Chapter 71: The Trace of Deity
Spider Forest.
Soren walked in front, with a lively little girl following behind.
In fact, Soren still couldn’t understand why this little girl, after hearing his series of third-rate, melodramatic, teenage-appealing dragon adventure stories all night, suddenly had the whimsical idea of actually wanting to go on an adventure with him. (Foggy.)
Dragons should be very lazy creatures, right?
In Soren’s memory, most of the time dragons spent was sleeping. He had encountered some good-aligned dragons, but although they communicated with other intelligent beings, he had never heard of them going out on adventures together. The little girl in front of him didn’t know which nerve she activated, boldly declaring that she intended to go on an adventure with him to see interesting and fun things. Moreover, she said that if Soren disagreed, not only would she not give him the Elemental Crystal 【Fire】, but she planned to take a crunchy bite out of it instead. (Note: She really bit it at the time.)
As mentioned earlier.
Brass Dragons can almost eat anything, and most of it can be digested.
No doubt about it!
If the little girl in front of him really ate the Elemental Crystal, perhaps she could digest it completely.
In the end.
Soren could only helplessly bring her along and concluded that the saying ‘chaos brings out the humor’ was true.
………………
“Shh!”
Soren, who was scouting ahead, suddenly stopped. He turned around and gestured for the little girl, who was hopping and singing behind him, to be quiet. In a low voice, he said, “There are people ahead! Don’t make a sound!”
After ascending to legend.
Soren’s abilities had been greatly enhanced. Since a little dragon was planning to accompany him on his adventure, he figured he might as well take the last Elemental Crystal as well. This way, he wouldn’t have to trouble Gloria to set out; now that Soren was not at the Overseas Islands, he could only feel at ease with Gloria stationed in Modo City. This little dragon absolutely had legendary combat power. With her around, obtaining the last Elemental Crystal 【Wind】 would not be difficult. (Maybe he could use her power to defeat the last four Elemental Elders.)
“Hmm?”
Upon hearing this, the little girl immediately quieted down, stealthily approached Soren, and climbed onto his back. She leaned close to his ear and asked, “Who? Is there someone nearby? Why didn’t I notice?”
Her ears itched.
Soren turned around and glared at her, but after seeing the little girl’s cheerful face, he took a breath and whispered, “It should be elves. There’s a reconnaissance team nearby! They seem to be quite capable!”
The Spider Forest was close to the Elf Kingdom.
Soren had made his way here from the desert. Naturally, he wasn’t here for sightseeing; in fact, anyone with a bit of sense could guess where the Spider Forest led to just by its name.
That’s right!
The Underdark!
The spiders here were mostly descendants of the pets of the Spider Queen, Rosé. For a long time, the surface elves and the underground drow had been at war, and the Spider Forest was the frontline of that battle, as well as a passage leading to the Underdark. The last Elemental Crystal was in the Underdark, and that was the one he was most familiar with because Soren had been active in the Underdark for a long time.
“Are we going underground?”
The little girl, lying on Soren’s back, her beautiful big eyes sparkling with excitement, said, “I haven’t been underground yet! Is there anything fun down there?”
The Underdark.
That’s not a fun place!
Soren grabbed the little girl down from his back and said in a serious tone, “Be quiet. We have to find a way to sneak in, and don’t get involved in the war between surface elves and drow.”
The Spider Forest was very dense.
Two figures crept cautiously closer. Despite the little girl’s true form being a giant dragon, her stealth ability in human form was surprisingly good. Soren was quite familiar with this area because years ago, the Spider Forest was a training ground for adventurer parties of profession level 5-10. There were many venomous spiders, all descendants of the Spider Queen Rosé’s pets. Their rapid reproduction had already made many nearby races feel troubled. (Poisonous spiders, phase spiders, fire spiders, etc.)
There was a small path that led to the Underdark.
Soren planned to take the little dragon through there to enter the underground world and see whether the rumored incident had occurred.
………………
Blood.
A floor covered in fresh blood.
Accompanied by the sound of dripping blood, a burly barbarian with wounds all over his body knelt on the ground.
His breath was already faint.
Fearsome wounds covered his body, many of which looked like claw marks. Even with the barbarian’s strong physique, he was gradually approaching the brink of death.
“Cackle!”
A strange and eerie laugh sounded, and the Vampire Son, dressed in a dark red noble attire, slowly appeared. He looked down at the corpse of a beautiful woman at his feet, lifted his foot, and crushed her lovely head, playing with her remains: “With you lot of useless fools! You think you can unite to defeat me? Simply overestimating yourselves!”
“Today I will let you know what the difference between mortals and deities is!”
“I am God!”
A terrifying power spread.
The blood on the ground seemed to come alive, and the barbarian, kneeling on the surface, trembled all over. Facing the approaching Vampire Son, he suddenly opened his mouth and said, “No… don’t kill me! I never intended to contest for the power of the Demon God of Fear!… Don’t kill me!… I can tell you where the first Son is!…”
The first Son?
The Vampire Reinhardt paused, slightly frowning and saying, “Where?”
He had been looking for that person for a long time.
Unfortunately, there had been no clues as if the other had completely disappeared.
“Soren!”
The barbarian’s face was filled with fear, as his voice trembled, “Executioner – Soren! He is the first Son!… You must have heard of him!… The Pirate King of the Southern Coast!… If it weren’t for the power of the Demon God of Fear, he would never have unified the Southern Coast so quickly!…”
Pirate King?
Executioner – Soren?!
A hint of disdain appeared on the Vampire Son’s face, slowly saying, “So it’s him! To contest that pitiful power among mortals! It seems I’ve overestimated him a bit!…”
Saying this, his crimson pupils turned toward the barbarian before him.
“No!… don’t kill me!… ah!…”
The barbarian’s body slowly fell, and the Vampire Son looked coldly around, commanding, “Clean this up, don’t leave any traces. That group of paladins has been very annoying recently!…”
Damn paladins.
They are like the invincible cockroaches, one batch is killed and immediately another batch appears.
Are they really not afraid of death?
The figures of some vampire minions appeared, quickly starting to clean the nearby bloodstains. The Vampire Son looked up towards the sea direction and murmured, “Southern Coast? Recently the Church of Wealth has been very hostile towards me! But I still need to eliminate him quickly!”
“Soren!”
“He should not be a troublesome opponent, right?”
Pat.
A slight sound of landing appeared.
The Hell Poet’s hazy figure appeared behind the Vampire Son. He frowned as he looked at the blood on the ground and slowly said, “Reinhardt! Let’s talk about that Son later!”
“Important news has arrived.”
Upon hearing this, the Vampire Son turned around. He smiled at the Hell Poet, opening his arms as if to embrace him, but the Hell Poet dodged. “What news has arrived?”
The Hell Poet pulled back a little distance.
As a fallen evil dark creature, he didn’t want to mention certain life habits. Ever since he learned a bit about it, he was quite averse to getting too close to Reinhardt.
The Hell Poet raised his hand and tossed a rolled document over, then said, “The Wanderer and the God of Half-Elves have appeared!”
“They are in the Underdark.”
“Someone has seen the divine traces they revealed in the Underdark. This is an important opportunity for us!”
Deity!?
Excitement flickered on the Vampire Son’s face, and a sickly blush appeared on his handsome face. He murmured, “The Saint? I can finally taste the blood of a deity!”
……………… (To be continued ~^~)
