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Chapter 1090 Going deep underground

Lu Gaoyin’s palace is different from the palaces Duanmuhuai has usually seen. Generally, palaces are built higher up, and the higher they are built, the better. Lu Gaoyin's palace did the opposite. There were only two floors on the ground, and the bottom was dug quite deep... In fact, it is understandable if you think about it. In a desert city like this, with yellow sand flying all over the sky, you can't A window is full of dirt. In comparison, although the underground is opaque, it is at least not as hot as the ground, which is considered comfortable, right?

Of course, for the guards stationed here, this is a nightmare.

 “Is it down here?”

Duanmuhuai looked at the dim stairs in front of him and asked. After hearing his question, the guard next to him also answered tremblingly.

"Yes, yes, Lord Brave... Those demons are haunting down there, and there is nothing we can do..."

 According to the king, the bottom was originally his harem, but now it has become the devil's playground. As for the people who were there, basically all of them were dead. At first, the king was so arrogant that he wanted to send troops to drive out the demons and retake the palace. However, after he contacted several teams and heard nothing from them, he gave up.

At present, the passages on each floor are completely blocked, but even so, the guards guarding the passages are still terrified, for fear that the demons will rush out from below and kill them. In this dark, cramped and terrifying environment, the spirits of these guards were reaching their limit.

 “I understand, leave it to me, open it.”

"yes……!"

Hearing Duanmuhuai's order, the guards holding torches hurried forward, opened the sealed iron cover, and then pulled it up with force. Then the searchlight on Duanmu Huai's helmet turned on, and then he walked down the stairs and headed downwards.

 “Boom!”

 The heavy iron door slammed shut on Duanmuhuai's head again. It was obvious that if Duanmuhuai couldn't complete his mission, then he wouldn't have to think about it.

But Duanmu Huai obviously doesn't care about such a small problem.

 “Hey...to be honest, I really hate this environment.”

The underground of the palace was naturally pitch dark, you couldn't see your fingers, and it was so silent that there was no sound at all. In the pale light of the searchlight, only blood stains and the remains of corpses could be seen everywhere on the ground. Looking at it suddenly, it felt like I was on the set of some kind of horror game.

"Well, let me see... there is indeed a subspace reaction, right here..."

Duanmu Huai turned on the auspicious instrument, surveyed the surroundings, and then continued to move forward.

 “Dong…dong…dong…!”

There was silence all around, with only the heavy footsteps of Duanmu Huai echoing in it. Of course, if you listen carefully, you might hear a "ta-da-da" sound similar to that of an insect. But Duanmu Huai didn't care about this. He just held the auspicious device and stared at the signal strength above, then turned left and right to find the path...

"Roar!"

Suddenly, just as Duanmu Huai passed through another door, a large, bright red demon with four arms and a scimitar suddenly emerged from behind the door. It roared and waved down the demon in its hand at Duanmu Huai. Scimitar - However, Duanmu Huai didn't even look at it, and punched out with his backhand, completely blasting the demon's upper body into pieces.

But this was just the beginning. The demon's attack seemed to blow the horn of attack. For a moment, countless monsters were seen pouring out of the darkness from all directions. Demons with four arms rushed over with scimitars in their hands, and Behind them, the skeleton monsters screamed and raised their hands, sending out streams of electricity at Duanmuhuai.

The shining white thunder and lightning crisscrossed the dark confined space, illuminating the originally dark and lightless world. Duanmu Huai, who was among them, was hit by countless lightning beams, and his whole body was surrounded by electric currents that could not stop beating.

If it were an ordinary person, he would have been reduced to charcoal with no bones left under such an attack. But for Duanmu Huai, this level of attack is not even scratching an itch. It has no effect other than creating some light pollution.

So Duanmuhuai also snorted coldly.

 “Go to hell!”

Following Duanmuhuai's roar, the aura of fear mixed with the aura of destruction instantly unfolded with Duanmuhuai as the center and spread to the surroundings.

The first ones to bear the brunt were naturally the scarlet demons. The moment they were swept by this fearful light full of destructive aura, their bodies began to expand, deform, and then explode in an instant. The same goes for the lightning beams flying towards Duanmuhuai. They disappeared into the air silently, as if they were swallowed up by some huge dark existence. Finally, there were the skeleton monsters that released lightning beams from the periphery. They were even more fragile and vulnerable and burst into pieces, turning into broken bones.

Of course, this only happened in a moment. For Duanmu Huai, he just shouted in a low voice, and then the monsters around him exploded, scattering gold coins, gems and scrap metal weapons all over the ground.

In less than ten seconds, the underground world that had just become noisy due to the appearance of monsters returned to its dark and silent state.

"Really, even this level of trash fish can't be dealt with... It seems that Lu Gaoyin's strength is also limited."

 Duanmu Huai glanced around and shook his head. At the same time, he also became confused. From what Duanmu Huai saw so far, Lu Gaoyin was definitely no match for these demons. If they want to completely destroy or occupy this city, the guards above will not be able to stop it. Plus there is the Demon King here. Logically speaking, this poor place should have been turned into a dead city by the Demon King, right?

 And most importantly...where is the Demon King?

Duanmu Huai did not detect a powerful psychic reaction like Andalil's here, which means that the demon king is not under the palace?

Then what is going on? Where did all these demons come from?

 Forget it, just take a walk and you will know.

For Duanmu Huai, it is not difficult to find the core coordinate point. All he needs to do is use the auspicious instrument to find the place with the strongest reaction in the subspace, and then directly smash through the floor and jump down...

 “Oh, I found it.”

With a "boom", Duanmu Huai, who fell from the ceiling like a demon, raised his head, and then saw an open teleportation door in front of him. Judging from the blood and strange magic circles around him, this teleportation The door should be the culprit for the demon's appearance in the palace.

But why does this magic circle appear in the palace?

 Just go in and take a look and you will know.

Duanmuhuai was too lazy to think too much. He clenched his war hammer and strode into the dark red portal in front of him.

 “Hoo————!”

 The next moment, the storm mixed with yellow sand hit Duanmuhuai's helmet again. “What the **** is this place?”

Looking at the scene in front of him, Duanmu Huai couldn't help but be stunned. He originally thought that this place would be a place similar to **** or some kind of devil's palace, but when he looked carefully, he realized that this place looked like a Gobi canyon. Not only that, there were no demons or devils around.

 Did you go to the wrong place?

Duanmu Huai scratched his helmet and looked around with a confused expression. Only then did he realize that around the canyon, there were tall stone doors standing like mausoleums and palaces.

 “That’s it!”

At this moment, a hoarse voice suddenly sounded, and Duanmuhuai turned his head and looked towards the place where the voice came from. All he saw was an old mage with a lot of messy hair and a beard, who looked like he hadn't taken a shower in decades, and was a few inches thinner. He didn't know why he appeared behind him, holding a staff and staring at him fiercely.

“Get out of here! I will never let you find Tarasha’s ancient tomb! The Demon God must not be released! This world will be destroyed!”

"Who is Tarasha? What's going on in the ancient tomb? Besides, this world is about to be destroyed... Can you speak politely?"

Looking at the crazy old mage in front of him, Duanmu Huai also asked, but the latter seemed to have completely lost his mind. He raised his staff and instantly summoned dozens of ghosts and undead creatures, surrounding Duanmu Huai.

“You can’t find Tarasha’s tomb! Of the seven tombs, only one is real, and I won’t tell you which one...! Go to hell!”

As he spoke, the old mage raised the staff in his hand, and soon, each magic shot out and hit Duanmu Huai.

 “You don’t need to tell me, I will find it myself.”

However, the old mage's spell had no effect. Duanmu Huai suddenly stretched out his hand, directly penetrated the magic released by the old mage, grabbed his head, and then a dazzling flash of light appeared. Immediately afterwards, Duanmu Huai grabbed it hard with his right hand, and the next moment the headless corpse fell to the ground, and the surrounding undead creatures summoned by the old mage also disappeared.

“I’m crazy, and it seems like I can’t ask anything. Let’s ask the shadow.”

Looking at the body of the old mage lying on the ground, Duanmuhuai shook his head, and then snapped his fingers. The next moment, his shadow began to roll gradually, and then, a figure exactly like the old mage before appeared in Duanmuhuai in front of.

"Owner."

 “Okay, tell me everything you know.”

"yes."

 Compared to the crazy old mage, Shadow's mind was relatively normal, so he also told Duanmu Huai the whole story - but having said that, the identity of this old mage really surprised Duanmu Huai.

When Duanmu Huai beat Leoric before, I heard Deckard Cain say that at that time Leoric was bewitched by the Demon God and went crazy, and the Demon God also used the body of Leoric's second son to resurrect him, which was his eldest son Ai. Dan gathered a group of adventurers to go deep underground, defeat the demon and seal it away again.

 And this old mage is one of the adventurers!

After Aidan sealed the Demon God, everyone went their separate ways, and the old mage has been investigating the matter of the Demon and the Demon God's seal since then.

 But as the saying goes, when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back into you. The old mage also learned about the demons' plans through adventure.

"The Dark Soul Stone is a lie! The devil's lie! It's a lie they actively spread in order to stay in this world! We think that the Dark Soul Stone can seal the devil away, but this also means leaving it in our world! Ai! Dan was wrong! We were all wrong!”

From the shadow of the old mage, Duanmuhuai also learned another news that left him speechless.

 That is, after Prince Aidan defeated the Demon God and sealed it into the Dark Soul Stone again, he did not find a place to put the Dark Soul Stone, but inserted it directly into his forehead!

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai had a question mark on his face.

Is this prince still in his right mind? What is this operation?

Alas, this operation was not thought up by others. Someone had done it hundreds of years ago!

 That is Archmage Tarasha!

At that time, in order to seal Baal, one of the three demon gods, Tarasha voluntarily sacrificed his body, inserted the dark soul stone that sealed Baal into his chest, and then sealed himself in his tomb. In order to avoid something like someone coming to rob the prison, Tarasha even built six fake tombs, and then he used his own body as a prison to completely imprison Baal.

 Prince Aidan was also inspired by this story, and then...but why did you put it in your head?

There is no way to insert it into such a big part of the body, why do you have to insert it into the head?

Talasha people didn’t put it on their foreheads either.

After the old mage learned this, he hurriedly found Prince Aidan, but Prince Aidan had already left Tristram at that time. The old mage's own situation was not much better. Although he learned about the devil's plan, his mind was greatly stimulated and gradually began to collapse and become fragmented. He could only stumble and go to Lugaoin according to the deepest impression in his mind - in order to prevent others from finding Tarasha's ancient tomb and releasing Baal, he planned to stop them before everyone else. .

 Even Shadow couldn't tell what happened after that, because at this time, the old mage's mind was completely broken and he turned into a complete madman.

 All in all, all he knew was that only one of the seven ancient tombs in Talasha was real, and the others were all fake.

To open the real ancient tomb, you must find the Horadric Staff, and if you want to reconstruct the Horadric Staff, you also need the Horadric Cube... Duanmu Huai's face turned green when he heard this.

Hmm, you are deliberately playing tricks on me, right? Do you think I have the patience to find this, that, and this?

"ok, I get it."

After listening to the report of the old mage shadow, Duanmuhuai waved his hand to retrieve it, and then looked around.

Hmm, seven gates and seven tombs, which means one of them is real, right?

 It’s too troublesome to look for them one by one...

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai reached out his hand and silently took out the melt bomb from his arms.

 Let's blow it up.