Lin Mo nodded, drew Black Sword, and walked forward along the narrow passageway.
Sa as last ti, there were many traps set on both sides of the walls, but those traps that couldn't accomplish much back then were naturally even less significant to the current Lin Mo.
He didn't even need Sherfilia's reminders - his keen insight and so knowledge learned from assassins along the way were enough for Lin Mo to discover most of the traps in this secret realm.
The flying arrows, suddenly appearing rolling logs - none posed any threat to him.
So soon, they saw a dark gray door.
Lin Mo clearly rembered various information about this secret realm. The dark gray door should represent the very classic "Black Iron," the lowest-level room in the secret realm.
Of course, even so, necessary caution couldn't be omitted.
He directly used [Rock Shield] to summon a shield, then walked to the door and tentatively knocked.
A crisp sound echoed in the narrow passageway. Lin Mo then forcefully pushed the door open and retreated two steps.
"Swish—!"
With that sound, so projectiles hit the heavy shield in Lin Mo's hands but couldn't leave even the slightest mark.
After all, this was only a Black Iron-level secret room.
Lin Mo snapped his fingers, flas flickering in his hand, then transforming into a huge fireball flying forward.
"Boom—!"
With the sound of [Explosive Fireball] detonating, the scene inside the secret room appeared before them.
About twenty green shorties - the all-too-familiar goblins.
But with this one [Explosive Fireball] launched, only a few guys who could be called lucky or unlucky remained, missing arms and legs, screaming and struggling on the ground.
The goblins' screams were really ear-piercing. Lin Mo quickly stepped forward and sent them off one by one.
He didn't use skills because this was a secret realm after all, and they didn't know how long it would take to leave, so both qi and blood and magic power needed to be used sparingly. Those few proficiency points weren't worth being greedy for.
[Explosive Fireball] proficiency 13
This skill was quite useful in the secret realm. As an excellent-grade skill, its consumption wasn't too high, the damage wasn't low, and it even had so lighting effect.
Taking a torch down from the outer wall, Lin Mo searched in this secret room for a while but didn't find any trace of a treasure chest.
Perhaps soone had already been here, so the treasure chest was taken?
Last ti he entered the secret realm, there also seed to be rooms without treasure chests.
Shaking his head, this secret room filled with the sour rot of garbage and the stench of goblins wasn't suitable for staying long. Since there was no treasure chest, Lin Mo continued forward and pushed open the door on the other side.
Appearing before them was a fork road splitting in two directions.
"Maze?"
Sherfilia thought of this first, "But in a secret realm, whether it's a maze or not doesn't make much difference."
After all, the entrances and exits of secret realms were almost patternless.
The only problem was the direction to proceed.
Lin Mo rembered that last ti when he entered with Bern and the others, they used coin tossing to decide. This ti...
Forget it, just choose randomly for now.
Although Lin Mo had so other ideas, there was no need to waste them on paths at the very beginning.
Better save so qi and blood for later use.
So he looked at Sherfilia beside him: "Let's play rock-paper-scissors."
Sherfilia tilted her head in confusion, her expression looking a bit dumbfounded.
"Rock-paper-scissors?"
"A small ga from my hotown. Simply put, there are three gestures - 'rock', 'scissors', and 'paper' that counter each other. Use this thod to determine victory. If you win, we go left;
if I win, we go right."
Since the rules were very simple, Sherfilia quickly understood.
"Using such a thod to make decisions is quite childish..."
Although she said this, she still cooperatively extended her hand.
Sherfilia showed "paper," while Lin Mo showed "rock," so she won.
Lin Mo directly walked toward the left passage.
It was still a relatively narrow passageway, but slightly shorter than the initial one. Because their strength was greater now, their traveling speed was fast, and soon they arrived before another dark gray door.
Still using the not-yet-disappeared [Rock Shield] to push open the door. As the door opened, Lin Mo had already heard the sounds inside, so he directly threw an [Explosive Fireball].
The mont the light went out, Lin Mo's face darkened.
The monsters in this secret room turned out to be slis.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly and hurriedly blocked with [Rock Shield] in front of him.
The next mont, the slis shattered by the exploding fireball splattered everywhere, the entire rock shield becoming sticky and ssy.
So disgusting.
If he hadn't reacted quickly, these things would have landed on him.
Fortunately, the sli secret room was much cleaner compared to the goblin one, without that foul stench.
And after searching in the spacious secret room for a while, Lin Mo successfully found a treasure chest.
Not far from the treasure chest, they could see scattered bones, probably adventurers who entered the secret realm due to greed or accidents.
Sherfilia also watched the treasure chest in Lin Mo's hands with interest.
On the dark gray box, a red beast mark slowly faded.
"It's actually a treasure chest with a magical seal?"
Lin Mo tried - even with his current strength, he still couldn't force open the treasure chest.
After the mark completely faded, he tried again and opened it very smoothly.
Inside lay so silver coins and a single-handed sword that didn't look very impressive.
After all, it was only a Black Iron-level secret room, Black Iron-level treasure chest...
Lin Mo picked up the sword and glanced at it. For beginners, it would be a good item, but for him now, it was completely useless, not even worth carrying.
Including those silver coins - not high in value but nurous in quantity, carrying them would be too burdenso, taking up too much space.
If only he had a magic storage bag...
But the cheapest ones cost two to three thousand gold coins, with only 1-2 cubic ters of space - really expensive.
Helplessly, these low-level things weren't valuable enough, so he could only abandon them.
Continuing forward, pushing open the door at the other end of the secret room, what appeared before them was naturally another fork road.
Still two paths - left and right.
This was sowhat different from last ti he entered... Lin Mo rembered that after making one choice last ti, there were three fork roads during the second choice.
Still using rock-paper-scissors to decide.
"Rock, paper, scissors!"
Lin Mo looked at the fair, small palm before him and was montarily speechless.
Alright, he lost again.
Then continue left.
After a stretch of road, what appeared before them was still a dark gray door, aning this was still a Black Iron-level room.
Lin Mo pushed the door open and entered. This secret room had torchlight, and what appeared before them could be considered old acquaintances.
Cat demons.
About ten in total, with the leading two being rune-marked cat demons.
Seeing intruders, those cat demons imdiately bristled, screeching as they charged at Lin Mo.
Lin Mo snorted coldly, kicking one cat demon away.
The next mont, [Wind-Binding Blade] was launched, cutting two cat demons along the way into two segnts. Imdiately after, the vortex effect of [Wind-Binding Blade] pulled the remaining few cat demons toward the center.
Lin Mo launched an [Explosive Fireball], instantly killing them along with the two rune-marked cat demons.
This could actually be used as a monster-gathering skill.
Actually, the pulling effect of [Wind-Binding Blade] wasn't very strong, but that depended on the opponent. If they were level 3 or 4 magical creatures, it might not pull much, but facing these small fries not even level 1, it was like a strong magnet - once caught, don't think about leaving.
[Wind-Binding Blade] proficiency 2
[Explosive Fireball] proficiency 16
Unfortunately, just a pulling effect didn't seem to allow proficiency to stack and gain.
Easily resolving the magical creatures, Lin Mo searched in the secret room for a while and unexpectedly found no treasure chest, but there was one that had already been opened... which didn't seem to belong to this room.
aning, adventurers had already been here before?
But before this, the secret room they ca from hadn't been cleared by adventurers.
This indicated that the secret rooms in this underground dungeon secret realm didn't only have one-way passages - taking other routes could also reach this room.
This was quite interesting.
Because judging only from the outside, these secret rooms only had two doors - entrance and exit - without a third passage, which clearly conflicted with the above conclusion.
Lin Mo communicated this information with Sherfilia.
Sherfilia pondered slightly and said, "If that's the case, then there's only one possibility..."
"Spatial teleportation!"
"The builder of this underground dungeon had high achievents in magic and mastered spatial magic to so extent!"
In the magic system, fire, water, wind, ice, and earth were the most common elents, while light, dark, thunder, and natural magic were relatively rare. Above these elents, even more mysterious and difficult to master were space and ti.
The most common spatial magic was the magic storage bag.
This magical storage device was created by enchanting spatial folding magic onto bags woven from magic-conductive materials. This process wasn't actually very complicated, but the reason such items were expensive, besides the high value of the materials themselves, was another reason - too few people could master spatial magic.
Unlike common elents like ice and fire, the "space" elent was a very vague elent, like covered by a thick veil. Even those with outstanding talent could perceive it but found it difficult to resonate with, let alone master.
And now, most mages, to improve their strength faster and make their magic more powerful, often only specialized in one elent, making them even more lacking in research and exploration of this rare elent.
And the builder of this underground secret realm had actually mastered spatial magic!
Then if they could clear this secret realm, among the rewards they could obtain, might there be spatial magic skill scrolls?
Thinking of this, Lin Mo's eyes imdiately lit up.
That was spatial magic!
But he didn't know how deep this secret realm was, or how high the difficulty would be later.
Anyway, try step by step first!
Lin Mo pushed open the door at the end of the secret room. This ti, what appeared before them was three fork roads.
"Winning and losing are the sa as before. If it's a tie, then take the middle path."
Sherfilia nodded, then directly extended her hand during Lin Mo's countdown.
"..."
Lin Mo's mouth twitched, finally unable to resist complaining: "Not sister... do you only show paper?"
"Don't you only show rock?"
Sherfilia looked up at him, her eyes seeming to conceal so amusent.
"Fine."
Lin Mo had nothing more to say and directly walked toward the left path.
The traps in the passageway still needed no elaboration. Soon they arrived before the secret room door. This ti, what appeared before them was a bluish-gray door.
A Bronze secret room?
Black Iron recalled a bit, rembering that when they entered last ti, they had also entered two Bronze secret rooms.
The first secret room had two adult cat demons and over ten ordinary cat demons, while the other had two minotaurs... one of them wasn't there at first but later chased after them, almost causing trouble.
But opponents that were extrely dangerous to him back then now seed no different from the trash in Black Iron-level secret rooms.
If there was any difference, it was that they gave more proficiency.
Still using the rock shield to push open the door, Lin Mo said nothing and directly greeted them with a [Fla Arrow].
Fierce flas burned, transforming into an arrow that shot out, unquestionably piercing through the chest of the unlucky fellow behind the door, leaving a charred hollow.
The massive body fell powerlessly. The other minotaur nearby waved its giant axe toward Lin Mo, but he caught it with two fingers.
The next mont, his figure turned into an afterimage, flashing past at extre speed.
[Shadow Strike]!
He wasn't using a dagger or short knife, but Black Sword.
With this strike, the minotaur's thick body was directly cut in half.
Indeed, assassin class skills weren't limited to short-handled weapons - they could be used with single-handed swords too, and the effect was pretty good.
Although for most assassins, the flexibility of short-handled weapons suited them better.
Sherfilia following behind was secretly shocked.
She certainly recognized this move - it was the skill she had personally taught Lin Mo.
But...
Previously keeping distance made it unclear, but now observing closely, she realized he had already used it so well.
Back then, it took her a full half year to reach Lin Mo's current level with this move!
Although she had been practicing other skills during that process, Lin Mo was the sa.
He was even practicing skills from multiple classes!
Sherfilia now roughly understood why Miss Flora always liked to complain to Madam during that period.
This talent was simply inhuman!
[Fla Arrow] proficiency 8
[Shadow Strike] proficiency 8
Not enough, this little proficiency was even less than the previous rooms.
These two skills were both biased toward single-target, so their progress had been slow due to neglect before.
As for area attacks, with [Blizzard] available, he wasn't really lacking for now.
Oh right, there was also [Lightning Strike], which he hadn't used or improved for a long ti.
Skipping past the minotaur corpses, Lin Mo searched in the secret room for a while and finally saw what he wanted.
A bluish-gray treasure chest.
The mark on the treasure chest was gradually fading. Lin Mo quietly waited for the mark to completely disappear before opening the treasure chest.
Inside were forty to fifty gold coins, plus a short knife.
The value of gold coins was much higher than silver coins, worth carrying.
As for that short knife...
Lin Mo looked closely.
[Hound's Tooth]
Weapon Type: Short Blade
Grade: Excellent (Green)
Attributes: Durability 80%, Sturdiness 40%, Sharpness 30%
Hidden Attribute: Hunting II: Damage increased by 10% against beast-type magical creatures
Equipnt Bonus: Canine Tooth II: 10% chance to cause additional "bleeding" effect, accelerating wound bleeding
An excellent-grade short knife, with attributes and bonuses that were average, a fairly good short-handled weapon.
Lin Mo happened to be lacking a good short-handled weapon. The dagger he was using now was clearly inferior to this one, so he could just replace it.
Hopefully, there would be better things below.
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