Chapter 1231 - Dark Region (15) (1/2)

Verna was desperate.

Her two armies of reinforcements had crumbled, while the remaining dark elf mages basically went to her to take refuge. But come to think of it, these dark elf mages weren’t outsiders in the first place. Back then, in order for Verna to protect herself from both of her daughters’ conspiracies, she sneaked a group of spies into her daughters’ families to monitor their activities. Due to that reason, it went without saying that these spies weren’t devoted to their so-called ‘matriarchs’ and were the first to hide in the back of the army once battle commenced. That was how they avoided disaster and retreated to report the situation.

Upon hearing their reports, Verna was put in a tough spot. She realized she seemed to have made a rather foolish decision. She considered the situation from the perspective of dark elves, so it went without saying that she thought no matter how strong the enemies were, they were still a small group, after all. As long as she diminished their strength, even if she couldn’t annihilate them all, she could still suppress their arrogance and teach them that Carlesodar City was a city belonging to the dark elves!

And that it was not a place for outsiders like them to act brazenly!

Verna was already ashen at the thought of this sentence. She felt as though she were slapped several times in the cheeks, and they were red and swollen now. Not only did she not force the enemies back, but she also sacrificed two families that she groomed with utmost care. Moreover, several smaller families were also implicated and buried to the ground. Right now, it was complete chaos for Verna.

As the largest city of the dark elves, Carlesodar was huge. Even though the underground was different from the surface, this city was about the same size as Casabianca and also divided into districts. Duergars and bugbears basically resided in the slave distract of the outer city. A little deeper inside would be the business district, followed by the district for dark elves. Despite that, as smaller families were weaker in strength, they were situated on the periphery of the inner district, while larger families were based in the core. That was why the inner city was categorized into civilian, lesser-noble, and core districts.

Rhode’s group were currently located in the business district, while Verna’s directions of attack came from the civilian and lesser-noble districts. As a result, the three districts were in complete disorder right now. The civilian district was turned into a living hell by Shira, where the dark elves were minced, becoming a part of the bloody battlefield without a chance of survival. The lesser-noble district also struggled and eventually collapsed to Angelina’s undead army. Even though vampires weren’t as skilled as liches at creating undead creatures, they were experts in creating ghouls. Well, this wasn’t too surprising since many legends on this continent about one turning into ghouls after being bitten by vampires started from them. Even though Angelina wasn’t that thirsty to sink her teeth into dark elves, she, who was born in the first vampire family, naturally possessed the ability to turn her victim into ghouls without sucking their blood.

Facing the sudden emergence of so many undead creatures, the nobles were apparently unready. They never anticipated a situation where undead creatures would attack them in their own city. Moreover, Anne had also transformed into the Elemental Spirit and flattened more than half of the entire lesser-noble district. Her wind element was undoubtedly an attack that ravaged the entire ‘map’. As a result, some dark elf families who didn’t send out their troops and decided to enjoy the show were killed by the lack of air despite being in the safety of their homes.

The families who survived struggled whilst at death’s door. But before they pulled themselves together from the wind element’s suppression, they faced an ambush from the sea of undead creatures. Not only were low-level troops like duergars and bugbears turned into undead creatures, but Angelina also manipulated countless dark elf corpses into becoming her able-bodied soldiers. In the end, those families resisted, but to no avail as they were swept away by the undead army’s human wave attack. Meanwhile, those family members who weren’t captured struggled and couldn’t hold on for much longer.

On the other hand, it was even more miserable for the civilian district. Shira was entirely addicted. Other than those dark elves who fled upon witnessing the unfavorable situation from the start, none of the rest escaped. Shira was alone and didn’t use any AoE skill to bombard the battlefield like Anne and Angelina—until the wave of explosive arrows struck her and she released the steel chains from her body like a huge spider web to envelop the entire civilian district.

It wasn’t that none of the dark elves tried to escape. But as soon as they neared the steel chains, they were immediately shackled and minced to their death. Not only that, but Shira also continued to roam the battlefield, letting out a peculiar laughter as she smashed everything she saw, be it a building, person, or anything else…

Verna was also distressed over a thorny problem. Mini Bubble Gum practically charged her way over and slaughtered anyone who obstructed her. Right now, she had arrived at the east periphery of the lesser-noble district. Judging from her aggression, it seemed like she was about to barge her way into the core district and obliterate all the dark elves. The dark elf army was also utterly defeated by her. This young lady didn’t seem to understand what limit and holding back meant as she eradicated everything in her path. Even if one weren’t standing in front of her and were simply unpleasant to her eye, she would still murder one.

I don’t care if you are good or bad; dark elves should all perish!

Carlesodar City was in a complete disaster. The core district rumbled as all sorts of dazzling, holy bursts of light thundered from time to time. The city was as though torpedoed by bomber aircrafts and the dark elves were about to be sent back to the Stone Age.

Meanwhile, hair-raising screams of victims and roars of undead creatures rang in the south and echoed within the tall, pitch-black cave, leaving one’s hair standing. On the other hand, the west was in complete silence like a still, ice-cold cemetery. Perhaps not even the presence of life could be felt, not to mention voices being heard.

It was entirely out of Verna’s prediction for Carlesodar City to be tormented to this degree. She didn’t expect the enemies to be this powerful to ignore the deterrence of dark elves and launch attacks to eradicate anyone on sight. It was as though the dark elves who terrified everyone in the underground were nothing more than a group of free-range chickens. The enemies just couldn’t care less about what the dark elves were capable of.

This feeling… This feeling… This feeling…

At first, Verna was enraged. Then, she panicked and was now terrified. It had been a long time since the dark elves tasted this feeling. In the past, even though the Dark Dragon had indeed crushed them once, that happened a long, long time ago, after all. No matter how long the lifespan of dark elves was, none of them lived right after the Creation War ended (especially considering their unique values in life). Therefore, none of the dark elves experienced that catastrophe. Even though they heard of relevant legends from word of mouth and through historical records, it was only after they experienced it themselves that they felt petrified.

What gave Verna a headache was that the entire hall was in loud clamors before she came up with any counter solution. She didn’t know whether it was due to the continuous failures that made her reputation plummet or that the dark elves forgot the rules out of extreme fear for them to break out in huge quarrels in the hall.

But what they were fighting over was ridiculous. They were actually debating which enemy was the most terrifying.

The dark elves who were repelled by Anne insisted that Anne and Angelina were the enemies they should worry about the most.

We’re all spell casters, but have you ever witnessed an Elemental Spirit? Even if you haven’t seen one, you should have heard of it before, right!? How can we possibly defeat it? Also, that vampire created so many ghouls in the blink of an eye. It is obvious that she is definitely not someone we can defeat effortlessly. In that case, shouldn’t we focus all our strength on her?

Meanwhile, the dark elves who were fortunate enough to flee from Shira stood firm that she was the scariest enemy. They had never seen a crueler murderer than her!

I think we should get rid of her as soon as possible. If she comes knocking on our door, none of us will be able to escape! So what if it’s an Elemental Spirit? It’s just a materialization of a spirit and the top 10 matriarchs should have ways to deal with it.

On the contrary, the mysterious undead creature was entirely different. The dark elves tried coming up with various solutions, but just couldn’t figure out how to kill her. If Shira relied upon some skills and methods to defend herself, perhaps the dark elves could come up with some countermeasures. But the problem was that Shira didn’t need any of that as she defended using her own flesh. Facing such an invincible enemy, the dark elves were at their wits’ end. That was why the dark elves believed that Shira was their biggest threat, especially with her peculiar and frightening enjoyment while slaughtering her victims.

Upon hearing the complaints from both parties, the spell casters on Verna’s side were instantly displeased.

The reason why you bunch here are yelping is because your families are ranked in the 20s and 30s. Even if the top 10 matriarchs were to send out humans to deal with the enemies, the former will surely defeat them, not to mention dispatching dark elves. The whole lot of you are exaggerating. In terms of danger, that petite young lady is the most dangerous!

The petite young lady they referred to was Mini Bubble Gum. She faced the elite army of the fourth family along the way, which was termed as one of the best armies in Carlesodar City. However, the army was utterly defeated by her and even some advanced mages were killed! Besides, judging from the intelligence they gathered, it was apparent to them that Mini Bubble Gum was the leader of her pack. Therefore, their priority should be to form an alliance to crush her. As long as they eliminated her, the others shouldn’t pose an issue.

The quarrels between the three parties grew fiercer with one despising the other for being timid.

They can’t even bear to witness some blood. What an insult to the honor of the dark elves!

The despised party was unwilling to admit defeat either as they reprimanded the other party for fleeing upon witnessing the Elemental Spirit, claiming that they were really weaklings.

If it weren’t for you cowards, our family wouldn’t have lost so quickly!

Meanwhile, the third party insisted that the other two parties were worthless trash.

We will show you what true power is! If you were the ones taking on that petite young lady, you wouldn’t even dare to let out a fart!

The first and second parties were furious, of course. The first party yelled: “If you’ve the guts, go and check out how your matriarch choked to death due to the wind element!”

The second party also berated: “Perhaps you would faint once you witness how the Undead Puppet slaughtered everyone and wouldn’t be standing here talking to us now!”

The quarrels between the three parties reached the point where they were about to break into a fight. They didn’t even think that their actions had shattered everyone’s morale. The dark elves who were stationed in the family premises were already feeling anxious over the constant reports of failure. And now, after learning just how terrifying and powerful the enemies were, they turned as white as a sheet. If it weren’t for the exceptionally stern rules of the dark elves, perhaps they would have already made their escape. Even though they stayed around, their morale took a dive. It was almost certain that if the three parties were to break out into a fight, perhaps many of them would turn around and flee right away.