The Dean Has Arrived

"According to the information from the teacher, it's here!"

Because of fighting all the way, Alice, who looked a little embarrassed, compared the map with the cave in front of her, and confirmed.

The part of the cave protruding from the ground looks like a giant catfish half buried in the soil - mottled moss forms the skin, the exposed stones with the size of a millstone look similar to eyes, and the aerial roots of the trees that break through the ground It is almost the same as catfish whiskers.

And that dark and deep cave is the catfish's mouth, wide and flat, even the most petite of the three, Tio, has to lower his head to get in, let alone the other two girls.

"Do you want to go in?" Sitting on a moss-covered bluestone, Tio swallowed the portable food in his mouth, and asked Alisa who was still eating the portable food to recover her magic power.

Around the three of them, there were a large number of corpses of goblin bears and fallen halflings - it took the three of them a lot of effort and energy to clean up these monsters guarding the entrance of the cave.

Putting the unfinished portable food back into the dry food bag, Alisa carefully observed the surroundings and entrance of the cave several times.

As the default team leader, Alisa knows that she is inferior to Sophia in many aspects, so she will always be cautious about the next thing.

Just like today's crusade, they had stepped around the forest yesterday, but they still went to a village to recuperate for the night, and only proceeded after they were fully prepared.

From the beginning of the crusade until now, except for the fallen halfling who was planning and causing a little trouble, everything else was almost expected.

And in yesterday's deduction, the person in this cave should be the culprit of this mutation.

"Wait a minute, something is wrong."

The careful girl immediately noticed something was wrong.

"The entrance of the cave is too dark! Even those very shallow places where the outside light can shine are pitch black!" She pulled Alice back from the entrance of the cave for a few steps, and Alice grabbed hold of the The doll dangling in front of him was really red, and he held it in his arms, and stepped back to the stone where Tio was sitting: "There is something wrong with that shadow!"

Tio and Alyssa glanced at each other, then nodded in understanding, then drew out his wand, and used the second-ring wind element magic 'Thunder Ball' towards the shadow at the entrance of the cave.

Incandescent lightning exploded on the shadow at the entrance of the cave, turning into several silver snakes dancing in it.

Suddenly, howls containing anger and pain came from the cave!

In the next moment, the 'darkness' inside the cave seemed to have life, and began to spew out of the cave like mud, and gradually formed a huge human figure that was two stories high.

"Demon? Shadow creature?" Alice's face turned pale with fright, and her hands trembling while holding the real red.

"It's the Nightmare Demon, a subspecies of the Shadow Demon!" Although Alisa looked a little better than Alice, the knuckles of both hands holding the wand were also a little white due to excessive force.

The Shadow Demon's subjugation level is 21, and the Nightmare Demon has a level correction of ±5 on the basis of the Shadow Demon.

In other words, the powerful Nightmare Demon will have level 26, and the weakest newborn Nightmare Demon's subjugation level is as high as Level 16!

The reason why there is a gap of 10 levels between the strength of the same creature is that the Nightmare Demon has a very strange spell-like ability.

Although as a subspecies of Shadow Demons, Nightmare Demons are also classified as a combination of demons and shadow creatures in terms of classification, but unlike Shadow Demons, these monsters are said to be born from negative human desires. They don't have the ability to integrate themselves into the shadows, but they can 'contaminate' other creatures through their innate spell-like abilities, allowing them to be used by themselves while turning them into creatures of darkness.

— Edric College? Dean chamber--

"Is that so? It's the Nightmare Mourning Demon." Xi Wei rubbed his chin, feeling quite emotional: "No wonder the camera cuts to the darkness, because the whole cave is filled with this guy except for the treasure chest, of course no matter what It's all pitch black."

After learning the reason why she couldn't monitor the source of the mutation, Sophia felt powerless for a while. She actually faced an enemy all night because of this problem.

But immediately the girl raised her spirits again: "How is the strength of this Nightmare Demon? Alyssa and the others are all right?"

"Relax, this Nightmare Mourner should be a native monster of the Tower of Trials. It was born a short time ago, and its crusade level is only about level 17. As long as you pay attention to a few things, there should be no problem with Alisa and the others."

Xi Wei observed the battle in the crystal ball, and seemed to be full of confidence in his students: "However, if we let them fight like this, they should suffer a small loss, so we should add some reminders..."

——The Tower of the Endless Sky? Forest of Black Goblins (tentative name)——

Alisa was a little relieved. Although this Nightmare Demon was very strong, it still seemed to be at a disadvantage under the combined efforts of the three of them.

It seems that as long as you don't get too impatient, you will be able to grind this monster to death sooner or later.

At this moment, the Nightmare Mourner suddenly stopped moving, and began to shout upwards, sending out bursts of ear-piercing sound waves.

The three of them were afraid that it would do something dangerous, so they all took a step back and stared at each other cautiously.

What surprised Alisa was that although this sound wave was extremely noisy and harsh, making people upset, it was not like a real sonic attack like the "Howl of the Banshee", and it was completely meaningless.

And that howling sound has ups and downs, it feels like... a language?

"It's the language of the abyss, 'Wake up, my warrior', that guy is chanting a spell."

"teacher?!"

Xi Wei's sudden voice startled the three of them.

"The pollution of the Nightmare Demon can pollute a certain degree of ordinary creatures into dark creatures, and carry out secondary pollution after death, turning them into undead!"

Xi Wei's voice didn't intend to chat with them, and immediately pointed out the dangerous situation they might face now - in fact, some corpses had already started to stand up staggeringly...

"Lead the Nightmare Demon to a place where there are no corpses, otherwise you will fight harder and harder."

It may be because Xi Wei's voice made Alisa feel very at ease, and now the girl's face no longer had the tension she had at the beginning.

She raised her head and gave orders to Tio and Alice while attacking the Nightmare Demon: "Tio, you and I will lure the Nightmare Demon away, please clean up the undead here in Alice!"

"Understood." "Understood!"

— Edric College? Dean chamber--

"Hum, you did a good job. You are indeed my student." Seeing Alisa and the others fighting, Xi Wei praised without hesitation.

"In this case, there should be no problem." Seeing that the mutation in the Tower of Trials seemed to be resolved soon, Sophia was also very happy.

"No, the Nightmare Demon isn't that weak... In fact, there are still a few people missing in my script." Xi Wei smiled, and then the picture on the crystal ball changed to four other brats in the jungle .

"Let me see, are these guys brave or simple fools..."