In the world of Ashan, it was relatively difficult for demons to obtain information.
Because most races were very wary of demons, demons could only use succubi to transform into them to sneak into other countries. But the number of succubi was limited, and it was impossible to spread them everywhere. This caused the information on the demons to lag behind most of the time. Roy had already discovered this when he first came to this world.
With lagging intelligence, it was naturally impossible to use any schemes in war. Therefore, most of the time, demons relied on force to directly sweep through foreign wars, which was in line with the style of demons.
But Roy knew that this would definitely not work for a long time. Therefore, although he entered the underground world to crusade against the Shadowbrand clan, he still left enough Demon Eyes on the ground to help him gather information. Other than leaving a portion of these Demon Eyes in Ur-Hekal, many of them were spread to other places, especially in Dendera Fortress and Aglan Fortress. Roy also had Demon Eyes monitoring them.
After the alliance army arrived, although they did not approach the fortresses, with so many troops, they naturally could not escape the detection of the Demon Eyes. Therefore, even though Roy was underground, he immediately learned of the arrival of the alliance army.
The reactions of the various races were not out of Roy's expectations. Instead, he was happy to see this situation because once the alliance army appeared, it meant that there would immediately be a war in Eeofol, and he could perfectly avoid this war.
Of course, according to Roy's estimation, it would not be easy for the alliance army to attack Eeofol. Although the alliance army was powerful, the demons were now adopting a dormant policy, which meant that an unimaginable number of demons had gathered in all of Eeofol. Just in Ur-Hekal alone, there were millions of them, and the alliance army would probably suffer a loss.
However, it did not matter to Roy who won or lost. In any case, this battle would eventually achieve the result he wanted.
Xeron had already obtained the promise of Demon Lord Kha-Beleth and had Kha-Beleth support him unreservedly. But if the alliance army's attack on Eeofol affected Isabel and prevented her from giving birth to the Dark Messiah, then Xeron would have to bear the anger of Kha-Beleth.
Of course, it was still questionable whether the Alliance's massive military force could attack Ur-Hekal. After all, it was very difficult to do so. If attacking Ur-Hekal would result in too many losses, then the alliance heroes might judge the situation and hesitate. In the end, they might give up on attacking Ur-Hekal.
What Roy wanted to do now was to add fuel to the fire. He wanted to stop the alliance army's hesitation and force them to attack Ur-Hekal at all costs!
At this moment, Roy had already led his troops into the underground world for two days.
The entrance to the underground world of Eeofol was at the foot of a volcano. Benia had asked about this entrance from the dark elven captives she had captured. But this entrance was very narrow, and Roy had to spend a lot of effort to widen it in order to let the army pass through.
Speaking of which, the world of Ashan was indeed a very strange world. There were many underground worlds like this everywhere on the continent, giving people the feeling that the underground of this planet was like a cavity.
According to Giovanni, there were not so many underground cavities originally. But because there were many underground creatures, especially creatures like troglodytes, they would continuously dig underground and use the newly opened land to grow mushrooms that could be used as food. This was similar to humans opening up wastelands to farm. After thousands of years, they slowly reached the scale of the current underground world.
The underground world was pitch-black, and almost all the underground creatures had degenerated the ability to sense light in their eyes. However, the demon and vampire troops that Roy led had night vision, and the undead did not need light, so they could still move freely after entering the underground.
However, it had been two days since they entered the underground world, and Roy and the others were still exploring the roads and drawing maps.
It could not be helped. The so-called underground world was simply composed of tunnels and large karst caves. There was no urban planning at all, and the intricate complexity of the roads could drive people crazy.
In many places, due to the narrow terrain, the two enormous fellows, Rafaro and Fat Tiger, could not pass through at all. So Roy wanted to let them stay on the ground, but Rafaro did not agree. He knew that there were many creatures living in the underground world, and these were all good sources of life force. Moreover, because of the appearance of the Shadowbrand clan, Rafaro knew that there might be many black dragons or shadow dragons in this dark elf clan. Even if he did not dare to possess the body of his sister, Malsara, it would actually be a good choice if he could encounter stronger black dragons or shadow dragons.
Rafaro was now frantically trying to restore his dragon body and complete the resurrection ritual. He had already had enough of this spectral dragon's undead body. Cassandra treated him like a power bank every day and continuously absorbed the death power in him, but he did not dare to get angry at Cassandra because of Roy …
Since Rafaro wanted to follow, he did not mind having another Fat Tiger. Now that Fat Tiger was addicted to eating dragons, Roy felt that he might want to try the taste of black dragon meat or shadow dragon meat.
With these two big fellows, Roy needed to spend more time opening up the path. Giovanni led his vampires and spread out as the vanguard to explore the way. They would return every once in a while and tell Roy the path they had explored. Roy would draw the map and decide the direction to move forward.
As they slowly went deeper, the vampires began to discover and capture a large number of underground creatures. Most of them were naturally troglodytes.
These alien-like, green-skinned, dwarf troglodytes had smooth round heads but no eyes on their faces. They looked a little terrifying, but in fact, these troglodytes were probably the weakest and most timid race in Ashan.
Without even seeing a demon like Roy, the vampires could easily make them tremble in fear.
Since they did not need to take captives, vampires often chose to slaughter these troglodytes when they encountered them. Their thirst for blood was also satisfied by the troglodytes.
Roy distributed several Soul Attracting Flags to the army he brought. These flags engraved with the Osiris Mark continuously collected the souls of the underground world for Roy. Just the troglodytes he encountered along the way brought him about thirty thousand souls. But these souls were relatively weak and some distance from standard souls, so Roy had only obtained about twenty-two thousand souls.
But these were only the souls brought by the troglodytes. There were other creatures.
During the exploration, Roy encountered some harpies and evil eyes one after another. These creatures could be said to be standard Dungeon residents who had lived in the underground world for generations. But in the underground world of Eeofol, they were basically in a wild state. This place was not within the sphere of influence of the Kingdom of Nighon, so no one organized them to fight against Roy's army.
When facing the invasion of Roy's army, these creatures could only be the weakest side. If they did not choose to escape when they were discovered, they would basically be slaughtered.
Another two days passed, and Roy was a little annoyed. The alliance army on the ground had already started fighting the demons, but he still did not find any traces of the dark elves …
"We're advancing toward the city where Grawl is stationed. The dark elves often move around there, and there are definitely a lot of them. But why haven't we found any traces of them yet?" Roy said. "Could it be that they were really severely injured by the virus infection?"
"I think they might just be avoiding battle!" Julia shook her head. "Dark elves are like this. They rarely fight enemies head-on."
"It seems like it's best to find their camp!" Roy said. "It's impossible for them to still avoid battle after their lair was discovered, right?"
"Indeed. They can still endure it now, but if we really find their lair, then the Giovanni exploring the way will definitely be attacked!" Benia said. "This is the signal!"
Roy was about to nod in agreement when he discovered something unusual.
Roy, Julia, and the others were walking in an enormous cave space, surrounded by his army. But Roy sensed several different radiation sources in the stalactites above the cave!
These radiation sources were in the shape of humans and stuck closely to the stalactites. However, some of the vampires hovering above the army did not notice the existence of these guys at all.
In other words, Roy could not see these people with his dark vision, but in his Radiation Vision, these guys had nowhere to hide …
"Camouflage or invisibility?" Roy immediately thought. "Are they dark elven assassins?"
Roy continued to walk forward calmly, but he found that when the demon army passed under these stalactites, the hidden assassins did not attack them at all.
"So, it's a decapitation tactic?" Roy could not help but show a sinister smile. "They're coming for me. Perhaps Julia, Benia, and the others are also among the targets!"
Roy pretended that nothing was wrong and continued moving forward. When he was about to reach the stalactites, he shouted, "Everyone, speed up!"
Roy's appearance was already very eye-catching. The cold Cold Winter Armor did not look ordinary no matter how one looked at it. Coupled with this order, the hidden assassins above confirmed Roy's identity as the leader. Therefore, the hidden dark elven assassins finally could not help but attack!
Several crossbow bolts soaked in strong poison were painted pitch-black, and the arrowheads were specially treated, causing them to not make any whistling sounds when they cut through the air. They shot out silently and headed straight for Roy!
"Got it!" The moment the arrows shot out, this thought flashed in the minds of the dark elven assassins because they saw that the demon below had no signs of noticing them at all.
However, just as the arrows were about to hit Roy, a wide black ice shield suddenly appeared in the air. The poison arrows shot by the assassins collided with the ice shield and made clanking sounds as they were all blocked.
"Not good. Retreat!" The assassins were shocked and quickly wanted to retreat. But at this moment, a strange force tightly grabbed their bodies, making them unable to move.
Roy stretched out his right hand toward the top of the cave, and the dozen or so dark elven assassins were all captured by his Psychokinesis. Only then did Julia and the others realize that there were assassins attacking.
Under the capture of Roy's Psychokinesis, the dark elven assassins found that they could not break free from this force at all. Instead, this force pulled them into the air and slowly gathered them together. They looked at each other, and after confirming with their eyes, they wanted to swallow the poison sacs in their mouths to commit suicide.
This was the realization of assassins …
However, before they could finish swallowing, a beam of purple light shot from below and enveloped everyone.
"Turn into biscuits!"
With these words, not only did all the dark elves immediately discover tremendous changes in their bodies, but their vision also changed. Then they saw their companions shrink in an instant, turn into golden biscuits, and fall from the sky …
Their bodies had turned into biscuits, but their thoughts were still there. After they fell to the ground, they saw a demon arrive in front of them. From their current vision, this demon's body was astonishingly huge!
They realized that they had become food and might be eaten by this demon directly. Such a shocking magic almost made the dark elves collapse, but they could not even commit suicide now and could only wait for their fate to come in panic …
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