Chapter 365: Mysterious matriarch (1/2)
Chapter 365: Mysterious matriarch
When Han Shuo reached the lizardmen’s living area, the first thing he heard was actually the cacophony of fighting. Looking around, Han Shuo saw the whole place filled with dark elves, charging toward the lizardmen’s caves within the large reddish-brown mountain.
The lizardmen hid within the caves of the reddish brown mountain, using their crude weapons to defend against the dark elves’ attacks. These dark elves were all dressed in different colors, including violet, black, light green and several other colors. They were clearly an alliance of different clans.
There were almost ten thousand dark elves, but only a small portion were actually attacking the large mountain. Nearly seven thousand of them were still spectating outside, yet to participate in the attack.
There were a few handsome looking youths among the dark elves. Each of them had a particularly ancient scent coming off them, giving Han Shuo a headache. By virtue of that scent, Han Shuo could tell that their true age did not match with their youthful appearance.
There was also a tent of purple veils in the middle of the handsome youths. Han Shuo could sense a monstrous presence within the tent, evil yet somehow charming. When he tried to probe the tent with his consciousness, the person within instantly reacted, sending a wave of aura back along the route of Han Shuo’s mental energy.
Han Shuo was shocked, concealing his own aura in a hurry. He gave up on the idea of directly barging through, deciding to use the earth elite zombie to open a secret passageway into the center. Han Shuo decided to meet up with the lizardmen’s leader before planning his next move.
Based on the aura, Han Shuo sensed the vast strength of the person inside the purple veil tent. Although this person’s strength was not as monstrous as Ancient Lizard King Dagassi, it was much stronger than the typical great swordmaster or grand magus. Han Shuo carefully pondered for a moment. This person’s aura felt roughly as strong as Lawrence’s master, sacred swordsman Karel Ascot. When he reached this conclusion, he was aghast.
Han Shuo had never thought that he would meet such a strong expert in the underground world. With Han Shuo’s current strength in the separate demon realm, the Demonslayer Edge and the little skeleton, he could still manage a fight with such an expert. However, this expert was also accompanied by a few talented youths with particularly strong auras. Although they couldn’t hold a candle to the expert in the purple tent, they would pose a major problem to Han Shuo.
Furthermore, there were still more than seven thousand dark elves surrounding them. Han Shuo wasn’t presumptuous to think he could fight against this group of formidable dark elves by himself.
Using the earth elite zombie to create a passageway, Han Shuo travelled toward the center of the reddish-brown large mountain. Along the way, he constantly heard waves of clinks and clangs from battles. It seemed like just above him should be where the dark elves and lizardmen were fighting.
When he’d left the underground world the previous time, Han Shuo had discovered the location of the core zone of the lizardmen area, as well as the method to directly contact the lizardmen. After Han Shuo hurriedly made his way to the central area, he used the Demonslayer Edge to cut open the hard rocks, directly breaking through to a crucial gathering point in the mountain.
The crucial junction was a large ring-shaped cave. It was about as big as a basketball court, and its ceiling was covered with bright red sharp stones that looked like they might drop at any moment. There were stone plinths spread over the whole cave. These stone plinths had been ground down by the lizardmen until they were flat and suitable for sitting.
At present, a large group of lizardmen had gathered. It looked like they were discussing ways to deal with the dark elves. When Han Shuo appeared, the lizardmen head was pleasantly surprised. In the lizardmen’s tongue, he lept to his feet and jabbered a few sentences, leading the bunch of lizardmen in a bow towards Han Shuo.
“True God’s envoy, you must be here to save us. We have been waiting so long for you.” The lizardmen’s head used the common tongue in as respectful a manner as he could.
Wrinkling his eyebrows, Han Shuo replied, “The True God must have already left this place. What’s the matter with all those dark elves outside, why would they dare to come here?”
“Lord envoy, not long after the True God left, all the dark elves in the underground world unexpectedly stopped their internal conflicts, having all been subdued by a dark elf named Adele. It is said that this dark elf could communicate with their beloved evil goddess, Rose. She possessed an evil strength, unifying all the underground worlds’ dark elves in one short month.”
The leader hastily explained more, “She has led the dark elves in constantly attacking us lizardmen the past few days. However, these bastards currently still do not dare confirm if our true god has left. Hence, they have unceasingly probed us, but don’t dare to truly force their way in.”
The dark elf named Adele had suddenly appeared after Dagassi left. She had managed to unify the scattered dark elves in a short month, forming the single most terrifying power in this layer of the underground world. When Han Shuo heard the lizardman leader’s explanation, he was a little confused. He did not know how Adele had suddenly appeared and even seemed to know a little bit about Ancient Lizard King Dagassi.
Without a doubt, the expert that had felt Han Shuo’s mental probing was the dark elf Adele. If not for fear of Ancient Lizard King Dagassi’s presence, based on the strong aura Han Shuo felt from her body and the strength of the ancient dark elves beside her, they would have long since broken through this place and enslaved all the lizardmen.
As for how this dark elf Adele appeared, this wasn’t something Han Shuo had the time to think about at this moment. Coming to the underground world this time around was precisely to fulfill Han Shuo’s promise to Dagassi to protect the lizardmen. Hence, once the lizardmen’s leader had explained the situation to him, Han Shuo immediately took out all the weapons he had brought in the spatial ring this time round, saying, “I have brought these weapons for all of you. Don’t worry, i’ll help you in repelling the dark elves together.”
“Many thanks, Lord Envoy!” The leader of the lizardmen gratefully kowtowed in thanks.
Nodding his head, Han Shuo didn’t have much to say. Looking on as the lizardmen leader arranging manpower to rapidly distribute the weapons, he then released all twelve of the newly refined mystical zombies. Ten of the mystical zombies flooded the whole complex cave, while the other two flew out of the reddish brown colored mountain, hanging over the sky and spying on the dark elves’ movements from a distance. At the dark elves’ campsite, a handsome youth asked, “Matriarch, it’s been five days. The lizardmen are completely unable to resist; should we start our main attack?”
“Let’s wait a while more, I felt a weird aura just now. It actually tried to spy on me. When I wanted to search for the source, the aura vanished. This is quite strange.” A lazy yet bone-chilling female voice wafted from the tent. When the few hundreds of “young” dark elves beside the tent heard this voice, they all went a little dry in the mouth. A wave of trepidation arose from their hearts.