From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 349 Black Scale Demon
Realizing that Onatu was lying, High Priest Sona raised her hand and released a stream of water, sealing him off and trapping him in mid-air.

Onatu was restrained by the water flow and groaned in pain.

"Tell me, have you come into contact with the source of abyss pollution?" High Priest Sona showed a stern expression, and the pressure from the strongest tide-calling priest of the Siren clan was released, causing the Siren warriors outside the residence to bow down and salute.

Onatu endured the confinement of the water flow and answered with difficulty: "Do I have the aura of abyss pollution? Can't the high priest see it?"

Sona did check and found no trace of the Abyssal Pollution Source on him.

However, she was not sure whether Onatu had come into contact with the source of abyss pollution through other means, so she chose to release pressure to question him.

After asking, she waved her hand to untie him and put him back on the ground: "You are the one I trust most among my people. You shouldn't lie to me!"

Onatu bowed and saluted: "Onatu is absolutely loyal to the high priest, and everything he does is for the future of the tribe."

Sona pondered for a moment, waved her hand and said: "I am willing to believe you, but from now on, no one will be allowed to disobey my orders. The Sirens and the Dark Iron Dwarves must reconcile and establish a covenant to fight against the abyss together. Do you understand?"

"Yes, I understand." Onatu bowed his head and agreed. Although he was a little dissatisfied in his heart, he was indeed considering the future of the tribe, but his ideas were different.

Sona swung her tail and walked out, giving an order to the Siren guards outside the door: "Elder Onatu's injuries require him to rest in his residence. Do not disturb him unless necessary."

"Yes." The Siren guards accepted the order respectfully.

This order is equivalent to house arrest, but it is not very mandatory.

If Onatu wanted to go out, the guards at the door couldn't stop him.

Sona also didn't think the guards could stop Onatu. This order was actually addressed to Onatu. Once he disobeyed the order, it would mean that the remaining trust would continue to decline.

This was a test, a test of Onatu's loyalty.

……

This negotiation with the Dark Iron Dwarves was disrupted, and it was the elders of the Sirens who sabotaged the negotiations.

Sona was helpless. What was originally a simple matter would lead to many problems after this setback.

She returned to the Temple of Vashj and took out the Echo Conch, hoping to communicate with Lu Heng again.

After she injected magical energy into the echo conch, she waited for a moment, and then Lu Heng's voice came out of the conch.

"Has the high priest found the answer?"

Although I don't want to admit it, it's the truth.

She could only admit: "There was a problem on my end."

She did not mention Onatu's name because she wanted to protect her right-hand man.

Normally, when two races are negotiating and one side disrupts the negotiations and attacks the other side's envoy, someone needs to take the responsibility.

If she still wanted to reconcile with the Dark Iron Dwarves, she would need to push Onatu out, but she still wanted to protect Onatu, so she did not reveal the inside story of the matter.

Lu Heng: "So what does the high priest plan to do now?"

Sona: "I hope to have another negotiation to resolve the hostility between the two tribes."

Lu Heng: "No explanation was given in the previous negotiation. It's hard to ask for another negotiation, right?"

Sona: "I understand. I am willing to compromise on the terms of the settlement and let this matter go."

When Lu Heng heard her words, he guessed what she meant: "It seems that the high priest wants to protect his elders."

Sona did not deny it and reiterated: "I have already made concessions."

Lu Heng: "You have to understand, even if I don't pursue the matter, do you think the Dark Iron Dwarves can swallow this?"

Sona: "So I want you to help me with this."

Lu Heng pondered for a moment and replied, "I may be able to do it, but you should know that other recruiters will never be able to convince the Dwarf King."

Sona: "Of course, in return, I will agree to one of your requests, whether you want a treasure or need the Sirens to do something, as long as it does not harm the interests of the Sirens, I can agree to it."

Lu Heng was silent for a long time before he agreed: "I'll give it a try."

If I could accomplish this, I could also make the high priest of the Sirens owe me a favor, which would be really worthwhile.

……

After Lu Heng talked with the Sirens' high priest, he returned to the Lava Crown to negotiate with the Dwarf King Sorivil Copperfurnace.

At the beginning, Sorivil Copperfurnace was very indignant and refused to continue the negotiations no matter what.

Lu Heng promised him that he would find a way to have Quenching Fort return to the Dark Iron Dwarf Kingdom in the future. Only then did he convince the Dwarf King to put aside his previous prejudices and continue to negotiate with the Sirens.

After persuading Sorivil Copperfurnace, Lu Heng passed the message to Sona, the high priestess of the Sirens.

The two parties agreed on a time to negotiate again.

This time, Lu Heng personally served as the envoy of the Dark Iron Dwarves.

Of course, the ones who are truly responsible for the negotiations are the elders of the Dark Iron Dwarf Kingdom.

……

the other side.

After receiving the reply, Sona, the high priestess of the Siren tribe, summoned another Siren elder under her command, Tidecaller Celian.

After a brief discussion, Tidecaller Celian was assigned to be in charge of the negotiations.

The next day, it was time to agree.

The two teams met at Yuezhuo Beach for peace talks.

In order to prevent any accidents from happening again, this time Lu Heng brought a team of thirteen people and personally stood guard beside the peace envoys.

While the two sides were negotiating.

Su Muyu walked to Lu Heng's ear and reminded him, "There is something in the sea."

Lu Heng looked towards the sea and indeed found that the waves were a little strange, but he could not see the situation under the sea.

"Can you see clearly what's happening in the sea?" Lu Heng asked.

Su Muyu shook his head: "Seawater is too effective as a medium to block reconnaissance. Unless we let the Chongming bird dive into the water and observe closely, we won't be able to see what's happening below ten meters."

Lu Heng turned his head and looked at Jiang Shaoran behind him, reminding her: "There is something in the sea, go and check it out."

Jiang Shaoran's third-level source essence is [Tidecaller]. In the sea, she can take on some of the work of a perceiver.

If a perceiver on land is put into water, the effectiveness of many perception skills will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, land perceivers and ocean perceivers are not universal most of the time.

Jiang Shaoran nodded in agreement, then walked towards the sea, stood in the water, and rolled up a wave to push into the sea.

After a moment, she turned around and replied, "There are indeed things in the sea. There are a lot of black creatures with scales. They have limbs and tails. I have never seen them before."

When Lu Heng heard this description, the image of an abyss race emerged in his mind.

"It should be a black-scale demon, a race from the Abyss, most likely an Abyss Summoner. Everyone, be prepared for battle, and try to fight on shore. Do not pursue deep into the Abyss without orders."

Liu Haiyang and the others immediately dispersed and formed a battle formation. In fact, for them, fighting in the water was stronger than on the shore.

However, they resolutely obeyed Lu Heng's orders and did not go into the sea.

Because the Black Scale Demon is an ocean-type abyss monster.

No matter how strong Liu Haiyang and his men are in the sea, the black-scaled demons will only be stronger in the water.

Even if human psychics possess marine-related enhanced skills, they are not naturally aquatic creatures. No matter how enhanced they are, they can never be stronger than marine creatures of the same level.

Therefore, the right choice is to fight the battle on shore.

At least the four members of Lu Heng's team have guaranteed combat power on the shore, but they cannot fully display their capabilities in the water.

Not only Lu Heng's team discovered the black-scaled demon in the sea, but the Sirens' natural strong perception of water also enabled them to discover the existence of the black-scaled demon.

So, when Lu Heng walked over to remind them, the Siren Clan's Tidecaller Elder Celian spoke first: "We found a demon in the sea, it should be coming for us."

Lu Heng nodded and said, "Do you want to join forces?"

Celian nodded and replied, "Although the negotiations are not over, our high priest hopes to reach a settlement. So we are willing to fight the demons together, but I guess we can only fight on our own."

After all, the Dark Iron Dwarves and the Sirens were once enemies, and it would be unlikely for them to fight side by side before a complete reconciliation was reached.

Even if Lu Heng wanted to arrange it this way, he was worried that they would have a conflict during the battle.

Therefore, Lu Heng asked the Dark Iron Dwarves to defend the left coast, and the Sirens to defend the right coast, and the team he led would guard the middle to separate the two teams.

After the formation was arranged, hundreds of streams of water rushed out of the sea, and hundreds of black-scaled demons rushed out of the sea and pounced on the sirens and the Dark Iron Dwarves.

The battle is about to break out.

Lu Heng's team and the Dark Iron Dwarves adhered to the strategy of fighting only on the shore and would not easily chase into the sea.

The black-scaled demon is an aquatic demon, and its fighting power on shore is not as strong as in water.

Therefore, there is not much pressure in this battle.

Lu Heng swung his sword across the beach, and every strike of the sword could take the life of a black-scaled demon.

[Kill the black-scale demon and absorb 800 points of energy. ]

The battle was very exciting and Lu Heng absorbed a lot of energy.

The original source energy intensity was not far from breaking through the level limit. After killing thirty black-scale demons, an energy tide rolled up in his body.

[Energy level increased to level 42, all attributes +5, agility attribute additional +1.5]

The black-scaled demon launched a surprise attack, but when it realized that the situation was not right, it left behind seventy or eighty corpses and turned to flee into the sea.

The Sirens immediately launched a pursuit.

After obtaining Lu Heng's permission, Liu Haiyang and six others also chased into the sea and continued hunting the black-scaled demon.

Lu Heng rushed to the surface of the sea, ran on the sea surface, reached out and grabbed a black-scaled demon from the sea, and pierced its abdomen with a sword.

Through the Aurora Blade's level 3 [Soul Slash] special effect, reduce its mental attribute by 16 points, and then activate [Mental Control] to torture it.

After interrogation, the purpose of this group of black-scale demons was determined.

This group of black-scaled demons is a clan of black-scaled demons lurking in the tidal sea.

Due to the large area of ​​the tidal sea, the Black Scale Demons usually do not go ashore, and therefore will not encounter land races such as the Dark Iron Dwarves.

The Black Scale Demons occasionally encounter the Sirens. After a conflict, they will go their separate ways and rarely fight to the death.

This time, the Black Scale Demons came ashore to launch a raid under the orders of the Abyss Summoner, with the aim of disrupting the peace talks between the Dark Iron Dwarves and the Sirens.

After asking about the purpose, Lu Heng roughly guessed the goal of the Abyss Summoner.

Based on what I knew in the previous life, the natures of Abyss Summoners and ordinary Summoners are similar.

The Summoners can receive missions, and the Abyss Summoners will also receive missions.

Moreover, the rewards for the Abyss Summoner's missions are often very generous.

There are even psychics who, after analysis, believe that the "traitor" mission received by the human recruiters is a type of abyss recruiting mission.

That is to say, the Abyss Summoners also have main quests and may even have challenge quests, but the form is not exactly the same as that of human Summoners.

Whatever the form, one thing will not change.

The human recruitment mission has a clear goal, so the Abyss Recruiter's mission must also have a goal.

The purpose of this conscription mission is to promote reconciliation between the Dark Iron Dwarves and the Sirens.

Then the mission goal of the Abyss Summoner should be to destroy the reconciliation between the Dark Iron Dwarves and the Sirens.

For the abyss demons, if the intelligent races of the target world unite to fight against the abyss, it will definitely slow down the speed at which the abyss devours the world.

On the contrary, if these intelligent races engage in internal strife, they will naturally not have the energy to resist the invasion of the abyss.

……

After the battle, Lu Heng returned to the shore and called back all the members of the Marine Team.

Liu Haiyang brought back all six members of the team, called out their names to confirm that no one was missing, and then reported to Lu Heng.

Lu Heng asked them to clean up the battlefield, and then walked towards the Sirens tribe, reminding them to recall the Sirens warriors.

The Sirens are more powerful in the water, so for them, fighting on the shore is not satisfying. Instead, the battle in the sea is more exciting.

After Lu Heng's reminder, Tidecaller Celian took out a horn and blew it to recall all the Siren warriors.

After the Sirens returned, Lu Heng officially communicated with Celian: "I just interrogated a black-scale demon and confirmed that the purpose of the black-scale demon's raid was to disrupt the peace talks.

“In fact, at this point, many key points have become clear. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Abyss Summoner’s mission goal is to disrupt the reconciliation between the Dark Iron Dwarves and the Sirens.

"As long as the hostility between your two tribes continues to deteriorate, you will have no energy to find the source of the abyss pollution."

Celian nodded and responded, "Yes, I have discussed this matter with the high priest. I agree that the two tribes should reconcile and work together to find a way to fight the abyss."

Lu Heng was very glad that the current high priest of the Sirens could see the situation clearly. If a Sirens with an extreme personality like Onatu ruled the Sirens, it would be difficult for this peace talk to succeed.

"The Black Scale Demon has been repelled, and the peace talks can continue." Lu Heng waved his hand and called over the Dark Iron Dwarf elder in charge of the negotiations.

The two sides sat down again to continue negotiations.

Without the harassment of the black-scale demon, the negotiation process went smoothly.

After all, there was no conflict in living space between the two tribes, they were just hostile to each other because of the dumping of Gross's ashes.

So the demands of both parties were very simple, and the Sirens made a lot of concessions during the negotiations because of Onatu.

The two sides negotiated until the evening, and all their demands were recognized. Finally, they signed a reconciliation agreement between the two tribes, and verbally agreed to work together to find a way to fight the abyss.

The two tribes had just reconciled and it was impossible for them to form an alliance immediately, so the matter of jointly fighting against the abyss could only be a verbal agreement for the time being.

(End of this chapter)