Shameless Warlock

The establishment of diplomatic relations with Ice Saw Valley was not a condition that Xu Nan came up with on a whim, but the result of discussions with members of the city hall such as the Gray Tower Administrator.

Although Xu Nan and Sanger are rivals in the task of appearance, it does not mean that the two cities should also be opposed.

First of all, Icesaw Valley is strong enough. What Xu Nan wants is not to dominate the underground world, but to gain a foothold here first.

Finding a strong ally is necessary.

Secondly, Xu Nan is also supported by powerful forces, so he is not worried that he will suffer losses in the cooperation with Ice Saw Valley.

Even the most beautiful man in the ancient times, in front of the two tiger-skinned banners of Stephen Sang and Paradise Lost, he probably has to weigh his own weight.

Third, the distance between the two cities is just right.

The Unknown City is in the north near the surface.

The Icesaw Valley is in the south close to the direction of the earth's center, in the dark place south of the maelstrom.

At least in terms of territorial disputes, there is no conflict between the two sides.

That's enough distance for proper trade.

As for concepts, there is no problem.

Perhaps, some city-states will have conflicts such as religious customs.

However, according to the information in Xu Nan's hands, Icesaw Valley and Unknown City are surprisingly similar in this respect - under the guarantee of absolute order, most people are equal.

This is also an important reason why Lich Sanger can stand for so many years without falling, but instead makes the Icesaw Valley Fortress bigger and bigger.

For now at least, Sanger is a good ally.

Besides, everyone is handsome, wouldn't it be great to join forces?

It's just that things like forming an alliance should not be too anxious.

The two sides must first establish equal diplomatic relations.

At this point, people need to lead the way.

This person is naturally Dylan who has been starved by Xu Nan for several days.

Xu Nan wasn't worried that Dillon would hold grudges, in fact, as long as he played the role of matchmaker, it would be fine.

The real process of persuading Sanger will be done by himself.

He believed that for a hero like Sanger, even if his little lover suffered a little grievance, he would put the overall situation first.

At the moment, the two of them just took one shot and began to swear in the name of the ancient god.

In this dark place, the sleeping three ancient gods still provide some shelter for their people.

Xu Nan and Dillon chose the god of contract among the ancient three gods.

The two drew up a contract, and then swore an oath to the sleeping god of the contract.

They chose the strictest contract of absolute compliance.

After a while, the contract was turned into powder, which were integrated into the back of Xu Nan's and Dyer Lun's necks.

This means that the contract is valid.

If anyone violates the contract, the God of Contract will punish him.

Regardless of the fact that the god of contract is still sleeping in the center of the earth, the power of the ancient god is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

If it weren't for some special reasons, the people who rule the kingdom of heaven and earth now would not be the turn of Ferlando, Ziggs and the like.

The ancient gods are the most orthodox successors of the heavens!

It's a pity that along with their deep sleep, their people in the Underdark region were bewitched by various evil gods, demons, and devils, and gradually became depraved.

The once peaceful and orderly underground world has also become what it is now.

...

"Okay, now you can tell me, what happened to you after you left Icesaw Valley?"

The fire of Xu Nan's gossip has long been burning.

Dylan cleared his throat and said with a serious expression:

"I've never experienced anything so weird in my life."

"My lord, you may think that it is very unreasonable for me to appear alone in the dragon army, but in fact, when I left Icesaw Valley, I had a twelve-member guard by my side!"

"Among them, Hook, the leader of the guards, is the instructor of Lord Sanger's Third Knight Order, with a level of 20!"

"but……"

"In the end, I was the only one who survived."

His voice became choked.

The story begins a few months ago.

...

A few months ago, the Icesaw Valley scouts discovered something unusual in the area of ​​the Piling Abyss Bridge.

A large number of demons gathered near the bridge of the abyss, but rarely attacked the city.

You know, because of the cracks in the abyss, Icesaw Valley faces attacks from an abyss world all the year round.

These demons usually attack the impregnable stronghold of Icesaw Valley without thinking.

According to Dillon, the Icesaw Valley officials have to pay high-risk professional corpse guards a lot of gold coins every year to clean up the corpses of these demons—the demons are very fire-resistant, and it is obviously not advisable to burn them with a fire; If it is everywhere, one is unsightly, affecting the appearance of Icesaw Valley, and the other is afraid of causing plague.

Therefore, the residents of Icesaw Valley are accustomed to the attacks of demons.

But this time is different.

The demons are massing, not preparing to strike.

This attracted the attention of the city hall, and the officials frantically sent scouts to investigate the cause of the matter.

For a race like demons, it is obviously impossible to hide humans from the large-scale deployment of troops.

Soon, the Ice Saw Valley found out that all of this was done by the demon lord Inuoya behind the scenes!

He seemed to be trying to organize a real offensive!

To be honest, when Ice Saw Valley learned the news, they all felt a little absurd.

The cracks in the abyss near Icesaw Valley are too small to allow some weak demons to smuggle in. If Inoya wants to attack Icesaw Valley, unless he himself can come over, it is a fantasy.

So they didn't pay attention to it.

But soon, things got complicated.

Because, the gray mound in the north of Icesaw Valley also heard the movement of violent soldiers!

That is the territory of the Black Dragon Clan!

The officials of Icesaw Valley began to get nervous, and the drow scouts frantically inquired about the news, and finally learned that the black dragons also wanted to attack Icesaw Valley!

This news has terrified Maca, Deputy Archon of Icesaw Valley.

He bit the bullet and knocked on the door of the laboratory, and invited the Lich Sanger out.

After Sanger learned about the situation, he quickly made a series of appointments.

Icesaw Valley officially entered the combat state.

It seems that this is just a war with unknown motives - this kind of war is not uncommon, whether it is human beings or other creatures, they naturally have the cruel nature of killing each other; and in the underground world, this kind of thing is even more common.

But before the war, an unobtrusive news caught Sanger's attention.

Some scouts claimed that they had observed traces of humanoid activity in the territory of the Black Dragon Clan—north of the Gray Tomb!

This is very weird!

You know, the area north of the Gray Tomb is a taboo place that even the Black Dragons dare not easily set foot in!

Not to mention going in for activities, even getting close is very dangerous.

The scouts analyzed from the traces that there were not many people who entered the acid swamp north of the gray mound.

Seems like a group of desperate adventurers.

If that's all, Sanger won't care too much.

But soon, such a news spread from Ice Saw Valley:

Some claim to have seen a village shrouded in mist near the Gray Tomb.

Just after approaching, the village disappeared.

There are many old people and children in the village, but there are no adults.

After Sanger learned the news, he called Dylan and asked him to take his guards to investigate the village.

Because this is not the first time a village under this description has appeared in the underground world.

Don't talk about Sanger, even a child will tell you that it is the legendary——

Eternal Life Village!

...

"Eternal Life Village appeared near the Gray Tomb?"

"Acid swamps north of Ashburrows show signs of humanoid activity."

"The black dragon clan and the demon army, which should be the mortal enemy, joined forces to attack the Icesaw Valley..."

Messages flashed through Xu Nan's mind.

It seems that these pieces of information are unconnected, but Xu Nan, who has experienced so many incidents, knows very well that behind this, there must be a thread that connects them together like a string of pearls——

If not, it's two lines.

What he was more concerned about was that according to Dillon, Sanger obviously knew a little about the inside story of the Eternal Life Village, so he asked Dylan to investigate secretly; but the problem was that Sanger didn't tell Dill Lun asked for more information, just let him carefully investigate the traces of those humanoid creatures.

This is a bit intriguing.

Especially from the perspective of the relationship between Dillon and Sanger, it is almost impossible for Sanger to hide it from Dylan.

And from the perspective of Dylan's narrative.

Because of the gaze of the god of the ancient contract, Dillon must not be able to lie, he can only hide it at best.

He told Xu Nan that Sanger didn't tell him more information about Yongsheng Village, so this sentence must be true.

But it is also possible that Sanger told Dylan more information about the Immortal Village through other people-in this case, his words would not be considered a breach of the oath.

Therefore, Xu Nan was always dubious about Dylan's words.

He also needs to seek proof from other aspects.

"...So I set off, the team led by Mr. Hook."

"It didn't take us too long to arrive near the Gray Tomb."

"At that time, the black dragon clan had already completed most of the migration, and all the black dragons ran to the bridge of the abyss..."

Dylan continued to narrate.

According to him, when they arrived at the Gray Tomb, the territory of the Black Dragon Clan was already empty, only the gradually fading sulfur smell.

The group of people passed through the uninhabited dragon territory smoothly without much hindrance.

However, when they reached the north of Gray Tomb, things changed.

A person in the team disappeared out of thin air!

Just when everyone was focusing on the possible dangers around them, a guard disappeared without a sound!

Soon, they found the bodyguard's body!

The corpse's neck was broken, there were bite marks on the neck, and all the blood was sucked dry!

This immediately caused panic in the guards!

You know, they didn't enter the acidic swamp of evil back then.

They shouldn't have encountered such a weird and terrifying thing.

There has been some discord among the Guard's reputation.

They're here to investigate, not explore!

Originally, according to Dillon's plan, they would camp near the gray mound and investigate traces at the edge of the swamp.

By the way, try your luck and see if you can find the so-called eternal life village...

But things have changed.

Even Dylan can clearly feel that the land of Gray Tomb has become different!

And since the first person disappeared.

Hook claimed that he sensed a pair of evil eyes staring fiercely at his back!

This feeling, several high-ranking members of the guard team also expressed the same feeling.

Dylan is not someone who likes to die.

Without saying a word, he directly ordered everyone to go back home!

Even if no trace of Eternal Life Village is found, even if there is no harvest, the lives of the remaining people must be saved!

pity.

This decision seems a bit late.

On the way back.

The guards disappeared one by one.

What's even weirder is——

Their corpses will appear strangely in the way of the rest of the escape!

In the dark gray mound, there seems to be a demon hiding in the dark, who is about to choose someone to eat, and he is playing with everyone's hearts!

Someone heard a grinning laugh.

Someone starts running away.

Captain Hook ran all the way with Dylan on his back.

There were constant screams from the team members.

Until the end, when they ran out of the dragon's territory, only Hook and Dillon were left.

At the time, they were exhausted.

Dillon was still in shock and wanted to support Captain Hook to continue his escape.

At this moment, they heard a gust of wind chimes!

"Where does the wind come from in the underground world?"

Dylan shivered instinctively.

Immediately afterwards, he saw a scene he would never forget——

On the way they fled, a village full of dazzling holy lights appeared.

In the village, there are old people doing farm work.

There were children running around and playing.

In the whole village, there was not a single young man in sight.

Dylan felt a sacred smell from them.

That smell made him want to vomit... After all, he has been with Sanger for so long, and he has long been used to the smell of undead.

But Hook is a normal underground human.

From the moment the village appeared, he seemed to lose his normal sanity.

He persuaded Dylan to flee to the village together!

"This is the Eternal Life Village we are looking for!"

"They will definitely help us! Mr. Dillon!"

"They will definitely help me!"

After Hook said these words, he dragged Dylan to run to the village.

Dylan was actually a little moved.

But he really couldn't stand the holy smell, so he rejected Hook's request.

Hook entered the Immortal Village, and the village soon disappeared.

Dillon could only watch helplessly as the figure of Hook disappeared along with the village.

The sound of the wind chimes disappeared, and he woke up immediately, and continued to escape alone.

It's just that the underground tunnel was too messy, he ran, and unknowingly ran back to the gray mound!

Dylan was terrified.

As a scholar, he had never seen such a strange thing.

This is no longer something that can be explained by magic, evil spirits or other knowledge.

He just wants to escape.

Just at this moment, he saw a figure!

It was the figure of a woman, with her back to Dyerlan, who seemed to have come out of a gray mound.

She held a person in her arms, no, it was a corpse!

When Dylan saw the appearance of the corpse, his eyes instantly turned red!

It was Captain Hook who ran all the way behind his back!

At that moment, he understood instantly, just as he had speculated——

"Eternal Life Village is a scam from ancient times to the present!"

So, what about this woman?

Dylan struggled to control his breathing.

He saw the woman throw Hook's body carelessly on the ground.

She turned around.

Dylan saw her face clearly.

It was a nice face.

It's just that the corners of her mouth and cheeks are left with ferocious blood!

She seemed to be laughing, and while laughing, she was silently chanting some evil spell.

It took a long time before she disappeared into the depths of the cave.

Dillon didn't dare to check Hook's body, and he continued to flee.

He fled in the dark tunnel for a long time, but he never found the right direction.

until.

He ran into a group of duergars who were fighting.

...

"...Later, I was forced to join the dragon army, and survived by relying on observation."

"That was really a nightmare. I understand the real reason for the migration of the Black Dragon Clan."

"They are running for their lives! It's just that they are not avoiding the Soulstealer, but the thing that is about to awaken in the gray mound!"

"Eternal Life Village is simply a scam."

"And there is actually only one real cause of war."

Having said that, the wry smile on Dylan's face grew stronger:

"The ancient god is about to wake up."

Xu Nan was a little unclear, so:

"Isn't the ancient god just?"

The three primordial gods, whether it is truth, justice or contract, should all be righteous and kind!

Why did their awakening cause such a terrifying scene?

"Of course the ancient gods are righteous."

"But there is something in the heart of the earth that will wake up with their awakening."

"That's what worries me the most."

"I have to report these things to Master Sanger!"

Dylan's tone was very firm.

Xu Nan pondered for a long time, then suddenly asked:

"You mentioned a woman who came out of the gray mound."

"Can you draw what that woman looks like?"

Xu Nan always felt that this was a clue that could not be ignored. Maybe she could use Paradise Lost's intelligence system to determine the identity of the woman.

Dylan nodded:

"Of course, I will remember her hideous and terrifying appearance until I die."

"She must have something to do with Eternal Life Village and Hook's death!"

"Even, Hook was bitten to death by her!"

As a scholar, Dillon's efficiency is quite high, and his drawing skills are very good.

In just half an hour, he handed a lifelike painting to Xu Nan.

"It's her!"

A shadow flashed in Dylan's eyes.

However, in the next second, Xu Nan froze there.

He stared blankly at the woman in the painting, and entered a shutdown state!

Because of this woman, he knew!

"Senior Zhang..."

"How can this be?"

His heart has already set off a huge storm!

The grinning woman on the screen was Xu Nan's crush.

For Xu Nan, she is not only the recommender of Qianmang Club, but also the senior sister of the foreign language department.

Her name is Zhang Yingluo! (Note 1.)

With that look, Xu Nan will not admit his mistake.

...