Chapter 14: Shattered Empty Mountain

Andrei and his men were not quite ready to go deep into the swamp. But there was no time for him to slowly try to make all the necessary preparations, and the pursuers were only three or two days away from them. The number of people is roughly four, and the number seems to be a little less than that of his own command, but you must know that the pursuit team is all composed of qualified soldiers!

What kind of combat effectiveness a qualified fighter in the usual sense has, Andrei did not have a specific concept in his heart. However, this did not prevent him from making accurate judgments, and according to general standards, including Andrei himself, there were only nine qualified fighters under his command. Ordinary succubi, like cowardly demons, are not eligible to be included in the regular combat power at all, and they can only be regarded as a manifestation of the strength of a prosperous clan.

With such a huge disparity in strength, if there is a sudden frontal conflict on the frontal battlefield, there is only one fate for André and his men, the male and the cowardly will be slaughtered, and the succubus will become a captive of the enemy to show off his strength. Not every leader has the mind of the Semorrah Conqueror, and will accept the surrender of the enemy as his own people in large numbers. What's more, the heart of the conquest has been confirmed by facts to be one of the fundamental reasons for his defeat and death, and a large amount of fresh blood has diluted the cohesion of the core of the tribe. Otherwise, the betrayers would not have been able to gather the power to deal a fatal blow to the clan in the back so quickly.

Due to the disparity in strength, the Children of the Abyss made a decision that would not have a second answer even if they used their toenails to think - destroy everything that could not be taken away, keep only the tools and a small amount of food necessary to go deep into the swamp, and the whole team traveled lightly.

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Garuda and the two horned demons work together to lift the grinding disc-sized rock, and they are about to destroy the clay kiln where all the tribe's pottery was made. The inner walls of the kiln had been pottened by the long hours of high heat, and the fire demon looked at the sharp shards on the ground with a little distraction, and he didn't know if he would ever have the chance to experience the wonderful feeling of using fire for creation again, as if everything was under his control.

Hurriedly destroying what was clearly a man-made artifact and sinking it into the pool, everyone was ready to hit the road. Although they were not ready to go deep into the swamp, they still needed to move immediately, at least at the same time as the pursuing soldiers kept a certain distance.

For now, the most urgent thing to ensure the team's safe passage into the swamp is something that André seems to be very common - shoes. In the puddles of the swamp there are a large number of parasites, leeches, which are not strange to the children of the abyss. They are not so numerous that they make your scalp tingle, but they are also a major threat if left alone. Not to mention blood loss and possible germs, if these annoying things only look like bloodsucking worms in his impression, but have the ability to burrow into the body of the parasitic or even lay eggs in the wound......

Just thinking about it makes Andrei feel chills all over his body, so sometimes it's better to watch fewer of those curious disaster movies!!

Responsible for the safety of everyone's lives, the animals around the swamp are all out of luck.

The succubus tanned leather Andrei didn't know anything about it, and the rotten leaves, sap, and urine were just part of the secret recipe. As for which ingredients played a role in the whole process of ripening the skin, the children of the abyss were also blinded. In short, the meat that can't be eaten is simply discarded, just for a pair of shoes that are shabby and pierced at the ankles like leather pockets. With such things on his feet and hooves, he would not be able to go very fast, but Andre had very low requirements, as long as he could prevent leeches.

You must know that except for him and his subordinates, no one in the entire Demon Realm wants to go deep into the swamp at all. As long as they enter the swamp, the pursuers will not dare to chase deep unless they go crazy. In order to achieve this, the Children of the Abyss have completely failed to care about the balance of the biosphere near the swamp.

It wasn't enough to put a piece of protection on the feet, everyone in the tribe mashed the Bora leaves and smeared them all over their bodies. The smell of this leaf is not only effective against ordinary mosquitoes, but also against worms such as leeches.

The smell of the earthen insect repellent water is a little choking, and at this time, everyone can't help but envy the snake demons in the team. Healthy snake demon skin can secrete a special oil, which is the nemesis of all snakes and insects, and the snake demon who relies on the snake body to roam the ground is naturally not afraid of all kinds of annoying insects in the swamp. With a much larger touchdown area than ordinary people, they are far more comfortable with falling into this natural trap than their bipedal companions when faced with the quagmire hidden in the swamp. For everyone's safety, the three snake demons were at the front of the line and on the wings.

Each snake demon had at least two loops of rope around their waist and belly that were twice as long as their tail, and the other end of the rope was held in the hands of the other leaders. Only the strong demons have the strength to help the snake demon companions out of the pit in the first place. There are also a few cowards with ropes on their bodies walking on the edge of the line in case of emergency.

The team groping forward naturally couldn't walk a lot, and from time to time someone stopped to remove the reptiles attached to the shoes, and then continued to rush without care. With Andre's various means of prevention, the children of the abyss regarded this evacuation as a novel experience. The threat of the curse has completely become a thing of the past for the demons who strictly abide by His Highness's rules.

In addition to the kettles and bamboo spears on each person's body, only two or three pieces of pottery were kept under the command of each leader, as well as some bamboo scoops for drawing water. The only people in the team who carried the weight were Lothar, who carried three puppies, and the four cowards, who carried Waclaw on a stretcher. This was a punishment for their neglect of their companions, and if they had realized that one of their companions was missing, Wow Claw would not have been so badly injured.

As for Dilard, who is the direct boss of Wajaw, Andre makes it clear that now is not the time to carry out the punishment, and the Winged Demon feels both happy and uneasy when he hears this. Because of his negligence in disciplining his subordinates, he caused so many troubles, although it was also because of this incident that they were able to grasp the enemy's movements in advance, but the Winged Demon, who was afraid of being angered, did not dare to use this as an excuse to intercede for himself.

In any case, since His Highness has decided to postpone the execution, it means that his small life is still useful. Otherwise, wouldn't it be more convenient to sink directly into a mud pit!?

The Winged Demon carefully controlled his posture in mid-air, looking at the destination of the team's trip. That is the unique mark left on this land by the great war of 500 years ago!

The legend of the Great War has long been impossible to find out the details of, but there is one thing that is very consistent between the different versions. The great leader who started this war is revered as the "King of Nations", and the legend of that demon king began with a space intervention that may have been accidental. Thus, the leader named Mushar al-Gesarez arrived by chance in a world known as Garlandia. There are different opinions about His Majesty's adventures in the other world, some say that he has obtained the secret treasure of the strongest creature in the other world, the dragon clan, some say that he has achieved a skill in his travels in the other world, and some say that that the world is an ideal home, and there is no need to do anything, and the rich resources can make a demon successfully advance to a height that ordinary people cannot reach.

No matter what kind of experience the demon king with a legendary life had in the other world, in short, after returning to the demon world, his strength increased greatly, and he gathered the most powerful demon lord at that time, and the mighty demon army passed through the "gate of all nations" opened by the secret method under his leadership. dragged that rumored world into a brutal war.

The final outcome of the war ended with Garandia's victory, after driving the invaders' army back to the Demon Realm. In order to seal and open the gates of all nations between the two worlds, the goddess of the other world with the same name as the land forcibly threw a vast mountain and river into the passage connecting the two worlds.

Since then, there has been a missing mountain in the land of the Otherworld, replaced by a huge deep and dark void, which may also be the source of the image of the creatures of the Otherworldly Realm to the Demon Realm in the future - the Dark Abyss.

The mountains and rivers tore apart the gates of the world that were not so stable, and finally sat on the land of the Demon Realm.

Five hundred years later, no one can tell in detail about the power of moving mountains and reclamation, but the miracles of that time still affect the inhabitants of the Demon Realm. The Demon Realm seen from Galandia was a dark abyss, but looking up from the realm around the Shattered Sky Mountain, one could see the blue sky of that wonderful world. Even the water source of the Cursed Swamp came mostly from the rain and dew that fell from that sky.

Shattered Sky Mountain is the destination of the team's trip.

Although that land was more fertile than most of the wilderness of the Demon Realm, few lords dared to expand their territory near the Shattered Sky Mountain. First of all, the curse of the vast swamp is its natural barrier, and the legend says that under the mountains and rivers is the suppression of the king of all nations who were defeated and killed back then, and that place is an eternal curse for all demons!

It's not that no one dares to go to Shattered Sky Mountain to find the possible legacy of the Demon Head, it's just that no one has found a trace of the legendary Demon King for hundreds of years. And the power of the abyssal will in that place seems to be suppressed, and it is an established fact that it is not conducive to the advancement of every demon race, so it has confirmed the name of the cursed land of the Shattered Sky Mountain.

André didn't set his destination in that place out of pure curiosity. Moreover, because on the vast swamp, that distant mountain is undoubtedly a good landmark to ensure that the team will not get lost. Anyway, Andrei, who is the son of the abyss, is not afraid of the cursed land that the will of the abyss cannot shelter, and his subordinates naturally have nothing to worry about. In order to escape from the pursuers, the curse is nothing, not to mention that the deadly chronic curses of the swamp have been solved by the wisdom of His Highness the great Andrew!

The curse there must be like a swamp to His Highness, and there is no possibility of threatening everyone! Everyone in the team has a beautiful blueprint for their future, and Andrei, who is dismissive of these god-like things, does not take the so-called curse to heart.