Just as the guardians and their people were searching the sewers everywhere in Lugaoyin City, the evil covenanters hiding in the underground fortress of the Protection Front soon got the news of the leaked plan.
Mist, the legendary evil contractor wearing colorful feathers, was pacing back and forth in the hall, listening to the news from his subordinates with a gloomy expression.
Behind him, the legendary Evil Contractor Randall was also sitting on a stone bench, silently playing with the staff in his hand.
"Damn! What went wrong!"
Hearing that the guardians had discovered and dug up the devil's bottle burial sites one by one, Mist could no longer suppress the anger and doubt in his heart.
He suddenly raised his head and looked at the group of evil contract subordinates with a ferocious light in his eyes, obviously thinking that there was a leaker among these people.
"There is no point in looking for the leaker now...According to the news from Kurast, our army is still at least one day away from Lu Gaoyin. We must now find a way to make use of this day.
...
Now that our original plan has been leaked, we can't just hang ourselves on this tree... But at least we can't stay here. Since they can find out the plan about the potion, it's probably a matter of time before they find out here.
, so our top priority now is to transfer as soon as possible and come up with a suitable replacement plan..."
Randall was silent for a moment, suddenly stopped in his hands, and spoke to Mist about his face hidden in the shadow of the hood.
"You're right, we need to get out of here quickly!"
Mist also nodded, glanced at the Evil Contractors behind him, and then led the way with a gloomy face, quickly leading everyone out of the underground fortress.
But what they didn't know was that Zagara only asked Krisa to reveal the Devil's Bottle to Kane, and did not tell him the information about this underground fortress, because in the swarm's tactical thinking, this underground fortress
In fact, it is not that important. Those human traitors may abandon this immovable building and move away at any time.
An empty underground fortress has no significance for the upcoming war, and the high-ranking commanders of the swarm will not consider the political significance of this underground fortress.
As a result, this giant underground building complex, funded by the Ezekiel family and taking decades to finally be completed, was located hundreds of meters underground and even under the Lugaoin sewer.
The first owner abandoned it without hesitation.
.......
While the guardians of Lu Gaoyin were engaged in a sabotage and anti-sabotage struggle with the evil covenanters in the city, Xue Hua was standing in Tarasha's ancient tomb, staring blankly at the strange scene in front of him.
Behind him, the stone door, which was as simple as two large flat stones, had been pushed open, and the light from Horadric's staff penetrated directly into the dark space behind the stone door.
The two small silver-white squares were suspended on both sides of Xue Hua's shoulders, one on the left and the other on the right. They emitted bright silver-white light, like two strange, quietly suspended light balls.
Xue Hua had already entered the dark space behind the stone door, and through the light emitted by the silver-white square on his shoulder, he saw the general appearance of the dark space behind the stone door.
It was precisely because he saw what this place looked like that he felt dumbfounded.
What appeared in front of him was neither the majestic and glorious huge sealed hall full of wrinkles of divine runes, nor the ravine below filled with flames that was seen in the game's CG animation, and the island of stone pillars connected to the shore by a suspension bridge.
What appeared in front of him was just a very ordinary cave that couldn't even be called that big.
In the center of the cave, there is a stone pillar as thick as two people can hug it.
There are a large number of runes carved on the stone pillar, and dozens of huge chains as thick as an adult's arm are broken and scattered on both sides of the stone pillar.
Behind the stone pillar, a large stone box tied with countless rune chains was sitting there quietly, just like the devil's treasure that appeared after the last level of some ancient side-scrolling game.
"What... does this mean? Well... um... shouldn't some demon king or god appear to block the way?"
Xue Hua blinked, unable to believe that he had simply arrived at the final destination of his trip.
"Young man, what do you want?"
Suddenly, a voice rang directly in his ear, and Xue Hua, who was in a daze, was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground.
"Damn it! There really is someone blocking the road! Where is the monster! Tell me your name quickly!"
He jumped back suddenly, pulled out the staff from the inventory, and waved it around with a vigilant look on his face, while also summoning the swarm of insects to his side.
"...What a nice summon...Ha! Don't be so nervous, I'm not a monster...I'm the master of this place. Didn't you come here just to see me?"
There was an indescribable sense of relief in that voice, as if he had just broken free from some restraint.
"Are you...the master here? Are you Tal Rasha?!"
As soon as Xue Hua heard this, the ghostly look on his face suddenly became more intense. Not only did he not relax his vigilance as the voice expected, but he also grabbed a gold-level antiseptic head with his other hand...
...
"..." Xue Hua's reaction made the voice very helpless. He knew that if he only existed as a voice, it would be difficult to win people's trust, so he turned into a light blue streak.
Light and shadow revealed his true form in front of Xue Hua.
It was a middle-aged man wearing a three-color robe. He had a shiny beard and a pair of impressive eyes that were as bright as morning stars.
His face was thin, energetic, and there was a helpless smile hanging on the corner of his mouth.
Xue Hua had seen portraits like this in many places, and there was always only one name underneath these portraits.
——Ta Rasha.
"Even if you look like Tarasha, I still won't believe that you are really him..."
Xue Hua rolled his eyes and complained ungratefully.
It's not surprising that he was like this, because according to various records in this world, Tarasha's soul had already been destroyed when Diavolo liberated his brother Baal.
Baal directly took over the body of this great legendary mage and used the powerful energy remaining in his body to cause countless troubles to mankind.
"...But I really am...Okay, then how do you believe that I am Tarasha?"
Guangying rolled his eyes helplessly once again. This was the first time that his identity was questioned in person...
"...Um...that's right! Do you recognize this thing?"
Xue Hua frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered something in the inventory, and then his eyes lit up.
That thing should be an item that Tarasha once used, but was later destroyed by Baal during the battle with Baal.
Only the real Tarasha should know the function of this thing.
So, Xue Hua quickly took out a small hourglass from the inventory, spread it out in his hand and handed it to the guy in front of him who called himself Tarasha.
"Ah... the coffin of time... I didn't expect that I could see it again..."
As soon as Guangying saw the thing in Xue Hua's hand, a look of memory immediately appeared on his face. He stretched out his hand to touch the broken hourglass, but suddenly remembered that he was just a ray of residual soul now and could not touch anything at all.
So he withdrew his hand with a look of regret on his face.
"It was the secret to my success...and now it's ended like this...
Although I don't know why this old fellow is in your hands, it seems..." He turned his head and glanced at the swarm of insects beside Xue Hua, and then a smile appeared on his face.
"It seems that you are not inferior to me back then... But I'm afraid it can't help you now like it helped me back then, but please treat it well, okay?"
"Uh...ah? Oh! Okay...ok..."
This time Xue Hua really didn't know what to say.
Is this a history error?
Or does Tarasha have any special secret method for preserving souls?