Chapter 11 Unexpected Corpse

Suren chose a path that led deep into the underground cave, which was already part of the city's sewer system, with sewage flowing everywhere. Originally, he had planned to search for the sickle in that direction, and now it also served as a good place to avoid the assassins who might be chasing after them.

Although the environment was foul-smelling, the sewage conveniently masked their tracks.

Unexpectedly, before either the assassins or the sickle could be found, they discovered a corpse near a drainage pipe.

It was a female corpse, naked from the waist up, completely covered in spiderwebs and drained of color. A red-eyed spider was piercing her skull with its venomous fangs, sucking out her brain matter...

Seeing the corpse, Reina wanted to scream, but remembering something, she quickly covered her mouth. Her crystalline eyes trembled, unable to hide her grief.

The corpse was none other than Rosa, the female teaching assistant from before.

As Suren watched the gray mist emanating from the corpse, his eyes lit up. "Oh... just died, still fresh?"

He had already harvested so much knowledge from Jack's corpse. How about a teaching assistant who could mentor the students?

.......

To Suren, this kind of corpse was like a treasure sent from heaven, worth a hundred times more than the corpse of an ordinary professional.

However, Suren didn't make any rash moves. Instead, he squinted at the red-eyed spider that was about to feed, and identified the monster's attributes. "Oh... it's an elite monster?"

Just then, the spider looked over.

Suren thought of something, but didn't avoid its gaze.

In that instant, its six scarlet eyes stared at him, as if an invisible hand was teasing his soul, but it vanished in a flash.

At the same time, the Omniscient Eye displayed a negative status effect on his body.

"You have been subjected to a mental attack. The intensity of the mental wave is lower than your mental power, and you are immune to this negative status..."

Suren saw that, as the Omniscient Eye indicated, the mental attack of this mutated spider elite monster was not enough to threaten his extremely high mental power.

"High mental power will make you immune to low-level mental spells... In that case, as long as I am not surrounded by a group of monsters in this spider den, it doesn't seem too fatal for me..."

He encountered a live monster and deliberately verified some of his conjectures.

Suren now had the confidence to continue searching for the sickle.

Reina behind him wasn't so lucky. The girl inadvertently met the spider's gaze and was immediately dazed, standing there like a wooden chicken.

Moreover, she seemed to have seen some erotic scenes in her imagination, arousing her desires. Her face quickly flushed red, and she even let out some strange moans.

Suren glanced at Reina, who was standing beside him in a daze, walking towards the spider. He wasn't in a hurry to save her, but carefully observed her.

While watching, he analyzed, "So this is the state after being hit. The monster's mental attack simply affects lust. If I block the emotion of 'lust,' will I directly ignore this mental attack?"

The Omniscient Eye made it very clear what the ghost-faced spider's attack method was. Direct eye contact would arouse the instinctual carnal desires, instantly losing consciousness and easily being captured as prey.

Just like the lustful young lady in front of him.

Reina's breathing technique was top-notch among first-tier professionals. She had been so easily tricked, which meant that even second-tier professionals, if their mental power wasn't strong enough, would probably be affected by this elite spider.

Suren didn't know what he was thinking, but his gaze became increasingly profound. "Tsk, tsk... it seems this young lady's life isn't over yet..."

.......

Suren felt that he had observed enough, raised his hand, and with a silenced pistol, shot the spider's head into pieces.

As the identified intelligence had shown, although this mutated monster was very deadly, its physical defense was extremely poor. Ordinary bullets could easily make a large hole in their bodies.

As soon as the monster died, Reina woke up from her obsessed state.

She instantly noticed some shameful abnormalities in her body. Not knowing if it was shyness or if her face was already red, she weakly asked, "I... what happened to me just now?"

"Don't look directly at the red eyes of those ghost-faced spiders, otherwise you'll be mentally manipulated."

Suren didn't explain much and said lightly.

He didn't look at her shy appearance that could make many boys' hearts flutter. Instead, he walked straight to the corpse of the teaching assistant Rosa.

"Oh... the spider monster even dropped plant-equipment materials."

Suren looked at the light emerging from the corpse of the calf-sized spider. This corpse actually produced two glowing spider legs with cursed characteristics.

However, the quality wasn't good. They were just ordinary black iron materials.

Suren ignored the spider legs and approached Rosa's corpse.

The gray mist on the corpse would dissipate over time. Every second wasted was a loss of these high-quality fragments.

He had to quickly harvest them.

Then, approaching the gray mist, he got what he wanted and extracted a large number of useful things.

"Acquired 'Rosa Williams' memory fragment *5"

"You obtained some information: 'Daniel has been acting strangely recently. I saw him mysteriously opening some kind of signal instrument in the tunnel...'"

"You have mastered a large amount of 'Advanced Alchemy Knowledge'..."

"You have mastered the arcane alchemy technique [Wu Shi (incomplete)]..."

"You have comprehended a large amount of 'Alchemy Theory'..."

"You have mastered the proficient [Quick Mudra Technique]..."

"You have obtained some 'Advanced Alchemy Casting Techniques', Alchemy Experience +111"

"Mental Power +0.35"

An expected harvest.

Suren felt that too much "knowledge" had entered his mind.

It was as if broken puzzle pieces had suddenly been put together into a large chunk, giving him an indescribable sense of accomplishment.

.......

"I actually comprehended Rosa's arcane [Wu Shi]?"

Suren looked at the skill that had appeared on the panel and immediately thought of the scene in the underground cave where the teaching assistant Rosa single-handedly held off countless moth monsters.

The Netherworld cold fire that burned the monsters, preventing them from getting close, still lingered in his mind.

He wasn't an alchemy novice anymore. He naturally knew that skills that could be named "Arcane" were top-level, rare, and valuable knowledge. Not only was it difficult to obtain the skills, but the learning difficulty was also extremely high. You had to rely on comprehension to learn it!

This [Wu Shi] was probably a top-level arcane secret technique even in the inner city. Learning it was probably one in ten thousand.

But because of the [Harvester] talent, Suren had easily mastered this arcane-level alchemy.

A moment of curiosity flashed through Suren's mind. At this moment, the dark spiritual energy in his body circulated in a special and familiar way, and a small wisp of light blue cold flame suddenly appeared on his finger.

"It really worked..."

Suren looked at the lighter-like flame, and a hint of joy appeared on his face.

This cold flame not only had a dark elemental spell burn, but also added a "armor breaking" effect to physical attacks.

It gave the user's "normal attack" a physical and magical damage effect, and the damage soared by tons!

Because it was an incomplete secret technique, Rosa had only achieved minor arcane success and only condensed two flame arms. If it were a complete secret technique, she could even condense a complete "Servant of Emptiness" to cover her whole body, like a god descending...

"What a powerful arcane secret technique."

Carefully sensing the special nature of this cold flame, Suren exclaimed in his heart.

He felt that he could probably poke a hole in a cement wall with one finger now.

Although he didn't have Rosa's exaggerated flames, it was enough to give his normal attacks a critical strike.

At the same time, he also lamented that a teaching assistant was indeed a teaching assistant. The amount of knowledge they possessed was much richer than that of elite students.

The various surges in alchemy knowledge made Suren feel like he had "skipped a grade" in an instant, jumping from the third grade of elementary school to the sixth grade.

However, before he could finish digesting all the knowledge he had gained, when he saw one of the pieces of information in the memory fragments, his expression suddenly became serious, and he was surprised in his heart: "Teaching assistant Daniel has a problem?"

.......

Suren had always suspected that there was a spy in the trial team.

Otherwise, the enemy couldn't have accurately grasped their trial movements and precisely deployed that changeling to hunt down Reina.

However, he wasn't sure if the spy was a student or a mentor.

Previously, Daniel had disappeared without a trace, and that mentor, August, had never shown his face. Suren had already prematurely judged that they were dead.

Now, from Rosa's memory, he had discovered a suspicious point.

Reina was still immersed in sadness. After all, teaching assistant Rosa had died to save her.

Suren's eyes turned, and he directly asked, "Miss Reina, what is teaching assistant Daniel's profession and talent? Does he have any particularly powerful trump cards?"

Reina was just confused before, but she wasn't stupid.

Hearing Suren ask this question, she instantly guessed something and directly said, "Teaching assistant Daniel's advanced profession is 'Ranger' in the ranger system. He is good at tracking, counter-tracking, and close combat. He usually teaches many of our combat practice courses..."

Hearing the words "good at tracking," Suren's expression turned cold.

And just then, he also felt as if there were pairs of scarlet eyes staring at him in the darkness, muttering something to themselves: "Sickle, assassin, mutated monster..."