Chapter 7: Lillian
In the wilderness, a week has passed since Allen's trip south.
Although it was a harsh winter, the weather was sunny today, and in the endless wilderness, a huge rock like a mountain, the stone was covered with blood, and a huge pile of corpses fell in a pool of blood.
"The Bolton Mine is really very attentive to the precious Wild Heart, and this is the third wave of pursuers in the past half a month." Looking at the three wolf-headed orcs on the ground covered in gray fur and huge size, Eren gasped for breath.
To this day, this is the third wave of pursuers that Eren has encountered, three wolf-headed orcs. Without the human knights, in the endless wasteland, the werewolves and their mounts gained great mobility, and after the three of them caught up with Allen, they surrounded and suppressed the twelve or thirteen-year-old miner.
Alan summoned the flame imp, rode the giant wolf, and fought back, resisted for more than 3 hours, and finally seized the opportunity, found a huge mountain rock in the wilderness, took advantage of the terrain, and continued to detour, and finally won the final victory.
"The men of the Bolton Mines are getting more and more urgent, and it seems that we still have to go south as soon as possible and enter the city of Golden Raspars." Eren harvested the soul power, put away a pile worth a few gold coins, rode the giant wolf, and continued south. The pursuit of the Bolton mines, in addition to bringing Alan gold, equipment and skill books, also brought six giant wolves and five large horses to Allen.
In the open wilderness, Eren roams the way, like a merchant selling mounts.
According to the map, Alan had reached the southernmost edge of the wasteland, and that evening, with a sudden strong wind, Alan had seen the outline of a towering mountain on the horizon. These are the vast Skad Mountains, which originate in the northwestern highlands of the Sacred Continent and stretch for thousands of kilometers all the way to the only year-round ice-free harbor in the Northern Lands.
The Skader Mountains are towering like clouds, with peaks of more than 10,000 meters above sea level, as many as more than 1,000 peaks, spanning the northern part of the sacred continent, blocking the rapid southward movement of the cold winds in the extreme north. From the Three Northern Kingdoms to Raspar, one of the six main golden cities of the Holy Continent, Eren needs to pass through the Skad Mountains.
Drive the sun south over Alan's head and slowly descend to the west, gradually noticing the elevation of the terrain as the mountains get closer. The rest of the journey will only get harder and harder, and Eren will always keep an eye out for it as he enters the mountains.
Entering the mountains, the wind picked up again.
Alan found a suitable place, set up camp, and let the wolves and horses out for their own food. Summons the imp to follow closely behind. Alan now only has a storage ring that can hold a cubic meter of things, and if he doesn't let him find food on his own, this alone will waste a lot of Eren's mental energy.
At night, sleeping in the deep valleys of the reckless mountains, covered with animal blankets, and watching the clouds gradually thicken in the sky, Alan fell into deep thought. It's been more than a month since he came to the Sacred Continent, and Alan still feels uncomfortable.
What kind of power brought his soul to this plane, and what awaits him in front of him......
Just when Alan was slowly falling asleep in the wind and snow, thousands of miles away in the Bolton mine, a middle-aged man with a fat figure and a slight bald head sat in a wide wooden barrel, and the hot soup was boiling in the barrel.
For Resio, the owner of the Boton Mine, there is nothing more comfortable than taking a hot bath during this great winter.
But soon, the figure that appeared in the misty bath room made the middle-aged fat man Resio, who was enjoying himself, fall into a panic, and the comfortable comfort on his face disappeared without a trace, replaced by a cold sweat, even if the hot water was hot, it could not make the middle-aged fat man feel a trace of warmth.
"Resio? Well, my faithful servant, it's comfortable now, right? In the air, a cold voice sounded like what a young woman was saying, but every word was full of strange power, which made people shudder.
"Master, my honorable master! Greetings to Recio. Greetings to the great, all-powerful Lord Lilisa. ”
With a bang, the obese Lesio wanted to get up from the bathtub, but there was only the sound of water, but his body couldn't stand up straight, and an invisible pressure pressed the fat mine owner to get up.
Just when Resio was extremely flustered, the water vapor that filled the room gradually condensed, and gradually, a two-meter-high, snake-tailed woman with six arms and a bloody mouth appeared in the air.
Although it was not the first time he had seen the image in front of him, the hideous blood still frightened the mine owner, and Resio felt a burst of damp heat under him, and a stream of water flowed from between his legs into the barrel.
"Incompetent Recio, your enjoyment makes me feel angry!"
"Lord, master......" Resio instinctively felt the position of the phantom who spoke in front of him from the bottom of his heart.
A week ago, Resio, who was hundreds of miles away from the mine, received a report from the mine guards that the mine leader had been killed and that the money in the house had been robbed. At that time, Resio, when he heard the news, scolded angrily and rushed to the mine that day.
After a careful search, Resio found that there was one less slave miner, and it didn't matter if there was one miner missing, the important thing was that the bald mine owner accidentally discovered that the original miner was actually carrying him behind his back and secretly opened other mines in the mine.
How much is it worth to lose a slave miner and kill a mine leader, and it will be fatal to dig a mine secretly, the angry Resio didn't think about it, and with a group of men, he broke into the mine tunnel that the miner leader had excavated illegally. Then, Recio saw the bloodiest scene he could ever encounter in his life.
In the depths of the tunnel, Resio saw no extra miners, no mine tracks, no minecarts, and in the deepest part, only a pool of dark water. Flooding in the mine tunnels is not uncommon due to the accumulation of water in the strata, but Bolton Hill is not a place where black coal crystals are produced, so why is there a puddle of black water here?
Three of his men took Recio's orders to investigate the source of the Blackwater. Who knows, when the first miner touched the black water, blood-red bubbles appeared from the soles of his feet, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into mud, and the next two subordinates ended up the same.
In the mine, the smell of blood and viscera filled the air, and in the face of a puddle of mud, Resio was scared into a white sweat, vomited, and couldn't eat a little meat for at least three days.
In the bathroom, the hideous snake figure looked at the radiant and fat Resio, and was very unhappy. If Alan had been present at this time, he would have recognized this person from the phantom - the lower abyss plane, the first face lord, the Phantom Serpent Demon Lilian.
A year later, Lillian rose to prominence in the western part of the Sacred Continent, led the Dread Ghosts and Plague Walkers to establish the City of Enchantment, slaughtering countless creatures, and using advanced enchantment skills to rebel against a large number of Continental Alliances.
When he advanced to the second level (level 30) mage, Alan once accepted the adventurer's guild mission to go to the control area of the "Enchanted City" to find a potion called the "Imprisoned Pink Butterfly", for which he had several encounters with Lilian's clone and was very impressed.
Lilian, who now appears as a phantom water vapor, is obviously not as strong as Alan knew in his previous life, but she still can't be underestimated. Now that ninety-nine percent of Lilian's energy is left in the depths of the abyss plane, a crazy "corpse demon tree" has destroyed the snake demon's place of existence, holding most of Lilian's energy.
The cataclysm did not happen overnight, and the creatures in the lower strata of the Sacred Continent did not visit the continent on a whim. In fact, when ten years ago, when time and space changed, and the lower abyss was turned upside down by the powerful force of shock, and everywhere was covered in red-black magma, everything was already doomed.
For ordinary abyssal creatures, it is not difficult to pass through the spatial rift, but for the plane lord with strong strength, the power of space-time tearing and squeezing will tear it to pieces.
In order to establish a stable passage through the passage, the seven lords of the Abyss Plane reached a consensus to restrain the creatures under their command, and no one could reveal their traces until the passage was opened, attracting the attention of the powerful human beings and even the gods.
Ten years in the abyss, one year in the mainland.
The corrosive blackwater beach in the mine is actually one of the many altars that Lillian has on the sacred continent as the lord of the abyss plane, but the original leader of the mine who surrendered to him was too cowardly, and in a year, he only provided sporadic sacrifices to the altar, which could not meet the needs of Lilian's clone at all.
If it weren't for the "Wild Heart" that he had painstakingly discovered, he would probably have landed on this mountain range, and Lillian would have devoured it long ago. The owner of the cave, Lesio, accidentally broke in and provided Lilian with three "flesh and blood bodies" containing soul power for the altar, which Lilian, who was far away in the lower plane, was very satisfied, and a wisp of divine soul that always watched the movement of the continent appeared on the altar, but found a frightened fat man.
Finally, after listening to Recio's stumbling narration, Lilian knew that her previous slave had been killed, and Lilian didn't care about the death of a miner leader who had no ability, but Lillian found that during the time she didn't pay attention to, the breath of Wild Heart actually appeared, and it is said that at this moment, "Wild Heart" was not in the mine, and when she heard that all the treasures of the miner leader were swept away by a miner slave, Lily was immediately angry.
For this reason, at least ten mine roads collapsed, and fifty or sixty miners paid with their lives.
"My esteemed Lord Lillian, I don't know what you have to say when you come tonight." After the death of the leader of the miners, he was forced to become Lilian's slave, staying in the mines all day long, unable to go out and have fun, even a bath, and facing this terrible master.
Damn slave, if I let Resio catch you, I will definitely break you to pieces, the mine owner thought for a long time.
"There is no news from the werewolf army so far, and in two days, a dark elf will come here, and you will pick him up for me. Get that slave back as soon as possible, or your head will be a sacrifice for Lillian next time. The phantom smiled coldly and disappeared into the bathroom.
Lillian still has to concentrate on dealing with the extremely powerful Corpse Demon Tree, and now she has no time to talk nonsense with Resio.