thirty-four

"The spell of disguise of the undead is only valid for three days, and I have no reason to return to the surface for the time being. If you want to return to the surface immediately, you need to leave through another passage. But now the Underground Race is moving its forces through the various passages. If you follow me and wait for a while, I will find an opportunity to send you back, and I can give you blessings and disguises at any time. Fortan Ullis took a roll of parchment from his cuff and threw it back. Guderian reached out and opened it, and with the help of light, he saw that it was a map of the underground passage. But Guderian didn't look closely, glanced at it and put it away.

"Where are the main forces of the underground race moving?" asked Guderian after putting away the map.

The lich looked around the cave and said expressionlessly, "The attack on the United Kingdom and the Great Yu Empire is just a tactic. The target of the Underworld has always been the Inca Empire. The gates of hell that were opened earlier were meant to hold back the forces of the El Niño Line. ”

"Master, have you tried to contact the four countries on the ground? If you had you to deal with it, the human defense line would be much stronger, and many soldiers would have been spared the doom of sacrifice. Natasha said suddenly.

"Neiying?hmph," Fertanyllis sneered, "With the mistakes I made back then, do you think the surface world will still believe in me and accommodate me?"

"In a hundred years, I haven't woken up much. If it weren't for the fact that your Great Cleavage had caused my other personality to consume too much mental power, causing the power that was suppressing me to loosen, I wouldn't have been able to regain control of this body. Although we are still the same person, this soul has been torn into two incomplete parts, and the other personality has an absolute advantage. He used that torn soul to create the Lich's life box, and he didn't die if the life box didn't destroy it. And I, as the years went by day, as he repaired the other half's soul, I disappeared completely. The reason why he hasn't erased half of my soul yet, it's just that he hasn't repaired it completely, and because it's one, my demise will make him lose his strength greatly. So, even if I wanted to go back to the surface or make up for some of my mistakes with the news of the underworld, there was nothing I could do. What's more, this body is not fully recognized by the underground race, and it doesn't mean that you want to leave it. Fortan Ulis explained to the two.

Guderian couldn't help but sigh, it was really sad that a strong man who had once moved the continent had fallen into such a field.

"Fortunately, I woke up this time and was finally able to contact the people of the surface world. I saved you just to tell you this. I know that my sins will be recorded on the mainland, and I have no intention of justifying it, but I just want you to know that that person is not me. Fortan Ullis' eyes were filled with sincerity and hope. An archmage like him, who was once fighting on the front line for humanity, suddenly became an enemy hated by everyone on the continent, and the feeling of being at a loss for words was really torturous. And this torment is a hundred years.

"Did the master have an accident when he broke through to the peak of the thirteenth ring?" asked Natasha.

"What we call the end of the spell is really just a deception. So far, the cause has not been found. Fortan Ulis did not answer directly, "If you can travel to the land of elves and dwarves one day, I think the answer lies with them." ”

Guderian was confused. Natasha was surprised. For a long time, in the Lordaeron Continent, the mages thought that the thirteen rings were the end of the spell, and those who surpassed the thirteen rings had never appeared.

"The underground drow, ten thousand years ago, was actually a part of the ground elves, and they were all the bloodlines of the Sun King. As for the reason for being driven off the ground, it has been drowned in the years. Just like where we come from. Perhaps, there are still records in the elven realm of the elven continent. Fortan Ullis's eyes were a little foggy.

"What was the flying machine that Old Drow asked me to find?" Guderian asked.

"The legends of human origin are recorded by the elves. The history of our own human beings is only more than 2,000 years old, and we do not know the generations in between. According to Drow's accounts of intermittent and temporal distortion due to internal power struggles, humans did open the gates of time and space thousands of years ago to attract orcs. At that time, humans had a power called technology in their hands and built this kind of flying machine. By infiltrating and bribing some people in the four countries, Drow found out that the Great Yu Empire had dug up a certain ruin a thousand years ago and found such a flying machine, and the Drow wanted to master this technological power. Fortan Ulis explained.

"So, doesn't the Dayu Empire have mastered the power of this kind of technology? I've never heard of any of these things. Natasha looked incredulous. Guderian listened to the story and found it incredible.

"The Underground Race has always wanted to return to the surface and rebuild their kingdom. That's why wars are so frequent, but due to the internal power and civil strife, they have not been able to concentrate all their efforts to attack back. Sixteen years ago, the royal family of the last dynasty of the Drow successfully restored and unified the entire underground world, and it took ten years to make drastic reforms, which led to the war that now concentrates the entire underground power to attack the surface, which they call holy war. For this war, they did everything, co-opted the orcs, united the sea tribes, and infiltrated and bought some important members of the four human countries. The news of the aircraft came from the infiltration and buying. According to Drow's information, Da Yu has been secretly researching ruins and flying machines, but has hardly made any progress for thousands of years. Drow somehow mastered some so-called technology to confirm the authenticity of the existence of technology in the records, so after they launched the war, they also listed the looting of ruins and flying machines as their targets. It's just that the underground passage in Dayu is too narrow, and the terrain advantage of the human defense line is too great, so they didn't choose Dayu as the main attack direction. Fortan Ullis patiently recounted that he feared that once he fell into a deep sleep again or was taken over by another personality, he would never wake up again.

Guderian and Natasha were digesting the words of Fortan Julius and fell into deep thought.

"Have you decided, will you follow me or go on your own?" Fortan Ullis interrupted their musings.

"Let's follow you for now. Although there is a map, you said that the enemy is moving and concentrating forces in various passages, and it is unlikely that we will leave on our own. Natasha forgot about Guderian and said.

"Then, crossing this river, I'll have to wait for my next mission before I can get you back to the surface. "This river leads to the sea area of the southeast of the United Kingdom and the border of the Inca Empire, along the crack through this cave about twenty miles away, there are hidden passages on both sides of the river that can be walked, along the dark passage with the river for about half a month to reach the end of the secret passage, where is the whirlpool of the estuary, jump into the whirlpool will rush into the sea by itself...... Of course, with your strength, you can still get out of the whirlpool and into the sea unharmed. ”

Fortan Julius floated and continued, "You continue to pretend to be servants of the undead. I'll take you across the river, and then you'll be the main passage into the underworld. There are minotaurs and drow sentries everywhere in the passage, so don't talk anymore. Without waiting for Guderian and Natasha to react, he cast a spell to lift the two of them up and float through the cracks in the raging Pengbai River over the river.

So the three of them continued on their way. After crossing the river, on the opposite side of the cave is a huge entrance that slopes downward. There are traces of manual finishing on the flat ground. There was a gentle breeze in the passage, and it didn't look stuffy. The passage became bigger and bigger the further down it went, and after the three of them had walked for about a hundred miles, Guderian sensed the Minotaur and the Drow Sentry that Fortan Ullis had mentioned. Whenever Fortan Ulis passed through a dark outpost, he turned up his light spell even brighter. Guderian thought that he was trying to make the Minotaur or Drow see the two of them's undead clearly, so as not to be suspicious or wary or anything like that.

After walking for two days, Guderian felt that the passage was too large to be called a passage, and that it would be more appropriate to call it a cave. Huge mushroom forests are beginning to appear on the ground, or some faintly glowing forests of unknown plants. The whole field of vision did not appear dark, but looked like moonlight on the ground under some unknown bright light like stars on the top of the wall overhead. Some kobold tribes also began to appear, and kobolds planted or harvested something in some open land. In the mushroom forest or the shimmering plant forest, there are also some unknown animals jumping or flying, making some cries that are different from those of the creatures on the ground. Guderian and Natasha knew that the underworld had arrived.

From the time the first kobold tribe was discovered, there had been a flat stone road on the ground, and Fortan Ulis walked on the stone road with the two of them, without encountering any pedestrians. The surrounding white veil shrouded the horizon, with jagged peaks in the distance, fields of unknown crops in the distance, and the silhouette of a huge city looming at the end of the road.

"Ahead is the city of the underworld beneath the United Kingdom, and the only city I can pass through. My Mage Tower is in the middle of the city, and you stay there with me for the time being, waiting for the Drow Mage Council to send me the next mission. "Fortan Ulis led the way, and there were still five or six miles or so from the city in sight.

"Yes, Master. Guderian and Natasha said.

There was no rest and food for two consecutive days, which made the two of them a little weak. It's okay if you don't rest, but it's hard to be hungry. Along the way...... Where there is anything to eat, as a lich, it is an existence that does not need to eat, and it does not carry dry food with it.

"This city is called the Pearl. There are all kinds of races in the city, and there are many strong people, so don't look around when you enter the city. Maintain the demeanor of the undead. Fortan Julius commanded again.

The two nodded silently.