Chapter 345 Persuading to Fight
At the bottom of the underground city, there is a dark underground wilderness. Wang Zhifan, relying on his clone, descended here by entering and breaking dreams.
He notified Itris through the clone arranged here in advance, telling her that there was an important matter to be discussed and asked her to come here as soon as possible.
At this time, Itris was actually in a relatively far underground valley, where her race lived, which was the result of Wang Zhifan's recent investigation through the clone.
But now he has no interest in exploring these underground races, so after discovering their base, he did not go looking for trouble, allowing Itris, whose strength had skyrocketed, to fight for power in her own tribe.
Not long after, in this dark and desolate underground wilderness where even monsters seemed inexplicably rare, a slender and graceful figure with a cold face suddenly appeared. She came so fast that ordinary people could not see her movement trajectory even if they could see in the dark.
"You're here. I'm glad you're not late."
Wang Zhifan smiled and looked at Itris, whose temperament had changed greatly. He knew that after the baptism of power and strength, she was no longer the ordinary girl of the Dark Night Clan.
"What do you want to talk to me about?"
Itris, whose image had become much colder, did not show any change in expression. She looked at Wang Zhifan with deep vigilance.
"The Demon King has escaped from the seal."
Wang Zhifan said it directly, and at the same time paid attention to the changes in the expression of this alien girl. He found that her eyes and eyebrows did not seem to have obvious reactions. She should have expected this.
"If you see the Demon King, how do you plan to deal with it?"
He then asked this very critical question, which determined his way of dealing with this quasi-Demon King-level girl.
But Itris did not answer him directly, but asked immediately:
"Where is the Demon King now?"
"No one knows, but it is certain that he is not far away. He may come to the dungeon tomorrow, or today."
Wang Zhifan naturally did not know where the Demon King was at present, but based on the information from the Grand Duke, he could make some guesses.
Itris fell into silence immediately after hearing this. She seemed to have become much calmer in the past half month. She was no longer full of expectations for the real arrival of the Demon King as she was in ordinary times, and she had many more concerns in her heart.
Wang Zhifan knew that she had complicated feelings about the existence of the Demon King. The other party was nominally the spiritual leader of their race, and she should welcome him, but that was based on the fact that she was just a nobody. Now her power was close to the level of the Demon King. It was hard to say how the Demon King would treat individuals who might threaten his status, not to mention that the source of Itris's power was closely related to the Demon King's secret.
"I can help you kill the Demon King. This is the most favorable result for you. Otherwise, the Demon King will definitely try to seize the immortal power in you. It can't deal with the immortal dragon, but it must want to deal with you."
After a few seconds, Wang Zhifan, who found that Itris still didn't speak, expressed his personal thoughts, mainly to pull Itris to his side to reduce the resistance to the destruction of the Demon King.
Itris raised her head and stared at him, as if examining the young man, wondering if there were any traps in his words.
After a while, she responded:
"I believe you have the ability to defeat the Demon King, but what after defeating it? How will you humans treat our underground city race? Perhaps joining forces with the Demon King is more worthy of me."
The girl's words were quite bold. She didn't care at all that Wang Zhifan would kill her in one blow like before. Obviously, the ability to resurrect gave her the confidence to bargain.
"You are still concerned about the safety of your race? Haven't you been living well for so many years? Your personal crisis is the most important thing to worry about now. You know, the Demon King is definitely not as easy to talk to as me."
Wang Zhifan laughed when he heard it. The other party obviously didn't listen to what he just said and actually talked to him about the future of the race.
"You don't care about us underground races, but I do."
Iris immediately fought back strongly after hearing it.
"I would rather sign a contract with the Demon King, let it regain its power to revive and lead us to defeat you humans, than want my people to live forever in this barren underground."
The girl said firmly, obviously, she wanted to propose cooperation conditions and was unwilling to work hard for Wang Zhifan casually.
Wang Zhifan knew that what she said was feasible, but it was only possible, so he said carefully:
"The Demon King will not treat you like the Undead Dragon, because your strength is not as good as the Undead Dragon. If you surrender to it, your fate will probably become extremely cruel, or even end... As for changing the living environment of your race, I advise you to rely on the power of your own race to achieve it, and don't count on the kindness or charity of anyone else, including the Demon King. All interests require matching strength to occupy. If you want to return to the ground, you can only achieve it by strengthening yourself."
After speaking these great truths, Wang Zhifan turned his gaze to the girl in front of him and gave her a final ultimatum:
"If you insist on standing on the side of the Demon King, I won't care much. It will just make the process a little more troublesome... But if you are smart enough and choose to stand on our side, I can introduce you to some top figures, so that you have the opportunity to negotiate with them peacefully and change the future of your race yourself."
As he spoke, Wang Zhifan's aura silently locked onto the alien girl in front of him, letting her know that if she refused this time, she would have to go through the resurrection process again, and she might even lose the power of resurrection in a very special way like the undead dragon in the past, and fall completely.
While Itris was struggling in her heart, a group of high-level professionals in the dark tower far away were ready, waiting for the possible arrival of the Demon King.
Among them, the only player, the Indian Lizard Rider, sat on the back of a large black lizard, with his eyes closed and legs crossed in meditation, guarding in front of the gate of the tower.
Several Berserker professionals carrying axes or hammers stood on both sides of him. The armor on each of them was made of fine steel, full of strong defense visible to the naked eye.
Sword masters wearing light or leather armor and carrying long swords or rapiers are hidden further away. They are not good at defending against powerful attacks, but their ability to damage single targets is unparalleled, and their speed is unmatched by other professions.
As for the further distance of this area, there are also top long-range professionals such as Moonfall Archers and Burning Sky Mages. They can provide long-range damage and control effects of various attributes, which are definitely existences that the Demon King dare not ignore.
In a place farther away from these people, the great sage Agulas Rod is in charge of the overall situation. He has both strategic deterrence and unparalleled auxiliary role, ensuring that the Demon King's whereabouts are nowhere to be hidden.
At this time, senior professionals were guarding the dark tower in a very orderly manner, not hiding their defense against certain existences. Suddenly, a white dove with mysterious power appeared above their heads. The white dove flew over them and uttered human language:
"The devil has arrived! The devil has arrived!"
After saying this, the white dove rushed to the edge of a forest in front of everyone, where it detonated its energy body, revealing to everyone an invisible existence that they had not noticed just now.
It looked like a human male with black skin, but his expression was indescribably violent and weird. When he was shown to everyone by the white dove after the invisibility effect was broken, he did not show any shock or fear, but instead showed a bit of irritability on his face.
"I wanted to let you bastards live two more days... but you insisted on seeking death, so I will satisfy you!"
This strange black-skinned man said as his whole body suddenly burst out with momentum. From the invisible state that most people could not detect just now, he suddenly became as majestic as a towering mountain, and rushed towards the door of the dark tower at a terrifying speed along a straight line, that is, directly towards the high-level player Lizard Rider who was blocking the door.
The dark and thin Lizard Rider was not afraid of this. He opened his eyes, lifted the meditation state, and drove the big lizard under his seat to rush towards this existence head-on, and even let the big lizard open its mouth and want to bite the other party.
The Berserkers on both sides also cooperated at the same time. They used weapons to block the other routes of the comer, leaving the other party with only the choice of fighting the big lizard or one of them.
The swordsmen, archers, and mages further away also acted quickly, quickly forming a siege net around the target, and some of them had already launched long-range attacks, even if they might cause accidental injuries to their friends.
But facing this first round of means, the black-skinned man transformed by the devil didn't care at all. He didn't even look to the left or right, and rushed straight into the mouth of the lizard rider, and then instantly knocked the lizard through with his body, and his figure appeared in the gate of the tower.
"My beloved lizard!!! I'm going to kill you!!!"
The lizard rider was immediately shocked and angry, and the sparse beard on his dark cheeks shook violently. He turned around and jumped off the back of the lizard corpse, and threw a red ball into the gate of the tower.
Boom!!!
A violent explosion occurred immediately, and the portal of the dark tower spewed out a lot of fire and smoke, but unfortunately there was no trace of the black-skinned man.
"Don't chase! The demon king wants to use the tower to divide our forces!"
Some professionals immediately understood the demon king's plan. He might be very powerful and strong enough to fight against all the people here, but he was obviously smarter and was not willing to fight them one-on-many. He hoped to lure all the enemies into the tower and disperse them.
From the fact that the demon king just approached the tower in stealth, it can be seen that he is the type who likes to deceive, and he is not as rough as he said.
"We must enter the tower! Otherwise, it will be more difficult to deal with him if he gets the equipment!"
Another part of the professionals then expressed their opinions, and wanted to rush into the tower to track the demon king.
The lizard rider was one of them. He saw a machine gun in his hand at some point, and rushed to the door of the tower with the machine gun. The speed was so fast that the professionals around him could not stop him.
"Everyone, please stay where you are!"
The Grand Duke's voice then appeared in the mouth of a white dove. He was observing the battlefield and adopted a conservative strategy. Many professionals who wanted to chase stopped immediately after hearing this. Only the lizard rider Raji rushed in regardless.
Inside the tower, as expected by the people outside, the demon king did not rush directly inside, but hid inside to observe the situation of the people chasing behind, wanting to launch a sneak attack and counterattack.
This was his way of breaking the situation. The professionals set up a formation outside the tower to welcome it, and it ran to the inside of the tower where it was difficult for these people to arrange in advance, turning the passive into the active.
But this time the situation was a bit bad. Only a dark-bearded human followed in. Even if it was not satisfied, it had to burst out and hit a back-and-forth, and one claw pierced the weapon in the lizard rider's hand and his not-so-strong body.
But the lizard rider did not scream when he was killed by it, which puzzled the demon king who easily defeated him.
Then the demon king found that the lizard rider seemed not afraid of being injured. Even if he was wounded in the chest, he did not react much. Instead, he used the damaged machine gun to hit it several times at the last moment, which made the demon king understand that this enemy had a terrible recovery ability and seemed to be immune to death.
"Why was this human not killed?!"
The demon king said that he wanted to pull out the palm that pierced through Raji's body and crush his head, but a lizard tail suddenly wrapped around his body and arms from behind, and the binding force was quite strong.
If someone happened to observe nearby, they would find that the lizard rider had now turned into a half-human and half-lizard form. He had a thick long tail and was trying to lock the opponent with a fighting attitude of risking serious injury or even life.
"Die!"
How could the demon king succumb to such a means? He immediately burst out with strength, and with the expansion of his body, he tore the lizard rider completely apart. His chest was torn in half, his tail was torn out of bones, and his head was deformed and pulled out of his neck by the demon king's violence. No matter how you look at it, he is dead.
But just as the demon king was about to turn around and step into the tower, he found that most of the lizard rider's body parts had "come alive". They strangely turned into small lizards. These lizards quickly gathered together and turned into intact living lizard riders again. Then the lizard riders took out weapons from their personal space again and rushed towards him fearlessly.
"This human also has the power of immortality? Interesting..."
Seeing this, the demon king knew that this guy was very difficult to deal with. It was basically hopeless to use violence to solve him. It would probably take a lot of time to explore the limit of his immortality.
So he decided to temporarily keep this weirdo alive and deal with him after getting back his former equipment.
"My evil sword can absorb souls to strengthen itself, and then this human will surely die."
Thinking of this, the devil no longer paid attention to the lizard rider and ran towards the depths of the tower with all his strength.