Virus King - Chapter 354

Chapter 354: New Energy Lightning Core! Machinery vs Flesh!

TL: YYang

Chen Bai glanced down. It was a bead radiating white electric light, which instantly caught his attention!

[Lightning Core – Small]
[Special Material]
[Capable of supplying electrical energy in any power system and substituting any electric energy source!]

This thing?!

Earlier, when listening to the others, Chen Bai had been wondering how White Emperor City would secure its future energy supply. Who would have thought this dungeon would provide a substitute?

He just didn’t know how much energy such a tiny bead could produce!

However, with his absurd drop rate, even the death of a single Lightning Sprite could result in multiple cores dropping. He estimated the supply wouldn’t be small, but the energy provided likely wouldn’t be particularly impressive.

Shaking his head at the thought, Chen Bai placed the cores into his Evolver’s Backpack and turned his gaze to the deeper part of the dungeon.

This was just a factory. Compared to more substantial dungeons like the Plague Sewer, it was much smaller. As such, the monsters didn’t seem to spawn out of thin air but likely originated from the generator ahead.

With this in mind, Chen Bai extended his spiritual perception into the area.

His Spiritual Perception, which had significantly improved after breaking through with the T-Virus, allowed him to sense the environment.

Yet, in this electrically charged dungeon, the interference with his spirit strength was significant. In the narrow, pitch-black pipes, he could barely detect a volatile energy.

The generator’s pipes were even more bizarrely narrow than the Furnace of Refinement from before.

Chen Bai, however, didn’t plan to replicate his previous antics by crawling through them.

After all, the last time he crawled through such a space, he obtained the mysterious Face of Taotie, whose true function was still unknown. While the factory dungeon might contain secrets, they likely wouldn’t be of much significance to him.

As Chen Bai expected, the subsequent waves of monsters emerging from the generator tunnel were all Lightning Sprites.

Compared to earlier, these Lightning Sprites were noticeably larger.

That said, the increase was only relative. In terms of strength, they were slightly more powerful but still posed no threat to Chen Bai.

The dropped items, however, were satisfying. There were plenty of Lightning Cores, larger than before, evidently containing more potent energy.

Additionally, his high drop rate yielded various equipment and skills. However, just like those Explosive Fireball skills from earlier Aberrants, these were of little use to him.

Another downside of this dungeon for Chen Bai was that the Elemental Creatures often didn’t have tangible bodies. As a result, his Darklight Virus couldn’t perform devouring.

This rendered the dungeon even less relevant for Chen Bai.

His rapid clearing of monsters caused waves of Elemental Creatures to spawn in quick succession.

After briefly observing the dungeon:

From Small Lightning Sprites to Lightning Sprites, and then to Thunder Elemental Sprites, the monsters were categorized into three tiers: small mobs, elites, and mini-bosses.

It was, all in all, a very traditional Secret Realm Dungeon.

Though challenging due to the dungeon’s area debuff, it lacked unique rules or other complications.

While it was a Nightmare-level Dungeon, its potential for development was enormous.

Such dungeons, unlike the bizarre Black Building, were ideal for Evolvers.

For this kind of dungeon, as long as a team met the minimum strength requirements and had countermeasures in place, ordinary Evolvers could attempt it.

This made it the best kind of Secret Realm Dungeon.

Only such locations could be further developed into high-value dungeons.

Chen Bai nodded in satisfaction. If White Emperor City’s Evolvers met the strength requirement in the future, they could access this factory dungeon, which would greatly secure the city’s energy supply.

However, his initial optimism wavered slightly when the dungeon’s final boss appeared.

Chen Bai had expected the final boss to be a larger Thunder Elemental Sprite, as per the pattern so far—bigger, higher level, more skills, stronger overall.

But after defeating several Thunder Elemental Sprites, what appeared before him left Chen Bai stunned.

The factory’s enormous generator began trembling violently.

Moments later, a burst of lightning erupted from its center. The generator, lying horizontally on the ground, suddenly stood upright.

It transformed into a towering mecha, nearly ten meters tall.

This sight caught Chen Bai completely off guard.

[Broken Generator Mechanical Warrior (Level 28 Boss)]
[Special mutation has given this forgotten corner generator a unique opportunity! The Lightning Core has endowed it with life and power! Its rebirth serves as inspiration for advanced technology!]
[Strength: 1542, Agility: 254, Constitution: 2254, Spirit: 1097]
[Skills: Magnetic Iron Fist, Spiral Throwing Blades, Firepower Armor, Thunder Armor, Thunder Elemental Summon, Indestructible…]

The boss’s array of skills, combined with its sheer size and the limited space within the factory, compensated for its lack of agility.

This enormous steel giant was clearly no match for an ordinary Evolver.

Intrigued, Chen Bai refrained from using his spiritual abilities to instantly kill it. Instead, with a single thought, he transformed his hands into iron hammer-like fists, mirroring the mecha.

The moment the Mechanical Warrior’s eyes glowed and its massive fists charged with energy for the Magnetic Iron Fist, Chen Bai didn’t dodge. His comparatively smaller form met the two-meter-wide steel fists head-on.

Machinery vs. Flesh.