Chapter 589 - 587: Hilia’s Underground Adventure
The surging pollution seemed to turn into a stream, continuously acting on Hilia as she jumped down, as if trying to push her away.
Thanks to that mysterious force, Hilia’s descent was essentially light and effortless.
Not knowing how long she had fallen, Hilia slowly felt her feet touch the ground.
The young girl let out a sigh of relief.
𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
"Thankfully, I landed smoothly."
The speed wasn’t fast, but Hilia still found it thrilling.
If Rose hadn’t been urging her continuously and could see nothing below, she might not have dared to look down, let alone jump.
Despite this, she was still very nervous when she jumped down, her mind tense, holding onto the flying broom, ready to hop on at any moment.
Now, having landed smoothly, Hilia turned the flying broom, folded it, and tossed it back into the space ring, taking out her magic staff.
The magic puppet emitted a faint light, illuminating the surrounding environment.
"It’s all pollution."
Hilia exclaimed.
The faint light emitted by the magic puppet couldn’t even penetrate more than three meters; beyond that, there was nothing to see.
The three meters were discerned by the ground, as nothing could be seen around, even the hole above was hard to make out.
Luckily, Hilia didn’t need visual sight to scan precisely.
Guided by the mage’s hand and spiritual power, Hilia sensed everything around her in her mind.
This was a vast underground space, estimated to be over three hundred meters in diameter, and its height was dozens of meters.
Hilia checked the time and found that she had jumped for nearly half an hour before arriving here.
Even at a speed much slower than free fall, it was actually quite fast.
Having spent so long to land, Hilia estimated the depth here to be close to ten thousand meters.
"Such a deep place..."
Hilia felt a bit of claustrophobic fear.
Rose’s phantom appeared beside her, emitting a faint white light.
Hilia felt a lot of her inner fear dissipate, bringing a sense of reassurance.
She looked at Rose and whispered, "Lord Rose, where do we go next?"
This underground space is large, but not complete, as outside the space, there are countless winding underground passages.
Judging by the twists and turns of those tunnels, Hilia felt they were a bit like array patterns.
Rose casually pointed in one direction, "Let’s go that way. Pollution comes from all directions, but that direction has the most."
Hilia nodded, "Okay."
She looked towards the direction Rose pointed, felt the direction of the pollution flow, and confirmed that it was indeed the fastest flowing direction.
However, fast is relative; at nearly ten thousand meters underground, the pollution here isn’t as surging as on the surface, but rather quiet, quieter than the Golden Apple Stone Forest.
Only near the cracks at the top of the underground space did Hilia feel rapid flow.
Without hesitation, Hilia heightened her vigilance and walked towards that direction, slowly approaching the edge of the underground space.
"Rip!"
Suddenly, a strange sound came, and Hilia reacted, swiftly sending an ice spike over.
She couldn’t see with her naked eye, but her spiritual perception sensed it, the ice spike penetrating into a creature that seemed like a worm, with a length of at least five meters. With the ice spike exploding, the giant ’worm’ shrieked and fell to the ground.
Hilia pressed the attack, the light of Purification Skill fiercely entered the opponent’s body, exploding inside.
Boom!
The giant ’worm’ made no further sound.
"I thought there was nothing here, but there really are demons."
Hilia muttered.
Rose nodded, "In places with high pollution concentration, demons formed from pollution are bound to be born. This is the inherent ability of demonic qi pollution. However, there is no rare carrier here to reconstruct demons, so they can only be generated out of thin air, which is far weaker than those reconstructed with rare materials."
Hilia asked, "So is there a possibility of encountering strong demons here? After all, the pollution concentration is very high and spreads far."
Rose replied, "You’ll know as you proceed, but don’t worry, this isn’t the abyss, with no special abyssal bonuses. At most, fourth-tier demons are born here. Generating higher-tier demons out of thin air is impossible."
"So deep underground, is there really nothing?" Hilia tilted her head, "Like magic crystal veins or something."
Rose smiled faintly, "You guess."
Hilia pouted, "No need to guess, there definitely is."
As she spoke, Hilia’s vigilance was heightened to the utmost.
Deep underground lacks rare materials like plants and animals, but there are things that aren’t found on the surface.
Like advanced magic crystals, pure magic crystals, and various strange veins.
Hilia advanced along tunnels resembling array patterns, sensing the underground tunnel’s texture, saying, "I think my luck shouldn’t be so bad, like directly encountering a vein, and then the deposits of that vein being attracted by pollution and reconstructed into demons."
Roar!
A strange, loud roar came, seemingly attracted by Hilia’s voice.
Accompanied by tremors shaking the ground, a creature Hilia couldn’t even identify came speeding from the distant tunnel.
An ice wall blocked in front of the opponent.
Slam!
The crawling demon crashed hard against the ice wall. Its speed was halted for a moment, but soon shattered the ice shield, continuing to charge forth with a series of roars.
"Such a hard body, seems to have reached the fourth tier."
Frowning, Hilia triggered the Ice Shield Skill to impede the opponent briefly while condensing a Crystal Arrow in her hand.
Swoosh!
The Crystal Arrow flew straight, instantly sinking into the crawling demon’s head, exploding on its surface.
"Explode!"
The Crystal Arrow caused a secondary explosion.
"Ow!"
The demon cried out in pain, but Hilia wasn’t pleased.
Because it was only injured, not killed.
"Such a hard skull."
Hilia didn’t stop, going for a three-arrow combo.
Slam slam slam!
Three arrows followed, crashing into the demon’s skull in succession, producing successive explosions.
In the blast, the demon kept howling, its momentum halting as it tried to retreat.
"It can actually escape?"
Hilia was a bit surprised but didn’t stop acting.
After firing dozens of arrows, the demon, at least 100 meters away in the tunnel, ceased struggling.
Unlike the worm encountered earlier, this demon died without its fluids splattering out.
This scenario gave Hilia a clue.
She rushed over and, after checking, confirmed her suspicion.
"The demon’s main structure is an extremely hard mineral. Ugh, so disgusting."