Underworld nine
"Oh......" The archmage couldn't help but let out a long breath, after all, he was not mentally prepared to face one of the oldest gods, the god of death.
"One of the bravest warriors, you can call me Rhodes the Fearless. The middle-aged man's self-introduction was finally finished, but his few words that he deliberately paused and emphasized did not seem to be paid enough attention, which made his next words seem to carry a little frustration: "...... Uh, well, anyway, I'm a god, that's for sure. And it was the red dragon that I had called to this temple as a mortal. ”
The Archmage frowned, since leaving the Lich World, he had made a psychic connection with Caesar the Red Dragon, and the Red Dragon told him to come to this place far away from Duran City to find a temple, where the will of a certain god was waiting for the Archmage's arrival, but the Archmage had no idea that he would encounter such a majestic and solemn god in this temple that was not at all as majestic and solemn as the legend suggests.
"Gossip aside, time is running out, especially for you mortals. The reason I summoned you here is ......" The fearless Rhodes kept the words on his lips, hoping to see the look of admiration and anticipation on the archmage's face, only to be disappointed: the archmage had crept up to Rhodes and once again focused on the wound on his face. The wound was a bit peculiar, as if the Dungeon Lord, the demon Amtils, had been wounded by a demon-slaying weapon.
The fearless Rhodes hurriedly raised his hand to cover his wounds: "Who allows you to look at a god with such eyes, mortal? Do you know the consequences of angering a god, mortal?"
The archmage smiled and nodded. When he heard the words of this god, he was not afraid of Rhodes before him. Although there are enough traits to show that he is a real god. However, the archmage felt that Rod's ability was not as strong as he himself said, and even without a staff in hand, the archmage could be sure that he was capable enough to defeat him easily.
"I forgive you for being rude. Rhodes raised his head as he spoke, "I have an important task for you, this human mage. You will have great glory and endless riches, and you will become the greatest ...... in the world."
"Wait. The archmage interrupted the deity's words, and he suddenly remembered that in any legend, the task entrusted to the deity was definitely not an easy task: "Why are you looking for us, and not others, your believers, or the brave?"
"Well, it's a god's reward. This wound on my face, this wound was healed with Blue Mist Grass. It's the Blue Mist Grass that you and the Red Dragon got back from that place. And this task is to reward you for this little achievement. ”
"Well, this reward will be spared. Maybe make a discount and cash out? It's a little bit easier for everybody. "Aqiman is not very interested in the mission of the gods, and it is foolish for any mage to be born and die in exchange for a little honor and prestige, and the word wealth can still cause a little attraction to the archmage, but for Aqiman at this moment, it is the real ideal reward to leave the underground and return to the dungeon, and return to the comfortable days spent with demons, dark knights, and goblins.
"Cashing out?" the intrepid Rhodes didn't seem to expect to hear the words from the archmage, "Maybe I should have smashed the biggest diamond right on your head, but alas, I didn't." If I don't complete the task I have given me, I won't be able to take out a single copper plate. The gods are not all rich. ”
The archmage had no choice but to spread his hands helplessly: "It's disappointing to hear a god give me such an answer. And then there's the question: why me. And not others, like Am Tils......"
The fearless Rhodes seemed to be unable to stand the archmage's attitude any longer, and he directly reached out and knocked it on the archmage's head, but his movements were so clumsy that even the archmage, who was far from agile, could easily avoid it: "Stupid mortal, do you want a god to come into direct contact with a demon?"
"Well, it seems that I can't hide from it......" the archmage let out a long sigh, "Well, no matter what, it's not a bad thing to make more money. However, I think it's worth discussing the rewards for your missions. ”
"Where the hell did that mage go?"
It was Vona Dale, the head mother of the Daller family, the third family of Duran City.
This third is not an exact number: after all, Duran City can no longer hold a meeting of the family mother to determine the ranking of a certain family, but in the eyes of the Vona housemother, her Dale family can definitely occupy the top three positions among all the drow families in this area, and can even be considered the first family, if the human mage, Aqiman, is here. Aqiman himself has a lot of strength, plus the dungeon behind him, especially the dungeon lord, that demon, this is definitely a force that no race can ignore, and most importantly, the spider goddess also seems to be on the side of this human.
However, at this moment, the necromancer archmage Aqiman quietly disappeared into the Dale family and even Duran City.
The Lich's necromantic armies continue to attack all living beings in the region, and in just a few days, more than half of the original eighteen great families in Duran City have been wiped out. Before the Necro Army began to invade, the hostesses of Duran City had reached a fragile agreement that each family would work together to resist the attack of the Necromancer, but each of them had the same idea in their hearts: to use the power of the Necro Army to weaken the strength of the other families, so as to increase their own family's rank and prestige. The Masters thought and did so, with each family's elite troops remaining in their respective families, making it easy for the Lich Gyeys' necromantic army to break through each family's defenses one by one, eliminate one family, and then point the finger at the other. That's why the Daller family has skyrocketed in the rankings.
In fact, a small family was destroyed after the original first family. Tried to escape the area, over the end of an underground mountain range not far away. There are also a large number of drow elves living there. However, when the men sent by Mistress Vona to the city of Drow over there to ask for help arrived at the pass of the Underground Mountains. The Drow in other regions had cut off their access to each other, and they hoped that the Lich's ambitions would be to conquer Duran City and the area around Duran City, and they did not want to accept the refugees who had escaped from Duran City, as it might lead an army of necromancers to their doorstep.
In other words, the area is completely isolated.
The city of Duran has fallen completely. As far as Mistress Vona knows, the remaining Drow families are hiding in some manor or mining area outside of Duran City, and the necromantic army is unhurriedly exterminating these families one by one, and the other races in the region have suffered the same fate: the three originally wealthy dwarf towns have now become dead cities, the kobolds in two veins have been killed and wounded, and one of the veins is considered a good place for the Drow family to hide. And kill all the kobolds in the original ore vein. Half a day later, the army of necromancers who came to the mine completely wiped out the Drow family, and the bodies of the kobolds were mixed with the corpses of their killers.
The small farm where the Dalle family is hiding is by no means a safe place to live, and a large number of skeletons or zombies may appear at any time to turn everyone into their kind, which makes the mother of Vona send her family members around every day to scout, and look forward to the reappearance of the archmage Aqiman, it turns out that there is a special connection between the archmage and the goddess Rolles, who will not allow the archmage's family to be wiped out by the necromantic army. However, in the past few days, Mistress Vona's prayers to Goddess Rolles have not received any answer, and Mistress Vona's attention has been left to focus on another matter: her daughter sent to the earth, Rufa Dale, has returned. There is also a grey dwarf, who is said to be the representative of the demon Amtils, the lord of the dungeon on the ground, who has been sent to help the Dalle family.
The person who came was none other than Morgan the Grey Dwarf.
The Grey Dwarves who emerged from the portal brought important news: there was one city in the region that had not been conquered by the Necro army. In fact, it is impossible to even be captured by the Necromancers, and that is Iron River City of the Black Iron Dwarves. The Dwarves are known to be as strong as stone throughout the continent of Vesta, and the Black Iron Dwarves are the toughest of the Dwarves, and their city, the Iron River City, is not far from Duran City, but no one of the Drow has ever tried to fight them. The walls of Iron River City are made of unbreakable boulders, and the molten iron flows through the moat, which is why Iron River City got its name. Each Black Iron Dwarf is clothed in Black Iron Armor, and the hardness of Black Iron is second only to the rare high-purity Mithril, and the weapons, arrowheads, etc. on the Black Iron Dwarves are all made of Black Iron, and the Black Iron Dwarves believe that they are the oldest race among the Dwarves, because some powerful prayers have long since disappeared from the other Dwarven races, and the Black Iron Dwarf priests still remember these prayers.
If the Necro Army is capable of breaching the defenses of Ironriver, then all the cities on the entire Vestal continent will be undefended, and Morgan the Grey Dwarf has come to bring the Dalles and the rest of the Drow to Ironriver to wait for a chance to fight back against the Lich's necromantic army.
At the same time, Morgan also brought news of the archmage. Caesar of Thor's Red Dragon didn't know where he got the news, and then told the people in the dungeon that the Archmage had gone to the Holy Land of all the mages on the continent of Vesta, the Archmage's Tower, and it was said that the Archmage had received guidance from a god, and when the Archmage returned, he would bring a clue to defeat the lich.
A god Spider Goddess wouldn't lead humans to the Archmage's Tower, would she?" Mistress Vona was suspicious and asked another question, "So, what about your Dungeon Master? I'm looking forward to meeting him and discussing future deals and partnerships, after the Lich's necromantic army has been repulsed, of course." ”
"Demon, he has other important business, but I believe it definitely has something to do with your affairs here. Morgan the Grey Dwarf decided not to talk any more nonsense, the necromantic army could break through the door at any moment: "I think it's time for us to go, honorable matron." Send your people to inform all the Drow Elves to join us on our journey to Iron River City. Over there. I have two acquaintances. They shouldn't turn us away. But if we're followed by a horde of skeletons, it's hard to say. ”
In fact, the Dungeon Master of the Dungeon of Thor's Volcano, the Demon Amtils, is now doing something that has little to do with what happens underground, and he is busy settling in a group of newcomers to the Dungeon, all of whom are Seth's kindred, goblins, or goblins.
The goblins were found when Goblin was disposing of the corpse of the tax collector who had come to the dungeon to collect his taxes, and by the time Set found them, the goblins' skin had almost all been dyed pale green or light brown by the wind and snow. It's a small goblin tribe. With less than a hundred members, they had been living in a long-abandoned mine near Thor, and when a large group of humans had recently broken into the mine and driven the goblins into the snowy snow, the original leader of the goblin tribe, a bear goblin, saw that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly fled with a few of his cronies and rode wolves to the warmer regions of the south, leaving his tribesmen on the snowy mountains to wait for death.
So Seth took them back to the dungeon.
It is not difficult to settle these goblins. There are caves near the dungeon, big enough to hold twice as many goblins, and the real problem is food; Ness's last purchase only counted orcs and dungeon members. These are the reasons why the demons and the dark elves Ness, as well as the priest Ada, are walking the streets of Thor.
Buying food, Ness can be said to be familiar with the road, but after the last crazy purchase, the residents of Thor City seem to have little food left. According to the residents, there have been quite a few strangers in the city lately. There were explorers, blacksmiths and miners, and even a small group of Holy Knights, who seemed to be on their way to the vicinity of Mount Thor to expropriate a mob of people who had not only failed to pay their taxes, but had even killed the tax collectors.
"What the hell! I've never heard of opening a dungeon and paying taxes to humans. Hearing such news, the demon clearly expressed an angry attitude, but this news was not the reason why the demon came to Thor: "Then let's break up here, Ness go buy food, stupid priest go pray, it's better not to come back...... Meet at the hotel before dark. With that, the demon walked to the library in Thor, where he remembered that there were several ancient books, one of which contained detailed stories about undead creatures and lichs.
Today's library is different from what it used to be, and this is the first thing the demon feels when he steps into the library. The once deserted library of Thor's is now packed, and if a local were present, they would have pointed out that all the people in the library were strangers, a few men dressed as miners were poring over maps of Thor's city and the vicinity of Thor's volcano, and a large number of knights were flipping through all the books on history in the library. At this moment, the demon suddenly felt a gaze shooting at him.
It was a mage, as could be seen by the glint in his eyes and the black magic robes on his body, the mage's face was unusually thin, and when he looked at it suddenly, the demon thought that some bold skeleton mage had actually intruded into human territory, but then the dungeon lord felt the mage's body temperature and breathing. The mage silently walked up to the demon and looked directly at the demon's face.
"It's a pleasure to meet you here, Dungeon Master. The mage's hoarse voice was unusually low, and it seemed that he had no intention of revealing the true face of the demon in public, and of course, it was very easy for a mage to see through the illusion of the dungeon master to conceal his appearance.
"I'm sorry, I don't think I've ever known such a powerful mage as you before?" Even though the other party didn't seem to have any hostility, the demon still sensed the threat of the powerful magic in this mage. "Maybe I'll be lucky enough to learn the mage's name?"
"I'm Fakui Yeman, Aqiman's teacher. The mage sat down casually on the chair opposite the demon, and this action made the dungeon lord relax a lot: "I didn't attack or expose your intentions, otherwise you wouldn't be able to sit in this seat today." Take it easy. ”
Fakui Yeman was telling the truth, and the demon knew it very well, and in Onyx, the capital of the Holy Asyr Empire, Fagui Yeman had enough reason and ability to destroy the demon. "Maybe I should have invited you to my dungeon, but you know, in my dungeon, well......" the demon remembered his dungeon hall, the only thing that was slightly cleaner now was the corner that belonged to the Dark Elves and the Priestess, and everything else had become filthy, the work of the Goblings of their kind.
"I'm really interested in visiting a dungeon, not as an adventurer. A smile appeared on Yeman's skeletal face, "But that's not what I've come to Thor for, but since I've met you, I think it's better to talk to you about some things." ”
The demon looked at the mage suspiciously, as a human being, Fagui Yeman had no small reputation, he had participated in the destruction of no less than twenty dungeons, and all of them were more than three times the size of the demon's dungeons.
"Demons aren't a common race on the ground, especially since you seem to have a little bit of blood other than demons. But that's not the point, it's up to you, what is the purpose of running a dungeon?" the mage's tone sounded like a kind old man chatting with his juniors.
"Purpose...... Uh, make money, that's the most important thing...... Also, stay a little more comfortable. You know, a place where demons can live in peace without transforming is also a dungeon. The demon scratched his head, he had never delved into the question himself, and to the demon, the meaning of building his own dungeon was, in a way, like a child building his own sand castle on the beach. "Also, my friends, the Dark Knight and the Goblin, they also have a hard time gaining a foothold in human society, including your disciples. ”
"My disciple, Aqiman, is to blame. But maybe the old antiques in the Archmage's Tower should be a little more tolerant of necromancers and necromancers. Yeman sighed, then stared straight into the demon's eyes, "So, you, as a demon, have no desire for killing and death, blood and flames, and deceit and conspiracy? ”
"Killing and death, blood and fire, fraud and conspiracy? Maybe it's because I'm too young, or maybe it's because I'm half elven; that's what my mom said, my dad was an elf, but there's no guarantee of how much of it really is. The demon's tone was a little lost: "I just can't adapt to this qiē and was driven out of the abyss demon realm by other demons." ”
"Poor boy. The mage summed up the demon's past, and then moved on to another topic: "So, I would like to ask you another question, what do you think about good and evil? As far as I know, demons are supposed to be one of the representatives of evil. ”
"Behind the good there may be hidden evil, and the purpose of evil may be good, and this is the first thing I learned when I came to this continent. The demon had been a mercenary for several years, and all of this was his own feelings: "So there is no point in simply discussing good or evil. If I am the representative of evil, then it is enough for me and my friends to be good, and I am not going to hurt anyone in particular, but if necessary, killing and death, blood and fire, deceit and conspiracy are the ones that my enemies will meet. ”
"I'm disappointed by a certain kind of answer, and it seems that I have no reason to challenge your dungeon in a short period of time. However, you're a demon and you run a dungeon, which is enough reason for the brave to trouble you. The mage stood up and looked down at the demon: "Be careful, demon, Thor, Thor, Volcano, and your dungeon will soon no longer be peaceful. Be careful. (To be continued......)