Chapter Seventy-Five: The Dark Regions
"Could it be that this is a hidden evacuation route?"
Thinking of the concealment of the entrance, Caesar thought that this was a possibility, but after another two hundred meters, he immediately dispelled the idea.
The black dragon's feet stopped, and he smelled the smell of the corpse, not fresh, but a dried corpse that had been weathered for many years, full of musty smell.
Caesar leaned down and lowered his center of gravity, the creature swooped like a cat, alternating between his front and back limbs, and after a corner, he finally knew where the smell of decay when he opened the steel door came from.
As far as the eye could see, the dark tunnels were covered with corpses, lying in a mess, and a very terrifying smell wafted from them.
Caesar counted roughly, and there were at least two hundred skeletons as far as the eye could see, and the more dense they became, the more they looked if they went any further.
Among them are not only the corpses of orcs, but even not only humanoids, among the mountains of white bones, there are a large number of reptiles with thick bones and strange skeletons, and some even have wing bones, and it seems that they can still fly before they are alive.
It's not a refuge route, it's a battlefield.
With fine dark vision, Caesar could even see the knives and axes on the crawling monsters, as well as the biting claw marks on the bones of humanoids.
Thousands of years ago, they fought to the death here.
"Click."
As Caesar scanned, the stacks of white bones seemed to smell the scent of the living, and several of them struggled for a moment, then stood up again at the sound of bones writhing, carrying their weapons from the past and swaying towards the black dragon.
The mana escaping from the air reinvigorated them, allowing them to attack outsiders, but the mana was too thin and weak to be noticeably small.
Otherwise, with so many bones in this place, it is not impossible to give birth to an undead knight.
Before Caesar could make a move, his gnolls had already taken the lead, and finally had a chance to show themselves in front of their new masters, and these wolf cubs couldn't wait to pounce on them, and the body of the unintelligent skeleton without magic wrapped in baptism was like paper paste, and it was instantly torn apart by sharp claws and fangs, and the bone stubble was scattered all around.
They continued to walk downward.
After being attacked by six groups of unintelligent skeletons, Caesar finally came to the end of the road, and saw a broken stone door at the end of the tunnel, which was several circles larger than the black dragon, and half a meter thick, such a width could allow a young or even elderly red dragon to enter and exit freely.
The joints of the stone door on the right were partially pierced, and the ground was covered with rubble, and it is thought that it had been violently impacted, but the upper and lower edges were still firmly embedded in the door slots.
The door was heavy, heavier than expected.
However, in terms of strength, Caesar is definitely beyond imagination, so when this guy really began to exert his strength, the huge stone gate that had been sealed for a long time also slowly opened.
The tunnel shook a few times, and as the stone gate opened the cave, the monstrous smoke and dust were also swept away and spread around.
Caesar was able to see the light of day again.
How can there be light underground?
The light from nowhere sprinkled down, white and without any temperature to speak of, but it illuminated the area, and the black dragon raised his eyes to the sky, but he did not see the imaginary dome of hard earth, but a gray and cloud-like thing.
Then he saw the plants in front of him, which were surprisingly large and luxuriant, but they were very dead and silent, and the speed of the air around them was almost stagnant.
"This is ......"
What I saw in front of me was extremely unscientific, and in the depths of Eladia's underground, there was still such a large space, and it seemed that life was still pregnant.
This isn't the bottomless abyss Bato Hell, it's more like the underworld, the dark region?
Caesar guessed that he remembered that in a conversation with the old wizard, he had heard similar words mentioned by the other party, and it was rumored that there were countless magic nodes under Eladia, and each magic node was connected to a small dimensional world, which was called the Dark Region by the intelligent creatures of Eladia.
"I smell blood, Your Majesty."
Hogg approached the black dragon and twitched his nose beside him, "There are living creatures in this place. ”
Gnolls have a more sensitive sense of smell than dragons, and can actually smell every smell in the air, but their sense of smell is an advantage and sometimes a weakness.
"It's really a dark area."
However, Caesar didn't care about this now, he rubbed his chin, although he didn't see any living creatures in his sight, but after this time together, the black dragon knew that Hogg was a very intelligent and capable leader of the gnolls, and he would not be confused and fooled at such a time.
Beneath the ruins of this thousand-year-old city, there is still a passage with a magical node.
In the outside world, there are probably very few people who know about this matter, and I don't know what kind of means the old wizard used to learn about such a time-honored secret.
He even knew how to open the passage.
After figuring out what this place was, Caesar instantly thought of the fact that the ancient orcs had built a fortress here in the past, and they may have been attacked by monsters from the underworld, but the orcs at that time were many times stronger than now, so they repelled them and drove these monsters all the way back to their lair.
The immortal statue of the Ancient Orcs may be some kind of seal to keep the underworld creatures out of attacking again.
You must know that the creatures of the dark region are no different from a scourge to any population on the continent.
The monsters are chaotic, ferocious, and aggressive, almost synonymous with evil and cruelty, even with the evil creatures of Eladya, they don't get along, and war will break out.
Any species of good or neutral will not let the creatures of the Dark Lands enter Eladia, and they will find ways to block the magic nodes and block the passages.
The exception is the five-colored dragon.
For the evil five-colored dragons, especially the red dragons, all the creatures in the dark region are excellent family minions.
The monsters of the underworld lack magical abilities, but their flesh is very strong, and they seek to be powerful, and they worship creatures with hideous physiques and strong strength.
This is simply a blessing for the red dragons, the reason why the red dragons can become the well-deserved head of the five-colored dragons, not by their half-hung magic ability (some red dragons are not even as good as the black dragons), but by their powerful strength that crowns the dragon population, even the strongest golden dragon among the metal dragons, is slightly inferior to the red dragon in terms of strength.
Moreover, judging from the appearance, the fierce and fierce red dragon also fits the definition of a leader of the Dark Regions race, which is something that all other dragons (including legendary dragons) cannot do.
Therefore, nearly one-third of all the currently known magic nodes connected to the Dark Regions in Eladia are occupied by red dragons, and their ease of subterranean monsters makes other five-colored dragons blush, and some famous red dragons even occupy two or three such underground worlds.
However, when the red dragon of the same year touched Caesar, it was estimated that he would be pressed to the ground and beaten. In that case, Sifu had found him a good place, and at least so far, the black dragon had never seen a creature that could compete with him in strength and physique.