Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

But even with the Dwarves’ prowess in battle and resilience, the grueling nature of this fight exceeded Su Li’s imagination. It took the Dwarves over half an hour to fully smash the relentless monsters charging fiercely.

After the battle ended, many Dwarves were panting heavily, leaning on their axes, and sat down amidst piles of ashes.

What made them curse furiously was that these creatures were truly poor creatures. Most disappeared along with the purple wind, leaving only a few Corpse Demons equipped with their weapons and armor from life, adept in combat skills, to leave behind one or two witchcraft items amidst the ashes.

Dorglin picked them up and cursed angrily, "This is such a loss; hundreds of these creatures left behind no more than a handful of witchcraft items, not even worth enough to repair our armor and axes."

"Bah! These skeleton frames are as poor as ever."

Su Li was more peaceful in his mindset; he hadn’t expected to gain much just upon entering this cave entrance.

However, through this battle, he could somewhat ascertain that some monster carrying an intense Wind of Death had entered this cave. Otherwise, so many undead monsters wouldn’t appear just as they entered.

So after the battle, he ordered, "Prepare for encountering the Undead Legion. We continue to advance."

After marching for a bit, the Dwarf Butcher shouted loudly, "What’s going on? The road is littered with shattered spiders! Are these monsters that weak? They’re not fierce like when we fight them."

When the army reached his position, Su Li immediately knew what he was complaining about. Next to the tunnel laid a fallen Anaric Giant Spider, bigger than a windmill. Its eight giant spider legs had three severed, and the enormous spider abdomen was covered with scratch marks and blade wounds several centimeters long, appearing to have been completely ravaged to death.

Hilude stepped forward to check the monster’s injuries. She lowered her head and seriously cut open the monster’s wounds with a Rare Longsword, exposing the withered flesh and bone eroded by the purple wind. Then she turned to Su Li and said, "Lord, this erosion power is so strong; it must be caused by a Black Knight-level monster."

"It’s normal these monsters don’t have much resistance. When they fight us, Goblins would ride on them, setting up crossbows and shrine positions, greatly enhancing their combat power. Now, with no protection, facing massive Black Knight encirclement, relying only on their wildness and ferocity, they’re just beasts awaiting slaughter."

Then, she directly cut open the monster’s abdomen with her Longsword, exposing the soft spider silk inside its belly, smiling slightly. "Luckily, its most important part wasn’t taken away; we’ve saved ourselves a lot of fighting force."

Quickly, the Dwarves in the team extracted the spider silk; the Dwarf Rangers active in the mountains were anatomy experts.

The excited Dwarves reported, "Lord, this spider silk here amounts to 15 pounds, two pounds more than the last Giant Spider we killed!"

pounds of spider silk!

Su Li’s eyes lit up; he felt the brightness in his eyes could illuminate this dark environment.

Indeed, high risk brings high returns.

Entering this highly dangerous underground cave, without experiencing fierce slaughter, simply picking up a monster’s remains on the roadside brought 1,500 Golden Crown worth of wealth!

If they continue exploring, won’t they gain tens of thousands more? A trip like this could cover the territory’s army’s monthly salary.

"Advance further! Let’s strive to explore this area fully."

With Su Li’s order, the entire army rapidly advanced toward the interior of the nest, the bright flames were so arrogant, lighting up the underground darkness, dispersing the nest’s stench.

And indeed, as Su Li anticipated, they picked up the remains of four Anaric Giant Spiders by the roadside alone, easily collecting wealth worth over 5,000 Golden Crowns.

But upon delving deeper into the underground and encountering the first batch of Goblins, the Hesse Territory army’s luck finally ran out.

As numerous Goblins died miserably under the Dwarves’ guns, it finally incited the monsters’ anger and surge within the cave.

As Dorglin kicked a Goblin near his foot aside, his short Dwarf ear twitched; he carried his firearm and halted, asking those around him, "Is my gunshot too loud, deafening my ears? Why do I hear endless clattering echoes?"

The surrounding Dwarves also paused simultaneously, shocked as they looked toward the depths of the cave, seeing countless green triangular eyes lighting up in the darkness afar!

"It’s a spider swarm!"

"Bad news, we’re surrounded!"

"Damn it! This bunch of beasts doesn’t go trouble those skeleton frames invading their lair, and why are they coming at us!"

"Don’t panic! Lighting Technique!"

With the Knights’ shout, a spell scroll inscribed with the Lighting Technique was thrown out, crafted by the Light Mage, evidently an essential military supply of the Hesse Territory.

As the spell rose, the enormous light-source illuminated the entire underground nest’s tunnel, turning darkness bright as day.

But the scene that unfolded next made everyone’s scalp tingle, and blood ran cold in an instant. Though Su Li didn’t have a fear of dense clusters, seeing so many densely packed spiders and countless concentrated green evil pupils, he deeply inhaled a cold breath, goosebumps rising all over.