Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

”[Blizzard]!”

The white magic wand spewed out a fierce snowstorm, freezing the steam-spraying robot in place.

The steam-spraying robot creaked:

”Heating, destroy.”

The voice, like that of an old phonograph, echoed in the maze, and the steam robot’s blue-gray iron sheets gradually became hot.

The ice trapping the robot melted into a puddle of water, dripping onto the ground.

”[Steam, Fog]”

The steam robot’s head released a large amount of steam, enveloping the surroundings in a thick fog.

The fog not only significantly reduced Yang Yu and his team’s speed but also lowered their attack power.

As the nozzle stopped spraying fog, the creaking continued. Before the steam robot could launch its next attack, Bai Jin’s magic wand lightly tapped the slowly dripping water,

”[Thunder Blast]”

Countless swift lightning bolts shot out from Bai Jin’s magic wand, quickly conducting along the water, climbing up the tall body of the steam robot.

The water seeping into the crevices of the steam robot became the best conductor for the electric current. Bai Jin’s magic penetrated the robot’s magical protective coating, causing significant damage to the robot.

With electric currents coursing through its entire body, the robot took a step forward, prepared to continue its attack on Bai Jin.

Just then, countless purple thorns rapidly grew from its side, wrapping around its form and rendering it immobile.

A light arrow pierced through the white steam fog, hitting the steam robot’s locomotive-like head straight on.

”[Steam, Defense]”

The steam robot, with great effort, broke free from the restraints, using the surrounding steam to form a solid shield, trying to intercept Iyas’s light arrow.

To its surprise, Iyas’s light arrow seemed conscious, veering mid-air to bypass the robot’s steam shield and found its way into the steam-spraying inlet of the steam robot.

A fierce Holy Light rapidly exploded within the robot, destroying part of the robot’s power system.

”Warning, warning, power system damage, needs repair, needs repair!”

The steam robot collapsed to the ground, attempting to rise, its body wobbling but unable to stand.

Several strands of pale blue water droplets passed through the fog, striking the robot’s armor, pinning it to the wall of the Underground Maze.

The Sixth Layer’s Maze Guardian had become a lamb for the slaughter, with Iyas effortlessly claiming victory.

Iyas’s luck didn’t always come through; for instance, this time, it only dropped a rather ordinary piece of Epic Equipment and dozens of pages.

But it was enough to leave Yang Yu in the dust.

Yang Yu couldn’t even begin to imagine what would drop if he personally killed a maze monster.

The steam robot disappeared completely, the sphere behind it glowing faintly, and Yang Yu and his team completed the strategy for the Sixth Floor, allowing them to proceed to the next.

The ”Broken Cocoon Butterfly” strapped to Yang Yu’s hand, resembling a brick, glowed faintly.

Since starting the strategy in the ”Hall of History,” Yang Yu had been using the ”Broken Cocoon Butterfly” for combat, accumulating Battle Points for Shield Growth. Now it was finally time for it to blossom.

The shield, once like a brick, gently unfolded into a small, transparent-edged brown round shield.

[Broken Cocoon Butterfly]—Larva Form

Larva Form Attributes: Defense +10%, Special Defense +10%, HP +15%, Speed +5%

Larva Form Skill[Wrist Cutting for Life]: Consumes 5% of max life and 5% magic power to create a shield worth 200% of the total value, lasts 50 seconds, cooldown 60 seconds, Speed +10% during shield duration.

Form Switchable: [Egg], [-], [-]

Battle Points: 0/5000, Unlock Pupa Form

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This truly was a shield capable of growth and automatic adaptation, with attributes that were quite fitting in every aspect.

The ”Wrist Cutting for Life” of the Larva Form particularly brought unexpected delight to Yang Yu.

Unless constantly ”Climbing” around, Yang Yu couldn’t exhaust his magic power; now he finally had a way to convert this surplus magic into a more tactically valuable shield.

The one-minute cooldown and 50-second duration allowed Yang Yu to quickly bridge gaps, frequently using this skill.

As long as Iyas’s healing was on point, he could withstand more damage than imagined.

Besides being a bit small, Yang Yu was quite satisfied with the Larva Form shield in all aspects.

Pressing the shield, Yang Yu switched the ”Broken Cocoon Butterfly” to Egg Form.

The Egg Form of the ”Broken Cocoon Butterfly” didn’t show significant change in attributes and form; the skill ”Unlimited Possibilities” was replaced with ”Unlimited Possibilities - Miracle Regeneration.”

This skill’s effect was straightforward and powerful, restoring 30% of lost life, with a one-hour cooldown.

At low blood, this skill was an excellent life-saving skill.

After the ”Broken Cocoon Butterfly” hatched into Larva Form, the weight in Yang Yu’s hand lightened considerably.

After taking stock of all the spoils, Yang Yu and his team took a short rest, before once again passing through the gray sphere to enter the seventh floor.

An extremely familiar scene met Yang Yu’s eyes.

In the jungle of steel and concrete, vehicles came and went, brilliant neon lights cast lovely glows.

Bai Jin and the others couldn’t help but be captivated by this strange sight.

”So tall—”

Iyas looked up from the base of a skyscraper, its top invisible. Iyas couldn’t calculate the height of the building, but it was taller than any structure she’d ever seen before.

”This is called the Hall of History. Are the things we see all objects that truly existed in history?”

Qiuye cautiously observed the surroundings, the people around completely ignoring them, just like those on the third and fourth floors, each going about their business.

Compared to the monsters on the third and fourth floors, their forms were closer to humans, only... instead of heads, they had various objects.

Yang Yu could barely recognize all those things—there were phonographs, radios, black and white TVs, liquid crystal screens, computers...

Those objects represented tools from different eras.

The seventh floor was Yang Yu’s contemporary society, only this contemporary society was intermingled with many elements from different eras.

Not only were the items on people’s heads different, but the various objects on the streets also exuded a feel of different times.

In this level of the Underground Maze, there were many people, but most had no Blood Bar, carrying a plethora of names above their heads.

These people were purely NPCs.

”Historically, these things might have existed. Only... the Hero must have taken some abstract things and slightly processed them.

Understanding requires a bit of effort.

Iyas, Bai Jin randomly attack these passersby.”

”Doesn’t that seem wrong?”

Still saying this, Iyas drew her bows and arrows, casually shooting at one of the NPCs in the maze.

An incredible scene unfolded as Iyas’s Light Arrow passed straight through the NPCs’ bodies and embedded itself into the wall.