Knock knock!

A quick knock on the door woke Modrian from his sleep, rubbed his sleepy face, and looked up at the window, the night was curtaining, the stars were shining, and it was already late at night.

Modrian didn't have a love bed, and immediately got up to open the door, and if there was nothing important, Crane would not wake him up in the middle of the night.

However, at this time, he did not know that there were already people in the distant city of Edalas who had a deep misunderstanding between him and the cavalry of the Noxian Empire.

"Crane, what's going on?" Modrian asked Crane outside the door.

"I'm sorry, Lord Modrian, to wake you up in the middle of the night." Crane Fogues said apologetically. "It's Mistress Gregory who has returned, and has brought back some news about the Lenwall Mountains."

Hearing this, Modrian couldn't wait to go downstairs to the council hall of the main castle, and when he looked up, he saw that the hall was already crowded.

In addition to Gregory and the Noxian expeditionary cavalry, who had returned from exploring the Lenwall Mountains, Darius had also arrived and was whispering to Gregory.

Turning his gaze, Modrian looked at the most striking thing in the chamber, the corpse of a giant monster shaped like a multi-legged insect, its long tentacles dragging on the hard floor, rubbing tiny marks.

With serious eyes, Mordrian's eyes slowly stepped forward, carefully observing the corpse of the monster that resembled a multi-legged insect, its sharp forelimbs and claws glittering with terrifying ferocity in the magical light, and its strong jaws made it undoubted that it would easily crush trees and stones.

As if it wasn't enough, Modrian stretched out his right hand and gently stroked the hard and heavy brown jaw, and when he touched the spot outside the carapace, there was a slight tingling sensation.

"Gregory, it seems that this expedition to the Lenwall Mountains is not going well?" Modrian whispered, his eyes wandering over the torn heavy armor.

"Yes, Lord Modrian, we were exploring when this strange insect creature swooped us down from beneath the ground." Gregory shrugged his shoulders helplessly, recalling the scene, his tone full of joy.

"If it weren't for the fact that I sensed a slight energy fluctuation in advance, we might have lost a lot of people this time, but fortunately, we finally slaughtered this big guy."

"Underground raid?" Modrian pondered for a moment, searching for the information in his memory, and suddenly remembered the relevant books he had seen in Perris Castle before, which were monster atlases compiled by the Violet Mage Tower of the Stoke Kingdom.

The Diggers, also known as the Stalkers, are powerful underground creatures that rival the strength of knights, and they usually like to haunt mountains and forests, using their strong jaws to dig deep underground through winding tunnels.

Whenever it is time to hunt, the Digger Worm will burrow upwards to the surface and wait patiently until its long tentacles detect a creature passing by on the ground. They then lunge out and grab their prey with their jaws, crushing them and secreting acidic digestive enzymes to dissolve them for easy swallowing.

Feeling a little uncertain in his heart, Modrian half-crouched down, carefully observing and comparing the fixed features of the monster, and at the same time, he also noticed that the fatal injury of this digging demon worm was pierced through the body by a heavy riding spear, and the corroded and broken body of the digging demon worm's body was faintly visible.

It was Gregory's handiwork, and Modrian saw it at a glance, and he knew very well that Gregory's strength was the most powerful force in Fort Dig except for Darius, the existence of a senior knight.

"Record, the name of the monster is called the Digging Demon Worm, good at raiding from the ground, with a strong bite force, unless you have the strength of a knight, you can avoid it after encountering it." Modrian instructed, and then looked around at the heavy armor of the Noxian expeditionary cavalry, which was more or less pitted.

"Another thing to note, the Digger Worm can spray acidic liquids to destroy enemies, so watch out for its sneak attacks."

Modrian clapped his hands, got up and walked around the corpse of the digging demon worm, but he didn't get anything, his eyes showed a trace of regret, it seems that he can only be disposed of as a monster material, and there should be legal professionals who specialize in monsters who are interested in this.

Wait, seems to have forgotten something important.

Just as Modrian was about to turn away, he suddenly remembered the monster crystal nucleus mentioned in the monster atlas, and dodged and pulled out the black heavy sword on Gregory's waist, and the sharp blade tore open the head of the digging worm.

Dark green blood mixed with a little white slurry flowed on the floor of the council hall, and a brown irregular crystal nucleus rolled down with a crisp sound of landing.

【Ding.......... Discovering the source of energy, does it allow the system to decompose? 】

Bright magic lights sprinkled down, the brown crystal nucleus shimmered with hazy colors, and Modrian had just bent down to pick up the crystal nucleus, when the cold system prompt sounded in his ears.

【Yes!】 】

Modrian showed a surprised look, he didn't expect that there would be an additional gain, the dark green data link emerged from the pupils, wrapped around the brown irregular crystal nucleus, and in an instant, it completely disappeared, as if it had never appeared in the palm of his hand.

【Congratulations to the host, Blue Essence*5】

"Crane, contact Cooper tomorrow and try to collect the monster crystal nucleus, I need it." Modrian raised his eyebrows and commanded, another way to obtain the blue essence could replace the crystal nucleus of magic items.

"Yes, Lord Modrian." Crane Fergus whispered.

"Gregory, tell me a little bit about the Lomwall Mountains." Modrian sat on a wooden chair in the chamber and tapped on the table.

The Lenwall Mountains, which represent the future of Modrian, are at the forefront of his plans, and the same is true for all of you here, who have come to the continent of Calradimos and need a territory of their own.

"Lord Modrian, the early stage of our exploration of the Lenwall Mountains was quite smooth, and there were not many dangers encountered, but the deeper we went, the greater the danger, until we encountered this Digging Demon Worm, and we had to return halfway."

Gregory muttered, then pulled out a piece of parchment from his bosom, on which a scribbled map was drawn and marked with a certain number of red circles.

Taking over the map, Modrian's eyes were half-squinted, remembering the warning of Old Jack of the Oak Tavern that the Lenwall Mountains had become so dangerous in recent years that they had become forbidden places.

Is it because of the existence of monsters? Or is it something else?

Modrian hesitated, his mind was full of blue essence, he licked his dry lips, and there was desire rising in his brown pupils, and looked up at the people beside him, Darius, Grigory, Crane, and the Noxian expeditionary cavalry.

Ambition, perhaps!

When Modrian had the extremely elite Noxian Imperial cavalry, more thoughts began to pop up in his heart, why couldn't he expect more? Use the blue essence to change the situation you are in.