Nine days' journey.
After Grimm snatched the Bright Sorcerer Phalanx Legion from Third Ghostpepper to hand over the mission, Grimm's team of Demon-Hunters no longer had any objections towards Grimm. They fully cooperated with Grimm's instructions.
Rustle, rustle, rustle, rustle, rustle …
Nine days had passed in the Snowthread Burrow. Grimm's team flew above the sea of Snowthread Worms and arrived at a dark area without any floating magical lamps.
Amidst the elemental light, Grimm and his team discovered a hill of skeletons in the distance.
On the back of Thousand-eyed Carcinus, Grimm looked at the crystal ball under the Mask of Truth. Myna also came over and pretended to understand the crystal ball with one eye.
After a while, Grimm, who was calculating in his heart, nodded and said with certainty, "It's here."
The hill of skeletons was filled with small black and gray flowers with six petals. They exuded a fragrant scent of death that was kept away by the sea of Snowthread Worms. Above the hill of skeletons, there was a huge tunnel that was more than two hundred meters wide. It was more than twice the size of the tunnel entrance that Grimm and his team used to reach the Snowthread Burrow!
The size of the tunnel entrance meant that the number of Snowthread Worms that entered the Snowthread Burrow from the burrow space above was very high. From this, it could be inferred that the number of powerful creatures was relatively small.
"Sir Grimm, should we go up now?"
The Carcinus asked, waiting for Grimm's order.
"Yes, let's go up."
Following Grimm's order, Thousand-eyed Carcinus responded with an "Okay" and quickly rose into the air. It crawled horizontally towards the Burrow World tunnel that Grimm's team was assigned to.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh …
After flying in this spacious passage for less than three hourglasses, a flood of Snowthread Worms that numbered in the hundreds of thousands rushed down. The Thousand-eyed Carcinus hurriedly moved to the side, making way for the flood of Snowthread Worms.
After half an hourglass, the torrent of Snowthread Worms finally stopped. The Thousand-eyed Carcinus carried Grimm and the rest and continued to fly upward.
Gradually, the space within the passageway seemed to have widened. It was about three hundred meters wide, and some of the places that were heavily corroded by the Snowthreads had even reached five hundred meters wide.
It was as wide as the first unnamed burrow that Grimm and the others had entered after entering the Burrow World from the Surficial Tundra.
After flying in the burrow passage for more than ten hourglasses, Grimm and the others arrived at the first burrow.
The burrow was about three to four thousand meters in length and width. It was not very big, but there were some traces of intense battles between Bright Sorcerers. There was a predator that looked like a giant dragonfly living here, and its average life strength had reached Level 1.
This group of creatures had probably been wiped out by the Bright Sorcerer Legion, and Grimm and the others only found a few young ones as specimens.
The plants on the ground seemed to be extremely afraid of light. Even the elemental light that Grimm and the others summoned made the plants under the protection of the ice crystal layer hiss.
After staying in this relatively narrow burrow for a few hourglasses and collecting some biological specimens, Grimm and the others found a total of two passageways.
One was more than two hundred meters in diameter, and the other was more than a hundred meters.
Without hesitation, Grimm and the others naturally followed the route that the Bright Sorcerers had previously cleared, and chose the wider tunnel of the Burrow World.
One and a half months later.
Just like that, Grimm and the others spent close to two months before arriving at the Burrow World passage that the Ceng Jingming Sorcerer Legion had cleared, the Ice Slurry Burrow.
During this time, the group passed by nine burrows of various sizes. All of them had obvious signs of being cleared, and they did not encounter any danger.
The Ice Slurry Burrow was relatively wider, and one could not see the end of it at a glance. It was about a few hundred kilometers wide.
This was a group of relatively gentle creatures, a branch of the Mud Monsters. However, due to the cold climate of the Burrow World, they had evolved a layer of ice armor.
Of course, the so-called gentleness of these Mud Monsters was only when other creatures did not offend them.
It was precisely because of this that the previous Bright Sorcerer legion did not clear these Ice Mud Monsters, which saved them a lot of time and energy.
Although the Mud Monsters generally relied on absorbing natural energy to sustain their lives, they would occasionally hunt.
Their hunting method was to wrap the entire creature, and after slowly assimilating the flesh and cells into one, they would then expel the fragments that could not be assimilated.
Grimm took out the crystal ball and looked at it carefully, then pointed in a direction and said, "This way."
The entire Ice Slurry Burrow was filled with a long, kelp-like creature. As the Mud Monsters did not eat this plant, they multiplied in large numbers, and the entire Ice Slurry Burrow was filled with vitality.
These kelp-like creatures floated up to a few hundred meters long, and they actually grew from the ground of the burrow to the top of the stone wall. Most of them were only about ten meters long, and they constantly floated left and right.
A few hourglasses later.
A group of people collected specimens while flying to the last entrance of the Burrow World that the Bright Sorcerer had pointed out.
The cold wind blew from the entrance, messing up the brownish-red long hair on the back of the Thousand-eyed Carcinus, as well as the loose sorcerer robes and silky hair of the people.
Just as the group was about to get used to it and continue flying upwards, there was a faint roar of the Ice Mud Monsters coming from afar, and it gradually became continuous. It seemed that something big had happened, and all the Ice Mud Monsters under the silk plants on the ground were resisting.
"Hmm?"
Not only Grimm, but the other Demon-Hunter Sorcerers also turned their heads to look into the distance, but it was pitch black, and they found nothing.
What's going on?
Grimm wondered in his heart.
On one hand, it was the cold rationality of a Dark Sorcerer that told Grimm not to go and cause unnecessary trouble. After all, no matter what happened there, it had nothing to do with this mission.
On the other hand, it was the sorcerer's desire for knowledge. The desire for knowledge was the most basic motivation for sorcerers to move forward. Only then, sorcerers would persevere in the boring experiments and research year after year, and continue to explore the unknown and wonderful new knowledge in the darkness.
Gradually, the sorcerer's instinctive desire for knowledge overcame the cold rationality of a Dark Sorcerer like Grimm. Grimm looked at the group and said, "Let's go and investigate."
"Hmm?!"
Many of the Dark Demon-Hunter Sorcerers present voiced their doubts, but no one was willing to be a busybody.
Grimm was stunned. Was he the only one who wanted to go and investigate?
Under normal circumstances, it should be the team leader who issued the order, and the other team members would obey unconditionally. However, at this time, after Grimm made a decision, he said calmly, "Then … since none of you are willing to go and investigate, just wait here."
After that, Grimm did not say anything more, and quickly flew into the distance.
"Huh? Young Master, we're really going … "
Looking at Grimm's departing figure, due to the cold rationality of a Dark Sorcerer, the group could not understand why Grimm would create unnecessary trouble.
This was completely a stupid plot from some horror biographies!
Obviously, when something unknown happened in the darkness, normal people would choose to avoid it. However, some stupid protagonists would foolishly go and investigate, and then cause a series of horror stories that would not have happened.
After reading such horror novels, many people secretly scolded the protagonists for their stupidity …
Everyone stood there with a cold expression, as if they would retreat at any time if something went wrong. Only Nairo, who was originally equally cold, looked at Grimm's gradually disappearing figure with a sudden surge of emotion.
"Why is he the only one who chose to go and 'foolishly' investigate? Could it be that this is the reason why he is different, and even surpasses himself? "
In her heart, Nairo had completely acknowledged Grimm's strength.
"Wait a minute!"
Nairo suddenly shouted, and actually took the initiative to fly over, following Grimm into the vast darkness. The rest of the Dark Demon-Hunters looked at each other, and no one moved anymore.
Time passed slowly, and after about an hourglass.
Buzz buzz …
The roar of the Ice Sludge Monster was getting closer, and at the same time, it was accompanied by a dense buzzing sound. From afar, Grimm and Nairo flew at full speed, their faces pale as they panted.
"Run! It's a group of creatures from a powerful burrow space next door that has invaded! "
Just as Grimm finished speaking, the group of Dark Demon-Hunters did not stop at all, and flew at full speed towards the wide tunnel above their heads.
In Grimm's hand, there was a life-like Ice Wasp that was more than ten centimeters long sealed in ice, and it was still moving its eyes in the ice.
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