In the following days, Rode spent his time in the sewer. He went to the Iron Cross district of the outer city and settled in a tavern.
In the royal city, every district had at least one square, one tavern, and one church as a place for people to gather and relax. The tavern was also the only place that provided accommodation.
The tavern Rode stayed in was near the Defense Department of the Iron Cross district, and its Defense Chief, Scarface, was an official familiar to Rode. Scarface was very impressed with Rode and his plan to find opportunities to hunt monsters.
In addition, Rode was familiar with the sewer system in the Iron Cross district, which was very far from the sewer system in the inner city. The terrifying spider swarms would not come here.
Scarface welcomed Rode's arrival and was very angry about what happened to him. After completing the hunting mission of the plague demon, he submitted a commendation report, but instead of receiving the expected reward, he received a huge criticism and punishment.
The Internal Adjudication Office believed that he had hired unqualified people to participate in dangerous hunting missions, which violated military regulations and was dereliction of duty.
The Military War Department of the royal city had to give him a verbal warning and cancel the additional rewards. Scarface and his friend, Keith, were so angry that they stormed into the Military War Department and even almost fought with the adjudicator who came to open the meeting.
However, this did not change the fact that had already happened. The Chief of Defense, Moxo, promised to give them an explanation and let them go back first. Scarface could only return to the Defense Department of the Iron Cross district with indignation.
Recently, the defense tasks were very heavy. Although the students assigned to him by the Military War Department were all in-school students, the defense was still stretched. He had been urgently mobilized nine times in a row, but there were still twenty students seriously injured and one person suffered irreparable damage.
Scarface made hundreds of requests, but none of them were responded to. The royal city had no shortage of people, but the original defenders, guards, and fire protectors had all gone to support the front line. The main defense force of the royal city now was the more than 20,000 teachers and students from the Kimberly Academy.
As the weather worsened, the activity of monsters became more frequent, and the pressure on defense increased sharply. News of casualties among teachers and students came from all over, and the Doomsday Cultists began to act recklessly, poisoning, extinguishing lights, and putting out fires.
In the Iron Cross district, some disturbance occurred in the sewer, and monsters kept spreading from deep below, eventually forcing the Defense Department of the outer city to form an elite combat cluster to clean up the sewer. It was this operation that led to the subsequent hunting of the plague demon.
The only fortunate thing was that there were no casualties among the residents. According to the joint investigation of the Kimberly Academy and the Ash Digger School, some kind of deep-level spiritual disturbance occurred in the sewer, disturbing the balance in the darkness and causing the originally stable group of monsters to change and be squeezed out to new places. This led to a large number of monsters coming to the surface.
As for why such a spiritual disturbance occurred, scholars had no conclusion and could only regard it as some kind of accidental event. Although the elite combat cluster cleared a large part of the area, the disturbance of the balance did not end, and there were still some scattered monsters appearing.Scholars believe that the disturbance may last for one to two months before finding a new balance point and settling down.
Because of this, the defense of the sewer has become a heavy burden on the big scar-faced man, making him anxious.
At this time, Rode's arrival made him feel like he saw an angel from legend. The big scar-faced man smiled so much that the scars on his face almost cracked, and he wanted to hug Rode.
Of course, Rode refused this kind of behavior that would only make things worse.
He told the big scar-faced man that he had become a hidden combatant of special students, obtained the qualification for combat, and could participate in defense operations.
But the big scar-faced man didn't care at all.
Even if Rode had nothing, he had decided to accept him.
What are a few punishments compared to the lives of the soldiers and the safety of the residents? What if the officials lose their jobs? He could still kill these harmful bugs like a hunter.
So, he listed all the sewer defenses as public tasks and hired the free combatant Rode to complete them.
In this way, every completed task can accumulate merit and honor for Rode, which is very beneficial for Rode to improve his combat level, select high-level personnel titles, and obtain rare resources in the future.
He originally wanted to assign some combat personnel to Rode, but the manpower in the Iron Cross district was too tight. Anyone with a little combat ability had gone to battle, and all logistics, medical, supply, miscellaneous, and clerical work were undertaken by ordinary people.
There was only one combatant in the entire defense department, and he was the last resort when any patrol member encountered a difficult problem that even the sentinel couldn't solve.
He could only stay in the defense department and couldn't go anywhere else.
However, to his great surprise, after a few days, Rode handed over all the tasks in the Iron Cross district sewer and provided a large amount of ash, monster bone ash, and task images as evidence according to the regulations.
The big scar-faced man was shocked.
According to the task description and the detection of ash, this young combatant not only eliminated a large number of unrated monsters but also eliminated intermediate-level monsters.
It should be noted that the combat power of intermediate-level monsters has been formed. If the attributes are restrained, even level eight combatants may not be able to deal with them.
And he was still a reserve!
No wonder there was nothing happening in the sewer these days.
The explanation Rode gave was that he showed his special student badge.
The big scar-faced man believed him and even gave him his salary when he asked if there was any monetary reward.
This was a task within the system, and it was rare to give a salary.
But the big scar-faced man didn't care. His soul had already formed, and he had no hope of promotion, was ugly, and had no wife. What was the use of money?
Protecting this district and protecting his warrior brothers, seeing new hope rise for humanity, was his greatest wish.
The young man in front of him was so young and excellent that he would definitely become a rising star in the future and bring new hope to all those who were still struggling in the darkness.
What did money matter if he could help him?
Of course.
Rode was unaware of this.
After wandering around the sewer for these few days, he was really poor.
His fighting style was completely about throwing money, whether it was real silver bullets, sealing bullets, or thunderstones, potions, he needed money.Low-level monsters are easy to deal with using true silver bullets or thunderstones, and at most, one "soul crit" is needed.
For mid-level monsters, sealed spirit bullets must be used. Rode almost died trying to save money.
However, sealed spirit bullets are too expensive.
For every ten sealed spirit bullets, ten true silver bullets, one human nature, three spiritualities, and one gram of star ruby powder are needed.
True silver bullets cost seven silver threads per piece, and star ruby powder costs three hundred silver threads per gram.
Excluding human nature and spirituality, the average cost per piece is thirty-seven silver threads, which is seven silver threads more expensive than thunderstones. It's like swallowing a golden beast.
What's more frustrating is that some mid-level monsters have high defense and require one or even two or three bullets to break their defense and cause paralysis.
This consumes a lot of resources.
After several days of fighting, Rode had exhausted all his reserves and spent his last piece of silver thread. He almost didn't have enough money to pay for his room, but fortunately, the innkeeper was charmed by his good looks and sweet talk, and agreed to delay payment for two days.
After completing the mission, Scarface gave him nine hundred silver threads.
This literally saved his life.
He immediately bought two grams of star ruby powder, thirty true silver bullets, and some necessary supplies, and paid off his debts.
For some reason, the innkeeper looked very disappointed when Rode paid off his debt, but he didn't care and went back to his room and entered the dream world.
Although it was costly, he gained a lot during this time.
Rode touched the soul surface of the obelisk, and his information appeared at the top.
Soul Strength: 117
Soul Stars: 2
Human Nature: 472
Divinity: 45
Soulless Soul: 6322
Owned Souls: [Madman's Soul] 36, [Filthy Zombie's Soul] 37, [Maggot's Soul] 22, [Corpse Fly's Soul] 14, [Dead Spirit Hunting Dog's Soul] 1, [Distorted Magic Spider's Soul] 5.
All soul dust and soul fragments were sacrificed, and he obtained a large amount of soulless souls and spirituality.
"Spirituality" is also a very important material. It is the component of the spirit, also known as the blood of the spirit, and has very magical functions, but it is extremely susceptible to corruption and can only be stored in the "storage" under the stone platform.
Because he sacrificed too many soul fragments, Rode no longer lacked "spirituality" materials.
After making another twenty sealed spirit bullets, there were still thirty left in the storage.
Then it was time to witness the harvest.
Rode came to the obelisk and injected soulless souls into [Frosty Blue].
A large amount of black gelatinous substance fell into the star's flame, and the blue flame burned violently, and the star's strength quickly increased.
87
88
89
...
98
99.
The number stopped here, and the flame of the star trembled violently, as if it had encountered a great obstacle.
Rode knew that this was a bottleneck. At this time, he had to make a concerted effort to break through the limit.
So he added more force and poured the soulless souls into the star like crazy. The number of soulless souls plummeted like crazy, and the black gelatinous substance poured into the star like a dark cloud. The flame of the star trembled frantically, and finally, when the number of soulless souls dropped below four digits, it suddenly burst open.
For a moment, the entire soul surface was illuminated by blue light, and the light of [Frosty Blue] surged, finally crossing that line, and the strength reached 100, and the potential changed from "blazing fire" to "golden fire".The light receded like water, and returned to the stars.
In the night sky, the "Icy Blue" star shone with a clear and pure light, the brightest star.
Rode focused his eyes on it, and the words on the blue star had changed to:
"Icy Blue"
"Status: Overlimit Combustion"
"Star Energy: Resurrection of Higher Spirits"
"Injected: Complete Soul"
"Quantified: Unavailable"
"Position: Golden Fire"
"Intensity: 100"
"Description: I will bloom like heaven, never fading with the passage of time."
Almost all the words had changed.
Rode was most concerned about the "Star Energy" item, which had changed to "Resurrection of Higher Spirits". During the battle, he had clearly felt the limitations of spiritual power. He could only use "Soul Strike" ten times in a row before feeling his spiritual power approaching depletion. He had to rest for a while before continuing the fight. This not only greatly affected his efficiency, but was also very dangerous. Monsters didn't have any knightly spirit, they would fight you when they were ready, regardless of your spiritual power.
Frequently using soul red crystals to restore spiritual power was also not sustainable.
If he could recover faster, Rode's efficiency would increase significantly.
It all depended on the effect of "Resurrection of Higher Spirits".
Next was "Position". Rode believed that this was related to status. The higher the status, the stronger the star would be. He was now only one step away from reaching the final "Eternal Fire", and he was very excited.
However, the "Injected" item had changed to "Complete Soul", which meant that he could only use complete souls to strengthen the star.
Without any soul left, he only had 981, which consumed 5341.
Rode calculated in his mind that he had consumed about 5800 souls, including the wasted ones, to upgrade the "Icy Blue" from "Blazing Fire" to "Golden Fire". Adding the previous upgrade, the total consumption of souls was about 6000.
It was correct that he didn't sacrifice a complete soul.
Rode pondered for a moment and injected thirty-seven "Corrupted Zombie Souls". These were weak souls corroded by corpses and filth, which were quite common in the sewers.
The light of the blue star brightened slightly, and the intensity increased from 100 to 110.
The increase was small, and he didn't know where its limit was.
Rode thought for a moment and didn't continue to inject.
The current souls were probably not enough, and there were some souls he didn't want to sacrifice.
Because sacrificing a complete soul, in addition to the soulless and spiritual aspects, could also obtain soul traits.
Although he didn't know what "soul traits" were for, he felt that they were quite extraordinary.
In addition, a complete soul could also be used to make "soul ashes", and Rode only lacked a sunstone now.
Find the original at "pawread dot com".
Rode breathed out a sigh.
In any case, he was getting stronger now, and his spiritual strength had also reached 140. The only bad news was that he found that the daily need for humanity had increased from one to three.
This consumption was a bit too much, and he had to pay attention to acquiring humanity.
Rode squeezed the lightning symbol and returned to the material world, planning to continue looking for Big Scarface and getting more sewer missions.
Now, he had completely mastered the method of fighting in the sewers and was very good at using his advantages to kill monsters in the sewers.
After obtaining the map provided by Professor Bince, Rode would no longer get lost.The Ash Excavator School had created a very detailed map of the royal city's sewer system. They had not only divided it systematically into countless areas but also marked the danger level and historical origin of each area.
Professor Bince was very grateful for Rode's contribution and gave him the most complete and detailed internal version.
Two large boxes, one original and one backup.
Rode had to go to great lengths to tear the backup map into small pieces and slowly paste them into the dream world.
In this way, he would always have a map available, no matter where he was.
The environment of the inn was not very safe and not suitable for staying in the dream world for an extended time.
In any case, the sewers of the Iron Cross District had become like a backyard to Rode. If he moved food into the dream world, he could completely live in the sewers. This was his home field.
Humph.
I am the king of the sewers.
Leave the filth of the sewers to me.
Residents of the royal city, you can rest assured to defecate, no monsters will rush out from the pipes.
Because I, the sewer cleaner, Dark Devourer Rode, am here.
Hahahaha.
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Iron Cross District.
Sewers.
Submerged Bay.
A group of sneaky figures gathered on the stone platform, with the stench of the sewage bay below filling the air. Everyone covered their noses.
A voice with a heavy nasal tone asked:
"Is the information correct this time? Is he really alone in this area carrying out the cleaning mission?"
