Chapter 428 The Second Plane

In fact, Hao Ren was very curious about whether it was appropriate for the Holy See Alliance to post the information about the Demon King's Army so carelessly. Based on Y'zaks' popularity over the past few hundred years, any information related to the Demon King's Army would be the least to be thrown out. It's a social turmoil, but the Holy See coalition doesn't seem to care about it at all.

But after La Nina explained it, Hao Ren understood what was going on:

The Ten Years' War has just ended, and there were hundreds of years before that during the reign of the Demon King's Empire. The entire world has not yet broken free from a certain "inertia". The news about the Demon King's army may cause a short-term commotion, but it has long been There is no need to cause any panic...

Because the generations that would have panicked about it are all dead.

Regardless of whether there is good or evil in this war, or who has more noble ambitions between Yzaks and the Seven Heroes, there is no denying that: including long-lived races like elves, the four-hundred-year invasion of the demon king plus the ten-year war All races in this world have died for one or even several generations, and now all the survivors are almost numb, whether they are demons or mortals.

Three days later, a motley army composed of mercenaries and adventurers set off from the Cardsius plane and traveled through the transit station to the second demon plane.

All portals leading to the Demonic Plane are strictly monitored, and since the Demon King's army retreated from the human world, Caddisius, the largest "world transit station", has sealed all portals connected to the Demonic Plane. (Of course, only the portals known to humans, the escape route left by Yzaks hundreds of years ago are obviously not included here), so the mercenaries gathered here must go with the coalition forces from other nearby planes Demonic world.

Hao Ren and the others were among this group, and successfully passed the unrigorous review system as a temporarily registered wandering mercenary group. Of course, we can't blame the Holy See coalition for not being strict in reviewing the mercenaries - they have to go to the devil's plane to risk their lives. What else is there to review? Anyone who dares to follow the call of the Holy See and the Seven Heroes to go to the demons for a duel is either a saint or a lunatic. , these two types of people obviously do not need to be tried.

A normal person would never guess that the Demon King himself would take this opportunity to sneak in and smuggle back to his hometown: This cannot be said to be out of line with common sense. This is throwing out a Yaoji when others are fighting landlords...

After Hao Ren and the others left the plane of Cardsius, they were sent by the portal to an uninhabited desert. This desert is the only continent in this entire space: this place is called "Menducain", in the orc language It means "barren land".

Hao Ren and his party were wearing low-key coarse cloth cloaks and mixed in with the motley army composed of three religions and nine streams. They listened to a senior mercenary with a scar on his face introducing the desert: "Menducain was a settlement of orcs four hundred years ago. It is said that there were many oases here in those days. The orcs built a city and dozens of towns in the desert. The entire plane relied on the ore trade to survive. However, later the Demon King's army plundered all the orcs in Menducain. This place was completely abandoned, and no one had rebuilt it for hundreds of years. After the Ten Years War, the Seven Heroes called on all races to block the demon portals in all major planes, and asked the great warlocks to build portals in more desolate and remote places. As a replacement, Menducain will be useful again."

"There is a large portal in the middle of the desert that leads to the second demonic plane. Opposite the portal is a sentry point established by the Holy See Alliance. After we pass there, we will step half into hell," said another tall and thin man with a turban wrapped around his head. The man said cheerfully, "I don't know how many people will stay in that damn place this time..."

A mercenary nearby immediately complained: "Can't you say something auspicious?"

Hao Ren chatted and laughed perfunctorily with these weird mercenaries who were licking blood from their swords and full of heroism, and then returned to Y'zaks: "You were so fierce back then that you took away everyone in the entire plane. Walk?"

"Four hundred years ago, Menducain was actually a place where orcs exiled their compatriots. The so-called city was just 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 is hard work, at least it is better than eating in the desert," Yzaks shrugged. "The world feels sorry for those orcs, but in fact the Menducain orcs are the most loyal group of guys among all the races under my rule."

Hao Ren looked up into the distance and saw a huge gray-yellow column looming at the end of the desert, reaching into the sky and the earth: "What is that?"

"The Menducaine Pillar supports the continent beneath our feet. According to the orc legends, once this pillar breaks, the entire Menducaine Continent will fall into the dark sun - they firmly believe that the backside of the continent beneath their feet There is a dark sun that competes with the sun that never sets in the sky for dominance over the continent." Yzaks smiled, "There is no night in this space. The entire continent maintains never-ending daylight. The sun It 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 for it, because there is indeed a brown dwarf on the back of the Menducain continent. Due to gravitational locking, the brown dwarf will never rise. On the horizon, only those who dare to run to the edge of the continent can by chance see the faint light of the brown dwarf shining through the endless abyss.”

Lily let out a long "Oh" to express her surprise. In fact, as a science idiot, she didn't understand what it meant at all. She knew that the continent under her feet was sandwiched between two stars. She looked at the gray sky at the end of the horizon in amazement. Yellow Towering Pillar, "That thing really supports the entire continent? Does it extend from the 'earth sun'?"

"It's just an unreliable legend," Yzaks spread his hands. "In fact, it was just a sandstorm, but I don't know what happened... It hasn't stopped for more than eight hundred years. Menducaine The area around the pillar is a very dangerous place, and we shouldn’t go there.”

Yzaks was right. The man-made portal opened by the great warlocks in the human world was not far ahead, with a safe enough distance from the Menducaine Pillar. It didn't take long for Hao Ren and the others to arrive near the ruins of a city buried by wind and sand. According to the architectural style of the ruins, this was obviously the home built by the orcs who were exiled here many years ago. Now that the ancient city has passed away, only the ruins of the walls remain, and the latecomers like the Holy See Alliance have established a small market town as a stronghold near the ruins of the city to control and maintain the man-made demon portal.

The portal is a dark red vortex with a radius of more than ten meters, lying on the desert in a very weird way, with an angle of about 30 degrees to the ground. It looks like the disk of a sundial. There is a circle around the portal. The circle is a restraining device made of dark red rune stones. These rune stones are floating in the air, and there is a hot and oppressive aura coming from the demonic plane.

The coalition soldiers guarding the portal verified the identities of these mercenaries and the coalition officers responsible for leading the team, and then ordered the gate to be activated.

The dark red vortex lying on the ground suddenly became active, and the entire door stood upright. The scene in the vortex was distorted, and then the red sky and desolate land of the devil's plane appeared.

Hao Ren and his entourage followed the team and stepped into the gate. As Yzaks crossed the gate, he muttered softly: "I hope this is true news..."

As the light and shadow of the scene in front of him changed, Hao Ren felt that the smell of the desert suddenly faded away, and the smell of sulfur that was unique to the demon plane and was everywhere floated in his nostrils.

In front of him was a dark red sky and a black-red barren land extending out.

Nangong Wuyue, who was beside him, put his hands on his hips and looked at the unique landscape of the demon plane with high spirits. He said proudly, "It's time to tell the truth again!"

"Don't be so arrogant at this time, okay?" Hao Ren threw a collar over, "I forgot about this thing before... Actually, you can wear this life-support device to adapt to the environment."

Wuyue stared blankly at the collar in her hand, and finally couldn't help but jump to her feet: "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 are the only one among us who can't adapt to the environment at all, and we can't use it at all. I saw that Lao Wang gave the little girl named Vanessa an amulet before I thought of giving you this thing..."

Nangong Wuyue held the collar with mixed feelings, and decided to take care of himself from now on: this guy in front of him can't be counted on.

Like other mercenaries, Lily was looking at the surrounding environment curiously: this is one of the many strongholds established by the Holy See Alliance in the Demonic Plane. It is also the largest human base in the Second Plane. It is built in an area that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. On the high ground, there is a gentle downward slope in front.

The entire stronghold does not occupy a large area, and there are human-style barracks and towers in sight.

At that time, Yzaks was rampant in all the demon planes and suppressed all the other demon monarchs. As a result, after the Ten Years' War, the Holy See Alliance took advantage of his momentum and the lack of strength of the other demon monarchs to control the sentry. The station has expanded to every demonic plane.

Although it took great effort for them to maintain these strongholds, no matter what, nearly a year later, these strongholds inserted under the noses of the demon monarchs still persisted. It is not that many demon monarchs cannot remove these strongholds, but the efforts of the Holy See Alliance have created a balance: the battles between the demon monarchs and the growing military strength of the Holy See Alliance. These two factors have allowed these delicately located strongholds to exist until now.

But just when Hao Ren thought that today would be safe, he suddenly heard a noise coming from the distance.

The noise soon spread to this motley army that had just arrived from the human world for support. Hao Ren finally figured out what was going on:

A unit of the Holy See Alliance fought head-on with the demons of Banu Clark in the Broken Plains area!