"Have low-level monsters already appeared starting from the C4 zone?"

Louis recalled the information Miss Aliye at the front desk had told him.

In fact, from the C zone, the ruins were not so safe anymore.

Previously, Louis had killed giant sewer rats, and they also roamed here.

There were over twenty types of recorded LV1 monsters, and some LV2-LV3 monsters, but they were mostly wiped out by the Thief Guild.

The extreme frost bats were LV2 dungeon monsters. Even if they showed up in the past, they had long been wiped out by the Thief Guild.

But now, in the C4 zone, which should still have quite a few stealthy dwellers, there were so many extreme frost bats appearing.

This situation isn't right.

"It's a bit strange; the number of monsters seems a bit excessive."

William said in a deep voice, "With this number of dungeon monsters appearing in the ruins, the Thief Guild should have reported it to the Royal Guard by now."

Alice also said, "The guild's list doesn't include frost bats; something's off."

Dungeon monsters are a special phenomenon on the Star Continent.

Louis curiously asked, "How do you even determine what's a dungeon monster?"

Seeing this, the Swan directly jumped out, her magic staff swaying, she also shook her head as she said,

"You probably don't know about this, it's been 500 years, and most people have almost forgotten."

Seeing this, Louis immediately made a listening gesture.

This made the Swan happy, she let out a hum and said,

"Have you heard of the Underground City?"

Louis honestly said, "Heard of it, but haven't really looked into it."

Not really looking into it is like the single guys telling their parents "I'm working on it" when asked about dating.

— Mainly because he didn't want to reveal he knew nothing about some basic common sense.

The Swan put one hand on her hip and said,

"Roughly every 500 years, the land of the Star Continent undergoes a great expansion, absorbing stardust from the surrounding star realms."

"Most of this stardust forms the lower planes of the stars, while a small portion integrates into the Star Continent."

"Sometimes, some intelligent creatures descend with the stardust; I'm sure you've heard of the two most famous ones."

"Oh?" Louis inquisitively asked, "What are they?"

Olivia tapped Louis's armor with her finger and said,

"Dragons, and a significant portion of the elves."

"These two races both became part of the stars after willingly accepting the world's baptism and prospering on the continent."

"But there are some races, savage and ferocious, that easily cause local disasters."

"The world instinctively drives them together, forming a peculiar geographical feature."

Louis realized and said, "An Underground City?"

The Swan nodded and added, "The chosen heroes of the continent, along with the Adventurer Guild, were initially formed to prevent the existence of the Underground City."

"What about the previous generation of the Underground City?"

"It was cleared by the previous generation of heroes."

"So, the current dungeon monsters..."

"Yes, they're species from the last 500 years' Underground City, not fully cleared yet."

The Swan smiled sweetly.

She was even a bit too delighted.

Being able to show off before the bewildered, this was even more joyful than not having to eat hated vegetables for lunch.

As for Louis, he immediately thought of that bunch of bad seeds, Rudelson.

"Are they up to something again?"

But soon, he frowned.

No.

Rudelson and his group could control the undead, but controlling monsters, that was a different concept.

Not to mention he had taken a tool from his big wife that could detect the undead before he left.

He could be sure these extreme frost bats weren't undead.

Trusting they could control a monster tide was like believing he was Emperor Qin Shi Huang.

"Let's clean up the scene," Alice said.

It was harvest time again, even Louis subconsciously rubbed his hands together.

He asked, "Are these monsters worth anything?"

The Swan said, "Their meat contains mild toxins and is inedible, but the hide has some value. It can be made into cooling cloaks, or if it's too much trouble, sold directly to the guild."

Alice showed a peculiar smile:

"Their fangs connected to the venom sacks are also worth keeping, they're quite useful."

The Swan retorted, "I've never heard of their teeth being useful."

Alice lifted the Swan's chin with her fingertip:

"Olivia, this isn't something you can understand yet."

Olivia was utterly furious.

This was like calling her a child!

A nearby head maid spoke up with a heavy heart: "Don't bully her."

The Swan looked touched.

As expected, Lumi was the best to her.

Then she heard the head maid calmly explain:

"A few years ago on Charming Street, a Little People Race Beauty developed a set of tools made from extreme frost bat fangs and fire lizard scales to deal with some excessively powerful clients."

"It's said that with this item, that Little People Race Beauty greatly increased her earning efficiency and received much better client reviews."

"In recent years, the price of extreme frost bat fangs has rapidly risen, far surpassing the value of their pelts."

"Now this thing... is almost in short supply."

A few of the men showed amusing smiles.

Louis sighed, indeed, no matter where it was, things like this were akin to luxury goods like women's cosmetics.

Olivia finally realized, her face turned red, and she shrank behind Lumi.

So embarrassing.

What to do, there was a strong urge to flee the ruins at the speed of light.

Louis, not at all disliking the weight of his armor, happily squatted down with a short knife to harvest the materials.

With one cut, a tug and skinning, then...

"Hahaha, Caesar, what grudge do you have against the bat? It's dead, it doesn't need to be shredded into pieces!"

Louis looked at the mangled bat in disbelief.

Indeed, it was a bit inelegant.

He took a deep breath and looked at Alice saying:

"Confirm only the outer hide and teeth are useful, right?"

Alice nodded.

Louis turned and picked up Limuru: "Go ahead, Limuru!"

Limuru:゛(◎_◎;)

"Well, for the sake of food, I'll do it. After all, you're the master, right?"

So it crawled over, with a dozen tentacles directly plunging into the mouths of the extreme frost bats.

The extreme frost bats probably never expected that even in death, they would be filled up from the mouth, stuffed full from the stomach.

Limuru's tentacles digested directly from the inside, even ensuring the outer skin and teeth remained intact.

Louis sighed and said, "Ah, I wanted to do it myself, but it ended up handling everything for me."

While saying this, the corners of his mouth involuntarily curled up.

Even without seeing Louis's smile, the Swan could sense his tone of smugness.

Even Limuru, handling the corpses nearby for him, couldn't help but roll its eyes.

Very soon, everything returned to calm, and there was a pile of materials the size of a small hill on the ground.

Louis gladly put each piece of material into his spatial bag.

Alice said in exasperation, "You're not serious, are you? Didn't you earn quite a bit before? This amount of money doesn't even matter to you!"

"You don't understand, it's the joy of harvest that matters."

The thrill of a 4000 yuan paycheck transferred into the bank versus the manager directly handing you a wad of cash is a wholly different feeling.

This sense of achievement even temporarily suppressed the resurgent urge of the great sin of Greed recently.

Suddenly, Lumi, who had been silent all along, raised her head:

"Can you feel it?"

Louis threw the last piece of material into the spatial bag, narrowed his eyes, and said:

"The numbers are few..."

Alice displayed a cruel smile: "But the movement is significant; it's a good prey."

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