Chapter 1369: Chapter 1114 Trace of the Dragon Clan
Elsa departed, and all the Crystal Demons watched her departure through the live stream. Then, Belle gestured invitingly to the Crystal Demons who were watching and said, "My subjects! Just now, my good friend Princess Elsa brought us great news!"
Great news? Would anyone be furious over great news? All the Crystal Demons were bewildered.
"I can hardly wait to share this exciting news with all of you! Ten thousand years ago, the culprits who spread the Crystal Poison to our planet, nearly causing our annihilation, have now appeared!"
After a brief silence, the entire Crystal Demon Star released terrifying energy fluctuations in the dark cosmos, the light of the Crystal Demons’ fury!
"I see the joy in your hearts! Starting now, I will form an army of a million soldiers! You will enter the Heaven Realm through a loading process! You will personally carry out our revenge!"
The entire Crystal Demon Star went mad.
Although the Crystal Poison now coexists peacefully with the Crystal Demons, at the end of the day, these Crystal Demons were almost annihilated by the Crystal Poison. If it weren’t for their powerful adaptability as members of the Demon Tribe adjusting to the Crystal Poison, then only the Crazy Demons would remain on this plane. Therefore, even though every Crystal Demon no longer talks about the Crystal Poison, deep down, the rage towards those enemies who brought the Crystal Poison upon them still lurks within their hearts.
And now, the time for revenge had arrived.
Unlike creatures from other planes, Crystal Demons need not undergo special training to become warriors. In fact, the roles filled by the Crystal Demons are not acquired through learning but through the loading of different crystal modules. Sometimes a Crystal Demon might be a warrior, and when they tire of it, perhaps they will give up the warrior crystal module for an artisan’s module, and then they will possess the artisan’s skills. These modules don’t provide the inspiration for their creations but do allow them to have proficient techniques. When these crystal modules first became popular among Crystal Demons, some philosophers worried whether the modules would stifle their creativity. But soon, they discovered that what truly determines creativity lies beyond technology. Quickly mastering mature techniques does not stifle creativity; rather, it allows a Crystal Demon with a novel idea to rapidly turn their plans into action.
It was the same for warriors.
There were no professional warriors among the Crystal Demons, but if needed, every Crystal Demon could become a warrior. Hence, when Belle announced the selection of warriors, the Crystal Demons responded with unprecedented enthusiasm. In the past, the Crystal Demons and Crazy Demons had been at war for ten thousand years. When it came to combat experience, every Crystal Demon warrior had plenty, although they lacked experience fighting typical enemies.
Though the Crazy Demons were strong, their way of fighting was not the mainstream method of combat on this plane. Thus, when Belle agreed to dispatch soldiers to aid Elsa in battle, Elsa immediately summoned a thousand Ghost Spirit girls from the Dark City to start joint training with the Crystal Demon warriors.
To call it joint training was really just plain combat. With the Ghost Spirit girls wearing energy alloy armor being slightly stronger than the average White-skinned warrior, these girls could definitely allow the Crystal Demon warriors to accumulate enough combat experience in a short time.
However, in reality, Crystal Demon warriors accumulated experience far faster than expected. The thousand selected Crystal Demon warriors were able to share their combat experience, making a day of training almost equivalent to one person training for a thousand days! Every day after training, the Crystal Demon warriors would exchange battle information with each other. After merely three days, it could be said that the Crystal Demon warriors had essentially mastered the characteristics of the energy alloy.
At the same time, the Crystal Demon scientists organized by Belle had completed the development of energy alloy suited for Crystal Demons. Rather than armor, the Crystal Demon scientists chose an even more extreme method; they would use the energy alloy to compose the bodies of the Crystal Demons themselves!
When Elsa heard Belle say this, she could only marvel, thinking that this was probably a method that only Crystal Demons could come up with.
Next, it was up to her father, the Emperor of the Celestial Clan, to make his move.
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Long Yi had always been worried about how to cope if the false god above Dragon Star sent another Dragon Clan invasion. Isrile’s Giant Beast Legion was already powerful, and Ruosha’s Nightmare Knight Order was formidable as well. But Long Yi still harbored some concerns, considering the Dragon Clan from the Lower Plane that had previously invaded experienced failure and would likely become even stronger if they decided to re-invade.
To be prepared, Long Yi thought it was time to search for the hidden Dragon Clan within this plane. As the top fighting force created by a god, aside from the bugged Golems made by the Giants, there was truly nothing better suited to face the Dragon Clan than the Dragon Clan themselves on this plane.
However, finding the Dragon Clan was not so easy. Using the intelligence network of the Azure Sky Empire, Long Yi searched for information about the Dragon Clan everywhere, but unlike the sporadic sightings in the Lower Plane, the Dragon Clan seemed to have completely disappeared from this Middle Plane. Once, traces of the Dragon Clan were found across all three planes, but Long Yi refused to believe they could just vanish from existence.
Upon more detailed inquiry, Long Yi finally obtained some information: an adventurer team claimed to have encountered traces of the Dragon Clan on a certain planet, but those who went to investigate afterward proved that it was just a suspicion. The desolate planet showed no evidence of the Dragon Clan’s presence at all.
This piece of information was already over a decade old. Those who initially discovered the traces of the Dragon Clan were either dead or missing. The only person who could be found had already become an old man. Therefore, at first, the person responsible for collecting intelligence didn’t take this matter seriously and directly filtered it out. It wasn’t until Long Yi could not find any suitable information that he had no choice but to look amongst the discarded intelligence to find this content.
To anyone, the credibility of this intelligence was not high. But for some reason, Long Yi believed the possibility of the Dragon Clan being here was very high. The reason was unknown; he merely believed it to be so. Since he had nothing else to do, Long Yi simply set out to go to that planet to investigate for himself.
It was a desolate planet with abundant vegetation and various strange birds and beasts, but no colonizers had ever settled here. Before arriving, Long Yi had reviewed the history logs of the Azure Sky Empire and the logs of other countries within the planet’s star sector. There was no history of colonization or development. In other words, despite being suitable for human habitation and survival, no one had ever thought of developing it.
Yes, Long Yi realized that this was the reason for his unease. This planet was not actually that remote, and according to the nature of all humanoid life forms, including humans in the three major planes, the habit of life was to never miss and never let go. There was no reason to neglect such a liveable planet right under their noses and pursue far-off lands instead.
Of course, Long Yi didn’t inquire with the relevant personnel of those countries. After all, if there really was something fishy going on here, such a question would definitely alert them. Thus, Long Yi came here in person to figure out what was going on by himself.
Long Yi first circumnavigated the planet for several weeks, looking for any potential traces and clues, but of course, found nothing. He then searched places where the Dragon Clan would likely inhabit according to their habits, but found no traces of any large creatures.
Indeed, things weren’t that simple. Long Yi had already determined that the Dragon Clan was hiding here, although there were no traces to be found. But his instincts told him that the Dragon Clan must be here!
Wait... this wasn’t an instinct!
Long Yi immediately entered a state of Divinization, and the form of the entire planet before his eyes instantly changed completely. A huge energy field covered the whole planet. This energy field did not act directly on anyone, but it acted on people’s consciousness, making them instinctively think that this planet lacked value for utilization. The people affected would find all sorts of reasons from their own knowledge to justify the planet’s lack of utility value.
But this kind of energy field was ineffective on Long Yi because, on one hand, he had experienced numerous events with the Divine Worm, making him immune to various mental influences. And most importantly, this field was in fact a Giant’s magic! And naturally, Giant’s magic was ineffective on Giants! Therefore, Long Yi had never realized that there was such an energy field covering the whole planet!
A flicker of rules, and Long Er appeared, like the shadow of the Dragon Clan with a mask, his body translucent, enigmatic Divine Texts flowed within his body. Now Long Er was normally hidden within Long Yi’s Divine Status, no longer in Long Yi’s private space. Inside Long Yi’s Divine Status, Long Er could exert his maximum power.
"I sensed the presence of an incomplete Divine Status," Long Er said.
"Just say it, there are Divine Worms here," Long Yi said.
"And many of them," Long Er added.
"Many?" Long Yi frowned.
"Yes, a great many," Long Er said. "From what I can sense right now, there are at least three thousand, five thousand, ten thousand, eleven thousand... at least that many."
Long Yi’s eyes widened in disbelief. Could it be that this place was not a habitat for the Dragon Clan, but rather a sealing site for the Divine Worms?
"Whatever it is, let’s take a look first." Long Yi was now unafraid of the Divine Worms. He wanted to see what these worms were trying to do, that they would gather here.
The energy field had a direction, and as a Giant, Long Yi headed straight for the source. It was a mountain that soared into the clouds, but the energy came from within the mountain. Long Yi descended to the summit, and the power of rocks surged, automatically moving aside the rocks atop the summit to create a path for him. Soon, Long Yi saw the device generating the energy field. It was a standard Giant apparatus, and judging by the structure on the device, it was definitely a work from the later period of the Giants. A thorough check of the energy channels revealed the device used the most common void energy of the Giants. Long Yi descended following this device and at about a kilometer underground, he finally found as many as twelve Power Cores. It was known that the energy supply from these Giant Power Cores was very abundant. In theory, such a level of force field would only require three to ensure a sufficient energy supply. However, the Giants had installed twelve, clearly going beyond considerations of maintaining stability. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to vote for it and give it a monthly ticket at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
