Chapter 123: Soul of Rock and Earth!

In the depths of the third floor of the labyrinth, suits of magic armor and stone statues stood scattered in the wide corridor, guarding the road ahead like loyal sentries.

The dust covering the surface easily made people mistake them for decorations in the labyrinth, but experienced adventurers all knew how dangerous this thing was.

Unlike the small demon's traps.

These stone statues were visible traps.

Just at this moment, the sound of footsteps that were neither light nor heavy came from the depths of the pitch-black corridor.

Hearing the suddenly appearing sound, one after another clay golems wearing armor raised their heads, making a creaking sound of rock friction, and their silent pupils also successively emitted scarlet light.

They had already sensed the presence of the intruder, but couldn't determine his specific location.

"Creak—"

That continuous sound was like a precursor to a landslide, as if stones were collapsing from the top of the mountain.

At this time, a dagger shot toward the head of one of the clay golems like an arrow off a string!

"Clang—!"

The sound of piercing metal spread, and the dagger happened to be stuck in the gap of the helmet, piercing the clay golem's fragile eye area.

"Roar—"

The clay golem with a knife in its head let out a low roar, grabbed a battle axe as tall as a person, and rushed toward the direction where the dagger was shot.

Also at the same time, a fire-red light suddenly flashed in the darkness, and the flying smoke bomb rushed toward the leading clay golem like a fire dragon.

"Boom!"

The scorching high temperature was enough to melt metal, and the clay golem hit by the flame that was like a solid entity didn't even have time to let out a scream, instantly baked into rock blocks, and then shattered into a pile of sand and soil.

Also at the same time, a black residual shadow whistled past under the collapsing dust, and while holding the dagger, attacked another clay golem beside it with lightning speed.

In a flash, the dagger was like a bolt of lightning, sweeping across the neck of the clay golem not protected by armor.

The sharp blade carrying the Nether-script flashed and disappeared, and the pitch-black arc directly beheaded that huge and clumsy clay head!

Sarah, who killed with one blow, didn't stop and quickly pulled away with a nimble backflip.

And almost the moment she retreated from the attack, a huge stone bullet launched like a siege catapult happened to hit the position where she was standing before, almost knocking down the wall of the labyrinth! "Boom—!!"

The roaring shockwave wrapped in billowing dust spread to the surroundings, blowing her bangs to her temples.

Except for some dust on her ear tips, the fierce attack didn't hurt her at all.

The clay caster in the distance let out an angry roar, and the raised right arm flashed with the light of runes again. Not far away, the clay golems that had completely woken up also set up the battle axes and war hammers in their hands and rushed toward the intruder with cat ears on her head.

Facing the surging monsters, Sarah had no panic on her face, just flashed and retreated into the darkness behind her, disappearing into the corridor that had become lively.

At the same time, Miranda, who had been ready for a long time, didn't give that clay caster a chance to release again, and roared out the "thunderous" chant he created himself.

"Roar, hurricane! Use carbon monoxide to build your unstoppable chest!"

The whistling hurricane was like seaweed in the deep sea, not only blowing over the clay caster who raised its arm, but also grabbing the ankles of one clay golem after another.

At the same time, Miranda switched spells, pointed at the clay caster deep in the storm, and released ignition.

The moment the flame burst out, the roar of the explosion was like the roar of a beast, instantly tearing everything in the corridor to shreds! When the dust of the explosion dissipated, only wisps of heat and broken armor and clay fragments remained on the ground; nothing else was left.

Completely without finding a chance to strike, Oakduo tapped the scales on his shoulder with the back of his scimitar.

Luo Yan, standing beside him, looked at Miranda, his face difficult to hide his astonishment.

Putting gaseous carbon monoxide into a wind-type magic spell?!

This actually works?!

"That spell... did you summarize it yourself?"

Facing the Demon King's inquiry, Miranda smiled shyly and said modestly.

"I figured it out after discussing with your minions... I improved the spell for extending the chant."

Genius!

As expected of an apostle chosen by Nuoweier, just this ability to learn by analogy, even Luo Yan had to sigh in his heart that this guy really had some skills.

However, unlike Luo Yan, Miranda didn't feel that he had anything extraordinary.

After all, the source of all this knowledge was sitting in front of him right now—on the back of that big spider.

Everything is composed of tiny particles...

He had never heard such an astonishing theory!

One person and one ghost cherished each other in their hearts; although there were misunderstandings between them, it was actually not much different.

At this time, Sarah, who went to scout ahead, returned to Luo Yan's side, nodded slightly, and reported respectfully.

"Demon King, the direction in which the clay golems that attacked Iron Tooth City escaped has been confirmed."

Luo Yan nodded approvingly.

"Very good, continue to lead the way."

Sarah's eyes burned.

"Yes!"

Looking at the increasingly skilled and agile figure, Luo Yan also felt a slight pride in his heart, patted Alakeduo's head, and signaled him to follow.

Along the way, the group was like a hot knife through butter.

Sarah was responsible for luring monsters, Miranda was responsible for casting spells, Oakduo was responsible for finishing off... Luo Yan, who was sitting steadily on Alakeduo's back, almost didn't take action, just watching his minions bomb and kill all the clay golems blocking the way!

After solving the last wave of clay golems and earth element summons, the group soon entered a relatively open area.

This place was like a huge stalactite cave, with sharp stone pillars ten meters high connecting to the towering rock dome, and some pink, yellow, and green quartz embedded in the walls not far away.

According to Luo Yan's experience.

Once such an open area appears in a relatively cramped labyrinth, it often means that something extraordinary is hidden nearby.

Especially since the environment here is out of place with other sections of the labyrinth.

This place is very likely an illegal building! Just like the cave of the Shadow Weaving Lair! Sure enough.

Just while he was standing here, a creaking friction sound came from the shadows in the distance, followed by a breeze containing magic power blowing faintly from the front.

"Prepare for bat—"

"Magic Crystal Lair!!!" Before Luo Yan's voice fell, Miranda, who was floating on the side, suddenly screamed.

Pairs of eyes looked at him one after another.

"Magic Crystal Lair?" Luo Yan frowned slightly, staring at Miranda and asking, "What is that?"

"A kind of magic crystal mine that exists under natural conditions... common in the northern part of the Wan Ren Mountain Range, and there is also a small amount of distribution in the northern swamp."

Miranda's face was full of obsession, and he continued in an excited voice, "Incredible... there is actually this thing in the labyrinth?! Why are you leaving it unmined? Is it because there is too much?"

Meaning a magic crystal mine? Luo Yan roughly understood his surprise, but didn't make a fuss like him, just cast his gaze on the nearest wall.

Fine magic crystals dotted the surface of the quartz mineral, and those crystal-clear little things were like tiny diamonds growing on Kimberlite.

Similar mineral resources are of course not lacking in Hell.

And like other metal mineral resources, Hell's mineral resources are much richer than the scattered mineral veins on the surface.

However—

The magic crystal mine here is a bit special.

Especially the quartz mineral that appeared abruptly on the silicate mineral rock, it doesn't look like it grew naturally at all, but rather like it was embedded by humans.

Combined with the information provided by the Nightmare Township, a possibility emerged in Luo Yan's mind—

This place is not any mineral vein.

It's likely the seedbed for those clay golems to breed! "... Because it's very obvious that this appeared after the previous Demon King died, not something that exists naturally."

Looking around, Luo Yan took out his magic wand from his sleeve, a playful expression gradually rising on his face, and continued.

"Do you feel it? The magic power fluctuations nearby."

Miranda looked at him unexpectedly.

"Isn't it normal for magic power fluctuations to exist where there are magic crystal mineral veins?"

Luo Yan didn't answer, just pointed his wand at the nearest rock wall, and a scorching flame pillar was released from the tip of the wand.

The scorching high temperature constantly roasted the rock wall, and even the temperature of the entire cave rose by a few degrees.

Miranda looked at the Demon King in confusion, not understanding what he was doing by doing this.

Sarah was also curious, but didn't ask much, just raised her arm and secretly wiped the sweat beads that crossed her cheeks.

Luo Yan didn't explain anything; after maintaining the scorching for more than ten seconds, he flicked the tip of the wand upward, and then chanted the second spell.

And this time—

The scorching flames turned into ghostly blue frost! Under that extreme temperature difference of one cold and one hot, the quartz embedded in the rock wall immediately made a crisp sound that it couldn't bear.

Immediately after, spider-web-like cracks spread on them, and were finally destroyed by their own stress, falling from the wall as quartz fragments of various sizes.

Seeing this scene, a strange expression appeared on Miranda's face.

The combination of fire-type magic and water-type frost magic can actually make the hard rock wall shatter?! What principle is this?!

Generally speaking, this kind of rock layer buried hundreds of meters underground is even stronger than a city wall, and even a mage proficient in earth-type magic is difficult to change its shape.

However, compared to this surprising scene in front of him, Miranda was more curious about why the Demon King wanted to do this.

He hadn't understood much since just now.

"What are you doing—"

Before Miranda could finish asking, another stone wall not far away collapsed! He saw the crystal blocks embedded on it rolling down together with the twisted rocks, forming a human-like monster on the rugged ground.

The first to discover the abnormality in the darkness, Sarah's hair stood on end, and two daggers were grabbed in her hands like lightning.

Having long discovered the abnormality of this cave, Luo Yan was not panicked at all, and his magic wand pointed forward.

Not giving the monster a chance to stand firm at all, a lightning-fast miserable green light hit the top of the monster's head! "Sign of Death!"

The miserable green nether energy exploded on the monster's head, piercing its indestructible "flesh" like the claws of a ghost, tormenting its fragile spirit.

The monster embedded with crystals let out a painful moan and knelt on the ground amidst a tooth-aching creaking sound.

This wasn't over—the rock monster that first separated from the wall was clearly just an appetizer.

The hard wall behind it collapsed like a sudden landslide, collapsing into a pile of stone blocks the size of a basin, and aggregated together while rolling.

There were at least a hundred of them!

"Demon King, be careful!"

Sarah whispered, flashed to block in front of Luo Yan, and at the same time Oakduo also set up the two scimitars in his hands, showing a look of facing a great enemy.

Unlike the minions who were facing a great enemy, Luo Yan's expression remained unmoved.

He saw the trajectory of his magic wand changing, and under the guidance of the tip of the wand, the ghostly green light turned into nether butterflies, and flicked toward the front with a shake of the wand tip.

"Prison of Bones!"

Thousands of sharp bones broke through the ground, covering the vast land, like anti-horse obstacles on the battlefield, suddenly blocking the front of the rushing rock and soil torrent!

Countless bones were crushed!

However, new bones kept breaking through the ground, piercing through the clay golems that hadn't taken shape yet! The magic wand in Luo Yan's hand didn't stop, and after turning a corner, it shook gently again, skillfully releasing the next spell.

"Wake up—"

"My servant!"

Hundreds of skeleton soldiers stood up from the rugged ground, holding white bone shields and bone knives and bone spears of different lengths in their hands! Amidst the sound of bone friction, the white bones formed a new torrent, hard-stopping the rolling rock blocks!

Seeing this scene, Miranda was amazed in his heart.

He always thought that a necromancer had to be in a place like a cemetery to exert combat effectiveness, but he didn't expect that he could achieve the same effect through the combination of different spells.

However, it was no wonder.

The Academy didn't have a professor teaching necromancy, and he was just an apprentice before leaving the Academy; he hadn't been to the front line, nor had he seen the mysteries of the core.

If it were in Hell, this set of spellcasting processes was quite common, and could even be said to be as classic as a textbook.

Moving his gaze away from the rock monsters surrounded by skeleton soldiers, Luo Yan looked into the depths of the cave where the magic wind was blowing, and gently patted Alakeduo's forehead.

Feeling the Demon King's touch, Alakeduo immediately understood, opened his throat, and shouted toward the front with a loud voice.

"Rebel army in front, listen up! Standing in front of you is the master of the labyrinth, the ruler of the Great Graveyard, the Demon King personally appointed by His Majesty the Demon God!"

"Your shameful betrayal has angered the Demon God! Surrender is your only chance to receive forgiveness! And the last chance!"

"Otherwise... we will completely destroy this place! And bury you forever under these ruins!"

The majestic low roar passed through the two armies, echoing within the deep and dark cave.

Not long after, a muffled roar came from the depths of the cave.

"Betrayal? Demon God? You guys really dare to say that! Who exactly betrayed His Majesty the Demon God? Who betrayed this labyrinth! It's you! It's you guys!"

"Want to make the great Soul of Rock and Earth surrender? My answer is absolutely not!"

That voice carried boundless anger, just like a flood rushing under a cliff! Luo Yan frowned slightly.

Hearing that thunderous roar, Alakeduo was a bit scared, but didn't show it on his face, just hurriedly turned his head to look at the Demon King and said.

"Demon King, it seems that this group of stubborn rotten stones intends to resist to the end! Words are useless, let's go back and call people."

"No rush."

Luo Yan casually said a word to appease the restless Alakeduo, stared into the depths of the deep and dark cave, raised his volume, and continued.

"I am the Demon King; you said we betrayed the Demon God, I want to hear your reasons."

"Reason?" The voice drifting from the depths of the cave carried a hint of irony, and continued in a muffled tone, "Aren't those big-nosed Mole-men your servants?"

Luo Yan said unmoved.

"Yes, so what?"

"So?" That muffled tone was furious, roaring, "They are invaders! They are destroying this labyrinth! And you are standing with them, turning a blind eye to this! Isn't this a betrayal of His Majesty the Demon God?"

"Did you get something wrong? This is the Demon King territory bestowed upon me by His Majesty the Demon God; shouldn't it be up to me how my Demon King territory is managed?"

Staring at the cave of darkness, Luo Yan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he continued in a cold voice.

"And, not to mention that I have already let them stop their dirty hands, in my opinion, aren't you doing the same thing?"

The creaking friction sound came from the depths of the cave, and that muffled tone was speechless for a time, unable to say a word of refutation.

Indeed—

Speaking of illegal buildings, except for the small demons of the Nightmare Township, almost all the monsters in the labyrinth were doing it.

This, of course, also included the Soul of Rock and Earth tribe itself.

Since the previous Demon King fell, the monsters had begun to seek their own ways out, and the original order had long been in a mess.

The voice in the darkness was speechless for a time.

And just at this time, a sharp and urgent shout suddenly drifted into Luo Yan's ears faintly.

"Don't listen to his sophistry! That's his sophistry! No matter what, the labyrinth should be decided by the monsters in the labyrinth! Those Mole-men are all outsiders! Just like that guy who calls himself the Demon King! The teleportation array in the labyrinth was wiped away long ago; it's impossible for a new Demon King to come over!"

Luo Yan's eyebrows raised slightly.

He got angry when talking about the teleportation array; does this count as a confession? "There seems to be the sound of a Goblin beside you... if I remember correctly, these guys and their Ogre boss are all things that popped out of the Dimensional Desert."

"You are right, but they have already obtained the approval of the previous Demon King, so they are also counted as a member of the labyrinth."

Just at the same time the muffled voice fell, the sharp shout rang out as if breaking the jar.

Since they had been discovered by the Demon King, they didn't intend to continue acting.

"That's right! We are the masters of the labyrinth! You group of outsider demons, get out of the labyrinth! Get out!"

Hearing that fox-pretending-to-be-tiger shouting, Luo Yan couldn't help but laugh out loud for a while.

"Very good."

At the same time the voice fell, his smile cooled down at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he continued in a voice without emotional ups and downs.

"I have already given you a chance... since you chose to resist to the end, then I will fulfill you."

At the same time the voice fell, he instructed Hearing You You to place a flag for assembling the "Skeleton Legion" on the map, summoned all skeleton soldiers below Black Iron tier, and at the same time instructed the players playing these skeleton soldiers to go to the warehouse to bring explosives for mining.

That was a product made by the "I Think" Group, mainly based on picric acid.

Although the purity of this thing was at the small workshop level and couldn't keep up with what was produced in the factory, it was more than enough to deal with a group of stone men.

A battle of life for life, his players had never lost! At this very moment, the "Soul of Rock and Earth" tribe hadn't realized the severity of the problem and was still arrogantly mocking there.

"I'm waiting for you to fulfill us! Remember my name, my name is 'Immovable Old Man'—that is the name bestowed upon me by His Majesty Lei Ji Dragong!"

"Zhazake is also waiting for you here!"

The Goblin hiding in the cave was also shouting and provoking arrogantly.

"What Demon King! Just this little ability? I think it's nothing more than that!"

Luo Yan smiled and didn't speak, just while maintaining the line formed by the summoned skeleton soldiers, quietly waiting for his true minions to assemble.

After an unknown amount of time, a sky-covering creaking sound came from the cave in the distance, and I saw one "newbie" after another holding picric acid explosives killing to the scene under the leadership of Gulping Down the Chemical Pool.

They seemed to have realized their mission, all of them bare-boned, without bringing any equipment on their bodies except explosives.

Not living up to the determination of this group of warriors, Luo Yan issued an order in a solemn and majestic voice.

"Go, my servants! May your rotting bodies turn into burning meteors and bring death to the enemies of the Great Graveyard!"

"You are free!"

Including Gulping Down the Chemical Pool, the players present had been waiting for this sentence for a long time, and they all rushed up howling.

"Long live the Great Graveyard!!!"

"Long live the Demon King!!!"

"Oli give give!!!!"

The clay golems present couldn't understand their shouting at all, only seeing one skeleton after another howling and rushing up, and immediately they turned into a piece of fire and smoke like meteors!

"Boom!!!"

The deafening explosion shook the entire cave, and even the stalactites ten meters high were shaking one after another.

As this group of explosive skeleton soldiers killed into the battlefield, the clay golem's line was instantly blown to pieces, and the originally evenly matched battle situation also fell to the Demon King's side without suspense.

Looking at the clay golems blown to pieces, Miranda, who was floating in mid-air, was dumbfounded.

What kind of magic is this?!

He couldn't understand.

But intuition told him that the power of this thing was much more powerful than that carbon monoxide, and the bang-bang-bang sound didn't stop.

"No—!"

A sorrowful roar came from the cave, and even the earth trembled in that roar.

"What is that thing?! What did you do???"

Watching his clansmen fall one after another, the Immovable Old Man, who was originally calm, could no longer be calm.

Especially since the fire of the explosion began to spread to the depths of the lair, it was thought that it wouldn't be long before it spread to his side.

Unlike the "Immovable Old Man" who fell into panic, the Goblin who was still clamoring before had completely lost its voice.

Not paying attention to the roar coming from the distance, Luo Yan looked at Sarah on the side and instructed in a gentle tone.

"Catch a little mouse for me... its name seems to be something like Ke. Remember not to kill it, I have something to ask it."

Sarah nodded seriously, the burning anger in her eyes already unable to hold back.

"Understood!"

She had endured that guy for a long time!

Just at the same time the voice fell, that agile figure had hidden in the darkness.

Looking at the cave full of fire and the messy soil blocks, Luo Yan, sitting on the spider's back, put away his magic wand calmly.

In the blink of an eye, another rebellion was quelled.

Next is the time to clean up the battlefield...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 124 =====