……

In the moonlit woodland.

A beam of moonlight fell and focused on Lyra's body, and in an instant, white gas bubbled up from her skin.

Leila's body stiffened, and her eyes turned white.

Matthew instantly noticed that the moonlight he had attracted not only failed to transform Leila into a "Servant of the Moon", but instead had a burning effect on her body!

He was quick to shoot and cancel that beam of moonlight in time!

……

"Hint: Althea, the goddess of the moon, has denied your request to transform Leila into a 'Servant of the Moon'."

……

Denied.

Matthew has some regrets.

It may be that she has been prostituting too many times lately, and Althea is a little dissatisfied, so she refuses to provide further help.

Originally, Leila's switch to the moonshine camp was the best choice.

Because of her authority and domain, Althea and the Midnight God are natural rivals, and in general, even if she keeps a joke about watching the Midnight God, the Moonlight Goddess should take Leila.

The Moonhazy Glade is the realm of the goddess, and Gailan's power cannot reach it.

He didn't even know what had happened to Leila inside.

This is one of the reasons why Matthew is so bold.

Unfortunately, the results were not satisfactory.

However, Matthew was not discouraged, and although the goddess directly refused, she gave something else.

Matthew noted.

After the moonlight disappeared, a pattern of a bright moon half obscured by dark clouds appeared on Lyra's forehead.

That's another mark of the goddess of the moonlight.

……

"Hint: Your companion Lyra has received the Traveler's Sign, the primary blessing of the Moonlight goddess Althea.

Traveler's Mark: Journalists with this seal will be blessed by the moonlight, and chanting any of the 333 "Hymns of the Moon" for 5 minutes in the moonlight will have a chance to apply for access to the Moonlight Glade.

With the permission of the goddess, he will have the opportunity to enter the woodland and perch for a moment."

……

Traveler.

It is also one of the powers of Althea.

He responded in a clever way, rejecting Matthew's sky-high offer and giving him a little sweetness.

Leila, who has received the Traveler's Mark, will have the opportunity to enter the woodland on her own.

But only if Matthew does something that pleases the goddess.

This sigil will also not affect the relationship between Leila and Gaylan.

The Traveler's Blessing is the most common low-level blessing, and does not indicate a believer's faith in other gods, but at best indicates that she and Althea are friendly to each other.

At the same time, this treatment also retains the possibility of actually transforming Leila into Matthew's royal servant in the future.

"It's worthy of being an old goblin who has lived for I don't know how many years, and he wants to catch the old man's fire, and this hand-to-hand treatment is also leaky."

Matthew sighed secretly.

By this time, Leila had also come to her senses.

She touched the mark on her forehead, and her emotions were rarely a little high:

"The Oak Chamber of Commerce's North-South Trade Route can be operational?"

Matthew led her in the direction of the altar, and said as he went:

"Don't worry, how is your human socio-cultural studies?"

Leila replied honestly:

"That knowledge was hard for me, and I felt stupider than an underground warthog, so I had to give it my all, but Ms. Jinli said I was doing well, and I don't know if she was really complimenting me or just comforting me."

Matthew replied:

"Ms. Jin Li has always been objective, she will not easily praise a student, since she said that you are doing well, then you are really good."

Leila was silent for a while.

It's just that the steps are obviously lighter.

The two of them came to the altar.

At Matthew's call, Ella soon appears.

"Matthew, I didn't expect you to come so early this time, Samantha and Clegg are still on the way, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a while."

Ella happily stopped on Matthew's shoulder.

Soon, though.

She jumped to the other shoulder.

Ella glanced quickly at the drow warrior wrapped in the bandage, and whispered in Matthew's ear:

"I don't like her!"

Her voice was not loud.

But Leila could clearly hear it.

Matthew turned his head sideways and reminded:

"You didn't like me when you first met me."

Ella subconsciously argued:

"You're different, you're a very special being, but Drow, they're born with original sin."

Ma Xian intends to give an ideological education lesson to the soul of nature that eats the ancients.

Who knew that at this time, Leila actually took the initiative to speak:

"She's right, Drow was born evil, this soul of nature, I apologize to you for being born for Drow, I want to completely shed this skin all the time and change my identity, but unfortunately I can't do it."

Speaking of this, she paused slightly, pain and frustration flashed in her eyes, and her tone was low:

"If the fire of divine punishment could wash away the original sin in my blood, I should have been burned alive, but I could not get rid of the attachment to life, and at the moment of life and death, I was cowardly, and I once again sold my soul in exchange for a peaceful night's sleep. I'm still alive, and I'm still alive and well, so this nature spirit is right when he says that I live in this world with sins. ”

Matthew knew that Leila's heart was always full of pain and entanglement, but he didn't expect it to be so serious.

He patted Ella lightly, and then spoke comfortingly:

"After that divine punishment, you have been reborn from the ashes, Leila, you are no longer the same version of your old self, you don't have to cling to the memories of the past, you should embrace a new life and a new world."

Leila nodded:

"Of course I can understand everything you say, Matthew, and that's exactly what I'm doing, but I can't accept the life you've given me with peace of mind, and it's the kind of day I yearn for the most when I'm underground, but in the dead of night, my heart is always tormented - you don't know what it means behind the growth of every drow warrior."

"In the Deep Bottom, in order to please the Evil Queen Barbasha, the drows are mad, killing, conspiring, incest, tyrannical...... There are so many sins engraved on me, and I came out of there, and those sins will stay with me for the rest of my life.

Do you know what it takes to become a high-level drow warrior?

Training day and night, being beaten and whipped day and night, and always on guard against sneak attacks by peers...... None of these are the toughest.

For me, the most difficult thing was the final part of the promotion ceremony.

After the first few levels of the ritual, each high-ranking drow warrior is asked to go to the surface by the evil queen Babasha, who will have us find a human village, choose a family with children from the village, and then have to kill their children in front of their parents. ”

Speaking of which.

Leila closed her eyes in agony.

Ella asked stunned:

"So did you kill it?"

"Killed."

Leila replied with difficulty:

"I remember very clearly that my instructor took me to a very remote village, and it was daytime, and all the men in the village went out to work, leaving only the old and young women and children to do some simple work in their respective homes.

The instructor found me a house with only a baby and his mother in the house.

He tied up the mother and then made her watch me strangle her baby.

Under his threat, I did so.

When the baby was picked up by me, he had big eyes and smiled at me.

I can't forget his smile or his mother's howl in my ear.

I left the room in a daze, and by the time I came to my senses, the instructor had already killed all the old and weak women and children in the village.

He regarded it as an honor and intended to pray for the blessing of the evil queen as a success in this event.

I had an argument with him on the way back to the underground.

In the end I killed him.

I wanted to leave, but it was impossible for Drow to survive on the surface, and there was no place for me in other dungeons, so I had to return to Deep City with the instructor's head and confess to my mother that I had killed him.

I thought I would be punished, but instead I was rewarded by the evil queen Babasha herself.

After that, I lived numbly in the Deep Bottom for a while, until I became a training instructor for high-ranking drow warriors.

Soon, I received a task -

The Queen of Evil ordered me to lead a Drow warrior to the surface to attack a human village, and to assist him in completing the final link of the promotion ceremony.

I couldn't convince myself to accept the assignment and ended up defecting.

Since then, I've wandered around the Dark Regions......"

Speaking of which.

Leila's memories were interrupted by a rude voice:

"If I were you, I would kill back to that city and kill all those who forced you to do evil deeds!"

On the other side of the altar, Samantha and the orc female sword saint Clegg walked over.

They seemed to hear a lot, and it was the latter who spoke.

Clegg looked furious, and the thick nostrils characteristic of orcs rubbed out:

"Instead of living in guilt all the time, it's better to do something real."

Leila was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly:

"How can my power shake the rule of the Deep Bottom? They are too powerful, whether it is the main mother or the arachnid elf army raised by the evil queen Babasha, I can't compete with it alone. ”

The orc female sword saint said without changing her face:

"Then make killing back the goal of your practice, like what I'm doing now.

My hometown of Sturluk was invaded by an evil empire many years ago and is now in ruins, and I am the last orc to come out of Sturluk, and I came to the continent of Ayndor alone to find an opportunity to kill back.

When I think of my companions who went into exile with me and died halfway through, I feel angry and guilty, and I often ask Heaven why I was the only one to survive.

But these superfluous emotions always only hindered my progress, and I learned to live with them and even turn them into my nourishment.

I firmly believe that one day, I will be able to return to Sturluk and avenge my hometown and my loved ones. ”

Leila looked at her in a daze.

Clegg met her gaze without hesitation.

"You're amazing."

Leila said with genuine praise.

Inspired by Clegg's words.

She seemed to be in a much better mood.

Matthew said hello to Samantha before turning his head and answering:

"Empire? Which empire is it? Is Sturluk a near-moon sphere in the astral plane? ”

Regarding Matthew's attitude, Clegg was much colder, she just nodded.

Seeing this, Samantha took the initiative to explain:

"Sturluk is a sub-plane located in the astral plane, part of a near-moon sphere, and it took a lot of hardship for Clegg to break through the encirclement of the vanguard of the Antu Empire and reach Aindo alive, she is truly remarkable."

Hearing the last sentence, Clegg corrected:

"It's not that I'm amazing, it's that my people are amazing.

You can't imagine how much they sacrificed to protect me, no, everyone did.

In the face of that terrible and evil fleet, our horde is like a piece of paper, and it is not vulnerable at all.

My patriarch, the leader of Sturuk, the great legendary swordmaster Prokot, once went alone to prevent the massive starship in the sky from landing on the surface of the earth in order to protect the Horde.

Yes, on the opposite side is a whole fleet with thousands of troops.

And he was alone.

It's just that no one in the tribe can fight except him.

He was an otherworldly existence, and if he wanted to leave, no one could stop him, but he chose to die brazenly.

I've seen with my own eyes that Lord Proctor has used his life's work to cut off a starship with a single sword!

All the people in the tribe were cheering, and everyone was shouting praises for Lord Procot's godlike power.

Only he himself remained solemn.

It didn't take long for us to know why.

After the starship broke, countless dense shadows flew out of it.

Like locusts, they surrounded Lord Prokot and eventually devoured them.

As far as I know, Master Procott is completely immune to magic, and even physical damage can only cause him very little damage.

But those locust-like monsters are the kind of troops we've never seen before.

They resemble flying undead, covered in steel and structures.

They are filled with negative energy that is unique to the undead, but they are not as fragile as ordinary undead.

Neither purification nor dispelling work on them.

It was a long time before I learned that it was the technology that the Antu Empire was proud of and used to fight in all directions—

Necromancy.

After the defeat of Master Procout, my homeland was completely on fire, vast swaths of farmland were burned to the ground, all orcs were exterminated, and their bones were made into those terrible necrons, and all sorts of strange costumes were made.

At the time I left Sturluk.

The planet had become another sub-base of the Antu Empire, with tall buildings rising from the ground, large chimneys erected one after another on the plains, countless steel behemoths that spewed black mist and steam drove across the plains, and groups of flying space necrons wandered like nightmares between the mountains and above the clouds.

I saw the colorful light in those steel forests as the sun set.

It was a scene I will never forget in my life.

It is also a reminder that I must avenge my people.

I say this for nothing else, but to remind you that you are not alone in this world who has suffered the injustice of fate.

Don't give up. ”

From start to finish.

Clegg was all talking to Lyra.

She seemed to take Matthew as air.

But Matthew didn't mind, he already knew too much amazing information from the other party's words.

If the hometown of the orc female Swordmaster was really destroyed by the space necromancer of the Antu Empire, then it was understandable that she hated necromancers.

Although it is said that its own version is still in the stage of traditional necromancy.

And the Antu Empire, which likes to die, has evolved to a trendy gameplay of steel construction necromancy.

"I don't know where I am now, has the Antu Empire really perished? If it were according to the timing of the game, Clegg's hometown would have been invaded by a scattered space necromantic force. But if it's not, it's a bit of a problem. Forget it, after all, Aiindo is the main material realm, and the plane barrier is extremely thick, and it is not as easy to be invaded as the secondary plane hanging in the astral plane. Besides, there are tall people on top of the sky when the sky falls, and it won't help to think too much with my current strength. ”

I think so, though.

However, Matthew is still very interested in the Necromancy of the Antu Empire.

In his previous life, when he played the game, he encountered this kind of troops.,It's a pity that he belongs to the player who hardly looks at the background introduction.,He just loves to brush and brush.,In my impression,In addition to this kind of army is easy to explode gold coins,There's no other information.。

"As far as I know, this hive is also related to the Antu Empire."

Matthew spoke.

The orc female swordmaster glanced at him, and this time she actually accosted:

"Yes, that's why I agreed to come to Samantha to help exterminate the Zerg."

"The Zerg are not very powerful characters, my hometown has been invaded by them several times, but they have successfully banished them."

"I want to know more about what secrets are hidden in the base of the Antu Empire that was attacked by the Zerg."

Seeing that she was finally willing to talk to herself, Matthew hurriedly struck while the iron was hot:

"Since you have come to Aindor to ask for help, have you contacted the Seven Saints Alliance about the affairs of the Antu Empire?"

Clegg's face darkened:

"Of course I did, but the Seven Saints Alliance didn't pay attention to me at all, they left me hanging in an abandoned stronghold on the east coast for more than a month, until I repeatedly came to the door to ask for an answer, and a kind mage told me that the Seven Saints Alliance didn't care about what happened outside of Aiindor."

"It's impossible for the top of the alliance to provide me with any support, and afterwards, they kicked me out like a beggar."

"This is a lifelong shame!"

Matthew shook his head silently when he heard this:

"Maybe the Seven Saints Alliance doesn't even care about Aindo very much."

"Mages are the most refined and self-interested creatures, they only care about themselves."

Samantha looked at him unexpectedly:

"Are you laughing at yourself?"

Matthew smiled and didn't say much.

"Let's go."

Samantha smiled and shifted the subject, reminding everyone of the purpose of the night:

"In the past half month, the perimeter of the hive has been swept away by me and Clegg, tonight we will go directly into the inside of the gate, according to Clegg, kill the Zerg queen who hides in the depths and controls everything, and you can destroy all the Zerg Zerg."

"Our goal on this trip is to find her and kill her."

Between words.

She activates the power of the altar.

The soft moonlight enveloped the crowd.

Soon.

In a flash, they appeared directly on the 33rd floor of the hive!

Led by Samantha.

They left the confines of the Shrine of the Goddess of the Moonlight.

Soon after.

A huge iron gate appeared in front of them.

The iron gate and the underground space of the hive merge into one, and the surrounding stone walls are covered with a thick layer of glow-in-the-dark moss.

Matthew noted.

There is a shiny device next to the iron door.

It looks like a card reader.

His heart moved, and he dug out the access card found on the corpse of the Antu Imperial researcher from his bag:

"Do you need this?"

However, Samantha had already walked slowly to the card reader, took out another identical card from the inner lining of her jacket, and inserted it gently.

She smiled and said:

"While cleaning up the periphery bugs, we found more than a dozen of these cards."

Matthew shrugged.

But after the access card was inserted, the door did not move for a long time.

Samantha looked puzzled.

Then.

Matthew stepped forward, took the card in her hand, flipped it in one direction, and swiped it from top to bottom naturally!

"Dididi!"

A crisp electronic sound sounded.

Dark green light strips light up from both sides.

The door clicked open to both sides.

Samantha looked at Matthew in surprise:

"Why are you so skilled?"

Clegg looked at him even more suspiciously.

Matthew had to explain:

"As a mage, 'otherworldly knowledge' is also a compulsory content."

The voice fell.

The door slammed.

Leaving a space for everyone to enter and exit only for two people.

A stale smell poured out of it.

Everyone couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses.

Then curiously looked inside.

……

(End of chapter)