The Synthesis Wizard

Chapter 104 Lion with a Human Face

Deep in the cave.

In the low basin, the honest clay golem is working diligently.

The crisp sound of the pickaxe hitting the rock wall is endless.

There are also clay golems pushing mine carts filled with ore, clanging along the mining tracks and transporting them outside.

After more than two months, this mining area has contributed nearly 15,000 gold coins in profit to Sunan, which has wiped out the cost of killing the hundred-armed monster.

What made Sunan even more delighted was that the reserves of the vein were far richer than expected.

Sunan estimated that if the mineral veins were completely mined until they were exhausted, they would at least be able to provide him with a profit of more than 80,000 gold coins.

This is equivalent to three or four years of profit from selling pharmaceuticals!

If it weren't for the limited space in the mining area that couldn't accommodate too many clay golem activities, he would have wanted to allocate more clay golems to mine.

After walking around the mining area and finding nothing wrong, Sunan walked straight to the warning point.

The so-called warning point is the former residence of the Hundred-Armed Monster.

The place has been cleaned up, and the five steel golems are guarding here loyally, motionless like statues.

The magic alarm is also still intact.

Sunan came to the entrance of the underground world and walked in without stopping.

After procrastinating for almost three months, he felt it was time to investigate the situation in the city-state.

Now he has the powerful trump card of the magic pattern core, and he also carries twenty high-level rune gems.

In addition, the income from mining in the past few months has been basically used by him to refine the golem.

Now there are two steel golems, eight elite stone golems and one hundred stone golems in the Rubik's Cube.

With so many trump cards in hand, Sunan is full of confidence.

Even if you encounter danger in the underground city-state, you can still escape with confidence.

Arriving at the entrance that turned downwards, Sunan applied the levitating technique to himself, and then added the lightness technique and the invisibility technique respectively.

The latter two are the fifth and sixth second-level spells he has recently mastered.

Specially prepared for this exploration.

As the spell took effect, Sunan's figure instantly disappeared and disappeared into the air.

The body also becomes lighter.

He jumped up and fell into the passage lightly.

Not long after, Sunan came out of the stalactite, and the strange city-state in the center of the island appeared in front of him again.

After activating the Ring of Ultimate Protection in his hand and applying a shield and energy particle protection layer to himself, Sunan slowly flew forward.

The lake at the bottom of the cave was eerily calm, with not even a few ripples visible.

The dim light emitted by the fluorite inlaid on the stalactites cannot illuminate the bottom of the lake at all. Looking down from a high altitude, the entire lake is like a dark curtain, revealing a hair-raising silence.

People can't help but wonder if any living things survive in this lake?

Sunan looked around and found no bridges or roads across the lake.

He couldn't help but secretly wonder how the people in the city-state could leave the island and enter the entrance to the stalactites above?

However, not long after, Sunan saw a strange bird flying in front of him.

It looked a bit like a hairy manta ray, with a wingspan of more than five meters, and two half-human, half-lion creatures sitting on its broad back.

They look like a fusion of a handsome human and a strong lion, with the upper body in the shape of a human and the lower body in the shape of a lion.

"Sphinx!"

Sunan's eyes narrowed and he recognized the origin of the two creatures.

The Sphinx is a very cunning and evil creature.

They have strong bodies and superb fighting skills, making them natural warriors.

Some human-faced lions even have innate spell-like abilities, such as various illusions, invisibility, etc.

Sphinxes who have mastered such spell-like abilities are feared assassins in the underground world.

In addition, human-faced lions often have high intelligence and can speak many languages.

An adult lion has a strength close to that of a knight, enough to easily defeat four or five trainee knights.

If you are an elite warrior or noble among the human-faced lions, you can even reach the level of a great knight or even a legendary knight.

"It seems that this is the means of transportation for the residents of this city-state."

Sunan watched as the manta ray-like bird flew slowly to a stalactite with a hole in it, and then two human-faced lions jumped into it one after another.

After the human-faced lion left, the manta ray slowly landed on the lake and floated motionless on the water, looking leisurely.

Su Nan's eyes flashed slightly, and he quickly made a calculation in his mind. He immediately turned around and came to the entrance of the stalactite cave, and rushed inside.

After the entrance of the cave is an upward passage, and after passing through it, you come to an open cave.

Unexpectedly, there is a vein of minerals in the cave.

On the uneven rock wall, red metal is exposed in many places, stretching into one piece.

Two human-faced lions were tapping on the rock wall with scimitars. It was unclear whether they were exploring or doing something else.

Sunan fired two debilitating rays directly. The two human-faced lions didn't even have time to react and collapsed to the ground.

When they saw Sunan appearing out of thin air, their eyes widened in horror.

"Human!"

"Who are you?!"

Sunan didn't waste any time talking to them. He knocked one of the human-faced lions unconscious and then tortured the other one.

"Don't try to lie. I will ask your companion the same question later. If I find out that you lied to me, believe me, you will definitely regret it."

Under the effect of the language proficiency spell, the human-faced lion completely understood Sunan's words, with a frightened expression on his face.

After some torture, the human-faced lion finally couldn't stand it anymore and answered Sunan's questions obediently.

After getting the information he wanted, Sunan knocked out the human-faced lion, woke up another one, and repeated the torture just now.

No wonder he was so cautious, the Sphinx was actually famous for being cunning, evil and dishonest.

If you don't have any precautions, you might be led into the pit by these two human-faced lions.

It's a pity that Charming Humans only works on humanoid creatures or bipedal creatures similar to humans, and has no effect on half-human and half-lion lions. Otherwise, there would be no need to go to such trouble.

After getting the information he wanted, Sunan killed the two human-faced lions without hesitation.

After burning the body to ashes, he looked at the scorch marks on the ground and fell into deep thought.

According to the answers of the two human-faced lions, the island in the center of the lake is an underground city-state ruled by human-faced lions, with a population of about four to five thousand people.

Among them, human-faced lions only accounted for about two-fifths, and the rest were all kinds of slaves.

"The city-state ruled by the human-faced lion is now in trouble."

Sunan frowned secretly.

Although most residents of the underground world are evil by nature and have a very bad reputation.

But there are also races such as fire dwarves and gold dwarves who are not so evil in nature and can communicate with each other.

Originally, Sunan thought that if he met a race that was easy to communicate with, the two parties could sit down and have a good chat and develop a friendly trading relationship.

But it’s a lion with a human face!

This is something that cannot be communicated with or even believed in.

Sunan can guarantee that once the human-faced lion discovers the entrance to the surface, it will definitely invade the surface and plunder the population and resources. In other words, they have actually discovered the entrance and are currently sharpening their knives.

In any case, as long as the entrance to the surface still exists, a battle with the Human-Faced Lion is unavoidable.

"You have to let me take precautions in advance."

Even Sunan found it very difficult to defend the Man-Faced Lion City-state.

After all, that was almost two thousand warriors close to the knight level.

And there are many elite lions and lion nobles among them.

There are probably not a few who have legendary level combat power.

"Let's sneak into the city and investigate first."

Sunan left the cave and flew towards the island.

After crossing the lake safely, he slowly landed on the edge of the island.

The entire city-state occupies about four-fifths of the island, and the remaining one-fifth is the unobstructed lakeshore.

Whether swimming from the lake or flying from the sky, any creature will be observed by the guards on the distant city wall the moment it lands on the island.

It was precisely because he noticed this that Sunan gave priority to learning the invisibility technique.

Swaggering across the lakeshore, Sunan soon arrived near the city-state.

The towering city wall is more than twenty meters high by visual inspection, and is made entirely of square bluestones. The workmanship is surprisingly good, and it looks thicker and stronger than the walls of many human towns on the surface.

Sunan was not surprised at all.

After all, a considerable portion of the inhabitants of the underground world are dwarves.

Including gray dwarves, fire dwarves, derro dwarves, shield dwarves, gold dwarves, etc.

Dwarves are known to be very skilled at forging and building.

Therefore, the weapons and buildings in the underground world are actually not inferior to those on the surface.

Looking around, there were many naked upper body lion-faced warriors patrolling the city wall.

There are also a group of human-faced lions holding scimitars on both sides of the city gate, checking the residents entering the city.

But what caught Sunan's attention even more was a black lion entrenched beside the city gate.

Its whole body was pitch black, and even its eyes were completely black, blending perfectly into the shadows. If it weren't for Su Nan's keen perception, he would have almost ignored it.

After looking at it for a long time, Sunan didn't recognize what kind of creature it was.

Shaking his head, he didn't worry too much. Due to the radiation from the earth's veins, various mutated creatures often appear in the underground world. No matter how well-informed people are, it is impossible to recognize them all. It is normal to encounter unfamiliar creatures.

He turned to look at the team lining up in front of the city gate to enter the city.

There are various creatures inside, including lizardmen, kobolds, tauren and even ogres.

Under the threat of the human-faced lion, these strange monsters and creatures of different races stood together quietly, waiting in long lines to enter the city.

"Good luck."

Sunan looked happy.

Magical disguise is similar to charming a human being. It can only disguise itself as a human, a humanoid, or other bipedal creature that looks like a human. It cannot transform into a human-faced lion.

Sunan originally planned to use invisibility to see if he could sneak into the city, but now that he discovered that there were demihuman creatures like lizardmen, things became much simpler.

Just when Sunan was about to find a place to disguise himself as a lizard man and come back, the situation at the city gate suddenly occurred.

The jet-black lion that had been staying quietly by the city gate suddenly stood up, its dark eyes staring straight at a lizard man in the team, and then suddenly opened its mouth and let out a deafening roar.

When the sound reached Sunan's ears from more than two hundred meters away, his head suddenly hurt, as if someone had hit him hard.

At the same time, the lizard man in the team in front of the city gate who was stared at by the jet-black lion also grunted and staggered back a few steps.

As early as the jet-black lion got up, the surrounding human-faced lions noticed something was wrong. At this time, seeing the staggering appearance of the lizard man, their eyes suddenly became particularly sharp.

"That guy is weird!"

"Get him!"

Amidst the fierce shouts, more than a dozen human-faced lions drew their scimitars, roared deeply, and rushed towards the lizard man.

There was an uproar in the team in front of the city gate, and all the creatures stepped back, highlighting the lizard man.

Seeing that his identity was exposed, the lizard man no longer hid, his figure instantly became distorted and blurred, and in the blink of an eye he turned into a man wearing a gray robe and a gray mask.

The next second, a huge fireball flew out of his hand, hitting a human-faced lion with a bang. The latter instantly turned into a torch, howling miserably and falling to the ground rolling around.

"Fire Sphere!"

Sunan's eyes narrowed.

This man in gray robe is still a wizard apprentice!

call!

Six spell missiles tore through the darkness, blowing the heads of four or five human-faced lions into pieces.

Several companions died tragically in one fell swoop. Not only was the human-faced lion unafraid, but it was aroused with ferocity. It wielded a scimitar in each hand, stamped its four claws on the ground, roared and surrounded the gray-robed man from all directions.

The man in gray robe took out a staff and continuously released spell missiles while waving it, and at the same time, he quickly released spells with his other hand.

Scorch ray!

Blazing ball!

The scorching heat wave spread immediately, and the temperature in the air soared.

It was clear that the human-faced lion was the party with the largest number, but it was defeated steadily by the spell storm of the gray-robed man.

However, at this moment, a majestic figure emerged silently from behind the gray-robed man.

He swung his two swords alternately, as if going crazy, striking out seven or eight times in one breath, landing on the gray-robed man's back almost simultaneously.

Tuk-tuk-tuk!

There were muffled sounds like a knife blade striking leather.

The invisible shield behind the gray-robed man was shattered almost instantly. The powerful and heavy knife shadow then drove straight in, but was intercepted by an invisible force field a few centimeters away from the gray-robed man's surface, preventing him from advancing even an inch.

Taking this opportunity, the man in gray robe flashed with red light, turned around suddenly and kicked the human-faced lion more than 20 meters away.

Brute force!

The surrounding human-faced lions never expected that this thin human being could burst out with such amazing strength. They were all taken aback, and their offensive couldn't help but stagnate.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the man in gray robe suddenly jumped up, paused slightly in mid-air, and then flew away quickly towards the distance.

The human-faced lion came to his senses and quickly chased after him, but was intercepted by the lake.

By the time the human-faced lion arrived riding on a manta ray, the man in gray robe had long disappeared.

"Damn it!"

The man-faced lion holding two knives stood up from the ground, cursed with a livid face, and slashed the trembling kobold next to him in two with his knife.

In one of the hollow stalactites at the top of the cave, the man in gray robe paused and looked behind him.

"Come out."

Sunan walked out of the darkness.

He didn't cover his tracks at all, so the man in gray robe found him easily.

"Who are you and why are you following me?" The man in gray robe said coldly.

The voice behind the mask was a neutral one.

Sunan smiled slightly.

"Long time no see, Qiangwei."

(End of chapter)