Volume 3: Artifacts Chapter 85: The Queen's Lair
Deep in the cavern, which is like a maze, there is a beautiful pond in the middle of a large cave. The water is so clear that you can see the bottom, and there are many colorful goldfish playing leisurely in the water. Elegant daffodils and lotus flowers are blooming on the water, and the light from the water makes the whole cave look like a dream.
Suddenly, ripples appeared on the water, and a beautiful woman slowly emerged from the water. She swam to the shore of the pool, then half-submerged in the water, resting her head comfortably on a rock on the shore, closed her eyes and slowly fell asleep.
The beautiful woman and the dreamy pond form a beautiful picture.
But outside the pool, the cave walls were completely covered with a wriggling mucous membrane filled with glowing eggs and throbbing tubes that fed them.
Two incompatible scenes were forced together.
The woman by the pond was sleeping quietly with a smile on her lips, and I wonder what sweet dream she was having.
After a while, an extremely thick tentacle stretched down from the top of the cave. When it was about to touch the water surface, a hole opened at the top of the tentacle, and then the tentacle squirmed violently, and a giant egg covered with mucus came out from it.
"Plop" fell into the water.
The tentacles shook off the mucus and shrank back.
All this did not wake the woman up. She still slept peacefully, letting the waves caused by the giant egg falling into the water wash over her body.
After a while, there was movement under the water, a ripple swayed towards the woman, as if something was approaching quickly under the water. Then a blond man emerged from the water, came to the woman's side, and knelt in the water.
A pair of leafy green wings spread out behind him.
"The hunting angel Niltye pays homage to the Queen and thanks Her Majesty for resurrecting me."
The woman was the hunting queen. She did not open her eyes and continued to sleep, leaving the hunting angel Niltye kneeling there.
Neiltye didn't dare to stand up because he didn't get a response from the Queen. He just knelt there motionless.
The cave was extremely quiet, with only the goldfish in the pool jumping up and down from time to time, splashing water.
"Niltye, I'm very disappointed in you." As if she felt the sincerity of the hunting angel's confession, the hunting queen slowly opened her eyes, her purple pupils full of enchantment and mystery. She looked at Niltye and said unhappily, "I didn't expect your first battle would end like this. You know, before you, no hunting king had died for any other reason except being eaten by me.
Now the other hunter kings are dissatisfied with my favoring you."
Feeling the Queen's killing intent, Niltye lowered his head and defended himself: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I didn't complete the task you gave me. But... that elf is really too powerful, I have tried my best...
Please, please, Your Majesty, forgive my sins."
The Hunting Queen reached out her hand and lifted Niltye's chin with her fingertips, looking at this unexpected angel: "It's not that the elves are too powerful, it's that you are too weak. Even if I and the Magic Spring strengthen you together, you still can't meet my expectations of you."
"Your Majesty, please give me another chance." Niltye felt the killing intent of the Hunting Queen and said in panic, "Your Majesty, please give me another chance and let me lead an army to find the elf. I will bring her body to you. She will definitely become your most powerful Hunting King."
Niltye's fear made the Hunting Queen laugh: "Don't be so nervous, I'm just trying to scare you. I was also shocked by the strength of that elf. I spent a lot of energy to breed a hunter specifically to deal with that elf.
You take it with you, and with the army I give you, I believe you will not let me down this time."
After receiving the Queen's forgiveness, Niltye said happily: "Thank you, Your Majesty! I will lead the army to kill the elf now..."
Niltye was about to stand up, but was caught by the Hunting Queen.
The Hunting Queen's eyes were seductive, her skin flushed, and she said in a breathy voice: "A group of hunting angels died in the battle against the Emerald Magic Academy and the Emerald Royal Court. These brainless creatures just like to rush into traps.
I need to breed another batch of hunting angels..."
"Yes, my beloved Majesty."
The hunting angel Niltye grabbed the hunting queen's hand and kissed it, and slowly pressed his body on her...
But at this moment, someone outside the cave shouted in panic through the mucous membrane: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! An elf broke into the cave and hunted the King Skull-faced Spider, but was killed by her!
Now the elf is rushing towards the lair, and the hunting king broad-headed crocodile and hunting king spotted deer are blocking them. "
Upon hearing the news, the Hunting Queen pushed Neiltye away from her. She opened her eyes wide, and her purple pupils were fully dilated.
After receiving the information transmitted by the pheromones of the nest, the queen said angrily: "The broad-headed crocodile and the spotted deer are dead too! It was that elf, the elf who killed you at the Emerald Magic Academy!"
The hunting angel Niltje stood up from the water and said in surprise: "How did she find this place?"
The Hunting Queen said angrily: "You should say... How dare she rush into my lair. Does she think that she can kill me with just a fairy like her?"
The pool of water churned violently, and the body of the Hunting Queen was lifted up. Her upper body left the water, revealing the fat worm-like body of her lower body.
Niltye immediately asked for a fight: "Your Majesty, please send me to hunt down that elf!"
"Go!" The Hunting Queen stretched out her hand and opened a hole in the mucous membrane that sealed the cave wall: "Bring my new king here, we can give birth to a stronger child."
"Yes, my Lord."
Niltye flapped his wings and flew out.
The hole closed behind him , and a huge flesh egg fell from above. A sharp blade pierced out from inside, and after cutting the egg membrane, a hunter with elf features walked out. Its appearance was somewhat similar to Qingkong, with many red lines on its green skin, and faint flames flowing on the lines.
The Queen's voice echoed in the cave: "Hunting the Fire Spirit, you and King Niltye go and kill the invading elves."
"I will obey your orders, my queen."
The Hunting Fire Spirit spread the dragonfly wings behind it and followed Neiltye as it moved rapidly through the cave.
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Qingkong used time reversal to suppress the movements of the sika deer, holding its antlers with one scimitar and chopping off its head with another.
The deer carcass fell to the ground and was quickly frozen into an ice block by the extremely cold air.
Qingkong threw the deer head aside and looked at the cave that had been frozen into an ice cave by him. He couldn't help but sigh that hunting the queen was really a heavy taste.
Spiders, deer, broad-headed alligators...
I don't know what other species of hunting king there are.
At the same time, Qingkong also discovered that there was a hunter of a certain type for each hunting king, and these spider, deer, and crocodile hunters were much stronger than the common hunters. Along the way, he also killed several hunters in angel form, which should be the offspring of the hunting queen and the hunting angel Niltye.
The number of those stronger hunting angels is obviously much smaller. I wonder if there are any additional restrictions on the hunting queen breeding powerful hunters.
After dealing with a wave of hunters and two hunting kings who were trying to get killed, Qingkong continued to fly forward along the passage, and the ice layer followed him forward.
What was strange was that the hunters who had been coming one after another disappeared, and the entire cave passage was empty, with only the sound of the ice spreading forward.
According to convention, it’s time to meet the big boss.
Qingkong cheered up and continued to fly forward with the ice. Not too far away, he entered a large cave.
Fighting his way in, Qingkong passed through three such caves, which were filled with hunters. First covered with ice, then crushed by ice wheels, a full experience of cutting leeks.
But this cave was empty.
Only an old acquaintance was hovering in the middle of the cave.
Qingkong flew over and greeted him, "Nieltye, you resurrected pretty quickly! You came here to die pretty quickly, too."
Niltye looked at the clear sky and said, "Don't get carried away here just because you defeated me before and killed some miscellaneous soldiers. This is the Queen's lair. Her Majesty is waiting for you... No, she is waiting for me to bring your body over."
Qingkong showed her two swords, and the ice spread from behind her to the entire cave.
Suddenly, a layer of ice was broken, and a hunting angel rushed out from the hole behind the ice. It had a similar appearance to an angel, and its wings were leaf wings like Niltye, but it was wearing vine armor, and its skin was like dry old bark.
The hunting angel brandished a wooden club covered with wolf thorns and swung a vine net into the clear sky while chanting a spell.
Before the hunting angel could get close to the clear sky, an ice spike stabbed it and knocked it away.
The vine net was torn to pieces by the ice wings behind Qingkong.
The hunting angel steadied itself in the air; the previous attack did not cause much damage to it.
Qingkong said to Niltye, "You want to take my body away... You can't do it alone, and even a hunting angel can't do it with you.
The ambush you set here can be unleashed! Quickly kill you so I can go find your queen and ask her to go with you."
After saying that, Qingkong immediately charged towards Niltye.
The scimitar in his hand was thrown out, and it turned into an ice wheel and flew towards the cave wall. The ice on the cave wall exploded one after another, and hunting angels rushed out from under the ice. The ice wheel rotated, temporarily isolating the hunting angels that appeared outside the battle circle.
Qingkong instantly flashed in front of Neiltye, a circle of ice rings exploded, and he held the ancient rock machete in his hand with the scorching holy flame attached to it and swung it to cut him in half.
The Ice Crystal Eye opened, and the Ice Crystal Wings fiercely shot out dense ice blades at Neiltye at close range.
Niltje swung his sword to block, and then used his space skills to dodge the ice blade's attack. The wind started, blowing up countless leaves, the sharp edges of the leaves emitted a metallic cold light, forming a whirlwind that strangled the clear sky.
On the cave wall, countless vines pushed through the ice and stretched out. The ice continued to cover, and the vines kept hitting. Some ice cubes kept falling, and some vines were frozen and then broken by the ice cones.
A hunting angel broke free from the entanglement of the ice wheel and attacked towards the clear sky.
Fierce fighting ensued.
Neiltye brought seven hunting angels and launched various attacks around the clear sky continuously.
Qingkong maintained the "Ice Dance Garden" field with sufficient and lasting energy output. Her affinity for ice attributes was maximized. She wielded a holy flame sword and cast ice magic continuously with the other hand.
Take into account both melee and ranged combat, and use both time and space.
If Niltye hadn't made several attempts to remedy the situation, Qingkong would have killed the hunting angel. But it can also be seen that Niltye didn't have much to do with Qingkong, and he had done his best to maintain this evenly matched situation.
"You, you are not a forest elf." During the battle, Niltye finally thought of the legend of another elf.
Qingkong dodged and kicked a hunting angel away, then gave it a complete freeze and said, "I thought you had already figured out that I'm different from a forest elf. Could it be that after becoming a headhunter, your brain has also degenerated?"
Niltye was not angered by Qingkong. He blocked Qingkong to buy time to fight for the frozen hunting angel.
"You are the Moonlight Queen Clear Sky!"
Niltye confirmed his guess and finally understood why the other party could defeat him so easily. Even the first Saint Theresa was no match for Qingkong, so his loss was not unfair.
At the same time, Niltye was also happy that the other party was Qingkong.
If Moonlight Queen Qingkong becomes the Hunting King, won't the Headhunters be able to take over the Moonlight Court smoothly?
Niltye increased the intensity of his attacks and, relying on his ability to be resurrected, attempted to fight for his own life several times.
The hunting angels, under Neiltye's command, also launched a desperate attack.
The battle continues.
Niltje's strong attack showed results, and as the vines continued to squeeze, the space available to Qingkong became smaller and smaller. Flowers bloomed on the vines, pollen spread, and the inhalation of toxins made Qingkong's movements no longer so graceful and ghostly.
Qingkong shook his head, used time to go back so that he could use spatial displacement to dodge the blow, and then chanted a spell to remove the poison from himself.
At this moment, a thick vine beside her suddenly burst into flames. Then, in the explosion, an elf-like thing rushed out from the fireworks and debris. It vibrated its dragonfly wings, and the short blade in its hand was attached with streams of flames. Its body swayed in a zigzag line, and instantly swayed behind Qingkong.
Niltye appeared in front of Qingkong and slashed with his sword with all his strength.
Qingkong felt the slowness of time flow, and at the same time, she was trapped in space and could not move. Unable to dodge, she could only hold up her knife to block Niltye's sword, and then summoned the ice armor to resist the attack from behind.
However, the hard ice armor was like nothing in front of the short blade that was burning with flames. The short blade easily melted the armor and pierced into Qingkong's back.
Then the hunting fire spirit stabbed continuously, leaving more than ten bloody holes on Qingkong's back.
Blood flowed out along the ice armor.
The ice armor shattered due to lack of magic power supply.
Qingkong spat out a mouthful of blood, and her body fell from the air without being able to support itself. She fell heavily to the ground, motionless...
Niltye fell down.
"I told you I would take your body to see the Queen. Get ready to receive your new life, Queen of the Clear Sky!"
