Adele's death, coupled with Han Shuo's ruthless words, sent a chill through the dark elf elders. Especially Sikong, who had personally fought Han Shuo, was deeply affected.
Sikong, who had first suggested that they come here, didn't feel the slightest desire for revenge when he saw Adele's corpse. In fact, he shrank back as a fearful look crossed his face, "Wh-what do you want?"
Han Shuo laughed and grinned as he said, "I want you dead, of course!"
"You have nothing to gain if we die, and you might not even be able to defeat the five of us." Sikong opened his mouth again, his expression a little calmer. "Let's negotiate."
At this point, the naked elf girls lying on the carpet slowly woke up. Seeing the situation, they panicked and ran to the elders, shouting, "Elders, save us!"
The dark elf elders did not know what to do when they saw the five naked bodies running towards them. They didn't have much time to think, however, as the five elf girls all ran into the embrace of different elders. Still wearing expressions of fear, they mumbled, "We're scared! Let's leave this place!"
Pfft.
Sikong stared in disbelief at the delicate dagger protruding from his belly, then stared in disbelief at the squirming girls in his embrace. There was no trace of fear on their faces, however, just a look of indifference.
The other elders suffered the same fate as Sikong. Each of the elf girls who had rushed into their embrace had struck a fatal blow with daggers into their chests, all with cold, vicious expressions on their faces.
"Trying to kill you in your own territory wasn't easy. Hehehe, but it seems that the people who want you dead are your own people!" Han Shuo explained with a smile as he coldly watched Sikong fall into a puddle of his own blood.
"W-why?" Sikong asked the dark elf girl, unable to accept the situation.
"Why did you old bastards come up from below? All races were doing fine until you came and stole our places and became our slavers! Keke, every race has them, not to mention us dark elves. As long as you die, we'll be the true rulers of the dark elves!" The dark elf smiled coldly. She crouched down and grabbed the dagger, pushing it further into his body. Sikong's eyes widened and went glassy, never to be seen again.
All the Dark Elf elders were exceptional magic users. However, they would never have thought that their own subordinates would act against them, and they immediately fell victim to the dark elf girls' covert ambush.
With a small sound of questioning, Han Shuo flew like lightning towards one of the dark elf elders. One of the elders had just struggled to his feet from a pool of his own blood when Han Shuo placed his palm on the elder's back. An explosive sound rang out from inside the elder's body. The elder who had not fallen in the sneak attack was finally dead.
Having made preparations for body-to-body combat with Han Shuo, Adele had not posted any Dark Elf guards nearby. Knowing that she was likely to be loud, she probably did not want her subordinates to hear her, as she was the main wielder of political power among the dark elves. As a result, she had dismissed her bodyguards.
As a result, even after the battle had ended, there were still no guards aware of the earth-shattering situation that had occurred. In the distance, they were still busy with their own business.
"Didn't you say you were not going to work with us? Why did you kill Adele anyway?" A dark elf girl named Shialan asked Han Shuo in confusion as she wiped her blood-stained arm on the carpet and put on her thin gauze clothes.
After Han Shuo's display of strength in knocking down all five of them in such a short time, Siyalin and the others had made a proposal to Han Shuo, hoping that Han Shuo would help them kill Adele and the elders. However, they were tactfully turned down by Han Shuo.
Shrugging his shoulders, Han Shuo said resignedly, "Adele acted against me, so I suddenly changed my mind."
As Han Shuo said these words, he sighed slightly. Several red threads seemed to be moving around inside his body. In the palm of his hand, two black dots seemed to be being pushed by the red strands. The skin of Han Shuo's palm suddenly burst open, revealing two blue spiders the size of beans.
Two balls of flame materialised in Han Shuo's palms, turning the two blue spiders to ash. Han Shuo blew and the ashes disappeared into the air.
Originally, Han Shuo hadn't intended to take action against Adele. However, it had become apparent that Adele was conspiring against him. With Han Shuo's power level, it was easy to detect any abnormality in his body. Judging from Adele's use of two spiders to infiltrate Han Shuo's body, it was obvious that she didn't have good intentions.
Those two spiders had been implanted into Han Shuo's body when he and Adele had kissed passionately. He hadn't even felt them in the heat of the moment. Had Han Shuo not been as powerful as he was, he would never have known that Adele was acting against him.
With Han Shuo's temperament, he wouldn't have any nice feelings towards Adele since she made the first move. During their fierce body-on-body combat, Han Shuo suddenly used the demonic secret technique to absorb Adele's energy, taking Yin to replenish Yang.
Adele was a strange dark magician, and she also had a strange energy in her body. This energy was completely different from the other forms of energy Han Shuo was familiar with, and contained some kind of evil, wanton power. Han Shuo had detected a trace of evil divine power in the energy and assumed that it must have come from the evil goddess Rose. It was precisely because Adele's body contained this kind of corrupted evil power that she was so powerful as a mere Dark Archmage. She had fought madly as he drained her yin, but she only had the power of a mage. Against Han Shuo, whose physical body was as tyrannical as a magical beast, her struggle was futile.
When the demonic technique had been used to drain Adele's energy, most of the absorbed energy had been from the Dark Goddess Rose. After filtering out the impurities, only a fifth of the original amount was left. However, even this small amount of energy nourished Han Shuo's magical yuan. The demon infant in his body was becoming more and more sentient, loosening Han Shuo's inhibitions.
As for Adele's mental strength, it wasn't something the secret technique could harvest. Unfortunately for her, under Han Shuo's relentless 'Soul Tremor' spells, it was impossible for her to focus enough to concentrate her mental strength to attack him.
"It seems that the power in my heart has been getting stronger lately. Could it be that I'm about to break through to the Canal Realm?" Han Shuo suddenly began to doubt his progress. Lately, he had been feeling a strong urge to 'subdue' every pretty girl he came across. Even with enemies, Han Shuo had the urge to behead them, with wild thoughts of massacres and other brutalities seeping into his mind.
Shaking his head, Han Shuo temporarily banished those thoughts from his mind. Glancing at the five elf girls who had finished dressing and were standing in front of him, he said, "Alright, those old bastards who prevented you from taking power are all dead. Now can we talk about things that concern us?"
Shialan nodded hert head and said, "Leave the rest to us. We'll give you five hundred thousand gold coins if you give us the Eternal Sigh of Darkness. We also promise not to bother the lizardmen. What do you say?"
"No problem." Han Shuo readily agreed and took the bow he had acquired from Dana. "It's useless in my hands anyway; it's a very good deal for me to exchange this for five hundred thousand gold coins."
Adele and the dark elf elders weren't carrying anything of interest to Han Shuo. Perhaps it was due to the fact that they had just arrived from the lower level, but they had not had the opportunity to gather any wealth, so Han Shuo was unable to loot any satisfactory war booty from them.
"We also agree to make long-term agreements. Here in the underground world, we have many things that you people above ground lack. I believe these things could be exchanged for some fine wine, as well as some fine art, including gems that increase power. With these items, we dark elves can make beautiful magical weapons. If you were to sell them to the outside world, they should be items that nobles would fight to acquire. Shialan said to Han Shuo.
"Haha, don't worry, I won't let you down. Of course, you have to satisfy me as well. Let's get rich together!" Han Shuo said happily to the five dark elf girls who were about to become the next group of dark elf elders.