In the Underdark, a vague figure walked through the eternal darkness.
Hardy, this is his name. He is a jackal, and his identity is Blue Dragon—a low-level officer under the command of Williams Hassalak Isaac. His task is to maintain the law and order of the underground town—Muyu Town. .
The sheriff of the small town is his ostensible identity, but in the dark, Hardy is also a spy, a spy affiliated to the Red Dragon—Francisco Trinidad Jose.
Yesterday, he received a signal from his companion, agreeing to meet at a secret meeting point in the wild.
Hardy chose his walking route carefully with the help of the dim light, and was especially wary of those lush plants, which might hide deadly ambushes, and he would never approach them if he could avoid them.
In the Underdark, many creatures do not rely solely on sight to capture information, which greatly weakens the role of thieves, but it is also better than other professions, at least they can avoid sight.
All the way close to the secret assembly point, this is a crack in the rock wall, the crack is very narrow, only enough for one person to pass through.
Not far from the entrance, he didn't go directly into the crack, but picked up the pointed stone on the ground and tapped it three times on the stone wall.
Dangdang, dang~.
The first two sounds are connected together, while the third sound is separated by a short period of time.
Dang, Dangdang~.
It wasn't long before Hardy got a response, and he got into the breach.
Passing through a very narrow entrance about five meters long, the eyes are wide and open. This is a cave of thirty to forty square meters.
The cave was full of hooded jackals and kobolds, about twenty or thirty of them. There were two masked companions with arrows on bowstrings at the entrance. These two companions lowered the arrows to the ground.
Just now, if he came in directly, these arrows would have to pierce through his body.
Hardy directly ignored the two bow-wielding companions, but he was still a little surprised by the number of people in the cave. In the past, spies would enter in three or five together, but this time so many came at once.
Looks like there's going to be a big move up there.
Thinking of this, Hardy put the index finger and middle finger of his right hand together, put the fingertips on his heart, and said in a deep voice: "The crimson wings protect you and me."
"The fire in my heart will never go out," a masked jackal stood up, his voice hoarse: "Number one."
"Number three."
At this point, the self-introduction was finished, and the hand of the jackal holding the bow and arrow relaxed the bowstring.
From the code exchange just now, Hardy learned that the opponent's troop number is [Heart of Fire], and the number one of each troop is the captain of this troop.
For the sake of secrecy, the spies who infiltrated the Underdark region are called by their code names. For example, the number one of [Heart of Fire] is called the number one of the fire, and so on, number two, number three...
The hood is also for secrecy, in case a spy is caught, implicating a large number of people.
"Bloodwing No. 3, please introduce the situation."
Hardy didn't talk nonsense, took out a parchment scroll from his arms, and handed it to Agni One.
Agni No. 1 took it and looked at it. There were a lot of disjoint circles drawn on the parchment. There were lines connecting the circles. The circles were big or small, and there were more or less connecting lines. The largest one had twelve or thirteen lines. , there is only one at least.
"This is the distribution map of the dark regions that we have already found out. The circles represent the dark regions, the lines represent the connecting passages, and the small circles inside the big circles represent the settlements. In addition, the stars, moons and other symbols in the circles represent different real worlds. Dragon power."
"These markings are not necessarily correct, and there are often fights between real dragons..."
Agni-1 glanced at the map and saw numbers marked in each circle on the map, a total of fifty-eight numbers, which means that the number of dark regions discovered so far is fifty-eight, and there are thirteen kinds of marks. Represents thirteen different true dragons.
He was not surprised by this, because everyone knew about it before coming here, but the information he saw in Moduo Peak Forest was half a year ago. The reason why the senior spy introduced the information was to obtain information about the latest incident .
Agni No. 1 finished reading and handed over the map to the next one.
"You should all be familiar with these things. Next, I will talk about what happened recently. The most recent and most influential thing is that the black blood tyrant stepped into the legend and launched a war against the blue fang."
"If you want to infiltrate these two sides, this is a good opportunity. The triangle on the map represents the black blood tyrant, and the three lightning symbols are the blue teeth. I don't need to say more about how to infiltrate."
Everyone nodded, nothing more than pretending to be a traitor to take refuge in one side, or pretending to be a captured prisoner of war.
Generally speaking, for the captured prisoners of war, the real dragon mainly focuses on subduing them. After all, no dragon would think that there are too many people under his command.
The five-color true dragon doesn't pay much attention to its subordinates, they all focus on their own strength. As for the monster's subordinates, they are the servants who wave the flag and the spare rations, and they can catch them again if they run out.
Ordinary monsters only worship the power of the five-color true dragon, and they don't have much sense of belonging to the five-color true dragon itself, let alone loyalty.
Of course, Jose is an exception.
After a pause, Blood Wing No. 3 continued: "As for things after sneaking in, if you want to quickly improve your status, you can go to the battlefield to fight, and if you want to spy on the news safely, you can find a small town to garrison like me. Much safer."
"However, most of the time, we can't decide what to do, so we can only wish you good luck."
Agni No. 1 nodded, paused and said, "Let's talk about the situation of mutant creatures. There are very few records about this situation in Moduo Peak Forest."
Mutated creatures are undoubtedly the topic of most concern to everyone, and the gnolls in the cave immediately pricked up their ears.
"As for mutant creatures, I don't know much more than you. I only know that they are polluted by horrible black magic. It is a problem left over from the period of the red nest mistress. It is very dangerous, very dangerous."
Blood Wing No. 3 lowered his head to organize his words, then raised his head and continued: "Their danger is not only reflected in their extraordinary combat power, but also the madness of lack of sanity, and contagion."
"It's best to use long-range attacks to deal with them, and then incinerate their bodies. The real dragons in the ground have reached a consensus on this point."
"However, you don't have to worry too much about the mutated creatures. Most of the mutated creatures in the real dragon's territory have been eliminated, and there are only a very small number of fish that escaped the net. As long as you don't die and step into the dangerous place, there will be no major problems."
"Compared to mutated creatures, the battle between real dragons is more dangerous. Nearly 80% of our sacrifice partners died in the war."
"By the way, I forgot to mention that dark elves appeared in the army under the command of the Black Blood Tyrant."
"Dark Elf?!" Agni One was a little surprised.
The dark elves, also called drow elves, are quite representative aborigines of the Underdark region. This race believes in the god of the evil camp, the spider queen—Rose.
Because Rose prefers female priests, this leads to the prosperity of yin and yang in the dark elf society. Those in power are all female elves, which can be said to be a matrilineal society.
The drow are representatives of the evil camp and are very dangerous. The spider queen priest, the spider elf, and the drow scimitar ranger are also well-known dangerous characters on the surface.
In places like the Underdark, these aborigines are even more dangerous.
"what happened?"
Blood Wing No. 3 shrugged: "I don't know, I just heard about it by chance, and I still have to rely on you to find out the news."
"Well, the situation in this Underdark Region is more complicated than we imagined."
After exchanging some tips for surviving in the Underdark, Hardy left, leaving only the [Heart of Fire] troops in the base.
After deliberation, everyone determined their respective directions and the way to contact them in the future.
"For the glory of the true dragon!" xN
After chanting slogans, the crowd dispersed and followed their planned paths, gradually drifting away, blending into the eternal darkness of the Underdark region.
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Three years later.
Mordo Peak Forest, Molten Heart.
Jose lay on the golden mountain, frowning and thinking, feeling a little headache.
After three years of vigorous penetration and investigation, new news came back every six months, and the situation in the Red Nest Crypt became clearer and clearer.
Jose divided it into three parts: the true dragon forces remaining in the Red Nest, the native forces in the dark region, and the mutated creature forces.
The relationship among them is simply a mess!
First let’s talk about the remaining true dragon forces in the Red Nest. Headed by the four legendary true dragons, the remaining true dragons in the Red Nest are fighting endlessly in the Underdark. They are the Red Dragon-Wing of Havoc, the Blue Dragon-Blue Fang, and the Green Dragon. - Poison Emerald, Black Dragon - Black Blood Tyrant.
It is worth mentioning that the black dragon - the black blood tyrant, has a name that Jose is very familiar with - O'Neal!
Each of the four legendary true dragons has three or four adult dragon younger brothers, and there is not a few days in a year when they do not fight.
However, true dragons seldom end in person. Most of the time, their subordinates go to war to fight for the dominance of the Underdark region, and to fight for more slaves and territories for their respective forces.
The ruling structure of the true dragon forces in the Underdark is as follows: five-color true dragons are at the top of the food chain, below them are the main combat arms such as ogres, lizardmen, and wolfmen, and at the bottom are the slaves of producers. Representative, one is the mining kobolds, but the main producers of food - cavemen.
Let’s talk about the indigenous forces in the Underdark. So far, two drow cities and one gray dwarf city have been discovered. The gray dwarf city remained neutral in the battle with the real dragon, and the two drow cities have already stood in line with the green dragon—the poisonous emerald. , Black Dragon - black blood tyrant alliance.
The mutated biological force is the common enemy of all forces.
In addition, Jose prefers to call them pollution rather than mutation.
Thinking of the biological samples captured at a great price, Jose felt his scalp tingling and shivering.
It was a polluted snake. This snake was festering all over, and there were abscesses on the flesh and blood that had fallen off the snake's skin. It exuded a crimson evil and corrupt aura.
This snake has the characteristics of both undead and abyssal creatures. It festers and exposes bones without dying. The evil energy released is extremely polluting and aggressive. It ignores the red dragon's dragon power and attacks. This makes Jose conclude that polluting creatures have no fear. mood.
In addition, according to intelligence, polluting creatures will submit to more powerful polluting creatures to form a forbidden and fearless army.
There is such an army of polluting creatures in the Red Nest Crypt. The members of the army are beasts from the Underdark, monsters such as corrupted gnolls, corrupted ogres, and even drakes and dragons.
And the identity of the leader of these polluted creatures surprised Jose even more, it was a real dragon.
It's not a five-color dragon, but a metal dragon, a golden dragon.
Jose found out the name of this golden dragon—Glorious Scale, which was once the enemy of the Mistress of the Red Nest, and then lost contact for no reason. Before he disappeared, he was legendary.
In other words, the Mistress of the Red Nest successfully polluted a legendary golden dragon, which meant that all creatures in Tidanor, except for a few demigods, could be polluted.
"Death! It's really a death! No wonder the whole world is united to attack the Red Nest!" Jose felt a little scared.
If the contents of the Red Nest Crypt were to be released, it would definitely be a world-destroying disaster. With the help of the Red Nest forces, it would be even more desperate than the undead natural disasters and the abyss invasion.
The mistress of the Red Nest was targeted by the whole world, and the gods surrendered in person, no injustice.
After thinking about it, Jose felt a little complicated. It seemed that due to his own reasons, there was a gap in the formation of the coalition forces, and the Red Nest Mistress ran away.
It's missing now, but it shouldn't be dead.
In order to determine the whereabouts of the Mistress of the Red Nest, Jose also inquired in many ways. Through the channels of the Dragon Worship and Golden Dragon friends, he got the news: 99.9% of the Mistress of the Red Nest has left Taidanuoer.
The reason given by Jinlong is that the mistress of the red nest was injured by divine power, and it is not easy to recover from her injuries. She will be hunted down in Tidanol, and leaving is the best choice.
The Dragon Worship also gave the same point of view. If the Red Nest Mistress is still in Taidanuoer, it is impossible for the legendary five-color dragon under her command to have no news at all.
Jose breathed a sigh of relief.
It is easy for a demigod to leave Tidanor, but it is a bit difficult to come in, because he will be repelled and sensed by the strong at the same level.
The material planes of the multiverse are divided into five levels: super-large planes, large-scale planes, medium-sized planes, small-scale planes, and sub-planes.
Tedanol belongs to the medium-sized plane, and the limit of the powerhouse it can accommodate is demigods, and there is an upper limit for it, the upper limit is five.
The reason for this is like a cup and water, the plane is the cup, the demigod is water, the demigod is too strong, the medium-sized container of Tidanol can't hold too much, and it will collapse if it exceeds the limit.
If any demigod causes the plane to collapse, no matter whether it is justice, evil, or neutral gods, they will not spare him.
Every material plane is a precious source of belief, and the act of destroying a plane is like smashing the rice bowls of the gods, and it is a slow, non-renewable rice bowl.
Therefore, Jose is not worried about the Red Nest Mistress coming back to continue her death journey. What he is considering now is whether to intervene in the Red Nest Crypt.
"Before you have the legendary strength, it is a little bit reluctant to intervene in the Red Nest Crypt."
On Jinshan, an isolated island surrounded by lava lakes, the red dragon muttered to himself: "Wait a little longer."
(end of this chapter)