A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 939 It’s a thankless task
After ten minutes, the purple liquid dripping from the ceiling finally stopped, and the liquid that had piled up into a huge ball on the ground began to wriggle and gradually shrink.

After a moment, a giant round purple slime took shape, and as soon as it was successfully formed, it bounced towards Leon.

Its huge size and softness make it look like a yoga ball that has been thrown out with force. The "duangduangduang" sound of the impact is full of wonderful humor. If you don't pay attention to its danger, this thing is still quite cute as a mascot.

But Leon would not hold back. When the giant purple slime jumped within five meters of Leon, the wind pressure caused by its movement made him feel the terrible power hidden under this soft and elastic body.

He dodged to the side, and the Galaxy Watermelon Knife in his hand swelled up in the wind, turning into a giant knife more than two meters long and half a meter wide. Lyon held it in his hands, infused it with the strength of his arms, and slashed towards the giant slime head-on.

The huge blade did not conceal its sharpness. The moment the blade came into contact with the giant slime, it split most of the giant slime's body in half as easily as a hot knife cutting butter.

But the force of the giant purple slime's attack made Leon stagger back two steps.

After stabilizing his body, Leon looked up and saw that the knife had basically destroyed half of the giant purple slime's body.

But the exaggerated crack was glued together again in an instant, and the giant purple slime returned to its original shape, and began to shrink and flatten itself.

As an experienced slime hunter who had plundered hundreds of slimes, how could Leon not see that this thing was planning something bad? He immediately distanced himself from the giant purple slime.

"Boom!"

The dull sound of impact mixed with the compressed exploding air made it difficult for Leon to open his eyes. Looking at the area where the giant purple slime fell after jumping up, Leon scratched his head, not knowing how to comment.

It's powerful and menacing, but not very threatening. Due to its huge size, the attack range of the giant purple slime's meat bomb is not very large. As long as you are familiar with the characteristics of the slime, you will basically understand what this thing is trying to do from the appearance of this extremely obvious pre-swing.

Except for some new recruits who are encountering slime for the first time, this attack method is basically useless against veterans.

So, as a veteran, Leon raised his sword and swept across the giant purple slime when his attack failed and its whole body was shaking due to the impact.

"puff"

A sound like a balloon leaking air came from the wound that basically cut the entire giant purple slime in half, and a large amount of purple mucus sprayed out and splashed onto the floor.

Then the mucus quickly condensed and formed on the ground, turning into purple slimes the size of watermelons, guarding the giant slime that had shrunk by half.

"Can this still happen?"

Seeing the giant purple slime complete the split while still alive, and the fight turned from a one-on-one fight into a group fight, Leon felt a headache.

A silly giant purple slime is not a threat, but if it is coordinated with smaller and more agile slimes, the pressure on Leon will be much greater.

Knowing this wasn't the time to just sit back and watch, Leon charged forward. His broad blade instantly shrank into the shape of a narrow Miao Dao, striking directly at one of the purple slimes. The blade easily pierced the unfortunate creature it had chosen as its target. With a twist of Leon's wrist, the Miao Dao's blade swirled through the purple slime's body, completely draining its health bar.

Without delay, Leon put the Miao Dao back into his backpack, rolled sideways to the right, avoiding the two slimes that were charging at him, and pulled out the Miao Dao from his backpack again. He turned over and slashed upward with the knife, cutting another approaching purple slime into two halves.

In just a few seconds, the two purple slimes were sent away. Compared with the giant purple slime that was resistant to being cut, the vitality of the small creatures that split out seemed much weaker.

Facing the purple slimes that surrounded them again and the giant purple slimes behind them, Leon fought and retreated. Relying on the telescopic characteristics of the Galaxy Watermelon Knife, he fully utilized the tactical advantage of "an inch longer, an inch stronger" and killed one by one these little guys who could only move in a straight line and attack by sacrificing themselves to hit each other.

After the ordinary purple slimes were cleared, Leon finally had time to deal with the shrunk giant purple slime. He chopped it down with two intersecting swords and watched it begin to weather and disappear under the rules of the world, completely ending the battle.

"This drop rate is too low."

Now that the monster was dead, it was naturally time to collect the spoils. However, looking at the only dark purple diamond-shaped ore mixed in with the slime and sticky yellow sap all over the ground, Leon complained unhappily.

Including the split little guys and the giant purple slime's body, Leon killed a total of nine in this battle, but he only harvested one iridium ore. Five iridium ores can be smelted into an iridium ingot. In order to collect a full iridium ingot, Leon had to fight four such battles.

Thinking of this, Leon completely gave up his plan of farming purple slimes to get iridium ore.

Continuing to explore downwards honestly and reaching deeper layers to mine iridium ore might be much easier than this method, and there would be no need for strenuous fighting.

After picking up the fallen items on the ground, Leon stepped into the stairwell and entered the third level of the Skeleton Mine.

"buzzing"

As soon as he stepped onto the third floor, Lyon heard an extremely harsh and high-frequency flapping sound of wings. Looking closely, Lyon noticed the source of the sound and also noticed the special feature of the third floor.

The third floor is a long and narrow corridor. The starting point of the corridor is where Lyon came down from the stairwell, and the end point is at the other end facing Lyon. There is no mineral on the straight corridor that can be seen at a glance.

There were only reddish-brown beetles flapping their wings and flying in the air. Each one was the size of a fist, but the chitinous spikes growing on its head were at least thirty centimeters long, with sharp needles and thin hairs. If it were not for the light reflecting a lavender luster, it would be difficult to notice this deadly weapon.

"Am I playing dodgeball? Is this even going down into the mines?"

Lyon stood at the entrance of the stairwell and watched for a while. He noticed that his appearance did not attract the attention of the beetles. At the same time, he also determined through observation that the flight routes and trajectories of these beetles were completely fixed. Lyon knew the nature of this layer.

Now he felt more and more that what he was exploring was not a mine, but a tomb full of traps.

(End of this chapter)