Chapter 37 The Second Line of Defense: The Mantle Labyrinth
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While Momonga used his magic [bless of titania] to facilitate the attack on the "maze", he also confirmed that it was indeed a vast and intricate maze and not an ordinary mine.
Perhaps something dangerous had spewed out of it, which may have led to it being abandoned. There are other possibilities. There are too few clues to determine accurately.
Momonga: "If this is indeed the territory of Titania, according to Tilini's previous directions, it is rare to encounter a place with traces of human habitation. It is better to investigate the clues. Considering that there may be poisonous gas, traps and entrenches underground.
Regarding the monsters in the cave, it’s up to you to take the lead, Mordred.”
"No problem, I'll take care of this kind of thing. Instead, I'll leave the strategy to you." Mordred put on a helmet that could isolate most of the toxins and walked in.
Momonga followed behind.
It goes deep into the ground and is very far away from Titania's five large underground cavities. To get there from here, it might be better to walk through the ground.
At the same time, there are countless forks and rooms here that are like super-large ant nests, enough for any individual to spend a lot of time exploring. Even so, this is nothing. As long as you are prepared for a protracted war and draw the map carefully, you can always
Be aware of the entire maze's path.
However, a section of this maze is actually dug close to an underground volcano, causing scorching gases and toxic volcanic gases, ash, etc. that are enough to roast any animal that is not resistant to fire, to be erupted from cracks and holes from time to time. Magma is erupted.
I have never seen it, so that the maze can be physically kept open.
Even if the intruder has a guiding magic, there is nothing to worry about. The Kingdom of Titania does not have a sea area, but it is quite close to the sea. The exit of the maze accidentally hit the cliff by the sea. If you want to rush over by the shortest route, go and drink.
Seawater, I guess. But the seawater in this world has very little salt, almost the same as fresh water, so it doesn't matter if you drink it.
Why prepare such a maze so quickly?
The answer is simply: this is just a place where children who inherited the earth magic part of Crounpith and children who wanted to learn earth ninjutsu used to practice.
The place where the influence can be ignored without being noticed by the outside world, such as opening the soil, combining the soil, solidifying, etc., making a branch, spreading out in order to expand and increase the practice field, and opening a new room as a temporary resting point, but I feel that the room has traces of magic.
Too many children continued to open passages and spread out. If they accidentally hit a place where mantle material would gush out, they hurriedly sealed it, and then opened new passages and rooms. A large number of children built this maze over time.
The traces of magic have long since disappeared over time. It is a large maze with no purpose of passage, no layout, and nothing. Therefore, it is suitable for a large maze that will not give any clues to the enemy and can delay time.
All the goblins had to do was to take advantage of Tilini's chat with Momonga and Mordred to eat snacks and uncover all the hot gas vents that had been blocked in the past.
What the fairies miscalculated was the monsters that lived in the lava of this world.
No, they are not completely ignorant. In the past, when Angel was still practicing in the volcanic lava sea of the Dwarf Kingdom, the monsters there were used as sparring partners and food.
But that is also a lava sea exposed to the air. Little did we know that there is even a lava sea in the mantle - the sun that controls the underground lava sea, the lava ruler.
A type of fire elemental creature. As its name suggests, its appearance is really just a huge ball of light floating in lava. It is usually attracted to places with considerable vitality on the surface. Because it cannot leave lava for a long time, it usually does not actively attack.
In addition, in the past, whenever the goblins accidentally found signs of hitting the mantle, they would immediately seal it as is, without having time to alarm this group.
Now, the goblins opened all the sealed places, and then two powerful beings entered.
The Lava Ruler is not a strong enemy against Momonga and Mordred. Even if the enemy is in a good location and cannot kill or kill instantly, it is not too difficult to deal with the mobile natural disaster in the eyes of the natives of this world.
However, it's really too bad in a terrain where rapids form once an eruption occurs.
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The large underground hole to the south, the Central Military Statistics Bureau of Goblins——
"Buzz buzz buzz..." Following a tremor that made their ears uncomfortable, Alice, who hurriedly held onto various objects in the house, breathed a sigh of relief.
"earthquake?"
"Are they going to fight here?"
"Check the surrounding soil quality. If it is loose, it must be reinforced immediately."
The Alices talked for a while.
"If we are really calling, do these have to be burned?" Alice picked up a stack of documents on the 12th and tidied the corners on the table, shaking them in her hand and asked.
"Those are not necessary. Although they are recent things, they are not important." Alice No. 14 pointed to a box in a cabinet and said, "That is the problem, that record should be burned.
. Judging from the situation reported below, the visitors this time are not some lost people or some random fish who want to try their luck. Perhaps they are Momonga and Mordred, whom Dad and the others had planned a trial attack.
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"But why did you find this place?" Alice No. 32 raised her chin and turned her head, feeling puzzled. "The attack is still perfect so far. There are no clues that it is related to this place. If it must be related, they should
Let’s investigate the Altar of Destruction in the south of Top Forest first.”
Alice reconsidered on the 12th: "Yes, that is the current home of the three Gorgon sisters. It is indeed necessary to catch Anna first."
Alice No. 32: "Perhaps...investigating that or something, the undead organization."
Alice No. 14: "It's the 'Body of the Abyss'!"
Alice No. 12: "Yes, yes, that's the name."
Alice No. 10 slapped her hair and seemed to be upset: "If that's true, then we were careless, damn it."
"Body of the Abyss", an organization that once brought scourge to the Central Continent, once stole some of Titania's abandoned tank research samples to upgrade the weapons of low-level undead and increase their combat effectiveness as an army. It also used it in the wilds on the border
There was a great war. Considering that the "Abyssal Body" is an undead organization, and Momonga is the highest level undead, if there is a way to get the members of the inner formation, a lot of information may be obtained.
Then the question comes again, even if Momonga obtained the information about the "Abyssal Body", what is the purpose of breaking into Titania like this?