Chapter 739 (1/2)

Chapter 739: The Handshake

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Roland felt a jolt, thinking, “Why do these things sound similar to the giant demonic beast in the snow mountain?”

When he was about to raise this question, Agatha asked Pasha, “Are you the ones who entered the Devil’s Town and devoured the Blackstone Pagoda?”

Pasha was confused, saying, “Devil’s… Town? No, we didn’t. We’ve only used our devouring worm to mend the ruins and build the tunnel to the City of Glow. We can’t afford to use it so frequently since it eats a lot.”

Roland described the witches’ adventures in the Misty Forest and the Devil’s Town located to the west of the Western Region. After that, he asked Scroll to take out the pictures of the scenes drawn by Soraya and explained, “this monster, much bigger than any wild beast, seemed to move toward the great snow mountain.”

Seeing the vivid pictures, Pasha took a deep breath and said, “Yes, it’s indeed a devouring worm. I’m afraid that there’re also some ruins left by the underground civilization in the snow mountain you mentioned. According to the literatures we read here, this civilization once could be found everywhere in the Land of Dawn. This record is reliable, as now we can easily find tracks and numerous tunnels left by devouring worms in every high mountain.”

“But you think the underground civilization has already perished.”

“Yes, we do, but the worm was just a shell like an original carrier. A soul can get into it and then move it.”

Hearing this, Roland’s heart sank in a sudden. He glanced around and found all the witches in the reception hall looked solemn at this moment. Obviously, everybody guessed that the one who sent the worm to Agatha’s research tower and the Devil’s Town must be the unknown enemy in the Battle of Divine Will.

Roland wondered whether this enemy had happened to find the ruins and some worm shells in the snow mountain and transfer souls into those shells.

If this was the case, he believed it would not be a big problem.

However, if they had also found some magic cores and a central carrier, he believed he would have big trouble. Will these things drastically improve their magic theory and even enable them to create some Instrument of Divine Retribution against the witches?

He thought they had an excellent chance of finding some shells and even instruments in the snow mountain. Unlike the Impassible Mountain Range and the Dragonspine Mountain Range, it did not stretch very long, but its major peak was the highest mount in the Western Region. According to Pasha, such a great mountain was a perfect place to build a large underground city for the underground civilization. Given this, he decided that he must do something about it.

Celine anxiously said, “Your Majesty, please assist us in exploring the snow mountain as soon as possible, in case there’re some remaining instruments.”

“And the various kinds of shells recorded in the literature. If the unknown enemy gets them, I’m afraid it would cause us lots of trouble.” Compared to Celine, Pasha still sounded calm, but all her tentacles were waving rapidly, showing her anxiety inside.

This news apparently caused a stir among the blobs, as it was getting noisy behind Pasha.

Roland quickly got why they were so excited.

Living in the God’s Punishment Warriors’ bodies for hundreds of years resembled being imprisoned in endless emptiness, which explained why they were so interested in the new carriers. However, compared with living in the bodies of God’s Punishment Army, the carriers at least enabled them to have some feelings including a sense of smell, though they would not look like human beings anymore.

Roland pretended to hesitate, saying, “I see your point. I’d been planning to explore the snow mountain of the Western Region, but as I didn’t have any suitable means of transport and didn’t want the witches to take any risk, I had to postpone in the end. If I could get the help from your devouring worm for this exploration, I think it’ll be a good opportunity…”