In fact, Hao Ren was very curious about whether it was appropriate for the Holy See Coalition to post information about the Demon King Army directly outside so aggressively - according to the popularity of Yitzhax in the past few hundred years, any news that had anything to do with the Demon King Army would at least be a social unrest, and the Holy See Coalition didn't seem to care about this at all.But then La Niña explained it to Hao Ren and knew what was going on: the ten-year war had just ended, and there were hundreds of years before it belonged to the reign of the Demon King Empire, and the whole world had not yet broken free from some kind of "inertia", and the news of being involved with the Demon King Army might cause a short period of commotion, but it couldn't cause any panic for a long time......
Because the generations that would have panicked about it are dead.Regardless of whether there is a good or evil in this war, and no matter who has the nobler ambitions of Izax and the Seven Heroes, it is undeniable that people can't deny it: including long-lived races like elves, the four-hundred-year demon invasion and the ten-year war have caused all races in this world to die for a generation or even generations, and those who have survived now are almost numb, whether demons or mortals.Three days later, a motley army of mercenaries and adventurers set out from the Cadesius Plane and traveled to the Second Demon Plane via the Transit Station.All portals to the Demon Plane are strictly monitored, and since the defeat of the Demon King Army from the human world, Cadsius, the largest "world transit station", has sealed all the portals connected to the Demon Plane (of course, only the portals known to mankind, and the back path left by Yitzax hundreds of years ago is obviously not among them), so the mercenaries assembled here have to go to the Demon World from other nearby planes with the coalition forces.Hao Ren and a few of them were mixed in this group, and successfully passed the censorship system with no rigor at all as a temporarily registered wandering mercenary group.Of course, you can't blame the Holy See coalition for not being strict with the review of the mercenaries - this is going to the demon plane to play for your life, what else is there to try, dare to follow the call of the Holy See and the Seven Heroes to find the demon alone, except for the saint is a madman, these two people obviously do not need to be judged.Normal people would never guess that the demon king himself would take this opportunity to sneak in and smuggle back to his hometown: this can't be said to be out of common sense, this is throwing out a chicken when people fight the landlord......
After leaving the Cadsius plane, Hao Ren and the others were transported by the portal to a desert that was the only continent in the entire space: this place was called "Menducaine", which means "barren land" in orc language.Hao Ren and his entourage wore low-key coarse cloth cloaks and mixed in the miscellaneous army composed of three sects and nine streams, and listened to a mercenary senior with a scar on his face next to him introduce this desert: "Menducaine was a settlement of orcs four hundred years ago, it is said that there were many oases here, and the orcs established a city and dozens of towns in the desert, and the entire plane relied on mineral sands trade for survival, but then the demon king army plundered all the orcs of the entire Menducain, and this place was completely deserted, and no one rebuilt it for hundreds of years."
After the end of the Ten Years' War, the Seven Heroes called on the Races to block the demonic portals in all major planes, and let the Grand Karcists build portals in more desolate and remote places as alternatives, and Menducaine was once again useful. ”"There is a large portal in the middle of the desert leading to the second demon plane, and opposite the portal is the outpost established by the Holy See coalition, and after we pass, we will step into hell with half a foot," another tall and thin man with a turban wrapped his head said heartily, "I don't know how many people will stay in that ghost place this time......"
A mercenary next to him immediately complained: "You TM can't say something auspicious!"
”Hao Ren perfunctorily talked and laughed with these strange mercenaries who licked blood on the knife edge and had a belly of heroism, and retreated to Yizax's side: "You were fierce enough back then, and all the population of the entire plane was packed and taken away?"
”"Four hundred years ago, Menducaine was actually a place where the orcs exiled their compatriots, the so-called city was a huge slum, countless orcs were waiting to die in this barren place, I took them away to mine obsidian for me, although they did hard labor, but at least they had enough to eat in the desert," Izax shrugged, "The world fights for those orcs, but in fact, the Menducaine orcs are the most loyal of all the races under my rule." ”Hao Ren looked up into the distance and saw a huge gray-yellow cylinder faintly reaching the sky at the end of the desert: "What is that?"
”"The Menducain Pillar, which supports the continent beneath our feet, orc legend says that once this pillar breaks, the entire Menducaine Continent will fall into the dark sun - they firmly believe that there is a dark sun on the back of the continent under their feet, and it competes with the sun that never sets in the sky for dominance of the continent," Izax smiled, "There is no night in this space, the entire continent maintains a never-ending polar day, and the sun moves in a curve in the sky, and it has not set for tens of thousands of years.In fact, the legend of the orcs is somewhat based, because there is indeed a brown dwarf on the back side of the Menducaine continent, and due to the gravitational locking, that brown dwarf will never rise to the horizon, and only those who dare to run to the edge of the continent can see the glimmer of the brown dwarf shining through the endless abyss by chance. ”Lily let out a long "oh" in amazement, in fact, she didn't understand what she was a science idiot at all, she knew that the continent under her feet was sandwiched between two stars, she looked at the gray-yellow pillar at the end of the horizon in amazement, "That thing really supports the whole continent?"
It extends from the 'earthly sun'?
”"It's just an unreliable legend," Itzhax said, spreading his hands, "it's actually just a sandstorm, but I don't know how......
It hasn't stopped for more than eight hundred years.It's a dangerous place around the Menducaine pillar, and we shouldn't go there. ”Itzax was right, the man-made portal opened by the archkarcists of the Human Realm was not far ahead, a safe enough distance from the Menducaine Pillar.It didn't take long for Hao Ren and the others to come to the vicinity of the ruins of a city buried by wind and sand, and according to the architectural style of the ruins, it was clear that this was the home built by the orcs who had been exiled here many years ago.Now that the ancient city is gone, and only the ruins remain, the latecomers of the Papal Coalition have established a small market town near the ruins of the city as a stronghold to control and maintain the man-made demonic portal.The portal is a dark red vortex with a radius of more than ten meters, lying on the desert in a very strange way, with an angle of about thirty degrees to the ground, it looks like the disk of a sundial, and around the portal is a circle of restraints made of dark red rune stones, these rune stones float in the air, and there is a hot and oppressive aura from the demon plane.The coalition soldiers guarding the portal verified the identities of the mercenaries and the coalition officers who led the team, and then ordered the gate to be activated.I saw that the dark red vortex lying on the ground suddenly became active, and the whole gate stood upright with a clatter, and the scene in the vortex was distorted for a while, and then the red sky and barren land of the demon plane appeared.Hao Ren and his party followed the team and stepped into the gate, and as he crossed the gate, Yizax whispered silently: "I hope it's true news......"
The light and shadow in front of him changed, and Hao Ren felt that the aura of the desert suddenly faded, and the ubiquitous smell of sulfur wafted from his nostrils.In front of him was a dark red sky, and a black-red barren earth stretched out.Nangong May, who was beside him, crossed his hands on his hips, looked at the unique landscape of the demon plane with high spirits, and was arrogant: "It's time to spit out the letter again!"
”"Don't be arrogant at this time, okay," Hao Ren threw a collar over his hand, "I forgot about this thing before......
In fact, you can wear this life-support device to adapt to the environment. ”May looked at the collar in her hand in a daze, and finally couldn't help jumping to her feet: "Why didn't you think about it before?!"
”Hao Ren sighed: "Isn't this a limitation of thinking, this thing is designed to be used on space missions......
And to be honest, one of us can't adapt to the environment at all, and a few of us can't use it at all, I still watched Lao Wang give the little girl named Vanessa a talisman before I remembered that I could give you this thing......
"Nangong May is really full of mixed feelings when she holds the collar, and she is determined to take care of herself in the future: this guy in front of him can't count on it."
Lily, like the other mercenaries, was curiously surveying her surroundings: one of the many strongholds established by the Papal Coalition on the Demon Plane, and the largest human base in the Second Plane, it was built on a high ground that was difficult to defend and difficult to attack, with a gentle downward slope ahead.The entire colony is not very large, and the view is full of human-style barracks and towers.At that time, Izax was rampant in all the demon planes, and the other demon monarchs were suppressed one by one, but after the end of the ten-year war, the Holy See coalition took advantage of their own momentum and the lack of strength of other demon monarchs to open up the outpost to every demon plane.Despite the tremendous efforts they had to put in to maintain these strongholds, in any case, nearly a year later, these strongholds that had been planted under the noses of the Demon Sovereigns were still holding out.It is not that many of the Demon Sovereigns have been unable to uproot these strongholds, but that the Papal Alliance has worked hard to create a balance: the feud between the Demon Sovereigns and the growing strength of the Papal Allied forces have allowed these delicately located strongholds to survive to this day.However, just when Hao Ren thought that he could be safe today, he suddenly heard a noise in the distance.The noise soon spread to the ragtag army that had just come to the aid of the human realm, and Hao Ren finally figured out what was happening: a force of the Holy See coalition was engaged in a head-to-head battle with the demons of Banu Clark in the Shattered Plains!
(To be continued.) )