To be exact, the entrance to the underground palace was not discovered. It was pierced through by Tris.
This was originally a room to dispose of trash. Of course, the goddess would not create any trash, but the believers of the goddess, even those above level-12, still had to eat, drink, and poop.
The place to dispose of trash was a very small room. There was a three-dimensional magic array in the room. As long as the trash was thrown in, it would be broken down into the smallest particles and sorted.
Salin saw the magic array destroyed by Tris when he came to the room. Before he could get angry, Tris immediately said, "Sir, this magic array almost killed me!"
Salin pondered. No one knew how many years it had been since someone came to this palace. At least seven thousand years. The magic array could continue to operate without anyone taking care of it. It must have been powered by a core like a dragon crystal. There were still five three-dimensional magic arrays left. One that Tris had pierced through could still be repaired.
The hole in the ground was more than ten meters deep and nearly two meters in diameter. Salin only needed one glance to know that it was pierced by Tris' whip. The weapon he made for Tris had saved his life.
This was because the magic array was exactly sixteen meters deep underground. It was a completely three-dimensional structure. If it was not completely pierced through, Tris would be broken down into particles like the trash that had been disposed of by the magic array.
The Endless Mountain was tens of thousands of kilometers high. A sixteen-meter hole was nothing. Salin scanned the palace under the hole and was pleased to find that the area was not small. He could not touch the edge even if he spread his senses to a distance of one kilometer.
"Tris, you did well. Who's going first?" Salin said, but he was looking at Rex.
"I'll go." Byrne did not beat around the bush. He was the most suitable candidate.
Byrne didn't make any sound as he slid down the hole. When his feet touched the ground, he threw out a transparent ball. The ball bounced a few times on the ground and stuck to a pillar in the distance. Then, it lit up.
"It's okay. Come down," Byrne shouted in a relaxed manner. If he could not find any danger here, the four people up there would not be able to either. Even an assassin could not match a mage's abilities.
The four people on the upper floor slid down one by one. Rex released an illumination spell and saw the situation clearly.
It was a place similar to a storage room. There were tall cabinets, boxes, and all kinds of ancient furniture piled up in the corner. In another corner, Salin saw a few broken puppets. These puppets were about six meters tall and had four arms.
Although these puppets looked exquisite, Salin knew that human alchemy technology was a hundred times more advanced than it was now. These puppets must have been very crude back then. This kind of crudely made puppet was basically used to carry goods, not to fight.
Large ports and cities that were like transit stations all had such puppets. Many goods had to be moved by manpower, which would waste too much time. This six-meter-tall puppet could carry over twenty thousand kilograms of goods at a time. Twenty thousand kilograms was the limit of most magic vehicles.
The port of Metatlin City was producing these puppets. It seemed to be a warehouse, and other than being a bit large, there was nothing special about it.
Salin and the others found a lot of things on the upper floors, but there were no storerooms there, only storage rooms. All the resources were in small quantities.
"Trish, I found that you're quite lucky." Salin patted Trish's shoulder and praised him.
Trish smiled bitterly. "Anyway, I have the same life as you now. I can't complete the goddess' contract …"
"I know. I'll work hard. Don't give up." Salin rarely communicated with this demon. In the past, he was giving orders.
Trish's lips moved, but he still did not say anything to Salin. From the moment he wrote his name on the stone tablet, he had already decided to follow Salin. He was different from ordinary demons. He had reached the limit of a demon's growth. He had power close to that of a Greater Demon and lived for tens of thousands of years. Therefore, he had one more desire than other demons, and that was to continue growing.
If he did not fight, he would at most return to the Demonic Plane after Salin died and continue to fight for a Greater Demon.
Rex frowned. "Should we split up, or …"
"Let's stay together," Sica suddenly interrupted. She pointed at the door. "There seems to be danger down there."
Just as Sica finished speaking, Byrne had already flashed to the door. His body was pressed against the wall. In the eyes of Salin and the others, Byrne suddenly disappeared. It was as if he had become a pattern on the wall, leaving no trace.
Sica looked around. Although the storeroom was spacious, it was not suitable for flying. She directly took out her rod and held it in her hand, facing the door.
Rex, on the other hand, opened a scroll and released an earth wall in front of Sica. Trish took out her long whip. She glanced at Salin and quietly slipped to the left side of the earth wall. Then, Trish's figure disappeared too. This time, Salin saw clearly that Trish had directly turned into a part of the earth wall and connected to the end of the ten-meter-wide earth wall.
A demon who knew how to use illusions was much more useful than Eva who only knew how to charge. Especially in such a small-scale battle, it required more intelligence.
Bang!
Something hit the door, making a loud noise.
Salin thought for a moment and released a Water Pattern Shield for Shika. He flew into the air and covered himself with clouds and mist.
Bang!
A crack appeared on the door and then it collapsed. Salin was shocked to see a group of short creatures behind the door. They were holding metal hammers in their hands and looking at them fiercely.
"Imps?"
"They are imps …" Rex swallowed his saliva, feeling uneasy. These little monsters indeed looked like imps. Be it the color of their skin, the weapons in their hands, or their ugly facial features, they were exactly the same as what was recorded in the atlas. The only difference was that imps didn't wear armor. Instead, these imps wore metal armor from head to toe. Although it was very crude, the metal was mainly made of Orangutan Iron.
Orangutan Iron wasn't Star Iron, but a red metal. The biggest advantage of this metal was that it was infinitely malleable. It could defend against blunt weapons and absorb strong impacts. Using it to make armor, one only needed to add a thin layer of armor to be able to defend against strong bows and crossbows.
Imps were very strong, but they didn't move very fast. They could be easily shot by archers. Wearing this kind of armor, it was really unwise to fight imps in narrow areas.
Damn it!
Salin looked at the imps pouring into the warehouse and started to prepare his magic gloomily. Just as Salin was preparing his magic, a few imps had already rushed to the opposite side of the wall. They were waving their hammers and smashing them at the wall.
Uh!
Even Rex was a little surprised. She had been worried that some huge monster would rush over from behind the door, so she had released an earth wall. She didn't expect that it would be a group of imps entering the warehouse. But these imps had a problem with their intelligence. They could obviously go around the ten-meter-wide earth wall, but they just had to smash it from the front.
Although the earth wall was a low-level magic, it had its own repair ability. As long as the elements weren't used up, the earth wall couldn't be pushed down unless it was broken in one blow. Sometimes, earth magic was even more resilient than water magic.
The imps attacked the earth wall with all their might. None of them could find Byrne hiding behind them. Salin didn't relax. Byrne's attack was indeed strong, but there were more and more imps appearing outside the door. Byrne alone couldn't kill them all.
The dozen or so imps attacking the earth wall found that when their metal hammers smashed into it, the earth wall almost instantly returned to its original appearance. Even if they weren't very intelligent, they knew that there was something strange about this earth wall.
Immediately, another dozen or so imps rushed to the puppets in the corner. In their opinion, the earth wall was also an enemy and had to be destroyed. These imps took out the magic cores and embedded them in the broken puppets.
Salin was surprised to see that the rusty puppets immediately jumped up, grabbed the imps' war hammers, and rushed to the earth wall.
The earth wall was only two meters high. Under the imps' command, the puppets didn't attack Shika behind them. Instead, they waved their war hammers and smashed at the earth wall.
The imps had already appeared for a minute, but none of them went around the earth wall to attack. All of them were fighting against the lifeless earth wall. The puppets that were used to transport goods might not be good at fighting, but they were too strong. The metal hammers in their four arms attacked like a storm. The low-level magic was finally destroyed. The earth wall collapsed, revealing a five-meter-wide gap.
Then, Salin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Three puppets emitted cracking sounds from within, and black smoke rose from their broken mechanical bodies. Then, the eyes of the three puppets turned from white to red. They crazily waved their war hammers, smashing at the imps around them.
Banging sounds filled the air. The incomparably strong puppets smashed the imps one by one, sending them crashing into the walls. The walls of the palace were made from black iron rock. The imps were covered in metal armor. As they crashed into the iron rock, the sound of their bodies echoing throughout the warehouse.
These puppets could actually change into battle mode, but they didn't distinguish between friend and foe.
The number of imps had already broken through 200, and was still increasing. They howled and rushed towards the three puppets that had gone out of control. At this time, Salin realized that the imps that had been smashed by the puppets hadn't received much damage after crashing into the stone wall. They only rolled on the ground and then sat up.
These imps staggered, a little dizzy. The armor made from orangutan iron had an extremely strong ability to absorb attacks. But, their craftsmanship was too poor. They were unable to completely mitigate the powerful impact of the impact.
Even so, these imps were still very troublesome. This was because the armor only exposed the skin of their faces. If one wanted to kill these imps, the best way was to attack their faces. However, the imps had very long arms and great strength. It was very difficult to approach them with their war hammers.
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