Chapter 170: Monet's Swamp (Part II)
After Sistum's repeated intimidation, the snail, who had no low IQ and was extremely afraid of death, became much more honest and calmly recounted his experience.
The snail has a name, Jace, and is a magical-level abyssal creature with the ability to create vivid illusions and charms.
Jace soon confesses to all of its crimes in fooling the lizardmen and luring the Tyrant Slime, and tells Sistemm about his surroundings.
Having such a native, who knows a lot about this aspect of the abyss, also makes Syst understand the situation of this abyss even more deeply.
In short, the current location of Systm is what the creatures of the Abyss call the Monell Swamp.
The name Monaid comes from a powerful legendary dragon whose dragon's lair was in the center of the swamp, and then Monet somehow disappeared, but the place still bears its previous name.
The origin of the name Monet, Systham didn't ask much, but asked the snail more about the extent of Monet's swamp, its biological composition, and what was outside Monet's swamp.
Heatham soon learns that beyond Monet's swamp is still a swamp, with no clear borders with the outside world.
This level of the abyss is basically a swamp, with few lands and hills, and there is basically no difference.
As for the extent of Monet's swamp, Jace, who did not have a measuring tool, was not very clear, but said that it would take more than ten days to ride the long-legged lizardbeast.
Although there is no difference between day and night in this level of the abyss, there is a clear pattern of bubbles coming out of the swamp, which will stop and open every 12 hours, and the time in the abyss is also measured according to the law of the swamp bubbles, the same as the time in the overworld.
In the upper part of the food chain in the Monet's swamp, in addition to the magical lords in the neutral area where Sistm is located, there are more large and small lizardman tribes, which have been fighting for years to occupy territory.
The reason why the lizardmen fought like this for many years was more for Monet's treasure than to plunder resources and rob female lizardmen.
In the last two hundred years, I don't know where the news came from, it is said that as long as you occupy all the Monet swamps, you will get the inheritance of the legendary dragon Moned, and obtain the blood of the dragon.
The dragon bloodline has an unimaginable temptation for the lizardmen who worship the dragon clan, and there has never been an absolutely powerful lizardman in these years, so the large and small tribes of the lizardmen have been fighting for two hundred years.
Snail Jace seems to know a lot about the Monet Swamp, and according to Jace, the top creatures of the Monet Swamp are extraordinary, and there are only a dozen supernatural creatures, or less.
Among them, there are three transcendental-rank lizardmen among the dozens of tribes of the lizardmen, and there is also a pair of poisonous wyvern nests in the southwest of the Monetic swamp, with two transcendental-rank wyverns.
In addition, the species with the most transcendent rank in the Monet's swamp is Sistum's old friend, the Tyrant Slime, and there are about five or six of them in the entire Monet's swamp.
After hearing Snail Jace's explanation, Systham also learns that his chances of encountering the Tyrant Slime are actually not very high.
There are many Giant Slimes in Monet's Swamp, which belong to the Magic Rank, but the number of Tyrant Slimes with purple cores inside Giant Slimes is actually very rare.
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Pressed by Sisstem, Snail Jace confessed to the purpose of his trip.
It turned out that the snail had obtained an oval magic crystal from the lizardman tribe, and had obtained a ruin location from the magic crystal.
The snail's acquisition of the magic crystal is actually the key to activate the ruins.
Upon learning of this, Shadow quickly found the oval-shaped magic crystal near the spot where the snail was captured, and placed it in the hands of Systham.
Unfortunately, just like he couldn't activate the teleportation array, Heatham couldn't sense the magic crystal.
Only Shadow and Snail Jace can make the magic crystal glow a faint blue glow.
It seems that the power of Shadow Stealth is very close to the power of the snail to send out illusions, so it can produce similar effects, and the fact that Shadow can accurately find the location of this snail at that time is also very close to the power of the two.
Through Shadow's sense of the location of the ruins, the location of the ruins is exactly where Sistemm teleported to the abyss.
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Snail Jace tricked the two lizardmen and lured the Tyrant Slime into opening the way ahead in order to reach and activate the ruin.
After all, snails have no ability to protect themselves, and they can have a certain effect by creating a terrifying atmosphere in the face of intelligent beings, but after encountering magical creatures with no intelligence, they will not hesitate to be attacked.
The magical creatures that occupy the territory in these neutral areas are stronger than ordinary magical rank lizardmen because they have been in a state of fighting and fighting for a long time.
So Snail Jace instructed the two lizardmen to lure a Tyrant Slime to clear the vicinity of the magical creatures that owned territory.
It was in this way that the lizardmen who lured the Tyrant Slime to this place were intercepted by Sistt.
As for the words spoken by the two lizardmen before they died, they were completely deceived by the snail's lies and had no meaning.
It can be said that until the death of the two lizardmen, they were still immersed in the lies of Snail Jace, thinking that after their death, they would fall into the arms of the evil god and gain eternal life.
Through the snail's introduction to the Monet Swamp, Systham can let his ant people breed with peace of mind, without worrying about the rapid expansion of the ants will attract any intelligent races and make him fall into trouble.
Not only that, but this snail not only deceived the two lizardmen who were kept in the dark, but also deceived an entire tribe of small lizardmen, with thirty-seven lizardmen under its control, four of whom were of the magical rank.
It's a pity that the current four-headed magic-rank lizardmen, because of the accident that just happened, there are only two left.
Sistum, who controlled the snail Jace, can be said to have indirectly controlled the thirty or so lizardmen who were brainwashed by Jace.
With Shadow's help, he can also make this lizardman tribe annex more other lizardmen, so that he can indirectly control more lizardmen.
The Snail Brainwashed Lizardman tribe is not very far from the location of Sistm, according to Snail Jace's description, Sistm estimates that it is about ten to twenty kilometers away.
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Although I don't know if all of what the snail said is true, Sistemm can verify them one by one in the following time.
It was the ruins that Sistemm could verify immediately, and he quickly took the rest of the bugs to the ruins where they had teleported, less than a kilometer from where he was.
Through Ei's feeling of the magic crystal, there should be a strange and huge structure buried in this ruin......