Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

Chapter 116: Chapter 116: Seed Rooting and Sprouting

[Angel’s Longbow

Basic Attack Power +50, Additional Attack Power + ??? (20% of the user’s Strength, +20% of Intelligence)

Holy Attribute Attack

Agility +5%]

Angel’s Longbow, a pink Epic Quality, featuring Holy Attribute Attack, highly compatible with Iyas.

[Skill Scroll Penetrating Shot]

Penetrating Shot allows Iyas’s attacks to continuously penetrate multiple targets, hitting the enemy’s backline in one go, a very decent small-scale AOE.

Damn, Archers are too strong, please stop buffing them.

Iyas’s loot quality is indeed not bad, but what Yang Yu wanted were the Healer’s equipment and skills; he intended to play as the all-purpose Warrior, Mage, Priest, not a War Mage Hunter.

Without playing Warrior, Mage, Priest, the whole team only has one Tank, and recovery can only rely on potion consumption; once Antidrug Resistance builds up, it’s basically game over for oneself.

Storing the Longbow, Yang Yu tossed the Skill Scroll to Iyas, ”You can use the Skill Scroll first. As for this Longbow, I can’t give it to you yet; the bow you’re currently using is still good enough. Later, when you’ve made enough contributions, I’ll give it to you.”

Yang Yu refrained from immediately giving the Longbow to Iyas due, mainly to two considerations.

Firstly, if Iyas received the Longbow too soon, she might think that with this divine bow she would be invincible, and that could lead to all sorts of problems.

Secondly, because...

The Longbow was too damn flashy: a pure white bow ornately decorated with dazzling golden patterns, with an emerald carved meticulously into the grip, and pure white wings at each end. Like a swan taking flight.

With such a Longbow matched with a beauty like Iyas, the turn heads rate would not just go through the roof, it could skyrocket, reaching the sun.

As a civilian player, Yang Yu came to show off his skills and awareness, not to show off a girl and receive disdain; naturally, he couldn’t give Iyas the Longbow prematurely.

Faced with Yang Yu’s decision, Iyas expressed no complaints.

Although she was instantly attracted to the Longbow and felt it was tailor-made for her, she wasn’t so shamelessly thick-skinned as to demand the Longbow from Yang Yu.

After all, it was he who solved Scarjade’s problem, he who convinced Scarjade to let them enter the Ninth Floor, and he who directed them to defeat Amon.

”The strategy is over, how do we get out?” Iyas asked.

”This, don’t worry about it.” Yang Yu looked up at the pristine ceiling, ”Scarjade, you should still be watching, right? We’re about to leave, so aren’t you going to come and talk to us? Do you want us to spread everything that happened here?”

Called by name, Scarjade, who was watching every move on the Ninth Floor through Peeping Magic, showed no surprise.

Its colossal body shrank hundreds of times in an instant until it was about the size of an ordinary cat. Blue eyes wove a Magic Array, then with a light hop, it dived into the Magic Array and arrived at the Ninth Floor.

”I didn’t expect you to really conquer the Ninth Floor. As for the rest, I won’t say much, but as a condition for giving you a backdoor, I hope you keep my identity, the identity of that BOSS, and the identity of the creator of this maze a secret.”

”Okay. Then hand over the treasures of this underground city to me!”

”You...,” Scarjade almost couldn’t resist pouncing and giving Yang Yu a swipe but held back due to the Manager’s dignity. It finally retracted its claws, ”Cough... truly greedy.”

”Anyway, the BOSS of the underground city has already been defeated. If someone painfully makes it to the ninth floor only to find nothing there, they will definitely be disappointed. It would be better to pack up everything else and let me take it away, so their effort isn’t wasted in vain.” Yang Yu said with a smile.

”Please, just be human! Give other Tamers a glimmer of hope.” Scarjade looked helpless, ”Anyway, choose between keeping a secret or staying here.”

”Whoa — are you threatening me?”

”You could understand it that way.”

”Aren’t you afraid that I’ll give you my word now and go back on it once I’m outside?”

Scarjade’s expression was sincere and even adorably earnest on the spot, ”I believe you’re not that kind of person.”

Yang Yu narrowed his eyes, ”Then tell me, where is the next underground city of Lux?”

”You...” Scarjade sighed, ”I acknowledge your intelligence, but Lux’s other underground cities are not all like this one. With your current strength, you can’t conquer them.”

”Just with our current strength.” Yang Yu smiled, ”Knowing is always better than not knowing.”

That smile seemed to say, in the near future, conquering an underground city of Lux would be a walk in the park for him.

Scarjade sighed deeply and spoke the truth, ”Actually, I don’t even know. The design of the underground cities is very complex. You can simply understand it as, all the underground cities are seeds, stored in a warehouse not of this world. When the time is ripe, these seeds will jump out of the warehouse one by one, enter this world, take root and sprout, grow branches and leaves underground, layer by layer to the surface, and when fully mature, attract those who wish to harvest.”

”So, you’re the gardener specially cultivating this great tree.”

”Exactly, you can understand it that way. To be precise, I, as a gardener, am also evolved from a cotyledon, so, unfortunately, I also don’t know where the other underground cities are. There is one thing I can tell you,”

Scarjade paused,

”Although I don’t know what triggers them, we are seeds of the same batch. Since my seed has taken root and sprouted, the other seeds won’t be too far behind in taking root and sprouting.

Now that you’ve heard this information, can you keep it a secret for me?”

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The All Things Library, Fifth Book Reading Room. It’s now deep into the night, and the library is entirely silent.

An elderly man with white hair is seated on a book over a meter wide, resting with his eyes closed, his dragon horns subtly visible amidst his hair.

Suddenly, a spark of electricity flashed through his mind.

The elder opened his eyes slightly, and beneath the white eyebrows, a pair of red dragon eyes emitted an incredulous glint. Waving his hand, a pitch-black forest appeared before him.

”Conquered? The magic fluctuations in this underground city are extraordinary, and it’s been conquered in just a few days’ time?”

A faint glow shone from a certain area of the Dark Forest. His perception couldn’t be wrong; that light was indeed from a Teleportation Array that appears only after an underground city has been conquered.

That kind of Teleportation Array is extremely ancient, impossible to replicate, and its emergence has always been used as proof of an underground city’s conquest.

Meaning, the people transported from there are the adventurers who have conquered that underground city.

Adjusting the direction of the Monitoring Array in the sky, the elder looked towards the source of the faint light, where a young man carrying a girl on his back, accompanied by a beautiful golden-haired woman and a Slime, was casually leaving the pitch-dark forest.