Warhammer, I'm a nanny, not your father!

Wop: "Vanaheim? There are nine dungeons in Fenris?"

Freya: "Yes, there are nine permanent landmasses on Fenris, the largest of which is Asaheim."

Wop: "So these islands should be unsinkable, right? Otherwise, why would the ancients build underground cities here?"

Freya paused briefly. "Besides Asaheim, there are no permanent continents in Fenris. But ancient humans used technology to stabilize eight islands and built underground cities on them."

"For thousands of years I have protected the inhabitants of this underground city from destruction. So I beg you, do not exterminate them all."

"What's in it for us?" asked Wop.

Ruth frowned but didn't bother Wop.

Freya: "You can live in the dungeon."

Wop: "And then eat these disgusting mushrooms and turn into a monster like them?"

"The main structure of the dungeon is intact. You can bring your people to live deep in the dungeon. It's a place suitable for normal human survival. They are just too sick. I can cure them."

"Thousands of years have passed and you haven't cured it. Why should I believe you?"

Freya: "I'm almost there, I just lack some ingredients."

"What material?" asked Wop.

Freya: "When you live in the dungeon, you will know."

Wop nodded. "Have you always used this trick to deceive the Fenrisians?"

Freya: "I don't know what you're talking about."

"You said Asaheim would never sink. Then what about the scene we saw a few months ago?"

"There's a volcano on Asaheim, it just erupted unexpectedly."

Wop asked back, "I didn't even tell you what the scene was, how did you know it was a volcanic eruption? Although my IQ isn't top-notch, you can't treat me like a fool, right?"

The atmosphere suddenly froze.

When the Rus tribe first discovered this island a few months ago, it clearly looked like it had just emerged from the bottom of the sea.

If the island never sank, how could it possibly have emerged from the seabed?

If the island is sinking, where is the door that prevents seawater from flooding into the dungeon?

Wop didn't see any doors along the way, and the underground cave network here was extensive.

Unless every passage has a door, that door cannot be in the front.

From that mushroom corridor, there was only one way down. The door must be on this path, but Wop still couldn't see it.

The fluorescence on the underground lake they passed before was left by the night raiders who had eaten the glowing mushrooms and drank the water, and it definitely did not form in a day or two.

If the door was here in the mushroom corridor, the pool would definitely be flooded by sea water. How could it have the chance to become dirty over time?

Ruth also fished out a piece of animal skin from the pond. Although it was not valuable, Wop did not believe that the night raiders would hunt and then skin the prey to wear as clothes.

That hide could only have come from another tribe, indicating that other Fenrisians had discovered the island.

Freya was right about one thing: the island was indeed unsinkable.

But with so many doubts in front of us, any normal person would have doubts.

If other tribes have discovered this island, where are they now?

If the island could never sink, why would it be disguised as if it had just emerged from the seabed in the first place?

"I can explain." Perhaps realizing that Wop was not easy to fool, Freya was silent for a moment before speaking, "I can pledge my loyalty to you as long as you can support me in continuing my vaccine research."

"Let's just get straight to the process, because I don't believe you even if you tell me."

Wop stretched out his hand towards Freya, who immediately retreated at an extraordinary speed, but still could not escape the confinement of the dark blue hand.

Wop just pinched lightly, and the invisible big hand suddenly closed. There was a crisp sound in the air, like a fish bladder being crushed under the ice. Freya, the mushrooms in the hall, and those angry young night raiders were all completely flattened.

"Is she dead?" Ruth asked warily.

Freya is obviously not a human. She is most likely an iron man used to manage the dungeon in the dark technological age. She may not be so easy to kill.

"Dead or alive," Wop asked, "are we going deeper or turning back?"

Ruth decisively waved his hand to signal the others to leave: "Let's get out of here first."

The exploration team came here not to explore any ancient ruins, but to kill all the night raiders and ensure the safety of the island's environment.

Now that the goal has been achieved, who cares what secrets are buried in this underground city?

No matter what secrets it holds, this underground city has been contaminated by Chaos, no matter how glorious its former civilization may have been.

The moment Wop stepped into the hall, he smelled a disgusting psychic stench. It was like throwing him into a toilet that had been pickled for thousands of years. Freya, who called herself Freya, was even more pickled. The smell of corruption on her body was disgusting. If it weren't for the psychic power to purify the air, Wop almost vomited out his internal organs.

This is completely different from Medea's situation.

Medea really created an inner world where humans could survive, and she was honest enough to tell Wop everything.

But Freya was full of lies and harbored evil intentions.

Whether she wanted to turn the Rus into the new Night Raiders or use them for human experiments to save the Night Raiders, Wop was too lazy to listen to her excuses.

Because the corruption of Chaos has made this dungeon as smelly as a cesspool, Wop doesn't want to stay there for even a second.

He had always been patient in talking to Freya, but Freya kept talking nonsense. Who would understand that?

Besides, that hall can only be regarded as the entrance to the dungeon at most. There may be a larger space underground, but there must be more traps.

If there were only Night Raiders, there would really be nothing to be afraid of here, but if it involved an Iron Man from the Dark Age of Technology who was suspected of being corrupted, that would be a different story.

Ruth would not step into a trap when he knew it was there, because the benefits were not proportional to the risks, and more importantly, he did not want his parents to take the risk with him!

The exploration team walked back along the way they came. They left marks on the stone wall with their battle axes along the way. On the way back, they did not encounter any night raiders and the marks were not destroyed.

The exploration team dragged their tired bodies halfway through the journey when the underground lake with a strange phosphorescent glow came into view again. This at least proved that they were not lost in the intricate tunnels.

When they finally reached the entrance to the cave, the light coming from the top made their eyes hot.

They had only been down there for a few hours, but it felt like a century had passed.

Russ turned back and stared at the darkness that swallowed up the light. "Although I think we have killed all the monsters, to be on the safe side, we'd better block every cave we can find."

Tengger felt the same way, and the next day he mobilized all the members of the Rus tribe to search for caves that might lead underground.

Whenever they found a cave, they would mark it with sea beast blubber. The wolves would find the caves by the smell of the blubber, and then Wop would use his psychic power to collapse them all.

Although we cannot guarantee that it is completely blocked, it will take a long time to dig it out by manpower.

After all this, Ruth said, "We'd better find another island."

Tengger hesitated. They had already wasted too much time in the Season of Fire, and the hope of finding another island was very slim. Even though he knew there were dangers underground, he still didn't want to give up the island he had finally found.

The threat of night raiders is indeed great, but as long as they do not take the initiative to go underground, these night raiders can be dealt with.

Russ: "Don't forget what happened when we first arrived. Those night raiders living underground weren't the main threat. The volcanic eruption was!"

They can withstand the night raiders, but if the volcano erupts again, they will have nowhere to escape.

The purpose of blocking those holes was to prevent things from underground from coming out, not to gamble with one's life on whether the woman named Freya was dead or not.

Even if she died, who knows if there is anything else in the dungeon?

The islands that sink during the Season of Fire each great year seem benign compared to the threats lurking beneath these unsinkable islands.

"You're right." Tengjier sighed. He was persuaded by Russ. "Let's leave as soon as possible."

Although the sea is dangerous, it is not safe here either.

Tengger suddenly realized that he was old and no longer had the courage he had in his youth.

……

The Rus tribe had no particular objection to leaving, as they trusted the judgment of Rus and Tengger.

And no matter what decision Ruth makes, Wop will support him.

Anyway, the tribe had not yet settled down on the island, and their belongings were still on the dragon boats. The fleet set sail on the day they decided to leave.

This time, the fleet followed Rus' instructions and headed north, because the north was Asaheim.

"If we still can't find a new island this time, we'll go to the lowlands and mountains of Asaheim," said Rus.

There is also a chain of contempt among the various tribes of Fenrir. The island tribes look down on the mountain tribes.

The island tribes are the most numerous, scattered across hundreds of islands like the Rus tribe, while the mountain tribes live in the lowlands and mountains of Asaheim.

The main threat faced by the tribes of the archipelago comes from the ocean, especially the giant sea beasts.

Although the mountain tribes also face the threat of hungry and ferocious wild beasts, these beasts are insignificant compared to the sea beasts.

If someone had proposed demoting the Russ tribe from a brave island tribe to a comfortable mountain tribe before, Tengger would have fiercely opposed it. But this time he just nodded silently and said, "Russ, let's duel."

"Why?" Leman Russ asked him.

Tengir raised his battle axe and offered Rus an invitation. "If you win, I will no longer be king. From now on, you will lead the Rus tribe wherever you want to take us!"

He didn't say what would happen if he won, because he couldn't win.

Everyone knew he couldn't win.

Tengir was the greatest warrior of the Russ clan, but Leman Russ possessed speed and strength far beyond that of mortal men.

Even those who respected the king the most would not believe that Tengger could defeat Rus unless Rus opened the sea.

Ruth: "Although you are not my father, I have always respected you."

"Respect won't keep us alive in Fenris." Tengger laughed heartily. "Come on, boy, defeat me mercilessly, and quickly!"

Russ nodded and raised his battle axe as well.

Tenjier's eyes flashed with a fierce light like a beast, and his muscles were tense like bowstrings. He knew he couldn't beat Ruth, but he wanted to know how big the gap was between him and Ruth.

He slowly took an attacking stance, with the blurry image of Ruth still lingering on his retina, when suddenly there was a dull sound of a blunt object hitting the back of his skull.

At the moment of the excruciating pain, he vaguely saw his own shadow collapse like a puppet with its strings cut.

It all happened so quickly, it was over as soon as it began, leaving no one prepared. The warriors' cheers to congratulate their new king came only half a beat late.

"Leman Russ!"

"Leman Russ!"

Chapter 77 Will You Support Me? (5K)

"Qiaolin, don't panic, hold on to the mast!"

"Wop, save them."

"We're coming right up. Drive that sea monster down and chop off its tentacles!"

"Leman Russ was eaten!"

On the seventeenth day after the Russ tribe left Vanaheim, a sea monster over a thousand meters long attacked the fleet that night.

A deep abyss suddenly appeared on the dark sea surface. When the monster suddenly rose from the abyss, the vortex it stirred up turned the entire sea into a boiling whirlpool. Hundreds of dragon boats were violently tossed in the sudden waves.

When its huge jaws covered with barbs opened fully, it swallowed thousands of tons of sea water like the sky collapsing. The dragon boats on the sea with lights still burning on their bows disappeared as quickly as fireflies falling into a bottomless pit.

At Ruth's request, Wop rescued his people on the boat when they fell into the abyss, but Ruth jumped into the monster's mouth at the same time.

The warriors of the Rus tribe watched their new king leap into the bloody mouth covered with barbs, but they could only hold on to the slippery mast tightly and roar in vain in the raging waves.

"Don't panic, hold the dragon boat steady, and trust your king!"

Wop's voice split the fleet's panic like thunder, and his steady and powerful voice instantly tore through the chaotic noise.

Wop's calmness quickly calmed the restless tribe. The Rus tribe was very convinced of him as the shaman, and Rus was the child he raised, so he was equivalent to the supreme king of the Rus tribe.

Since the Supreme King believed that Rus could survive, why shouldn't they believe it?

At this critical moment, the entire Rus tribe regained the innate tenacity and calmness of the Fenrisians. Women and children used lassoes to stabilize the shaking supplies, and warriors used bone spears to build a wall of thorns on the side of the ship.

Sylvia's huge claws scraped against the side of the ship, making a harsh sound. She stared at the abyss that swallowed Rus, and a helpless wail rolled out of her throat.

"It's okay, trust Ruth." Wop gently stroked Sylvia's trembling back. "He will come back, just like every time he goes hunting."

Russ is not a god, of course he will die, but not today, and certainly not now.

Wop's spiritual power penetrated the surging sea water like an invisible thread, firmly locking onto the figure fighting in the belly of the giant beast.