Chapter: The Ice Demon Bear
"Friend Cheng Yu, aren't you a first-tier mage? How did you kill the third-tier Ice Demon Bear just now? I didn't feel strong magic fluctuations from you."
Valk had originally wanted the big boss to lead the newbie, but the other party seemed to be a big boss too.
Failed to keep cover.
"I said—a chef who can't subdue ingredients isn't a good chef."
Cheng Yu didn't answer Valk's question directly.
He pulled out the Dragon-Pattern Golden Knife, walked to the corpse of the third-tier Ice Demon Bear, chopped off the fat bear paws, and stored them in the system warehouse.
After chopping the paws, Cheng Yu cut open the demon bear's belly and stretched his arm inside to explore.
After about ten minutes of exploration, he found a beautiful translucent yellow crystal from the demon bear's belly.
"Really good."
Cheng Yu now had two third-tier magic crystals—one from the Black Armored Pig last time, and one from this Ice Demon Bear.
There were also several first-tier magic crystals from the Black Shadow Crows.
"Thank you, Mr. Valk, for bringing us here," Cheng Yu thanked Valk.
Valk was calm and composed. He smiled faintly. "You're welcome. It's just a small matter."
"How do we get out?"
Cheng Yu didn't plan to go deeper—his system task hadn't been completed yet.
"Return the same way," Valk said.
"???"
When coming here, Cheng Yu had walked through countless forks in the road. How could he remember how to return the same way?
Seeing Cheng Yu's awkward expression, Valk said, "Of course, you can also go to the fifth floor with us. When we go back, you can go back with us."
This was the third floor of the labyrinth. Valk couldn't escort Cheng Yu to the labyrinth door first then turn back.
They weren't that familiar yet.
"Okay, then I'll go to the fifth floor with you," Cheng Yu said helplessly.
Arriving in front of a bird-headed human body stone statue on the third floor, Valk said a code phrase to it.
"I think the Goddess of Light is still charming."
A teleportation magic array to the fourth floor appeared on the ground.
Pfft~
Hearing the code phrase set by the God of Order, Cheng Yu couldn't help laughing.
Damn, such an absurd code phrase. This God of Order is definitely not a serious god.
Valk looked at Cheng Yu with a cold face. "My friend, you're not allowed to blaspheme the gods of our Order God Cult."
Cheng Yu covered his mouth, eyes curved. "I usually don't laugh unless I can't help it."
The group arrived at the fourth floor and came to a bird-headed human statue.
Valk recited the code phrase to the statue.
"Goddess of Light, don't kill me."
A teleportation magic array to the fifth floor appeared on the ground.
Pfft~
This time, not only Cheng Yu was laughing—Mina and Ivennie laughed too.
They could almost imagine the scene where the God of Order spoke rudely to the Goddess of Light, then was chased and begged for mercy.
Blasphemy. Over a dozen Order God Cult members looked at Cheng Yu and the other two with dark faces. There seemed to be a hint of hostility in their eyes.
Cheng Yu walked behind Mina and Ivennie and covered their mouths. "Ahem, don't laugh. Be serious."
The group came to the fifth floor of the labyrinth through the teleportation array.
"The scripture fragments only record the way to quickly pass through the first four floors. The fifth floor depends on us. Please help watch for any mechanisms or the like," Valk said to Cheng Yu and the other two.
"No problem."
Cheng Yu looked around. Nothing special.
"You two go ahead."
Valk had the two vampires go ahead and lead the way.
The group walked in the labyrinth for about twenty minutes. A bird-headed human body stone statue appeared before them.
"It's this statue again. Can you guess the code phrase?" Cheng Yu asked Valk.
"Of course."
Valk had mysterious confidence. He walked to the statue, raised his hands, and knelt devoutly. "Serve my Lord, the great God of Order."
After a while, the statue didn't respond.
"Looking at the style of the first two code phrases, it's definitely not your code phrase."
Cheng Yu thought about it. The first code phrase was "I think the Goddess of Light is still charming." The second was "Goddess of Light, don't kill me."
According to context and logical reasoning, the third code phrase was probably, "I was beaten by the Goddess of Light."
"The Goddess of Light stabbed me."
"The Goddess of Light kicked my waist."
"The Goddess of Light is so scary."
My mind is blown.
Cheng Yu tried over thirty sentences in a row, but the statue didn't respond.
Valk saw Cheng Yu had tried for a long time with no response. "Forget it if it doesn't work. There's more than one way to the next level. There should be other ways to reach the sixth floor."
After thinking briefly, Cheng Yu changed his way of expression. "The Goddess of Light took the initiative to get in close contact with me."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of gears turning echoed. The bird-headed statue slowly rotated.
"You can actually guess the God of Order's code phrase. I might be a fake Order God Cult priest," Valk couldn't help but laugh at himself.
"Hehe~"
Cheng Yu smiled.
However, it wasn't the teleportation array that appeared this time.
The bird-headed statue slowly descended into the ground. The stone wall behind it rose up. A passage entrance appeared before them—didn't know where it led.
"It's not the teleportation array this time. Could the code phrases all be wrong? But it triggered another mechanism?"
According to the experience of the previous two times, if the code phrase was correct, the teleportation array to the sixth floor should appear.
Cheng Yu was a bit confused. Didn't want to think so much.
"Let's go in and take a look."
Valk still had the two vampires go ahead to scout.
The crowd walked through the narrow passage for a few minutes.
After walking out of the passage, a wide circular underground space appeared before everyone.
In the center of the underground space lay a black demon wolf with a long black mane around its neck—body length seven or eight meters.
On the pillar behind the black magic wolf sat a golden treasure chest.
Cheng Yu saw the golden treasure chest and couldn't help exclaiming, "Wow, golden legend~"
The black magic wolf sensed someone entering. It opened its eyes, stood up from the ground, and shook the mane on its neck.
A wolf howl. The majestic magic power—almost materialized—burst out from it.
Valk felt the powerful magic fluctuations. His weathered face showed shock. "This... turned out to be a sixth-tier Shadow Wolf!"
On the Celsis Continent, sixth-tier mages could be called legendary existences. But it was difficult for sixth-tier mages to defeat sixth-tier monsters of the same tier.
One could imagine how strong a sixth-tier monster's combat power was.
Valk retreated. "We can't beat it! Let's run!"
Sigh~
Cheng Yu sighed and looked at the golden treasure chest on the pillar reluctantly.
Good news: golden legend discovered.
Bad news: there's a powerful monster guarding it.
No choice but to retreat.
At that moment, Mina grabbed Cheng Yu's wrist. "Wait. I'm level 10 in wolf language. Let me communicate with it."
Mina belonged to the Silver Wolf Clan and was born with wolf language.
"Will it work?" Cheng Yu was skeptical.
"I don't know. I'll try."
With a try-it mentality, Mina howled at the sixth-tier Shadow Wolf. "Awoo~ Awoo~"
The Shadow Wolf was stunned for a moment. After staying in this place for who knows how many years, the same kind actually appeared. Its bad mood instantly became sunny.
Shadow Wolf: "Awoo~ Awoo~ Awoo~"
Mina: "Awoo~ Awoo~ Awoo~"
Shadow Wolf: "Awoo~ Awoo~"
Mina: "Awoo~ Awoo~ Awoo~"
Mina and the Shadow Wolf went back and forth.
Cheng Yu, Ivennie, and the Order God Cult members—all couldn't understand what they were saying.