Chapter 1354 - Easy Persuasion (1/2)

The magic battleships moved on. The news that a Blood Elves’ city was destroyed had been sent back. Every bloody crystal had been linked to each other. The destruction of one bloody crystal could easily be detected. It meant the destruction of a city’s defense. If a city lost its defense, it was easy to tell what would happen.

It had been countless years since the Blood Elves’ city was destroyed. The incident received the attention of the Blood Elves’ leadership. Unfortunately, by the time their reinforcements arrived, not a living creature could be seen in the place. Lin Yun and the others had already reached the Blood Elves’ mines.

The Blood Elves that guarded the mines were either killed or enslaved. It wasn’t difficult for Bulinwon, who had already surrendered, to convince the miner Cave Gnomes to work for Lin Yun.

It was the norm that a couple of the Cave Gnomes died at work while mining every day. When an accident happened, dozens of Cave Gnomes might get killed.

When Lin Yun arrived, he even saw a pit outside of the mines where the bodies of dead Cave Gnomes were thrown. Those Cave Gnomes mostly didn’t die in the mines, because the bodies of victims in the mines usually couldn’t be found. All of them were tortured to death by the Blood Elf supervisors.

The situation here was slightly better than what he had seen in the small city earlier. All Cave Gnomes were sent into the Natural Demiplane. The mana of the captured Blood Elves was sealed. Even if the Blood Elves wanted to do anything, the Cave Gnomes would be able to kill them easily.

He had known that the Blood Elves had a bad temper, but he didn’t know that their souls were corrupted. No wonder they were more perverted than devils.

After Lord Shawn reported the finding to him, Lin Yun was deep in thought. Perverts made up a huge portion among the Blood Elves, and their souls had surely been corrupted. However, Lord Shawn tore apart a dozen Blood Elves’ souls, and found all of their souls were corrupted to various degrees. If Lord Shawn hadn’t been an extraordinary manipulator of souls, he wouldn’t have discovered the corruption hidden deep inside the soul.

Lin Yun remembered the crazy mages’ research that he read about in books. Many mages would do anything to pursue the truth. They even caught and dissected Blood Elves for studies.

Even so, little progress was made on the research of Blood Elves. They were unable to confirm how the Blood Elves were born. Neither of the two theories could disprove the other. It was one of the few things that Noscent mages couldn’t reach a conclusion on after a long time of research.

Considering the Blood Elves’ abnormal soul and the Blood Essence mines that contained enormous power, Lin Yun suddenly had a bold speculation, and he believed that the speculation was likely to be true.

The Cave Gnomes in this large area were all taken away. More than 40,000 Cave Gnomes were enough for his demand. In a stable environment with enough resources, they would reproduce much faster than human beings.

There was once a time when different species of gnomes established a small kingdom in the north of the Odin Kingdom. Unfortunately, their shortcoming, which was the lack of strength as individuals, was obvious. Although their kingdom was very powerful, and awed the forces nearby for decades, they were too weak as individuals, and the magic buildings, alchemy puppets, and magic weapons they built couldn’t save them from being destroyed.

In a war, a Heaven Rank mage who was aware of their weakness could cast an area curse, and kill 10,000 gnomes. A blast of soul power that wasn’t very pure could rip apart the souls of thousands of gnomes too.

This was a world that belonged to the strong anyway. One’s own strength was what mattered.

The gnomes’ reproduction ability and their deft hands gave all the conflicting forces nearby a feeling of crisis. Naturally, they joined their forces, and destroyed the gnome civilization.

Now that Lin Yun had found tens of thousands of gnomes, their population might double in 10 years. He would not be able to just build a Shelter Tower, but also ask them to create buildings in his territory.

He left with his team, and went on to search for the Red-Skinned Spirit Suckers, who were easier to deal with than the Cave Gnomes. While the Red-Skinned Spirit Suckers weren’t respected in the underground world, they had nothing that interested other races. Also, it was impossible to eliminate all of them. After 10,000 years of chaos in the underground, the Red-Skinned Spirit Suckers wouldn’t be extinct, although their population would plummet.

Nobody knew the places where the Red-Skinned Spirit Suckers gathered more clearly than the Cave Gnomes did. One of the two races was slaves to the Chromatic Dragons, and the other was food. They knew each other very well. Also, the Red-Skinned Spirit Suckers lived underground too. They were like neighbors to each other.

Bulinwon had already become an expert in talking other people into submission. He led his tribe to surrender at the beginning, and convinced other Cave Gnomes to surrender too. He had already become the boss of all the tens of thousands of Cave Gnomes, who wouldn’t support anyone else after they all had a delicious meal that he offered…

Then, Bulinwon led Lin Yun to the Red-Skinned Spirit Suckers’ habitat.

It was also in the Tungus Mountain, which was quite big, and was home to a lot of races. However, the Cave Gnomes usually lived on the edge that had the least resources. They couldn’t even defeat unintelligent beasts…

The Red-Skinned Spirit Suckers’ situation was better. Also, very few powerful creatures would fight them for the place they lived in because the Red-Skinned Spirit Suckers generally lived in lava caves underground next to lava rivers. No species would go to those places except the Red-Skinned Spirit Suckers, who could swim in lava.

After they arrived, everybody stayed still except for Bulinwon, who entered one of the caves that was reeking of the stench of sulfur with a ball of magma that Lin Yun gave him.

In only half an hour, Bulinwon returned with a human-shaped creature that was emitting hot air.

He looked similar to any other Spirit Sucker, with wet skin and eight tentacles under his chin. He was slim and taller than average human beings. His arms could reach his knees. He had big hands that had webs on them.

When the big buy came out, there were still traces of lava left on the eight tentacles on his chin. After Bulinwon pointed at Lin Yun, the Red-Skinned Spirit Sucker immediately crouched on the ground, showing his submission according to the rule of the underground world.

“Great Master, I, Andrew, pledge loyalty to you on behalf of the Red-Skinned Spirit Suckers, as long as you guarantee that we will receive the delicious food.”

Andrew crouched on the ground and submitted. He made his terms clear first. The others were slightly surprised, but Lin Yun had seen it coming.

The Red-Skinned Spirit Suckers were remote relatives to normal Spirit Suckers, who reproduced by capturing other creatures, and planting their eggs in the captives. After the melting completed, the Spirit Suckers would grow inside the captives’ bodies, and might even acquire their memories.

So, all Spirit Suckers looked different from each other. Some of them might only be one meter tall, and some could be more than three meters tall. The one thing they had in common was the eight tentacles underneath their chins. That was the common feature of all Spirit Suckers.

The Spirit Suckers’ personality depended on the creatures they resided in, but the Red-Skinned Spirit Suckers were different. They laid their eggs in magma, and let the eggs absorb the power of magma to grow up. Nothing but magma flowed in their head…

They were not the smartest beings. This guy was already smart enough to offer his term so straightforwardly. But as soon as they submitted, they would never betray…

Lin Yun nodded quickly.