Lu Mingfei, become the King of Elden!

Chapter 312

Lu Mingfei examined the Compassion Short Sword in his hand; its blade gleamed with a warm luster in the dim light. He turned to Roger: "Do you recognize this sword?"

Roger nodded slightly, his fingertips lightly touching the blade:

"Battlefield medics were once a very famous group in the borderlands. Their members came from all walks of life, even including exiled prophets. But in the later stages of the Shattered War, this group mysteriously disappeared."

He paused, his expression turning serious:
"I heard that some mysterious force kidnapped them all."

Lu Mingfei memorized this information, then sheathed the Merciful Short Sword and asked Theros:

"Where should we go next?"

Theros paused for a moment, then pointed to another door in the room.

“Very close.”

Lu Mingfei raised his eyebrows and walked towards the door.

This is a wooden platform built entirely outside the city walls, completely suspended in mid-air, below which lies the deepest part of Stoneville.

A bottomless abyss.

This also means that there is no road ahead.

"You're not going to tell me to jump like Swengard, are you?"

Lu Mingfei pointed to the bottomless abyss and complained:

"This place doesn't look like there's a road leading down here at all."

Roger looked around the terrace and said thoughtfully:

"But if there's no way down from here, why build a wooden platform here? And why assign soldiers to guard it?"

From this vantage point, it's completely unnecessary.

"You mean this place used to be accessible?"

Lu Mingfei peered down from the edge of the wooden platform, only to find it pitch black and he couldn't see the bottom at all.

He couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement:

"If someone jumps down like that, they probably won't even be able to leave behind a complete corpse."

"You can go down now."

The knight who had been silent all along suddenly spoke:
"You can go down from here."

Everyone looked at him in surprise.

The Knight of Lost Home added:
"follow me."
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Led by the Knight of Lost Home, the group passed through the courtyard and arrived at a hidden basement entrance.

As soon as I pushed open the creaking wooden door, a strong stench of decay hit me.

Countless tiny, scarlet eyes lit up in the darkness.

Roger realized something was wrong and immediately pulled a torch from his bag and lit it, his speed befitting his status as a seasoned Faded One.

In the flickering firelight, those red-eyed creatures revealed their true forms.

It turned out to be several enormous rats.

Their fur was rotting, revealing the blood-red muscles beneath, and their ferocious fangs gleamed coldly in the firelight.

Lu Mingfei had no doubt that these rats could even easily gnaw off the head of a Grek soldier.

He frowned and stomped his right foot hard on the ground.

boom!
The power of the storm erupted from him, instantly blasting the swarm of rats away.

Immediately afterwards, two sharp sword gusts swept past, leaving only a mess of rat carcasses on the ground.

Roger was stunned by this series of fluid movements.

This usually elegant and composed magic swordsman felt as if a million wild horses were galloping through his heart at this moment—if he came from another world and knew a certain way of cheering, he would probably be following behind Lu Mingfei and shouting "666, you're awesome!"

Looking back on all the dangers along the way, whether it was troublesome guards or bizarre traps, Lu Mingfei had almost ruthlessly pushed them all over.

Roger gazed at the tall, upright figure walking at the front, and couldn't help but sigh:

This man, this man, is such a reassuring presence.

That sturdy back seemed to shield one from all storms, making one want to follow in his footsteps.

Just then, Lu Mingfei suddenly shivered, keenly sensing a strange gaze focused on him.

He whirled around, catching Roger's gaze before he could look away. That gaze seemed to be fixed on some indescribable part of his body.

"I'm not gay, thank you."

Lu Mingfei said this expressionlessly, then turned and continued walking forward.

Roger stood there, stunned, his face filled with utter bewilderment.
"W-what do you mean by gay dating?"

He didn't understand the meaning of the word at all, but his intuition told him that it was definitely not an elegant word.

Watching Lu Mingfei's retreating figure, he could only shake his head and quickly follow after him.

"what?"

Lu Mingfei bent down and picked up a faintly glowing object from beside the carcass of a particularly fat rat.

"This rat actually has a rune arc? How can it have a rune arc?"

The Rune Curve is one of the most precious treasures of the Borderlands. It is said to have been a fragment of a vessel at the bottom of the Ring of Law that received blessings, and it contains powerful blessing energy.

Lu Mingfei pinched the warm, glowing rune between his fingertips, his brows gradually furrowing.

He looked around at the dark and damp environment, then looked down at the giant rats with festering fur at his feet.

"Something's wrong."

He said in a deep voice:

"Such a rare treasure, how could it end up on these rats?"

Upon hearing this, Roger also crouched down and carefully turned over the rat carcass with his rapier.

In the flickering light of the torches, he suddenly noticed something and used the tip of his sword to pick up a piece of half-rotten cloth.

"look at this."

The magic swordsman said:

“This is a precious fabric for clothing. I have seen similar materials at the merchants in Ningmgefu.”

Theros's heavy armor made a metallic scraping sound as he bent down to examine the ground:
“There are signs of a fight here.”

The Forge Knight's armored fingers pointed to several deep claw marks in the corner of the wall:

"And it wasn't just one person."

Lu Mingfei's eyes sharpened:

"You mean, outsiders have been here before?"

"I'm afraid that's exactly what happened."

Roger stood up, his expression grave:
“These rats are far more mutated than usual. I suspect they not only devoured the intruders’ bodies, but also their runic power.”

The lost knight walked silently into the depths of the passage, then suddenly stopped.

He used his sword sheath to push aside a pile of debris, revealing a skeleton that was not yet fully decomposed.

Judging from their tattered clothing, they were definitely not Stoneville's soldiers.

Lu Mingfei slowly stepped forward and found a damaged backpack next to the remains.

He carefully opened it and found an atlas, some odds and ends, and a strange meat product inside.

[Anti-heat liver dryness]

[A wild animal liver soaked in red medicine and then dried.]

One of the items that can be crafted.

It can temporarily increase fire damage reduction rate, reducing damage caused by fire attacks.

"These people are here specifically to look for something or to carry out some mission."

Lu Mingfei picked up the atlas and found that one page had been repeatedly folded, with their current location marked on it in red ink.

Before he could finish speaking, everyone was already captivated by the scene deep inside the basement.

This place resembled a slaughterhouse, with racks around the perimeter filled with unidentified, rotting pieces of meat, and dark stains clinging to the ground.

In the corner lay a stiff corpse, its skin an unnatural grayish-white.

(End of this chapter)