Chapter 2, Invaders of the Great Tomb of Nazarick (Part 1)
Above the head is a purple-red sky with thick clouds, and behind it is a twisted and weird evil forest. It looks like the complex root systems of trees such as mangroves and banyan trees are entangled with a large number of aerial roots hanging from above. Between the trees is a swamp that can be sunken knee-deep if you step on it, and streams of smelly water emerge. The low-lying land is colorful Snakes and insects gathered on the decaying tree trunks and vines, and the spider webs were entangled between the dry branches and leaves, blocking the flowing air, while the dense layers of leaves made it difficult for light to penetrate, and the surroundings were always in darkness...
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In the center of this rotting swamp, stands an ancient Greek-style temple, which is the surface entrance to the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
However, it is not easy for outside intruders to enter this temple.
Because, in the bubbling purple-red mire, one after another ferocious skeleton soldiers are emerging, and then staggering out of the mire, waving their tattered, rusty swords, intercepting On the only way to invade players.
Although these skeleton soldiers emerging from the swamp are just peripheral warning outposts that are randomly triggered and refreshed regularly in the Great Tomb of Nazarick. They are not even real NPCs, and their movements are extremely slow. Their attack power is only equivalent to scratching the player. Itchy, and its defense is so weak that it can be easily killed instantly.
However, for the cat knight Rachel, who is only 30 centimeters tall and only at level one, it is still not easy to defeat them.
I saw her wielding the thin stabbing sword with unusual flexibility, inflicting [-30] damage to the leg bone of the skeleton soldier in front of her, and then watched the skeleton soldier's lower body turn into a spot of light, flickering and disappearing, leaving only the upper body still in the mud. Squirming inside, Cat Knight Rachel finally had a moment to breathe.
She pricked up her ears angrily, turned her head, and with the fury of a cat, she shouted at a petite, glittering figure in the sky, "...Flor~ How do you add BUFF to others?" Don’t give me any strength, meow! Do you want me to die?”
——It is a beautiful creature about the size of a palm, with translucent butterfly wings, and a beautiful figure like a fairy tale princess with blond hair, blue eyes, and snow-white skin. Unfortunately, it is only fifteen centimeters tall... It is exactly what European myths and legends are. Among them, there is the little fairy flying among the flowers all day long!
In the real world, she is the twin sister of the cat knight player Rachel, and the elf player Flor.
Well, the above are all game settings and online player names, and their identities are still standard Chinese female college students.
"...Hmm! There's nothing we can do about it, everyone has already dropped to level one!" The little fairy Flor replied calmly, "...Forget it, considering that you are our sister, I’ll give you another mouthful of milk... The Fairy’s Blessing - The First Level of Vitality!”
A halo of light appeared on Cat Knight Rachel's head, increasing her HP and MP by half, while other attributes were also slightly improved. Even the durability and sharpness of the thin stabbing sword in her hand were doubled in an instant!
——The skill that elf players are best at is BUFF. Whether it is a single BUFF or a group aura, the effect is amazing.
Although there is a strict time limit, it is still as powerful as a cheating device.
Then, the next moment, the little fairy Flor folded her wings, floated down precariously, and sat on the shoulders of the cat knight Rachel.
"...The last bit of magic power has been added to the BUFF for you. Sister, the rest depends on you~ If you are knocked down, you will lose two lives~"
"...You don't even have the magic power to maintain flight, but you still have extra magic power to transform into clothes? What do you think, little girl?"
Turning his head sideways and glancing at Flor's Greek-style robe that was emitting white light, the cat knight Rachel complained with some dissatisfaction.
"...Ah! Of course girls have to be more reserved. How can they run around naked in public without clothes?" Flor looked confident.
Running naked? !
Rachel, the cat knight's sister, couldn't help but be startled when she heard this. Then she looked down at her furry belly and legs, which were immediately messy in the wind.
——The lowest-level cat knight who has just reached the first level, to put it bluntly, is just a kitten that can walk on two feet.
And kittens, who are naturally covered in fur, naturally don’t need to wear any clothes.
As for equipment such as leather armor, armor, and boots, they will not be available until the Cat Knight is upgraded.
Meow! It turns out that I, a pure and innocent lady, have been running around naked in public for such a long time? ! !
This is really...what a shame and humiliation! What a loss of integrity! ! !
She is obviously the purest girl, and she has never even had a boyfriend at this age!
At this moment, the cat knight Rachel, who was messy in the wind, suddenly raised her tail with a "meow" sound, feeling as if her girlish heart was broken.
However, her opponent would not appreciate the Cat Knight's gaffe. Just when Rachel was going crazy, the skeleton soldier she had just cut into half was still struggling and waving his hands, and accidentally hit Rachel on the knee of her right leg. .
Next, the game system determined that this was a successful attack and began to calculate complex data such as the skeleton soldier's hand bone attack ability and the cat girl's body defense value, and then [-5 appeared on the knee of Rachel's right leg. 】This number.
——Compared to the total health of the Cat Knight, this little damage is really better than nothing, but the damage is still damage.
"...Ah! Even you come to bully me. I'm no longer a human being!"
Rachel, furious, brandished her thin stabbing sword and dealt the final blow to the half-remaining skeleton soldier. But just as this opponent turned into a light spot and disappeared, two new skeleton soldiers staggered out of the swamp with purple-red bubbles.
Then, a fireball blasted from behind the skeleton soldier, blowing the two fragile opponents to pieces in an instant.
"...Rachel! Flor! Why are you guys still dawdling like this? You're almost out of time, okay?!"
After the fire light dissipated, a cat priest who was also 30 centimeters tall, stood upright, held a low-level fish bone staff, and hung a string of bones and shell necklaces on his chest, angrily facing the cat knight and the cat knight. The little goblin shouted, "...Do you want to be wiped out by the Lord God?"
——The gamer name of this cat priest is Chen Xin, but his real identity is Rachel and Flor’s female university teacher. Although he is a gamer, he is well-received for caring for and caring for his classmates. Unfortunately, he is a bit careless in his work and often falls behind at critical moments.
"...Teacher Chenxin, if we were the only ones, we would have already gotten through it! The problem is that there is still that fat guy Bell dragging us down!"
The cat knight Rachel pointed helplessly behind her, while the cat priest Chen Xin looked intently and found a bloated and heavy iron golem stuck in the swamp, sinking gurglingly. A group of cat people were jumping up and down around him, meowing, but there was nothing they could do.
——That iron golem is Bell, a classmate of Rachel and Flor, a fat college gamer with a construct number.
Well, letting the heavy Iron Golem step into the swamp is basically the same as driving a car into the river... Not to mention that after the Iron Golem fell to level one, not only its defense and attack power increased significantly, As it declined, all kinds of skills were almost gone, so it fell into a quagmire and couldn't move.
On the other side, the cat priest Chen Xin looked at the iron golem struggling in the quagmire, and compared it with her small body as a cat, and couldn't help but feel extremely entangled... Fortunately, at least at this moment, she still has a thick enough body. Golden thighs can be hugged.
"...It's so ugly! Useless newcomers! If you can't even solve this problem, how can you survive in this cruel world in the future?"
Along with these words full of ridicule, a female magician in a luxurious deep purple silver-edged cloak quietly appeared, suspended in the sky over the swamp, then raised the mithril ruby staff in her hand and pointed it at Bell, the iron golem in the quagmire, waved in the distance, "...Giant Palm!"
The next moment, an invisible force "plucked" the iron golem Bell out of the quagmire, and then lifted it into the air.
"...Leave this big piece of iron to me to carry! You should hurry up and catch up! There are less than two minutes left!"
As soon as these cold words fell, the figure of the female magician disappeared without a trace, and the iron golem Bell, like a balloon dragged by a rope, remained suspended in the air, facing the god in front. The temple "flyed" over.
"...Thank you, senior!" After sincerely thanking this veteran female magician with a cold face and a warm heart, a group of cats immediately began to run wildly, quickly bypassing the remaining skeleton soldiers, and passed through the remaining After a section of the Undead Swamp, when the game was about to stop with only one minute left, everyone was finally safely on base and entered the temple courtyard, which is the surface entrance to the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
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Although the entire Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick is surrounded by putrid and gloomy swamps, the environment of the Great Tomb itself is quite quiet. The entire courtyard is a square with a side length of 200 meters, surrounded by a six-meter-thick wall. , but there is an open gap at the front and rear for entry and exit.
In the courtyard of the big tomb, there is a neat lawn, and the grass blades are trimmed very short to create a refreshing atmosphere. But on the other hand, the several big trees in the courtyard have dense branches and leaves, which provide shade everywhere in the courtyard, creating a gloomy feeling. Countless white stone tombstones are arranged haphazardly among the lawns, and are dotted with many exquisite angel and goddess statues that can be called works of art.
There are five buildings in the entire cemetery courtyard: in the four corners of the courtyard, there is a small, purely decorative temple with nothing inside. In the center of the courtyard is a huge Greek-style temple, which is the real entrance to the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick. There is a spacious limestone staircase in the temple that leads to the first floor of the Great Tomb of Nazarick below. , the floor guardian NPC is waiting to attack below.
When the cat knight Rachel, the little elf Flor on her shoulder, and several other cat players rushed into the walls of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick, a mechanical and monotonous voice suddenly broke in one after another. Everyone's brain: "...Main mission 1: Enter the Great Tomb of Nazarick before the game "YGGDRASIL" is shut down. It has been completed. Received 50 reward points..."
At this point, these gamers who were unfortunately thrown into the infinite space by the Lord God finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Next, Rachel saw several other people standing under the stone pillars of the large temple in the middle, waiting boredly.
"...Yo! Why did you guys arrive just now? I'm in first place this time!" Another palm-sized goblin flew around the pillar while waving a handle that was even bigger than himself. hammer, and smiled at the cat knight Rachel and the little elf Flor.
As soon as she saw this little goblin wielding an exaggerated hammer, the cat knight Rachel suddenly became furious, "... Damn it! Sakura is dancing in the snow! You unfaithful pretender! Why did you run away by yourself just now? Half of it BUFF didn’t add it to me either! Where has the team spirit gone?”
"...I really can't help it! My profession is different from Flor's. Once I fall to level one, I can't add BUFF!"
The goblin player Yingwu Piaoxue, who is a male college student but has a female ID, seemed to be very aggrieved and waved the hammer, "...My only occupation at the moment is [goblin troublemaker], and my only skill is [goblin prank]" 】. As for the effect...you saw it just now..."
The cat knight Rachel was slightly startled when she heard this, and then she remembered what Ying Wu Piaoxue, a little transvestite, had done in the melee just now:
With a swing of the small hammer, a morning glory bloomed from the left eye socket of a certain skeleton soldier;
With two swings of the small hammer, a croaking toad appeared in the chest of the other skeleton soldier;
Swing the small hammer three times, and the skull of the third skeleton soldier turns into a big pumpkin;
……
——Although the hit rate of Yingwu Piaoxue's [Fairy Prank] is as high as 100%, it really has no killing effect at all! ! !
Then, Yingwu Piaoxue reluctantly put down the hammer, spread her wings and flew towards the entrance temple of the Great Tomb of Nazarick...
So, it seems that this little transvestite’s escape from the battlefield is justifiable?
Was it me who was messing around just now?
Just when the cat knight Rachel fell into confusion again, the tall female warrior Seifer with a tiger head and body also coughed and spoke.
"...Ahem, everyone, please stop arguing! Quickly count the number of people to see if everyone is here! Eh? Where is that slime from Gisme?"
——Seifer, a female tiger warrior by profession, her true identity is Rachel and Flor's squad leader. She is a goddess-level good-looking girl, and has also participated in the selection of school beauty. But when we were playing games together in a team, we chose the race of tigers with a deceptive appearance because of their racial advantages. After being pulled into the infinite space by the "Lord God", she directly turned into a real female tiger warrior.
Therefore, after hearing what Saifei said, Rachel was also slightly startled - because the jelly monster like Slime was too small, she didn't see him again as soon as they started fighting. If Gisme's slime mage hasn't arrived at the temple yet, something might have happened, right?
Just when she was about to climb up the tree in the courtyard of the Great Tomb and look around, she suddenly saw a ball of dirty "silt" slowly crawling out of the swamp, then rolling into the gate of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, until After rolling into the courtyard lined with tombstones, the camouflage protective color suddenly faded away, turning back into a translucent yellow-green jelly shape, revealing two round little eyes, blinking cutely, as if Still with a bit of fear.
And in Rachel's ears, the voice of the slime mage Jismei also came: "... Phew - it was such a close call, we finally caught up."
——Jismei, a gamer, whose racial profession is Slime Mage. She was once upgraded to level 80 slime monster, but after being forcibly recruited by the "Lord God" and becoming a newcomer in the infinite space, she fell back to the basics. At the first level, the only remaining attack method is to spit acid water...
Obviously, such a weak slime mage has basically no fighting power in adventure.
So, while passing through the swamp outside the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Jisme activated the slime's innate skill [Camouflage Protective Color], changing the body surface to a color similar to the swamp, and then twisted Wriggling in the mire, he advanced towards the Great Tomb of Nazarick ahead.
In general, his above-mentioned strategy was very successful. Those slow-responsive skeleton soldiers did not notice the little guy at their feet.
But the problem is that slime, a round, translucent jelly monster, moves at a speed that's a little bit annoying!
But no matter what, after hurriedly and slowly, the slime mage Jismei finally successfully arrived at the destination before the deadline. So far, there are fifteen newcomers to Infinite Space including ten catmen, one tiger man, two goblins, one slime and one constructed iron golem, as well as vampire captain, light paladin, cat ear The five-veteran team of female thief, female magician and bearded male sniper finally reunited... The body completed the first main mission in the plot world of "OVERLORD King of the Undead" - before the "YGGDRASIL" game closed the server, he successfully entered the main stage of the plot world, the Great Tomb of Nazarick, and avoided being obliterated. Terrible misfortune. At this moment, there are only thirty seconds left before the "YGGDRASIL" game stops serving...