Arcane Journey

Chapter 184 Pudding King

In this battle there are no banners, no trumpets blown, no drums rumble.

As hordes of ferocious rats came crashing down, squeaking and stepping into Pudding King's territory, the battle began instantly.

In an instant, countless scalp-numbing black puddings, gelatinous cubes, plaster monsters, and ocher monsters squirmed on the ground, walls, and ceiling as if receiving orders at the same time, turning into disgusting torrents , leaving countless sticky and wet traces, slipping through various corners, doors or narrow gaps, chasing and devouring prey.

According to the records of "Igvil Volt Demon Chronicles" and other sources, the slime monsters are scattered fragments or descendants of the demon lord Jubilex.

Whether or not this is true, Lords of the Faceless are one of the few beings in the world who can control oozes and imbue them with a modicum of wisdom.

Most of the time, oozes have no concept of tactics and self-preservation.

They are direct and predictable creatures, attacking and eating without skill.

But under the control of the demon lord Jubilex, the ooze will show weak intelligence and evil tendencies.

Facing the invading ferocious rat swarm, the mud monsters counterattacked extremely ferociously.

In just a moment, this labyrinth-like complex street turned into a chaotic scene of each fighting.

A black pudding the size of a parasol clings to the wall. It looks like a mass of thick, sticky black mud. On the dark wall, it looks no different from a shadow.

It jumped down with the help of the wall's rebound, and a large piece of sticky black mud instantly covered five huge dire rats, and quickly secreted extremely corrosive acid.

Accompanied by bursts of creepy chewing and devouring sounds, the five ferocious rats wriggling and struggling in the black pudding suddenly twitched continuously under the corrosion of the strong acid, and finally lost their resistance.

However, before Black Pudding, who had won the pentakill, digested his enemies, he tried to target the next group of enemies, but was overwhelmed by another group of ferocious rats.

These vicious rats used their sharp front teeth to tear apart the sticky mud of black pudding.

Even so, the mud scattered all over the ground was still slowly squirming, and all of them converged and merged towards the largest piece of the torn mud.

Just then, another plaster appeared, which looked like a mass of liquefied stone that slid into the swarm of dire rats like a snake.

More than a dozen ferocious rats with scarlet gleams in their pupils rushed forward with grinning teeth.

——"Psychic crush!"

An invisible spiritual energy field suddenly spread from the plaster monster's body.

All enemies within 3 meters around it, even including a few gelatinous cubes and squirming ooze monster fragments, were all crushed to death by this almost invisible force.

The translucent jelly cube was like jelly dropped on the ground, and it was shattered. Two mice swallowed by it struggled to escape from the viscous jelly, and the unfused black pudding fragments completely turned into a pile of stench of mud.

As for the dozen or so ferocious rats that attacked the plaster monster, all of them were bleeding from their mouths and noses, lay on the ground and twitched a few times, and then died.

At the same time, three ocher jelly monsters slid out of the narrow crack in the wall like liquid, and chased after another group of ferocious rats running wildly.

The jelly monsters looked like a group of indescribable yellow objects. When they caught up with the dire rat, they immediately spewed out groups of dark green strong acid.

The vicious rats hit by the strong acid were dissolved into a puddle of blood at a speed visible to the naked eye amidst screaming in terror.

In this battle, although the number of dire rats raised by the Ratman was very large, there were thousands of them, and they all came out of various hidden burrows to fight with the army of ooze monsters.

However, the Pudding King who lives in the center of the city has already summoned and controlled all the mud monsters in the entire area with the ability bestowed by Jupicles, the faceless lord.

This also means that the coalition composed of ratmen and subterranean gnomes does not have the slightest numerical advantage at all.

Moreover, the challenge level of the dire rat is only around level 1.

They are all ferocious animals mutated by ordinary rats by absorbing some kind of terrifying violent energy. Apart from their instinctive wildness, they have no other effective means of attack at all.

And the average challenge level of these slime monsters is at least level 3. In addition to their natural acid spit, a small number of mutated slime monsters also have psionic spells.

This battle of disparity in strength can be imagined. In just ten minutes, the army of dire rats was defeated by the counterattacking ooze monsters. Most of the mice were swallowed into their bodies and became the rations of the ooze monsters.

"It's time to go!" The leader of the subterranean dwarves, Duobao Quhoe, listened carefully to the ferocious rat calls that gradually weakened in the darkness, and said in a deep voice:

"Pudding King's ooze monsters have almost all been attracted by the dire rats. We are ready to attack while they are digesting the dire rats."

"You are not talking nonsense, give it to me! Kill this group of disgusting bastards." Ratman leader Tongban held up a short wand and gave orders to his subordinates.

Following an order, hundreds of ratman cavalry rode dire rats, wielding oiled scimitars or long swords, and rushed towards the army of ooze monsters.

The burrow keepers of the deep gnomes followed.

Straws of disgusting slime splatter like crazy.

Every black pudding, jelly monster, or plaster monster that was slashed by a sharp blade, their sticky body surface was smeared with ointment, all of them were like raw meat thrown into a frying pan, making a sizzling sound .

At the same time, with the charge of the Ratman cavalry, around the ooze monster that was digesting the dire rat, khaki magic circles of light emerged.

In an instant, a large group of burly and tall earth elementals and Graishites appeared from the magic circle.

Under the command of a group of spellcasters in Shixin Xianting, the group of earth elementals and Grai stonemen rushed towards the direction where the mud monsters were most densely packed.

When these creatures from the elemental plane of earth face the ooze monsters, they don't need any fancy skills at all. They only need to run wildly on the path of the ooze monsters, and they can trample them to pieces one by one.

In front of the earth elemental creatures, the ooze monsters are no different from rotten fruits thrown on the ground one by one, and there are continuous bursts of crackling and cracking sounds.

At the same time, the strong acid that the ooze monsters are proud of cannot cause effective damage.

Seeing the forcibly reversed situation, the subterranean dwarf spellcasters also found their positions one after another, chanting spells quickly, and the attack spells and divine spells visible to the naked eye shone in all kinds of brilliance in the army of slime monsters.

On the other side, led by the goblin copper block, Brian and Helliste came to the center of Blingdenstone City, which is the court of Pudding King, by a secret tunnel.

"Okay, I'll take you here." Copper Nugget said to Brian, "Going further inside is the palace of King Pudding, and I can't help you if I go there."

"No problem." Brian nodded slightly, "Go back and be careful."

Goblin Bronze waved smartly, jumped into the shadow of the tunnel, and disappeared.

Brian withdrew his gaze, exchanged glances with Hellist beside him, and continued to walk deep.

The palace of the Pudding King was once the political center of Blingdenstone City. The huge stone dome in the center of the cave was the seat of the political organization. The royal councilors appointed by the old king and queen worked in the hollowed out dome.

All this changed completely with the arrival of Pudding King.

The moment the two stepped into this huge palace, they immediately found that the walls of the cave were covered with disgusting ooze, and small lumps of green ooze were still dripping down.

The ooze wriggled on the wet ground and climbed up the wall.

The sound of dripping water echoed in the cave, lingering around a huge domed building in the center propped up from the ground by several stone pillars.

Dozens of mud monsters wriggled around the pillar group, constantly stretching their pseudopods and sliding forward.

The surface of the dome is covered with ooze like the cave wall. Countless black ooze is churning in the yellow and gray ooze. The disgusting scene is like thick soup, which stimulates the eyes of the two and tears their consciousness.

From the corner of Brian's eyes, he noticed that even a woman as calm as Helliste couldn't help frowning her slender eyebrows.

Seeing this, he suddenly felt that compared with the palace of Pudding King, the palace of the fungus queen Zugmoy was simply a beautiful back garden.

After all, no matter how disgusting the fungus is, at least the surfaces of these sickly shimmering plants can still be seen.

But the slime monster is different, it's hard to imagine.

At this moment, Brian really admired the team of players who had taken on this mission. He couldn't even imagine how they endured it.

However, now is not the time for him to be emotional.

Because when the two of them stepped into the gate of the palace, they were discovered by the owner of the palace, Pudding King, without any accident.

"Look what this is, look what this is? Visitors? Now? No! We're not ready yet! Come on, worm!" A hollow voice sounded in the cavern.

"The Lord of the Faceless Ones will pick a suitable time to bring us good news. At that time, I will announce it to everyone and even the entire Blingden Stone City! Now, get lost!"

The so-called Lord of the Faceless naturally refers to Jubilex, who is the demon lord of ooze and ooze monsters, and is described as the Lord of the Faceless and the slime-shaped hungry beast in the ancient grimoires.

As a solitary poisonous creature, it exists only to continuously absorb and assimilate other living matter, making all things a part of itself.

Only a true lunatic would worship Jubilex and its oozes and oozes.

For the demon lord will devour these devotees and turn them into intelligent beings that are half man, half ooze.

The bodies of these 'former' flesh creatures would become extensions of Jubilex's body, and the demon lord would slowly digest whatever had replaced the creature.

The Faceless Lord Jubilex gave King Pudding the ability to summon and control oozes, and then sent him back to Blingdenstone, where he claimed it as the Faceless Lord's domain.

King Pudding slipped back to a closed area of ​​Blingdenstone City to build a royal court, and summoned various types of mud monsters along the way, exaggerating the ruins of the city to the outside world as an uninhabitable and dangerous area.

Thoroughly insane and channeling fearsome powers, the Pudding King takes refuge in his throne room, summoning more loyal ones day after day.

Once ready, he will send this vast army to engulf everything, and Blingdenstone and its inhabitants will be transformed into a mass of slimy slime in the image of its master, the Lord of the Faceless.

Obviously, when the time is right, whether it is the pudding king or the army of ooze monsters, they will be the nutrient for Jupicles, the lord of the faceless men, to improve his strength.

This is actually a bit similar to the fungus Queen Zugmoi holding a "rotten wedding" to marry the Sunless Woodland.

Brian followed the sound and saw from a distance that at the end of the palace, the Pudding King sitting on the throne was an underground dwarf covered in ooze and with a crazy expression on his face.

Around him, pools of green ooze dripped from the ground on high platforms illuminated by phosphorescent moss.

More green ooze hangs from ceilings and flats on the ground, or forms disgusting curtains on walls.

He sits on a throne covered with ooze, facing east in the center of the cave.

The throne was carved of stone and covered with a green ooze carved with lidless eyes and open mouths.

"Since you don't want to go away, don't blame me for being rude." The Pudding King giggled like an old hen, "Eat them, my darlings! Make father proud of you! For your king Fight, fight for the glory of the Lord of the Faceless!"

As soon as the words fell, a large cloud of mud gushed out from the throne behind Pudding King, wrapped him tightly, shrunk at a speed visible to the naked eye, and disappeared from the sight of the two.

At the same time, the ooze hanging from the ceiling and forming a curtain on the wall fell to the ground like rain, and flowed towards the location of the two in a dark form.

Seeing that Pudding King ran away, Brian couldn't believe his eyes.

Obviously, he never expected that this cunning pudding king would drop a harsh word, turn around and run away.

"Can you track down his location?" Brian immediately said to Hellist through telepathic voice transmission, "We must not let him run away, otherwise, he will soon pass through the power that the Lord of the Faceless gave him. Ability to summon a new army of slime monsters."

"No problem, I can track his location." Helisite replied without thinking, but looked at him with some hesitation, "It's just you..."

"You don't need to take care of it here, I can handle it alone." Brian guessed her intentions and said indifferently.

While speaking, he had already pulled out his staff, and looked at a large lump of black ooze that was about to approach the range of his spell attack, "The Pudding King will leave it to you."

Although Helisite was specialized in the six spiritual fields, he inadvertently learned that her main body was actually specialized in the field of teleportation.

It was easy for her to track down a servant of a demon lord.

"Then be careful, I'll be right back." The moment Heliste's gaze locked on the throne, it turned into a flash of spiritual light and disappeared.

(End of this chapter)