But if you dare to kick the wall of his broken house, hundreds of liches will come out and eat you alive.

Emilia usually treated Yin with tolerance, even pampering, but at this moment, she couldn't help but angrily pinch her face and rubbed it violently: "Stop it! I'm only 22 years old! I bet that even Karsus back then would be wiped out if he dared to cause trouble for Larloch at this age!"

Originally, Karsus had the same name as Larloch, but now, Karsus has been dead for thousands of years, while Larloch is still alive!

Maybe Larok is the strongest force on the continent right now!

"Wuwuwu..." Yin slapped Emiya's hand in annoyance and said vaguely, "I didn't ask you to go now! That's the goal! If there are difficulties, then find a way! How can a wizard be afraid of difficulties!"

The most fearless mage in the world is probably called Karsus. His brave feat successfully destroyed a large area of ​​human civilization and caused the fall of the first generation of magic goddess.

"That's too difficult!" Emilia let go of his hand unhappily. "In the past few thousand years, there have been only a handful of mages who can rival Larloch. How old do I have to be to catch up with him?"

"You can call for help!" Yin was unusually generous. "He has a ton of liches. If you can't do that, you can find fifty... maybe twenty as strong as the one with the red robe and the big beard... For example, the one named Xinbu. You can make her owe you a favor—"

Meaning, find twenty people of the same level as Elminster and Simbu, and then Emya can crush Larok.

Emiya gave a fake laugh without any sincerity. "What a constructive suggestion. I'll consider it later."

The wizard draws his bow and swings his sword, the paladin is a bookworm, and the one who talks the most nonsense is another wizard.

In comparison, the poet and the priest actually seem to be the two most normal ones.

This team of theirs has such a bright future.

Emiya covered her face in pain, changed the subject, and looked around.

While they were arguing within the team, Metatron stood aside quite naturally and listened quietly.

——I just haven’t put on my clothes yet.

Emiya felt her scalp tingling, and she hurriedly opened the dimensional hole: "——Teacher, can I take apart my spare clothes and make you a new set?"

At this point, Yin said naturally, "I'll just use my spare clothes. I don't really care about wearing them anyway, and I think I have too many."

This process is naturally extremely fast.

Metatron's well-proportioned muscles were once again hidden beneath the folds of her loose white robe, which was perfect for movement. However, when she raised her arms, the curves that emerged from her sleeves would reveal her uniqueness.

She said calmly, "While you were bickering, I had already contacted the Keepers of Balance. The lich had returned during the time they had just left, and they were quite shocked by the news. What are you going to do next? Do you need the Church of Tyr to return?"

Emiya pondered for a moment and shook her head. "No need. Next we just need to investigate the lich's underground palace and the traces of the burrowing worms. Right now, Berdusk needs them more."

His mentor was stunned for a moment and asked, "What digging worm?"

Emiya replied, "We've heard there was a large-scale activity of burrowing worms near the town of Trier. The burrowing worms were digging everywhere, and it might be related to this incident. We'd like to see if there are any clues left here."

Metatron hesitated for a moment and looked around.

Only a few minutes had passed since the battle, and the terrifying heat left by the meteor explosion had not yet completely dissipated. The molten rock still emitted a terrifying heat.

The impact caused by the meteor explosion almost turned half of the underground palace into ruins, and the entire underground palace was in name only.

In Metatron's opinion, there was really nothing more to investigate in such an environment.

Emiya first asked, "Did the lich leave any written records, such as a diary?"

"Almost nothing." Metatron shook his head, "If a lich has the habit of writing a diary, then his diary would probably be as high as two stories.

"We only conducted a brief search here, and we did find some textual content. Unfortunately, it was more like a patrol log. For example, if it were a specific date, the results would almost always be the same: [Fluctuation of less than one percent compared to the daily readings for a specific year and month. Result: No problem.]"

Upon hearing this news, Fenwei's face showed obvious disappointment: "In other words, it was a wasted trip?"

Emiya's eyebrows relaxed. "- Generally speaking, yes. Teacher, have you discovered why this lich was exposed? It seems that this lich has actually lived here for a long time, perhaps even longer than Eltoril's history."

She nodded, then shook her head. "—Unfortunately. The defenses here are too tight. We practically had to fight our way in. If there really were any secrets here, they would have been destroyed by that lich long ago."

Metatron pointed to the room that had been reduced to ruins by the meteor explosion and was now completely buried. "This is where the lich was teleported. When we arrived at this room a few days ago, it was already covered in an unusual amount of dirt and suspicious debris. This room is completely out of place with the clean and tidy underground palace. If there were any traces left anywhere in the original underground palace, it would be here."

The bad news is that this room has been ravaged so many times that it is impossible to leave any trace of it.

Emiya breathed a sigh of relief: "As long as the location is clear."

He extended his hand, walked outside the room covered in lava, and pointed inside: "Larry's Reappearance Technique."

This powerful spell from another world began to work again, and a layer of shadows gradually covered the room full of fire.

The lava was still spewing sparks, but around it gradually appeared a number of vague instruments—tables, complete alchemical instruments, paper and pens, and so on.

The room was not empty, but there were several creatures moving around in it. Emiya found some fangs near the mouths of these creatures.

On the other side of the room, neatly arranged reagent bottles and documents were placed. This room was not empty; several creatures moved around in it. Emiya even found some fangs near their mouths.

This room is clearly a large and complete studio.

"This spell?" Metatron's eyes widened in astonishment, but then he understood the function of the spell and explained, "Liches are very rare here. In fact, he has a vampire as his deputy, more vampire descendants as servants, and various undead creatures as guards. However, these creatures have been destroyed by us."

The first thing the reconstruction should have shown was the scene in this place that left the deepest impression on the world, but the beginning of this scene seemed a little quiet.

However, the next second, some vague light fell from the sky, probably dust.

The blood servants didn't react at first, but soon, they no longer needed to react.

The ceiling of the underground palace suddenly collapsed, and the head of the digging worm was exposed in the soil.

These massive creatures, much more mature than Berdusk's kin, fell to the center of the studio. Their bodies, ten meters long, were clearly not fully comprehended, and after hitting the ground, they hesitantly turned their bodies several times.

Crackling, crackling, crackling.

The crisp sound of shattering glass was almost continuous, like the sound of plucked strings.

The reagent bottles were almost swept away by the long tails of several digging worms, and the entire army was wiped out in an instant.

The documents only survived the first wave, but were all swept to the ground by the long tails of the diggers.

Unfortunately, the chemicals in the reagent bottles weren't all harmless; almost all of them were harmful. Many began to evaporate violently the moment they came into contact with air, creating a hissing sound. Even more, when splashed onto the burrowing worms, erupted in a variety of reactions—acid corrosion, electrical discharge, and frost.

Of course, there is something more important - burning.

Of course, the potion caused great pain to the digging worms. They immediately let out a shrill hiss and swung their tails frantically - at the same time, the reagents on their tails were also thrown to all corners of the room.

Of course, it also fell on the document.

Seeing this scene, everyone present turned their heads away with an expression of disbelief.

His many years of storage were wiped out by the digging of earthworms... Anyone would be furious about this.

In the end, it was all over—in just a few minutes, the studio was engulfed in flames, and all the supplies inside were destroyed.

At this stage, the owner of the underground palace, the lich finally arrived.

At this time, not to mention its storage, even the instigators of everything, those digging worms that dug through the ceiling had been completely killed by the reagents, leaving the lich with no target to vent his anger.

The lich let out a heart-wrenching scream, then furiously unleashed necromancy on the burrowing worm's corpse.

Under the tearing of negative energy, the worm's skeleton struggled to tear the flesh from its body. The skeleton gained "life," separating from the worm's corpse. Driven by necromancy, it eventually formed a strange skeleton. Slowly but steadily, the skeleton emerged from the worm's mouth. As the skeleton detached, the worm's body gradually lost its support and collapsed to the ground, limp. Finally, the strange skeleton completely separated from the worm's body, mercilessly discarding its once hard shell. Only an empty shell remained, as if it had never been alive.

The lich glanced at the equally badly damaged skeleton, turned around and cursed at the trembling servant, then drove the digging worms back the way they came.

Obviously, the enraged lich did not believe in the natural balance like the druid, and he immediately chose to send the entire burrowing worm nest into the sky.

Emiya recalled.

The demons' intelligence indicated that the lich's activities had disturbed the burrowing worms.

——However, judging from the effects of the reconstruction technique, cause and effect are two-way.

The activities of the diggers first disturbed the lich, and the furious lich retaliated.

Of course, the lich's revenge is probably aimed at annihilating the entire clan right from the start.

However, the demons were unaware of this and may have sent their forces to negotiate with the lich.

If they even sent out a subjugation team—

Perhaps some traces will be found at the scene of the battle between the devil and the lich.

Emilia narrowed her eyes slightly and rubbed her hands together: "——Let's follow the footsteps of this Mr. Lich."

This matter is simpler than they imagined.

Diggers don't have teleportation spells; they'll burrow into the underground palace, naturally digging their way in. So once you've discovered their lair, you just need to roughly go upstream.

Because the lich's style of doing things was even more brutal than he thought.

Wherever he went, there was blood everywhere, just like a butcher slaughtering a pig.

He killed every digger he encountered without hesitation, and then deliberately ensured that the body of each digger was intact.

Finally, follow the same method to let the digging worm's skeleton crawl out of the body and become a new servant.

If the lich had not taken the initiative to come to the surface, this matter would have been exposed long ago.

Tracking the lich is not difficult. You just need to follow the lich's footsteps and cast the reappearance spell at a certain distance.

Until, for the first time, someone other than a lich appeared in the effect of reappearance.

——They were several druids wearing grass wreaths on their heads and vine robes on their bodies.

They also surrounded the corpse of a burrowing worm. However, this time, several druids held blades forged from fire and were carefully dismantling a burrowing worm.

More precisely, they are trying to peel the burrowing worm's shell off its body.

They had obviously practiced many times and were very skilled in division of labor and cooperation.

Finally, after just a few minutes, they completely dismantled a giant digging worm, and the hard shell fell off.

This result clearly pleased the druids immensely. They couldn't help but cheer, "This new process is the right one! Now we can dismantle a burrowing worm in just a few minutes!"

Then the image disappeared.

Emiya was silent for a moment, then asked Fenwe, "Druids should be able to skin and bone animals, right...?"

"Of course," Fenwë replied. "The essence of druidry is to maintain the balance of nature. Different druids have different understandings of how to do this. It's just that beasts are indeed more favored by druids. However, burrowworms are closer to magical beasts. No matter how they are prepared, as long as they aren't deliberately slaughtered on a large scale, they will definitely not be punished by nature."

"So..." Emiya hesitated, "Is there anything special about the attire of the River Forest Druids?"

He had a guess.

But the River Forest Druids he had seen before were all dressed very normally, so he couldn't confirm it.

However, Fenwei's identity is special, and perhaps she has seen more in the river forest.

"What are they wearing?" Fenwë blinked in surprise and replied, "The outer robes are still the same old ones, woven with flowers and vines. I didn't pay much attention to the inner armor, but it often varies greatly according to the style of the circle. As for the riverside forest, it seems..."

She propped her chin up with her hand and said uncertainly, "...It seems to be some kind of hard biological material that's not leather, right?"

Then, she reacted immediately and rushed to a nearby burrowing worm. She carefully observed its material and opened her mouth wide. "—O All-Mother! The druids of the River Forest actually have this side job!"

Forty-three Hell Steel Balls

The druids of the River Forest strip the carapaces from burrowworms to craft their armor.

This is absolutely shocking news.

Emiya originally thought that the druids' strange protection and dilemma towards the burrowing worms was simply because they couldn't stand the Elturgard people's lifestyle.

Almost all the Hell Knights were wearing armor and riding their horses across the land. Relying on the glory of the Companion Sun, they harvested abundant crops every year and built settlements.

It's only natural that druids dislike such a country.

But Emilia never guessed that behind the hatred, there was such a conflict of interest!

This really ties everything together.

The druids protect the worms because the nearby worm nests have become their pastures. However, if the worms do something too extreme, the druids will not go to the extent of destroying the outside world for the worms.

After all, it's just one of the ranches.

Fenwei couldn't help but walk back and forth in the narrow tunnel, muttering, "I see. So, the range of the burrowing worms might be even larger than I imagined. But at the same time, they've been able to conceal this information. Is it because these guys in the riverside forest have also been hunting burrowing worms?"

"We still lack conclusive evidence," Metatron said suddenly. "This spell is powerful, but it won't be enough to gain Elturgard's support. The Church of Tyr will inevitably demand the spell's effects be dismantled first, then hold a meeting to legislate its validity as evidence. Finally, they'll have to personally send someone here to inspect it. With all that back and forth, it won't take at least a month to complete."

And one month is obviously too long.

Emiya frowned.

If it were an informal setting, the spell would be enough as evidence, but if you wanted to accuse the entire druid circle, they would definitely not give in.

Ideally, they could find more direct evidence.

At this moment, Sig thought for a moment and clapped his hands suddenly: "Emya, you're thinking too far. Is the druid the focus now? Actually, not really. We need to sort out the affairs of the devil and the companion. In comparison, whether the druids are doing side jobs is not important at all. To bring the druids to court requires solid evidence, but no evidence!"

Aimiya was stunned for a moment and said, "You mean, blackmail them."

"Why are you saying such harsh things?" Sig curled his lips. "They've already done it, but they're afraid to speak out. Is that our fault? The druids are hesitant and cover-up now, aren't they afraid of being discovered? As long as they can't silence us, as long as we don't report this to Elturgard and don't go too far, they'll owe us a favor! We can even say that if we act as a middleman, both sides will owe us a favor."

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