novellk Chapter 1173: Entering the Deep Underground
Chapter 1173: Entering the Deep Underground
Chapter 1173: Entering the Deep Underground
"I didn't expect that mysterious being to have such sinister intentions!"
Catherine's eyes became more and more scarlet, and she clenched her fists tightly.
You know, among those elite legions that disappeared, most of the blood clan’s assets were included. Not only the Spirit Staff Prince Valentin, but also several other blood clan princes and dukes were missing.
"This bunch of damned guys! I will never let them go!"
Louise also showed her little fangs again, and a strong black and red aura permeated her body.
"Calm down. We haven't fully explored this dungeon yet, and we haven't found any way out. I'm afraid trapping us here is part of the other party's plan."
Lei Xiao took a deep breath and nodded to everyone, saying, "This way, the other party will have no more obstacles in implementing their plan until everything is completed."
"Your Highness is right. We are the last hope. We must not let them succeed!"
Feeling the amazing vampire aura emanating from Catherine and Louise, although Old White seemed trembling, he still mustered up the courage to express his approval.
Looking at the determination that emerged on White's old face, Lei Xiao nodded slightly.
Although we were in a disadvantageous position in this battle, with the joining of White and others, we were able to bring the remaining forces of the Grimm Kingdom under our command, which was a small consolation.
"Now that the new king, Hall, has died, and with the power Lawrence has built, the entire Kingdom of Grim is essentially part of my territory."
"Let's get Lawrence on the throne as soon as possible. Although the other party's manipulation methods cannot be underestimated, it is undoubtedly a brand new beginning for the Grimm Kingdom, which has been deeply poisoned."
As Lei Xiao thought about this, he nodded to Catherine and said, "Let's get on with it without further delay."
"Your Highness, please follow me. We have just found another passage."
Catherine understood and flew to the other side of the door.
Under the guidance of Catherine and others, Lei Xiao came to a new area inside the gate and noticed.
This is an extremely large underground square that seems to have no end in sight and is extremely empty.
As far as the eye can see, you can occasionally see a few dried-up fountains and broken sculptures scattered on the ground, covered with dust and the smell of vicissitudes.
In addition, just as Catherine and others said, the stone ground here is full of fresh footprints. Lei Xiao is familiar with most of the boot patterns, which are from the massive equipment he upgraded.
"Your Highness, we were initially transferred to this open square area."
Catherine's solemn voice once again reached Lei Xiao's ears: "After discovering that His Royal Highness was not among them, we immediately began searching with concern. We found two closed doors here."
"But because the absolute defense barrier on the gate is too strong, we were unable to do anything until His Royal Highness the Prince opened the gate from the other side."
After Catherine finished speaking, Jiang Xi and the other three main subordinates nodded with lingering fear on their faces, obviously very worried about Lei Xiao's disappearance just now.
"I have already said it before. With the cards your master has, if he goes crazy, even I will not be able to do anything to him. Nothing will happen easily."
Louise shrugged, raised her eyebrows and said, "Now you know, right?"
After that, Louise looked at Lei Xiao with curiosity again and asked, "Prince of the Human Race, how did you manage to fight against an army of 300,000 people alone?"
"It's just a trifle, not worth mentioning."
Looking at the heartless vampire ancestor in front of him, Lei Xiao smiled helplessly and responded: "If Miss Louise was here, she would have escaped unscathed."
"That's true. It's a pity that those guys in Valentin are not up to the task. I'm so pissed off."
Louise stamped her feet and then frowned.
"Don't worry, as long as we stand firm, our pursuit of hope will never stop."
Lei Xiao's steady voice echoed back and forth in the empty underground space, easing everyone's nervousness a lot.
"By the way, Prince of the Other World, why is it that even I can't break the defensive barrier, but you can remove it so easily on the other side?"
Louise's puzzled voice reached Lei Xiao's ears again.
"I mentioned it just now. It's because of our new comrade Xiaojie."
Lei Xiao had just answered this when a hint of doubt appeared on his face.
Although the absolute defense barrier on the door is extremely strong, even several fifth-level strongmen would find it difficult to break it.
But the combined strength of Catherine, Louise and Itadori is already infinitely close to that of a genuine sixth-rank powerhouse. But even so, they still cannot be shaken in the slightest, which is indeed a bit surprising.
After all, Xiao Jie is only at the fifth level, so she can crack it easily.
"Xiao Jie and Wu just mentioned that these defensive barriers are exactly the same as the secret techniques used by Xiao Jie, but they were not set up by Xiao Jie herself. Could it be that it is precisely because of this that only Xiao Jie, who is at the fifth level, can break them?"
"But why did this seemingly correct situation occur? If it wasn't Xiao Jie, then who set up these barriers?"
Just when Lei Xiao's mind was full of questions, accompanied by a gust of wind, the group had already arrived at the other end of the empty square.
In the illumination of the magic ball of light, a mottled metal door exactly the same as the one before stood in front of him, exuding an ancient and unshakable atmosphere.
"Your Highness, this is it."
Catherine stopped and spoke to Lei Xiao.
Lei Xiao immediately nodded to Xiao Jie, signaling her to open the door.
"Yes, my lord."
Xiao Jie walked quickly forward and placed her slender hand flat on the door.
For a moment, Xiaojie's slender figure undoubtedly formed a sharp contrast with the ancient giant door, appearing extremely small and thin.
But this seemingly fragile body suddenly burst out with an extremely powerful energy wave, causing a whistling wind and the door opened.
After seeing this scene, Lei Xiao and the stone elves were naturally no longer surprised, while Catherine, Louise and the others all let out low exclamations and couldn't help but feel a little excited.
This undoubtedly means that we have gained another powerful general who cannot be underestimated.
As the door slowly opened, everyone noticed.
This time, what appeared before his eyes was not a vast space, but a deep tunnel.
There was a gust of cold wind in the tunnel, which continued to emit a chilling murderous intent.
"It's the scent of a magic trap. Be careful."
Lei Xiao immediately took out a bunch of magic scrolls, first cast a set of wisdom eye spells on himself and everyone else to increase the efficiency of seeing through magic traps, then took out a few appearance scrolls given by Therese, and then took his own steps under the concealment of Xiao Huan's illusion.
Following the cautious footsteps of the group as they walked along this winding passage for a while, Lei Xiao noticed something further.
The space here became narrower and narrower. One could see turbid water droplets seeping out from the top of the cave, dripping down from the slippery stone walls covered with magical moss, and finally gathering on the uneven ground to form muddy potholes.
The turbid ripples reflected the figures of a group of people moving forward cautiously, as well as a dark, cramped and rough environment.
As they moved forward, the group discovered, as expected.
This place was indeed filled with extremely dangerous magic traps, enough to kill a fifth-level strongman who was caught off guard on the spot.
However, with the protection of the Wisdom Eye spell and the manifestation scroll, especially the manifestation scroll which can identify the weaknesses of magic traps within a certain period of time like a radar scan, the speed at which we can crack traps has been increased by several times.
Amidst the faint ripples of magical power, these deadly traps were quickly and silently transformed into harmless energy particles.
Finally, at the end of this narrow tunnel, a faint light appeared, which was the exit of the tunnel.
After confirming that all the magic traps had been broken, the group quickened their pace and the view in front of them soon became clear.
This is another extremely vast underground space.
I saw three or five extremely dim magic light balls floating on the top of the cave. The faint light appeared and disappeared from time to time, reflecting rows of blurry outlines of buildings.
This is obviously also a residential area.
Because the group was located at a higher altitude, they could see the entire residential area.
The layout here is extremely strange, with neatly arranged double-story houses that look exactly the same on the periphery.
There is no gap between these houses at all. They are almost completely close together, looking extremely crowded, which is undoubtedly very different from the usual residential layout.
Lei Xiao looked at those identical duplex houses and couldn't help but widen his eyes.
He was very familiar with this kind of building; it was a level 5 lord's mansion!
"This is……?"
In astonishment, Lei Xiao looked at at least a thousand level 5 lords' mansions crowded together, and immediately recalled his previous speculation.
"Could this be the place where the other party used the alien lord to speed up the "Reverse Time Ceremony"? I didn't expect that the other party would actually use such a heinous and despicable method. "
Lei Xiao's eyes were gloomy as he looked towards the open space in the center of the residential area.
There were a lot of people there, and it seemed like something was going on.
Seeing this, Lei Xiao didn't have time to think about anything else and immediately nodded to the strong men beside him.
Accompanied by gusts of wind, the group disappeared from the spot in an instant.
At the same time, the dark square in the core of the residential area was filled with the smell of blood and a disgusting smell everywhere.
Driven by several teams of powerful black-robed brotherhood warriors who were filled with hostility, groups of trembling lords from other worlds were constantly moving towards the center of the square.
And in front of them, there were flesh-colored objects with dense black blood vessels on the surface, slowly wriggling!
The closer they got to those flesh-colored objects that looked like strange pupae, the more intense the fishy smell that made their stomachs churn became, causing many lords to dry heave and even vomit a lot of bitter water.
And under the feet of the lords, an extremely huge blood-red magic circle was spinning.
As the blood-red magic light flashed, the deep and complex magic patterns would make people dizzy and almost breathless at a glance.
"Mr. No. 19, I don't have much time to wait!"
A man in black robes came to the side of the leader, No. 19, and said, "Just now, Lord First Shura sent a message that the scum from the other world interrupted the transmission of the fools, and they are probably very close to here."
"Don't worry. Don't forget that dozens of high-level magic traps have been activated in the passage. Even those despicable aliens and vampires can't get here so quickly!"
The skeleton staff in the hands of No. 19, a black-robed man, flashed with a dark green light, and he said leisurely, "These pupae are about to break out of their cocoons. Wouldn't it be a pity to destroy them directly according to the order of the First Shura Lord?"
"I will use the flesh and blood of these trash as the final catalyst to perfectly hatch this group of "rebels". This will be much more effective than just killing them directly."
"Then the Supreme Master will definitely reward us well, hehehe."
After saying that, the black-robed man No. 19 raised his staff with an evil smile, causing the rotation of the blood-red magic circle to speed up a bit.
Above the blood-red magic circle, although the lords from other worlds did not know what the other party was going to do, an extremely uneasy atmosphere quickly spread among the crowd.
"Brother Li, are we dying soon?"
Among the crowd of lords, the frail female lord looked pale and looked at Li Fan standing aside, trembling as she asked, "Are they going to attack us?"
"Don't worry, we will be fine."
Although Li Fan's legs were so weak that he could hardly stand, he still gritted his teeth and said firmly: "Don't forget that Boss Xiaoshen will definitely come to rescue us!"
"He won't come! How could such a high-ranking person care about our life or death? Besides, there is no way that Boss Xiaoshen would know that we are here, right?"
Another skinny lord with a terrified face had despair and fear in his eyes. He was obviously on the verge of collapse. He said hysterically: "Just give up. No one will come to save us!"
After hearing the words of the skinny lord, the other lords all looked dim and lowered their heads in despair.
"What a bunch of rubbish. Even when they are about to die, they are still thinking about that despicable alien. It's no wonder. After all, they are all despicable guys from the same place. Hahaha."
After seeing this scene, the powerful brothers around all smiled teasingly, looking as if they were ready to watch a good show.
"Hehehe, the magic circle is finally complete!"
The skull staff in the hands of the black-robed man No. 19 suddenly flashed green, and then quickly turned into a shocking blood red.
His face hidden behind the mask was full of viciousness. He laughed grimly and said, "You bunch of foreign trash, struggle and die under my sacrifice!"
After saying that, just as the black-robed man No. 19 was about to cast a spell with an evil smile, a tall figure emerged from behind him, with lightning flashing in his palm.
(End of this chapter)