Chapter 673 – Demon!
Green and the others didn't come out, but they were still looking at Zhao Hai through the monitor. Zhao Hai commanded his army to assemble into cube formation as he slowly flew towards Dragon's Peak.
Before long, the group arrived at the summit, however, Zhao Hai still cannot see any dragons. Zhao Hai was met with a completely empty Dragon's Peak. He couldn't help but stare blankly, did the Dragons actually leave?
Since he couldn't see anything else, Zhao Hai immediately turned to look at the monitor to see if he can discover things there. Zhao Hai carefully watched the monitor, the caverns of the Dragons were still there, the things that the Dragons had collected were present as well. The only thing missing in the place were the Dragons themselves.
Zhao Hai immediately searched around using the monitor. He wanted to see whether the Dragons really left or if something else happened. He believed that there should be clues to be seen. Sure enough, Zhao Hai noticed that the lake under the crater was quite special. The monitor couldn't see anything inside it. The same happened in the Devil Trench as well as the Soul Sucking Reef. Every place where a treasure was found seemed to exhibit this property. Was a treasure present in this lake as well?
After thinking about it, Zhao Hai immediately received the majority of his undead. Then he released some marine undead before he sat inside the Blade Scale Whale. Then the group dove into the lake.
Naturally, the monitor wasn't able to see much into the lake. Compared to outside, the range of vision was too low, only about 500 meters.
Looking from above, the lake wasn't very big. After Zhao Hai released the Blade Scale Whale, he could only release 100 undead creatures. If he had more, then they wouldn't be able to enter the lake.
This 100 undead formed around Zhao Hai in a cube formation. As the slowly dived into the lake, Zhao Hai discovered something strange, the lake was actually very deep.
He was already inside the lake for about ten minutes. And in these 10 minutes, even if they dove slowly, they should have already covered several kilometers. And yet, the bottom was nowhere to be found.
This was just a lake, how could it be very deep? Zhao Hai became more curious as the dove down. He looked at the monitor and occasionally turned its view to all directions, only to see nothing. Zhao Hai didn't care, he just continued to look at the monitor. Then suddenly, Zhao Hai felt something was wrong.
Then Zhao Hai understood, from what he can theorize, the surrounding waters had become much wider. This prompted him to look around much more seriously.
Sure enough, when he entered the lake, it wasn't very big, he can even see the sides of the lake through the muddy waters. But now, he couldn't see the sides anymore. The only reason for this was that the lake had widened.
Zhao Hai stared for a moment before he stopped his dive. Then he commanded the undead to look for the sides of the lake.
After a long time, Zhao Hai had finally figured out the shape of the lake. The area at the bottom of the lake was much wider than the surface. The shape of the lake was like an inverted bowl, with the mouth being the smallest part and it gets wider as it goes down.
Zhao Hai was now more curious about the lake. He commanded the Blade Scale Whale to continue the dive. At this point, Zhao Hai was convinced that he had already penetrated about 10 thousand meters into the lake, but it seems like there was no end in sight.
But what made Zhao Hai feel even more strange was the mere absence of magic beasts inside this lake. Not only magic beasts, there weren't any plants here as well. This made Zhao Hai careful, this lake was truly out of the ordinary.
Zhao Hai carefully watched the monitor while also paying attention to his surroundings. There weren't any magic beasts in the lake water, there weren't any marine plants as well. The lake had now become quite clear, Zhao Hai can even see further than the monitor just by using his own two eyes.
The suddenly, Zhao Hai spotted something not far under him. There seems to be a layer of black gas. Zhao Hai found out that the monitor was unable to penetrate through that gas. Zhao Hai stopped, then he hardened his resolve as he commanded the Blade Scale Whale to go straight by the layer of gas.
Before long, Zhao Hai was surrounded by the gas. He also discovered that this gas wasn't the bottom of the lake, instead, it seems to be shrouding something.
Zhao Hai knit the brows of his head, he felt that this layer was not simple. It can actually block the monitor, at the same time, it also seems to be concealing something inside the lake.
Zhao Hai decided to explore it by himself. He went out of the Blade Scale Whale and placed his hand on the layer. Unexpectedly, the layer allowed his hand to go through, but it also blocked the lake water from entering.
Zhao Hai felt great, he received the Blade Scale Whale before he entered the layer of gas. The layer wasn't very thick, it was just too dark, making Zhao Hai unable to see anything. But just about two meters away, light can then be seen. Upon coming out of the layer of gas, the scene that Zhao Hai saw gave him a huge surprise.
Inside was a huge space, it might even be as big as the entire Accra Mountain. Inside this huge space was a similarly large magic formation. The formation had mostly occupied the entire space's floor.
This magic formation looked mysteriously exceptional, it comprised of innumerable magic symbols. But what made Zhao Hai feel strange was that these magic symbols were all colored blood red, and it was connected to each other by flowing blood. Inside this magic formation were Dragons, about 10 thousand of them. All of which were in a static position on the formation. Their positions were very strange, it seems to form a strange pattern, something that looked like a devil's face.
On the sides of the Dragons were countless amounts of lesser dragons, which were similarly just lying there. Along with the Dragons, all of them formed a huge devil face. At the same time, Zhao Hai also discovered a detail, both Dragons and lesser dragons were killed with a big wound on their necks. Their blood flowing into the magic symbols on the formation.
Zhao Hai was currently flying up above the formation. The layer of gas looked black when he was back in the lake, but now, it actually changed into the same color as blood. At the same time, red liquid was raining down from the layer of gas. When this red liquid fell to the ground, it immediately fused into the magic formation. It was quite strange because there weren't any places that the liquid could flow into, all of them fused with the magic formations and just vanished without a trace.
Zhao Hai knitted the brows on his head again, he felt that this space was really strange. Although the entire place was bright, he could see upon further inspection that the light was also tinted red. This color scheme could actually make someone feel choked.
Zhao Hai placed his hand out and cought a drop of the red liquid and then placed it on his nose to smell it. Almost instantaneously, the smell of blood assaulted his nose. Zhao Hai's expression immediately turned ugly, the red rain was actually blood!
Then Zhao Hai turned his head back to the formation as well as the amount of red liquid raining down. He couldn't estimate how much blood this was.
Zhao Hai frowned, then he waved his hand as a clump of black gas came out and wrapped the Dragons and the lesser dragons. Zhao Hai wanted to turn them into undead.
At this time, a sharp screech was suddenly heard, then it was followed by a bellow, "Who dares!" Then a big bloody red hand reached out from a place not far from the layer of gas and blocked the black gas. Surprisingly it actually succeeded in doing so.
Zhao Hai gawked, his expression turned ugly, this bloody hand can actually defend against Zhao Hai's dark magic. This showed that the owner of this hand was quite strong. Zhao Hai turned his head towards the hand and said, "Who's there? Come out!"
"Hahaha!" An ominous laugh was heard, then a person came in from the other side of the layer. Upon seeing this person, Zhao Hai's pupils couldn't help but shrink. This person's body was very tall and big, about 2.5 meters high. It wore beast skin garments but also had scales covering its body. It also had two curved horns on its head, something that looked like an argali's horn. In each of its hand were six fingers, along with long and pointy nails that shone blue. On its back were a pair of big meaty wings that flapped constantly. It also had a tail, it was very long, about five or six meters. On the head of the tail was something that looked like an arrow point. The tail was constantly moving around, just like how snakes slithered.
At this time, Cai'er suddenly said, "Young Master, that's someone from the Demon Realm. Specifically, from the realm's most formidable beings, Demon Clan. In fact, the entire realm was ruled by these Demons."
When he heard Cai'er, Zhao Hai' eyes couldn't help but shrink. He looked at the Demon and said, "I didn't think that I'd be able to meet a Demon from the Demon Realm. How can you appear here?'
As soon as the Demon heard Zhao Hai, he couldn't help but gawk. Then he laughed out loud and said, "I didn't expect the continent to remember creatures like us. Hahaha. This is interesting, too interesting!"
Zhao Hai looked at the Demon and said, "Why can you appear here? Is there a spatial rift?"
The Demon looked at Zhao Hai and then laughed once again, "You're quite intelligent. But you're ruthless as well. You actually killed all of the magic beasts in Accra Mountain. Well, I think I need to thank you for that."
Zhao Hai was puzzled, so he asked, "What do you mean?"
The Demon looked at Zhao Hai and said, "Well, in any case, you cannot escape, so it doesn't matter if I tell you. There is actually no spatial crack here. However, the place where the rift was in in the Demonic Abyss. That was where we had set up a crack between the Demon Realm and the Ark Continent."
Chapter 674 – Blood Void
Although this was already speculated on the continent, hearing it from the mouth of a Demon still shocked Zhao Hai. It turned out to be true.
The Demon enjoyed Zhao Hai's surprised appearance, he laughed and then gnashed his teeth as he said, "When we discovered the crack towards Ark Continent in the past, we sent people in order to investigate it. And we found out that the Ark Continent is much better than the Demon Realm. There is warm sunshine here, clean water, green grass, and endless food. For such a good place to be inhabited by inferior creatures is unforgivable. So we launched a war against the continent."
Then the Demon's face couldn't help but change to hatred, "However, we didn't think that the Ark Continent would have a strange law, disallowing God-ranked demons to come here. In the end, our Demon Race's army got defeated by the lower lifeforms. But before returning to the Demon Realm, we left a spatial rift in the Demonic Abyss."
After speaking about the spatial rift, the Demon's face turned proud as he said, "That spatial rift wasn't big, but it was quite carefully made that it would evade the notice of the Humans. This allowed us to investigate the situation in the Ark Continent. And then, more than a thousand years ago, His Majesty the Demon King decided to launch a second great war. In order to prepare for this war, a large enough spatial rift would need to be prepared. Therefore, for a thousand years, we prepared this Blood Void in order to enlarge the spatial crack. But if we want to use the Blood Void, we would need to have enough blood. Killing Humans would be detrimental to our plans, therefore we decided to use the magic beasts and the Dragons in Accra Mountain."
After speaking up to here, the Demon looked at Zhao Hai and smiled, "For this plan, we dug out a huge space below Accra Mountain then established the Blood Void in this place. Digging the place up and establishing the Blood Void took us nearly a thousand years. And in the process, we discovered that the Dragons were subordinates of people called the Divine Race. And their purpose was to take the Ark Continent as well. So how could we make them succeed? The Ark Continent is ours, that is certain. We already have plans on how to deal with them, but you came and attacked the Dragons. You really are ruthless, but killing all the magic beasts in the Accra Mountain saved us a lot of trouble. Hahaha. To be honest, you're quite good. If you were someone from the Demon Realm, then you would've gained a high position."
Zhao Hai's expression was quite difficult. He didn't think that his action of eliminating the Dragons would actually help the Demons. Moreover, the Demons hadn't been in the continent for a short time. They had been here for more than a thousand years.
The Demon looked at Zhao Hai's expression, he got more excited as he laughed and said, "With all these blood, the operation has become a success. When the rift opens, an army from the Demon Realm shal arrive in the Ark Continent, killing the lower beings and occupying it for our own use!"
Zhao Hai coldly snorted and said, "Keep dreaming. Even if you can open the rift, what significance would that have? Your God-ranked experts are still unable to reach the continent. Do you want to rely on your army to conquer the continent? You're being too naive."
The Demon coldly snorted and said, "You're the one being naive. Do you really think that your human armies can go against the people of the Demon Realm? We Demons grew up killing, every member of my race is an outstanding soldier. With just your Human army, how could you defend against the Demons?"
Zhao Hai snorted, "Hmph, I alone have an undead army of tens of millions. There's no need for Human armies, I am sufficient enough to deal with your Demon Race."
The Demon laughed and said, "Right, right, what you say is true. You really are quite strong. But you underestimate our Demon army. Your undead might be strong, but we have our own strong undead as well, at the very least, they can defend against your undead. Most importantly, you will die today. And with your death, your undead army shall vanish as well. So when our Demon army comes, how can the Humans cope with us, given how disunited they are?"
Zhao Hai snickered, "Are you really convinced that you can deal with me?"
The Demon laughed, "I know that you're able to do Space Magic along with your undead magic. But what you don't know is that the Blood Void not only opens spatial rifts, it locks space as well. Even if your undead are strong, you cannot call them over here. And although you are a 9th rank, we are 9th ranks as well. You cannot escape today."
Zhao Hai coldly smiled and said, "That might not be true. To thank for your information, I shall allow you to be an undead and then join my own army."
Then Zhao Hai waved his hand as large quantities of undead appeared inside the space. Then they threw themselves over to the Demons.
The Demons present looked at Zhao Hai releasing his undead with shocked faces. The lead Demon looked at Zhao Hai and said, "This is impossible. How can you summon undead? The Blood Void should have imprisoned the space here!"
Zhao Hai sneered and said, "Whether you can imprison my Space or not isn't something for you to decide. If my Space can easily be locked, then I would've already died long ago."
The Demon looked at Zhao Hai with grief, while blocking the undead, the Demon said, "Even if you can kill us, the Blood Void had already succeeded. It will show its effects and when our Demon army comes through the rift, you shall die."
Zhao Hai coldly snorted and said, "I already knew that your Demon army would come. I just didn't expect it to be quick. It doesn't matter, the Ark continent is ours, and nobody can take it away." Then Zhao Hai waved his hand as a clump of black gas flew out and surrounded the bodies of the Dragons and lesser dragons, turning them into undead.
The Demon looked at Zhao Hai's action and couldn't help but get more angry. He knew that even if the Blood Void succeeded, it still needs more blood in order to reach its peak. The blood of these corpses were enough to sustain that. If the blood of these Dragons were to get drained into the Blood Void, then the Blood Void would be bigger. But now that Zhao Hai had turned them into undead, the Blood Void would be smaller than expected.
However, the Demons were entangled by the undead, so they couldn't do anything about it right now. The lead Demon clenched his teeth, he knew this operation cannot fail. Otherwise, the Demons would have no chance in conquering the Ark Continent.
At the thought of this, he gave a command to his fellow Demons. Then the other Demons surrounded him as they continued to block the undead. Then the lead Demon started to mumble a spell.
Zhao Hai knew that the Blood Void needed to be stopped, but the undead attacks did nothing. This formation seems to be invincible, there was no way to damage it. If this Blood Void continues, then the Demons would have an avenue to attack the continent. When that time comes, the Humans would certainly suffer some losses.
Therefore, Zhao Hai decided to move, he has the strength of a God, so he should be able to deal with these Demons.
But through this fight, Zhao Hai also discovered that the fighting strength of these Demons was quite strong. His undead were 9th ranks, their strength wasn't something that common 9th ranks could endure. But these Demons were able to block the attacks of these undead, and were also able to do it for quite a long time. This was something that Zhao Hai didn't expect.
Zhao Hai knew that he couldn't delay this fight for much longer. His staff changed into a blood red sword, then his body moved and appeared on the side of a Demon. After that, he swung his sword towards its neck. The Demon responded quite quickly, his body immediately went down as the two horns on his head moved towards Zhao Hai. At the same time, the Demon's tail went for Zhao Hai's heart, like a snake with exposed fangs.
Zhao Hai coldly snorted, then he moved his sword and swung downward. This move was too fast that the Demon wasn't able to dodge it at all. The Demon's head was sliced by Zhao Hai, cutting it in half along the middle.
But what Zhao Hai didn't expect was when his sword sliced the Demon's head, it didn’t die right away. The Demon moved its hand and caught Zhao Hai's sword, its tail continued on to penetrate towards Zhao Hai's heart.
Zhao Hai gawked, he didn't think that these Demons would actually have this much vitality. Its life force was so strong that it could still move despite already being killed.
However, Zhao Hai wasn't afraid, he moved his hand and shrunk his sword into a shorter one, removing it from the grasp of the demon. At the same time, he also went to the side of another Demon, dodging the tail in the process. Then he went on and swung his sword to the other Demon.