In fact, Hao Ren was curious if it was appropriate for the Allied Army to post the information about the demonic army outside. Based on Y 'zaks' reputation over the past hundreds of years, any news related to the demonic army would at least cause social unrest, but the Allied Army did not seem to care about it at all.
But after Lanina explained it to Hao Ren, he knew what was going on.
The ten-year war had just ended, and there were hundreds of years of rule by the Demonic Empire before that. The whole world had not broken free from some kind of "inertia". The news related to the demonic army may cause a short-term uproar, but it would not cause any panic for a long time …
That was because the generations that would have panicked over this were all dead.
It did not matter whether there was good or evil in this war, and it did not matter whether Y 'zaks or the Seven Heroes had higher aspirations. Anyway, it was undeniable that, including long-lived races like the elves, the 400 years of demonic invasion and the 10 years of war had killed one or more generations of all races in this world. Now, those who survived were almost numb, be it demons or mortals.
Three days later, a motley team of mercenaries and adventurers set off from Cadeceus and went through the transit station to the Second Demonic Plane.
All the portals to the Demonic Plane were strictly monitored. Since the demonic army retreated from the human world, Cadeceus, the largest "world transit station", had sealed all the portals connected to the Demonic Plane (of course, only the portals known to humans, and the backdoor Y 'zaks left behind hundreds of years ago was obviously not included). So the mercenaries gathered here had to follow the Allied Army to the Demonic World from other neighboring planes.
Hao Ren and a few of them were in this group. As a temporarily registered wandering mercenary group, they successfully passed the unscrupulous review system. Of course, one could not blame the Allied Army for not being strict with the mercenaries. They were going to the Demonic Plane to risk their lives, what else was there to review? Those who dared to follow the call of the Holy See and the Seven Heroes to challenge the demons were either saints or lunatics. These two types of people obviously did not need to be reviewed.
Normal people would never have guessed that the demonic king himself would take this opportunity to sneak back to his hometown: this was not going against common sense, this was like throwing a chicken out while they were playing Landlord …
After Hao Ren and the others left Cadeceus, they were sent to an uninhabited desert by the portal. This desert was the only continent in the entire space: this place was called "Mendocaine", which meant "barren land" in the Orc language.
Hao Ren and the others were wearing low-key coarse cloaks and mixed in with the miscellaneous army. A mercenary with a scar on his face next to him introduced the desert, "Mendocaine was a settlement of the Orcs four hundred years ago. It is said that there were many oases here. The Orcs built a city and dozens of towns in the desert, and the entire plane relied on the ore trade to survive. But later the Demon King's army captured all the Orcs in Mendocaine, and it was completely abandoned. No one has rebuilt it for hundreds of years. After the end of the Ten Years War, the Seven Heroes called on all the races to block all the demonic portals in the main planes, and let the Great Warlocks build portals in more desolate and remote places as replacements. Mendocaine then had a place to use. "
"There is a large portal in the middle of the desert that leads to the Second Demonic Plane. On the other side of the portal is the outpost established by the Allied Army. After we go there, we will have one foot in hell," another tall and thin man with a scarf wrapped around his head said heartily, "I don't know how many people will stay in that damn place this time …"
A mercenary next to him immediately complained, "Can't you say something more f * cking auspicious!"
Hao Ren perfunctorily chatted with these eccentric mercenaries who had lived on the edge of a knife and had a bellyful of heroism. He returned to Y 'zaks' side and said, "You were really fierce back then. You took away all the population of the entire plane?"
"Mendocaine four hundred years ago was actually a place where the Orcs exiled their compatriots. The so-called city was a huge slum. Countless Orcs were just waiting to die in this barren place. I took them away to mine obsidian for me. Although it was hard work, at least it was better than eating in the desert." Y 'zaks shrugged. "The world was fighting for the Orcs, but in fact, the Mendocaine Orcs were the most loyal group of people among all the races under my rule."
Hao Ren looked up into the distance and saw a huge greyish-yellow pillar at the end of the desert. "What is that?"
"The Mendocaine Pillar, it supports the continent under our feet. According to the legend of the Orcs, once this pillar breaks, the entire Mendocaine continent will fall into the dark sun. They believe that there is a dark sun on the back of the continent under their feet, competing with the sun that never sets in the sky for the domination of the continent." Y 'zaks smiled. "There is no night in this space. The entire continent maintains a never-ending polar day. The sun moves along a curve in the sky and has not set for tens of thousands of years. In fact, the legend of the Orcs has some basis, because there is indeed a brown dwarf on the back of the Mendocaine continent. Due to the gravitational lock, the brown dwarf will never rise to the horizon. Only those who have the courage to run to the edge of the continent can see the glimmer of the brown dwarf shining through the endless abyss. "
Lily let out a long "oh" to express her amazement. In fact, she, who was a science idiot, did not understand what Y 'zaks meant. She only knew that the continent under her feet was sandwiched between two stars. She looked at the greyish-yellow pillar at the end of the horizon in amazement. "That thing really supports the whole continent? It extends from the 'Sun on Earth'? "
"It's just an unreliable legend," Y 'zaks spread his hands. "In fact, it's just a sandstorm, but I don't know what's going on … It hasn't stopped for more than 800 years. It's a dangerous place around the Mendocaine Pillar. We probably won't go there. "
Y 'zaks was right. The man-made teleportation portal opened by the Great Warlocks in the human world was not far ahead, and it was a safe enough distance from the Mendocaine Pillar. It didn't take long for Hao Ren and the others to arrive near the ruins of a city buried by the sandstorm. According to the architectural style of the ruins of the city, it was obviously the home built by the Orcs who were exiled here many years ago. Now that the ancient city was gone, there were only ruins left. The Holy See coalition army established a small town near the ruins of the city as a stronghold to control and maintain the man-made demonic teleportation portal.
The teleportation portal was a dark red vortex with a radius of more than ten meters. It was slanted on the desert in a very strange way, with an angle of about 30 degrees from the ground. It looked like the surface of a sundial. Around the teleportation portal was a circle of restraint devices made of dark red runestones. These runestones floated in the air, emitting a scorching and oppressive aura that seemed to come from the Demonic Plane.
The coalition soldiers in charge of guarding the teleportation portal verified the identity of the mercenaries and the coalition officer in charge of the team, and then ordered to activate the portal.
The dark red vortex lying on the ground suddenly became active, and the entire portal stood upright. The scene in the vortex distorted, and then the red sky and barren land of the Demonic Plane appeared.
Hao Ren and the others followed behind the team and stepped into the portal. When Y 'zaks crossed the portal, he whispered softly, "I hope it's true …"
The scene in front of him changed, and Hao Ren felt that the smell of the desert suddenly faded. His nostrils were filled with the unique and ubiquitous smell of sulfur of the Demonic Plane.
In front of him was a dark red sky, and the extended dark red barren land.
Nangong Wuyue, who was next to him, put her hands on her hips and looked at the unique landscape of the Demonic Plane in high spirits. "It's time to spit again!"
"Don't be so heroic at this time, okay?" Hao Ren threw a collar at her. "I forgot about this thing before … Actually, you can wear this life-support device to adapt to the environment."
Nangong Wuyue looked at the collar in her hand, and finally could not help but jump. "Why didn't you think of it before?!"
Hao Ren sighed. "Isn't this a limitation of thinking? This thing is designed to carry out space missions … And to be honest, you're the only one among us who can't adapt to the environment at all. We don't need it at all. I only remembered to give you this thing when I saw Y 'zaks give the little girl named Vanessa an amulet …"
Nangong Wuyue held the collar with mixed feelings, and decided that she must take care of herself in the future: she could not count on this guy in front of her.
Lily, like the other mercenaries, was looking around curiously: this was one of the many strongholds established by the Allied Forces in the Demonic Plane, and the largest human base in the Second Plane. It was built on a high ground that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there was a gentle downward slope in front.
The entire stronghold did not cover a large area, and there were human-style barracks and towers in sight.
Back then, Y 'zaks ran amok in all the Demonic Planes, suppressing the other demon lords. As a result, after the end of the ten-year war, the Allied Forces took advantage of their momentum and the lack of strength of the other demon lords to open up outposts in every Demonic Plane.
Although they had to put in a lot of effort to maintain these strongholds, in any case, after nearly a year had passed, these strongholds under the noses of the demon lords had persevered. It was not that many demon lords could not uproot these strongholds, but the Allied Forces had worked hard to create a balance: the battle between the demon lords, and the growing military strength of the Allied Forces, these two factors allowed these strongholds to survive until now.
But just when Hao Ren thought that the day would be safe, he suddenly heard a noise in the distance.
The noise quickly spread to the miscellaneous army that had just come from the human world, and Hao Ren finally figured out what was going on:
A unit of the Allied Forces was fighting the demons of Banuklaak in the Broken Plains!
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