As for the missing three and six, Mu You guessed his chances of grabbing them were slim. The Son of Heaven and his companions had been fooled once before. They definitely wouldn’t give him the opportunity to defeat and claim the prizes again. Most likely, these two shards have been moved ahead of time.
In other words, for areas three and six, they would have to figure out another way.
"We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it..."
Mu You shook his head, picked up the first map and started studying it, planning to memorize its content first.
However, at that moment, he suddenly felt a whooshing sound from behind, and instinctively dodged to the side.
Lin Xue’s warning came a moment too late. At the same time as she spoke, she had already rushed up with her sickle, and with a swift motion, she effortlessly sliced a soft-bodied creature in half mid-air.
Mu You looked at the severed creature on the ground, stunned. It was a small octopus, about the size of a palm.
"Why is there an octopus here?" Mu You frowned. There was no life in this broken city, not even insects or plants, it was a complete ghost town. All of a sudden, a small octopus appeared. It was too strange...
Just as he was pondering, he saw the octopus that had been sliced in half on the ground squirming. Its severed body was like a Slime, surprisingly recombining together to form a complete octopus. It screeched once, pounced at him, and spat out a mouthful of acidic liquid in mid-air.
This little octopus was around level four or five, with weak attacking power. Mu You casually evaded the poison fluid, and with a few swipes of his Electric Arc Sword, chopped it into eight pieces.
However, what was astonishing was that even under such damage, the pieces of flesh on the ground were still squirming, trying to gather together again.
Mu You simply raised the Magic Wand, tip pointed downward, flames gushed out and scorched the pieces of octopus on the ground.
Contrary to what he had imagined, the pieces of flesh did not turn into charred octopus. They seemed to have a high tolerance to flames, still writhing and gathering together within the fire.
"An invincible octopus?" Mu You was somewhat interested, the survival ability of this thing was outrageously excessive.
Just as he was preparing to continue studying it, Little Ya suddenly exclaimed from behind: "Boss, look quickly!"
Mu You and Lin Xue looked in the direction she was pointing, and the sight before their eyes gave them both a chill.
On the street not far away, countless identical looking small octopuses were emerging from various buildings, stealthily climbing towards them.
Walls, streets, stone sculptures, doors, all they could see were octopuses. This overwhelming scene was certainly a nightmare for people with dense phobia!
Mu You was startled, what the hell was this?
The next moment, the octopuses seemed to go into a collective frenzy, quickly piling up in layers in front of them, finally combining into a super-sized octopus tentacle.
An eye and a mouth opened on the surface of the octopus tentacle. When it saw Mu You below, it seemed to have encountered an enemy. It roared in anger, and the tentacle lashed towards the three of them.
All three hurriedly jumped to avoid, and the tentacle sweep hit nothing, causing the ground to shake three times, and created a huge trench on the spot.
Without time to catch their breath, the octopus tentacle again turned into countless small octopuses, rushing out of the trench and continued to pursue the three.
The three had no choice but to keep running. As for turning back to fight? They didn’t dare to think about it. With this large quantity and the shown survival ability, these octopuses were not something they could deal with by normal means. If they were engulfed by the group of octopuses, they would surely die. Their only option was to run now.
"You two get in, I’ll run!"
Mu You took out an empty backpack, opened the entrance, and asked Lin Xue and Little Ya to get in.
This place could be called a realm of its own, and the backpack where Chocobo had been placed earlier couldn’t be opened here, the mount couldn’t be used, so for now, they could only rely on their legs to run.
Once the two got into the backpack, Mu You packed up and continued running. Looking back in the midst of running, he saw that the octopuses were indeed chasing crazily, as if they had singled him out.
"This is too much... what did I do wrong, huh..."
When the giant octopus tentacle appeared just now, he felt a familiar oppressive aura radiating from it. He was certain of its identity: it was the Octopus King!
Mu You didn’t know how the Octopus King had managed to bug its way into this place, but right now this creature was much weaker than the original Octopus King from outside. Probably he had only about a tenth of its power.
Even so, it was a near-legendary creature and definitely not something he could handle right now.
Mu You was desperately running for his life in Area 1 at this time.
In the distance, in another direction.
Son of Heaven had automatically revived there, slowly coming back to consciousness from the ground.
Opening his eyes, he saw that he was surrounded by his teammates from Divine Right of Kings.
And their present location was very close to the exit of Area 1.
Son of Heaven heaved a sigh of relief, his forehead slightly sweaty.
"How did it go?" Seeing Son of Heaven appear, Smile and Demon quickly ran over to ask.
"It’s normal that you lost, you took too much risk!" Smile sighed.
"But the gains were worth it." Son of Heaven said.
"Oh? What did you find out?" Demon quickly asked.
"Those two, they’re not at Legendary Level!" Son of Heaven said.