The boss was very friendly to Lin Xiao. Not only did he not charge any fees, he also arranged a truck for him and a maid to serve him.
Any businessman who travels around the business all year round will know how important a high-level wizard is when the caravan is attacked. He doesn't have to take care of anything in the caravan, just sleep and eat every day.
Lin Xiao was lying on the soft animal skin cushion of the carriage, with a goblet of green Alboli wine in his hand and several kinds of fruit platters on a plate beside him.
"It's been a long time since I've been able to relax and enjoy life like this!"
It can be seen that the caravan owner named Marin knows how to live very well. The walls of the carriage are hung with thick animal skins to isolate the heat. There is a small insulation magic circle on the top of the carriage, which keeps the carriage at a spring-like temperature while isolating the temperature with animal skins. No matter what the outside environment is like, it will not feel hot or cold.
There is even a small wine cabinet under the seat. The ice magic circle inside can keep the temperature in the cabinet constant at around zero degrees. Fresh fruits and drinks are also refrigerated inside, so you can enjoy the freshest drinks and juices even in the hottest of times.
This is certainly nothing in modern times, but in this ancient and exotic era, it is definitely a luxurious life that only aristocrats can enjoy.
Along the way, Marin came to chat with him from time to time. Lin Xiao had nothing to do, so he chatted with the caravan owner with great interest. Unknowingly, he learned from him some of the latest information about the Principality of Bole and several nearby principalities or kingdoms.
Even if he didn't ask carefully, it was leaked unknowingly during casual conversation.
Marin didn't care about these details at all. After all, Lin Xiao was a high-level wizard with extraordinary strength at this time, so how could he be vigilant?
The caravan soon arrived at the entrance to the dark underground world. Lord Reid had built an outpost here, and the caravan was allowed to enter easily, following a huge slope into a huge underground passage with an entrance more than 20 meters high.
It can be seen that the entrance to this underground passage has been repaired by a special person, and there are still traces of excavation on the edge. There is a street lamp that is always on at regular intervals.
The caravan slowly walked down the slope into the passage. The light gradually dimmed, and a lamp was hung on every few carriages or pack animals. The slightly dim light illuminated the surroundings.
It was not much different from the underground world Lin Xiao had seen in other worlds before, with winding passages, rugged surface, and numerous rugged rocks. It was easy for ordinary people to get lost in the underground world if they ran into it.
The Flame Flower Merchant Team where Marin is located has been traveling underground to trade with races in the Underdark for many years and has drawn detailed maps long ago, but even so they do not dare to be careless.
You should know that there are a total of seven continents in the underground world of the dark area of this world. There are countless natural passages and spiral stone stairs connecting each continent. The common geological movements cause the topography of the underground world to change constantly, and new faults, lava, and limestone cones and hills are constantly changing.
The most critical thing is that the underground passages or spiral stone steps leading to different areas are broken and isolated due to geological changes. These changes mean that the senior chambers of commerce that have been doing business between various races in various layers and places in the Underdark for thousands of years cannot guarantee whether they can find the original trading race next time.
Of course, these are things that native businessmen like Marin should worry about. Lin Xiao does not need to worry about these. He does not have a specific goal now. He just goes with the flow and goes wherever it takes him. He himself does not have a specific destination, so the enemy naturally cannot guess his location.
Through many exchanges with the caravan owner Marin, whether intentionally or unintentionally, Lin Xiao has now roughly grasped the general situation of the dark underground area.
After thousands of years of exploration by countless adventurers, the first-layer continent of the Underdark is now known to everyone as the most familiar. Usually, the trading partners of the major chambers of commerce on the surface are mostly the major races distributed on the first layer underground.
There are cities of gray dwarves, tribes of goblins, tribes of tauren, and halflings who are attached to powerful tribes such as gray dwarves or tauren.
Most of the monsters and poisonous insects in the areas where underground races gather have now been basically cleared out by all major races. The first layer of the Underdark is relatively safe, provided you don't get lost.
The second layer of the Underdark is the most barren, with few mineral deposits, and is mainly the world of cave dwellers.
Like the cavemen in all worlds, this weak race is the most hardworking race in the Underdark, constantly sowing crops underground.
But this race is naturally weak, with no professional inheritance, no writing of their own, let alone magic. Ever since the death of the caveman god ten thousand years ago, no god has cared for this weak and pitiful race.
Every six months when the underground crops mature, the dark elves living on the third layer would form a raiding team and rush to the second layer of the continent to burn, kill and plunder everywhere, taking away all the gains that the cave dwellers had worked hard for for half a year.
Occasionally, goblins, gray dwarves, tauren and other races living on the first floor will team up to enter the second floor to plunder if they are short of food.
However, compared to the brutality of the drow who even killed all the cave dwellers, the gray dwarves only robbed the food.
Fortunately, the reproduction capacity of cavemen is extremely amazing. They give birth to two or three children in one litter. A caveman can grow up and reproduce offspring three years after birth. There are more than one billion cavemen discovered in the second underground continent that has been explored so far. The huge number and strong reproductive capacity enable them to survive tenaciously in the resource-poor second underground continent.
The third layer of the Underdark is the world of the drow, also known as the dark elves.
These drow, like their relatives in many other worlds, are brutal by nature. They use their powerful military force to plunder everywhere and capture other races as slaves.
This Crystal Wall Universe, which is related to the Toril Multiverse, also has the drow elves and a racial god, but it is not the famous Spider Queen Lolth, but a medium-level god with eight priesthoods: dark elves, evil, darkness, cruelty, plunder, stealth, assassination, and shadow web, and a godhood level of eleven. His name is the Lord of Darkness.
This priesthood is even more magnificent than that of the famous Spider Queen Rose. In the Toril multiverse, it should have been a powerful and awe-inspiring divine power, but in this world, it is only a medium-level divine power due to the limitations of the world level.
But even so, the Lord of Darkness is still the most powerful true god in the entire underground world. Even the most powerful divine powers cannot do anything to Him in the underground world.
Normally speaking, with such a powerful local tyrant, it would be almost impossible for Lin Xiao to make a breakthrough in the underground world. However, the underground world is too big. You have to know that this main material plane is a super giant plane.
What is the concept of supergiant?
A large plane is equivalent to the area between the Pacific Ocean and the total area of the earth.
The super-large plane is equivalent to the total area of several Earths.
The giant plane is probably as large as the total area of ten Earths.
A super mega plane is at least as large as three mega planes combined, with no upper limit, because planes above the mega planes are collectively called super mega planes.
Therefore, the main material plane of this crystal wall universe is extremely large. It is impossible for the Lord of Darkness to control all of such a huge underground world. In fact, he only controls a part of the third layer of the Underdark, and his pressure radiates to other nearby levels, but he does not have complete control over the entire Underdark.
At least the racial gods of many races in the first layer of the Underdark formed a loose pantheon to fight against the brutal Lord of Darkness, and with the secret support of the gods on the surface, they withstood the pressure of the Lord of Darkness.
If Lin Xiao finds a suitable place at that time, he will try to impersonate the local true god and join this loose pantheon to fight against the Lord of Darkness.
Locally, he cannot defeat the Lord of Darkness. Even if all the subordinates of the Giant God Legion rush forward, they will be defeated. The strength gap is too great.
Therefore, Lin Xiao will definitely disguise himself at that time, and prepare to let his incarnation be deified again in this world and integrate into this world.
It's not pretending, it's real deification.
This is a necessary step. Otherwise, once you establish faith in this world, you will immediately attract the attention and attack of the will of this crystal wall universe.
Every world is different from every other world. This world is different from the world that Lin Xiao had experienced before. This world is full of indigenous true gods, and even has a Pantheon that represents the will of the world. If he wants to spread his faith on a large scale, he must integrate into this world and become the true god of this world.
In addition, this is also a step that the son of the true god-level divine realm must take in order to plunder the origin and rules of the world.
Only by becoming a true god of this world, one can communicate with the source sea of the alien world at the moment of being deified, just like Lin Xiao communicated with the source sea of Gaia's main world when he was deified before. One can continuously draw source power and contact the underlying rules of the world.
Becoming the true god of this world, when he returns in the future, he will bring back all the source power he has gained and all the priesthood rules he has mastered to the main world. He will directly deprive this world of power and then add it to the main world of Gaia, and then get feedback from Gaia's will.
The more you plunder, the more feedback you will get.
This is the path that the sons of the true god-level divine realm must take, plundering the origins and rules of alien worlds to strengthen the human main world, and then obtaining feedback from Gaia's will to strengthen themselves.
Of course, the strength of the underlying rules of the general world is far inferior to that of the human divine civilization. The true gods of the weak world are definitely not as good as the true gods of the powerful crystal wall system, and the indigenous true gods are definitely not as good as the true god-level sons of the divine realm. In addition, the priesthood they possess is different, and the feedback needs to simultaneously strengthen the sons of the divine realm and the divine realm. Therefore, the benefits of Gaia's will feedback do not mean that the feedback is as strong as the incarnation.
For example, if the incarnation is promoted to a powerful god in one breath, the feedback of Gaia's will after returning may only allow you to be promoted to a medium god, or even not be promoted at all. The greater the gap in the world and the stronger you are, the less feedback you will get. This is inevitable.
Just like Lin Xiao, he possesses the ancient god's priesthood and the innate ancient god's body, and he himself possesses several super-powerful priesthoods. After feedback, they are all fully adapted to the essence of his priesthood, but the quantity is definitely not that large.
One thing is certain, the power that is fed back must be the purest and most suitable for yourself, and Gaia's will will never let you lose money.
(End of this chapter)