Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#202 - The Birth of an Octopus

Having arrived at the entrance of the dungeon, the teams had already been divided beforehand. After exchanging greetings, they quickly entered the dungeon in groups.

Only Liang Yue was left standing alone in the original spot.

After realizing that he wasn't popular, this guy took it in stride, shrugging his shoulders nonchalantly. He scanned the round hall in front of him and quickly noticed the differences from before.

"A small path has opened up on the side of the stone wall, oh~ there's even a side hall over there!"

"The original stalactite-hanging rock ceiling has also been pushed up a lot. It seems they really took my words to heart and are preparing to make a collapsing cliff..."

"Hmm? Why are there a few more boxes here...? Oh, they're for storing equipment and various consumables."

"It's a pity that Gran Forest only produces low-level goods. Even the strongest boss in this dungeon, the Corpse Thief Bone Prison Breath, is only level 19, so it can't drop anything good."

"Eh? Speaking of which~ I wonder if the system has removed the Lord's artifact this time?"

……

After a period of aimless pondering, Liang Yue also walked into the dungeon entrance. The map he chose was the Venomous Thunderous Ruin.

The boss of this dungeon is a purple cat demon king that can release poisonous mist. Even in the normal difficulty dungeon, its speed and jumping ability are quite amazing in this real world.

"Difficulty~ of course, it's Warrior level, just follow the previous progress!"

The scene in front of him blurred for a moment, and then Liang Yue instantly arrived inside the dungeon, in the same dense forest and low grassland environment.

However, compared to the previous Dark and Dense Forest, this Venomous Thunderous Ruin seemed more humid and hot, with a faint mist floating in the air.

The ground was also sparsely dotted with muddy puddles, some with ordinary accumulated water, and some with small pits containing dark purple liquid.

Purple represents poison. If you accidentally step into it, you will immediately be poisoned and lose health.

For Liang Yue, who still possessed the MC game character mechanism, being poisoned was actually a troublesome matter, so even he had to be extra careful of his feet in the current dungeon map.

"Wawu~!"

Soon, after only taking a few steps forward, a unique, fierce howl of a cat demon came from the depths of the faint mist ahead.

Upon hearing the sound, Liang Yue's mind quickly shifted, and he silently activated his ability.

In an instant, his half-length black hair, which was originally tied behind his head, began to rapidly lengthen and become unusually thick, then spread out freely in the air.

Afterward, Liang Yue directly divided it into strands about the width of kelp, swaying and plunging towards the front.

Speaking of which, the good thing about the monsters in this dungeon is that they don't know what fear is. After seeing an intruder, they will rush up without hesitation and start attacking relentlessly.

With Liang Yue's current appearance, his five-meter-long hair freely waving and dancing in the air, with the front portion of his hair divided into dozens of strands.

Strands of thick hair quickly wrapped around them tightly in the air, tightening, no matter how they struggled or tore, they couldn't break free.

Soon, these little guys were made into mummies~

"Then~ should I tie them up and strangle them one by one like I did with those mosquitoes and flies before?"

"But is there such a thing as suffocation for the cat demons in this dungeon?"

"And I didn't see any scars after cutting so many times with a sword before, so there must be no limb breakage."

"In that case, I can only use the most primitive method"

"Slam!"

……

"Bang!" "Bang bang!" "Bang bang bang!"……

Along with a series of muffled sounds, the python-like strands of hair in front of Liang Yue began to rotate and move up and down.

The cat demons were now helplessly wrapped into spools, and then constantly lifted into the air and slammed down by Liang Yue's thick hair, lifted into the air and slammed down...

The damage caused by each slam was not too high, only consuming about one-tenth of the cat demon's health bar.

But the momentum created by this was quite good.

Liang Yue now looked like a demon hiding behind a group of snakes. Every time he took a step forward, two or three kittens wrapped in his hair would be slammed down.

The ground was hit with a thudding sound, and broken grass flew everywhere~

Soon, along with a series of shrill screams, the cat demons on the entire map turned into piles of fly ash and scattered with the wind.

Finally, only a pile of scattered drops was left on the ground.

"Ah~ hahahahaha!"

Accompanied by a Kim Gwan-jang-style, emotionless laughter, Liang Yue now walked slowly into the iron gate of the next level with his hands behind his back.

……

Soon, as time passed, the five daily dungeon runs were used up in the blink of an eye.

After reaping the last wave of loot, Liang Yue returned to the outside of the dungeon gate with a flash of light in front of him.

After this targeted training, he finally grasped some tricks regarding the use of his abilities.

"From the current stage, my hair manipulation ability cannot directly cause any damage to the target. It's barely enough to deal with cat demons and goblins in the dungeon.

But if it is put into reality, it can only be used as an auxiliary at most, I can clearly distinguish this~"

Arriving next to the dungeon gate, Liang Yue casually opened the storage box in front of him and placed the loot from this dungeon into it, sorted by category.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, this guy suddenly had a thought in his mind. After thinking about it, he turned back and took a few bottles of low-level blood replenishing potions from the box and put them into his storage space.

"Although I can replenish blood by eating things now, it's good to have two bottles with me, just in case~"

……

《Hair Manipulation》

Ability Proficiency: 13921/50000

……

Practice has proven that using one's own hair ability to fight, although it is a bit low in lethality and a bit slow in efficiency, the harvest is very satisfactory to Liang Yue.

In just these five dungeon runs, the proficiency of the ability directly increased by more than three thousand!

Not only that, Liang Yue also discovered during the process of fighting monsters that the higher the level and the more resistant the monsters are to falling, the more efficient the improvement in his proficiency.

After using up today's five dungeon run opportunities, Liang Yue has officially cleared the King level of "Venomous Thunderous Ruin", all the way from start to finish, and even the Cat Demon King was not spared~

Then, he also successfully advanced to the new dungeon map "Frosty Dark Forest", and after a friendly exchange with the final boss, Ice Magician Krah, he also completed the King level difficulty.

When he comes back tomorrow, Liang Yue can continue to go to the next dungeon "Gekala" to wrestle with the Minotaur King~