Translated by: Novellise
Several minutes later.
All of the skeletal guards had been killed by the goblins deep in the underground caverns, but Lu Yuan had obtained the information he wanted.
The underground cavern was intricate and difficult to attack, resembling a subterranean labyrinth. If ordinary people ventured in, they would easily get lost.
There were at least tens of thousands of goblins inside, forming a small goblin kingdom.
Although a direct attack would result in heavy casualties, Lu Yuan was undeterred.
Holding a skeleton staff, he quietly chanted an incantation.
Sixth Level Dark Magic: Plague Miasma!
Elements within a radius of ten miles seemed to be drawn towards him like an incantation, converging like mad.
The elements accumulated and formed a huge hexagram magic field.
A poisonous green miasma emerged from the array and spread through the ventilation ducts throughout the deep underground cavern.
Many weak goblins, unaware of what was happening, were corroded by the poison and turned into a pool of thick liquid.
As their bodies rapidly rotted and melted, they were transformed into a large amount of miasma, increasing the power of the poison gas!
"Kill them." Lu Yuan finished his dark magic experiment and ordered the skeleton army to enter the cave and kill all the surviving goblins.
He had no sympathy for these small, ugly, green-skinned creatures. Besides, the goblins were weak and numerous, making them the best upgrade material for the Cataclysm skeletons.
Six months later.
Nearly a million goblins living near the Kagael Mountains had fallen under Lu Yuan's blade.
The entire Bone Graveyard had become Lu Yuan's private garden.
Tens of millions of wild skeletons were either killed or subjugated by Lu Yuan.
Finally, his Cataclysm Legion had passed the milestone of one million soldiers!
Among them were forty thousand third-tier skeleton warriors, twenty thousand fourth-tier skeleton swordsmen, ten thousand fourth-tier archers, and skeleton mages!
In addition, the Headless Horsemen Legion had finally surpassed the fifty thousand mark!
With the vast amount of gold and silver treasures confiscated from Lu Yuan, Lucilia had exchanged them through various channels for dwarven-made equipment and weapons.
When the Legion of Headless Horsemen donned this equipment, their fighting power increased by at least double!
After making inquiries, Lu Yuan finally learned the origin of the Headless Horsemen Legion from Lucilia.
Hundreds of kilometres away from the Bone Cemetery, there was a Skeleton Wasteland.
This wasteland stretched for thousands of miles, at the southernmost tip of the magical world, near the Abyss Rift, where life and death intersected.
Five hundred years ago.
A powerful Abyss Demon King, after years of planning and collaboration with the dark organisation, finally broke through the world barrier with supreme power, forcibly tearing open a spatial rift!
Countless Abyss Demons eagerly poured out of the rift.
They wreaked havoc, spreading death and destruction to every corner of the world.
When the Emperor of the Holy Light learned of this, he was furious.
He immediately dispatched three hundred thousand Holy Light Knights and over a million troops to defeat the Abyss Demons.
As powerful as the Abyssal Demons were, the Knights of the Holy Light were the Empire's most precious asset, each warrior carefully selected and imbued with the power of the Holy Light.
Especially after undergoing the Baptism of the Holy Light.
In addition to their prowess on the battlefield, they could also unleash a variety of powerful light magic!
Faced with the indomitable knights of the Holy Light Empire, the demon army retreated step by step and was eventually driven back into the Abyss Rift.
However, the spatial rift never disappeared and continues to exist to this day.
Powerful creatures from the Abyss would occasionally invade this world.
For hundreds of years, the Skeleton Wasteland had been the main battleground between the Holy Light Empire and the Demon Army, burying countless bones and corpses.
Especially under the long-term erosion of deadly energies.
The Skeleton Wasteland had now become the stronghold of the undead race, home to millions of skeletons and undead creatures!
Lucilia had been working on the outskirts of the Skeleton Wasteland, subduing a large number of wild Headless Horsemen and organising them into the Headless Horsemen Legion.
"The Skeleton Wasteland?"
The blood-red soul fires in Lu Yuan's eyes flickered unpredictably, showing great interest.
After the Abyssal War back then.
In order to prevent a similar situation, the Empire of Holy Light had purified almost the entire magical world.
The undead creatures scattered throughout the world, deprived of a home, were forced to congregate in the Skeleton Wasteland.
Bone dragons, necromancers, arachnomancers, liches, wights, vampire bats, dark mages...
Almost every undead creature has gathered in this wasteland.
If Lu Yuan could conquer the Skeleton Wasteland, the power of the Cataclysm Legion would surely skyrocket!
However, the Holy Light Empire had stationed a large force of over ten thousand Holy Light Knights and over a hundred thousand regular troops near the Skeleton Wasteland.
The rift also connected the Abyss plane to the magical world.
The Abyss Lords would not allow the Skeleton Wasteland to fall into the hands of others.
Lu Yuan's ambition to claim this territory had to be cautious, not rash.
Norton also brought two pieces of bad news.
"Master, according to the latest information I have received, the Holy Light Empire has mobilised a large number of knights and scouts, apparently in search of demon bloodlines."
Norton paused and looked at Lucilia beside him.
After the time they had spent together, even he could tell that Lucilia's bloodline was extraordinary, far more than just a simple Abyss demon lineage.
"Demon bloodlines? How did the Holy Light Empire find out about this?" Lu Yuan's eyes flashed with a hint of doubt.
Besides, the Kingdom of Lyon was only an imperial vassal of the Holy Light Empire, thousands of kilometres away from the imperial capital, so a lot of news was delayed.
This indicated that the royal family of the Holy Light Empire had known about it for a long time.
However, the Holy Light Empire had stood strong for over a thousand years and undoubtedly possessed unfathomable reserves and means beyond the imagination of ordinary people, so their foresight was not unexpected.
"With such a strong response from the Holy Light Empire, Lucilia's bloodline must have a remarkable background."
Lu Yuan thought inwardly.
First, he could rule out the possibility that Lucilia was a simulacrum.
Under normal circumstances.
After the novice protection period had expired.
Every time someone simulated, ten simulacrums would go to the same reincarnation world.
But Lucilia had been enslaved by the Cataclysm for so long.
Lu Yuan knew her intimately, down to the shorts she wore every day. She could not be an imitation.
So what reason would make the Empire of the Holy Light so shocked and attentive to her?
Did they want to find Lucilia at any cost?
"Could Lucilia be the Chosen One?"
Lu Yuan shook his head, dismissing the speculation.
Good and evil do not coexist.
As a member of the demon race, it was unlikely that Lucilia would be chosen by the will of the magical world.
Moreover, if she were truly the Chosen One, she would never have been so easily enslaved by Lu Yuan.
Unable to find an answer, Lu Yuan could only put this problem aside for now.
"What's the second bad news?" he asked Norton, turning to him and inquiring.
"According to the master, the Super-Tier Dark Forbidden Curse of the original Dark Organisation has been successfully researched."
"The Dread Lord has decided to descend in a projection to personally oversee the curse ritual!"
(End of chapter)