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    After successfully luring the Hundred-Armed Monster out, Su Nan immediately released all his Magic Puppets, ordering them to surround the creature.

    While the monster was still bewildered, Su Nan quickly uttered a syllable, followed by a deep roar.

    Instantly, a visible sound wave materialized out of thin air, twisting through the void and slamming into the Hundred-Armed Monster like a cannonball!

    Boom!

    One of the monster’s arms exploded violently, sending flesh and blood flying!

    “Ah!!!”

    The Hundred-Armed Monster’s dozens of heads let out a chorus of pained cries, the overlapping, muffled sound echoing through the empty basin, making one’s chest feel heavy.

    The Hundred-Armed Monster snapped its heads around, dozens of eyes glaring at Su Nan with venomous hatred, it let out a ferocious howl and charged towards him.

    One Elite Stone Magic Puppet immediately stepped forward to block it.

    Boom! Boom!

    The Hundred-Armed Monster’s hundreds of long swords and heavy hammers pounded relentlessly on the Elite Stone Magic Puppet, the attack as fierce as a raging storm, hammering the Puppet back, causing it to shiver with shattered stones falling from its body, its surface instantly covered with numerous cracks.

    “Its attack power is too ferocious!”

    Su Nan couldn’t help but grin, but his hands moved without delay, repeatedly casting Shattering Sound Waves.

    One after another, twisted sound waves struck the Hundred-Armed Monster, hitting its arms, heads, and torso.

    Except for the waves that were intercepted by the monster’s preemptive swings or blocked by its magical armor, the remaining sound waves shattered an arm or head each.

    Su Nan keenly noticed that when he shattered a head, the arm below the head was completely unaffected, continuing to wield its weapons and attack.

    In other words, each arm could control any of the heads, and destroying a single head had no effect.

    Furthermore, the Hundred-Armed Monster’s magical armor was incredibly strong.

    One Shattering Sound Wave hit it, only leaving a fist-sized hole, but the creature itself was unharmed.

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    “Microlight-level enchanted armor?”

    Su Nan was stunned.

    This was rarer than a Microlight-level magic artifact — mainly because no Wizard (Apprentice) would waste their effort crafting something like this.

    He wondered where the Hundred-Armed Monster had found it.

    “I need to take out those arms first!”

    In just four or five minutes, the Hundred-Armed Monster had smashed an Elite Stone Magic Puppet to pieces.

    It was surrounded by countless Magic Puppets, yet it seemed to have the upper hand.

    Its numerous heads covering its upper body gave it no blind spots.

    The hundreds of arms also provided it with no weaknesses in attack or defense, allowing it to calmly parry attacks from any direction while simultaneously counterattacking.

    It was only because the Shattering Sound Waves were formless and intangible, making them difficult to defend against, that it was occasionally hit.

    “Indeed, it’s very difficult to deal with!”

    Although he had anticipated this, the Hundred-Armed Monster’s strength still made Su Nan frown.

    If a knight were to face this thing, even a thousand-strong Blackrock Cavalry Regiment would likely be helpless against it.

    Taking a deep breath, Su Nan’s expression hardened, a High-Rank Rune Gem already in his palm.

    The next second, the High-Rank Rune Gem flew out, exploding in mid-air, transforming into countless black rays of light, raining down on the Hundred-Armed Monster like a shower.

    The monster swung its weapons frantically, trying to intercept the black rays, but its weapons pierced through the light.

    The next moment, the densely packed black rays struck its body with a thunderous crash.

    In an instant, the Hundred-Armed Monster was shrouded in a layer of gloom, its movements suddenly slowed, its originally fierce and ferocious attack noticeably sluggish.

    After a Shadow High-Rank Rune Gem weakened the Hundred-Armed Monster’s combat strength, Su Nan immediately threw out another Thunder Rune Gem, which transformed into a bolt of lightning the size of a meter, crashing down!

    Boom!

    The heads and four or five arms directly struck by the lightning were instantly charred!

    The lightning subsequently exploded, transforming into countless, densely packed electric snakes that enveloped the Hundred-Armed Monster’s entire body, crackling relentlessly.

    The Hundred-Armed Monster’s massive, monstrous body instantly stiffened for a moment.

    In that split second, the Stealthy Dragon, which had been lying in ambush since the beginning of the battle, suddenly emerged, its bloody maw open, sparks flickering between its teeth.

    Whoosh!

    A terrifying flame erupted from its mouth!

    The raging flames instantly engulfed the Hundred-Armed Monster’s entire body!

    A heart-rending scream echoed.

    At least ten arms and eight heads were obliterated in this attack!

    More heads and arms were scorched to varying degrees.

    The intense pain instantly snapped the Hundred-Armed Monster out of its stiffening state, also sending it into a state of utter rage.

    As long as he could develop those silver and gold mines, he could easily make back those thirteen thousand gold coins.

    Composing himself, Su Nan walked forward to examine the Hundred-Armed Monster’s corpse, his gaze falling upon the magical armor.

    Upon closer examination, he noticed that the armor on the creature’s body didn’t fit.

    Compared to the Hundred-Armed Monster’s massive frame, the armor was a bit small, and the entire suit had been stretched out of shape.

    “Seems like the magical armor was something this guy found by accident and then forcibly put on.”

    Su Nan’s [Biological Modification] had already reached Level 3, and he was quite skilled in this field, after observing it for a while he was certain that the Hundred-Armed Monster’s grotesque appearance was not the result of modification, but rather natural growth or mutation.

    Coupled with the ill-fitting magical armor, it was basically safe to rule out the possibility of the Hundred-Armed Monster being a creature modified by some Wizard (Apprentice).

    Su Nan then used Master’s Hand to remove the magical armor from the creature’s body.

    Although he couldn’t use the magical armor himself, it looked quite expensive, and perhaps he could get some rare metals by dismantling it.

    As for the Hundred-Armed Monster’s corpse, it was of no use to Su Nan, so he simply burned it to ashes.

    Having done all this, Su Nan turned to the entrance where the Hundred-Armed Monster had emerged.

    After some thought, he decided to explore it.

    Putting the Magic Puppets back into his Magic Cube, Su Nan, as usual, had the Stealthy Dragon turn intangible and walk in front, with him and the beast following behind, entering the cave.

    The passage beyond the entrance was surprisingly wide, about twice the size of the passage they had come through.

    Come to think of it, it was obvious that the Hundred-Armed Monster, with its size, could travel through the passage, so the space wouldn’t be small.

    After walking about two hundred meters, Su Nan reached an incredibly spacious cave.

    Numerous bones littered the ground, bearing bite marks and a foul odor.

    Obviously, this was the Hundred-Armed Monster’s lair.

    At the back of the cave was another dark opening, leading to an unknown location.

    Having come this far, Su Nan naturally wouldn’t stop, and continued inwards.

    The passage was still wide and long.

    Su Nan estimated that they had walked several hundred meters, but there was still no end in sight.

    It was not until they had walked about seven or eight hundred meters that the passage suddenly turned downwards.

    Su Nan frowned and did not let the Stealthy Dragon continue down, instead casting Levitation on himself and slowly floating down.

    After descending about twenty meters, a hole just wide enough for one person to pass through suddenly appeared in front of him, and he could vaguely see light coming from outside.

    Hesitating for a moment, Su Nan continued to float down, but the space became increasingly narrow, and eventually a normal person would not be able to pass through it.

    Shining a stone imbued with a Light Technique, he noticed that the passage below was sealed, with no exit.

    Seeing this, Su Nan returned to the opening and went through it.

    His vision suddenly widened.

    He was greeted by a densely packed array of hanging, pointed stones, like a forest of sharp swords.

    Su Nan looked around and realized that he was in a huge, inverted bell-shaped cave, and the pointed stones were actually stalactites hanging from the top of the cave.

    The passage he had just emerged from was originally a hollow stalactite.

    The stalactites were adorned with countless glittering crystals, radiating a brilliant light, enveloping the entire cave in a hazy glow.

    Looking down, he saw a huge, deep lake at the bottom of the cave, like a gem embedded in the middle of the cavern.

    At the very center of the lake was an island.

    On the island, scattered among many stone buildings, he could vaguely see figures entering and exiting.

    “This is... an Underground City-State!”

    Su Nan’s eyes widened.

    Intelligent creatures of the underworld were accustomed to living in city-states to withstand external threats.

    Scattered throughout the vast underworld were countless city-states of varying sizes.

    Small city-states might have only a few thousand people.

    Larger city-states could have populations of over one hundred thousand.

    The island in front of him was clearly a small city-state.

    Su Nan never expected that there was an underground city-state hidden beneath the forest not far from Shining Light City.

    This was truly...

    Su Nan was speechless for a moment.

    The existence of an Underground City-State was not good news for Shining Light City.

    Underground dwellers always harbored ill will towards their surface neighbors, and who knows when they might invade the surface, bringing war and disaster.

    But for Su Nan, it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.

    With good luck, he might be able to find many rare materials that were hard to come by on the surface in this city-state.

    (End of Chapter)