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The development of Xiaopo Village into a small broken city requires a lot of talents, but Leon is not willing to build it with Eldy, which is another Diller City.Although Diller City is very prosperous and there are many good people living in that city, Leon, a bloodless man, still doesn't want to live in a city where the people at the bottom are as numb as dead bodies.

"Follow your orders." The knights saluted Leon.

The three left happily, but Morifio hadn't left yet.Erdi, who had been silent just now, asked with a smile: "You don't want to say that you can engage in fruit cultivation, do you?"

Forget it, Leon has fishery, animal husbandry and smelting, and Morifio is still an elf, so he is really more suitable for planting fruit trees.

Morifio rolled his eyes: "Although I'm a half-elf, I don't like to eat fruit. I'm a carnivore. I'm here for other things, the news from the Pope."

"Please tell me." Leon and Erdi sat upright immediately.

"The city of Diller is not an accident. After the city of Diller, many churches have conducted in-depth inspections, and traces of demons have been found in at least [-] large cities, but at this stage it cannot be proved that only There's a problem in these cities."

Leon and Eldy glanced at each other, and they saw worry on each other's faces.This is a disaster for all races on the ground. If the devil really appears, even Leon cannot escape this catastrophe.The matter is so big, but the Principality of Gretel has no news at all. It seems to be suppressed - after all, every year there will be a mess of evil. For a while, there was no news from farther places, and now the devil's affairs should be blamed by evil gods.

But this kind of thing that was concealed as much as possible, Morifio shared it with them...

"If there is a need for me, I will naturally obey the orders of the church." Leon stood up and saluted Morifeo.

"Thank you very much." Morifio returned the salute, "Most of the Church's power is now concentrated in the northern part of the mainland, and the Principality of Gretel and the surrounding three small countries are sparsely manned, but we are doing our best to search. Need your help."

"Ok."

Although we haven't known each other for a long time, Morifio knows that Leon is a person who doesn't lie. He likes fair trade very much. It is quite enough.

"Also...can you use a different image to convey the message next time?" This time everyone responded in a timely manner, but it may not be the case next time.

"No, I think it's better not to let people know that I can change forms." He can control countless powerful tentacles, and the tentacles he can control can change forms at will. These are two meanings. The former is purely powerful. , the latter is too dangerous.

"So it's because of you?"

"Otherwise, what am I doing? Did I deliberately scare you?" Leon spread his hands, "If I deliberately scare you, then I can make the tentacles look more 'fun'."

"Don't you have my morning glory?"

"Do you take morning glory with you?"

The two pairs of eyes looked at each other and blinked twice at the same time.

"Okay, I'm fine, goodbye." Leon made sense, so that's the only way to go.

Morifio left, and Eldy immediately moved to Leon's side to talk.

"Whether the devil's violent activities are related to the underground... No, you needn't tell me, I'm too anxious." The underground and the devil's abyss are not the same place, and this kind of thing that people who have a little knowledge of the world should know , he just ignored it.

"No, there should be a connection." Leon pinched Eldy's cheek. His baby fat is gone, but it still feels good when pinched. "The aboveground world, the underground world, and the abyss are three worlds. The underground world It’s like the minced meat between us and the abyss, the current situation is that the abyss is rising upwards, and we are pressing downwards... Poof! There may be big problems."

"Yes..." Eldy frowned and thought about Leon's words, "The teacher just said that most of the power of the church is concentrated in the north, because what he said before, I subconsciously understood that the north is the area where demons frequently appear. But Actually, I think there are more cities in the south, because there are more big cities like Diller City in the south. Of course, these are my thoughts, my conjectures."

Leon followed Eldy's train of thought and thought downwards—a big commercial country like the Muller Federation also has more big cities in the south.Diller City is considered the largest city in the north of the Muller Federation, but despite how cold it is in winter, compared to the entire continent, Diller City is still to the south, the Cairns Empire is further north, and of course further north city ​​of.

"Do you think there are other situations in the north?"

"As far as I know, the battlefields of gods and demons are mostly in the north. Leon, you have to pay attention to that underground entrance."

"I tell you about the exploration of that underground world every day. You should know that no trace of intelligent life other than the Mushroom Man has been found there so far."

The underground world is really big, and Leon is very cautious when expanding, and he only parasitizes most of the mushroom shepherds, rather than completely devouring them.Originally, the Mushroom Shepherd's movement speed was not fast. Without being controlled by Leon, they only wandered in a certain area. The area Leon now knows is full of mushrooms, big and small, and there are no people at all. .

However, Leon was quickly slapped in the face.Two nights later, Leon woke up with a start. One of his Mushroom-infected people was eaten by a group of gray dwarves.Leon hesitated for a moment and didn't wake Eldy up, because he wasn't sure whether it was these gray dwarves or something else.

Duergar's complexion is actually more blue than gray.It's different from their relatives who always wear thick metal armor, have beautiful beards, have loud voices, and drink beer everywhere.This group of gray dwarves wore clothes that looked like bark, with bare hairy legs, and their beards were as messy and gray as their hair.Their weapon is a stone axe, or simply a large stone.

They rushed out from a corner suddenly, and before the Mushroom Man had time to raise his soft arms, he was hit by a stone on what should be his face, but had no facial features.He didn't feel any pain, but the weight of the stone made him fall to the ground, and then the gray dwarf who rushed up tore him with his hands and shared the food on the spot.

Leon is very calm about this, he eats and eats, and he is eaten... In fact, he is also eating, there is no difference.

After the dwarves finished eating the "fresh mushrooms", they sat back to back in silence, not moving, not speaking, and even breathing very lightly.Although Leon didn't understand what they said, Leon felt that their reaction was not right.

In the underground world, except for a few places where fluorescent moss grows, there is darkness everywhere. Leon can only see each other through the eyes of the parasitic dwarves.Dwarves are cave-dwelling beings, and duergars live deeper than normal dwarves, and their night vision is very strong.

So Leon could vaguely see the expression on the faces of the dwarves who were close to them. It was not laziness after eating, but a kind of numbness like giving up.Moreover, in this group of more than 50 dwarves, all of them are men and women in their prime (female dwarves also have beards, which are similar to male dwarves), and there are no children or old people.They, too, don't look like they have a goal going forward.

Fleeing?A natural disaster in underground love?Powerful monsters?Or... a demon?I'm not so lucky (dao) luck (mei) right?This kind of thing always happens.

Leon was guessing that a piece of shadow moved - in the case of shadows all around, it is really hard for people to notice whether a piece of shadow is moving or not. Leon can find it because he has the eyes of all the dwarves present. maximum viewing angle.The shadow moved very quickly, like a black cloth shaking, covering the two dwarves sitting in the farthest corner in an instant.

In addition, the dwarves outside the shadows were still sitting peacefully, they couldn't hear anything, and didn't notice anything unusual.

Only Leon knew that the shadowy, seemingly intangible thing actually had flesh and blood. The two dwarves screamed and were chewed to pieces by the huge mouth full of sharp teeth.This is a monster that likes to chew slowly...

Eldy seemed to be sleeping soundly and at ease, but when Leon patted him on the shoulder for the second time, he immediately opened his eyes and sat up vigilantly and silently.The tentacles had already lit the lamp, and Leon didn't speak, but watched him open his eyes and started playing a small movie for him.

Eldy quickly caught up with Leon's progress - the hunt for monsters, the end of the dwarves.

A dwarf stood up and called the others to leave together.The dwarves, known for their stamina, dragged their feet until they realized they were missing a companion.

The dull eyes of the dwarves suddenly widened, and when the first dwarf uttered a miserable scream, all the dwarves followed suit.They waved their arms and started running aimlessly in the dark, but that was just food for the monster.One dwarf after another was swallowed down its throat, until the remaining dozen dwarves fainted from exhaustion after running for so long.

Of course, it wasn't because they were lucky that the monster let them go, but because Leon affected the monster's perception, making it think that there were no living creatures to devour.

"Do you know what it is?"

"It's a bit like the legendary Shadow Demon, but the Shadow Demon is completely incorporeal and only eats souls."

"This kind of monster changes between reality and illusion, which is somewhat similar to the ice monster." The ice monster is a monster that only exists in the ice, and the shadow monster only becomes a reality when it eats animals.But when it doesn't eat, Leon can assimilate it, "In addition, this thing is not vegetarian, including the mushroom herders." The mushroom shepherds are eaten by the dwarves, but the monsters are very disdainful of the mushroom shepherds, and they don't even enter the mushroom shepherds. area of ​​people.

Leon: Am I also between the real and the unreal?

Subconscious: Don't ask me, I don't know.

The monster's speed is very fast, it can jump between shadows within a certain range, as long as it is the life wrapped in their body, no one can survive - except Leon.

This kind of monsters are also hostile to each other, and even regard their own race as the first target of attack. When they meet each other in the shadows, they must be immortal, but eating the same monsters in their stomachs is not enough. Let them grow fast, no different than any other food.This kind of cannibalism allows Leon to only have one host.

"Will this kind of thing jump to the ground?"

"There is sun, and the buildings here are very low..." Leon paused as he spoke, "Could it be that they have come up, so the traditional buildings in this place are all low and well-lit igloos?"

"We are negligent and arrogant. We should collect more local legends."

"Ah."

Some legends are fabricated to scare children, but there are also many legends that are based on reality and handed down.They were indeed arrogant before, thinking that the local monsters were nothing special. After all, they had seen demons before. What kind of monsters could they not deal with?

"Leon, what do you think..." Leon raised his hand, signaling Eldi not to speak, and the little movie he showed Eldi also changed...

The monster that Leon parasitized suddenly jumped into a strange area. Here was a huge and empty cave, and some areas were burning with fires. When the monster jumped into a part of the shadow, more fires were instantly ignited!

Part of the monster's body appeared in the sunlight, and it quickly curled up into the darkness!But more and more areas were targeted, and the monster was driven by the light, like a trapped beast.

As for the brave men who bravely hunted this monster, it was a group of... red-skinned kobolds?The kobolds on the ground are relatives of the wolf clan, and the two clans were one clan long ago.And the kobolds on the ground definitely don't have red skin. These red-skinned kobolds, like the gray dwarves, are all underground races after the degeneration of the ground races.However, kobolds wear much better clothes than gray dwarves. The most common kobolds also wear neat leather armor. A few kobolds have metal armor on their bodies. stick.

They are not tall, only about 1.2 meters at most, and the ones they ignited as fuel should be a kind of mushroom. After drying, they turn gray. They look rich in fat, and there is no smoke when they burn. Leon can't smell them. Taste, but by the eyes, this mushroom is pretty good, much better than using dry grass as fuel.

"This kind of mushroom is good." Aldi subconsciously said while watching the short movie.

"I think so too." Leon happened to be looking at him, and the two looked at each other and smiled. This kind of tacit understanding made people feel a strange sense of excitement.

While they were smiling, the kobolds were throwing a huge worm towards the shadow monsters—they were like green bean worms, but white, and their chubby bodies looked thicker than these kobolds.So two or three kobolds can lift a white worm and throw it at the monster.

The brain of this monster probably isn't very good, obviously the opponent is besieging it, but as long as it finds a living thing around it, it will eat.One after another, the white worms were swallowed by it, and while it was eating, two kobolds in robes came out, their staffs glowed at the same time, and then a line appeared between the heads of the two staffs. Connection of flames.

The kobold mage held up his staff and walked towards the monster. As soon as it came into contact with the flames, the monster struggled and squirmed. However, as greedy as it was, it kept rejecting it in its mouth, and it would still devour it if there were flesh worms.The kobold mage held his staff tightly and held on to the spell until they each completed half a circle.

When the two of them met and pressed their staffs together, the line of flames turned into a circle of flames, and the monster was firmly bound in the circle!

The kobold stopped throwing white worms at the monster, which struggled harder as it chewed faster.Finally, it had eaten its last bite, and now it should have returned to unreality, retracted into the shadows, but it failed, it still remained real, and the halo of light still bound it, and it became tighter and tighter.

From the outside, the monster looked like a leather bag filled with water, the mouth was tied tightly, and then it was beaten vigorously.

The monster twisted, bounced, swelled, and... exploded.

The monster's flesh and purple-black blood sprayed everywhere, and the kobolds cheered in the meat rain. When the "rain" stopped, the monster was completely deflated, and the hole where its flesh and blood were sprayed out just now disappeared. It was one again, but the thread of flame was still there, like black cloth with a bright red border.

One of the mages took out a small box that could only be placed in the palm of his hand. I don't know what kind of power he used. The "cloth" floated up, and shrank into the small box like a cloud of smoke.

"Wow, wow!" the mage cheered, holding up the two things with a staff in one hand and a small box in the other.

"Wow!!" All the kobolds cheered together, and some started dancing with their buttocks twisted on the spot.

More burning dried mushrooms were ignited, and the entire huge underground cave was illuminated by the light of the flames like daylight on the ground.The kobolds began to dance around these bonfires, carnival, and made various or weird or frightening calls.

Eldi felt a little bored watching the kobold carnival. After all, he was not interested in the ecology of the red fur kobold underground, so he couldn't help but let out a sigh. When he opened his mouth, he felt Leon's sight: "Uh... It's a bit strange, why is there such a big gap between the living conditions of dwarves and kobolds? Generally speaking, it should be dwarves who should have a better life, right? Although it is said that dwarves are irritable and irritable, they are still excellent. too much."

Originally, I was looking for a topic just to divert my embarrassment, but when I studied this topic as an important issue, Eldi thought more and more: "The weapons and equipment of this group of kobolds don't look bad. Those wearing metal equipment are obviously more elite than those wearing leather armor. There are also special metal inlays on the mage's robes, which shows that the weapons and equipment in the underground world are mainly metallurgy, and the ability of dwarves is still important. Where they set traps Is it far from where those dwarves fled?"

Aldi self-reflection: It is still useful to study ecology. Even if you haven’t seen the underground city, you can dig out a lot of interesting things. When the time comes, you can prove it one by one. Even if you can’t catch the opponent’s weakness, you can minimize it misunderstanding of each other.

"Not sure, because this thing is teleported through the shadows. However, the dwarves are awake."

The dwarves, dominated by fear in the dark, woke up after a coma, and finally realized the fact that they were still alive and the monster had left.But being lucky enough to survive did not make these dwarves happy. They quickly returned to their previous numb appearance, staggering aimlessly in the dark like walking corpses.

"Wait a minute," Leon said, "I can't see anything."

Eldi, who has just started researching, is a little disappointed, but this situation is not Leon's responsibility: "You have to pay attention to safety, ordinary residents of the underground world have appeared, and before long, those powerful beings will also appear .”

"Meow~" Eggy called out from under the bed: It's dawn, do you want to get up and cook?

Dandan's nest was in the living room, a basket with cotton cloths.And because Leon and Eldy have business affairs during the day, they keep it at home in case of accidents.If it could talk, Eggy really wanted to question them, it was a beast bestowed by God!Is it okay to treat it like this?Do you really think it won't run?

Leon looked down at Eggy, and Eggy, who was nagging in his heart, immediately sat down obediently on the spot, with two delicate and cute little feet squatting, his big head was tilted, and his big eyes were constantly blinking. Cute and harmless——QωQ It can talk and it won't say those words, let alone run away. It's good to stay here, really.

As expected, Leon looked away, and Eggy wiped his face with his little feet. He held back his tears, but he was sweating a little bit. Although it was covered by fur, it was a bit uncomfortable after all. much better.

Eldy stretched his waist: "Morning! Start working!"

The two originally thought that the underground world would gradually lift its veil and reveal itself to them after that day, but it turned out that "gradually" it was three months later.

——Those kobolds didn't leave after hunting a monster. They still stayed in the big cave, waiting patiently for new prey.Another cave next to the big karst cave is filled with food and dried mushrooms used as firewood. Leon and Eldi have calculated the consumption of their supplies. If these kobolds have to wait for the supplies to run out before leaving, at least Have to wait until the end of this year.

——The dozen or so dwarves who survived all ran away, and they really didn't have a single target to escape. They just lived in a trance like that, and they didn't even fight to stay alive. Still lacking the will to live.In this case, they died one after another in the mouths of various monsters.It was because Leon took action in private out of consideration of his own needs, and the two dwarves were lucky enough to survive.