Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Mysterious Cave

  This is an extremely spacious stone cave. The height of the cave is frightening, and at a glance, with the faint light from the fire, it's almost impossible to see the top.

  Tang Jie and Lilith could hear a faint humming echo whenever they spoke in slightly louder voices, which kept reverberating and gradually weakened.

  If they quieted down, they could still hear the sound of the wind whistling clearly in the cave.

  This shows that it is a ventilated cave, and having an exit means there is a way out!

  Tang Jie and Lilith were overjoyed, Tang Jie laughed loudly like a madman, shouting: "I'm a genius, I'm absolutely a super genius!! Haha haha ha!!"

  Lilith had just begun to feel a thrill of excitement at her escape when she involuntarily turned back to glance at the dark opening of the tunnel, and suddenly remembered the cave with the Stardirock magic formation, feeling a pang of loss in her heart.

  She lived to be so big, where for the first time she cried out loud like that, and also laughed out loud like that. She was there for the first time kissed a strange man, for the first time worked with a strange man to roast fish, and also ate food roasted by a strange man for her.

  There were too many first times for the first time.

  Whether it's a woman or a man, the first time is always filled with nostalgia and lingering attachment.

  Lilith's slender fingers subconsciously caressed her soft and warm lips, where he had heavily kissed, although it was just to save her life, but her first kiss was gone, leaving only the warmth of the man she fantasized about in her memories.

  Although Tange was very rough and overbearing at the time, after thinking back on what happened with Lirio, he forgot about his roughness and only remembered his gentle kindness.

  Escaped from that cave, will I still be with him in the future?

  If I follow him, will he despise Liriel?

  Won't he think that Lirien had hurt him with magic before and hold a grudge?

  No way, he wouldn't be that kind of person.

  Yes, Kari Lirien did indeed hurt him.

  Yes, Liriel is a simple and naive girl.

  But is there any girl in this world who is really ignorant of love and has no sensitivity at all?

  If a girl always remains unimpressed by boys, it means that the boy who can make her heart skip a beat and make her nervous has not appeared yet.

  Lilith herself did not expect that this time her bold outing would not only let her see the vast world outside, but also make her acquaintance with a black-haired young man who made her cry and laugh.

  Lilith gently bit her lip, standing quietly not far from Tangie's side, occasionally lowering her head to kick the stones with her toes.

  After escaping from the desperate situation, people's minds involuntarily became more agile, and even the innocent Liriel couldn't help but start thinking wildly and anxiously.

  But at this time, Ke Tang Jie was very careless and didn't notice Lilith's little girl's expression. He suddenly discovered something and beckoned to Lilith: "Hey, Lilith, come quick and take a look!"

  Two people have been through thick and thin, the distance between them has long since narrowed, Lilith heard Tang Jie calling her, she was overjoyed, and ran over skipping and jumping.

  "What's wrong, what's wrong?" Lirien asked curiously.

  Tang Jie pointed to a circular stone hole on the ground, he touched it with his hand and felt that it was quite sticky. He then pointed to a small groove in the stone hole: "Look at this stone hole, this groove extends from here all the way to the top of the wall, and then there are many more grooves connected to this one, spreading out in all directions. It's very strange, is this some kind of mechanism?"

  "What does Lilith know about these things?" Tang Jie asked her, and she naturally followed whatever Tang Jie said. She nodded and replied: "If you say it's a mechanism, then it must be a mechanism."

  Tang Jie glanced at her and asked tentatively: "I guess this is an ignition device, why don't you try it?"

  He finished speaking and didn't wait for Lirien to nod before running far away. Tang Jie waved his arm: "Lilith, try using your magic!"

  Tang Jie was indeed intimidated by Lilith. This little girl would occasionally give him a cold shoulder, which really gave people headaches.

  What's most frustrating is that she was indeed careless, and each time it was an unintended consequence, but this carelessness made Tang Jie feel like he had no way to vent his anger, and couldn't do anything about it, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.

  Lilith was worried and confused at this time, why think so much?

  Tang Jie let her light it up, and she ignited a fireball, which she then threw into the stone cave.

  All of a sudden, the stone cave was ignited with a "whoosh" sound, and the stone trough connected to it also caught fire. The flames spread along the direction of the stone trough, gradually illuminating the entire cavern with a bright light.

  Tang Jie's mouth was agape as he stared at the massive stone cave, watching the flames that extended endlessly in all directions. He soon discovered that after circling around the walls, countless flames converged into a single flame, rushing towards the stone cave in the opposite direction.

  Tang Jie happened to be in the direction of the flame's passage, and he was startled. He was just about to take a small step back to avoid the flames when suddenly, Lilith let out a loud and urgent shout: "Forward, absolutely do not go backward!!"

  Tang Jie was shocked and couldn't imagine what Lili had discovered that made her speak to him in such a tone.

  Fortunately, Tang Jie reacted quickly and immediately stomped his foot, his body suddenly shooting forward, barely avoiding the flames.

  He stood still and looked at Liriel unblinkingly: "What just happened?"

  Lilith didn't even look at him, she just stared with wide eyes and trembled all over as she looked at a huge white spherical object about ten meters in diameter suspended not far from Tang Jie's side.

  Tang Jie followed her gaze and was startled, even he himself didn't know that there was such a huge sphere hanging behind him just now.

  This sphere appears to be a living thing, resembling the shape of a human gallbladder, with a layer of sticky membrane covering its surface. Upon closer inspection, it is possible to see a fluid-like substance flowing beneath this membrane.

  "What is this thing?" Tang Jie subconsciously stretched out his hand, curiously wanting to touch it.

  "Don't touch it!!!" Lirien's tone was unprecedentedly severe, she didn't think twice and threw out a magic spell, smashing towards Tang Jie's hand!

  Tang Jie jumped in fright, hastily withdrew his hand and glared at her: "Are you crazy?"

  Lilith's face turned pale, and she glared back at him without showing any weakness: "You're the one who's crazy! Do you know what this is?"

  Tang Jie was unhappy thinking, damn it, I've only been here for a short while, how would I know what kind of ghost thing this is, to scare you like that?

  Lilith no longer paid attention to him, she turned her head, slightly stretched out her hand, and trembled as she pointed at the giant milky white sphere suspended in mid-air: "This is the most terrifying demon created by the Angel Alliance during the distant Divine War - Yak. Barbal!"

  Huh? Distant Divine War? Angel Alliance? The most terrifying demon beast?

  Tang Jie listened to this string of nonsense terms with a face full of disdain.

  Lilith's expression was extremely fearful as she looked at Yak. Barbal in front of her, and she trembled with fear, saying in a trembling voice: "You should have heard the story of the divine war between the Sky God Raphael, the Earth God Gaia, and the Ocean God Tira?"

  Tang Jie was taken aback for a moment, then remembered the legendary story Nia had told him about the captain. He nodded: "I've heard of it, what's up?"

  Lilith swallowed her saliva, although it had been tens of thousands of years since the end of the Divine War, but when she saw this ancient magical beast that was only recorded in the ancient forbidden books for the first time, she was still filled with fear and panic.

  "In that year, the Dragon Clan, Giant Clan, Elf Clan and Winged Clan formed by the Sky God Raphael, formed an alliance with the Angel Alliance, and launched a fierce battle against the coalition of humans, dwarves, beastmen, merfolk, sea dragons and Naga tribes created by the Earth Goddess Gaia and the Sea Goddess Thalassa. At first, the Angel Alliance won victory after victory, and the coalition forces of the Sea God Thalassa and the Earth Goddess Gaia were defeated. This was because all the races in the Angel Alliance, whether it was the Dragon Clan, Giant Clan, Elf Clan or Winged Clan, were proficient in magic and aura, while only the Naga tribe among the coalition forces of the Sea God Thalassa and Gaia understood magic and aura."

  However, later on, humans used their clever brains, cunning words and agile tongues to persuade the Naga tribe to teach them magic and internal energy. In the long divine war, the human race, beastman race and dwarf race, who understood magic and internal energy, grew at an astonishing speed. They relied on their large population base and strong reproductive ability to slowly turn the tide of battle around.

  As the war deepened, various heroes emerged from among humans, beasts and other races, leading their respective tribes in a fierce counterattack against the Angel Alliance.

  Lilith murmured, her voice echoing in the empty stone cave, as if coming from a distant historical shore: "The proud Angel Alliance is powerful and invincible, but their numbers are too few. Their reproductive ability is far inferior to that of humans and beastmen. When a human hero dies, another hero will immediately emerge to replace him. But when an angelic giant dragon falls in battle, there will be one less giant dragon; when a giant falls, there will be one less giant."

  Under the indifferent gaze of the God of Time, the Angel Alliance finally suffered a massive defeat, and this time's defeat had almost sealed their fate, irreversible! But at this moment, the Dragon King Shuerte.Rogen, the Giant King Arthur.Moore, the Elf King Aifu.Jirovia, and the Winged King Skye.Robert, the four kings of the major races, fearing the punishment of the Sky God Raphael, secretly formed a dark pact to reverse the tide of battle.

  "What agreement?" Tang Jie listened intently and couldn't help but ask.

  "The Dragon King donated their most precious dragon blood, the Giant King donated their hardest skin, the Elf King donated their most beloved hands, and the Winged Tribe donated their most prized wings. The four great kings used these offerings to create an unprecedented demon, this is Yak. Barbal!"

  "How powerful is this demon?" Tang Jie asked curiously.

  Lilith's face turned pale as she stared at the quietly squirming Barb, saying: "How powerful Barb is, I don't know, all I know is that when I was browsing through the ancient magic forbidden classics in the Magic Guild's Forbidden Tower, it recorded the number of creatures killed by Yak. Barb."

  "How much?" Tang Jie asked.

  Lilith stuttered: "One billion three hundred and forty-four million... nearly two-thirds of the entire Allied Forces!"

  Tang Jie took a cold breath and looked at the giant white egg-like object again, his eyes filled with fear.

  The coalition forces of humans, beastmen and other tribes, who had been driving back the powerful angelic coalition in defeat after defeat, were killed by this egg-like demon lord Barbal, nearly two-thirds of their numbers...

  "This guy, is he that terrifying? How did it kill so many people?" Tang Jie looked up and down at the terrifying demon beast in front of him.

  Lilith swallowed her saliva: "Do you still remember when I just shouted at you to jump forward and not backward?"

  Tang Jie nodded: "Of course!"

  "The characteristic of Baruba is that when it doesn't come into contact with living things, it has no lethal power. It itself is a kind of organism with strong parasitic ability, not afraid of magic, not afraid of swords and knives, not afraid of Dou Qi, as long as there's air, it almost isn't afraid of any attack in this world, but if you let it come into contact with living things, then it will gradually occupy the body of that living thing, turning him into its host."

  "What's even more terrifying is that if the person infected with Baruba comes into contact with another person, that other person will also become a host for Baruba, spreading from one to another like an epidemic, continuously expanding!"

  It was because of this that the Angel Alliance possessed a magical flute capable of controlling Balba, and when they dropped Balba's giant egg from the sky, a disaster like hell began on the ground... The coalition forces of the sea god Tira and the earth goddess Gaia fell into unprecedented chaos and mutual slaughter, more and more people were infected with Balba, these infected hosts under the manipulation of the flute, raised their butcher knives to their former comrades!

  Tang Jie jumped in fright, and unconsciously took a few steps back from Baluba. He looked at Baluba's sticky outer membrane and felt his whole body hair stand on end, his heart racing with fear!

  "What finally happened to this Baluba?" Tang Jie also swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

  Lilith said, "Barbara is almost without weakness, but only almost. Its only weakness is that it must rely on oxygen to survive. So, it can be killed with fire!"

  Tang Jie thought it was strange: wasn't it said that Balba wasn't afraid of magic?

  But then he clapped his hands and exclaimed loudly: "I understand! Fire can burn up all the air around Baluba, suffocating it to death!"

  "That's right!!" Liriel nodded her head, a hint of sadness on her face.

  "When the human coalition discovered Balba's weakness, they had already suffered extremely heavy losses. In order to thoroughly eliminate Balba, many of them had to send their own relatives and friends, brothers and sisters to the stake and burn them alive..."

  Tang Jie felt a chill run down his back: "Weren't they supposed to be completely eliminated? Why are there still Barbaras here?"

  Lilith looked up and down at Barba carefully, shaking her head slowly: "Lilith doesn't know either. Looking at this situation, it seems like someone sent Barba to this place for safekeeping. What on earth was that person thinking? Lilith can't guess either..."

  Lilith said, gently tugging on Tangie's arm and speaking softly: "Tang, let's go quickly, standing in front of Balbar makes me feel very afraid..."

  Tang Jie thought that if he hadn't listened to Lilith's words and jumped back just now, if he had happened to bump into Balba, the consequences...

  He himself thought about it and felt terrified!

  Tang Jie nodded: "This place really has a evil atmosphere, I don't know which bastard brought Balba to this place!"

  They both felt a strange sensation in their hearts and walked outwards along the direction of the stone cave's extension and the direction of the wind.

  Out of this huge stone cave, the cave suddenly became a bottleneck, and the surrounding passages all became narrow and short, just allowing four people to walk side by side.

  The flames of the stone trough continued to burn, illuminating the cave and making it bright, even the dark green moss on the walls was visible in every detail.

  After walking for about ten or twenty minutes, Tang Jie suddenly felt a burst of light in front of him, and an even larger stone cave suddenly appeared before his eyes.

  In this cave, the sea breeze is strong, about 40-50 meters high, with many stalactites around, like small hills scattered everywhere. At the end of the cave is the vast blue sea, with waves crashing against the shore, making a loud roaring sound.

  On the shore, there is a man-made pier, and on the shore of the pier, there is a huge depression in the stone pit. In the pit stands a gigantic black circular... egg with a diameter of over 40 meters.

  This huge black sphere almost occupies half of the space in this vast cave, standing under it, one can only feel how tiny they are, like a shrimp!

  The shell of this giant egg was hard and black, covered with coarse black scutes, but near the ground there was a small diamond-shaped insertion hole.

  There was a case of Balba before, this time Tanger didn't dare to touch the black giant egg again. He turned his head and asked Lirisis with lingering fear: "What is this again?"

  Lilith's expression on her face was even more shocking than when she saw Barba before!

  She widened her eyes, her whole body violently trembling, her voice stuttering, and her hand shaking as she raised it to point at the majestic black giant egg, saying three words: "Black... Dragon... King!"

  That's all for today.