Some people suggested that these larvae might be enemies who had not yet "grown up". So, in the first half an hour, Haramond and the others used fire and swords to destroy all the larvae they encountered along the way, but this work was quite laborious. And there is no end.

There were larvae everywhere, and when the larvae were hit, the pungent pus ejected from their bodies would damage the edge of the weapon. If it splashed on the surface of the armor, it would also leave corrosion and scorch marks. In the end, they decided to ignore it and completely ignored it. Something that hisses.

All kinds of doubts and confusions came to an end until they found the first tree in this thorny meadow.

It is called a "tree" because this thing is taller than the abyss thorns in the meadow. It also has an obvious "trunk" structure: it seems to be made of completely calcified bones. Stand out from the crowd.

Its shape is like a mushroom with a wide umbrella: a dome with a diameter of fifty meters is mounted on a pillar that is ten meters thick. The hemispherical dome has a complicated structure and is surrounded by countless bone-white sharp thorns. Each thorn is two or three meters long. There are several similar giant trees scattered in this meadow that is constantly "squeaking" in the wind.

Less than a quarter of an hour after discovering the first tree, they encountered the devil for the first time. There were three warnings for the enemy's appearance: all the larvae around them suddenly stopped neighing; the upright stems began to tremble like an electric shock; and then the weird The "tick-tick-tick" sound quickly approached and reached human ears.

When the battle broke out, Haramond and others could barely see the appearance of the enemy. They swarmed from the meadow with sharp shouts and knocking sounds, and their swift figures seemed like virtual images.

However, the chaotic and unprovoked battle only lasted for a while and ended. It was filled with deafening gunshots, sharp shouts and heavy impacts. The enemy disappeared immediately, coming and going without a trace. The grassland calmed down, and the larvae resumed their sucking and hissing sounds. .

There are many demon corpses on the ground, some of which have been smashed and broken. Those limbs, or stumps, are long, slender, and hard. The main part about one meter long is a slightly curved blade, which is obviously the demon's. Natural weapons.

Its tip is astonishingly sharp; it is very narrow, similar to the width of an adult's wrist; the end of the slender blade is a thicker joint, which is connected to another stronger limb. This part is also covered with mottled gray metal, but It had been cut off by the Elavilla warriors. The cross-section at the break showed the arthropod chitin carapace wrapped in surface metal, as well as the pink, slippery flesh inside.

Now, they are all rotting at an alarming rate, and some have even turned into a pool of foam that constantly exudes a foul smell. This situation is typical of what happens to tanar'ri demons after they die in the material plane. .

In addition to these gains, Haramond also saw the corpses of two companions lying on the rust-red sand together with scattered white stalks. The mechanical armors were torn apart by sharp blades, and blood gurgled out of them. The rest There was no time to bury the Cyborg warriors who died in the battle, so they could only let them stay where they were.

Only Haramond noticed that when the liquid remains of the demon corpse and the blood flowing from the human corpse penetrated into the rust-red sandy ground, the towering calcified "trunk" of the "giant tree" seemed to have It was wrapped with some blood-red silk thread.

"This is……"

Haramond immediately reminded the Elavilla warriors. And soon, they made some new discoveries: after the giant tree "absorbed" nutrients, it actually began to spray spores outward. The latter began to

Its umbrella-like crown fell down and hung on the abyssal thorns in the meadow with the wind, and those spores would soon turn into the larvae they had seen before. Then, Haramund and a few warriors walked to the giant tree

Next to it, some broken clothes were found at the bottom of the trunk. Judging from their shape and color, they should be those worn by the guards of Esalem.

"……I see!"

Seeing this scene, Haramond suddenly understood something. He probably guessed why when they walked around these giant trees, they were suddenly attacked by a group of demons.

"It is very possible that this giant tree is a breeding mechanism used by demons in the material plane in order to replace the hotbed of flesh and blood."

"The 'raw materials' that make up the Tanar'ri demons are the souls of various mortals. Most of these giant trees are also constructed from the souls of humans who died here in vain."

"It can continuously absorb the souls of surrounding creatures, and then spread them out in the form of spores, allowing them to attach to the thorns of the abyss, absorb the juice, and grow rapidly."

"And those demons can also obtain sufficient troop replenishment in the material plane through this method. Therefore, it is not surprising that there are demons guarding these giant trees - but such an important troop replenishment

Oh, are there only so few guarding demons around?"

"Either the demons have some tricks up their sleeves; or they have a reason to deploy a large number of troops, which is why there is a shortage of guards around the troop replenishment point."

Thinking of this, Haramund immediately gave advice to the captain of the Elavilla Legion's Cyborg Squad, and he gave two suggestions.

"First, we can follow the direction in which these giant trees grow. The smaller the giant trees, the more likely they are to be the replenishment point for newly constructed demonic soldiers. If we go in this direction, we will probably be able to get out of this bottomless land.

The only way the abyss affects the land."

"Second, we can also move in the direction of the giant trees that grew first. That place will definitely be closer to the gate to the other world where the demons poured out. Once we get there, we might be able to find out why they came to the material plane.

The devil has a strange reason."

Haramond's point of view was well-founded, and after listening to it, everyone in the Ellawela team was more convinced. However, they did not choose the more reliable first suggestion, but preferred to go to the tiger mountain knowing that there are tigers in the mountain.

I want to go to the gate to another world to find out what's going on.

"Fighting is the fate of the Elavilla Legion," the captain of the team explained. "Even after we leave this land, we still have to rearrange our positions to resist the abyss demon army. Rather than that, it is better to go deep into it.

Try to close the door to other worlds and turn passivity into initiative."

With this tone set, Haramund said nothing more - anyway, even if the Elavilla Cyborg team moves out, he will advance into the "Abyss Occupied Area" alone - Asa

That guy Si is still waiting to be hunted by him.

As for the lost companions, old Weiser needless to say, they will definitely move in the direction of Assass. The old servant of the Green family has shouldered the mission assigned by the family master; the gunslinger Hugh Hood and the dwarf Ge

Through these days of observation, Lindo and Haramund understood that both of them were afraid of not having enough excitement, and now they might soon be fighting against that Yasas.

"I have to hurry up." Thinking of this, Haramond quickly took off his enchanted kettle and drank the remaining special alchemy potion in one gulp. Under his clothes, which could not be seen by the people around him, his body

Changes are taking place rapidly.

Especially in the calves and feet, several finger-sized holes soon appeared on them. Every time Haramond stepped forward and landed, some gas would be ejected from these holes, causing his

The steps are lighter and quicker.

In this way, he was not only able to completely follow those Elavilla modified people whose bodies had been mechanically modified and added many auxiliary mechanical prostheses, but he even seemed to be somewhat able to do so with ease. It's just that those people were so eager to travel that they didn't realize this.

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The only person who really watched and saw the transformation of Haramond was the "young gunslinger Hugh Hood" who was hidden in the dense thorn bushes of the abyss. This human transformed from a dragon watched Haramond with great interest.

Mond could not help but nodded after all the changes.

"He is indeed a scholar who has researched, dismantled and optimized the knowledge of the 'Emperor'," Quess secretly admired. "The ones that play a role in those alchemical potions are actually robots that are as tiny as nanometers - that is,

It is an ultra-miniature construct. Once this technology is realized, it is certain that the modron clan will not continue to close the door of the Leo Bell Tower to the material world..."

Open the way to the Leo Clock Tower in the Mechanical Realm!

This is the big thing that Ques has been pursuing during this time.

Otherwise, he, the president of the Eternal Order Scale Chamber of Commerce, the first and only quantum dragon in the multiverse, would not personally use his avatar to play games in the world no matter how much free time he had.

Through the active choice of Bator's will, although he, the seventh lord, has not been canonized by Asti Mors, he still has no less authority.

In contrast, under the guidance of Baator's will, in many material planes controlled by Ques's Eternal Scale Chamber of Commerce, some mortals have also fallen into Baatezu during this period - and this is just

It's a start!

If he waits for the title of "Seventh Lord" to be implemented, Ques estimates that Ashes, Ramsay, and the Island, the three material worlds most closely entangled with him, may soon drift toward the Nine Hells of Baator and be captured by them.

, completely integrated into Bato.

Just as he doesn't want to seek to become a god, Quess doesn't want his future to always be influenced by Baator's will.

Living in the Nine Hells of Baator, a plane where mercy is withered, resentment is strong, and the nature of evil is explained by the rules of order. If you are not careful, you will be plotted by several other devil lords. Moreover, Ques dares to guarantee that as long as

He is completely bound to Baator's will, and it won't take long for Asty Mors, the Lord of the Nine Hells, to weave a web of conspiracy for him that is impossible to escape.

Free will?

Independent spirit?

Sorry, these two things don't exist in the Nine Hells of Baator. It's really a done deal, and Ques is really going to stop the sky and the earth from working. Unless he can overturn the Baatol Devil and complete the task.

There are great feats that the abyss has not accomplished.

And when you think about it, you know it's impossible.

Therefore, what Quess has been busy with during this period is "self-rescue": magic divination, psychic retrieval, watching quantum fluctuations, he tried every means, and finally found a way to avoid being completely kidnapped by Bato.

determined way.

The premise is that he must be able to enter the mechanical realm and enter the Leo Clock Tower, the hometown of constructs such as modrons.

However, more than 7,000 years ago, when the previous generation of Singularity Lord was "sprayed" to death by Orcus, who used all means (regardless of the cost) to seek resurrection, the Leo Bell Tower was completely closed to the outside world.

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Only a few multi-modrons like "Emperors", who are responsible for resurrecting the Singularity Lord, will be exiled to various parts of the multiverse, and they all bear the name of "Wandering Modrons" as exiles.

.The purpose is to deceive others.

It is a pity that most of these modrons did not achieve any actual success in the end. Some of them were even incompatible with the Exiled Land because of their extremely lawful nature, so they soon malfunctioned and fell into

dormant, or even die.

The "Emperor" has actually researched something.

However, after living in the Ramsey plane for many years, he also deviated from the orderly alignment and became a deviant wandering modron.

As a result, that "emperor" not only had no idea of ​​resurrecting the Singularity Lord, but also had the idea that I could replace him.

After defeating the "Emperor", Quess took over his laboratory and received all the information inside. Only then did he learn the details of the "Emperor" and what the modron clan could not avoid.

Secret.

However, at that time, he had no idea of ​​going to the Mechanical Realm, so some of the research on "Emperor" was adopted and promoted more from a pragmatic perspective. Within the Scale of Eternal Order Chamber of Commerce, in the Ramsay plane, they also

"Emperor" is listed as a taboo word to minimize its historical existence.

It is precisely because of this that to this day, the “Emperor”’s research results in the microscopic field are still quite unfamiliar to many Ramsay scholars. Currently, only the Ai

The founder of the Ravila Legion, Duke Esther of the Taput Kingdom, and Haramond, a scholar who was also deprived of the title of "Harad" because of his research on this doctrine.

With no other choice, Ques could only secretly add fuel to the flames and use the Soft Maple Expedition to bring Haramond to Tapt Island.

He already knew that Duke Esther was planning to hold a ceremony to communicate with the Mechanical Realm clan in order to seek the development of his country, so that he could obtain more advanced technologies related to mechanical transformation. However, the ceremony Esther held was for

The Mechanical Realm, rather than the specific modron clan living in the Leo Clock Tower. Moreover, Quess did not dare to guarantee that the former’s research results would be able to burrow into the modron. That’s why he prepared Haramond.

Backhand.

The research result of this young student - the kind of "alchemy potion" invented by Haramund, but actually a "black technology" of ultra-micro machine constructs - was left behind by Ques in "Emperor"

After reading it on his notebook, he believed that this technology had a high probability of resurrecting the Singularity King. However, because the "Emperor" did not want the Singularity to be resurrected, he had never conducted in-depth research in this direction to produce any actual results.
Chapter completed!