The third level of the Underdark is the territory of the Lord of Darkness and His main area of faith. He can send down his incarnation at any time, and the speed is quite fast. If he, an incarnation of a true God, sneaks in, he will be discovered instantly once he uses his divine power. He dare not bet that the Lord of Darkness will be lazy and not move.
Following a rugged passage into the third level of the Underdark, I just jumped down from the broken rocks at the end of the passage when a huge black shadow pounced down from the stone wall beside me.
The minotaur Jonila reacted very quickly, swung his axe and rushed forward, but with a crisp "clang" sound, the axe bounced back at an even faster speed.
Lin Xiao snapped his fingers and a soft light rose up, revealing the black shadow clearly. It was actually a giant scorpion lion. Stimulated by the light, the creature paused in its prepared pounce, its hard wings clasped on the wall, and its curved scorpion tail hook emitted a dazzling blue light, which was obviously poisonous.
At the same time, several sounds similar to those of the scorpion lion were heard in the darkness in the distance. There was more than one scorpion lion nearby.
The Minotaur rubbed his chest. There was an obvious dent on the thickened part of the thick steel half-armor. A small part of it was corroded by the poison and turned black. He said loudly:
"Master Enigma, run. I will hold them off."
Scorpion-tailed lions are considered monsters at the top of the food chain above the third underground layer and are quite powerful. Although the Minotaur can beat one scorpion-tailed lion, he certainly can't beat several. Lin Xiao decided to do it himself.
He raised his hand and clenched it, an invisible force field covered his whole body, and then he pointed at the minotaur Jonila and cast a levitation spell on him, sending him to the back and admonishing him:
"Be careful, don't die."
As soon as he turned his head, the scorpion lion roared and attacked. It flapped its huge wings and the stone wall and gravel flew towards him.
Lin Xiao turned around slowly, stretched out his hand and pressed down. An invisible force field pressed down, and the scorpion lion sank like a scale and fell heavily to the ground.
At this time, several other scorpion lions came over from afar. He raised his hand again and suddenly frowned. A blue dagger appeared behind him and hit the air several inches behind him. A slender human-shaped black shadow also emerged. Seeing this scene, he instantly turned into a cloud of smoke and disappeared.
"Want to run?"
Lin Xiao sneered and pressed down with his backhand. The space within a radius of several hundred meters was instantly solidified. More than ten meters away from him, a figure flying backwards slowly emerged from invisibility.
"Drow Rogue!"
With a thought, the black cloth on the black shadow's face split open, revealing a beautiful drow girl with a pale face full of fear.
Just as he was about to say something, suddenly a ball of black light exploded not far from the girl. A figure used this force to break free from the restraints and disappeared in a flash.
"There is still one?"
Lin Xiao was quite surprised and ignored the drow girl for the time being. He turned around and clicked his fingers. Several lightning bolts fell from the sky and knocked out several scorpion lions. He put them into the six-color magic cube, and then he came in front of the drow girl and removed the ban. The drow girl immediately spoke in a rapid drow language.
"@#￥@#%"
It was well known that drow were very good at swearing, and in just a few moments they uttered dozens of words that would make even rude men blush.
The true god is naturally proficient in languages, and the minotaur also knows a little. After hearing a few words, the minotaur couldn't stand it and covered her ears which turned red. Lin Xiao directly used the silent speech technique to silence her.
"Are all drow like this?"
Although he was asking the Minotaur, Lin Xiao actually knew that the drow elves in this world were like this.
The annotations that the Greedy Wolf Chapter gave to the drow elves on their data files were that they were a dirty, cunning, and cruel race.
Lin Xiao pressed his brows, wanting to learn about the situation of the drow from the drow girl. He waved his hand to break the spell. As soon as the drow girl was released, she started cursing for a minute. When he reacted, the minotaur Jonila had already grabbed the giant axe.
He quickly used another silent spell to seal the drow girl's stinky mouth, stopped the minotaur's impulse, and prevented a tragedy.
After thinking for a while, he said to the female drow,
"You should be able to understand the Common Language. If you curse us again, I will feed you this."
As he said this, he released a scorpion lion that he had just captured.
Although the female drow could not speak, there was obvious fear in her eyes.
Seeing this, Lin Xiao smiled with satisfaction and unlocked the Silent Words spell again. This time, the female drow said in the common language of the continent:
"Humble man, let me go quickly. I can still spare your life."
Lin Xiao chuckled. Apparently the threat worked, although his mouth was still foul.
As for the threat, he didn't take it seriously at all. He mentioned the Scorpion Lion and said:
"I'll give you two choices. One is to feed the manticore, and the other is to answer my questions honestly."
After some intimidation and inducement, Lin Xiao soon found out the information he wanted to know.
This female drow was from the seventh-ranked family in the city of Rieldaila, which was closest to the third layer of the Underdark. The drow had just started a large-scale sweep of the second layer of the Underdark, and the joint sweep team from Rieldaila had been planning to head to the second layer of the Underdark from here, but happened to discover a newly relocated tribe of gray dwarves nearby, so they stopped to attack the tribe of gray dwarves.
Most of the gray dwarves live in the first layer of the Underdark, but some gray dwarf tribes venture to the third layer of the Underdark for higher quality ore.
After learning this information from the female drow, Lin Xiao decided to go over and take a look.
He asked the female drow to lead the way. She was secretly happy and cooperated by walking in front.
After crossing a rugged area, they arrived at the edge of a high ground covered with stalagmites. Further ahead was a huge underground space. Underneath, there was a castle built by a tribe of gray dwarves. It must have been built not long ago and was not yet perfect. At this time, it was broken into by thousands of Zolgar and Zol servants.
Lin Xiao knew at a glance that this tribe of gray dwarves was beyond salvation, and all the gray dwarves were dead.
The ruined city was filled with blood and tortured corpses. The drow were currently cruelly creating soul-bound corpses on the spot.
The so-called soul-bound corpse, first of all, they use poison curses to kill the target, then soak the corpse in special potions, and then use necromancy to revive the dead, and then perform a series of spells to blaspheme the dead on the dead. The final soul-bound corpse is extremely powerful, and even retains a certain amount of wisdom from its previous life, and is loyal to its master.
Moreover, because they are undead creatures, they have no life characteristics. Unless they are attacked by powerful spells or energy, they can continue to fight even if their heads are cut off. They are very difficult to deal with.
Lin Xiao was furious at seeing such evil behavior. In his previous life, before he traveled through time, he hated the cruel acts of evil forces in movies or novels. Now that he saw it with his own eyes, he realized that there is no most cruel, only more cruel.
At this point, he had already sentenced these drow elves to death in his heart. He had no interest in transforming such a race.
His eyes swept across the entire place, especially the group of drow priests emitting divine power. He turned to the minotaur Jonila and said:
"I need to do something, you go back and wait for me."
The minotaur was stunned for a moment, then he saw Lin Xiao pointing at him. A circle of space fluctuations wrapped around him. His eyes blurred and he reappeared in the cave they had dug on the second level of the Underdark.
After sending the minotaur back, Lin Xiao twisted his neck, and an invisible wave bloomed with him as the center. The drow girl next to him was swept by the wave and turned into powder and collapsed.
The undisguised horrific fluctuations quickly attracted the attention of the powerful drow. A beautiful drow woman in a gorgeous robe in the crowd looked up. When she saw Lin Xiao walking down from the sky, her pupils shrank slightly. She quickly cast a divine spell. The next second, a trace of fear appeared on her beautiful face. She quickly raised the scepter in her hand and shouted loudly:
"I am the priest of the supreme Lord of Darkness!"
Many drow were alarmed, and had different reactions when they saw Lin Xiao walking down from the sky. Dozens of poisonous crossbow arrows flew out and solidified in mid-air. Now all the drow felt the seriousness of the problem and stopped what they were doing to prepare for battle.
The high priest continued shouting:
"Dear human warrior, as punishment for offending you, we are willing to compensate you!"
The beautiful high priestess' heart was trembling. As the priestess of the Lord of Darkness, she almost suffocated from the feedback of the magic she had just cast on this human who had appeared out of nowhere.
Ordinary tribesmen thought that this was a powerful human who was dissatisfied with the cruel behavior of the tribesmen, but she knew that this was a great being who had ascended the throne and been deified, and was on the same level as the great Lord of Darkness.
She believed that the Lord of Darkness was stronger than this unknown being, but what was the use? By the time she called for the Lord of Darkness to come, she would have been dead.
Lin Xiao was not surprised that he was discovered. Any true priest of the God has the divine power to identify, but most priests will never have the opportunity to use it in their lifetime.
Without any nonsense, Lin Xiaoling flew to the sky above the breached gray dwarf city. In the horrified eyes of the beautiful high priest, he stretched out his right hand, and a layer of golden color representing divinity appeared in his pupils. At this moment, he no longer concealed his existence and shouted in a deep voice:
"In the Name of Truth"
True gods have extraordinary divine powers—the power of life and death.
"Life deprivation!"
God can give life to mortals, but can also take away their lives.
"No!"
At this moment, an invisible wave swept across the ruins of the city, and the life flames of all the drow and servant races within the ruins were instantly extinguished. Countless illusory souls were drawn out of their bodies by invisible forces and flew towards his outstretched right hand.
Countless soulless corpses fell down together, including the beautiful drow priestess who lost her breath and fell down at this moment. The powerful magic she bestowed on herself could not protect her. An equally beautiful red-haired drow soul flew out and converged towards Lin Xiao like thousands of rivers returning to the sea, turning into a fist-sized ball of light hanging in his palm.
"who is it!"
An extremely angry roar was heard between heaven and earth, and then an extremely powerful aura began to descend.
Lin Xiao knew that this was the incarnation of the Lord of Darkness about to arrive.
The sudden death of a cleric of any deity is cause for concern to the deity, especially if the death is out of character.
As a true god, Lin Xiao personally attacked the priests of other true gods. This was an extremely serious provocation. The Lord of Darkness had to descend and incarnate if he had any dignity.
(End of this chapter)