104.Chapter 104 The Lion with a Human Face
Chapter 104 Lion with a Human Face
Deep in the cave.
In the low basin, the honest clay golem is working diligently.
The crisp sound of the pickaxe hitting the rock wall is endless..
There are also clay golems pushing mine carts filled with ore, clanking clang clang clang clang clang clanging outside.
After more than two months, this mining area has contributed nearly 15,000 gold coins in profit to Sunan, which has wiped out the cost of killing the hundred-armed monster and there is still more..
What makes Sunan even more delighted is that the reserves of the mineral vein are far richer than expected..
Sunan estimated that if the veins were completely mined until they were exhausted, they would at least be able to provide him with a profit of more than 80,000 gold coins..
This is equivalent to three or four years of profit from selling pharmaceuticals.！
After walking around the mining area and finding nothing, Sunan went straight to the warning point..
The so-called warning point is the former residence of the Hundred-Armed Monster..
This place has been cleaned up, and the five steel golems are guarding here loyally, motionless like statues..
The magic alarm is also still intact.
Su Nan came to the entrance of the underground world and walked in without stopping..
After almost three months of delay, he felt it was time to investigate the situation in the city-state..
Now he has the powerful trump card of magic pattern core, and he also carries twenty high-level rune gems..
In addition, the income from mining in the past few months has been basically used by him to refine the golem..
There are now two steel golems, eight elite stone golems and one hundred stone golems in the Rubik's Cube..
With so many trump cards in hand, Sunan is full of confidence.
Even if you encounter danger in the underground city-state, you can still escape if you can't defeat it..
Arriving at the entrance that turned downwards, Sunan applied the levitating technique to himself, and then added the lightness technique and the invisibility technique respectively..
The latter two are the fifth and sixth second-level spells he has recently mastered..
Specially prepared for this exploration.
As the spell took effect, Sunan's figure instantly disappeared and disappeared into the air..
The body also becomes lighter.
He jumped up and fell into the passage lightly..
Not long after, Sunan came out of the stalactite, and the strange city-state in the center of the island appeared in front of him again..
After activating the Ring of Ultimate Protection in his hand and applying a shield and energy particle protection layer to himself, Sunan slowly flew forward..
The lake at the bottom of the cave is eerily calm, with not even a few ripples visible..
The dim light emitted by the fluorite inlaid on the stalactites cannot illuminate the bottom of the lake at all. Looking down from a high altitude, the entire lake is like a dark curtain, revealing a hair-raising silence..
People can't help but wonder if there are any living things living in this lake.？
Sunan looked around and found no bridges or roads across the lake..
He couldn't help but secretly wonder how the people in the city-state could leave the island and enter the entrance to the stalactites above.？
However, not long after, Sunan saw a strange bird flying in front of him..
It looks a bit like a hairy manta ray, with a wingspan of more than five meters. Sitting on its broad back are two half-human, half-lion creatures..
They look like a fusion of a handsome human and a strong lion, with the upper body in human shape and the lower body in the shape of a lion..
“Sphinx！”
Su Nan's eyes narrowed and he recognized the origin of the two creatures..
The man-faced lion is a very cunning and evil creature.
They have strong bodies and superb fighting skills, making them natural warriors.
Some human-faced lions even have innate spell-like abilities, such as various illusions, invisibility, etc..
Sphinxes who have mastered such spell-like abilities are feared assassins in the underground world..
In addition, human-faced lions often have high intelligence and can speak many languages..
An adult lion has a strength close to that of a knight, enough to easily defeat four or five trainee knights..
If you are an elite warrior or noble among the human-faced lions, you can even reach the level of a great knight or even a legendary knight..
“It seems that that is the means of transportation for the residents of this city-state..”
Su Nan watched the manta-like bird slowly fly to a stalactite with a hole in it, and then two human-faced lions jumped into it one after another..
After the human-faced lion left, the manta ray slowly landed on the lake and floated on the water motionless, looking leisurely..
Su Nan's eyes flashed slightly, and he quickly made a calculation in his mind. He immediately turned around and came to the entrance of the stalactite cave, and rushed inside..
After the cave entrance is an upward passage, and after passing through it, you will come to the open cave..
Unexpectedly, there is a vein of minerals in the cave.
On the uneven rock wall, red metal is exposed in many places, stretching into a continuous line..
Two human-faced lions were tapping on the rock wall with scimitars. I don’t know if they were exploring or doing something else..
Sunan directly fired two debilitating rays. The two human-faced lions didn't even have time to react and collapsed directly to the ground..
When they saw Sunan appearing out of thin air, they all opened their eyes in horror..
“human！”
“Who are you？！”
Sunan didn't talk nonsense to them. He knocked one of the human-faced lions unconscious and then tortured the other one..
“Don't try to lie. I will ask your companion the same question later. If I find out that you lied to me, believe me, you will regret it..”
Under the effect of the language proficiency spell, the human-faced lion completely understood Sunan's words, with a frightened expression on his face..
After some torture, the human-faced lion finally couldn't stand it anymore and answered Sunan's questions obediently..
After getting the information he wanted, Sunan knocked out the human-faced lion, woke up another one, and repeated the torture just now..
Don't blame him for being so cautious, the Sphinx is actually famous for being cunning, evil and dishonest..
If you don’t have any precautions, you might be led into a pit by these two human-faced lions..
It's a pity that Charming Humans only works on humanoid creatures or bipedal creatures that are similar to humans. It has no effect on half-human and half-lion lions. Otherwise, there would be no need to go to such trouble..
After getting the information he wanted, Sunan killed the two lions without hesitation..
After burning the body to ashes, he looked at the scorch marks on the ground and fell into deep thought..
According to the answers of the two human-faced lions, the island in the center of the lake is an underground city-state ruled by human-faced lions, with a population of about four to five thousand people..
Among them, human-faced lions only account for about two-fifths, and the rest are all kinds of slaves..
“The city-state ruled by the human-faced lion is now in trouble.”
Sunan frowned secretly.
Although most of the residents of the underground world are evil by nature and have a very bad reputation,.
But there are also races such as fire dwarves and gold dwarves who are not so evil in nature and can communicate with each other..
Originally, Sunan thought that if he met a race that was easy to communicate with, the two parties could sit down and have a good chat and develop a friendly trading relationship..
But it’s a lion with a human face！
This is not someone we can communicate with or even trust..
Sunan can guarantee that once the human-faced lion discovers the entrance to the surface, it will definitely invade the surface and plunder the population and resources..
In other words, they have actually discovered the entrance and are currently sharpening their knives..In any case, as long as the entrance to the surface still exists, a battle with the Human-Faced Lion is unavoidable..
“I have to ask my eldest brother to take precautions in advance..”
Even Sunan found it very difficult to defend the city-state of the Human-Faced Lion..
After all, that is almost two thousand warriors close to the knight level..
And among them there are many elite lions and lions nobles.
There are probably not a few people with legendary level combat power..
“Let's sneak into the city and investigate first..”
Sunan left the cave and flew towards the island.
Crossing the lake safely, he slowly landed on the edge of the island.
The entire city-state occupies about four-fifths of the island, and the remaining one-fifth is the unobstructed lakeshore area..
Whether it is swimming from the lake or flying from the sky, any creature will be observed by the guards on the distant city wall the moment it lands on the island..
It was precisely because he noticed this that Sunan gave priority to learning the invisibility technique..
Swaggering through the lakeshore zone, Sunan soon arrived near the city-state.
The towering city wall is estimated to be more than 20 meters high. It is made of square bluestones. The workmanship is surprisingly good. It looks thicker and stronger than the walls of many human towns on the surface..
Su Nan was not surprised at all.
After all, quite a few residents of the underground world are dwarves..
Including gray dwarves, fire dwarves, derro dwarves, shield dwarves, gold dwarves, etc..
Dwarves are known to be very skilled at forging and building.
Therefore, the weapons and buildings in the underground world are actually not inferior to those on the surface.
Looking around, there are many naked upper body lion-faced warriors patrolling the city wall..
There are also a group of human-faced lions holding scimitars on both sides of the city gate, checking the residents entering the city..
But what caught Sunan's attention even more was the black lion entrenched beside the city gate..
Its whole body was pitch black, and even its eyes were completely black, blending perfectly into the shadows. If it weren't for Su Nan's keen perception, he would have almost ignored it..
After looking at it for a long time, Su Nan didn't recognize what kind of creature it was..
Shaking his head, he didn't worry too much. Due to the radiation from the earth's veins, various mutated creatures often appear in the underground world. No matter how well-informed people are, they can't recognize them all. It's normal to encounter unfamiliar creatures..
He turned to look at the team lining up in front of the city gate to enter the city..
There are various creatures inside, including lizardmen, kobolds, tauren and even ogres..
Under the threat of the human-faced lion, these strange monsters and creatures of different races stood quietly together, waiting in long lines to enter the city..
“good luck.”
Sunan looked happy.
Magical disguise is similar to charming a human being. It can only disguise itself as a human, a humanoid, or other bipedal creature that looks like a human. It cannot transform into a human-masked lion..
Sunan originally planned to use invisibility to see if he could sneak into the city. Now that he discovered that there are demihuman creatures like lizardmen, things are much easier..
Just when Sunan was about to find a place to disguise himself as a lizard and come back, the situation at the city gate suddenly changed..
The jet-black lion who had been waiting quietly by the city gate suddenly stood up, staring at a lizard man in the team with his jet-black eyes. Then he suddenly opened his mouth and let out a deafening roar..
When the sound reached Sunan's ears from more than two hundred meters away, his head suddenly hurt, as if someone had hit him hard..
At the same time, the lizard man in the team in front of the city gate who was stared at by the black lion also groaned and staggered back a few steps..
As early as the jet-black lion stood up, the human-faced lions around him noticed something was wrong. At this time, when they saw the lizard man staggering, their eyes suddenly became particularly sharp..
“That guy is weird！”
“catch him！”
Amidst the fierce shouts, more than a dozen human-faced lions drew out their scimitars, let out deep roars, and rushed towards the lizard man..
There was an uproar in the team in front of the city gate, and all the creatures stepped back one after another, highlighting the lizard man..
Seeing that his identity was exposed, the lizard man no longer hid, his figure instantly became distorted and blurred, and in the blink of an eye he transformed into a man wearing a gray robe and a gray mask..
The next second, a huge fireball flew out of his hand and hit a human-faced lion. The latter instantly turned into a torch and fell to the ground with a howl..
“flaming orb！”
Sunan's eyes narrowed.
This man in gray robe is still a wizard apprentice！
call！
Six spell missiles tore through the darkness, blowing the heads of four or five human-faced lions into pieces..
Several companions died tragically in one fell swoop. Not only was the human-faced lion unafraid, but it was aroused with ferocity. It wielded a scimitar in each hand, stamped its four claws on the ground, roared and surrounded the gray-robed man from all directions..
The man in gray robe took out a staff and continuously released spell missiles while waving it. At the same time, he quickly released spells with his other hand..
scorch ray！
flaming orb！
The scorching heat wave spread immediately, and the temperature in the air soared..
It was clear that the human-faced lion was the party with the largest number, but it was defeated steadily by the spell storm of the gray-robed man..
However, at this moment, a majestic figure emerged silently from behind the gray-robed man..
He swung his two swords alternately, as if going crazy, striking out seven or eight times in one breath, landing on the back of the gray-robed man almost at the same time..
tuk tuk tuk！
Muffled sounds like a knife blade striking leather erupted one after another..
The invisible shield behind the gray-robed man was shattered almost instantly. The powerful and heavy knife shadow then drove straight in, but was intercepted by an invisible force field a few centimeters away from the gray-robed man's surface, preventing him from advancing even an inch..
Taking this opportunity, the gray-robed man flashed a red light, turned around suddenly and kicked the human-faced lion more than twenty meters away..
brute force！
The surrounding human-faced lions didn't expect that this thin human being could burst out with such amazing strength. They were all surprised, and their offensive couldn't help but stagnate..
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the man in gray robe suddenly jumped up, paused slightly in mid-air, and then flew away quickly towards the distance..
The human-faced lion came back to his senses and quickly chased after him, but was intercepted by the lake..
By the time the human-faced lion arrived riding on a manta ray, the man in gray robe had long disappeared..
“Damn it！”
The man-faced lion holding two swords stood up from the ground, cursed with a livid face, and slashed the trembling kobold next to him into two pieces with his sword..
In one of the hollow stalactites at the top of the cave, the man in gray robe paused and looked behind him..
“Come out.”
Sunan walked out of the darkness.
He didn't cover his tracks at all, so the man in gray robe found him easily..
“Who are you and why are you following me? "The man in gray robe said coldly..
The voice behind the mask is a neutral voice.
Sunan smiled slightly.
“Long time no see, Qiangwei.”
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