"Lord Castle, could you please think about it again?" The young face of the new sheriff Sna was full of insistence, "You are a viscount and the lord of a city, you can't take such a big risk to go to that damn cave! ”

"So, Sna, what level of fighting spirit are you?"

"My lord, my subordinate is a fifth-level trainee warrior, as you know, the Twelve Provinces in the Southwest are close to the front line of the war with the Demon Clan, so all our strong men with warrior strength have gone to fight against the Demon Clan on the front line. ”

"Your strength is not enough, and if you go, you will only be sent to death. Dick said indifferently.

"My lord, even if your subordinates beg you, even for the sake of the people in the entire territory, you can't take this risk!" Sna still insisted.

"Oh, you said I doubled the taxes for the people of the territory, how could you say such a thing?" Dick looked at Sna with interest.

"My lord, I understand your good intentions, you were the first to tear down the inner city walls, and you were also the first to organize an army to protect the villagers outside the city. So you have to be good to be alive!" Sna's expression was serious, and there was no hint of falsehood in his eyes.

Dick suddenly understood that Crand Weishenme valued the young man so much. But he still said: "Please rest assured, my strength is strong enough, even if I encounter any danger, I can deal with it." And I've made up my mind, so you don't have to persuade me anymore. ”

"Alas...... Okay," Sna said helplessly, "but please take me with you, my work can be handed over to the adjutant for the time being, and I will do whatever it takes to include my life to protect you!"

This time, Dick did not refuse his request.

Snar carefully selected from all the city guards, and finally selected fifteen of the most elite soldiers to accompany them into the cave. Five of the soldiers possessed fighting spirit, and the strongest one was even as strong as Sna.

A group of seventeen men rode horses and spent half a day from the city of Orel to the foot of the Gullitius Mountains. Then, under the guidance of a local guide, we came to that eerie cave.

In order to prevent new casualties, soldiers were already stationed near the cave, and when they saw Dick and Sna, they immediately bent down and saluted.

Dick finally saw the cave with his own eyes, and as the report said, the cave was located on a cliff, more than two meters wide and high, and could accommodate three or four people in parallel.

As if there was an invisible barrier, the outside of the cave was sunny and bright, but the light could not illuminate the cave anyway. The entrance to the cave is always pitch black. And from time to time, there is a yin wind blowing out of the cave, blowing goosebumps all over people's bodies.

"Bring the torches. Dick commanded behind him, and immediately a soldier handed him a torch, and Dick instantly lit the torch with a dark ball of fire, and walked first to the cave. Behind him, Sna followed closely with torches, followed by the fifteen elite soldiers.

The wind in the cave was strong and weak, blowing everyone's torches flickering brightly and darkly, and the firelight was reflected on people's faces, which looked very strange. After about fifty meters or so, the cave turned a corner, and at the same time, the terrain began to tilt.

"Boy, where are you now?

"Don't come out, I've got a lot of people around me, remember that weird cave I mentioned to you last time? Dick replied in his mind.

"It's funny...... "Boy, I usually see that you are very smart, why are you so confused at such a time, wouldn't it be good for you to say that I am the undead you summoned with dark magic? ”

Dick thought for a moment that this was indeed the solution, so he turned around and said to Sna, "There must be some danger hidden in this cave, you tell everyone to stop, and I will summon an undead to come out and find the way." ”

As soon as Sna whistled, the soldiers behind him stopped almost at the same time, which showed the strict discipline.

Dick bullied everyone present for not understanding magic, stood in place and pretended to lift his lips twice, a black mist poured out, and Dimhera swaggered in front of everyone's eyes. In fact, the light in this cave was dim, and even with the lighting of torches, everyone could only vaguely see two red lights.

"How's that? Can you tell what this place is?" Because of the contract, even if Dimihera left his body, they were still able to communicate with each other at a distance.

"I don't know, but the dark element is very concentrated. Dimhera said as she floated forward.

Dick suddenly was in a trance, and the group of people followed behind a demon, walking in the dark passage that slanted Xiangxia, and the road ahead would lead to hell?

Shaking his head vigorously, Dick knew that now was not the time to be cranky.

"About a hundred meters ahead, there is a blood demon. Dimihera's voice suddenly came into Dick's head.

The Blood Demon is the combat elite of the Demon Clan, and his strength is about the same as that of the Terran Race's seventh- or eighth-level trainee warriors.

"Everyone, stop!" Dick shouted, "There is danger in the 100 meters ahead, prepare for battle!"

The warriors immediately drew their swords in their hands, and Sna stood in front of Dick almost immediately, he turned his head and smiled at Dick: "My lord, let your subordinates open the way." ”

Dick didn't say anything, just nodded silently, and then recited a spell to give Shna a "Daredevil Wings" spell, and he drew his sword.

The group moved cautiously, ten, twenty, thirty meters......

Just as he had just advanced about fifty meters, suddenly, a huge and vicious figure rushed towards everyone with a fishy wind!

It was completely different from the shriveled and skinny low-level demon that Dick had seen in the internship mission, and by the light of the fire, he could see that this blood demon was about two meters tall, and his body was blood-red and muscular. Its head and torso were wrapped in a layer of white armor composed of exoskeleton and cuticle, and its right hand held a blood-colored giant blade, and the moment it swooped, it had already slashed at the head of the leader!

Dick immediately took a step forward and stood side by side with Sna, pointing his hand into the air, and several dark balls of flame condensed out of thin air and shot at the blood demon. At the same time, the long sword was raised, and it stabbed into the blood demon's eye with a tricky arc.

Because the space was small and he couldn't dodge, and the city lord unleashed a defensive magic for himself, Shna simply didn't dodge and took a hard blow from the blood demon, and at the same time, the long knife in his hand also swung towards the demon in front of him.

With a loud bang, Sna's long sword stabbed into the blood demon's exoskeleton armor and sent a series of sparks, but it failed to hurt the demon in the slightest, but in the same way, the blood demon's attack was also blocked, at the cost of one less wing of the night demon. Dick's dark flame ball and long sword attacked one after another, and the dark flame ball directly melted most of the blood demon's exoskeleton armor, and attached to it like a tarsal maggot and burned brightly. The long sword penetrated straight through the demon's right eye into the brain, and with the explosion of fighting energy on the sword, the demon's life also came to an end.

Subsequently, under the light of the torches, many mutilated human corpses were also found near the corpse of this demon, some dressed as civilians, some wearing armor, and of course, more mutilated and incomplete, and it was difficult to identify them before death. Presumably, these are the remains of the previous batches of victims.

Dick looked at the corpse of the blood demon in front of him, and suddenly remembered a question in his heart that had been puzzled for a long time: "Dimihera, what is your relationship with these demons, or rather, what is your relationship with the demon clan on the continent?"

The answer he got was simple, "It doesn't matter." Dimichra said lightly.

"It's okay?" Dick asked rhetorically, "Then I'll get the black pearl that sealed you in the hand of that demon priest?"

"If you have to talk about the relationship, it is that we all believe in the Lord of Darkness, and we are all called by the word 'demon' by your human race, and we all have innate darkness liliang, as for the question you asked, I don't know. I was sealed by a bastard, and then I waited for an unknown number of years, and after an unknown number of hands, Zuihou was in the hands of your boy. ”

"Moreover, just as you Terrans have different races, they are all called demons, but there are also differences between us, what you call 'Demon Race' on this continent is nothing more than the weaker abyss demon among the demons, in addition to the hell demons, fallen angels and so on. ”

"And which one are you?" Dick suddenly became curious.

"You don't have to worry about this. As if unwilling to say more, Dimihera said such a sentence and ignored Dick again.

After hastily disposing of the human corpses on the ground, the group began to explore further. It was still Dimihera who opened the way, and Dick and the others followed closely.

There are no forks along the way, but the slope of the passage is getting bigger and bigger. It is estimated that everyone should be walking underground at this time. Along the way, he encountered several guarding demon clans, all of which were higher-level abyss demons who didn't need to eat like blood demons and only needed to absorb dark elements to survive. One of the most dangerous of these was when they encountered two Voidwalkers around a corner, shrouded in mist, terrifying demons with their upper bodies like demons and a cloud of smoke on their lower bodies, immune to most physical attacks, and two warriors who were caught off guard and sucked out of their souls and devoured them. Zuihou or Dick used the "Hades Scythe" to get rid of them.

Dick didn't believe that the demons in the tunnels had come in from the border, and according to what he had read in the Academy's library, about three hundred years ago, the Miró Empire prospered under the rule of Edward I, a generation of emperors, and the most famous of them was to lead his army over the Gultius Mountains and take the twelve southwestern provinces of the empire from the demons.

According to Dick's deference, this cave was most likely dug by the Demon Clan three hundred years ago before the Empire occupied the Twelve Provinces in the Southwest. As for the demon clan Weishenme to dig such a cave and send high-level demons to garrison it, he has to keep moving forward to know.

At some point, the walls of the tunnel ceased to be dirt and stones, and turned into an eerie metal that emitted a faint purple light.

"Boy, I can feel that these ores are the reason for the abnormal condensation of dark elements here. Dimichra's voice came.

Dick stopped, his fingers gently stroking the ore on the cave wall, "This is...... Stygian Iron Ore. Even with Dick's self-control, he was not overjoyed at the moment.

Stygian iron is a special metal contaminated with the aura of the dark element, it is a very high-grade casting material, as long as a little bit of dark iron is mixed into ordinary weapons, it will immediately become a magical weapon of the dark element. At the same time, like all magic ores, the Stygian Iron is also extremely useful in alchemy and drawing magic circles. And the dark iron in front of him, which was full of caves, meant countless gold coins in Dick's eyes, a huge army, excellent equipment, and a large number of hired strong men. It means that shili's growth is a rolling financial resource.

And this tunnel is not yet there, and who knows how much Stygian Iron Ore is still hidden in the darkness ahead. Just by discovering the Stygian Iron Ore, Dick felt that the trip was worth it.

While moving on, Dick was already thinking about how to use these valuable ores, his current strength is still very low, it is better to keep a low profile, the husband is not guilty, and he still understands the truth that Huaibi is guilty. Mine a small portion of it for gold, but if he could, Dick would have wanted to arm the entire Demon Hunter Knights with armor and blades made of Stygian iron, but that would be too conspicuous to do so, at least not yet.

Everyone advanced in the inclined cave for about ten minutes, turned a few corners, and suddenly opened up in front of them. It is a naturally formed underground cavern, but it is not limestone that makes up the cave, but solid iron, and what flows in the cave is not groundwater, but boiling, blazing magma.

Through the faint purple light of the ubiquitous Stygian Iron. It can be seen that this underground cavern is about twenty meters high, and the length and width are at least three hundred meters, and a boiling underground magma river flows through the cavern. The cauterized nearby Stygian Iron made a melting sound. There are only two elements left in the air: darkness and fire.

"Be careful, don't get too close to the magma, or you'll get burned by the hot iron!" Sna shouted to the soldiers behind him.

So everyone stepped on the hot iron, and carefully searched in this cave.

Following the direction of the magma river, everyone cautiously came to the west side of the underground cave.

A huge cyan gate blocked the way, carved in front of it with hideous demonic reliefs.

A six-meter-tall Destruction Guard stood in front of the cyan gate, blood-red, with two horns on his head, heavily armored and a flaming greatsword in his right hand, behind which were a pair of broken demonic wings and a large, powerful tail.