When I traveled through time and became a player, I just wanted to commit suicide

Chapter 374: The Road to Becoming a King (Part VII)

Compared to the underground area where the Eternal City of Noklong is located, the underground area that Li Shanren is exploring now is much larger.

There are not only many relics of civilization before the Golden Tree, but also underground passages dug by giant ants, which are interconnected and have a particularly complex terrain.

Even though Li Shanren had experience in exploring this area, he still took the wrong path several times and accidentally turned into an ant nest, where he was besieged by dozens of large ants the size of a carriage.

These ant nests are also filled with stinking corpses and bloody corpses piled up like mountains. I don’t know how many lives have died here, which makes people shudder at the thought of it.

When Li Shanren passed by, he had to wrap his mouth and nose tightly with a few strips of cloth and quickly pass through the territory of these ants.

In the tunnels dug by ants, soldier ants often lie quietly above the tunnels, waiting to jump down and catch people off guard when they pass by.

There is no light in those passages, so you have to bring your own light source.

However, Li Shanren's waist lamp was not bright enough and might not illuminate the enemies hiding in the shadows around the corners. Therefore, he could only move forward under the "starlight" to avoid being attacked by those sinister ants.

After walking in the ant-filled passage for an unknown amount of time, Li Shanren finally arrived at a new underground city - the second eternal city, Noxstella.

Compared to Noklon, Noxstella has many more bionic tears, but they are all the lowest level tears with almost no mimicry ability and can only maintain their original form.

Only some special bionic teardrops contain golden lightning and explode after death, but the destructive power of the explosion does not distinguish between friend and foe and is quite powerful.

If they are in a group of tears, as long as they kill the lightning tears first through long-range means, they can easily clear out the companions around it.

There are still some remaining Knox people left in Knox Stella. They are very hostile to outsiders and will attack them when they meet. It is completely impossible to communicate with them.

In addition, there is a strange creature that looks exactly like a big black iron ball. They rumble and roll on the streets of the Noxstella superstructure. Once they find an intruder, they will rush over without mercy.

What's worse is that some will hang quietly on the ceiling beams inside the building, waiting for someone to pass by, and then suddenly smash down, killing the faded ones with slightly weaker strength on the spot.

Even if they didn't hit the target, they would block the only exit, and later closing the door and beating the dogs was full of malice.

Fortunately, Li Shanren was already familiar with all the "pitfalls" in Noxstella, and it only took him some time to pass through this eternal city smoothly.

Then, he finally saw the "shadow of disaster" that Lani mentioned.

It was a red spirit invader who looked exactly like the half-wolf Blaze, and the weapon he used was also Blaze's royal greatsword, but this invader was not Blaze himself.

He is the killer sent by Double Finger to assassinate Lani, and he is also an inevitable obstacle on Lani's way forward.

The Disaster Shadow is extremely powerful, its attacks are crazy and fierce, and it can even shatter the spirit shield in a short period of time.

Unfortunately, compared with Li Shanren today, he is no longer good enough.

The moment he broke through the spiritual shield, Li Shanren used the accumulated "Great Kalia" to kill him.

Once the Shadow of Disaster died, Lani's mission was completed.

The petite Lani sitting on Li Shanren's shoulder thanked him and left an exquisite key. Then the soul living in the puppet's body quietly left.

Petite Lani seemed to have lost all color and was no longer moving.

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In the large library of the Magic Academy, not far from the Full Moon Queen Lenarra, there is a locked royal treasure chest. The key left by Lani belongs to that treasure chest.

In the treasure chest, there is a Dark Moon Ring made with the dark full moon as the main image. It can be said to be Lani’s "wedding ring".

Darkmoon Ring

Li Shanren did not take the ring immediately because the underground area had not been fully explored.

At the place where the shadow of disaster was killed, there is a magic elevator that can continue downwards. It leads to the most terrifying place in this underground area - the underground corruption lake.

It was a huge lake made entirely of scarlet corruption. No matter who stepped into it, they would be severely infected with scarlet corruption in less than half a second.

The color of the scarlet corruption here is brighter than that in the Galid area, which also indicates that their "toxicity" is stronger. (Note: In the game, the blood loss rate of scarlet corruption infected in the underground corruption lake is quite different from that of scarlet corruption infected in other places.)

This may very well be the true source of the scarlet corruption at the border. Rumor has it that the terrifying god of scarlet corruption is sealed here.

The Valkyrie Marennia who once brought scarlet corruption to Galid was not the real God of Scarlet Corruption. She was just one of the hosts of that corrupt power.

You can't summon Torret here.

If Li Shanren wants to move forward, he has to wade through the lake of corruption.

There are also many hostile creatures in the lake that are not afraid of the scarlet corruption and will jump out to harass from time to time.

Even in the game, this experience can be called a nightmare. If you don't master the relevant skills, you don't know how many times you will die in the Corruption Lake.

Li Shanren prepared corruption moss medicine that could temporarily cure scarlet corruption, equipped himself with the Holy Mark of the Finger so that he could be ready to pray "Flame Healing" to eliminate scarlet corruption at any time, and changed himself into clothes that were more resistant to scarlet corruption.

Although that outfit could only allow him to stay in the pool for a few seconds longer.

After preparing himself as best as possible, he took a deep breath, activated the spirit shield to cover his entire body, and then walked straight into the Lake of Corruption.

As soon as he entered the Lake of Corruption, before he took two steps, the spiritual shield began to flash wildly, and then shattered in an instant, and could not even condense again.

The next second, Li Shanren felt as if his body had turned into a sieve. Countless tiny creatures invaded his body from invisible gaps and holes, quickly corroding his flesh.

In just a few seconds, Li Shanren was infected with scarlet corruption, and slight itching and pain spread all over his body.

At the same time, his vitality was being consumed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He endured the discomfort in his body and walked step by step in the corrupt lake.

Whenever he felt his body was reaching its limit, he would quickly pick up the Holy Grail and drink a sip of Red Dew Drops to replenish his vitality.

In the Corruption Lake, there are many small platforms floating on the water. Only by walking onto those platforms can you temporarily escape from the Corruption Lake and get a moment of respite.

In addition, there are hidden mechanisms on some platforms. When the mechanisms are triggered, more platforms will rise in the Corruption Lake, so that those who travel forward do not have to rely on their physical bodies to completely cross the Corruption Lake.

Next, every time Li Shanren arrived at a platform, he would use "Flame Healing" to clear the scarlet corruption in his body, and at the same time open the mechanism on the platform. After resting for a while, he would continue to move forward.

In this way, it took him several hours to slowly cross the entire corrupt lake.

During this period, they also cleared out the dragon soldiers entrenched in the Corruption Lake.

The dragon soldiers were born in the Eternal City. The residents of the Eternal City wanted to obtain the power of dragons, so they created huge dragon soldiers, each of which was as big as a giant tens of meters tall.

But their bodies are deformed and they cannot walk normally. They have never seen the real sky and thunder and lightning. The power they use is the power of ice and thunder that is unique to the Eternal City.

There were only three such dragon soldiers left in the entire underground area, located in different places, but they were all cleared out by Li Shanren during the exploration process.

Passing the Corruption Lake, Li Shanren came to a brown-red underground ruins. Many corrupt followers who looked like centipedes gathered in front of a simple and rough palace to worship.

In that palace, there is a short sword that looks like a scorpion's tail. When held in the hand, it will continuously drip scarlet corrupt venom. The blade of this short sword is likely to be a part of the body of the sealed Scarlet Corruption God.

After clearing out the underground ruins, Li Shanren arrived at the end of the ruins.

There was a waterfall flowing downwards, with countless brown-red and scarlet corrupted lakes flowing downstream, going nowhere.

At the edge of the waterfall, an open sarcophagus stood there quietly, as if waiting for someone to lie down in it.

Faced with such an invitation, Li Shanren naturally refused it disrespectfully. He lay down in the sarcophagus very neatly and closed the coffin lid tightly.

Soon, the sarcophagus, which was already on the edge of the waterfall, lost its balance due to weight and plunged into the waterfall, falling into the bottomless abyss.

After falling for an unknown amount of time, Li Shanren, who was in the sarcophagus, suddenly hit the bottom with a strong sense of weightlessness, and his internal organs seemed to be displaced.

He moved the coffin lid with difficulty and climbed out of the sarcophagus.

After falling from the waterfall, the sarcophagus was surprisingly intact, without a single crack. It must be some kind of magical creation.

Where the sarcophagus arrived was a new underground area, facing an extremely wide underground cave.

The scene in the cave was very dreamy, as if there were nebulae floating in the void, dotted with countless starlight.

A huge creature that looks like a dragonfly was crawling in the cave. It had two pairs of wings and its tail was raised high like a scorpion's tail.

Its body is composed of several round spheres connected together, all covered with nebula-like colors, while its head is like a huge skull with a pair of curved mouthparts like a scorpion.

This creature looks very strange, and has a certain inexplicable beauty that is unique to the starry sky, as if it is a creature from the outside world.

Its name is "Abandoned Child of Darkness", and it is indeed a creature from the outside world, born in the lightless world on the other side of the world.

Dark Abandonment

Rumor has it that in order to punish the rebellious Knox people, the Supreme Will sent the Dark Abandoned Child down like a meteorite, smashing the Eternal City into the ground.

And this abandoned child of darkness is not dead yet, and has been living in the deepest part of the underground.

Even this race has gradually adapted to the environment of the border area and slowly multiplied.

While exploring the underground area, Li Shanren had encountered many dark abandoned children in their juvenile form.

The dark abandoned child in front of him also needs to be conquered.

As soon as Li Shanren stepped into the cave area, he rang the bell to summon his strongest fighter, "Bionic Teardrop".

Afterwards, the bionic teardrop rang the soul-summoning bell again, summoning the "Storm Guards", and a righteous siege followed.

However, as a being that can destroy the Eternal City, the Dark Abandoned's strength should not be underestimated. It is extremely adept at using gravity magic and space magic, and can move freely in this cave. Moreover, its physical strength is also very strong. Its scorpion tail can kill two Grek soldiers who have been strengthened many times in just a few moves.

After several battles, only two Lost Home Knights with red eyes and the Bionic Teardrop were still alive.

The dark abandoned seemed to know that the bionic teardrops were the most dangerous, so he kept avoiding them and focused his attack on the two Lost Home Knights.

Seeing that the Dark Forsaken refused to engage in battle with him, Bionic Teardrop could only replace his huge steel sword, take out his staff, and cast "Loretta's Greatbow" over and over again, firing powerful magic arrows at it.

And if the Dark Forsaken used his ability to travel through space to launch a sneak attack on the bionic teardrop, that guy would quickly take out his giant steel sword and use all his strength to smash it at the Dark Forsaken's skull head.

After just seven or eight minutes, the Dark Abandoned Pawn fell under the sword of the Bionic Teardrop.

Li Shanren stayed in a corner of the cave and watched the fight from beginning to end, with no desire to take action at all.

After killing the Dark Abandoned Pawn, Li Shanren found a long tunnel leading to the ground at the end of the cave. After more than an hour of trekking, he finally returned to the ground and came to the last unexplored area in the Lienia region - the Moonlight Altar.

This place is located on a plateau directly above Platinum Village and there is no ordinary road to reach it.

At the westernmost end of the Moonlight Altar, there is a sealed prison where the leader of the Black Blade Assassins, Aleto, is imprisoned.

Aleto guards her daughter's ashes, which are also the ashes of a legendary figure - the black knife assassin "Di Xi".

Black Knife Dixie

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