Chapter 173: I Believe Your Ghost

Time rewound slightly; while Li En was still enjoying a peaceful sleep after just returning home, at the so-called second watch, the diligent snake had already begun its new day's labor.

"Cute little Elsenar, you are truly pitiful; your dear uncle has come to visit you."

Humming a little tune, the cheerful snake came to see its former colleague.

It even dragged rotting dry hay and withered chrysanthemums with its tail, preparing to visit the grave of its "old friend."

It did not take the normal passage, but simply swam straight downward.

Like an invisible shadow, it roamed through the underground ocean of rocks, strata, and monsters.

The walls of the underground ruins, bound by divine power, held no meaning for it.

It swam through the chaotic underground caves, admiring the struggles of adventurers and monsters, and even kindly helped a squad that was about to capsize.

It swam through the maze-like layers of the underground ruins, admiring the trail markers left by elite pathfinders, admiring the not-so-ancient ancient books in the large bookcases (to it), and even "kindly" opened a "more interesting" opening in several dead ends to spare explorers the frustration and disappointment of reaching a dead end.

It swam through the underground lake and plain areas, admiring the desolate beauty of ancient beasts, and rode a crazed rhinoceros-horned beast chasing a pitiful herd of black deer, crossing volcanoes, snowfields, and insect nests... It casually sealed off some otherworldly entrances, both preventing invaders from the surface from encountering opponents with a style too strange, and preventing some cunning otherworldly detourers from "skipping" the overly arduous journey.

It swam through

"Cute little Elsenar, are you alright? Do you miss me?"

Finally, it arrived at the deepest part of the underground ruins; judging by the depth alone, it was far beyond the deepest point of Mosodilka.

This was a Mystic realm unreachable by normal passages, also the core area and source of this underground ruin complex, where various traps, divine power marks, and beast signatures densely covered the place.

They not only bound "Elsenar," but also drew its immortal power and roots as part of natural laws; until a new Beast King replaced it, it was truly eternal and indestructible.

And those divine marks, beast signatures, and magic arrays outside converted this power, life force, and beast nature into new life, injecting it into the ruin world.

"Do you miss me? Do you miss me? Do you miss me?"

The snake happily crawled back and forth; those dangerous traps and divine power seals held no meaning for it.

Since it "did not exist," how could it be triggered by these things?

But its cheerful chatter and the fluctuations of its consciousness echoed throughout the entire area.

"Do you miss me..."

The rock walls and ground began to hum cheerfully.

"Do you miss me?! Cute little Elsenar."

Those divine power seals actually began to tremble and chant.

"Do you miss me? I miss you to death!"

The material plane, the shadow plane, the higher-dimensional layers—all were harmonizing and singing loudly.

The entire world, whether air, earth, or even souls and divine power fluctuations, turned into that cheerful snake face, its stretched mouth laughing happily.

"Elsenar, little cutie, I've come to play with you!!"

"Shut up!!!"

Finally, the deeply sleeping consciousness of the Beast was forcibly woken.

The moment it awoke, the entire underground ruin and even the Radiant City above it trembled slightly, "rolling over" more violently; the earthquake that should have occurred was held down by the giant snake pressing upon it!

"Who... who... save me! I will give you everything you want..."

A powerful voice echoed around the seals; Elsenar, not yet fully awake, made a promise from the bottom of its heart, a promise it had already prepared in its dreams.

"I can sign my true name under a contract; I can grant you a kingdom, even the chance to become a deity..." Reason gradually returned; although time was destined not to last, it quickly made its promise.

And this promise was sincere; anyone with a normal chance of reaching here would know the value of a Beast King's true name signature and the credibility of its promises. Elsenar was not a devil; if anyone truly willing to save it emerged, the kingdom and divine seat it promised could be fulfilled!

"Tsk tsk tsk, little Elsenar is so pitiful, kneeling and begging, wuwuwu, so pitiful, so pitiful... Call me grandpa, and I'll save you right now." But what it met was not the expected savior, but a cheerful prison visitor.

"Snake? Snake. Snake!!!"

The next moment, the entire tectonic plates shook.

The earthquake could no longer be suppressed; the entire underground ruin experienced a potentially fatal earthquake, and the Radiant City above suffered a minor magnitude three or four earthquake.

A certain young knight who was still snoring loudly was so stimulated that he suddenly sat up, instantly shattering the wooden bed beneath him.

"Traitor!"

"Die!!"

"Snake! How are you not dead yet!"

"Damn traitor! Liar! Bastard!"

"I %$&"

The Beast King's original elegance and dignity were utterly gone; here was only a pitiful victim crazily cursing the snake's entire family.

"Tsk tsk tsk, every time I enjoy the howling of a defeated dog, it's interesting. Next time I visit you, shall I bring you a slang dictionary? You should update your vocabulary for cursing."

"... &*."

And the only response to the snake's cheerful laughter was mad, filthy curses.

The ancient Beast King had been eroded by anger; perhaps it was not inhumane, but merely refused to acknowledge humanity, refusing to let other beasts share its authority.

Along with Elsenar's madness, the entire underground ruin began to move.

Along with its frantic struggles, numerous "nests" and "murals" produced many monsters; the conversion mechanism running at full capacity was crazily generating monsters.

And beside the snake, points of light were forcibly gathered into form; newly born powerful offspring were forcibly activated, attempting to drive away the unwelcome visitor.

Clearly, this cost was immense; to take revenge on the snake, to vent its anger, the irrational Elsenar had gone all out.

But before these points of light could fully form, Elsenar's roar grew quieter; the reserve power unleashed to break free from the bonds was dragged deeper into sleep by the fully activated seals.

Its revival was inevitably delayed.

As for the snake that caused all this...

"Ssssss (I have never departed)."

The next moment, it returned to the roof of Li En's house and heard Li En's complaint.

"Snake, what exactly did you do?!"

"Ha, I did nothing, just wandered around."

As always, a blatant lie; the snake waved its tail in triumph.

"I don't believe you for a second! You old rascal is up to no good!" And Li En believed not a word of it.

In the "distance" the snake saw, the city's survival rate was rising rapidly, giving Li En more time to develop.

"Tsk tsk tsk, I've always stood on humanity's side and just helped you with a big favor. Ungrateful snake-heart." The snake, seeing Li En's anger stirred by the mutation, grew even more pleased.

"I don't believe you for a second!!"

(End of this chapter)