The Ocean Lord Is Unusually Powerful

The next day.

Ji Chen walked out of the lord's mansion with a refreshed look on his face.

There is also a lot to do today.

Last night, news came from the underground cave that the kobolds who had entered the mysterious cave entrance rashly due to the shock and then disappeared were found.

It's just that Ji Chen was busy last night and couldn't get out.

We put this matter aside for the time being and dealt with it this morning.

This was the first time in his life that he experienced the beast-eared girl, and he was too excited for a moment.

So don't blame the lord for not fulfilling his duties, just blame the beauty for being too coquettish.

Ji Chen was in a very happy mood at this time and leisurely led Alice and the others to the entrance of the underground cave.

At this time, the cave entrance has been expanded many times to facilitate the transportation of mineral resources. The collected resources are concentrated here from the underground and then transported to the territory.

"Sir!" The two kobolds guarding the entrance of the cave saw him coming, their eyes were filled with enthusiasm and awe.

Ji Chen waved his hand casually, said a few words of encouragement to flatter them, and then got to the point.

"You found those kobolds last night. Where did you find them?"

"Report to your lord, it was found in a branch cave below the entrance of the cave."

Ji Chen nodded, then stopped asking and led the army into the cave.

He was going to meet those kobolds and ask for more things and details.

In the largest underground cave.

Several kobolds with yellow, hungry faces, withered faces, and skinny bodies were brought in front of them.

They saluted with fearful expressions, almost bending their heads to their waists.

Ji Chen looked at them and frowned.

Didn't he remember that more than twenty kobolds were missing? Why are there only these few?

With this question in mind, Ji Chen summoned a kobold consul over.

"Why are there only these kobolds, and where are the others?"

"Sir, when we found them, they were the only ones left, and the rest were missing."

"We also asked other kobolds where they were, but as soon as they heard this question, they became agitated and could not continue to communicate."

Ji Chen nodded, looked at the kobolds in front of him, and waved his hand to signal them to get up.

"I have wronged you all this time."

As soon as these words came out, these kobolds burst into tears and burst into tears. "We have been living so hard during this period. When we are hungry, we can only eat mushrooms growing in the caves. When we are thirsty, we can only suck mushrooms on the rock walls." water drops,

If we were found later, we would have starved to death! "

Ji Chen was a little silent.

He had basically given up on the idea of ​​searching before, and only sent out a few teams of kobolds to search symbolically.

But I didn't expect that these kobolds were so lucky and could persist until they were found. It was really strange.

After the kobolds finished complaining, Ji Chen continued.

"Don't worry, you don't have to worry about food in the future. The territory will definitely keep you fed."

"I have a question to ask you now. Apart from you, where have the dozen or so kobolds gone?"

"Missing or dead?"

As soon as the words were spoken, these kobolds suddenly looked frightened. They covered their heads with their hands, huddled on the ground and shivered, their bodies twitching.

This appearance shocked Ji Chen. He didn't expect the reaction to be so strong.

It's like they thought of something that frightened them terribly.

Just when Ji Chen was at a loss what to do, Alice walked up and said, "Sir, let me try to calm their emotions."

Ji Chen was stunned at first, and soon understood the reason.

Alice's singing can bring creatures into beautiful hallucinations, and may be used to appease these fearful kobolds.

After getting his permission, Alice took a step forward.

The song started slowly.

There is no magic involved in it, but even so, the singing is still extremely beautiful, more ethereal than the voice of a lark, and more melodious than the voice of a cuckoo.

Even people who have no musical ability can still feel the beauty of this singing.

Gradually, the twitching kobold lying on the ground no longer shivered, but instead raised its dog ears and listened to the singing.

Seeing this scene, Ji Chen's face lit up with joy.

It really works!

Several kobolds stood up from the ground, their faces gradually calmed down.

The song is over.

Alice stepped back.

At this time, most of the fear on the faces of the kobolds had dissipated.

Seeing this, Ji Chen asked again carefully.

This time, although there was still a bit of fear on their faces, they were no longer out of control.

Under his guidance, he recounted what he saw and heard that day before he was rescued.

"That day, after the vibration blocked the passage back, we discovered a new cave that appeared due to the collapse. We thought it was another exit, so we went down together."

"After we went down, we discovered that it was also a cave. After wandering around inside, we went to a very large underground space. This space is ten times larger than here!"

Hearing this, Ji Chen subconsciously looked around.

The place they are now in is the largest underground cave in this area. It is almost the size of a football field and ten times larger than here. Isn't that tens of thousands of square meters?

"That cave is connected to hundreds of large and small caves embedded in the rock wall, and there are obvious traces of biological life." At this point, there was an obvious look of horror on the faces of these kobolds.

"Before we had time to explore, a large number of lizardmen rushed out of those caves. Seeing this, we ran away, but while escaping, a few of us got lost with other kobolds."

"Because we were not familiar with the environment and we didn't pay attention to the direction we were running away from, we ended up getting lost and hiding in an inconspicuous cave. We were found in the end."

"The other lost kobolds must have been eaten by those lizard men! Woohoo~"

After hearing this, Ji Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

Good guy, I didn’t expect that there was such a story in it.

Beneath this underground cave, there is actually a deeper cave, in which another race lives - the lizard people.

The funniest thing is that the kobolds have lived here for hundreds of years. Although they have been digging caves, they have not dug a passage to the lizard man's cave. The two have lived peacefully for such a long time.

Until a earthquake shook out a narrow passage, connecting the two caves.

And there are lizardmen down there.

Ji Chen felt a little interested and said with a serious face.

"Anina, you go back now and bring an army over and station it in front of the cave entrance."

"Any creature that is not a friendly unit and wants to come out will be killed without mercy!"

"yes!"

"Kobolds obey orders!"

"Now put down what you are doing and start a thorough inspection of this cave to find out if there are other passages leading to the lizard man's cave! Report it as soon as you find it!"

"Yes! Sir!"

He is interested, but at present he knows almost nothing about these lizard people, so naturally he cannot take them lightly.

Soon, under mobilization.

Anina led hundreds of units of troops into the cave.

Hundreds of kobolds went deep into each cave, even the abandoned caves, and carefully inspected them.

Three days later.

Check to get the results.

In addition to the passage discovered at the beginning, a passage leading downwards was also discovered in two caves.

One of them is even four or five meters wide in diameter.

But it seems that the lizard people didn't notice it.

After getting this news.

Ji Chen decided to start exploring the Lizardman Cave immediately.

According to the kobold's description, there are at least thousands of lizard people living in that underground space.

Such a large force that does not know whether it is an enemy or a friend cannot be ignored.

After such a long time, the channel formed by the last shock should have stabilized and will not collapse easily.

Morning of the fourth day.

Ji Chen gathered all the troops that could fight on land and entered through the largest passage.

Follow the sloping downward passage all the way deep.

I don't know if it's his imagination, but it always feels like the temperature gets higher the further down you go.

There were still beads of sweat on my head.

After thinking for a while, Ji Chen thought of the key to the problem.

Beneath this mountainous area is a dormant volcano.

Now they are walking down, which is equivalent to going deep into the volcano, so the heat is quite normal.

Two hours later.

When the passage came to the end, a pool of magma suddenly appeared in front of us.

Under the dark rock wall, red magma flowed slowly. The air seemed blurry to the naked eye, and gurgling magma exploded from time to time, sputtering on the rock wall.

As soon as we arrived here, the temperature skyrocketed and reached a very high level.

Within a few seconds, my back was completely soaked, my forehead was dripping with sweat, and my mouth was dry.

As a tide master who controls water, Ji Chen instinctively feels disgusted with this place.

Without water, his combat effectiveness would be reduced by 90%.

Not only that, the army seems to have some problems.

Although the Naga Berserkers and Dragon Blood Murlocs are all amphibious warfare units, it does not mean that they can operate in high temperatures for a long time.

Especially in this magma environment, it is weakened a lot.

Although each one of them can still maintain their combat effectiveness, they have become a little weak visibly to the naked eye.

It's better to fight quickly when you see it.

Ji Chen saw this in his eyes and said secretly in his heart.

Look around and look for a way forward

This space is not complicated. There is a stone bridge above the magma pool, which allows you to cross the magma pool and continue deeper.

Without a moment's hesitation, he waved his hand and led the army along the stone bridge.

There are some traces of artificial carving on the stone bridge. The guardrail is carved from a whole rock. There are some patterns carved on the guardrail. There are also some quite original patterns on the bridge deck.

While observing while moving forward, Ji Chen had a preliminary understanding of the level of civilization of this lizard people.

The stone bridge was not very long, and it reached the end in ten minutes, and no lizard-men were seen along the way.

At the end is a winding, narrow walkway less than five meters wide.

On one side is a rock wall, on the other side is a cliff with a river of lava flowing underneath.

"The Naga Berserker is in front, the Dragon Blood Murloc is behind to support at any time, and the rest are following behind me."

After briefly setting up the formation, the group continued to move forward.

This walkway extends upward, and the lava flow flowing beside it is getting smaller and smaller. Generally speaking, the temperature is slowly decreasing.

This made Ji Chen more and more sure of his thoughts.

They should now be on their way to the huge underground space.

After all, those kobolds didn't see the existence of magma.

This means that the place where they encountered the lizard people should be a relatively high-lying place.

It seems that those lizard people do not like too hot environment.

Thinking of this, Ji Chen drove the army to speed up.

Another hour of progress.

They finally stopped seeing the magma.

The temperature has also returned to a tolerable range.

After passing through a passage again, a space the size of a football field appeared in front of us.

On the rock walls and the ground, there are some faintly fluorescent grass plants growing, illuminating the entire space.

A group of bipedal creatures with ugly faces, slender bodies and long tails appeared not far away.

Ji Chen narrowed his eyes when he saw this. As expected, this should be the lizard man that the kobold said.

【lizard Man】

[Race]: Lizardman

[Level]: Level 3, 5 stars

[Skill]: Night Vision (blue skill, able to see objects in dim environment)

Hibernation (blue skill, able to enter dormant state, greatly reducing energy consumption)

Heat resistance (blue skill, the scales on the body can effectively insulate heat)

[Unit Characteristics]: Forging (Lizardmen are naturally good at forging, and the forging of their respective iron weapons is at their fingertips)

[This year’s mushroom harvest is not very good, and the dormancy time will increase again]

Although these lizardmen have level three and five stars, judging from their skills, they don't seem to be very good at fighting.

Anyway, the characteristics of the arms attracted Ji Chen's attention.

forging?

It reminded Ji Chen of the dragon-slaying sword.

The dragon-slaying sword obtained from the dragon nest on the top of the mountain has been unable to be repaired due to the lack of skilled blacksmiths.

And since these lizardmen have such a military characteristic, maybe they can be asked to help repair it?

Not only that, with the expansion of the territory and the increase in the working population.

The consumption of various iron tools has also increased, especially iron picks, iron axes and the like.

At present, the blacksmiths of Ocean Crown were all given by the system at the beginning and were given by the Hanseatic Chamber of Commerce for free.

But there are only a dozen in number, and the forging speed is limited.

Now it is no longer tools waiting for people, but people waiting for tools.

If we could subdue these lizardmen and let them transform into workers, forging tools day and night, perhaps we could solve the current predicament.

In an instant, Ji Chen figured out the use and whereabouts of these lizard people.

There was a hint of a capitalist smile on his lips.

Without any cover, he slowly walked over with the army.