Chapter 155: Mask! The Secret of The Elental King
“Urm... nothing...”
Chen Rui returned to normal only after awhile, “Torre, is there anything?”
Torre replied, “The earth elental that left brought their leader over;Chief Delong asked you to co over.”
Chen Rui asked, “How many earth elentals ca?”
“Just these two.”
Chen Rui nodded. It seems that things are going well, otherwise the rebel forces leader of the earth elentals won’t co alone to the “enemy’s” nest.
When Athena saw that he was about to leave, she asked, “What happened?”
Chen Rui told her the thing about the earth elental and Athena said, “Let’s go together. After sleeping, my strength has almost fully recovered.”
Chen Rui thought that there should be no danger this ti, so he agreed and the trio walked out of the cave together.
Doug brought a cyan-colored earth elental. He looked similar to the other two earth elentals who battled against Queen dusa and Chief Tauren. He should be the leader that Doug ntioned, the head of the three elite earth elentals under Earth Elental King, Tag.
Chen Rui approached and the comprehensive strength shown in was indeed “Unable to Judge”.
Tag’s body was smaller than Doug’s, and he was slightly shorter than the taurens. His body was closer to the human figure. His eyes flashed with the sa white light as Doug instead of the yellow light after “mutation”.
As the taurens couldn’t communicate with earth elental, even if there were only two earth elentals that ca, Delong and the others showed considerable vigilance. The surrounding tauren were all on guard since this light-green earth elental had powerful strength that rivalled the Chief Tauren.
The cyan earth elental saw Chen Rui and took the initiative to greet, “Hi, I’m Tag. Thank you for releasing Doug.”
The consciousness exchange of could be divided into area and unit. Chen Rui didn’t want to cause the tauren’s misunderstanding. Therefore, he expanded the area of so that that the surrounding taurens could understand him.
“Hi, I’m Chen Rui, the tauren’s best friend. For the leader, Tag to co here today, are you coming with sincerity or hostility?”
“You indeed have the magical power to communicate with the elentals.” Tag said while nodded solemnly to Chen Rui. He wasn’t disdainful of Chen Rui’s weak strength. “I ca here only with Doug, which is enough to prove my sincerity, but at the sa ti, I have another doubt.”
Others couldn’t understand Tag’s language, so Chen Rui listened while translating to the taurens and Athena.
“Earth Elental King in Earth Realm will always be the highest ruler of us, the earth elentals. Although I led so of the elentals who didn’t want to accept the mutation to escape, we aren’t willing to be hostile toward our great king and even more unwilling to kill our comrades with our own hands. In this case, I don’t think that the tauren or dusa will be willing to accept the defective earth elentals. However, in order to show the friendliness of the earth elentals, I still co with sincerity as I don’t wish to be your enemy.”
After listening to Chen Rui’s translation, the Chief Tauren was silent. He waved his hand to let the alert taurens backed down. Whether it was accepted or not, Tag’s sincerity was worthy of recognition. There was no need to make such a tense posture that made the taurens look weak and cowardly.
Chen Rui could tell that Tag wasn’t soone that was arrogant and unreasonable, so he said, “Tag, thank you for your frankness first. I want to ask you a question. Before you are forced to leave the Earth Realm with your companions, do the elentals often massacre the other creatures in such a way?”
Tag shook his head, “We elentals have our own principles. Unless our territory is violated, we’ll never attack or interrupt the existence of other remaining creatures.”
“What about now?” Chen Rui’s words made Tag lowered his head. Chen Rui didn’t give him the opportunity to explain and continued, “Except for the tauren and dusa that are struggling to resist, all the other underground creatures were eliminated by these mutated earth elentals. Not only that, even you, an earth elental isn’t safe. I heard Doug said that because of the unwillingness to accept the mutation, many earth elentals were brutally killed. At this ti, where are the so-called principles of the elentals?”
Tag’s head was lower and Chen Rui went on to say, “Uniting with the tauren and dusa isn’t to kill your comrades, the earth elentals, but it is for your own survival! Even if you don’t kill each other, once the taurens and dusas are destroyed, the only ones left will be you, the earth elentals who defected. Do you think that you can escape the killing from your own people?”
Everyone was closely interdependent.
Tag thought for a while then suddenly raised his head and said firmly, “The great king is only fallen into confusion due to so special reason. I believe that with his powerful strength, he must be able to solve the confusion in his heart and return to the initial, normal state.”
Chen Rui’s heart was moved. He asked, “I’ve always been curious about this. Why has the Earth Elental King changed so much? What is the confusion that you said? Please tell what you know. It’s not only for our survival, but also for the great king of the earth elentals. Perhaps we can find a way to help him return to normal as soon as possible. Besides, you wouldn’t want to be killed in your comrades’ hands without knowing the reason right?”
After hearing the last sentence, the white light in Tag’s eyes glittered a little. . After a mont of contemplation, he finally said, “This matter starts from a long ti ago, probably about 400 years ago.”
For a long ti, the underground world had always been in balance. Although thousands of years ago, the space above was fully excavated. Yet, for various reasons, most of the creatures were unwilling to leave the underground, especially the few that relied on the fountain of life for reproduction and survival. For the strongest force, earth elentals, although their newly-born great king had the strength to easily break the seal, the earth elentals had their own principles of survival. They wouldn’t easily interfere with the rest of the civilization. Thus, instead of breaking the seal, they continued to live a peaceful and leisure life in the Earth Realm.
However, one day, a sudden change occurred. A strange outsider broke through the powerful seal and killed a lot of creatures along the way. Originally, it had nothing to do with Earth Realm. However, while killing the underground creatures, he also killed several earth elentals. The principle of the earth elentals was that they wouldn’t violate others if others didn’t violate them. So, the Earth Elental King could no longer neglect. He personally went to destroy this enemy who dared to kill the earth elentals.
This enemy’s strength was far beyond imagination. With the Earth Elental King’s strength, the enemy actually couldn’t be taken down at once. The shocking battle continued to the Earth Realm, where the earth elentals gathered and it lasted 1 day and 1 night. The Earth Elental King finally won and eliminated the enemy with his advantage in the Earth Realm.
According to Earth Elental King afterward, this enemy’s strength was quite horrifying, but this enemy was seriously injured before the battle. Otherwise, even in the Earth Realm, he might not be able to rival.
Chen Rui was shocked: The earth elentals has the strongest combat power in the earth and so is the Earth Elental King. This seriously-injured person is able to fight against the Earth Elental King to such a degree must be a strong Demon Overlord. Why did such a strong man co to the underground sohow, slaughter the underground living creatures and even went into conflicts with the earth elentals?
Tag went on to say that although the enemy was eliminated, the incident didn’t end. The man was destroyed by the king, leaving only one thing that emitted strange powers. It actually caused a strong interference. The Earth Elental King had to suppress this thing personally in the king’s chamber of the Earth Realm.
This thing is likely to be the key! Chen Rui thought quickly. He stopped translating and interrupted, “What is that thing?”
“It’s a mask! It’s terrifying! The mask looks a bit incomplete, but it has very weird power. Those who are close feel like their souls are drawn to it!”
When Chen Rui translated the mask’s incident to the taurens and Athena, the tauren’s couldn’t understand, but Athena looked like she was pondering.
“At the beginning, the king was only holding the mask in his hands and suppressed it with strength.” Tag’s features couldn’t express too many expressions, but there was a bit of fear in his voice, “Yet, one day the mask was worn on the king’s face sohow!”
The Earth Elental King with a mask started to get weird. He was always sitting motionless all day in the king’s chamber. At first, he still spoke a few words with the three elite earth elentals under his command, but afterward, it was complete silence. Besides, the Earth Realm that prohibited anyone else to co in had undergone so abnormal changes, and the earth elentals could feel it.
In such a way, over a hundred years later, a strange flying creature began to appear in the Earth Realm. This creature that looked like a fly had never appeared in the underground world. At first, the earth elentals didn’t care about it. However, these “flies” gradually increased. The Earth Elental King that had always been silent suddenly issued a command: No earth elentals are allowed to harm these demonic flies.
The ergence of the demonic flies caused more and more strange things happened. The most obvious thing was that the ever-lasting fountain of life actually dried up gradually. After many years, the silent Earth Elental King once again issued a command: Attack the underground creatures around the Earth Realm! Those creatures obviously didn’t invade the Earth Realm, so the earth elentals were very puzzled by this order that violated our principles. Yet, they still faithfully executed the will of the king.
Strangely, the number of demonic flies increased significantly after the creatures were eliminated.
Since then, the Earth Elental King beca even more weird. For years, he rarely spoke. When he spoke, it was a command to kill. The number of demonic flies increased greatly as well. Many earth elentals began to suspect. The three elites, Tag, Taug, and Sog went to the king’s chamber multiple tis to et the king, but they either got no response or were reprimanded.
After another period of ti, the Earth Elental King spoke again. He claid that he had obtained a powerful revelation previously, and he had been studying this revelation. If he succeeded, he would have control over the mutation that could make earth elentals stronger. However, it required the earth elentals to accept mutations irresistibly. The most loyal elite earth elental, Taug took the initiative to accept the secret thod and his strength indeed increased. Yet, strangely, Taug seed to have lost his previous mory. He didn’t recognize even Tag and Sag and led all his subordinates to accept the mutation.
The mutated earth elentals lost their mories. They were more obedient toward the king’s orders. They started to kill more underground creatures, and they even eliminated the most populous trolls.
Tag and Sog were skeptical about the “mutation”. They put their highest doubt onto that mask. Sog secretly went to the king’s chamber to look for the truth. Yet, he was accidentally discovered by the elental king. When Sog ca out of the king’s chamber, he had also beca the sa as Toug. The mutated earth elentals didn’t even let their companions go. Many rebellious earth elentals were killed. In this case, Tag confird that the Earth Elental King was affected by the mask. Thus, he had to flee the Earth Realm together with so earth elentals who were unwilling to receive the mutation. He was looking forward to the day when the Earth Elental King could wake up and return to himself.
After hearing Tag’s words, Chen Rui felt that many doubts in his heart were solved one by one. So vague key points in the past could be faintly connected together. The truth was going to be revealed.
The abnormal change of the Earth Elental King must be related to that mask. The appearance of the demonic flies was also the sa. The demonic flies was only a small amount initially. The number increased with the destruction of enemies. They also seed to be able to strengthen themselves with other lives and flesh. This could also be used to explain the attack on other creatures.
For “mutation” of the earth elental mustn’t be simple. It should be a special way for the Earth Elental King to manipulate these subjects who had suspicion. Normally, with Earth Elental King’s Demon Overlord strength, it shouldn’t be difficult to destroy underground creatures or suppress the skeptics. Thus, it posed an important question: The Earth Elental King is unable to exert power for so reason! He can’t even leave the king’s chamber!
The number of demonic flies is already quite large. Then, what’s the purpose for the Earth Elental King to continue to control earth elentals and demonic flies to attack the underground creatures? Is it to unify the underground world?
Chen Rui was filled with multiple assumptions and doubts at once. After translating Tag’s speech, Athena cautiously said, “Chen Rui, are you sure these demonic flies’ na were bloodthirsty demonic flies, decomposing demonic flies and borer demonic flies?”
Athena had been fighting ever since she arrived to the bottom level of the main pit. She hardly had ti to stop. After being teleported from the dusa’s Lair to the stone beam, the two were imrsed in tenderness and intimacy, so they never had the chance to discuss about this aspect.
When Chen Rui was translating just now, Athena began to pay attention to these details. Her eyes kept changing. She seed to have thought of sothing.
“I’m sure.” Chen Rui nodded. The data displayed by his should have no mistakes.
After getting a positive answer, Athena blurted out, “I know what that mask is! Also, the man from 400 years ago!”
“Who is it?”
“That mask is 1 of the 7 artifacts in the Demon Realm, the God-Eating Mask! That person is the Glorfin Beelzebub from 400 years ago!”
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