"It should be around here, right?"

Sauron's figure slowly fell from the sky. He stared at the deserted Gobi in front of him and murmured: "I remember that the place where the Golem War broke out was in this area. When those golem puppets ran away, they began to affect other places."

“Huh?”

"Someone left traces! The number seems to be quite large! It seems to be a team of adventurers!"

"Tracking [Clergy]!"

As a god who controls the priesthood, Sauron discovered traces left on the ground at a glance.

More than a day has passed since this trace was left. The wind and sand buried most of the things, and even legendary rangers may not get much information. However, all this is not a problem for Sauron, who is in charge of tracking the clergy. He can even judge the number of teams and the profession characteristics of some of them based on the traces that are about to be buried by sand and dust.

"There are sixteen people in total!"

"Following the depth of these footprints, the weight is probably over 500 pounds. Judging from the size of the footprints, the target should be small and medium-sized creatures, and if nothing unexpected happens, it should be a taller human. Humans cannot leave such heavy footprints. If it weren't for his carrying a lot of luggage, this should be a heavy-armed warrior with good strength."

The daily load-bearing capacity can reach such a high level, Soren is probably at least a warrior above the level.

"These traces are so shallow!"

As the priesthood was opened, Sauron also saw some smaller traces and murmured: "It is not like the halflings who stayed there, their steps could not be so light."

"It seems to be a monk?"

"It looks like a team from the Eastern Kingdom!"

Strong.

There are quite a few people.

From the Eastern Kingdom.

Based on the information left by these traces, the things in Sauron's memory gradually began to match, and he activated the ability to track the clergy. He searched for the direction of the team in a way similar to time backtracking.

Tracking clergy can retreat based on the traces and trace back the traces they left behind.

Even though most of the traces were buried by wind and sand, Sauron still easily caught up with their pace.

Three hours later.

A dark passageway appeared in Sauron's sight, with very obvious excavation marks here, and a torch or two were inserted into the wall.

"It looks like they've already gone in."

Thinking that this was not stopping, Sauron instantly escaped into the shadow. Then he continued to go deeper along the passage.

Broken stone pillars.

Weathered walls.

Even though it has been buried for thousands of years, the buildings during the Arcane Empire have not been completely damaged. Sauron found some traces of battle, and it seemed that the team was in a little trouble.

"This is?!!!"

Soren bent down and picked up a carapace from the ground. There were some cut arthropods around him, about the same size as adult arms, with strange patterns on the surface. They looked like natural magic patterns. Such limbs were almost unlikely to appear on ordinary creatures. In Soren's memory, there seemed to be only a few hit creatures with such things.

A trace of magical aura appeared in his palm, and then he said to himself: "Is it really a death knell beetle?"

Death knives beetle.

Challenge Level 10.

Challenge difficulty level S.

The underground Zerg camp is a neutral, mutant creature.

The number of Zergs in the multiverse is very large. Traces of Zerg can be seen in almost most of the planes that can survive. There is even a Zerg demon lord. The proliferation of Zerg aliens has caused quite a lot of trouble during the Arcane Empire and the Seyin period. However, after several crises, many forces have cleared the Zerg.

In the deepest part of the bottomless abyss, many demon lords are still guarding against the Zerg's counterattack at all times!

The Demon Hunting Spider is a creature created by the demon prince Dimogaogen extracted some of the Zerg's abilities. Zergs in the material plane are relatively rare. However, it is a relatively common encounter creature in the lower plane.

"It's really a death knives beetle, it's not that easy to deal with."

The ancient ruins of the Arcane Empire period all had serious energy radiation, so there were a large number of mutant creatures, and some very dangerous creatures often emerged.

The Death Knives Beetle is one of them!

This beetle-like creature with only ten legs has a bright red hard shell, and its two evil claws swaying in front of its four black round eyes and jagged jaws. Their huge mouthparts are very dangerous. They are connected to each other through a tremolo. The death knives beetle is a variant of giant beetle that was twisted long ago due to overexposed to deformation magic and sonic energy. From the day they were created, the giant insect with twelve limbs has bred in underground nests to build a huge and complex system of tunnels, just like an ant hill.

They are easily mutated creatures.

In areas with high energy radiation, new variants are very likely to be born.

The reason why Sauron is more familiar with this is that Deathkiller beetles are not rare in dark areas. They are unconscious hunters, and they live to reproduce and expand their nests. When beetles in a nest reproduce too much, Deathkiller beetles will open up a new nest. The known Deathkiller beetles will be used as mounts by races in dark areas. The goblins have tamed them in the past, and several orc tribes have made the same attempt. The cavalry who rides Deathkiller beetles in the dark areas will sometimes become elite combat units of their tribes or cities.

A death knell beetle usually has about 9 feet long and weighs about 1500 pounds.

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"There are no traces of goblins, and it is not suitable for the life of the goblins. It seems that there is no channel connecting the dark area."

Sauron observed the surroundings and determined that this place was just a wild Zerg nest.

The Deathkill beetle can be domesticated into mounts. It is not easy to deal with creatures that can domesticate this Zerg. Some powerful tribes and cities in the dark areas will control them, and they are quite difficult to deal with indigenous forces.

“The wild ones are a little better.”

Sauron continued along the passage, but he was much more careful than at the beginning. The adult death knell beetle had a strength of 26 points and a physical fitness of more than 22 points. In terms of strength, it can be comparable to the mid-level demon in the bottomless abyss. If this is a mutant species affected by energy radiation, then the danger level is even higher.

The Deathkill Beetle is extremely dangerous when used as a cavalry mount, and its impact is even more terrifying than the Earth Dragon. The Drow Elves have also tried to tame them.

But because it is not as easy as petrified lizards, they finally chose to give up.

Buzz!

A strange vibration suddenly came from deeper into the passage, followed by a piece of sand falling down crazily.

Sound attack!

The Death Knives Beetle has the ability to attack sound waves, and is a special attack that cannot be defended through conventional means and can only rely on physical fitness to resist. It seems that those people have encountered a large number of Death Knives beetles, otherwise it would be impossible for them to be affected here.

"Accelerating technique!"

Sauron's figure instantly turned into a afterimage and rushed out. The surrounding scenery was rapidly regressing. Some huge Zerg corpses appeared in front of him, and one or two human corpses could be vaguely seen.

This adventurer team has suffered casualties.

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"Huh! Huh! Huh!"

With a rapid gasp, Tee retracted her hands, moved her wrists, and then gently rubbed the position of her temples.

"These damn bugs!"

A Dongfang Dancer holding a dagger landed next to her, and blood was leaking out of her arm, looking a little embarrassed, and said, "There are too many! We can't kill them at all!"

"We have to think of something else."

Annoying bugs.

Not only does it have an extremely hard shell, it can also emit strange sonic attacks, and there is no defensive means at all. If the adventurers present were not strong enough, they would probably have been cleared by sonics.

Tee is not in good condition now. Although she has legendary power as a boxing master, it is still very difficult to solve these death knell beetles by relying on physical means.

They are really hard to fight.

Moreover, although the monk has extremely powerful magic resistance, the effect is not good when facing sound wave attacks. If there were no other strong men in the team, they would probably have fallen this time.

"Do you remember a hall you passed by in front?!"

At this time, a wanderer in the team suddenly spoke, dodging the attack of the Deathkill Beetle, and shouted: "It seems that there are many golem puppets there!"

"Maybe they can still be activated!"

"If it can be activated, we might be able to use them to deal with these damn bugs."

They have gradually approached the core of the insect nest.

There are obviously some things from the Arcane Empire period here. The rich energy radiation created such a large Zerg nest. Te even suspected that what they were looking for was at the deepest part of the nest.

"Who knows alchemy?"

At this time, another person in the team spoke and shouted: "If you understand alchemy, try it, we will cover you and rush over!"

"These bugs are simply endless!"

"If you continue to drag on, we may all be exhausted by them!"

Sizzling.

There were waves of tremolo coming from the passage ahead. I don’t know how many death knives beetles here. They have killed thirty or fifty of them now. It seems that there are more bugs coming over the passage.

"I'll go!"

The Oriental Dance behind the team suddenly jumped out and shouted to the tien beside him: "Cover me! I still have some understanding of alchemy, maybe there is a way to activate those golem puppets!"

There are not many spell casters in the team.

There are not many spell casters in the entire Eastern Kingdom. Oriental dancers also have certain spell casting abilities, and many of them inherit the blood of warlocks.

Because of the need to use alchemy potions and study puppet techniques, Oriental Dance has good at alchemy.

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Chapter completed!