Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

Yang Yu did not know exactly how many underground labyrinths the ancient hero Lux had built.

But half of them are definitely not a small number.

Yang Yu and his team traveled around this world, with many things to handle, unable to focus solely on exploring the underground labyrinths.

This task will likely be like some previous tasks, unable to obtain the best rewards.

However, more than those extremely generous rewards, Yang Yu wants to know what that choice capable of changing all worlds is.

The choice that changes the world is an additional reward for the hidden task [Ancient Brave Lox]. Obtaining the hidden requirement for the additional reward is simple, just continuously collect fragmented information in the labyrinths built by Lox and understand the life of that legendary hero.

Those who explore the Hero Lox Maze will notice more or less some things about Hero Lox.

As long as they find out who explored the Hero Lox Maze or know where the Hero Lox Maze is located, even without personally exploring those underground labyrinths, there are ways to dig out information.

[Count Blood] once set layer upon layer of guards in the Hero Lox Maze and even attacked the S-Class adventure group [Ice Cold Thorns], and should know some things about Hero Lox.

After confirming the panel’s pop-up content, Yang Yu organized his team to leave the ruins and let Bai Jin use magic to clean up the ruins and collect the loot.

This time, Yang Yu completely played with the Dragon God’s Might given to the two warships. After the conquest is over, the tour guide fee of Luo Luosi and Lang Yi’s compensation are quite a significant amount. Although Yang Yu exchanged equipment for herbs and has quite a bit of money, it’s far from enough to pay for these.

Yang Yu can only try to scavenge [Count Blood]’s stronghold, finding ways to scrape some benefits to fill his financial deficit.

Yang Yu does not believe that [Count Blood] has been lurking in this world for so long without much savings.

If it doesn’t work out, Yang Yu might have to take a trip to the Luo Ze Empire to find Chilom and see if he is still willing to be his ATM.

Magic power spread across every piece of ruin, Bai Jin moved the magic wand, carefully moving the stones one by one from the ruins.

Yang Yu led his companions roaming back and forth through the ruins, seeking everything that could be deemed as loot.

[Embrace of Greed], the hand armor of [Count Blood], naturally became Yang Yu’s loot.

The [Bat Robe] that [Count Blood] once wore was severely damaged under the fierce assault of black magic, breaking open several big holes. The edges of the tear emitted a faint glow, undergoing self-repair, but with damage like this, who knows how many years it will take to fully repair.

Although the Bat Robe is also a legendary equipment, Yang Yu does not disapprove of it and includes the robe into the system.

After more than five hours of search, thoroughly investigating every corner of the castle, Yang Yu and his team acquired quite a bit of loot, including three keys identical to the one in Yang Yu’s hand.

The bad news is, the loot confiscated from the ruins is far less than Yang Yu imagined.

The number of treasures owned by [Count Blood] is not even half of Yang Yu’s own, which is truly illogical.

You, [Count Blood], have so many hands, no matter how poor you are, you wouldn’t be inferior to a newbie adventurer who has just started his career, right?

Facing such an abnormal result, Yang Yu thought of two possibilities:

One possibility is that [Count Blood] distributed large quantities of precious treasures to his subordinates to enhance their combat power; another possibility is that [Count Blood] is highly likely to have placed extremely valuable items in the storage magic array engraved on his body.

High-level magicians engraving storage magic arrays on their bones to store important items is not a rare thing.

Storage magic arrays have a feature that if the tool engraved with the storage magic array is destroyed and the storage magic is not triggered within a specific time, the items inside the storage magic will completely disappear into the ”different space”.

Actually, those items didn’t completely disappear; there is still a possibility of retrieving them.

Someone once found a long-lost doll placed in the storage magic array in an underground labyrinth.

Things in the storage magic won’t vanish into thin air, eventually resurfacing in this world in another form.

Yang Yu and his team didn’t find the loot from [Count Blood]’s castle, it might have been hidden in the storage magic on his bones, disappearing into the different space along with the previous explosion and becoming the loot of some underground labyrinths.

After securing the three keys and collected loot, Yang Yu looked at the vast island.

[Count Blood] might have hidden things on this island; even if not, there are many transformed magical beasts on this island. This might be an excellent leveling spot, warranting a stay here for a period.

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Meanwhile.

Bubbles wrapped with peculiar black beads were aimlessly roaming in the darkness.

Around these bubbles, more bubbles surrounded them, containing various kinds of tools, ranging from expensive potions to rare equipment and hard-to-find materials.

These things were once the possessions of [Count Blood].

The bubbles containing these items were similarly aimlessly roaming in the darkness.

Suddenly, bright cat-like eyes lit up in the darkness.

Agile and bright silhouettes approached the bubbles, with tails gently touching the bubbles, leading these large and small bubbles to plunge into the darkness.

These swift elves transformed into meteors, traversing an invisible barrier into a slightly brighter space.

The space was floating with bubbles of various sizes and colors.

The silhouettes crossing the barrier revealed their true form in this slightly brighter space.

They looked no different from ordinary kittens, but their agile skills, ability to fly in the air, and capability to tow bubbles are undoubtedly beyond the reach of regular kittens.

The kittens pulling the bubbles approached a giant pink bubble together, where a purple-uniformed, upright-standing kitten directed the returning kittens to inject the bubbles one by one into the giant pink bubble.

”Newbies, as I taught you, put everything inside! You’ve worked hard, you’ll be allowed to have a cup of hot cocoa later!”

Just after placing the bubbles down, two seemingly juvenile kittens high-fived each other, with their paw pads bumping, revealing immensely joyful expressions.

”Great! We get to drink cocoa!”

Seeing this, the purple-uniformed kitten shook its head and muttered to itself:

”Look how happy they are.

They are still completely unaware of the harshness of reality, but only like this can they keep working tirelessly.

It was like this in the past, still this way now, and might remain this way in the future.

This is the state of things here.”