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Deep within the cavern.
In a low-lying basin, a clumsy y golem was diligently working.
The crisp sound of an iron pickaxe striking the rock wall echoed continuously.
y golems also pushed mine carts filled with ore, rattling along the mine tracks towards the outside.
Over the past two months, this mine had contributed nearly fifteen thousand gold coins in profits to Su Nan, already offsetting the cost of killing the Hundred-Armed Monster and leaving a surplus.
Even more joyful for Su Nan was the fact that the ore vein was far richer than expected.
Su Nan estimated that the ore vein would continue to provide him with a profit of at least eighty thousand gold coins before it waspletely exhausted.
That was equivalent to three or four years of potion sales!If the mine space wasn’t limited and couldn’t amodate too many y golems, he would have wanted to divert more y golems to mining.
After touring the mine and finding no issues, Su Nan went straight to the guard point.
The so-called guard point was the former dwelling of the Hundred-Armed Monster.
It had been cleaned up, and five iron golems stood guard here, motionless like statues.
The magic rm was also still intact.
Su Nan arrived at the entrance to the underworld and walked in without stopping.
It had been almost three months, and he felt it was time to investigate the city-state’s situation.
Now, he had the powerful Magic Emblem Core as a trump card, and he carried twenty higher-grade rune gems.
In addition, the ie from mining over the past few months had mostly been used by him to refine golems.
The Magic Cube now contained two iron golems, eight elite stone golems, and one hundred stone golems.
With so many cards in his hand, Su Nan was confident.
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Even if he encountered danger in the underground city-state, he had the means to escape if he couldn’t win.
Reaching the downward-turning entrance, Su Nan cast a levitation spell on himself, then applied a lightness spell and a stealth spell.
Thetter two were his newly mastered fifth and sixth second-ring spells.
They were specifically prepared for this investigation.
As the spells took effect, Su Nan’s form instantly vanished, disappearing into the air.
His body also became lighter.
He jumped and floated effortlessly down into the passage.
Not long after, Su Nan emerged from the stctites, and the bizarre ind-heart city-state once again appeared before him.
Activating the Extreme Protection Ring on his hand, he also cast a shield spell and an energy particle protectionyer on himself before slowly flying forward.
Theke at the bottom of the cavern was eerily calm, not even a ripple could be seen.
The dim light emitted by the fluorite embedded in the stctites couldn’t reach the bottom of theke, and looking down from above, the entireke looked like a ck curtain, radiating a chillingly lifeless silence.
One couldn’t help but wonder if any creatures survived in thiske.
Su Nan looked around but found no bridges or roads crossing theke.
He couldn’t help but wonder how the people in the city-state left the ind and entered the entrance to the stctites above.
However, before long, Su Nan saw a strange flying creature approaching from the front.
It looked a bit like a hairy manta ray, with a wingspan of over five meters, and two half-human, half-lion creatures sitting on its broad back.
They appeared to be abination of handsome humans and strong lions, with human upper bodies and lion lower bodies.
“Lion-Faced Men!”
Su Nan’s eyes narrowed, recognizing the origin of the two creatures.
Lion-Faced Men are very cunning and evil creatures.
They possess strong bodies and refinedbat skills, making them natural warriors.
Some Lion-Faced Men even have innate quasi-magic abilities, such as various illusions, invisibility, etc.
Lion-Faced Men who have mastered these quasi-magic abilities are dreaded assassins in the underworld.
In addition, Lion-Faced Men often have high intelligence and can speak manynguages.
Adult Lion-Faced Men possess near-knight-level strength, enough to easily take on four or five probationary knights in a one-on-one fight.
If they are elite warriors or nobles among Lion-Faced Men, they can even reach the level of Great Knights or even Legendary Knights.
“Looks like that’s the mode of transportation for the residents of this city-state.”
Su Nan watched as the manta-ray-like flying creature slowly flew to a stctite with a hole in it, and then the two Lion-Faced Men jumped in one after another.
After the Lion-Faced Men left, the manta-ray flying creature slowlynded on theke surface, floating motionless on the water, looking very leisurely.
Su Nan’s eyes flickered slightly, and he quickly made up his mind. He immediately turned around and rushed into the mouth of that stctite cave.
Behind the entrance was an upward passage, which led to an open cavern.
Unexpectedly, there was an ore vein in the cave.
The uneven rock walls revealed reddish metal in many ces, stretching continuously.
The two Lion-Faced Men were using curved swords to tap and strike the rock wall, not sure if they were exploring or doing something else.
Su Nan fired two weakening rays, and before the two Lion-Faced Men could even react, they copsed to the ground.
When they saw Su Nan appearing out of thin air, they both widened their eyes in shock.
“Human!”
“Who are you?!”
Su Nan didn’t bother talking to them and directly knocked out one of the Lion-Faced Men, then interrogated the other.
“Don’t try to lie. I’ll ask yourpanion the same questionster. If I find out you’ve lied to me, believe me, you’ll regret it.”
Under the effect of the Understanding Language spell, the Lion-Faced Men understood Su Nan’s wordspletely and looked terrified.
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After some torture, the Lion-Faced Man finally couldn’t resist and obediently answered Su Nan’s questions.
After getting the information he wanted, Su Nan knocked out the Lion-Faced Man, then woke the other one up and repeated the interrogation.
He wasn’t being overly cautious. It was simply that Lion-Faced Men were known for their cunning, evil, and dishonesty.
Without some precautions, he might be led into a trap by these two Lion-Faced Men.
Unfortunately, Enchant Humans only worked on humanoid creatures or bipedal creatures simr to humans. It didn’t work on the half-human, half-lion Lion-Faced Men. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been so troublesome.
After getting the information he wanted, Su Nan ruthlessly killed the two Lion-Faced Men.
He burned their bodies to ashes and then fell into contemtion, looking at the scorch marks on the ground.
ording to the two Lion-Faced Men’s answers, the ind in the center of theke was an underground city-state ruled by Lion-Faced Men, with a poption of about four to five thousand.
Of these, Lion-Faced Men only ounted for about two-fifths, while the rest were all kinds of ves.
“A city-state ruled by Lion-Faced Men, this is going to be troublesome.”
Su Nan frowned secretly.
Although most residents of the underworld were inherently evil and had a terrible reputation.
But among them, there were also races such as Fire Dwarves and Gold Dwarves whose natures were not so evil and could bemunicated with.
Su Nan had originally hoped that if he encountered a race that was easy tomunicate with, both sides could sit down and talk, developing a friendly trade rtionship.
But it had to be Lion-Faced Men!
This was not a race that could bemunicated with, not even trusted.
Su Nan dared to guarantee that once the Lion-Faced Men discovered the entrance to the surface, they would inevitably invade the surface to plunder people and resources.
Or perhaps they had already discovered the entrance and were sharpening their knives at this very moment.
In any case, as long as the entrance to the surface still existed, a battle with the Lion-Faced Men was unavoidable.
“I need to warn Big Brother.”
Even Su Nan found the Lion-Faced Men city-state’s guard force to be quite formidable.
After all, it was almost two thousand individuals with near-knight-levelbat power.
And among them, there were also many elite Lion-Faced Men and Lion-Faced Men nobles.
Legendary-levelbat power was probably not umon.
“Let’s infiltrate the city and investigate first.”
Su Nan left the cavern and flew towards the ind.
He safely crossed theke and slowlynded on the edge of the ind.
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Whether swimming from theke or flying from the sky, any creature thatnded on the ind would be observed by guards on the city wall in the distance.
It was precisely because he noticed this that Su Nan had made a point of learning stealth first.
He crossed the shoreline with a swagger and soon arrived near the city.
The towering city wall was estimated to be over twenty meters high, constructed entirely of square and rectangr bluestones. The craftsmanship was surprisingly good, looking thicker and stronger than the city walls of many human towns on the surface.
Su Nan was not surprised at all.
After all, a significant portion of the underworld’s residents were Dwarves.
This included Gray Dwarves, Fire Dwarves, Dilo Dwarves, Shield Dwarves, Gold Dwarves, and so on.
As everyone knows, Dwarves are very skilled in forging and building.
Therefore, the weapons and architecture of the underworld were actually no worse than those on the surface.
Looking around, there were many Lion-Faced Men warriors patrolling the city wall, their upper bodies bare.
There was also a group of Lion-Faced Men with curved swords at each side of the city gate, checking the residents entering the city.
However, what caught Su Nan’s attention was a ck lion lying near the city gate.
It waspletely ck, even its eyeballs were pitch ck, perfectly blending into the shadows. If not for Su Nan’s keen perception, he would have almost overlooked it.
After watching for a long time, Su Nan still couldn’t recognize what creature it was.
He shook his head and didn’t think about it too much. Due to the radiation from the earth veins, all sorts of mutated creatures often appeared in the underworld. Even those with the most extensive knowledge wouldn’t be able to recognize all of them. It was normal to encounter creatures they didn’t know.
He turned to look at the line of people waiting to enter the city.
There were all sorts of creatures, including Lizardfolk, Gnolls, Minotaurs, and even Ogres.
Under the intimidation of the Lion-Faced Men, these bizarre creatures, races vastly different, stood quietly together, lining up to wait to enter the city.
“Good luck.”
Su Nan’s face lit up with joy.
Magical Disguise was simr to Enchant Humans, it could only disguise as humans, humanoid creatures, or other bipedal creatures that looked like humans, not as Lion-Faced Men.
Su Nan had originally nned to try using stealth to sneak into the city, but now that he saw Lizardfolk, a subspecies of humans, things became much simpler.
Just as Su Nan was about to find a ce to disguise himself as a Lizardfolk and return, something unexpected happened at the city gate.
The pitch-ck lion that had been quietly lying by the city gate suddenly stood up, its pitch-ck eyes fixed on a Lizardfolk in the line, then it suddenly opened its mouth and let out a deafening roar.
From a distance of over two hundred meters, the sound entered Su Nan’s ears, and his head suddenly ached, as if someone had hit him hard.
At the same time, the Lizardfolk in the line who was being stared at by the pitch-ck lion groaned and staggered back a few steps.
As soon as the pitch-ck lion stood up, the surrounding Lion-Faced Men noticed something was wrong. When they saw the Lizardfolk staggering, their eyes instantly became extremely sharp.
“That guy is strange!”
“Grab him!”
In a fierce shout, over ten Lion-Faced Men drew their curved swords, roared low, and lunged towards the Lizardfolk.
The line at the city gate instantly became amotion, with a bunch of creatures backing away, highlighting the Lizardfolk.
Seeing that his identity was exposed, the Lizardfolk no longer concealed himself. His form instantly twisted and blurred, turning into a person wearing a long gray robe and a gray mask in the blink of an eye.
In the next second, a huge fireball shot out from his hand, hitting a Lion-Faced Man, who instantly turned into a torch, wailing as he rolled on the ground.
“zing Fireball!”
Su Nan’s eyes narrowed.
This cloaked person was also a Wizard Apprentice!
Whoosh!
Six magic missiles tore through the gloom, sting the heads of four or five Lion-Faced Men into pieces.
After losing severalpanions in an instant, the Lion-Faced Men were not only unafraid, but their ferocity was aroused. They brandished a curved sword in each hand, their four ws pounded the ground, and they roared as they surrounded the cloaked person from all sides.
The cloaked person took out a staff, waved it, and continuously released magic missiles, while his other hand quickly cast spells.
Scorching Ray!
zing Fireball!
The scorching heat immediately spread, and the temperature of the air rose sharply.
Even though the Lion-Faced Men outnumbered them, they were being pushed back by the cloaked person’s magic storm.
However, at that moment, a muscr figure appeared silently from behind the cloaked person.
He swung his two swords in a criss-cross pattern, as if he had gone mad, and shed out seven or eight times in one go, all hitting the cloaked person’s back at almost the same time.
ng, ng, ng!
The dull sound of des striking leather echoed one after another.
The invisible shield behind the cloaked person was shattered almost instantly. The powerful sword shadows then charged forward, but they were stopped by an invisible force field a few centimeters away from the cloaked person’s body, unable to prate.
Seizing this opportunity, the cloaked person shed red, abruptly turned around, and kicked the Lion-Faced Man twenty meters away with a powerful kick.
Barbarian Strength!
The surrounding Lion-Faced Men had never imagined that this thin human could burst out with such amazing strength, and they were all taken aback, their attacks momentarily paused.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the cloaked person leaped up, paused slightly in mid-air, then flew off towards the distance.
The Lion-Faced Men who came to their senses immediately gave chase, but they were stopped by theke.
By the time some Lion-Faced Men arrived on manta-ray flying creatures, the cloaked person was long gone.
“Damn it!”
The Lion-Faced Man holding two swords stood up from the ground, his face livid as he cursed, then swung his sword and chopped a cowering Gnoll in half.
In a passage in one of the hollow stctites lining the top of the cave, the cloaked person stopped and looked back.
“Come out.”
Su Nan walked out of the darkness.
He hadn’t concealed his presence at all, so the cloaked person easily spotted him.
“Who are you? Why are you following me?” the cloaked person said coldly.
The voice beneath the mask was a neutral voice.
Su Nan smiled slightly.
“Long time no see, Rose.”