Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 85 Great Rift Valley - Lord of the Abyss
The old snake and scorpion ancestor left in disgrace. He was still frightened by what happened in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, but he was more pleased that his conspiracy had succeeded.

It looked up into the distance, and the majestic outline of Mount Kilimanjaro was already faintly visible.

The highest peak in Africa, covered with snow all year round, gleams coldly in the sun, but it is actually a dormant volcano. Beneath the white snow, raging lava surges with enough fury to burn everything.

"It's time to go and see the old fire demon in Mount Kibo." It muttered to itself and began to think of a new excuse.

It had dealt with the Lava Demon King there before and knew that guy was indeed much stronger than itself, but he was lazy by nature - unless the Flame Throne was directly threatened, it would rather sleep in the magma for thousands of years.

As for Lake Victoria, a hint of cunning flashed in the eyes of the snake-scorpion ancestor.

It felt that it didn't need to worry about that place, as they should be able to stop the Sandstorm Emperor on their own.

As the source of the Nile River, the demons in the lake could not have been unaware that the northern Nile crocodiles had been driven out of the Sahara Desert by Azir, and even the Nile crocodile king had been slaughtered.
When the Shurima army marches south, what fate will the lakes where they live face?
Shortly after the Snake and Scorpion Ancestor left, an earth-shaking roar was heard from the depths of the Great Rift Valley of East Africa.

The loud noise was like the roar of an ancient giant beast, shaking the rocks within a hundred miles around and causing them to roll down.

The black mist rising from the valley bottom surged violently, and in the deepest part of the abyss, a pair of brown vertical pupils were fully opened.

The demon overlord was not angered by the provocation of the snake-scorpion ancestor, but the sun disk hanging high above the Red Sea, shining on the entire African land, was burning his sensitive nerves all the time.

"Shurima...Azir"

As the master of the abyss, what it hates most is this kind of dazzling light.

However, the sun disk continuously emitted a disgusting light day and night, which was a naked humiliation and provocation.

A dark red light flickered beneath the abyss, gradually outlining the true appearance of the demon master.

It was a creepy four-legged monster. Its body was not too big and was covered with layers of black scales.

The sturdy limbs end in sharp claws that are deeply embedded in the rock wall; three pairs of curved bone horns grow on the ferocious dragon-shaped skull.

Half its body was covered in a dark substance. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be "hair" composed of countless tiny tentacles, each one swaying autonomously, as if possessing an independent consciousness. When scanning its back, dozens of bulges could be vaguely seen rising and falling beneath the scales, seemingly gestating some terrifying power.

Then the demon overlord slowly raised its head, revealing rows of closed secondary eyes on its neck. As these eyes opened one after another, the entire abyss echoed with maddening whispers.

Its tail swept across the rock wall, revealing a scorpion-like stinger at the end, but the tip split into seven slender tentacles. These tentacles danced in the air, their paths creating tiny cracks in the air.

The most disturbing thing is that when its true appearance is fully revealed, the faint light around it also becomes a little dim. It is not blocked, but actively "swallowed" by some force.
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A few days later, after the Snake and Scorpion Ancestor came down from Mount Kilimanjaro, he returned to his habitat not far from Congo Yulin with a gloomy face. Obviously, he did not get a satisfactory answer from the Lava Demon King.

The sun disk standing in the sky could clearly see the movement route of the Snake and Scorpion Ancestor.

The Sandstorm Emperor is not stupid, he basically guessed the other party's purpose.

A cold light flashed in his golden pupils, and he did not change his marching route because of the plan of the Snake and Scorpion Ancestor.

Guided by the light of the sun disc, his army continued to advance steadily towards the habitat of the snake and scorpion clan - Azir's will could not be defied, and any conspiracy or trickery was nothing but a futile struggle in the face of absolute strength.

When the Sandstorm Emperor's vanguard troops arrived at the territory of the Serpent Scorpion Clan, the dust rising from the desert covered half of the sky.

Without declaring war or negotiating, the Sandstorm Emperor simply waved his hand and ordered: "Kill." "Hiss!"

In the left side of the army formation, the Snake King Medusa twisted her snake body and slowly moved forward. Behind her, thousands of Medusa snake-shaped demons lined up, and their poisonous arrows were ready to be fired.

"Traitor!" The roar of the snake-scorpion ancestor echoed among the sand dunes.

There was no fluctuation in the eyes of the Serpent Lord Medusa.

As a general who had surrendered to Azir when he suppressed the Undead Empire of Khufu, it understood better than anyone the Tsar's earth-shattering power. Faced with the rebuke of its former master, it simply indifferently ordered its troops to attack.

At the same time, the Desert Giant Lizard Legion on the right also launched a charge.

Every step these behemoths took caused the earth to tremble. They opened their bloody mouths and rushed forward.

The followers of the Snake and Scorpion Ancestor were obviously well prepared.

They did not linger in the fight, but retreated while fighting, rapidly evacuating towards the Congo rainforest.

The Sandstorm Emperor sneered, then suddenly raised his hand, and a raging sandstorm vortex instantly condensed in his palm, with violent wind elements roaring in it.

“Want to escape?”

With a loud shout, the destructive storm with a diameter of hundreds of meters roared towards the Snake and Scorpion Ancestor, and everything was annihilated wherever the storm passed.

"boom--!"

The huge body of the Snake and Scorpion Ancestor suddenly stopped, and its dark purple shell emitted a strange glow.

It didn't dodge or evade, but took the blow with its hardest shell on its back. The storm collided with the shell, erupting in a deafening roar and sending dazzling sparks flying everywhere.

When the storm dissipated, the Serpent Scorpion Ancestor's carapace was covered in fine cracks, and dark green blood oozed from the cracks. But it actually withstood this blow that could tear apart mountains!
"Sandstorm Emperor, nothing special." However, it did not take the opportunity to fight back.

I saw a thick purple poisonous fog spurting out from its tail. Under the cover of the fog, its huge body flexibly drilled into the ground, leaving only a continuously collapsing vortex on the sand.

The Sandstorm Emperor didn't hesitate and continued to chase after him.

As we went deeper, we were already very close to the Congo rainforest. The rainforest was very unfavorable for the Desert Spirit, the Sandstorm Emperor.

The sandstorm surrounding him made a hissing sound in the humid air at the edge of the rainforest, and some of the tiny sand particles condensed into water vapor and fell.

The Sandstorm Emperor certainly knew what this rainforest that covered the sky and the sun meant - the ubiquitous water vapor would weaken the power of his sandstorms, the dense vegetation would hinder the flow of sand and dust, not to mention the rainforest monsters lurking in the dark.

But the emperor's pride would not allow him to retreat.

At the same time, he looked at the sun disk in the sky and his heart was filled with confidence.

(End of this chapter)