Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 41: Red Sea Overlord, Coral Sea

Azir flicked his wrist, and the glorious fishing line that pierced through the sky and earth suddenly retracted, and the mountain-like corpse of the monarch-level whale demon was thrown towards the Sky Pillar.

The dead beast made a dull roar in the air.

"boom--"

The carcass, weighing tens of thousands of tons, slammed heavily into the golden light curtain on the giant pillar's surface, yet it didn't even tremble. Ancient runes on the pillar circulated endlessly, like countless invisible hands, holding the whale's body steady.

Its huge, lifeless eyeballs were still wide open, reflecting Azir's indifferent figure, as if telling its final fear.

"What are you daydreaming about? Get rid of it." Azir woke up the dazed Qingli.

Qingli shuddered, and her nine fox tails immediately straightened: "I'm sorry!"

Then, she quickly took out a dark yellow compass-like magical tool from her sleeve. The surface of the compass was engraved with obscure undead runes, and a dark green gem was embedded in the center.

This is the vessel for the dead seized from the Pyramid of Khafre - the "Guide to the Dead Souls".

Azir searched for some magical tools in the Sahara Desert, but there were relatively few undead vessels that could absorb demonic essences, and their levels were relatively low.

As the founder of Egyptian necromancy, the necromancy vessel left by Khufu is of quite good quality.

Qingli tapped her slender fingers lightly, and the words on the compass lit up, forming a small vortex that swallowed the spirit of the dead whale demon. Suddenly, a blue shadow swam in the dark green gem.

There is naturally a deep meaning behind Azir's choice to let Qingli accompany him.

On the one hand, it was because she could transform into a stunningly beautiful human form, adding some pleasant scenery to the boring journey; on the other hand, he wanted her to help him with some trivial matters.

After completely absorbing the essence of the whale demon, Qingli, at Azir's instruction, began to decompose the huge monarch-level corpse.

Although the giant horn was slightly damaged due to the collision with the giant pillar, its surface still had an aqua-blue halo and was still a good material for making magic tools.

Its dorsal fin is a translucent blue-black color, and its surface is covered with dense scaly patterns. Each scale naturally forms a water defense rune. Armor magic tools made with it as raw material can basically defend against all water magic below the forbidden spell, etc.

The things Azir collected were naturally prepared for his main body. The essence was the most important, and the other materials were incidental.

Afterwards, Azir continued to sit here fishing, the gilded fishing rod trembling slightly between his fingers, his posture as leisurely as an ordinary fisherman fishing by the lake, rather than a desert emperor hunting sea monsters.

"Wow--"

The fishing line suddenly tightened, a whirlpool exploded on the sea surface, and another siren was pulled up by Azir.

"The fifth one." Azir commented lightly and threw the corpse onto the platform behind him.

Qingli had already been waiting there skillfully.

She first took out the dark yellow compass, and the dark green gem lit up with a strange light, absorbing all the spirit of the siren that was on the verge of collapse. Then she began to dissect the corpse and take out the useful materials.

After several days of "fishing", the sea area within a radius of thousands of miles with the golden pillar as the center has become dead silent.

The once-dominant monarch-level sirens either became trophies in Azir's catch basket or fled to distant waters. The surface of the Red Sea was calm, but beneath the surface, a turbulent undercurrent surged—all the surviving sirens shared a terrifying message: atop the golden pillar dwelled a demon king who reaped lives.

Faced with such blatant provocation, the real overlord of the Red Sea has never taken any action.

After witnessing Azir easily kill so many sirens, it clearly realized that confronting the desert king on the water or in the air would be tantamount to self-destruction.

"The only way is to drag him into the sea." The Red Sea Overlord swam slowly among the corals, with a dark red light flashing on his body. "Only under the thousands of feet of water pressure and this red poisonous coral can we have a chance of winning." There was a cunning light flashing in his eyes, brewing a deadly trap.

Little did it know that these calculations were nothing but child's tricks in Azir's eyes.

Sitting on top of the giant pillar, Azir played with the gilded fishing rod in his hand, his eyes seemed to penetrate layers of sea water, watching the other party struggling there.

He was fully capable of dragging the Red Sea overlord out of the water, but he hesitated to do so.

"What is your Majesty waiting for?" Qingli asked curiously as she sorted through the materials she had harvested today. Her surroundings were already filled with various rare materials, each one of them priceless.

Azr's gaze turned to the southeast, where the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean meet - the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

"That person in the Indian Ocean hasn't made any movement yet." His voice was unusually solemn. "The Red Sea is just a small pond. The real threat comes from the depths of the ocean."

If, after completely burying the Red Sea, we were attacked by the demonic empire of the Indian Ocean at a critical moment in our expedition to the Arabian Desert, we would be in trouble.

The ancient existence that rules the vast ocean is far more terrifying than the monsters in the Red Sea.

“So, Lord, these days…”

"Probing," Azir interrupted, "to see how much these Red Sea monsters hold in the hearts of the Indian Ocean's masters."

The Overlord of the Red Sea had no idea what Azir was thinking at this moment. It was currently dormant in its ancient nest built of blood-red coral, preparing its own attack plan.

These coral reefs, which have grown for thousands of years, emit a strange red light in the dark seabed.

"Let this arrogant land emperor taste the true power of the Red Sea"

The Red Sea Overlord's deep whisper reverberated through the depths, and suddenly, a dense array of ancient demonic patterns illuminated its body. These patterns wriggled like living creatures, eventually transforming into countless blood-red threads that merged into the surrounding coral reefs.

In an instant, the entire Red Sea coral area seemed to be injected with life!
The originally still coral branches began to grow wildly, spreading outward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Their branches were twisted and entangled, with demonic patterns appearing on their surface that were exactly the same as those of the Red Sea Overlord.

What's even more terrifying is that wherever these mutated corals pass, the salt in the seawater is rapidly extracted and condensed into sharp crystals on the surface of the branches - this is its unique "salt poison", which can easily penetrate the scales of monarch-level demons.

Around the golden pillar, the sea water began to turn an abnormal red.

At first, there were only a few scattered spots, but they soon became a continuous mass. Countless blood-red corals clung to the base of the giant pillar like living creatures, their mucus and salt crystals slowly eroding the defensive runes on the pillar's surface.

From afar, the lower half of the entire towering pillar was already covered in a wriggling scarlet, like a giant dragon entangled by a poisonous snake.

(End of this chapter)