Wizard Immortal

Chapter 295 The Passage

"Lord Adir, you have arrived." In the quiet place, a somewhat hoarse voice suddenly rang out.

On a flat plain, a middle-aged elf dressed in a gray priest's robe, his face somewhat weathered, looked at Adir approaching from afar and walked forward.

"Child, how's the situation here?"

Looking at the middle-aged elf before him, Adir nodded, and then casually asked.

The middle-aged elf before them was one of the high priests that Kuraldo had sent to assist Adir. His strength was quite good even among wizards in the metamorphosis stage, and he was experienced and capable of handling many matters well. He had helped Adir a lot during this period.

"This...the situation is a bit complicated."

Standing before Adir, listening to his words, Child gave a wry smile: "Please come with me."

After speaking, seeing Adir nod, he turned around and led a group of people on horseback to one side.

They traveled through the wilderness and soon arrived at a small camp.

In the distance, wisps of black smoke drifted slowly. In the small camp, some elven guards were cooking over a fire, while others stood watch nearby, adding to the smoke and fire in the area.

Upon arriving at this place, Child called over a few attendants and then led Adir toward a cave on the side.

"This is?"

Upon entering the cave, before walking very far, Adir frowned, sensing an unusual aura permeating the surroundings: "The aura of the underground world?"

"good."

Standing before Adir, Child nodded: "This is a new entrance we've discovered. It seems to be like the others, allowing creatures from the underground world to pass through."

"Are you sure?" Adir asked, frowning.

Strictly speaking, there are many entrances between the underground world and the surface world, but not every entrance can be passed through.

Some entrances may exist, but for various reasons, they are not suitable for use as passageways and have no practical value, so there is no need to worry about them.

There are very few passages that can actually allow life from the underground world to enter, and almost all of them have been discovered in the past. Therefore, people are always watching the entrances and setting up multiple layers of magical arrays to prevent those underground creatures from entering as much as possible.

This is also why the current demonic calamity is not too severe.

Most of the subterranean creatures that enter the surface world do so through small, overlooked entrances. These entrances are not only extremely limited but also require a price to pay, making them far inferior to those that have already been opened up.

"We suspect that the dark elf wizards who previously attempted to assassinate His Majesty King Castor may have entered through this newly discovered passage."

Standing in front of Adir, Child explained as he walked forward, "Otherwise, there's no way to explain why they were able to arrive so quickly."

"Let's go in and take a look." Adir frowned as he thought of the dark elf prince named Andrew.

They continued walking forward, and after about half an hour, they finally reached their destination.

Rays of light shone from ahead, their silvery glow illuminating the surroundings and making everything exceptionally bright.

Feeling the light, Adir looked ahead.

There was a very spacious place in front of us.

The cave has been specially expanded, and the space inside is large enough to accommodate thousands of people.

At the top of the cave, several huge crystals hung high, emitting a faint silver glow that illuminated the surroundings as if it were daytime.

In this place, the corrosion originating from the underground world becomes increasingly intense, and a faint black mist permeates the space, from which occasionally a few roaring figures condense, and faint hissing sounds can be heard from time to time, which makes people feel terrified.

Upon arriving here, Adir closed his eyes and carefully sensed the surroundings.

Amidst the dense corrosive aura, there was indeed a familiar scent swirling around him, though it was very faint, he could still sense it.

That aura originated from Andrew, a unique aura formed after the Moon Elf bloodline adapted to the underground world, which Adir found unforgettable.

Upon this discovery, Adir's expression immediately turned serious.

He didn't speak, but simply looked up into the distance, where a strong stench of blood and decay filled the air, making him frown.

With his current enhanced eyesight, he could even see the mountains of corpses piled up on the ground in the distance, as well as the dried flesh and blood on the ground, which were emitting a foul stench that could be smelled from a great distance.

"This is a blood sacrifice." Faral, who was following behind Adir, also frowned and spoke up. Sensing the carnage in the distance, his face showed more disgust: "I can feel the wailing of the undead. There are probably at least several thousand elves dead here, including some elven wizards."

"It seems that most of the elves that have gone missing recently were captured and brought here."

Child's expression was also somewhat unpleasant, but he managed to maintain a semblance of calm: "We priests have calculated that if it were merely the work of the undead and other subterranean creatures, so many elves should not have died."

"The reason why those undead and underground creatures appear so frequently is probably to create a false impression so that we will ignore our surroundings."

"However, we still managed to find this place," a priest interjected.

"No, it's too late." Child shook his head. "The blood sacrifice here is already complete. It's unlikely that we can reinforce this place any further."

"The dark elves have achieved their goal. In two or three years at the earliest, the passage here will be completely breached, and the underground creatures inside will all rush out."

Upon hearing this, the elves around them all looked rather displeased.

There was a moment of silence, until Adir's voice rang out again.

"Let's go down and take a look," he said, looking down at the pile of bones below.

Hearing Adir's words, the others nodded silently and continued walking forward.

As they walked forward, the stench of blood grew stronger in the distance, mixed with a foul smell of decaying flesh.

However, most of the elves present were wizards. While they weren't entirely used to such a scene, they were at least composed and walked forward with calm expressions, showing none of the fear or worry that ordinary people would have.

Roar! !

A series of roars came from all directions, along with the sound of weapons hitting the ground, echoing for a long time in the cave, as if they came from all directions at once, which sounded terrifying and eerie.

In the distance, several ghouls whose corpses had already dried up slowly stood up. They looked incredibly ferocious as they struggled to crawl toward Adir and his group, their eyes filled with a bewildered yet blood-red light.

"These corpses have been infected by spiritual impurities and the aura of the underground world."

Looking at the ghouls struggling to their feet around him, Faral frowned and made this judgment.

There were many ghouls in front of them. Perhaps because they were too close to the entrance to the underground world and had not been dead for long, the probability of the corpses here being demonized was very high. Almost one in ten corpses had become a ghoul. At this moment, they all stood up when they smelled the aura of Adir and his group, and they looked like a densely packed mass.

Bang! Boom!

Several huge explosions rang out all around, accompanied by the roar and boiling of magical power.

Around Adir, several elven wizards also stepped forward, their magical light swirling and enveloping the surroundings, sweeping over the gradually gathering ghouls.

Although these ghouls look terrifying, they are not necessarily that strong. Apart from a few ghouls that were once knights or wizards, the rest of the ghouls are very fragile and will immediately collapse when they encounter the spells of a formal wizard, making it impossible for them to fight against them.

Inside the spacious cave, beams of magical light continuously shone, only gradually stopping after more than ten minutes.

"Send men to burn all the bodies here."

Looking at the pile of corpses in the distance, Adir said, "I don't want to run into these things every time I come down here."

As he spoke, a faint aura of power emanated from him, showcasing the kingly attribute of the Moon Elf bloodline that naturally governs ordinary elves, causing the other elves present to feel a sense of awe.

"Yes." Faral respectfully accepted the order from behind.

After saying this, they fell silent again, with only the sound of crisp footsteps echoing in the same spot.

After walking for a while, they finally arrived at their destination.

It was a vast altar, and above it stood a huge statue.

The statue is enormous, and it appears to be the image of a beautiful woman, but with six arms. Her face looks beautiful and wise, yet she wears a strange smile.

Below the statue, in the center of the altar, there was a huge opening, from which a faint black mist rose continuously, carrying a corrosive aura.

"Unknown force field detected. Immediate departure recommended..." The voice of the chip's mechanical device sounded again in his mind.

Hearing the chip's notification sound, Adir raised his head and looked at the statue in front of him.

"This statue... is dangerous."

As he looked at the statue before him, Adir's expression gradually turned serious. An unusually keen intuition rose within him, giving him an instinctive sense of danger.

It was the power of natural intuition at work that made him instinctively sense the danger posed by the statue.

The same applies to the inspection of chips.

The statue was filled with a powerful force field that Adir had never seen before. It was as strange and corrosive as the atmosphere of the underground world, but much stronger and more complex, making it impossible for the chip to analyze it thoroughly in a short time.

"This should be a statue of the Mother of Darkness," Child's voice rang out from the side.

At this moment, he was looking at the tall statue in the distance, his expression growing increasingly solemn.

"Chip, retrieve the data on the Mother of Darkness," Adir silently said to himself, standing still.

"The Mother of Darkness, a powerful evil god who reigned during the ancient glorious era, is a stunningly beautiful woman with six arms. She is the embodiment of darkness and evil, possessing the power to bewitch living beings..."

"In ancient times, the Mother of Darkness waged war against the Ancestor of Light. After her defeat and fall, her body fell into the underworld, her flesh and blood transformed into demonic energy, and her bones became curses..."

The voice from the chip in his mind kept ringing out, and a large amount of data flowed into Adir's mind at the same time.

"Ancient Evil God..."

Upon hearing this name, Adir's expression turned somewhat solemn.

In ancient times, none of those who could be called evil gods by ancient wizards were simple creatures.

Since the Mother of Darkness before us is hailed as the ruler of evil gods, her power is probably even more terrifying.

Given such a terrifying existence, Adir would never want to get involved with it if he could.

"That's the entrance to the underground world." At this moment, Faral suddenly spoke up, looking at the huge black hole in the center of the altar with a somewhat solemn expression.

"The repulsive force of the surface world on the underground world is still there, and these underground creatures will not be able to come up in the short term."

Child said, "However, the power of the blood sacrifice has weakened the repulsive force, and the defenses here are rapidly weakening."

"Can we go down and take a look?" Adir asked.

"Well... that's possible."

Hearing this, Child hesitated: "However, the underground world also rejects the surface world. Even if we go in, we can only wander around the passage at most, and we won't be able to enter the underground world."

"And doing this carries some risk."

"It's alright," Adir said. "The repulsion between the two worlds is still there. There probably aren't many powerful wizards left on the other side right now. We can still ensure our safety if we go in as a group."

He looked at the enormous passageway before him, feeling the sensations in his body, and said this.

Upon hearing this, the surrounding priests nodded in agreement.

Standing beside Adir, Child still had some concerns: "Even so, there are still some risks involved. Perhaps I should take some men down to investigate?"

"Alright." Adir nodded at the suggestion, and after thinking about it, he ultimately did not refuse.

Having received Adir's nod, Child did not hesitate. After quickly tidying up his belongings, he led several priests and carefully descended the passage.

A long time passed, and it wasn't until more than two hours later that Child and the others came out again.

Compared to before they entered, the priests, including Child, all had ashen faces and their auras were somewhat disordered, as if they had consumed a lot of their magical power.

Seeing the puzzled expressions on Adir's and the others' faces, Child didn't say anything. He just smiled wryly, took out a blue crystal ball, and poured the last bit of magic power he had into it.

The blue crystal ball instantly lit up, and the blue light created a series of scenes before our eyes, completely recording the image of Child leading his people into the passage.

In the footage, Adir and the others saw subterranean creatures covering the mountains and plains.

Dark elves, black hands, dark treants, dark orcs... all sorts of subterranean creatures, some familiar and some unfamiliar to Adir, were densely packed together like small mountains, piled up on the other side of the passage, almost completely surrounding Child and the others.

(End of this chapter)