Chapter 104: The Lion

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 full of ore, clanging along the mine track to the outside.

In more than two months, this mining area has contributed nearly 15,000 gold coins to Sunan, which has offset the cost of killing the hundred-arm monster and has a surplus.

What makes Sunan even more happy is that the reserves of the ore vein are far richer than expected.

Sunan estimates that if the ore vein is completely mined to exhaustion, it can at least provide him with more than 80,000 gold coins in profit.

Equivalent to the profit of selling potions for three or four years!

If the space in the mining area is not limited and cannot accommodate too many clay golems, he would like to transfer more clay golems to mine.

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

The so-called warning point is the former residence of the hundred-armed monster.

This place has been cleaned up, and five steel golems are guarding here faithfully, motionless like statues.

The magic alarm is also intact.

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

It has been delayed for almost three months, and he thinks it is time to explore the situation of the city-state.

Now he has the powerful trump card of the magic pattern core, and he also carries 20 high-level rune gems.

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

There are still two steel golems, eight elite stone golems and one hundred stone golems in the magic cube.

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

Even if he encounters danger in the underground city-state, he is sure to escape even if he can't beat it.

When he came to the entrance that turned downward, Sunan cast levitation on himself, and then added light spirit and invisibility respectively.

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

Specially prepared for this exploration.

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

His body also became lighter.

He jumped and landed lightly in the passage.

Not long after, Sunan came out of the stalactite, and the strange island city-state appeared before his eyes again.

Activating the Extreme Protection Ring on his hand, and putting on a shield spell and energy particle protection layer, Sunan slowly flew forward.

The lake at the bottom of the cave was strangely calm, and even a few ripples could not be seen.

The dim light emitted by the fluorite inlaid on the stalactites could not illuminate the bottom of the lake at all. Looking down from the sky, the whole lake was like a dark curtain, revealing a creepy silence.

It makes people wonder if there are any living creatures in this lake?

Sunan looked around and did not find any 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 of the stalactites above?

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

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

They looked like a combination of handsome humans and strong lions, with a human upper body and a lion lower body.

"Sphinx!"

Sunan's eyes fixed and recognized the origins of the two creatures.

Sphinxes are very cunning and evil creatures.

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

Some lions even have natural 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, lions often have high intelligence and can speak many languages.

Adult lions have power close to the knight level, enough to easily fight four or five apprentice knights.

If they are elite warriors or nobles among the human-faced lions, they can even reach the level of great knights or even legendary knights.

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

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

When the human-faced lions left, the manta-ray bird slowly landed on the lake, floating on the water without moving, looking leisurely.

Sunan's eyes flickered slightly, and he quickly made a plan in his mind. He immediately turned around and came to the stalactite cave and rushed in.

Behind the cave is an upward passage, and after passing through it, you will come to an open cave.

Unexpectedly, there is a mineral vein in the cave.

On the uneven rock wall, many places show red metal, stretching into a piece.

The two human-faced lions are knocking on the rock wall with scimitars, and it is unknown whether they are exploring or doing something else.

Sunan fired two weakening rays, and the two lions didn't even have time to react, and they collapsed to the ground.

When they saw Sunan appearing out of nowhere, they all widened their eyes in horror.

"Human!"

"Who are you?!"

Sunan didn't waste time talking to them, he knocked one of the lions unconscious, and then tortured the other one.

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

Under the effect of the spell of knowing languages, the lion completely understood Sunan's words, and a frightened expression appeared on his face.

After a period of torture, the lion finally couldn't stand it and answered Sunan's questions obediently.

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

It's no wonder that he is so cautious, because the lions are notoriously cunning, evil and dishonest.

Without some precautions, he might be led into a pit by these two lions.

It's a pity that Charm Human only works on humanoid creatures or bipedal creatures that are similar to humans, and has no effect on the half-human, half-lion lions, otherwise there would be no need to go through so much trouble.

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

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

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

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

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

Sunan frowned secretly.

Although most of the 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 that are not so evil by nature and can communicate.

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

But it happened to be the human-faced lion!

This is not an object that can be communicated with or even trusted.

Sunan dared to guarantee that once the human-faced lions found the entrance to the surface, they would definitely invade the surface to plunder the population and resources.

Or in other words, they have actually found the entrance and are now sharpening their knives.

In any case, as long as the entrance to the surface still exists, a battle with the human-faced lions is inevitable.

"I have to let my brother prepare early."

The guarding force of the human-faced lion city-state is very difficult even for Sunan.

After all, that's almost two thousand knight-level fighters.

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

There are probably quite a few legendary fighters.

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

Sunan left the cave and flew towards the island.

He crossed the lake safely and landed slowly on the edge of the island.

The entire city-state occupies about four-fifths of the island, and the remaining one-fifth is the 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 is precisely because of this that Sunan specially learned the invisibility technique.

Sunan swaggered through the lakeshore and soon arrived near the city-state.

The towering city wall is estimated to be more than 20 meters high. It is made of square bluestone. The craftsmanship is unexpectedly good. 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 number of residents in the underground world are dwarves.

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

As we all know, dwarves are very good at casting and construction.

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

Looking over, there are many naked upper body lion warriors patrolling on the city wall.

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

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

It was pitch black, even its eyeballs were dark, perfectly blending into the shadows. If it weren't for Sunan's keen perception, he would have almost overlooked it.

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

Shaking his head, he didn't dwell on it. Because of the radiation of the ground veins, various mutant creatures often appear in the underground world. Even people with rich experience can't recognize all of them. It's normal to encounter unfamiliar creatures.

He turned his head and looked at the team queuing in front of the city gate to enter the city.

There were all kinds of creatures inside, including lizardmen, dog-headed men, minotaurs and even ogres.

Under the threat of the man-faced lion, these strange monsters and creatures of different races stood quietly together, queuing up to enter the city.

"Good luck."

Sunan's face was delighted.

Magical disguise is similar to charm humans. It can only disguise as humans, humanoid creatures, or other bipedal creatures that look like humans, but not as man-faced lions.

Sunan originally planned to use invisibility to try to sneak into the city. Now that he found sub-human creatures such as lizardmen, things are much simpler.

Just when Sunan was planning to find a place to disguise himself as a lizardman and come back, the situation at the city gate suddenly changed.

The pitch-black lion that had been quietly staying by the city gate suddenly stood up, and its pitch-black eyes stared directly at a lizardman in the team, and then suddenly opened its mouth and let out a deafening roar.

More than 200 meters away, when the sound reached Sunan's ears, his head suddenly hurt, as if he was hit hard.

At the same time, the lizardman in the team in front of the city gate who was stared at by the pitch-black lion also groaned and staggered back a few steps.

As early as the pitch-black lion stood up, the human-faced lions around him noticed something was wrong. When they saw the lizardman staggering, their eyes became particularly sharp in an instant.

"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, stepped on the ground with four claws, 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 sharply.

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."