Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Underground Palace of the Royal Court

The royal palace is located in the deepest part of the entire elven imperial capital, and it is a more mysterious and dangerous place than the palace dungeon.

The bottom of the dungeon is only given to it as a roof, which can be seen from this point of view.

Judging from a few sentences mentioned in a reliable historical book "Chronicle of the Elven Alliance", the royal palace has been closed for at least 50,000 years, and its construction time is even longer.

Some historians have carefully studied it, and the most strikingly concluded that the royal palace was almost the product of the same period as Thomas the Great, and after the death of Thomas the Great, the doors of the underground palace were permanently sealed.

As for why the dungeon is closed? What really happened in the dungeon? No one knows what to do.

Of course, there were also good people who proposed to open the underground palace and enter the investigation, but they were all strongly opposed.

Tens of thousands of years have passed, and historians' interest has shifted from the Elven Alliance to the Zerg, and from the Zerg to other heterotopes, and gradually, the underground palace has gradually been forgotten by people.

Coming out of the phase gate, Lin Yang was teleported into a small boxy passage.

There is no end in sight at both ends of the passage, and there is a luminous stone inlaid on the ceiling at intervals, and after tens of thousands of years, the luminous stone is almost weathered, and the light emitted is extremely weak.

On the ground, it's even worse, with a thick layer of dust, which can almost submerge the entire calf when stepped on.

"For thousands of years, it is already very ......difficult for this dungeon to be preserved in this state" Looking around, Lin Yang couldn't help but sigh, he took out the dungeon map that Helen gave him before leaving, and after looking at it for a while, he couldn't help frowning: "I'm dizzy, if it is enlarged proportionally according to the layout on the map, this royal court dungeon is simply larger than the entire Elf Emperor Capital!" ”

The quaint map was made of a natural parchment roll, and I don't know how long it had been stored somewhere, it had been completely yellowed, the edges were completely cracked, and with a little force, many oxidized fragments fell off.

On the entire map, there are black lines, outlining an incomparably complex underground palace, vast as the sea, criss-crossed, extending in all directions, there is no shortage of various dead ends, forks, crossroads, it is like a huge underground labyrinth! Lin Yang had no doubt that if he didn't have this map, it would be difficult for him to get out of here smoothly.

And in the center of this huge labyrinth, there is a rather spacious stone chamber, all the routes lead to this stone chamber, but on the map, the stone chamber is drawn with a large scarlet fork.

"Forbidden land." Lin Yang didn't think about it, so he said directly: "That fork must represent some kind of huge danger, and no one can enter." ”

Along the end of the passage, he walked straight forward, and then turned several corners, passing through several passages, Lin Yang was on the map, basically determining where he was, but he was not happy at all: "I am currently at this end of the map, and the exit is at the other end of the map, if you want to get out of the map smoothly, you must pass through the entire underground palace!" It's bad news that you won't encounter any danger along the way. ”

Shaking his head, Lin Yang sat on the spot, and spent no less than half an hour, studying the entire parchment map several times, and finally found a nearest route, and then began to move forward.

I don't know how long I have been walking, but at this moment Lin Yang is in a long passage with no end in sight.

The glow-in-the-dark stone overhead, glowing a faint white light.

"Squeak!"

In the boundless darkness ahead, there was a sudden whisper.

Lin Yang's heart sank, this was the first time he heard other voices in this dead and silent dungeon, and he couldn't help but immediately become alert, the two major secondary artifacts of the Bright Divine Armor and the Bright Divine Sword were instantly equipped on his body, this ghost place had been closed for tens of thousands of years, and anything could happen, he didn't want to overturn in the gutter with carelessness.

"Squeak!"

There was another scream, and in the boundless darkness in front of the passage, a small black dot finally appeared, followed by a second, then a third...... The dense small black dots quickly flew towards Lin Yang's side, and when it came to a certain distance, Lin Yang finally saw the comer clearly, and couldn't help but gasp.

What kind of small black dot is this, each one is huge, with pitch-black fluff all over the body, the wings are spread, definitely more than a meter, the eyes are scarlet, and the fangs are several inches long flashing with cold light, it is completely a giant bat!

And there are thousands of them, almost filling the entire passage!

"Run!" Lin Yang exclaimed, turned his head and ran backwards, fighting in this kind of narrow passage, not to mention the two major secondary artifacts of the God of Light, even if it was a real artifact, it couldn't exert much power.

Quietly performing the afterimage footwork, leaving an afterimage behind him, Lin Yang pulled the speed to the extreme, and ran back as if he was dead, he remembered that there was a three-way intersection on the way over, and soon, he came to the vicinity of the three-way intersection.

"Chirp!"

A scream came from a certain passage at the fork of the road, and then, I saw a huge black shadow, suddenly bursting out of the darkness like lightning, a pair of sharp claws, towards Lin Yang's head!

This sudden change happened extremely quickly, completely beyond Lin Yang's expectations, he could only rely on instinct, swing the Bright Divine Sword, and slash it down.

"Click!"

It seems that the strength of the other party is not very good, and he was directly cut in two by the Bright Divine Sword and fell to the ground, his flesh and blood tumbling, and he continued to twitch.

"This is ......" Looking at the corpse that sneaked up on him on the ground, Lin Yang couldn't help but feel numb in his scalp, this was the second creature he saw in the dungeon, the whole body was gray-brown, the eyes were blood-red, the body was about one meter long, plus the long tail was more than two meters, and a pair of front paws were as sharp as a knife, which could easily pierce through the stone slab, it was completely a giant mouse!

Rats have always been social animals.

An ominous feeling rose in Lin Yang's heart, and sure enough, it didn't take long for the sound of thousands of troops galloping at the end of a certain passage at this three-way junction, which was not big at the beginning, but then it got closer and closer, and the sound was like thunder rolling, and the earth shook the mountains! And at this moment, the giant bat behind him was getting closer and closer, and Lin Yang was almost hit on both sides, and the situation was quite critical!

"Damn, it doesn't matter, I can only interrupt the original route!" Gritting his teeth, Lin Yang rushed into the only passage that seemed safe in the middle of the three forks.

It was an area he hadn't set foot in yet.

Rushing into the road, Lin Yang looked at the map, while running forward as if he was dead, several times he was almost drowned by the monsters, fortunately, the terrain in front of him was very complicated, all kinds of passages and intersections, criss-crossed, extending in all directions, circling around in it, and finally throwing away the army of mice and bats behind him.

"Huh, this dungeon is simply terrifying, if there is no map, I'm afraid I would have died a long time ago......" Half leaning against the wall to rest, holding the map tightly in his hand, Lin Yang felt more and more in his heart the importance of this map to him, I'm afraid that Helen helped him get this map, and it took a lot of effort, right?

"Hey." Thinking of Helen's voice and smile, as well as the affectionate kiss before parting, Lin Yang shook his head helplessly, and felt uncomfortable in his heart.

After resting on the spot, Lin Yang took a step forward and prepared to move on.

"Click!"

There was a crisp sound under his feet, Lin Yang was startled, thinking that there was another army of monsters attacking, but he quickly figured out the situation, raised his feet, and the thick dust on the ground had already been stepped on by Lin Yang A deep footprint, and under the footprints, was a broken elf skull.

"A dusty skull...... Has anyone ever died in the dungeon? ”

Soon, Lin Yang confirmed this guess, one step, two steps, three steps, every step he took, basically had to step on a bone, sometimes it was an elf skull, sometimes a leg bone, sometimes a rib, in short, under the thick dust in this area, it was almost filled with elf remains!

"Oh my God, how many people have died here? It looks like a huge tomb, could it be that the entire Elven Court is built on top of the pile of dead people? ”

Looking back, looking at the row of footprints he had passed all the way, there were no less than hundreds of bones that had been trampled on, and this was just a drop in the ocean, and under the dust that had not yet been trampled, I am afraid that more elven bones were buried!

"This is definitely a place of great evil, so it's better to leave quickly!" made up his mind, Lin Yang was about to run away, but the whole person was completely stunned.

"Click!"

"Click!"

"Click!"

Behind him, the bones that had just been crushed by him suddenly made a crisp sound on their own.

A vicious chill rose from Lin Yang's back, he turned around again, his pupils contracted violently, and he saw those miserable white bones, one by one, splicing themselves together, turning into a skeleton, with dark green ghost fire in his hollow eyes, holding a rusty sword, and rushing towards Lin Yang's head and face!

"Holy!"

Lin Yang scolded loudly, waved the Bright Divine Sword, slashed left and right, and waved like the wind. Hundreds of skeleton soldiers, he was still sure to deal with them, coupled with the double attack power of the Bright Sword against the undead, for a while, the skeletons that rushed up were cut down and scattered, and the white broken bones were scattered all over the ground.

However, strange things happened, these skeletons, as if they had been cursed before they were alive, had just been broken up and torn apart by Lin Yang, and they actually re-assembled and continued to fight, no matter how many times Lin Yang slashed, even if they were completely broken, they still re-spliced and continued to get up and fight!

"Damn, what a ghostly place!"

In desperation, Lin Yang had no choice but to flee away. Along the way, under the dust on the ground, he stepped on more and more broken bones, as long as the skeletons he stepped on, they all got up from the dust, and the skeleton army quickly changed from hundreds to thousands, and the number is still rising!

And these skeletons, unlike the previous giant bats and giant mice, no matter how fast Lin Yang runs, even if he runs away in an instant, he will still be tracked down soon, almost ghostly! What's even more tricky is that these skeletons don't seem to be a mass of loose sand, they actually know how to encircle and chase and intercept, outflanking from several passages, and want to besiege Lin Yang!

What is it like to be chased and beaten by thousands of skeletons?

Lin Yang is suffering now, he is almost panicked, he picked up the map and looked at it, he couldn't help but have a big head, he had completely messed up the route, what guidance could the map give him at this moment? And from the general direction, it seems that Lin Yang has been approaching the central stone chamber.

A crossroads finally appeared in front of him, Lin Yang was overjoyed, and carefully compared it on the map, this crossroads, there is a certain passage, you can leave this Jedi.

With a burst of acceleration under his feet, Lin Yang quickly rushed to the middle of the crossroads.

Looking at the other three long passages, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, completely desperate. I saw the passage on the left-hand side, and the dense giant bats were flying towards this side; And the passage on the right-hand side, there was a faint rumbling sound of the earth shaking the mountain, it was the only way out of the road, and it was actually blocked by rats; Behind him, there was an endless army of skeletons, rushing forward one after another.

Right now, there is only one road left in front of you, flat and quiet.

After looking at the map in his hand, Lin Yang couldn't help but smile bitterly: "This is the road to the central stone chamber......

……

Time passed in a hurry, and above the ground, the sun was already rising.

The entire imperial capital ushered in the early morning and gradually became lively. The streets began to be filled with more pedestrians, and the shops on both sides kept opening, and the cries of hawkers were endless.

This is a majestic domed hall, the entrance is heavily guarded, early in the morning, there are constantly people from all walks of life, from all directions, some on foot, some on horseback, some in carriages, or sitting on all kinds of flying beasts, and even some directly in the sky. Their purpose is surprisingly unified, just to be able to enter this hall as soon as possible and occupy a place.

As for these people who came to the main hall, they were all surprisingly big, the representatives of the elven elders of the five major tribes of nature, sacred, mountain, darkness, and cave, the elders of the elven alliance elder congregation, the well-known councilors of the five major tribes, the father and son of the Mensa family, the ministers of the holy elf royal family, the elven king Edwin, Princess Helen, the elven god of war Karpas, and some officials who were well-known in the local area.

For ordinary people, everyone here can be regarded as thunderous, and they want to see it on weekdays, but it is more difficult than climbing to the sky, but today they gather together.

And this domed hall is the elven court.

Today is also the day of Lin Yang's public trial.

……

Accompanied by Karpass, Helen stepped into the hall with bright clothes and bright eyes, and immediately attracted the attention of many young rich children.

Wallace, the only heir of the Mensa family, one of the arms cut off by Lin Yang at this moment has been completely connected, and the broken tendons on his limbs have also been restored to the same state. Many young people around looked at him with a smile in their eyes, as if to say: "The physical injury is cured, but I don't know if the injury under the crotch of Lu Dao has been cured?" ”

Treating all those people's eyes as air, Wallace walked up to Helen with a smile, tried his best to pretend to be a gentleman, lifted the back of Helen's hand with pure white gloves and kissed it, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a few years, Princess Helen is getting more and more beautiful, if you are the second most beautiful woman in the entire Elven Alliance, no one dares to call it the first." ”

Helen frowned, but she still bowed slightly, and smiled: "Thank you for the compliment, I don't know how the injury of the son of Dao Mensa is?" ”

"I've recovered, and Princess Lao is worried."

"Huh." Smiling, Helen walked straight away, her face quickly turning cold from joy.

……

After a while, all the important people appeared, and after a round of greetings, they took their seats in turn.

Elven King Edwin sat on top of the throne, and two gray-haired elven judges, a man and a woman, sat on the left and right.

Helen, Karpas, the royal line, and the mountain and holy elf tribes who have a good relationship with the royal family are all sitting on the left side of the hall.

The major forces of the three elven tribes of the Mensa family, father and son, nature, darkness, and cave, sat on the right side of the hall.

The Elven Alliance, on the surface, the five major tribes unite with each other, but in fact, they are secretly divided into left and right, and at this moment, it is undoubtedly evident from the seating situation of the major forces.

"There is still an hour left, and the trial of Lin Yang will officially begin." Looking at the magic pendulum clock hanging high on the wall, Patriarch Mensa said.

"Daddy." Wallace turned to the side and whispered to his father, "When Lin Yang comes up, you must put pressure on the Elf King to hand Lin Yang over to our Mensa family!" Then I castrated him, and then let him not survive, not death, otherwise it will be difficult to solve the hatred in my heart! ”

"Don't worry, I'm just a son like you." Patriarch Mensa Zhengse said: "With the influence and appeal of the Mensa family in the natural elf tribe, it shouldn't be difficult to let Edwin sell me some face." No matter how important Lin Yang's shadow martial arts skills were, he would first consider maintaining the relationship between the Divine Elves and the Natural Elves. ”