Chapter 496 - Plan and Move! (1/2)

Waves were brewing under the calm sea waters.

From Black Canyon to Treasure Island, the danger becomes more obvious. This was a place where even other sea races wouldn’t easily get involved. With Soran’s current abilities, he could easily feel the energy fluctuation from the bottom of the sea, which was quite a wide range of energy radiation. It was possible to encounter whirlpools in this area. It was uncertain how they were formed, but sometimes there were huge whirlpools that would suck everything nearby into the deep sea.

As of now, no one knew what was inside these whirlpools. Even the gods did not know what was in them, only have a vague image of the bottom.

Around Treasure Island was a volcano.

Although the island had great wealth, its geographical environment was much worse than that of Mordor. Maybe only the NPCs there could live there happily. There was no sign of eruption at present, but it was not clear whether the volcano would erupt in the future. However, some adventurers had made a special study and determined that this may be an active volcano, which would erupt once in about 100 years.

Soran led the fleet through the route he recalled.

Soon enough, there appeared a huge Island, on which there were quite lush primeval forests. The area of this island was more than ten times larger than that of Mordor, about two-thirds that of Taiwan Island. Such large islands were distributed near the sea area, many of which were leftover from the land sinking period. The largest island area maybe about 200000 square kilometers.

“Halt!”

Soran looked at the island in front and thought for a while.

He was now a conqueror when he came to the Treasure Island this time. Only by straightening out his mind would he not affect his next judgment. Because of the size of the island, Soran could only choose one location to land. There was no natural port here; in the past, small ports were built by the adventurers, so it was not convenient for the fleet to land directly.

“Roar!”

There was the roar of some creature.

Some trees shook on the island; with only a glance, Soran roughly knew where he was.

This was the territory of the [Giant Apes]!

That’s right, other than the NPCs, spirits, and odd creatures; there were also these naturally powerful monsters.

Giant Apes were one of the most dangerous creatures on Treasure Island!

If you don’t provoke them, these terrifying silver-backed apes were easy to get along with. But if you accidentally provoke these giants, they were absolutely terrifying!

A Giant Ape could weigh more than two tons. They had a body of steel and iron, huge fists that could open mountains and stones with their bare hands. The changing environment of the outer islands made these horrible creatures further strengthened. Sometimes these creatures could even be seen fighting with spirits.

Bottomless Abyss, 90th layer.

Due to the peculiar environment of the Abyss, there were some good geomorphic environments occasionally. On the 90th layer of the bottomless Abyss was a layer similar to the tropical rainforest. The leader of the demon here was called [Barlgura], which was a huge and incomparable orangutan. The apes of Treasure Island had always been suspected to have some relationship with the demon lord because all the apes here had good wisdom.

The other dangerous creature in Treasure Island was Slime.

On the mainland, Slim had become very rare. It was not clear why, but there were only some traces of Slim in the outer islands. However, the Slim here were more troublesome. They were quite dangerous creatures because of their natural characteristic to mutate and integrate with other creatures—the more harsh the environment, the more amazing their power.

On one side of Treasure Island were demon Slimes.

They stayed in a swamp area, so it would not affect Soran. Here, the slimes served the demon lord of the 222th layer of the abyss [Juiblex, The Faceless Lord].

This layer was also called the [Slim Hell]!

The demon slimes which resided in the swamps worshipped this demon lord; The Faceless Lord had many believers in the material plane.

Finally,

There were also plenty of wildlings on the island. They had tribes that were quite large and they worshipped demigod spirits.

Soran’s targets were these wildlings.

The servants of the Faceless Lord rarely left the swamp, while the giant apes were fine as long as Soran did not venture into their territory.

Other than these enemies.

There was not much danger on this island.

“Fly.”

With the fleet docked nearby, Soran’s figure also flew up. When he reached hundreds of meters, Soran saw the figure of Quetzalcoatlus, which was distributed on many outer islands and could be found almost everywhere. However, the size of the groups was very small; there were only dozens of them, which was not a threat to Soran at all.

Below him was a lush forest.