Volume 3: Artifacts Chapter 151 Buried
Return to the Dragon's Nest!
Eiffel was puzzled by the king's decision: "Your Majesty, the Shining Gold People are now attacking the Shadow Clan with all their might and have no energy to take care of us. The chances of a successful breakout are greatest now."
"No!" Luke looked at the fierce battle on the battlefield and quickly judged the current situation: "The Golden People did not deploy many troops in this attack. I think they made a temporary decision to launch this attack without adequate preparation.
The Shining Gold people didn't attack us, not only because they didn't want to provoke the Dragon Nation, but also because they were short of troops and wanted to force us to break out and leave. If we leave, the Shadow Clan will really be finished!
Let’s go back to the Dragon’s Nest!
Gather all the Shadow Clan that can be saved."
King Taotie made the final decision, and the dragons were extremely vigilant in protecting Luke as he returned to his dragon's nest.
Along the way, they encountered the Shining Gold People fighting against the Shadow Clan. The dragons stopped standing by and watched. They rushed forward to drive away the Shining Gold People, and then retreated to the Dragon's Nest with the rescued Shadow Clan.
After fighting and stopping along the way, rescuing and gathering, the dragons brought dozens of Shadow Clan back to the dragon's nest.
The harpies who were abandoned here were overjoyed to see the dragons return.
Luke then ordered Eiffel to release a large number of magic messengers to the outside world, telling the Shadow Clan in Deep Well City that the King of Dragon Kingdom could provide them with shelter, and that they could go to the Dragon's Nest in Deep Well City for refuge if they encountered danger.
Magic messengers are released at regular intervals.
Luke asked the black dragon Bale to arrange the defense of the dragon's nest, and then found Melkan and came to a secluded place behind the pile of gold and gems.
"Do you have a way to tell the difference between a Shadow Parasite and its Iterative Body after parasitizing it?"
Malken replied: "The Shadow Parasite completely acquires the host's body, and its mental attribute is single. The Shadow Parasite iteration only plays a supporting role after parasitizing, and the control is in the host, so it has two mental attributes.
Your Majesty, why do you ask this question? "
Luke looked at the Shadow Clan members who had followed him into the Dragon's Lair. Their morale was very low.
In a head-on confrontation, the Shadow Clan was no match for the Shining Gold Man. Now the Shining Gold Man used a weapon that was extremely lethal to the Shadow Clan, leaving the Shadow Clan powerless to fight back.
Every Shadow Clan member is worried about the fate of their race.
Luke then said to Malken, "So many Shining Golds were able to sneak into Deep Well City quietly because they were protected by the Shadow Clan traitors. But I don't think those traitors are real Shadow Clan. They should be modified humans parasitized by the Shadow Parasite Meta-iterations trained by the Shining Golds, who disguised themselves as Shadow Clan and lurked in Deep Well City in advance."
Malken was awakened. He also looked at the Shadow Clan in the Dragon's Nest and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, do you think there are Shadow Parasite Meta-Iterations mixed in there?"
"That's a possibility. And if we want to gather the Shadow Clan here, the Shining Gold people will definitely send their cyborgs to infiltrate.
Do you have any idea how to find them without alerting them?"
Malken thought about it and said, "It can be done. I will use the existing tools to make a mental wave separation irradiator. There are two Shadow People with different mental wavebands. They are most likely cyborgs."
At this moment, the entire dragon's nest began to shake violently, and the shift in gravity caused the entire pile of gold and gems to begin to slide sideways.
Luke immediately took out the seven-colored magic heart.
Colorful light shone outward from the devil's heart, the gravity inside the dragon's nest was restored, and the vibration was weakened a lot.
"Do it quickly, and don't alert the Shadow Clan."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Dragon's Nest began to gather the Shadow Clan who were seeking refuge, and more and more Shadow Clan and dungeon residents fled there for refuge.
Luke reorganized them, with some of them assisting the dragons in setting up magical defenses, while some powerful Shadow Clan members were sent out to rescue their compatriots.
Soon the whole of Deep Well City knew about the Dragon King's offer of asylum, and more Shadow Clan members fled into the Dragon's Nest. The Shining Gold people also discovered the refuge, and they sent some of their troops to guard the Dragon's Nest, cutting off the main entrance to the Dragon's Nest.
Luke activated the secret passage that he had been using in secret and continued to bring in the Shadow Clan who were seeking refuge.
Among the new batch of Shadow Clan who entered the Dragon's Nest for refuge, Luke also saw the human-faced servant Sisili.
Her condition was very bad. Her body had shrunk by one third, her face was half burned, and she was mentally depressed. Fortunately, she was a human-faced servant, a fungus-like extraordinary creature, and she was a fungus colony. After being attacked by the mental wave knife, her shadow parasite was separated from the mother nucleus. It was her fungus colony that drove her body unconsciously, so she escaped from the hands of the shining gold man.
After leaving the attack range of the Psychic Wave Blade, the Shadow Parasite Element reintegrated, but it also suffered heavy damage.
Luke asked the harpy to carry Sisili's remains in front of him.
As the King of Taotie, he said to Sisili: "I recognize you. You are working for Miss Qingkong."
"Your Majesty Taotie, it's my honor to be recognized by you." Sisili bowed reluctantly but kept a smile on her face, as if such a blow was nothing to her.
Luke raised his hand, and the colorful magic heart floating above the dragon's nest that suppressed gravity cast a beam of light on Sisili. Sisili's injuries recovered quickly, and the fungus colony also multiplied and grew visibly.
"I know you joined the Shadow Assassins. What was the result of the Shadow Assassins' rescue of the Dark Chief?"
Sisili, who had grown a little bigger, spread her hands helplessly.
"The Shining Gold Man knew that we would go to rescue the Dark Chieftain, so he set up an ambush there in advance. The Spirit Wave Blade is really unstoppable. Once it is swept by the wave it emits, the Shadow Parasite will be forcibly separated from the host's spiritual power and then be slaughtered by the Shining Gold Man.
How could such a weapon exist in this world? It is simply intended to annihilate the Shadow Clan."
Luke continued to ask: "Were all the Shadow Assassins wiped out?"
"Basically, they were all dead, but there were some who escaped... like me."
"That Minotaur Mendes?"
"Although Mendes is a phantom assassin, he was still swept down by the Psychic Wave Blade. I saw his head being chopped off by the Shining Gold Man. I guess his Shadow Parasite has been destroyed."
It seems that the Shadow Assassin Group, which became famous in ancient wars, is really finished.
"If I were a Shining Gold, I would not easily destroy such an excellent Shadow Parasite. I would preserve it well and use it to cultivate better Shadow Parasite iterations." Luke guessed what would happen to Mendes, and then said to Sisili: "Since you have come to me, I will protect you and let you return safely to Miss Clear Sky."
Sisi Li said with some disbelief: "Now the Shining Gold People have almost occupied Shenjing City. You should think about how to break out."
"I want to leave, and the Shining Gold cannot stop me." Luke said confidently, "I just want to do my best to protect more Shadow Tribes.
As one of the few remaining shadow assassins, you should have strong appeal within the Shadow Tribe. If you can act, help me organize the Shadow Tribe here. If the Shining Gold Man comes to negotiate with me, the Shadow Tribe will also need a representative. "
Sisili moved her body around and felt much better after the treatment.
"Okay, I'll manage the Shadow Clan here."
Sisili went to reorganize the Shadow Clan in the Dragon's Nest. Her identity as a shadow assassin did make it easier for the Shadow Clan to be recognized.
The negotiation that Luke had expected soon arrived.
The Golden Man of Dragon's Nest sent in a message: Elder Tan of the Golden Man hopes to meet with the Taotie King of Dragon Kingdom.
sandalwood!
She really came in person.
Luke led Sisili and the Twilight dragons out of the dragon's nest. Tan, dressed in golden armor, stood outside, with a large group of golden-armored Shining Gold warriors surrounding her.
In addition to golden weapons, some of the Shining Gold warriors also held a stick with an antenna.
Maybe that's the spiritual wave knife.
Luke was making guesses in his mind and walked up to Tan without stopping.
"The Shining Gold Man is still as swift and resolute as ever. He destroyed the Shadow Civilization in an instant. From now on, there will only be four of the five ancient civilizations."
Tan was very proud of destroying the Shadow Civilization in one battle.
"This only proves that the Shadow Civilization, which has fatal flaws, is not qualified to be on par with us. I didn't expect that Your Majesty Taotie would discover the nature of the assassination so quickly, forcing us to act in advance. Fortunately, the development of the Spirit Wave Blade has been completed, so there were no accidents in this battle."
Luke nodded. "It can be seen that the Shining Gold people have been making careful plans for this battle for a long time. No wonder you were able to remain calm even though the Shadow Clan assassinated one of your elders."
The ending was already decided, so Tan no longer concealed it.
"I only learned about the plan to destroy the Shadow Clan after I entered the Council of Elders. Ever since the Golden Shield Empire accidentally obtained a remnant of the Shadow Parasite, our Council of Elders has been paying attention to the research of the Empire's Extraordinary Biology Research Institute, and has also spent a lot of money to bribe internal personnel and obtained some iterative bodies.
Then, the Golden Shield Empire's purge of internal political enemies allowed us to acquire a lot of talent and technology, and Dr. Bruckner was one of them.
Finally, we completed the puzzle of destroying the Shadow Civilization."
Luke said with emotion: "The advancement of technology will eventually abandon some old civilizations and create new ones. The decline of the Shadow Civilization is inevitable, but the Shadow Clan has the qualifications to continue.
Elder Tan... After this battle, the Shining Gold people killed the Dark Chieftain and occupied Deep Well City. The Shadow Civilization no longer poses any threat to the Shining Gold Civilization. It is better to give the Dragon Kingdom a favor and stop the fight, and let the Shadow Clan here leave on their own."
Tan laughed, "Your Majesty Taotie. The underground world of Gruzerei is too vast. The Shining Gold People cannot rule here directly, but they will definitely not give the Shadow Clan any chance. The fewer the Shadow Clan, the easier it will be for the Shining Gold People to control this place.
Leave all the Shadow Clan in the Dragon's Nest to us, and I can get the dragons out of Gruzerei safely."
Luke said, "What if I must protect the Shadow Clan inside?"
Tan showed the golden sword and said, "Your Majesty Taotie, I hope you can recognize the situation in Shenjing City. You can't do anything that the Shining Gold People don't allow you to do. Take your dragons away and don't let the Dragon Kingdom need to elect another king."
Luke responded by showing off his Blazing Sword, with a dark purple electric net wrapped around him.
"Elder Tan, you don't understand the situation in Shenjing City. Do you know why the gravity in this city is disturbed?"
The shaking of the city became more and more severe, and gravity was changing randomly. Huge cracks appeared, and large chunks of rock fell down.
Tan stared at the sword in Luke's hand and asked warily: "Don't you know?"
"I also discovered it not long ago. The spiritual power left by the Dark Chieftain's host is the support of this city. Now the Dark Chieftain's spiritual power is separated from the host's. Since the host has died, his spiritual power is not condensed by the Dark Chieftain and will dissipate in a short time.
Deep Well City will soon collapse completely and fall towards the center of the earth."
"You're lying to me!" A violent tremor shook Tan's body. She was a little unsure whether what King Taotie said was true or not: "You knew that Shenjing City would fall, so why did you stay here?"
"I want to see if Tan, who has just ascended the throne of the Elders of the Shining Gold Elders' Court, has the courage to fall into the center of the earth with me, the King of the New Dragon Nation."
Tan held the golden sword tightly: "Do you think I am afraid of death?"
"Aren't you afraid of death? I'm not afraid of death either." The electric net surrounding Luke became more intense. "If I die here, the Dragon Kingdom will only lose a king who is not recognized by most dragons and more than ten dragons. They can just choose another king. If you die here, those elders who were sidelined by you will regain power, and the Shining Gold people here will be buried with you.
I wonder if the Shining Gold Civilization can bear this kind of loss?"
Luke's words made Tan's eyes no longer firm.
After all, the Shadow Civilization is a powerful ancient civilization. Although the number of the Shining Gold people that Tan brought to attack Shenjing City is not too many, there are still quite a few, and they are all truly powerful elites.
If this elite force followed me into the center of the earth, I wonder if they could ever return to the surface alive.
If the Shining Gold Civilization loses this part of its power, its overall strength will be greatly weakened. Now the Shining Gold Civilization has too many challenges to face and cannot afford such a huge loss.
On the contrary, the Dragon Kingdom only lost a king who was unable to gather all the dragons together and more than a dozen dragons that followed the king.
In this kind of exchange, the Shuojin civilization would definitely suffer a huge loss.
Can you defeat the Taotie King in a short time and rush into the dragon's nest to slaughter the shadow tribe inside?
Tan observed the strange dragon in front of him.
His body radiates tremendous energy, and the ancient dragon's mighty power, like a mountain pressing down on one's head, all indicate that this is a very powerful dragon.
What is even more frightening is the sword in his hand.
There are many rumors about this sword in the world. It is a sword forged for the Taotie King by the elf Qingkong who ignited the sky, and it contains the fire energy of the sun.
Tan is very confident in her own strength, but she does not have the confidence to defeat the Taotie King in a short time.
The ground shook more violently, and the city could collapse at any time. Everything inside would be buried in the rubble and fall underground.
This attack on Shenjing City was too hasty!
If it weren't for the intervention of King Taotie, he would have been better prepared and had a more thorough plan.
Now……
There is no time to even think about it.
Tan put away the golden sword and said to Luke: "You are very courageous and capable of being my opponent. I will let you go this time, but you may not be so lucky next time!"
After saying that, Tan took the golden man away.
