Beginning as King of Elden

Chapter 158 The Song of the Human Faced Bat

"!"

Li Lin woke up suddenly.

In his body, the reverberation of that battle still remained.

Such a shining red dragon thunder...

"Cough cough cough..."

Nauseous nausea surged, Li Lin gently pushed away the girls surrounding him, and vomited blood to the ground.

The living scarlet flesh was beating on the ground.

Nefeli stretched out her feet, stomping the ball of flesh into blood-colored mud with no expression on her face.

Did he win?
Only then did the knight feel a bit of fear.

This battle was the closest he was to death since the first battle of Broken Star.

Suffering from the torment that life would be worse than death, he is indeed not afraid of death at all.

However, there are still too many things left to be done.

Looking around, here is a new abandoned church, with Millicent, Neferi and Irena all intact by his side.

The burn marks on Irena's body disappeared.

Is it a hallucination?

Li Lin blinked.

"are you OK?"

Millicent asked him.

"Ah."

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Walking down the cliff and arriving at the lake in the lower part of Lienia, it should be very close to the ruins of the ancient ruins that the girl Laya mentioned.

"Is it going up from here?"

Standing under the new cliff on the other side, looking at the high escalator, Neferi asked Li Lin.

"Probably so... It seems that there is no other way."

Looking around, he said uncertainly.

The female soldier nodded and climbed up first.

Climbing up and reaching the upper platform, they saw traces of human activity.

The kerosene lamp hanging on the wall burns quietly
"Be careful, someone should be here."

The knight stood beside Irena and reminded the others.

"This seems to be a mine?"

After climbing to the top of the platform, the group stopped in front of a cave in the mountain wall.

"Well, this is probably one of the places where the minerals are collected in the royal city? So it leads to the Yatan Plateau."

Li Lin guessed.

As soon as he entered the mine, the knight immediately noticed the ambush.

"Be careful."

As soon as the voice fell, smoke bombs were thrown over.

In the dense fog, short soldiers holding long-handled serrated knives, sickles, and long swords waved their weapons and slashed at the legs of everyone.

These are the villains who protect the ruins of the battlefield, or the forbidden areas that should be forgotten.

On this boundary land, especially huge creatures emerge in endlessly.

Here, smaller creatures are discriminated against.

Therefore, becoming a dishonorable villain is their way of survival.

Li Lin grabbed Irena as soon as the smoke bomb exploded and withdrew from the mine.

Both Nefeli and Millicent had experience in fighting large creatures, but they were not quite used to dealing with soldiers who were much shorter than them and who were hiding in the smoke and attacking their lower bodies.

However, it is difficult to make up for the gap in strength with tricks of this level. After paying the price of some minor injuries and poisoning, the second daughter killed all these vicious soldiers who were over one meter tall.

From the storage bag, he took out the moxa that cured poison and the medicine that healed wounds, and the knight distributed them to the slightly poisoned girl.

In fact, he learned the prayer to heal common poisoning from Mr. Ke Lin, but in his current state, it is better not to use any power as much as possible.

Taking the lifting device up, everyone saw many miners working numbly.

The skinny miners, carrying baskets on their backs and holding iron picks, did not respond to the arrival of strangers and continued their digging work.

Nefeli looked at them with a somewhat gloomy expression.

"They've lost their minds."

The knight comforted, "In this day and age, even keeping one's mind is already a luxury, so don't think too much about it."

"Yeah." She nodded, "Can you restore this era?"

"...Although I really want to say yes, but now I can't even move forward by myself, I can only rely on your protection."

"You will be well," said Neferi. "At that time, I will return to Stonewell and perform my duties as king."

"When you become the king of Elden, I will lead Nimgfu and swear allegiance to you."

"..." The knight smiled, but felt even more heavy in his heart.

Walking out of the mine, the group came to a cliff.

"It's here, the ancient relic cliff, from here, it's the Yatan Plateau."

Laya didn't lie to him. In this direction, they were indeed about to reach the Yatan Plateau.

There are many upward steps on the cliff. As they go up the steps, they are attacked by giant bats.

The bats are about the size of a human being, with blood-red wings and disgusting yellow patches lining the downy wing membranes.

Their strength is not very strong, but the large number, disgusting appearance, and the characteristics of flying in the air make people feel troublesome.

Millicent's swordsmanship was very good at dealing with this kind of flying, flexible but lacking defense monsters, and quickly cooperated with Nefeli to kill them.

"Did you hear anything?" Millicent asked suddenly.

Li Lin closed his eyes.

There was indeed a faint singing sound coming from above the stairs.

"Go and see."

Speaking of which, this was the second time he heard singing when he came to this border area.

For the first time, he heard the beautiful singing of the priestess in the ancestral forest beside the Shifra River.

Although the singing voices of the ancestral priestesses were melodious, their figures were beyond the appreciation of knights.

Going up, the singing gradually became clearer.

This is a lingering lament, and the lyrics are in a language Li Lin can't understand.

This time, it must be a serious human girl singing, right?
Irene stopped suddenly.

"The former God's Blessed Land has been torn apart."

She seems to be interpreting, but also seems to be retelling.

Everyone also stopped and turned their attention to the blind woman.

"The bride who is to be a mother is also defiled and withered.

We howl, we weep.

But there is no one to comfort.

God!Who is it that made you angry? "

Is this what the song means?

Defiled and withered, this reminded Li Lin of the subhumans he met in Moen City.

This race is also known as the Defiled.

He began to look forward to seeing the source of the singing.

Climbing up the steps, the knight didn't expect that the singer this time wasn't even a humanoid creature.

The bat has a human face, standing like a human, with huge bat wings hanging down.

It stretched its neck, its wrinkled old face closed its eyes and chanted, its voice sounded like a young girl, but also like a mature middle-aged man.

The grotesque reality once again pulled the knight into an illusion.

Nefeli's ax cut down, cutting the bat with a human face into two pieces.

The red-haired girl gently pushed him.

Returning from the hallucination, looking at Millicent's worried eyes, Li Lin gave her a comforting smile.

After killing a group of giant multi-legged tentacle monsters, on one of the corpses, Millicent found a curved sword called the Zombie Scimitar.

　The bat translation comes from Bilibili's "Bulk Test God", after looking for it, I feel that this is the best translation
　　
　
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