In the underground world, in the underground lake to the southwest of the Deep Fissure Cave, a gigantic Earthwater Lizard was swimming in the water...
Behind it sat more than ten members of the underground race in different attire, mainly Dark Dwarves and Subterranean Pygmies.
If one looked closely, they would notice that although these underground races were dressed differently, they all had the same sickle-shaped symbol on their chests.
That was the symbol of the Grim Reaper and was usually used in formal occasions.
In the underground world, this symbol had another meaning. The wearer belonged to a large city-state organization in the western region of the underground world — the Silent City Alliance. They were one of the many residents of the underground city who believed in the Grim Reaper.
The city-state alliance was a common joint force in the underground world. Although the structure of this alliance was loose and the city-states were often at war with each other, some of them were even mortal enemies. However, when faced with the invasion of a powerful external force, they would unite against the external force.
The Silent City Alliance was an alliance formed by many small and medium-sized city-states who believed in the Grim Reaper. They occupied part of the upper region in the western region of the Underdark Region and were perennially enemies with another city-state organization in the western region — the Dark City Alliance which believed in the God of Darkness and Shadows.
Of course, unlike the Dark City Alliance which had a long history and had close to 50 underground cities, the Silent City Alliance was young and weak, with only 17 cities in total.
It was worth mentioning that although Black Rock City in the Deep Fissure Cave also believed in the Grim Reaper, this underground city was located in a remote location and was very small in scale. Moreover, it was first established by Dark Dwarves who had different beliefs, so it did not belong to any city-state alliance...
Of course, as time passed, the Grim Reaper Church had taken control of Black Rock City, and Black Rock City was close to the entrance to the surface world at the western border of the underground world. Its geographical location was superior, so... it was only a matter of time before it joined the Silent City Alliance.
It was obvious that this time the Earthwater Lizard should be a diplomatic group from the Silent City Alliance, and their destination was Black Rock City located in the Deep Fissure Cave.
On the head of the Earthwater Lizard, a bald old Dark Dwarf with a long grayish-red beard was holding a magic staff and standing there silently, vaguely looking like the leader of the group.
He wore a black wizard robe and had a solemn expression. The deep wrinkles on his face and the vicissitudes of life made him look a little melancholic, as if he had a lot on his mind.
The old dwarf was called Huo Xu, and he was 141 years old.
The reason why he was given this name was because the Dwarves were proud of their beard. When he was young, he had a long red beard that was like fire, which made the Dwarves very proud of him. He was popular among the female Dark Dwarves.
Of course, that was when he was young.
Even though Firebeard was a lower Gold-level professional and had a lifespan that was almost twice that of an ordinary person, he was considered an old man among the Dark Dwarves who had an average lifespan of 100 years.
Logically speaking, no matter how powerful a Dark Dwarf at this age was, he would usually choose to retire and retire in the Underground City. At most, he would participate in important decisions as a member of the Elder Guild.
However … war had come.
This war was initiated by the Dark City-State Alliance, which worshipped the God of Darkness and Shadow. Their goal was simple: to defeat and destroy the Silent City-State Alliance.
The Dark City-State Alliance had been hostile and coveting the Silent City-State Alliance for a long time. However, due to the constant internal strife and serious internal friction, the Dark City-State Alliance had maintained a delicate balance with the Silent City-State Alliance for thousands of years even though the Dark City-State Alliance was far stronger than the Silent City-State Alliance.
However, since the mana of the entire Segers Plane recovered last year, the Lich King Pelone, the mayor of the largest Underground City in the Dark City-State Alliance, Morso City, took the opportunity to break through to the Legendary level. With the support of some hidden existences, he integrated the power of the Dark City-State Alliance in a very short time. This balance was broken.
When the balance was broken, the war had come.
As the previous chief of Blade City, the largest underground city in the Silent City-State Alliance, as well as the Grim Reaper's Chosen in the underground world and one of the leaders of the Dark Dwarves, Firebeard naturally had to shoulder his responsibilities.
This time, he would lead the envoys of other Underground Cities to Black Rock City to ask for help.
As a Dark Dwarf, Huo Xu had also traveled in the Underground World when he was young. He had also been to Black Rock City.
In Huo Xu's memory, Black Rock City was just a small, remote city with a population of less than a few thousand.
Such a Underground City was weak and had a weak foundation. Except for the presence of another Dark Dwarf oracle, it could be said to be very weak.
It could even be said that if it was not at the remote border of the Underground World, such a city would have been swallowed up by other Underground Cities long ago!
However, such a city had become the hope of the Dark Dwarves in the oracle of the God of Death, telling them that the chance of winning the war was here and hinting them to go there to ask for help.
Not only that, the God of Death had even given the oracle to set up a long-distance teleportation circle in each Underground City!
The other end of the long-distance teleportation circle was naturally Black Rock City.
In other words, the reinforcements would be directly teleported from Black Rock City to each Underground City and join them in the war.
However, Huo Xu could not figure out what kind of reinforcements would come from Black Rock City …
He had been to Black Rock City before and knew that there were only a few thousand Dark Dwarves in Black Rock City. There were not many of them who had reached the upper level of Dark Iron.
The scale of this war was huge. What could a few thousand Dark Dwarves who were not good at fighting do?
Of course, as a devout believer of the God of Death, Huo Xu was already used to his God's habit of not telling the truth.
Moreover … he did hear some rumors some time ago. Although the content was ridiculous, it was very likely to be related to the oracle of the God of Death.
Half a year ago, Black Rock City was besieged by the Shadow Army and successfully defeated them. They even defeated a Shadow Dragon!
However, considering that there had been strange occurrences all over the world in the past year, and all kinds of strange and ridiculous news had been spreading in the Black Market, it was difficult to distinguish between the truth and the lies. Therefore … Huo Xu did not know whether it was true or not.
However, despite his doubts, Huo Xu still carried out the orders of the God of Death.
However, it was different for the others.
Most of the people in the diplomatic mission had a heavy expression and were worried.
This situation continued until they passed through the underground lake and arrived in front of Black Rock City.
"Is this Black Rock City? The place of hope in the oracle of the God of Death? The city that defeated a Shadow Dragon according to the rumors? "
Looking at the low city walls in front of them, one of the Underground Dwarves in the team frowned. They could see the borders of the city at a glance.
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