"It's ...... Coming back? ”

Li Qing put his hands on the ground and sat up, his brain still a little dizzy.

He shook his head vigorously, looked at Wendy, and looked around for a while, but he didn't find Ewen and the Thunder Prison General puppet.

"Just me and Wendy? By the way, Ewen and the Thunder Hell General puppet entered the illusion through a different passage, and their physical bodies stayed in a different position than ours. After the illusion is shattered, the consciousness returns to their respective bodies, and naturally they are not in the same place as us. But I still have to find them as much as possible, after all, this underground world is not safe......"

Li Qing and Wendy were banished into Sanssouci Valley by the undead. Before being driven away by the undead, they encounter a lich.

Ewen and the Thunder Prison General puppet, who were also driven into the Land of the Dead by the undead, also encountered a lich.

Combined with the function of the death artifact, the purpose of the lich, Li Qing can almost guess it.

"The purpose of the lich must be the artifact of death. As an undead, it must be the core divinity of the death artifact - it wants to make it a god! However, the artifact is surrounded by the illusion, there is a demon-devouring black mist, and the lich whose body is purely driven by magic cannot pass through the demon-devouring black mist, and personally enter the land of death to seize the death artifact, and it must use the ...... of the living."

In order to obtain the artifact of death, the lich drove the living through the black mist of devouring demons and entered the artifact illusion. Although it is impossible to be sure that the living who are driven into the Land of Death by it will definitely be able to obtain the death artifact, it will definitely stay outside the black fog of Devouring Demons.

Once the living who have obtained the Death Artifact leave the range of the Devouring Black Mist, they will inevitably be discovered by the Lich. Then the lich will snatch it. At that point, the lich won't be releasing water as they had when they drove them away.

"You must join up with Ewen as much as possible, otherwise you will run into that lich, and a puppet of the Thunder Prison General alone will not be enough to ensure her safety."

When the puppet of the Thunder Hell General is in the land of the dead, he can protect Yi Wen in the sea of tens of thousands of undead, because the undead in the land of the dead are all pseudo-undead who have been transformed by artifact energy. Only the demigod mummy is the real being.

The strength of the pseudo-undead is limited, and with the power of the Thunder Hell General's puppet first-level legend, it is not a problem to take advantage of the terrain to fight a defensive battle. But the Lich is different, the Lich is not one of those pseudo-undead without intelligence in the illusion, the Lich is a high-IQ mage, and it couldn't be easier to deal with a legendary beginner-level puppet.

"But here's the thing...... Where's Ewen? After deciding to find Yiwen as much as possible, Li Qing was immediately faced with a new problem.

In the illusion space before, after meeting with Ewen, he has been charging into battle. Later, as soon as he found the core of the illusion, he bumped into a demigod mummy. Then, the Queen of Darkness appeared, killed the demigod mummy in seconds, and after obtaining the death artifact, she quickly activated the artifact and shattered the artifact illusion.

This series of events came down with hardly any idleness. Li Qing and Yi Wen didn't have time to communicate at all, so naturally they didn't know where Yi Wen and the puppet of the Thunder Prison General entered the illusion space from.

"Although the environment of the underground world is extremely complex, the place where Yi Wen and the Thunder Hell General puppet enter the illusion space, there must be a black fog of devouring demons. That said, it's almost certain that they're near the Great Rift Valley where Wendy and I entered...... But the Great Rift Valley is already huge, and if it were to be expanded a little more......"

That's hard to find.

Of course, Ewen is not a fool. Knowing that there were undead outside, it was impossible for her to leave the Demon Devouring Black Mist lightly.

But the problem is that in the black fog of devouring demons, there is also a danger of existence. Before Li Qing and Wendy entered Sanssouci Valley, they encountered a giant puppet as huge as a mountain with eighteen heads.

Now that I think about it, those puppets must be the masterpieces of the ancient elf main god, and like the black mist of devouring demons, they are a defense to protect the death artifact.

Golems are powered by energy. Even a puppet made by an ancient god can't keep moving forever like a perpetual motion machine. For more than 40,000 years, the puppets in the Demon Devouring Black Mist must have lost a lot of energy and become weak. But Rao is so, and their strength is still strong.

Like the giant puppet that Li Qing and Wendy encountered, even Li Qing was unwilling to clash head-on with it - not that he couldn't defeat it, but that if he wanted to destroy the puppet, Li Qing had to transform into a nightmare super demon. In order to deal with a puppet, it is too cost-effective.

"Tens of thousands of years of idleness, no one to maintain it, are still so powerful, when those puppets were just created, in their heyday, how powerful should they be? At least all of them have legendary-level combat power! And now, the puppet, although weakened, is not easy to deal with. If Yi Wen accidentally encounters it, I'm afraid it will be a little troublesome. ”

Li Qing got up and was about to wake up Wendy and go to find Yiwen again. As soon as he stood up, he glanced at the altar before he could call Wendy.

"Huh?" At this glance, Li Qing exclaimed: "Death artifact? ”

In the center of the altar, there was a black bead, the size of a thumb belly, which was the artifact of death.

Li Qing also thought that the death artifact had been taken away by the Queen of Darkness - the illusion was shattered, and Li Qing and the others returned to reality. Without the support of the rules of the illusion, the Queen of Darkness could not appear in the real world, and could only return to sleep in the seeds of power.

Li Qing originally thought that the death artifact had also been brought back to the Seed of Strength by the Queen of Darkness as nourishment for her recovery. But he didn't expect that the death artifact was still left in the outside world, and it was placed on the altar.

"With the strength of the Dark Queen, it should be effortless to collect the death artifact and strip the core divinity. Why did she ...... Want to leave the artifact of death behind? ”

Looking at the death artifact on the altar, Li Qing's expression was very complicated.

The Death Artifact is the core of the Artifact Illusion. Whether it is Sanssouci Valley or the Land of Death, they all rely on artifacts to survive. Now that the artifact of death has appeared in the real world, the artifact illusion has naturally been shattered. And those elves in the illusion ......

"I guess there is no longer zài." Li Qing let out a long sigh, thinking of Ovilia in Sanssouci Valley, and of the elven children who were curiously watching him and Wendy.

Thinking of those elves, Li Qing remembered the Dark Queen's move to activate the death artifact and shatter the illusion space without saying a word.

The reason why the queen is so decisive is probably because she is afraid that Li Qing and Wendy will continue to make requests to embarrass her.

She is the Demon King of Ruining Miè, and she is already better at destroying and destroying Miè than saving.

Shaking his head and throwing the complicated thoughts out of his mind, Li Qing walked to the altar, reached out and picked up the black bead.

Starting with the death artifact, Li Qing didn't have any special feelings. The Death Artifact lay quietly in the palm of his hand like an ordinary marble.

After a few glances, Li Qing put the death artifact into his pocket. I don't understand why the Dark Queen left the artifact behind, but it's clearly not the time to think about it.

"Wendy, Wendy, wake up!" Li Qing crouched down in front of Wendy, patted her on the shoulder, and called her name.

As soon as I called a few times, I saw Wendy turn over and muttered in a daze, "It's not dawn yet, let me sleep a little longer......"

Li Qing laughed dumbly, simply grabbed her shoulders with one hand, supported her waist with the other, helped her sit up, and said with a smile: "Dear Highness Wendy, you are not sleeping in your palace now!" ”

Wendy finally opened her eyelids and wiped her eyes with her hands, and her hazy eyes gradually became sober: "Uh, Tony? After meeting Li Qing's gentle gaze, remembering his situation and what he had said before, Wendy's face was slightly red, and she stammered and explained: "I, people, people were just talking in my dreams just now, I, I don't usually sleep lazy......"

Li Qing smiled and shook his head, "Okay, His Highness Wendy never sleeps. But that's not the point, the point is that we have to do everything we can to find Ewen and them, and then find a way to get out of the underworld. ”

"Find Ewen and them?" Wendy looked left and right, "They're not with us?" ”

Li Qing explained: "They entered the land of death through another passage, and their bodies remained at the passage they entered. After the illusion is shattered, each person's consciousness returns to itself, and they are separated from us. ”

"Well......" Wendy blinked, "but where are they?" ”

"I don't know exactly where they are, but it's certain that they're within the range of the Demon Devouring Black Mist."

"Uh, you're saying we're going to look for Ewen and her henchmen within the reach of the Demon Devouring Black Mist?" Wendy frowned and said, "But there are terrible puppets in the black fog!" In the black mist, I can't release a single magic, and I can't help you at all......"

Speaking of this, she lowered her head a little decadently and muttered in a low voice: "There is no magic in the black mist, and there is no decent magic in the land of death...... It's not the adventure I wanted. ”

Li Qing comforted: "Don't be discouraged, in fact, you are still very useful." ”

"Am I useful? What role do I play? ”

"Give me the motivation to fight!" Li Qing smiled and touched Wendy's head: "I, as a person, can only exert 100% or even 120% strength when someone needs my protection." If it's just me, I'm a little lacking in motivation. Your saving zài has stimulated my desire to protect and allowed me to exert my combat power more unrestrainedly! ”

Wendy pouted: "So I'm the mascot......"

Having said that, she still laughed, obviously very satisfied with Li Qing's words.

"In addition, anyone can find themselves in an environment where they can't play at all." Li Qing said again: "It's like in the illusion, when I met a demigod mummy, I was taken aback." Because in my imagination, at most, I would encounter a legendary-level real undead, and it would not be impossible to defeat the power of me, Ewen and General Thunder Prison.

"But I didn't expect that the one guarding the death artifact would be a demigod mummy. In that case, what is my little strength? If it weren't for the Dark Queen's appearance, I might have been beaten half to death by the demigod mummy. If you're unlucky, you might even hang up.

"And in the battle between the Queen of Darkness and the demigod mummy...... Well, I should say that when the Dark Queen unilaterally beat the demigod mummy, I didn't help at all. But I didn't get discouraged because I knew that this time, it was me who needed the Dark Queen's help, but one day, the Dark Queen, would need my help. And I'll be able to help her.

So, there's no need to be frustrated by momentary weakness. As long as we continue to work hard to make ourselves stronger, one day, we can adapt to all situations and help our partners at any time. ”

"Hmm!" Wendy nodded vigorously and accepted Li Qing's encouragement.

"So, come on. Someday, you will become a great legendary adventurer. Now, it's time for us to set out to find Ewen and them. ”

"Okay. Well, but you've said so much, it doesn't seem like you've said anything about how to deal with the puppets in the black mist. ”

"Puppets?" Li Qing touched his chin and thought about it, and suddenly his heart moved, and he took out a death artifact in the form of beads from his pocket, and said to himself: "The Queen of Darkness will not leave a death artifact for no reason...... Could it be that the Death Artifact can restrain the puppet? ”

"Death artifact!" Wendy snorted lightly, staring at the black beads in Li Qing's palm, her eyes were extremely complicated, and there was a faint sadness: "Is the death artifact in your hands?" So, Sanssouci Valley is really ruined? ”

"Yes." Li Qing sighed, "Sanssouci Valley is ruined, the Queen of Darkness can't save those elves, she can only save us." ”

"Ovilia is a very nice person." Wendy's eyes were hazy, "Those elf kids...... It's also cute. ”

Although the elf children complained that their skin was not as smooth as the elves when they were watching, Wendy was not really angry because of this. She has the pampered and willful side of the children of the nobility, but her nature is sincere and kind, and her heart is full of pity and sympathy for those elven children who are trapped in the Valley of Sanssouci and can only spin in a small world for tens of thousands of years.

Now the thought that whether it was the kind and beautiful Ovilia, or the mischievous and curious elf children, or the little elf who had teased her by hitting her head with fruit, all of them could disappear with the collapse of Sanssouci Valley, Wendy wanted to cry a little.

Li Qing comforted: "Don't be too sad. Sanssouci Valley may seem beautiful and peaceful, but in fact it is a cage that can never be escaped. As Ovilia said, the elves of Sanssouci Valley are not happy. Adults, including her, have a strong tendency to self-destruct. And the destruction of Sanssouci Valley may be a relief for the elves. ”

"Hmm." Wendy nodded, wiped away the tears that appeared in the corners of her eyes, and forced a smile: "Okay, let's go, go to Ewen and them, and then leave this hellish place." ”

Li Qing smiled, took her little hand, and returned the same way along the passage into the stone cave of the altar. As he walked, he pondered the Dark Queen's intentions in leaving behind the Death Artifact.

"Artifact of Death...... It should indeed be able to restrain the puppets in the black fog. It is even possible that even the Lich can restrain it. But how can I take advantage of it? This bead is in my hand, and there is no reaction at all! ”