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"Dong!"

He punched the wooden support without hesitation, and fine cracks spread out, causing the entire cave to shake violently!

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Underground, the earth around them began to shake, making Zhao Min's face turn pale as she yelled at Li Xunsheng.

"Don't worry, it won't spread to us."

Taking two steps back, Xuan Sheng calmly watched the earth beneath him gradually disintegrate. He turned his head and faced the indignant girl, his mind stirring.

Hmm, this is a good opportunity. Since her brother isn't here, I'll try to change this girl's personality.

"Hehehe... Now, it's just the three of us down here..."

"You... What do you want to do!"

The man before her suddenly had a strange expression, making Zhao Min instinctively feel uneasy, and her body tensed.

"Hmph, you... don't do anything rash. With your small build, I can take you down with two fireballs!"

"Is that so? But what if I have Qingyi's help? You brat, for talking so much all the way here, I'll make sure you don't see tomorrow's sun!"

Wanting to tease this arrogant girl, the young man put on a fierce look and began to approach slowly.

"How could Qingyi listen to you... Eh, Qingyi! No..."

Just as she was about to refute the man's foolish idea, the girl saw her admired Qingyi quietly take out a dagger, her face eerily calm...

"Mmm..."

The overbearing girl completely lost her previous spoiled demeanor. Her body trembled, and she covered her head, letting out a fearful whimper...

"Hahaha, as expected, you're much more pleasing to the eye when you look like a pushover. Save yourself some trouble, girl. There are no laws to restrain you in this game world. Talking nonsense can really get you killed."

Laughing unconscionably, Xuan Sheng pinched Zhao Min's face. Facing her helpless and angry expression, a strange pleasure from doing evil made him grin.

"But, Yi Qing, you're really cooperative... Don't you think I would actually go through with it?"

Xuan Sheng had guessed that Yi Qing might stand by and watch, but he hadn't expected her to directly take out a dagger and stand on his side.

"We're in a team. It's obviously a joke."

Yi Qing quietly put away her dagger, having noticed this little trick from the start.

It was just to teach the cute little girl not to talk nonsense, and she was willing to cooperate.

"You... you scoundrel!"

Discovering that the team status between the three had not been removed, the red-haired girl, her face flushed, lightly tapped the annoying man with her staff. Then, she hid behind her Qingyi sister and made a face at Xuan Sheng.

"Kaka kaka..."

A grating sound of cracking and friction echoed. The critical points were destroyed, and the supporting structure became increasingly difficult to maintain. Finally, it completely collapsed. The supporting structures below shattered one after another like dominoes, and the unstable cave began to collapse gradually...

['Golden Shovel' killed 'Kobold Soldier', War Merit +10]

['Golden Shovel' killed 'Kobold Soldier', War Merit +10]

['Golden Shovel' killed 'Kobold Squad Leader', War Merit +100!]

A series of system prompts began to sound. As the experience bars of the three people soared, Li Xunsheng, the culprit of everything, was judged by the system as the sole source of damage, and all the War Merit was attributed to him alone.

[Lv.up!]

As the experience bars continued to rise, blue glows lit up above the three one after another. Coupled with the kobolds they had killed while exploring earlier, this massive amount of experience caused everyone to level up consecutively!

"How many kobolds are there down here..."

With the experience bars constantly rising, Zhao Min, who had never enjoyed such an easy way to level up, instantly forgot her previous unpleasantness and began to rejoice in her own growth.

As long as she could reach level ten, she could transfer classes immediately!

Just a little more... Level nine! Good!

"It stopped."

Yi Qing looked regretfully at her experience bar, which was less than 20% away from leveling up to Lv.10...

[Ding, Dungeon: All kobolds within the Kobold Fortress have been eliminated. Among the completed teams, the player ranked first in War Merit will receive a hidden reward from the legion.]

[1, Golden Shovel War Merit: 1290]

[2, Qingyi War Merit: 930]

[3, Princess War Merit: 690]

Originally, Yi Qing's War Merit would have undoubtedly been at the top.

But unfortunately, Li Xunsheng, who had triggered the hidden trap, directly killed all the kobolds in the entire fortress. With all the War Merit attributed to him, he directly obtained nearly a thousand War Merit.

"Is it over already? What a shame, my brother wasn't here and missed this chance to level up."

As if savoring the joy of the sudden surge in experience, Zhao Min shook her head, feeling a bit of regret for her brother, who had long since left the team.

"Go back?"

With only a little more experience needed to reach Lv.10, and all the kobolds in this fortress completely cleared out, Yi Qing's only desire now was to leave this place as soon as possible and complete the main task of reaching level ten and then transferring classes.

"Let's go, we can't continue to gather more intel."

Gold coins, equipment, all buried beneath the dirt. Xuan Sheng glanced regretfully at the completely blocked cave entrance and turned back silently.

According to the hints from the Eye of God, he already knew the kobolds' urgent objective.

They came here to excavate an extremely important treasure, and that treasure seemed to be related to the deity of this place.

If they hadn't cleverly used traps to kill the entire fortress, but had instead walked step by step to the end, they might have had a chance to obtain more information about that divine treasure.

But, no matter what, a treasure of that level was absolutely not something current players could covet.

Rather than wasting a lot of effort and time just to get a quest clue, Xuan Sheng preferred to lie down and earn a wave of experience for free.

That's why he had acted to shatter that support beam and send the kobolds on their way.

Now, after gaining a large amount of experience, he had already leveled up to eight. He wasn't far from completing the quest and reaching level ten, thus avoiding being erased by the system.

"Hey, want to add me as a friend?"

After returning to Lone Star City by carriage, her request to Yi Qing for a friend slot unsuccessful, Zhao Min impatiently walked up to Xuan Sheng and asked him with a sullen face.

"What, you want me to carry you? Let me tell you, you're not getting any of this good stuff next time. Next time, I'll team up with Yi Qing and won't bring you along. Forget about leeching experience from me."

He had helped enough. Whether this girl could survive in the future was no longer his concern.

"You... Who wants your help! I'll be carrying you! Are you adding me as a friend or not!"

Even though this scoundrel's output was less than half of hers, he acted like she was begging him to carry her with his dead-fish eyes. This made Zhao Min instantly shed her previous gratitude, feeling a surge of irritation, wishing she could just bite this shameless guy.

"Tsk, fine. You're a weak woman, it's quite pitiful. Since you're begging me like this, I'll add you as a friend."

The young man tilted his head up, watching the girl's puffed-out cheeks and gritted teeth, her mind full of rage but unable to vent. The corners of his mouth curved up wildly.