Chapter 157 It Feels Great to Step on the Dark Gold Equipment
Luke's unexpected corpse explosion and void supply capabilities turned this expedition into a battle to annihilate the rats.
Although this is a wild environment and these ratmen are also wild monsters derived from nature, they also have a core source similar to the monster's nest.
That is the female rat that gave birth to this group of ratmen.
According to the setting of the hammer, the status of the female rat is completely different from the status of the leader of the tribe, such as the Alien Queen.
Female rats are necessary reproductive machines in the rat group and even valuable bargaining chips for trading with other clans. They will be fattened and transformed into extreme appearances like meat mountains by male rats, but they are only responsible for eating, drinking, defecating and giving birth until they die.
The reward of the rat group to the particularly powerful warriors in the group is to let it have sex with the meat mountain female rat and allow it to reproduce its own offspring.
In order to prevent people in the rat group from stealing food, the eunuch rats who are responsible for taking care of the female rats must be pickled.
Luke made a rough estimate. If the flat-headed brother who chose to escape from the canyon two months ago is taken as the key point of the record, this ratman clan should have existed for more than two months to about three months. This means that if it is a normal female rat, it is enough to give birth to one or two litters, about 20 pups.
Then the more than 2,000 ratmen who have been completely harmless theoretically need 100 female rats to reproduce naturally.
Of course, this refers to normal circumstances.
If the female rats of this clan are units above the dark gold monster, and some "fertility enhancement" monster characteristics emerge, perhaps only a small number of dark gold monster female rats or even a super dark gold monster should be enough to complete this level of population reproduction. Luke is more inclined to the judgment that there are super dark gold monster female rats.
And judging from the degree to which the corpse residue in the miasma canyon has been devoured, the female rats must still be somewhere in the canyon, and they must still be trying to get pregnant and give birth.
Then as long as all the female rats and young rats can be killed, even if there are a few male rats that slip through the net, they will not be a big deal.
However, judging from the strength shown by this group of ratmen, the low-end slave rat clan rats are generally worse than the hammer rats, mainly due to the difference in equipment.
The hammer rats at least have iron weapons, while they have various stone and bone tools at most.
And perhaps because the Miasma Valley does not have the extremely critical source of corrupted and polluted energy, the wild rat clan should not have been able to obtain the corresponding heretical technology.
The only variable is probably the type of Pokémon blood that may be mixed in this group.
According to Quetzalcoatl's post-war description, the mixed-blood Rattata Assassin Rat that Luke is currently examining has at least shown the two abilities of "Lightning Flash" and "Fatal Fang".
Looking at the entire Pokémon illustrated book, there are actually quite a few individuals that can be defined as "rat", such as Pokémon's unique signboard, even if most people who don't know Pokémon must know Pikachu, which is essentially a yellow-skinned electric rat.
Although in theory, it is unlikely that rat Pokémon with additional attributes such as Pikachu, Antlers, and Trolls live in the Miasma Valley... But since Skaven has appeared in the valley and is mixed with Rattata, anything is possible.
After conducting the on-site analysis, in line with the principle of not wasting, Luke also shouted the three rat-men special senses killed by Quetzalcoatl one by one with the search for items.
Now Luke's potion stock has seriously overflowed, and this is because he has already distributed a considerable number of healing, mana, and physical potions directly to other people as rewards.
Because he needs to free up some grids to put the identification book, falcon military cap, demon sword and other equipment that he is reluctant to leave in the hotel room, so Luke can't use the entire inventory to load medicine, so he hastily loaded 16 types of 20 grids, a total of 400 bottles, and chose to give up.
Even so, it completely shocked everyone except the completely numb Akagami brothers and sisters.
This is 400 bottles of potion! All stuffed in!
Mark even gave up on hiding and tried to get the enhanced storage equipment from Luke.
But unfortunately, this is the enhanced inventory capacity. Even the medicine storage belt in the later stage can only store 12 bottles at most.
Mark, who finally had to return home in disappointment, could only look at the small 300 bottles of medicine stacked on his electromagnetic lifeboat and continue to worry happily.
Luke's search for items has a delivery probability of only 29%, but the three special assassin rats ejected two items for him, and both of them are magic equipment.
One is an excellent-grade lace, which was identified by Luke and given to the elf Lucia who didn't have a medicine storage belt as a favor.
This fierce woman insisted on using her cloak as a bag to carry the medicine herself, causing the bottles to hit each other when she walked, and even Luke couldn't stand it.
As the Chiying siblings were his own people, they were not in a hurry. After returning to the company, Luke could just arm them to the teeth.
The other item was a pair of dark gold shoes.
It was the first time that Luke got such a non-ceremonial dark gold. It felt like he just went out for a walk and stepped on a stack of banknotes. He was happy but it didn't feel real.
It seemed that the necklace he added 15 points of mf value to was still a bit useless.
With this idea in mind, Luke, who was too lazy to identify it himself, also took a scroll and directly slapped it, and then he felt the reality.
[Name: Bloody Feet]
[Type: Shoes, Heavy Boots]
[Origin: Diablo]
[Quality: Legend/Dark Gold]
[Usage conditions: lv9, Strength 18]
[Attributes: High-speed running/walking speed +20%, steal a small amount of mana when hitting the enemy, attack the wearer to receive some physical damage, kick damage is slightly increased]
[Additional attributes: Jump +2]
[Note: Surprise! Surprise! ]
Any hesitation in changing it is a blasphemy of Luke to this barbarian-exclusive equipment, and the excellent-grade shoes originally worn on his feet have completely completed its mission.
It is worth mentioning that this equipment adds the original barbarian jumping skill, but it is still superimposed with Luke's tactical jump, and finally becomes a lv10+2+2 skill-level jumping ability with a dual casting mode.
As long as you still wear this pair of boots, Luke can jump directly without targeting the corpse.
The current maximum casting distance is 16 meters, which is a true sense of going up five floors in one breath without any effort.
Based on the comparison between the types of equipment obtained so far and the abilities of the corpses before they died, Luke found that the abilities of monsters have a significant impact on the dropped equipment. Even if it is a so-called random drop, it is more likely to have equipment that matches the abilities before they died.
This is true for the Alien King, the Falcon Military Cap, the Eagle Magic Bead, and the Bloody Foot that has been put on his feet.
... In this regard, Luke began to look forward to the appearance of some special individuals among the rat people he is about to meet.
After passing the middle layer, everyone came to the bottom of the Miasma Canyon.
Originally, it was thought that this would be the place where the miasma accumulated the heaviest, but the result was quite different.
Not only is there no miasma here, but it is sparkling and dreamlike under the reflection of the clear water pool around.
But besides Luke, Lucia was the first to discover the problem.
She just picked up a piece of bone and threw it into the clear underground pool. The moment the bone fell in, there was a sound of dense bubbles bursting as the material was corroded.
These clear pools are filled with acidic water. If we use the human body as an analogy, this is equivalent to the gastric acid secreted from the stomach of the organism, which is responsible for dissolving all the undigested substances in the upper and middle layers into the purest nutrients.
It is quite dangerous.
"There are many footprints of small creatures, all heading in one direction."
Luke looked at the scanning image of the Iron Blood Mask transmitted by Viper to his Tyrannosaurus Rex and said to others.
"If nothing goes wrong, it should be the nest of these damn rats, right?"
Mark said while looking for a suitable place for the electromagnetic lifeboat to land, preparing to leave the potion in place.
Although these 300 bottles of potion are very expensive, he will not take the initiative to ban his four three-in-one Magnetrons when he is about to face a battle.
The eggs and Naughty Bullets also recovered some vitality after drinking Moo Moo Fresh Milk. Next, they only need to use up the PP potion, and they can have at least one more round of militarized bombing.
Mark admired Luke's crazy killing and was unwilling to admit defeat. Now his position as a supporter and a high-level hero is gone!
How embarrassing!
Luke, who didn't know that Mark was competing with him, also took the lead in the final preparations.
Regardless of whether they were injured or not, everyone drank the healing potion first, and then put extra antidote potions in their arms, and then took different buff potions according to their needs. Mark and his assistants took more spray-type wound medicine for their Pokémon.
Let's put it this way, after being heroes for so many years, Mark and his gang have never fought a battle with so many recovery medicines, so it is inevitable that they are excited.
Boom!
After the plasma shoulder cannon completely blasted open the entrance curtain structure that was like a winding tree root covered with fungi not far in front of everyone, the true appearance inside was revealed.
This is an underground cave that looks red under the illumination of the lava pool behind. Surrounded by the remaining rats who are making all kinds of noisy screams and some elite rats who are obviously calmer, a rat that is only slightly larger than an adult Thunder Wolf Dragon, although huge but not bloated, and not completely incapable of movement, but the body gives people a feeling of a moving corpse, is looking at the group of humans who have intruded with hatred.
Before he had time to be surprised by the inconsistency of the current situation, Luke had already thrown a curse that deepened the damage, and the plug-in display immediately appeared on the head of the big rat.
[Rat Mother (lv22) (Super Dark Gold Monster) (HP 100%) (Rune Level 7) (Resistance: Poison Resistance 95%)]
[Monster Characteristics: Reproduction Enhancement, Devouring Miasma, Fusion Production]