Volume 4: The Swan Song (Remastered) Chapter 20: Doubts and Endings (2)
However, Yu Bin did not forget that in Lacorette's previous narrative, there was another very important character who appeared in the story, that is, the elven garrison Neumann Stargazer! According to Lacorette's account, the elven guard who had inadvertently stepped into the trap had been seriously injured and had to ask for help to escape. In order to prevent the four White Lich from sealing Lacorrite, and to prevent his body from being turned into a vessel for resurrection by the elven prince, the elven garrison Neumann Stargazer chose to abandon his existence after fleeing, and turned his power and soul into a tool to create those elven soldiers.
And this prop may be the treasure second only to the armor of Lacorette in the secret realm of Casaman's forest, and Yu Bin believes that it is in the elf's camp.
When he arrived at the dirt slope where the elven camp was located in the faint morning light, he found that a very strange offensive and defensive battle had begun to be staged here. The attackers are elven players wearing a variety of equipment, while the defenders are elven soldiers who were attacking the graveyard of the dead not long ago!
It turned out that at the same time that Yu Bin re-entered the world of Ntagre, Ophela Morninglight also entered this secret realm with the elven players with the Sons of the Forest team as the main force. Led by the famous Elven Prince Ophela and backed by a powerful team of Sons of the Forest, many Elven players have once again mustered up their courage. At the same time, as the fog continues to spread, the situation in the secret realm is also exposed to the eyes of players little by little, and many people want to get some benefits from this secret realm to make up for the losses they have suffered before.
A team of nearly 1,000 people quickly gathered under Ophela's command, and entered the secret realm when the first rays of morning light appeared. Players who have been sprawling out to scout quickly discover the elven camp located upstream of the river. At first, Ophira wanted to rely on her identity as a fellow elf and use this camp as a support point for exploring the secret realm. But the elven soldiers guarding the camp obviously wouldn't agree to his request. The elven soldiers, who mechanically obeyed orders, saw these elven players as reinforcements trying to rescue Lacorte, and attacked first.
As a result, the situation evolved into what Yu Bin saw. After eliminating some players who are not suitable for attacking the battle, as well as those sent out to explore other areas, Ophela can only attack about 300 people. In the face of defenses that even the undead could not capture, unless Ophira was willing to send the Children of the Forest and pay the price of hundreds of deaths, there was no way to take this elven camp for herself in a short period of time.
And the player obviously won't die for someone else for this purpose. The premise of their participation in the battle is to ensure the safety of their own lives, and they are not at all afraid of death like the undead. It took Ophela half an hour to break down the wooden wall.
"Hands and feet are pretty fast!" These elf players appeared here so early, so that Yu Bin immediately realized that there must be an initiator among them, and the prestige of this initiator is not small, otherwise it would be difficult for the elf players who had just suffered a fiasco to regain enough courage.
Carefully avoiding a few elf players who were exploring the periphery, Yu Bin came to the waterfall cliff behind the camp without difficulty. I have to say that the current players have not participated in several large-scale battles or wars, and lack relevant knowledge and ability. At the simplest point, when fighting a battle with hundreds of people, in order to avoid being interfered by some ill-intentioned guys, or to prevent local reinforcements from entering the battlefield, at least a sufficient number of sentries and scouts should be placed within a certain range, and some mobile forces should be reserved for emergency relief, which is the so-called reserve.
And now this group of elven players not only did not have any lookout posts on the perimeter, let alone organized a reserve team just in case. Yu Bin could even see that many players who had participated in several attacks saw that they would continue to fight like this, and they would lose a lot of money, so they left the team without even saying hello and went to explore other areas of the secret realm. This kind of unorganized and undisciplined behavior shows the amateurishness and laxity of these elf players.
But this just gave Yu Bin the opportunity to sneak in. The current situation is almost the same as when the undead attacked the camp, although the determination and courage of the elven players to attack are far less than that of the undead, but relying on each other's cooperation and various skills, the pressure on the elven soldiers defending the camp is not small, and even higher than the previous undead attack. At least when the undead attacked, not even one arrow tower could be destroyed, but Zeberu, who broke into the camp, single-handedly destroyed two arrow towers. And now, with the accumulation of a large number of skills from the players, only one of the arrow towers that has been repaired and restored to four can still be used, and the other three have either collapsed or are burning, and it is impossible for those elven archers to attack safely on them.
With the help of the shelter of the waterfall, Yu Bin relied on the black wing blade in his hand to climb up the cliff little by little, and finally successfully climbed over the railing arranged by those elf soldiers at the back of the camp to prevent them from falling, and entered this elf camp.
The buildings in the camp were disheveled, and many of them still bore scars ranging from light to severe, apparently gifts from Zeberu. In the center of the camp is a two-story turret, which is built in the style of the ancient elves, unlike the architectural style used by the elves today, and the top of the turret is a pavilion that is open on all sides, which is usually used for viewing the scenery and can also be used as a shooting platform when necessary. The corner tower is surrounded by cornices that stretch out in eight directions at the same time, and vines and tree trunks are intertwined to form pillars.
The corner tower is flanked by low-slung mud bungalows, and near the back of the cliff is a pool of stone, the center of which is constantly bubbling with clear water and bubbles, which is clearly the source of the water.
Almost every minute, an elven soldier can be seen coming out of the corner tower, then removing his weapon from the surrounding bungalows and joining the fight.
Yu Bin didn't immediately enter the corner tower, he slowly approached the pool by the shadow between the bungalows, observing the water inside. Although this secret realm is full of death power, the water in the pool here is very clear, and Yu Bin can even see the exit of the pipe at the bottom of the pool with a diameter of nearly two meters.
Without thinking about it for long, Yu Bin jumped directly into the pool and swam towards the pipe against the current. Thanks to the fact that the undead did not need to breathe and there was no danger of suffocation, it only took less than ten minutes for his eyes to light up and realize that he had come to an underground cave.
This underground cave is undoubtedly the real source of water, and countless trickles of water flow into the central pool of the cave from the rock walls around the cave, which is then transported to the pool at the camp through pipes at the bottom of the pool.
A simple stone altar stood in the middle of the pool, and a Mind Gem was suspended on the altar, and countless tiny threads of magic like hair extended from the surface of the Mind Gem to the altar, spreading its power through the amplification of the altar to the entire waterhole.
The trickles that flowed from the rock face were purified by the power of the Mind Gem after they joined the pool, and they were restored to a spring without the power of death to feed the entire camp. That altar is like a filter, playing the most important role in this fragile water cycle.
There are no statues like the statues used to guard the previous tomb. Yu Bin walked to the edge of the altar, reached out and took off the Soul Gem, and then put a Death Essence on it.
As Yu Bin guessed, the moment those magic silk threads were connected to the essence of death, they began to extract the death power in them, and the originally colorful magic silk threads quickly turned into pitch-black death silk threads, and wisps of black death aura quickly spread to the entire altar, and then spread to the entire waterhole under the influence of the altar.
Yu Bin put away the soul gem with satisfaction. This thing is a rare treasure, only under the threat of death, still adhere to the heart of the unwavering, keep the oath, and give life for the soul, can condense such a small soul gem. It is the purest soul power and the most powerful oath that not even a single god can break unless the oath bearer voluntarily breaks the oath.
That's why Lacorette was so scared when the White Lich took out the Mind Gems from their bodies, because these Mind Gems represent a person's purest soul and unshakable will, and although they have no power, they are enough to influence Zeberu's soul and control the heroic lizardmen to fulfill the oath they have made.
If it weren't for the complete dissipation of Zeberu's soul in that soul storm, causing the silver mirror condensed with soul gems to shatter and disappear due to the loss of its sustenance carrier, I am afraid that the battle that took place in the tomb would have ended in the victory of those white lichs.
On one side of the cave, a narrow passage has been artificially carved out, and the inside of the corner tower can be directly entered along the passage. When Yu Bin walked down the stairs and appeared in front of a newborn elf druid, Rao is druid did not have much wisdom at all, and subconsciously sensed that something was wrong, stopped and began to chant a spell.
It's a pity that this can't stop Yu Bin at all, and after stabbing the poor worm to death with a sword, Yu Bin began to look at the room located in the corner tower.
This is a room the size of a basketball court, and the ceiling is at least six meters high from the ground, if this corner tower was not built without the use of space magic, then this ceiling is the rooftop shooting platform that Yu Bin saw before.
In the center of the room grew a large tree, the trunk alone was at least five meters thick, and the canopy almost reached the ceiling. Dense phobia is spread throughout the space, with no leaves on the branches, only oval-shaped fruits.
After a while, a fruit fell from the branch, and after smashing on the ground, the crumbled peel quickly turned into fine particles, which were reabsorbed by the four large trees, and an elven soldier lay on the ground.
Such an incredible sight surprised Yu Bin, he didn't expect that the ancient elves' research on life had reached such an in-depth level. The tree was clearly a device used to transform flesh and blood, and the fruits were the cultivation tanks, in which elven soldiers continued to grow, compressing what should have been hundreds of years into just a few tens of seconds, creating an individual that could be used for battle.
The elven soldiers created in this way are more like puppets with elven appearances than elves. If the undead use their flesh and soul to create all sorts of puppet creatures, then what happens here is essentially the same as that of the evil undead.
Yu Bin used a weapon to cut open the trunk of the big tree, and sure enough, it was not any plant fibers, but constantly wriggling blood vessels, muscles, and nerves.
"What a terrible technology!" Yu Bin could probably guess why this technique was abandoned by the elves. On the one hand, it is too evil and has a great conflict with the ideas of the elves. The archmages of the Elven Empire can obtain the corresponding knowledge and abandon the bottom line, even if it violates the majesty of the gods, but when the empire collapses, the mainstream thinking of the elves has changed from exploring the truth of this world to continuing the existence of the elven race, and the means that seem to be full of evil like this undoubtedly belong to the part that is abandoned or sealed.
On the other hand, it is also because of its poor effect. These created elven soldiers are no different from hand-crafted mechanical golems, and their low intelligence makes it impossible for them to be a qualified soldier at all. Whether facing cunning trolls or cruel and evil undead, these elven soldiers can only be harvested, just as Yu Bin did in the beginning, chopping melons and vegetables to slaughter the elves who are engaged in a tug-of-war with the undead.
What Yu Bin was looking for was at the core of the trunk, a blood-colored ball that continued to shrink and beat like a heart was the source of the tree's power, when this ball was dug up by Yu Bin, the tree it was staying on was like a human body that had lost its heart, the flesh and blood began to wither, and the fruits on the branches began to shrink.
After digging up the power to produce these elven soldiers from the roots, this room became a storage place for a pile of meat.
Listening to the cheers coming from outside, Yu Bin smiled and stuffed the second Death Essence into the location where the blood-colored ball was before, and the flesh and nerves that were constantly shrinking around it seemed to have found hope, and the diamond-shaped black crystal was quickly wrapped. The visible black color spreads from the center of the tree to the entire trunk until the entire tree becomes a black cylinder.
"I hope you enjoy this gift of mine!" It wasn't enough to pollute the water source, Yu Bin even created a terrifying monster in order for himself to leave the Whispering Forest safely. The flesh and blood tree was completely transformed by the erosion of the power of death, and the dense branches turned into black tentacles, which were instinctively driven to stretch and squirm in all directions.
Yu Bin walked down the stairs leading to the cave again, and when he looked back for the last time, what he saw was that the flesh and blood demon tree entwined countless tentacles into a huge arm, smashing the gate outside the outer corner tower, and tearing up a few elf players who rushed to the front, eager to loot here.