While chomping down on still-writhing Puffshroom with big bites, the dragonman casually dodged the mushroom cannons.
This dragonman actually showed a blissful expression on his face?
Well damn, so you think my Puffshroom taste good, huh?
Lin Jun simply took direct control to assist with targeting.
Prediction, advance positioning to cut off escape routes, concentrated firepower—
Great… not a single hit…
This dragonman’s speed was the fastest he’d encountered so far.
Not just fast in straight lines—fast acceleration, fast deceleration, and fast turns too.
This guy was comprehensively fast!
Despite being so fast, his destructive power was quite shocking as well.
Definitely overpowered among overpowered units.
After trying to attack a few times, Lin Jun gave up—it was a waste of energy.
Moreover, other monsters were emerging from the rift, so losing this position was inevitable…
Just as Lin Jun was thinking this, the dragonman flashed forward and decapitated two monsters in the blink of an eye.
After the monsters emerged, they planned to devour the Puffshroom in front of them.
Hm?
Food guarding?!
Lin Jun stopped having the remaining Puffshroom fight and simply gathered them all near the rift, ensuring that emerging monsters would notice them first.
He’d originally planned to exploit the dragonman’s food guarding behavior, but the next monster to emerge still startled him.
Just from a single claw extending out of the rift, frigid air swept over.
A massive monster with bulging muscles all over its body and numerous sharp external bones.
It squeezed through the rift with considerable difficulty.
【Species: Rat Clan – Frost Skeleton Giant Rat】
【Level: LV54】
Though called a rat clan monster, with its nearly seven-meter-tall massive frame, it was really hard to associate it with a mouse.
If anything, only its pointed head showed any resemblance.
The dragonman and giant rat—both were powerful monsters exceeding level fifty.
The monsters emerging from this rift seemed much stronger than those from the other side.
After emerging, the giant rat naturally noticed the half-frozen Puffshroom in front of it.
Its thick forelimbs extended, preparing to casually swat these small creatures to death.
Before its claws could fall, that black figure charged straight over.
Compared to the giant rat, the seemingly tiny dragonman directly knocked the giant rat to the ground.
The dragonman’s claws slashed across, tearing through the flesh on the giant rat’s chest, causing it to howl in pain.
The giant rat roared and sprayed a large amount of frost at the dragonman before it.
The two monsters began fighting fiercely in front of the rift. Though the dragonman held the advantage, the giant rat wasn’t without the power to resist.
All subsequent monsters that emerged were caught up in the battle without exception—either crushed to death or frozen to death.
The Puffshroom retreated to a distance, ready to become the victor’s snacks.
Lin Jun even specially dispatched over ten hallucinogenic Puffshroom as additional treats, currently rushing over.
He wondered if he could profit from their conflict like a fisherman.
In any case, the trouble from this rift was temporarily resolved.
But Lin Jun didn’t feel much relief…
Following the two rifts, a third problem appeared—monsters from the lower floors began charging up to the fifth floor.
Looking down from the edge of the stairs, different types of monsters swarmed upward like insects, layer upon layer.
The originally spacious circular staircase was packed with no extra space, with several occasionally being squeezed off and falling.
There was almost no mutual attacking among the monsters.
Lin Jun even witnessed natural enemies climbing side by side.
Why did it feel like all the other monsters were part of the dungeon’s big family, while he was the only outsider…
Won’t let me play?
Then go die!
Over a hundred Puffshroom lined the corridor’s edge, raining mushroom cannons down from above.
The monsters with nowhere to hide took massive damage all at once, with those charging at the front getting splattered against the walls.
Of course, there would be counterattacks, but due to the elevation difference, few could actually harm the Puffshroom.
Spikes and water jets shot from below occasionally took out one or two Puffshroom.
But new Puffshroom would immediately fill the gaps, so it couldn’t cause any real impact.
Most of those coming now were sixth-floor monsters, so the pressure wasn’t too great yet.
But later, monsters from lower floors, or even the deep zone, would probably appear.
And these black rifts probably wouldn’t be so coincidentally limited to just the fifth floor…
—
In front of the Amethyst Dungeon’s main gate.
Adventurers were shooting through gaps at the monsters assaulting the barricades.
These monsters weren’t particularly high level.
However, a question lingered in everyone’s minds.
Among the monster ranks, besides the common types from the first and second floors, there seemed to be some they’d never seen before?
Flying worms a meter long with terrifying mouthparts.
Small dragon beasts with thick hind legs that ran incredibly fast.
Did the Amethyst Dungeon have these things before?
But amid the battle, no one brought this up to avoid distraction.
Anyway, these new varieties weren’t particularly strong, so they had no real impact.
At the Adventurers’ Guild, in the guild master’s office.
Oberon, who had been monitoring the gate situation through a surveillance crystal, breathed a small sigh of relief.
Not being directly connected to the lower areas of Dragon Cliff Dungeon was truly fortunate amid misfortune.
If they could maintain this pace…
In the crystal’s image, the adventurers at the gate seemed to see something and became visibly panicked.
People scattered to both sides, with only one adventurer still peering intently through the gap.
This scene made Oberon tense up as well.
No way…
As if fearing something made it more likely to happen.
The exit blocked by wooden boards and stones shattered like fragile eggshells before a massive scale-covered body.
A two-zhang-tall giant lizard, swinging its spike-covered long tail, burst through the flying debris.
That poor fellow who hadn’t escaped in time was directly crushed under the rolling rubble, his fate unknown.
Facing this mutation, the adventurers’ hair stood on end.
Marshall, worthy of being a veteran Gold-rank adventurer, was the first to react, roaring to wake everyone up:
“What are you all standing around for? Attack!”
With that, he charged forward first.
Though the giant lizard was massive and its charge tremendously powerful.
But after that collision with the gate, it too was left dizzy and disoriented.
Under the adventurers’ concentrated fire, it soon fell.
However, the gate had been breached, and monsters were no longer obstructed, rushing out in droves.
The scene immediately descended into chaos.
—
His curved blade pierced a flying worm’s abdomen, splitting it open with one stroke.
Vera quickly used cloth to wipe the blood from his blade.
Not out of care for this ordinary curved blade, but because he’d discovered that these flying worms’ blood was actually corrosive.
If he let the blood remain on it, this curved blade would turn to scrap iron before the day ended.
“Feilin, Feiyin, don’t leave my side.”
After receiving affirmative responses from behind, Vera looked around.
Though many monsters had charged out, the situation hadn’t reached an uncontrollable level.
Several mages working together had temporarily blocked subsequent monsters with magic.
The monsters that had already escaped, while numerous, weren’t too high level.
Most present were experienced adventurers, many Silver-rank like himself.
There were even over ten Gold-rank adventurers with strength comparable to Marshall.
They should be able to clear the field quickly.
However, Vera remained deeply worried.
Weren’t the first few days of a monster tide supposed to be low intensity?
Yet on just the first day, the gate had already been breached.
Glancing at the two sisters behind him, Vera made up his mind.
If the situation truly turned dire, even at the risk of having his adventurer qualification revoked by the guild, he would take them and evacuate early.
