Universal Mechanic

Chapter 496

Feng Xiaoyu walked out of the space gate and said: I'm back.

Luo Yuan said while eating a hamburger: Hey, have you dealt with the trouble?

Feng Xiaoyu: Yes, this way we can set off as long as you are full.

Luo Yuan: Then let’s get ready. Fang Mengtie, Xiao Mingqin and the others are gone anyway.

After saying that, Luo Yuan swallowed the last bite of the hamburger and stood up.

Luo Mengli: We can finally set off.

Ashtar: So where to go first?

Xi Qiling: Let’s go to the Thousand Silk Tower first. There are a large number of silk-producing monsters there. Let’s get the materials needed to weave Qianshang first.

Feng Xiaoyu: But you can’t use fire there, I’ll go run another maze.

Luo Yuan: Then shall I go with you?

Feng Xiaoyu: That's fine. After all, your output is high and your speed is fast, so the speed of brushing materials will be faster. So let's go to the Artemisia Labyrinth? There are many traps there. If you don't react quickly, you will die.

Luo Yuan: In that case, you are not afraid of death and traps are basically useless to me, so it would be best if we were together.

Feng Xiaoyu: That’s it, Luo Yuan and I will be in one group, and Asta, Luo Mengli, and Xi Qiling will be in another group.

Ashtar: A very reasonable judgment.

Xi Qiling: So it will be better to re-group after both sides have finished collecting the materials?

Luo Mengli: But this is a bit of a waste of time.

Asta: But we can't let the two of them set the fire, can we?

Luo Yuan: Okay, okay, let’s stop for now. Once we start chatting, we can’t stop. Our main goal this time is to obtain the materials for the dresses for the ceremony and the materials for Yisheng’s weapons. The former is the main target and is given priority.

细七凌：那么接着往下就是1：纯粹迷宫、2：柯克迷宫3：恶徒迷宫以及4：破遏迷宫了，这四个的素材楼层在1：60、78、100，2：76、77、89、100，3：56、77、85、100，4：71、79、100。

Luo Yuan: Then 1, 3, we'll do it, 2, 4, you guys do it. Of course, for fun, let's have a competition.

Luo Mengli said with shining eyes: Oh, now that you mention it, I'm not tired anymore. What do you want to bet on?

Luo Yuan: Don’t bet too much, just bet on the dessert for dinner.

Ashtar: Okay.

Luo Mengli: Then I will accept it with pleasure! There is no reason for us to lose with a score of 3 to 2.

Luo Yuan: That’s hard to say. After all, I’m the chief and I can’t lose so badly. So let’s start the moment the coin falls.

After saying that, Luo Yuan threw a coin into the air. Then, before the coin fell, a crossbow arrow pierced the coin. Then, accompanied by a cracking sound, a large amount of thick smoke leaked out of it.

Luo Yuan took the opportunity to run away with Feng Xiaoyu.

Luo Yuan: Bye.

Asta: Xiqi Ling, open the door!

Xi Qiling: I know!

As he spoke, Xi Qiling directly opened the space door and ran in with the two of them.

Just as several people were competing, holy light and sword energy began to collide in a corner of the End World.

Lin Changye: Coming again?

Anna: Of course.

As she spoke, Anna waved the flag again and slashed towards Lin Changye, but the sword in Lin Changye's hand bounced it off.

Lin Changye: Your skills have deteriorated. Is this the price you have to pay to rescue Xi Qiling?

Anna: Just fish Xi Qiling out and use some holy light. But the problem now is that my world tool has no name, no wonder it feels weird to use.

Lin Changye: Can’t you name it yourself?

Anna: ...It requires an opportunity, but it's troublesome no matter which one it is, so I was thinking about whether I should adjust the World Instrument again, but now it seems I'd better forget it.

Lin Changye: So do we still want to fight?

Anna: If you are free, after all, my control is indeed a bit reduced and I can't guarantee that I won't get hurt.

Lin Changye: If it doesn’t reach this level, then there will be no effect of training.

As he spoke, Lin Changye straightened his stance.

Anna: Hey, you're actually going to take the initiative to attack? That's interesting.

As she spoke, Anna smiled and waved the battle flag towards Lin Changye. This time, Lin Changye did not choose to defend, but dodged the attack by turning sideways and stabbed Anna with the sword.

Anna: It’s useless. Be careful.

As she spoke, Anna let go of her hand and somersaulted backwards to avoid the sword, and took the opportunity to throw out dozens of holy light spears to attack Lin Changye.

Lin Changye: It’s you, Anna, who should be careful.

As he spoke, Lin Changye swung his sword, swung out two sword energies, cut a hole through, and slashed the holy light shield that appeared in an instant with one sword.

Anna: Oh, I don’t think I’m in danger.

The next moment, the battle flag that was supposed to be on the ground suddenly appeared in her hand and stabbed towards Lin Changye like a spear. However, Lin Changye decisively let go of the sword in his hand and used the sword energy platform to jump back to avoid the attack.

Lin Changye: This is interesting.

As he spoke, Lin Changye took out two swords and rushed towards Anna, suppressing her with continuous combos.

Anna could only keep waving the battle flag to block the attack.

Anna: I didn’t expect to be suppressed.

Lin Changye: You clearly look very relaxed.

Anna: But it’s boring that we can’t attack. Is it okay if you don’t care about the students?

Lin Changye: She is not a child anymore, and she hasn’t finished the assignment I gave her yet.

Anna: Is that the armor project? That's quite interesting. Every now and then you'll see something explode around her.

Lin Changye: That’s why she is immature. She doesn’t have to worry about so many things like me. She has so much material to work with, so she can just do it with confidence.

Anna: Haha, it’s a good thing to know how to cherish things, but if you can use them, of course you should use them.

Lin Changye: Yes, but boss, don’t you think it’s a bit too much to use holy magic while chatting?

Anna: Haha, you don’t have to hide.

As he spoke, a holy light ball that looked like a small sun fell down. Lin Changye could only kick the sword energy platform to distance himself from Anna, then he swung his sword upwards with all his strength to chop the holy light ball to pieces, then quickly crossed his swords to block Anna's surprise attack.

At this time, the offense and defense were reversed. As Anna gradually became familiar with the feel of the World's Instrument, her attack speed became faster and faster.

Lin Changye: Tsk, after all this time you're still using this as a spear!

Anna: Because it’s more convenient this way.

As she spoke, Anna's movements became more and more free, making it gradually difficult for Lin Changye to resist. Then, as the sword in his left hand was broken, Lin Changye had no choice but to take a step back.

Lin Changye threw the broken sword away and said: What a trouble, ordinary swords are really useless.

Anna: It’s already good enough for a normal sword to be used for such a long time. Has the quality of the sword energy been improved again?

Lin Changye: Of course, otherwise how can I fight with you.

As they were talking, the two started fighting again. Just when they were getting ready to fight seriously, Lin Changye received a message.

Anna: Oh, what a bummer!

Lin Changye looked at the message and said: It was Charlotte who finished the meeting and asked me what I needed to prepare.

Anna: Oh my, so fast?

Lin Changye: She is a professional after all. But I don’t really have anything that needs her to deal with, so let her rest.

Anna: So I originally wanted her to take a vacation to recuperate?

Lin Changye: Do you think she will take a vacation? Although it is partly my fault, she just can't sit still.

Anna: Just like a loyal dog who is always full of energy!

Lin Changye instantly spat out what he had just drunk: Pfft!!! Ahem, Boss, it’s not good for you to say bad things about her in front of me, right?

Anna: Haha, do you dare to say that you didn’t have any thoughts just now?

Lin Changye: What should I think?

Anna: Huh? Husky?

Lin Changye: Charlotte won’t destroy the house, right?

Anna: What about Pomeranian?

Lin Changye: ...Why are you so insistent on thinking about the dog?

Anna: Last time I saw Rose I wanted to touch her but she wouldn’t let me.

Lin Changye:…….

At this time on the street

Charlotte: Ah! Strange, who is saying bad things about me? (But His Majesty told me to have a good rest, but I don’t know what to do. It’s not realistic to find a shooting range to train. Noel is also busy, so I can’t bother him. So what should I do? Oh, right, the fashion of the dress and accessories is not right. Xi Qiling has already taken care of this part, so what should I do?)

While thinking about Charlotte, he walked to the park, found a chair to sit down, closed his eyes and enjoyed the peace for less than a minute, then began to look through the chat history with Charlotte.

Charlotte: Eh? Are they going to farm materials? Let's go to the maze? Anyway, I have my license... Hey, Luo Yuan, do you need help?

Luo Yuan: Have you finished the meeting?

Charlotte: Well it just opened so I don’t know what to do now.

Luo Yuan: So you want to come? We'll be done in five minutes. We'll open the door and let you come over.

Feng Xiaoyu: I remember you have a silver level?

Charlotte: Yeah, see you later then.

five minutes later

In the maze

Feng Xiaoyu: You really can’t sit still.

Charlotte: I'm used to it.

As Charlotte spoke, she pulled the bow and killed all the monsters in the aisle. Then the monsters turned into light ions and disappeared, leaving only some materials.

Luo Yuan said while using his clone to collect the dropped items: The most troublesome thing at the moment is still collecting the dropped items.

Feng Xiaoyu collected the dropped items and said: There is no other way. After all, this is not a game and it will be a bit troublesome. But with me here, at least I don’t have to count how many materials are missing and I don’t have to move them.

Luo Yuan: The only problem is that it takes time to wait for the monsters to refresh and move.

Feng Xiaoyu: There’s nothing we can do about it, but waiting for the monsters to refresh does remind me of something.

Luo Yuan: What's wrong?

Feng Xiaoyu: There is a situation that during the active period of the maze, the number and strength of monsters will increase significantly. If it is Xi Qiling, she may know the information.

Luo Yuan: Then it is a little fairer this way, although it is not really fair because the output is too unbalanced.

Charlotte: But Asta and Ri are not slow in wanting to fight, right?

Luo Yuan: That’s of course, but our faster movement speed is an advantage.

At this time in another maze

Asta: It's much faster to collect information this way. Fortunately, you knew the information about the active period in advance.

Xi Qiling: That’s right, but this is still not fast enough. Luo Yuan’s combat power is there. For them, basically all they have to do is wait for the monsters to refresh, right?

Luo Mengli said as she used simple alchemical creations to recover the dropped items.

Luo Mengli: There’s nothing we can do since his ability is too cheating. But we have a problem here since we need two copies of the items dropped by the boss on the 100th floor.

Xi Qiling: It can be triggered multiple times through specific methods, but now is the active period so there might be two bosses.

Ashtar: We are now on the 77th floor and our next target is the 89th floor.

Xi Qiling: Let’s go, we have enough materials.

half an hour later

89th floor

Asta casually cut off the monster's head and asked: How much more is needed?

Xi Qiling said as he explored the location of the monsters: Ten of them are enough to fight one group.

Ashtar: What about the row coordinates?

Xi Qiling: Just in front, wow, interesting, there is a group of people fighting those monsters.

Luo Mengli: After all, it's a maze, so it's not strange to have other people there, right? After all, if we don't brush materials, we will just rush down directly, so it's normal that we didn't notice it.

Asta: It's not a good habit to take someone else as prey, so wait a minute, by the way, who has water?

Luo Mengli took out a bottle of water and gave it to Asta and said: I have Xi Qiling, do you want it?

Xi Qiling took out the aluminum foil bag of milk he carried with him and said: No need for me to drink the milk. Anyway, our luck is really not very good. The treasure chest in the boss room clearly has a chance of containing a teleportation stone, but we killed 18 of them and none of them dropped anything.

Luo Mengli: I heard that the further back you go, the easier it is to get the treasures. After all, according to research, a maze relies on devouring lives in exchange for nutrition, so there are so many monsters and treasures just to attract people to come in and fight.

Xi Qiling: Oh, so this is what you alchemists think.

Ashtar: Then it looks like there is life.

Xi Qiling: Oh, that’s the druids’ view. They believe that the maze not only has life, but also has consciousness.

Luo Mengli: Ah, I’ve heard of this hypothesis too.

Asta: Don't forget that we are still in the competition. They may have already approached the boss at this time.

Xi Qiling: It's not that easy. The number of them is probably half less than mine, so the progress won't be too far behind. Oh, another group has been spawned. Let's go and finish this quickly.

Asta: This process is more troublesome than I originally thought.

Luo Mengli: There’s nothing I can do. After all, this isn’t a game and it definitely takes time to kill monsters.

As they spoke, the three of them ran over to where the monsters were so they wouldn't have to wait for another batch.

Asta: Well, do these guys look a little different?

As he said this, Asta chopped off the monster's head.

Luo Mengli: I am a special individual. I don’t know whether to say I am lucky or unlucky.

Xi Qiling: It's lucky for us, right? After all, there are more materials. Oh, the claws exploded. This is a good material for making daggers.

Asta played with the claw in his hand for a while and said: It feels good and should be quite durable. Can you give it to me?

Luo Mengli: Let's divide this up together, right? A lot of things have been dropped, maybe there will be something better by then.

Ashtar: Yes.

Xi Qiling: Then let's go! Since the special individuals have appeared, it means that the active period has reached its peak and it will end soon!

Then the three of them hurried to the next floor.

At this time on the other side

Luo Yuan: Wow, as expected, the final boss is Behemoth. This is really rare.

Charlotte: The drops look like they'll be pretty good.

Luo Yuan: By the way, this looks like the material for your majesty's cloak, so work on it.

Charlotte: ...Kill!

While shouting, Charlotte pulled the bow and began to release skills. Energy arrows kept flying towards Behemoth, like a Gatling gun, blowing away Behemoth's flesh and blood.

Feng Xiaoyu took out the microphone and said to Luo Yuan: Let me ask commentator Luo Yuan to evaluate the performance of player Charlotte.

Luo Yuan: Well, Behemoth has a very troublesome high defense, coupled with a speed and reaction ability that is different from its huge body. Charlotte used AOE at the beginning to cause all-round damage, giving Behemoth the illusion that it cannot escape. This is exactly what the despicable Charlotte wanted. After all, a target that doesn't move around is easier to hit.

Feng Xiaoyu: Behemoth's intelligence is its biggest drawback. If it were like a wild beast, it would be more threatening.

Charlotte: ...Can't you two come and help!

Luo Yuan: Why are you still helping me when you’re about to be beaten to death?

Just after Luo Yuan finished speaking, Behemoth, whose body was pierced by arrows, fell to the ground and turned into light ions, leaving only a treasure chest.

Charlotte: That's it?

Luo Yuan: I guess we are not the first ones to come here. Behemoth has been keeping an eye on us two. I don’t think this is a coincidence.

Feng Xiaoyu: It's normal. Car rollovers are not uncommon in a maze. Charlotte, hurry up and open it to see if there are any furs or good things!

Charlotte: Then I'll open it! There are furs! Meat, gems, magic stones, mithril magic swords, magic staffs and... what is this?