"I'm Benson. I'm a … zombie."
Following Dorcas' lead, the group walked for about half a minute and finally saw a man leaning against a wall, panting heavily.
He was wearing a white mask, and his exposed skin was wrapped in white gauze.
This man …
It was the Apprentice Adept who had merged with the bloodline of the Fire Salamander that Dorcas had mentioned.
He called himself Benson, a member of the Bilos Family.
"Zombie?" Khael looked at Benson in confusion. Was that a nickname? What a strange nickname … Stiff Corpse? Frozen Corpse?
Benson nodded. "Yes, Zombie."
As he spoke, Benson took off the white mask on his face, revealing his true appearance.
His appearance was very ordinary. At first glance, he looked no different from an ordinary person. However, upon closer inspection, one would discover that he was extremely powerful.
But after careful observation, his skin had a dark, stone-like quality. It did not have the oily luster of normal skin. It looked like the skin of a dead person that had hardened.
Khael did not know what happened to Benson's skin, but he guessed that it might be the skin of some kind of monster. Or maybe it was Benson's unique talent after absorbing the bloodline of the Earth Salamander.
Just as Kael's thoughts were running wild, Dorcas suddenly spoke up, "This should be a type of illness, right?"
Benson looked at Dorcas in surprise. He did not expect the man to see through him so quickly. However, after thinking about it, he felt that this was normal. He had seen Dorcas' appearance in the family's collection and knew that Dorcas was a bloodline Magus who was active in the Laksum Duchy.
More importantly, Dorcas was a wandering wizard.
Wandering wizards did not have any organization or family backing them up, but they were usually the ones who interacted with the most people at the bottom of society. They knew the real situation of the people at the bottom of society.
On the other hand, organized wizards were more sensitive.
Benson did not deny it. He nodded. "Yes, I have scleroderma."
Scleroderma was a rare disease. It was rare even among the people at the bottom of society. Its pathogenesis was still unknown. The most obvious symptom was the loss of flexibility and elasticity of the skin, which then hardened and became thicker.
From a superhuman's perspective, the hardening of the skin caused by scleroderma was more like a benign symptom. It could increase a person's resistance to physical attacks. However, for ordinary people, scleroderma was an incurable disease. As the skin slowly hardened, the blood vessels would also become narrower. Because of the pressure, the organs would also be damaged. As time passed,
In the end, it would lead to organ failure.
He died from the disease.
Benson was unfortunate. When he contracted scleroderma, he was only an ordinary person. Through various methods, he had endured for five years, but that was it. His life was thwarted everywhere, and he could not see any hope at all.
Benson was lucky again. Just as he was about to face the pain of death, he met a wizard. The sorcerer who called himself Elder Yue told Benson that he had the blood of a descendant of his family. In a sense, Benson could be considered as a wandering child of the Bilos family.
Generally, these scattered disciples were the descendants of mortals, and the chances of them becoming talents were not high. Therefore, the Bilos family didn't bother to look for these descendants.
It was a kind of luck that Benson could meet Elder Yue. And his Spiritual Strength value had reached 11 points, and he had the foundation to become a talent. It was also a manifestation of luck.
After being brought back to the Bilos family, Benson began to practice tirelessly.
After becoming a sorcerer-apprentice, the strength of his internal organs had been increased, allowing him to finally get rid of the adverse effects of scleroderma.
Moreover, the tough skin was preserved, which also became his foundation, allowing him to have stronger defensive abilities and resistance.
Under Elder Yue's guidance, Benson integrated the blood of the Fire Salamander, further strengthening the strength of his skin. It could be said that from the perspective of resistance to physical attacks, Benson could already be compared to a bloodline apprentice of the same level.
However, the price … was that his skin was harder than an ordinary person's skin, causing his whole body to be frozen. Other than when he was talking and moving his eyes, he was completely like a puppet or a dead person at other times.
For this, Benson wore a mask and wrapped himself in white gauze to avoid strange looks from others. In this way, although he didn't look like a zombie, he looked like another species similar to zombies … a mummy.
"Scleroderma? That's rare. " Dorcas muttered softly, then carefully sized up Benson. "Hmm, you integrated the blood of the Fire Salamander to complement your tough skin, right? That's a genius idea. "
Benson's scleroderma wasn't completely cured. Although using his tough skin to take beatings strengthened his resistance, it also caused his skin to harden.
Although he couldn't see any side effects at the moment, in the long run, if the hardness of his skin exceeded the capacity of Benson's internal organs, then the side effects of scleroderma would be overwhelming.
Benson's choice to integrate the blood of the Fire Salamander could strengthen his tough skin, and also solve the side effects of scleroderma.
The Fire Salamander strengthened its tough skin, and at the same time, the Fire Salamander also developed the tolerance of its internal organs, which was comparable to the blood of some high-grade magical creatures.
Strengthening the blood of the Fire Salamander was equivalent to strengthening his tough skin and internal organs. It could be said that this was the best solution for Benson's scleroderma.
If it were Dorcas, he would probably choose to let Benson integrate the blood of the Fire Salamander.
Benson blushed and said, "This is actually a suggestion given to me by Elder Yue."
Dorcas, who had his attention on Benson, was stunned when he heard the name "Elder Yue". "Elder Yue? Elder Yue of the three Elders Tree, Sun, and Moon of the Bilos family? "
Benson nodded. "Yes, my ancestor was once Elder Yue's younger brother, so Elder Yue took good care of me. I was able to come to Paradise Earth to cultivate because of Elder Yue. "
Benson's words revealed a lot of information, and it was done deliberately.
Although he knew Dorcas, and knew that Dorcas didn't have any ties with the Bilos family in the past. But who could be sure that there was no enmity between them?
For the sake of his life, the only thing Benson could do now was to reveal his relationship with Elder Yue, and indirectly point out that Elder Yue was nearby, so as to boost his courage.
Dorcas could also tell the meaning behind Benson's words, but he didn't care. He even secretly memorized this method of "diverting the conflict and using someone else's power to intimidate others" so that he could use it in the future.
If he ran into someone he couldn't defeat, he could say that he was good friends with Angor and Sunders, and that the three ancestor souls of Brute Cavern were all his supporters … This was a good idea, and it should work in the southern wizardry region.
He had to follow Angor for the time being anyway, so he couldn't say anything against Angor, right?
Tossing aside his thoughts, Dorcas turned his gaze back to Benson. "You mean, Elder Yue is in Paradise? Then the person who said he wanted to play a game still dared to make a move here? "
"Sir, are you talking about … the masked man?"
"Masked man? Who's that? "
Benson was puzzled. "You don't know about the masked man? Then why are you in the Mud Doll Maze? "
"I came in from outside." Dorcas didn't try to hide anything and said directly.
Benson's eyes lit up. "Outside? Could it be that the spatial seal outside Paradise Earth was broken? "
Dorcas shook his head. "It wasn't broken. I used another method to get in."
Dorcas didn't explain why he came here. He changed the topic. "Do you mind telling me what happened tonight? The masked man, the Mud Doll Maze, what are those? "
Knowing that Paradise Earth's space seal was not broken, Benson's eyes flashed with disappointment. However, he still nodded without hesitation at Dorcas' question.
It wasn't a secret. There were many people in Paradise Earth, and Dorcas could ask someone else even without Benson's help. Benson didn't plan to hide anything and told Dorcas everything in detail.
Half an hour ago, Benson and Elder Yue were meditating on the top of the mountain under the moonlight.
But right at this time, a masked man wearing a cloak suddenly laughed strangely, flashing past Paradise Earth's sky.
Every area in Paradise was protected, especially the areas with people. Once outsiders saw it, they wouldn't choose to step in.
But this masked man not only came in, but also laughed loudly to show his presence. It was very strange.
Elder Yue noticed something wrong and chased after the masked man.
Benson didn't know what happened after that because he stayed on the top of the mountain and didn't chase after the masked man.
But not long after Elder Yue chased after the masked man, he heard a strange laughter that spread throughout the entire Paradise Earth.
"Let's play a game ~ If you win, I'll let you go ~"
Benson was sure that the strange laughter came from the masked man.
Before he could figure out why the masked man was making such a ruckus, the entire Paradise Earth was enveloped by a huge space seal.
Immediately after, spatial membranes separated the Paradise into many different territories.
When Benson and the other Extraordinaires realized something was wrong, they couldn't leave this place.
They could only search nearby to see if they could find any gaps.
Then, someone found a huge rock with a human face on the top of the mountain.
This rock also had a human face before, but it didn't have one. Now, the human face tattoo's appearance was very strange.
The human face on the rock told them that this was a game with escape as the name and survival as the reality. As long as they could clear two games, they could leave Paradise Earth.
Then, the human face tattoo's eyes flashed with the names of various games, asking everyone to enter the game.
At that time, Benson didn't intend to enter the so-called game.
After all, Benson knew himself well. He knew that his strength wasn't enough to get involved in such a strange matter.
There were many people who had the same idea as Benson, but in the end … they were still forced to participate in the game.
Because someone agreed to participate in the game, the human face tattoo told him that a lack of people would lead to a rapid increase in the death rate of those who participated in the game. The more people there were, the higher the survival rate.
And the person who participated in the game was an official Sorcerer.
He directly ordered that everyone on the top of the mountain had to participate in the game.
Just like that, Benson entered the game half-heartedly.
However, everyone who participated in the game on the top of the mountain seemed to have been thrown into different games. Benson came to this game called "Mud Doll Maze", and the number of people who participated in the game with him was … zero.
Perhaps there were other game participants in the Mud Doll Maze, but at least there was no one else at the starting point where Benson was at.
The starting point of the maze where Benson was at also had a human face tattoo, but it grew on the wall.
This human face tattoo seemed to exist to explain the rules of the game. It told Benson that the Mud Doll Maze was a maze that had been modified into the mountain. The way to clear it was to find the exit of the maze.
In the process of finding the exit, Benson had to pay attention to two things. First, there would be special Mud Doll monsters in the Mud Doll Maze. These Mud Doll monsters would attack the players, but the strength of the Mud Doll would not exceed that of a Third Level Apprentice.
It sounded like the Mud Doll monsters weren't strong, but in fact … they weren't strong. However, there were many of them. As long as he walked near the swamp, groups of Mud Doll monsters would appear.
For this reason, every time Benson saw a swamp in the tunnel, he would subconsciously distance himself.
However, as he constantly circled around the swamp, Benson realized that … he seemed to be going in circles, unable to find a way out.
Therefore, it was very likely that the real exit had to be following the swamp.
Second, there were many poisonous mushroom monsters walking in the Mud Doll Maze. These mushrooms would spew out poisonous fog spores, causing a large area of the maze to be covered in poisonous fog. He had to pay attention to it.
Benson didn't pay much attention to this point. His Hard Skin coupled with his Fire Salamander bloodline prevented large particles of poisonous fog from entering his body.
In general, the human face tattoo only told Benson about the dangers of the Mud Doll Maze.
But in fact, there were many other dangers in the maze apart from the dangers brought by the monsters.
For example, the destruction of the walls.
Benson had attempted to destroy the walls, hoping that he could find the exit faster. However, after several experiments, Benson discovered that a portion of the walls had spatial traps hidden within them. Once they were destroyed, there would be a backlash.
Benson was almost split into two by a spatial rift. From then on, he didn't dare to casually destroy the walls.
Apart from that, there were many triggered traps.
The reason why Benson was hiding and gasping for breath was because he had triggered a series of traps. The result was the collapse of the entire tunnel. At the same time, he would encounter a spatial trap triggered by the destruction of the walls.
In order to escape, he had withstood the ground and the energy bombardment, stimulating the potential in his body. It wasn't easy for him to escape.
Benson had found a quiet place to recover his mana and heal his wounds. This was the place.
However, he didn't expect that Dorcas would find his location because of the Fire Salamander bloodline aura in his body.
(End of Chapter)
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
