In that instant, they understood that leveling up to LV2 was possible, but defeating a Goliath was probably impossible!
Wang Xiaoming was also very surprised because he didn't expect the Goliath, which he had just judged to be non-mutated, to actually mutate right in front of him!
"It seems this really is part of the plot."
Wang Xiaoming slowly walked forward.
"Which means that the monsters around the dungeon will also riot later. This riot is still related to the Fallen Fairy."
Logically speaking, this kind of riot shouldn't happen, since no god has entered the dungeon. But the current situation is that mutation has indeed occurred.
Unfortunately, the timing of the Goliath's appearance was bad. If it had appeared at another time, it might have been able to achieve something. But it happened to appear today when Wang Xiaoming brought people down to the dungeon.
Therefore, Wang Xiaoming could only raise his hand and unleash a shockwave, blasting the Goliath's head into pieces on the spot.
Then, as the five adventurers lying on the ground stared in stunned silence, he once again took out the white plastic chair and sat down. Behind him, the Goliath's huge corpse slowly dissipated, leaving behind only a huge magic stone, which happened to fall behind the white plastic chair.
Facing the dumbfounded crowd, Wang Xiaoming's expression was indifferent.
"I saw you guys being knocked away by the Goliath, so I took action to resolve it. No problem, right?"
"No... no problem... no problem at all!"
773. He is the Legendary Magic Sword Knight
The rookie adventurers didn't understand, but they were greatly shocked.
Everything they saw today shattered their previous understanding.
What defeating a Goliath to level up to LV2, what others can do, so can I, all lies, all lies.
What others can do, I simply cannot do!
There's no way to defeat this Goliath! The Goliath can directly kill them with one punch. Is this the so-called floor boss? Too strong.
And Wang Xiaoming, they originally thought he was just an ordinary newbie, but it turned out he was a super大佬, instantly killing the floor boss who could have one-shot them.
Instantly killing a floor boss was something they had never even heard of before. After all, not many people discussed instantly killing floor bosses. The focus of adventurers' discussions was still on leveling up, because that was what was truly related to them. Constantly discussing instantly killing floor bosses was too extravagant for them; that kind of thing was too far away.
After thanking Wang Xiaoming profusely, these rookie adventurers set off on their way back.
It must be said that these five people were quite lucky, because when they came down from the upper floors, they had to traverse floors 1-16, but they didn't even encounter any decent monsters, not even a single Minotaur.
If they had encountered a Minotaur early on, not to mention anything else, the Minotaur's strength and physical qualities alone would have been a great threat to ordinary LV1s. Even if there were five of them, the dungeon's area was very small in the lower floors, and the passageway was extremely narrow. Even if there were five of them, they couldn't form a formation and could only face the enemy one by one.
Even when the Loki Familia entered the dungeon for an expedition, they would turn the entire team into a long, straight line to pass through the upper floors for safety reasons, let alone these rookies.
It can only be said that their luck was really good. They didn't encounter any major troubles along the way and safely arrived at the 17th floor. They were even saved by Wang Xiaoming on the 17th floor when they were being beaten up by the Goliath.
If these conditions hadn't all been met at the same time, these five people would have had to sacrifice at least a few of them to get out of the dungeon.
On the way back, the five rookie adventurers walked and recalled what they had just experienced. In the end, they were all shocked by Wang Xiaoming, this strongman.
"Who do you think he is?"
"So powerful, he must be a famous person in Orario!"
"Nonsense, of course I know he's a famous person. I'm asking, who is this famous person!"
"He must be one of the top adventurers in Orario."
"Are you talking about the Four Great Familias?"
Even the newbies in Orario now know about the Four Great Familias, and they also know that the top adventurers are all in the Four Great Familias.
"If he's a famous person, then there's the highest probability that he's from one of the Four Great Familias."
"By the way, did you guys notice his armor!"
"Armor? I didn't notice."
Although adventurers have armor, most of it is used for defense. Everyone's focus is on weapons, such as the magic carried by magic swords.
"I didn't pay attention before either. I just thought his armor was very beautiful, but now that I think about it, I realize that his armor looks very similar to someone!"
"Who?"
"The senior told us about it, the captain of the Hestia Familia in the Four Great Familias, the 【Magic Sword Knight】!"
"That legendary strongest 【Magic Sword Knight】in Orario?"
Before Wang Xiaoming became famous, basically no one paid attention to him. And after possessing the passive skill of reducing his presence, he appeared even less in public. He only appeared when some events were held, but later, the staff of Hestia Commercial were responsible for holding events. For example, the Duel King Tournament is now being handled by Mery. Wang Xiaoming doesn't participate at all. He only appears when deciding what new cards to sell, and even then, he only appears at internal business meetings.
Therefore, very few people can see Wang Xiaoming now.
But rumors about Wang Xiaoming's appearance have always existed.
A golden-haired, blue-eyed youth wearing a silver-white armor and a blue knight's uniform. This is the external description of the 【Magic Sword Knight】.
"Didn't you notice that the person just now looked very similar to the legendary Magic Sword Knight?"
"But the Magic Sword Knight is very famous, which has led many people in Orario to imitate the Magic Sword Knight."
Although this sounds a bit strange, it is indeed true, because Wang Xiaoming is too famous, so some people's outfits are developing in Wang Xiaoming's direction.
However, those who imitate Wang Xiaoming dare not completely copy him, but only develop in that direction, such as silver-white armor + golden hair, but other places will be different.
After all, the Hestia Familia is a large Familia. Even if there are few people, they can beat a group of you by themselves. If imitating the Magic Sword Knight causes any misunderstandings, it will be a big trouble when the Hestia Familia comes to your door.
"Which means we met the Magic Sword Knight!"
A group of people became excited as they chatted, and then safely returned to the surface. It must be said that their luck was quite good.
Wang Xiaoming, who was waiting on the 17th floor of the dungeon, was standing at the entrance to the 18th floor.
The mutated Goliath was quite powerful, so Wang Xiaoming waited here to take care of the mutated Goliath. After taking care of the mutated Goliath, at least no new mutated Goliaths will be refreshed in a short time. Wang Xiaoming can safely head to the 18th floor.
Although he was on the 17th floor, he could also feel some of the movements on the 18th floor. The originally relatively calm 18th floor had become very chaotic. Standing at the entrance from the 17th floor to the 18th floor, you could hear the shouts there.
Obviously, the monster's chaos had spread to the 18th floor. The 18th floor, which had always been a safe floor, was under attack, which was very miserable for those adventurers who felt safe and relaxed their vigilance.
Wang Xiaoming didn't waste time and rushed directly into the 18th floor. Seeing those mutated monsters wreaking havoc everywhere on the 18th floor, Wang Xiaoming didn't pick and choose and rushed directly towards the monster closest to him.
Hell Thrust!
Wang Xiaoming's left hand turned into a claw, and he directly thrust forward, piercing the monster's body and tearing out the monster's heart from behind. The monster died on the spot with wide eyes, startling the adventurer who was stalemated with this monster. When had he ever seen such a scene, killing a monster by directly tearing out its heart.
Casually tossing the heart pierced by his own claws onto the ground, Wang Xiaoming directly charged towards the next one.
Thus, on the chaotic battlefield of the 18th floor, there was an additional golden figure piercing through everywhere.
774. The Powerful Medea
With a thrust of his spear, Finn pierced the throat of the monster in front of him, killing it. He retracted his spear, shook off the blood from the tip, and immediately inquired about the situation from the werewolf behind him.
"Bert! How's the situation?"
"Tempest Kick!"
The werewolf Bert killed a monster with a werewolf-style Tempest Kick and then turned to reply to Finn.
"The number of monsters is under control. There's a guy frantically clearing out monsters not far away. The clearing speed is very fast. The number on my side has decreased significantly."
"Who is it?"
"I don't know. I didn't see it, but I heard some guys say they saw a golden shadow rushing around. Wherever it rushed, the monsters there would die."
As Bert spoke, he directly kicked out at another monster that charged up, sending out a vacuum slash that dismembered the monster.
"A golden shadow rushing around?"
Finn bit his thumb, forming his own guess.
"It should be Captain Wang Xiaoming. We encountered him on the 18th floor before. He was bringing newcomers from the Hestia Familia to familiarize themselves with the dungeon, but later he took his Familia's newcomers to the upper levels. They probably haven't gone far, so they came over."
The moment Finn thought of Wang Xiaoming coming to the battlefield, he immediately felt much more relaxed.
Their Loki Familia's expedition had only just begun, but they encountered a sudden group attack of mutated monsters on the 18th floor. For the Loki Familia's high-level LV6 and LV5 members, these monsters were not a threat, but for the support staff, the situation was different.
The Loki Familia had many LV2 support personnel, who usually followed behind the combat troops under the protection of some combat personnel.
But who would have thought that a monster group attack would occur on the safe floor of the 18th floor? The support staff couldn't withstand that.
There were too many monsters, so many that even these LV6 members were somewhat stretched thin. But now, with a powerful external aid to support them, the situation was different.
Finn didn't feel he knew much about Wang Xiaoming, but he considered himself very knowledgeable about Wang Xiaoming's combat power.
Just kidding, that was a super ruthless person who killed earth dragons and flying dragons in the 【Dragon's Nest】on the 52nd floor as easily as stepping on an ant. He started rampaging the first time he went to the 【Dragon's Nest】. How many levels was he at that time? How many levels is he now? Although these monsters have mutated and become violent...
But no matter how mutated they are, can they be more powerful than the flying dragons in the 【Dragon's Nest】?
Therefore, Wang Xiaoming's appearance meant that the number of monsters would rapidly decrease, which also meant that the safety of the Loki Familia's support unit was guaranteed. Finn didn't want his expedition team to be reduced in numbers before they even entered the middle levels. That would simply be a great shame.
And Wang Xiaoming, as Finn expected, entered the battlefield and began a great slaughter. He didn't use the Judgment Swordsmanship to deal AOE damage because there were many other adventurers present. If Wang Xiaoming used AOE, then basically these people would have no chance of surviving, so he could only solve them one by one.
Although he had to solve them one by one, Wang Xiaoming was too fast. One strike per monster, five strikes per second. Even if the monsters died one by one, it was like being affected by AOE. A group died per second. Those standing together could even enjoy the treatment of dying at the same time, and they simply couldn't survive.
In Wang Xiaoming's slaughter, half of the monsters on the entire 18th floor were killed by Wang Xiaoming alone.
The remaining monsters were killed by the people of the Loki Familia and other adventurers. Bell, the 【White Reaper】 who had already become LV3, also killed many monsters in this chaos.
In general, for the adventurers on the 18th floor, this turmoil was like a hundred-person dungeon, but this time there were a few too many大佬s in this hundred-person dungeon.
So they didn't actually suffer much loss. Instead, they gained a lot of experience in this battle, which was more efficient than usual, and they also received more magic stones as rewards.
Some people even thought that if they could easily gain experience and magic stones like this, then they would rather have this kind of thing happen a few more times!
But if it really happened a few more times, it was uncertain whether there would still be大佬s leading the team by their side at that time.
After Wang Xiaoming cleared out half of the monsters, he walked towards the Loki Familia who were gathered together. Among these adventurers, he was most familiar with the Loki Familia, and their relationship was the best.
"Captain Wang Xiaoming, we meet again."
Finn took the initiative to greet him when he saw Wang Xiaoming walking over.
"Long time no see, Captain Finn."
Wang Xiaoming also responded very politely.
"Thanks to Captain Wang Xiaoming's timely appearance to help, otherwise our expedition team would have suffered considerable losses this time."
Finn expressed his gratitude to Wang Xiaoming, just as he had thought before.
"Not at all, we are all adventurers working hard in the dungeon together. Helping each other is the right thing to do. After all, the monsters in the dungeon are our common enemies."
"That's right, that's the way it is."
Finn nodded, acknowledging Wang Xiaoming's view.
"I remember Captain Wang Xiaoming was bringing newcomers from his Familia before. Where are they?"
"I sent them to the first floor and let them slowly experience going down from the first floor themselves. I took them through it once before. This time they need to do it themselves. I'm waiting for them in the floor boss's room on the 17th floor. This way, they can adapt to the dungeon faster."
"Indeed, going through it yourself can gain the best experience."
Finn nodded in affirmation, while also being very surprised inside.
Good heavens, is this how the Hestia Familia selects people? Newcomers at LV1 actually have to kill their way to the floor boss, Goliath, the first time they enter the dungeon. This is too ruthless. How many newcomers in Orario can withstand such training?
So, is this the reason why the Hestia Familia is so powerful? They only accept the best!
Just as they were talking about newcomers, the newcomers from the Hestia Familia arrived.
While Wang Xiaoming and Finn were talking, Sakura and Medea had already come down from above and safely arrived on the 18th floor.
Wang Xiaoming was also a little surprised. He originally thought that Sakura and Medea would be relatively slow, but they arrived a full half of the time earlier than Wang Xiaoming had thought.
After inquiring a little, he learned that Medea was constantly giving Sakura BUFFs in the dungeon, increasing Sakura's strength, speed, and agility. In short, it was endless enhancement, a pile of BUFFs. Even luck was enhanced with a magic item that increased luck.
As a result, along the way, Sakura casually slashed, and it happened to hit a relatively confused monster that had just been born, and after killing the other party, she even obtained a magic stone.
In this way, the two of them came to the 18th floor smoothly.
It must be said that Medea's ability is truly terrifying.
775. Returning to the Sandbox
The chaos on the 18th floor was quickly stabilized under the leadership of the Loki Familia.
However, compared to the previous peaceful environment, even though the 18th floor has now stabilized, there is still a tense atmosphere.
After all, the safe floor is no longer safe. People who used to sleep with their eyes closed on the 18th floor can't even decide whether to open their eyes at night now.
