Chapter 334 - 304: Yo Yo Yo

Chapter 334: Chapter 304: Yo Yo Yo

The mother bug below bore the brunt of the Magic Wave’s impact.

"SPLAT!!"

A sickening pop resounded.

The washbasin-sized mother bug’s hard, black carapace crumbled like a brittle cracker under the impact of the Magic Wave.

What happened next was exactly what the strategy guide had warned about.

"HISSSSSS... SIZZLE!!!"

The mother bug’s swollen abdomen abruptly exploded, spattering highly corrosive bodily fluids in every direction!

"SKREE!"

The few male bugs clinging to its back were the first to suffer.

They hadn’t even been hit by the Magic yet, but their soft abdomens were already half-melted by their own mate’s fluids.

The male Corrosive Beetles could only writhe in agony before they too burst, one after another!

"POP POP POP..."

The scene was quite a spectacle.

Wherever the fluid splattered, it burned small, white-smoking pits into the surface—even on hard rock.

Level 30 (216/700) -> Level 30 (248/700).

After finishing off the group of Corrosive Beetles, Zelir’s Experience Points had risen by a small amount.

Besides the Corrosive Beetles, other dangerous traps lay in wait for any intruders.

"Look over there..."

Hill pointed to a set of vines wrapped around a tree trunk.

Everyone followed Hill’s gesture.

It was an ancient banyan tree, so thick it would take three people with outstretched arms to encircle it. At first glance, nothing seemed out of the ordinary, but upon closer inspection...

The surfaces of the vines coiled around the trunk were continuously secreting a transparent slime.

Furthermore, there were far more of these slimy vines tangled together than any of the normal ones.

"It’s a Trap Vine..."

Marcus said softly.

It was a trap mentioned in Wells’s strategy guide.

Zelir followed the Trap Vines coiled around the trunk with his gaze, looking down.

He noticed that many Trap Vines were also hidden among the undergrowth on the ground.

Clearly, one step into that area would mean being instantly swallowed by a sea of Trap Vines.

It wasn’t a lethal trap for them, but it would still be a huge hassle.

"Let’s go... We’ll go around."

Marcus used his Battle Saber to hack through the undergrowth, clearing a new path.

They hadn’t followed this path for long before Hill let out a soft "shhh."

The party members immediately dropped into a crouch.

"What is it?" Zelir asked in a low voice.

"There’s something moving up ahead..." Hill whispered, pressing a finger to his lips.

’Could it be a Demon...?’

The group exchanged glances and began to move forward cautiously.

Soon, it wasn’t just Hill; the others also detected the strange noise.

"Ngh... Mmmph...!"

"Squish... Sizzle..."

Suppressed grunts, and the squelching sound of sticky liquid.

It was a very strange combination of sounds...

Zelir gave a hand signal, and Marcus silently parted the waist-high blades of grass.

When he saw the scene before him, Zelir’s eyes widened in disbelief...

’It’s him?’

...

Suspended five or six meters in the air, an Elf was bound by dozens of vines.

"Ngh... Damn it...!"

Aidi was still struggling, veins popping on his forehead as he tensed his core, trying to break free from the vines’ embrace.

But the more he strained, the tighter the vines wrapped around him became.

’Damn it!’

Aidi cursed inwardly.

’What the hell are these things?!’

’Why did they immediately bind me just from a single careless touch?’

’These Lost Ruins are the absolute worst!’

A short while ago, Aidi had simply been annoyed by a muddy patch of ground, so he decided to leap over it.

Who would have thought that his leap would land him right on a Trap Vine lying dormant on the ground.

A web of vines instantly sprang up, cocooning him tightly and hoisting him into the air.

"Let... go of me! You lowly plants!"

"Everything in the human world is so vulgar, even the vines!"

Aidi twisted his body with all his might, but to no avail.

His Tiffany-blue hair hung down, swaying back and forth with his struggles.

And then, something even worse happened.

On the surface of the dark green vines, nodule-like growths pulsed, opening and closing as they secreted copious amounts of slime.

Aidi realized with horror that the slime was slowly trickling down the vines toward him.

Most of his body was already covered in the ooze.

His Leather Armor was holding up, not corroding too quickly, but the other parts of his body not covered by Armor...

"SIZZLE... SIZZLE..."

The sizzling sound of corrosion grew louder, and thinner parts of his clothing were already being eaten away.

’In a little while, the slime will dissolve my clothes completely and touch my noble skin.’

’When that happens...’

’Will I be left here, tied up and corroded to death?’

"No... Don’t!"

Aidi craned his neck back desperately, twisting his head away, terrified the slime would touch his face.

Waves of fear washed over him.

As an Elf, he had an almost physical revulsion to ugliness and filth.

To die by being slowly dissolved into a puddle of disgusting goo was a fate more terrifying than Hell itself.

"Let me go...!" Aidi growled through clenched teeth.

He didn’t dare yell any louder, fearing he might attract the Demons lurking in the shadows.

Right now, he could barely even move a finger.

’If a group of goblins showed up... my fate might be even more miserable.’

’And if I attract any Adventurers...’

Aidi’s own stereotypes about humans flashed through his mind.

’Those barbaric creatures... if they saw me like this...’

’Who knows what those unscrupulous humans would do if they found a lone, immobilized Pure-blood Elf.’

He had heard countless rumors of Elves being sold into slavery.

For Aidi, such a fate was worse than death.