Chapter 878

What Ren said about sending someone to explore the abyss was actually himself. A few days ago, Raistlin had already entered the abyss.

It is not easy to go from the main material world to the abyss. One is the distance, and the other is that the abyss is too big. It is a huge world composed of countless planes, and it is very difficult to locate.

The layer of the abyss that people usually talk about can be roughly understood as distance.

The higher the number of layers, the farther away from the main material plane. The first layer of the abyss is the Plain of Myriad Abyss, the closest to the main material world. The distance between adjacent layers is also very close, but there may not necessarily be a connecting channel, just like the isolation between planes. Most abyss levels are closed and difficult to enter. They must have a strong teleportation ability Or a unique way to get in.

For creatures other than demons, the abyss is the most dangerous place in the world.

However, there are still many people who entered the abyss for various purposes and came back safely, bringing back information about the abyss, including some time-space coordinates and plane passages to the abyss level.

Hundreds of space-time coordinates are stored in the Wezeland Great Library, which are scattered in different abyss levels.

In addition, there are several natural plane passages, which are relatively safe to use.

However, none of these space-time coordinates and passages lead to the 404th layer of the Wilderness of Sighs, and there is very little information about this layer.

So Raistlin chose the neighboring planes as a springboard.

The Wilderness of Sighs is the 404th floor, and there are three well-known planes closest to it, namely the 399th floor "Worm Kingdom", the 422nd floor "Yenoghu's Realm" and the 435th floor "Mist Mountain".

There are abyss lords on the first two floors, and they are not ordinary abyss lords, they are evil gods!

Especially the master of the 422nd floor, the God of Gnolls, "Yenoghu". He is a well-known evil god. Although his divine power is not outstanding among many evil gods, he can only be regarded as moderate, but he is worshiped by all the wolfs in the world. The lord also controls a huge army of ghoul slaves and demons, ruling all the territories of this plane.

The 399th floor of the worm kingdom is not easy to mess with. "The Creeper" Erdren is the god of all reptiles.

His believers also include dwarves, goblins, ratmen, snakemen, etc., whose divine power is weak, but he has built this abyss into his own kingdom of God, and outsiders who enter it will fall into his trap. Danger.

Ren has not expanded to the point of confronting the gods head-on.

So I chose the 435th layer of Misty Mountains.

The area of ​​this layer is larger than the Worm Kingdom and Yeenoghu's Domain, and it is several times larger, almost equivalent to the size of the empire.

But it doesn't have a pit lord.

The forces in the Misty Mountains are very complicated. Over the past tens of thousands of years, more than fifty demon lords have led their armies to conquer the entire plane and become an abyss lord, but none of them succeeded. The reason is that the Misty Mountains are too big, and there are too many demons, numbering in the billions. Almost all types of demons can be found on this layer, and the environment of the layer is very complicated. Without absolute strength, it is impossible to conquer the entire plane.

A few years ago in Northriel, the demon lord "Shahless" who almost came out of the gate of the abyss was one of the lords of the Misty Mountains.

In fact, the Misty Mountains on the 435th floor are the first choice for many degenerates from the main material world.

There are also many extraordinary people who take risks on this level.

Therefore, the geographical environment, demon legion, and power distribution of the Misty Mountains are much more detailed than other planes, so that after entering, they will not know anything when their eyes are darkened.

Five of the space-time coordinates stored in the Wezeland Library point to the Misty Mountains.

Although it was far away from the Wilderness of Sighs, Raistlin chose to enter it. He set up a rune circle in a fel wasteland in the New World, and successfully teleported to the Misty Mountains.

Through Raistlin's eyes, Ren saw the situation of this abyss.

Black is the main color of this world. Most of the entire plane is a continuous huge mountain range, boundless. Peaks that break through the sky stand on the ground, shrouded in an unknown gray mist. It will spread out and see the sun in the sky.

There are countless demons between the gray mist and the black mountain, and they are fighting each other all the time.

Raistlin did not explore much.

After entering the Misty Mountains, he activated the rainbow cloak to remain invisible all the way. With the strength of the archmage, even if he encountered a demon lord, he would not be easily seen through, and he could easily get away if he couldn't beat him.

Fortunately, Raistlin did not encounter the demon lord. After several days of teleportation, he found a plane passage leading to the 421st floor "White Kingdom" in the Misty Mountains.

This floor is adjacent to the 422nd floor of Yeenogu's domain, and there is also an abyss lord, the king of ghouls "Dorison". It was an elf mage during his lifetime, and later transformed into a lich and broke into the abyss, becoming the master of this layer, but was defeated by Yeenoghu many years ago, and swore allegiance to the god of gnolls.

Raistlin avoided the King of Ghouls in the "White Kingdom" and spent ten days finding the plane passage leading to the 403rd floor "Rainless Wasteland".

This layer of the abyss plane is extremely barren and its area is small, and no demon lord is even interested in it.

There are not many demons to be found in the rainless wasteland.

It took Raistlin only half a day to walk through this level. There is no natural plane passage between the Rainless Wasteland and the Sighing Wilderness, but the two planes are adjacent. He chose a node with a relatively weak space, took out the memory crystal he got from Hestaff, activated the space-time coordinates, and cast the nine-ring magic channel to another world.

Soon, a wide passage opened on the wasteland.

Raistlin checked it was safe and went inside.

Coming out of the alien passageway, there is an endless wilderness in front of you, with sparse weeds and shrubs, and the sky is covered with thick gray lead clouds. Only a small amount of sunlight penetrates the dark clouds and shines in. The whole world is dimly lit and never sees the sun.

The dry air is filled with endless fel energy, corrupting the soul every moment.

Even a legendary transcendent, if he stays in the abyss for too long without sufficient spiritual protection, he will eventually be unable to escape the fate of becoming a fallen person.

Raistlin, who had the will to truth, was used to it, though.

"well……"

A deep sigh sounded from nowhere, spreading to every corner of the plane.

Raistlin's heart skipped a beat.

this voice...

In the abyss wasteland of the New World, one can hear the ravings in the wind, making people restless, and the weak-willed will be driven mad by the ravings within three days. Some people say that this kind of raving comes from the ancient four gods of the abyss, while others say that it is the self-awareness of the bottomless abyss.

This kind of crazy raving can be heard in any place where the abyss expands and the place is polluted by evil energy.

Nature is everywhere in the abyss.

However, this sigh is obviously different from the abyss raving, it is clearer, like someone whispering in the ear, although there is only one syllable, but the emotion contained in it can be heard, as if it came from the distant years hundreds of millions of years ago, full of A touch of helplessness, vicissitudes and sadness.

Raistlin stopped to listen, and waited patiently for ten minutes.

"well……"

Another sigh sounded in his ear.

This time, Raistlin clearly captured the emotion in the voice, and the voice of all things was turned on to the limit, finally identifying the source of the sound.

underground!

The sound comes from deep underground and travels into the air. The amazing thing is that its propagation speed is very fast, far exceeding the normal speed of sound, at least a hundred times faster. If the voice of all things hadn't been strengthened when Rennes was promoted to the holy soul wizard, it would be difficult to find the source of the sound.

Leylins looked down at the barren and dry ground, hesitating in his heart.

"Is that where the name of The Wilderness of Sighs comes from?"

He stayed in place for a while, using his mobile phone to accurately time, and he could hear a sigh every 13 minutes or so, very punctual, with an error of no more than half a second.

"Who is sighing?"

Raistlin couldn't help being curious, there was no hostility in these sighs, nor was it polluting the mind like the ravings of the abyss, it seemed like the last lament of a dying person.

If the truth of the mysterious sigh can be uncovered, there may be no small gains.

However, now is not the time for research.

In the information provided by Hestaff, it only said that there is an open-pit source crystal mine in the Wilderness of Sighs, but it only recorded the approximate location, and it needs to be confirmed in person. The area of ​​the Sighing Wilderness is equivalent to three to four provinces of the empire. This is a relatively small plane in the abyss, but it is not easy to find a mine in it.

Raistlin went invisible and took to the sky.

Looking down on the land from a high altitude, the endless wilderness comes into view, and the horizon is the same no matter which direction you look from.

He could only find the blurred outline of the sun through the thick dark clouds and use it as a reference to identify the direction.

call!

Raistlin teleported away.

After several times of teleportation, he came to the northern part of the Wilderness of Sighs, where there is an endless black forest. The tall and twisted trees have few branches and leaves, and are entwined with countless thorns. nightmare.

But this is the richest region in the Wilds of Sighs.

Raistlin found signs of a large number of living creatures in the black forest. Bats shuttled through the shadows. They were vampires!

He followed a group of vampires into the dark forest, and soon saw a dark and ancient castle.

The all-seeing eye penetrated in, and there were a large number of vampires in the castle. They built blood pools, and raised the original demons at the bottom of the abyss as a source of food. They ate the meat of the original demons and drank the blood of the original demons. Fighting with each other endlessly, dealing with other vampires in the cruelest way.

The owner of this castle is a vampire count, equivalent to a legendary mid-level transcendent.

Vampires are demons transformed from humans. They are the unintentional creations of the Lord of Chaos. Their potential is far inferior to those carefully created powerful demons. They were born only a few thousand years ago. They have a low status in the abyss. Sigh to survive on such a remote plane as the wilderness.

But they also have a strict system. Only by being promoted to the Great Demon, that is, to the legendary realm, can they obtain the title of baron, master a territory, and build their own castle.

Above the baron is the earl, and above that is the duke.

Higher than the duke are the vampire princes, they are demon lords, but they are extremely rare. It is said that only thirteen vampire princes have been born in the whole world.

Raistlin sneaks into the vampire's castle.

Vampires have retained the living habits of humans. There are halls, towers, and study rooms in the gloomy castle, which are very clean. If the air is not full of evil and filth, at first glance, it is almost the same as a human castle. .

Raistlin easily avoided the vampire's induction, quietly passed through the security circle decorated with blood runes, and entered the study room of the castle.

The vampire count is not here.

He turned on the mutated phone, and directly copied all the hundreds of books in the study to the phone library. Almost all of these books were written in Abyssal language, which did not bother him, and he quickly found what he wanted, a map of the wilderness of sighs.

Although the map is very rough, it is enough.

Comparing the information provided by Hestaff, Raistlin quickly narrowed down the area where the Source Crystal Mine was located. It was just outside the Black Forest—the vampires called it the "Black Thorn Forest"—about six hundred miles to the west, close to Sigh the Wild West.

After getting the map, Raistlin immediately left the castle and headed towards the source crystal mine.

After two teleportations, he approached the target area.

Blackstaff described that the source crystal mine is in this wilderness. Although it has shrunk a lot, this area has tens of thousands of square miles, and it will take time to find a mine in it.

"Look for it."

Raistlin searched high in the air.

This search lasted for two days, and about a third of the area had been ruled out. Raistlin, who was flying stealthily in the sky, suddenly noticed some movement.

"Um?"

He looked ahead, and saw a group of vampire-changing bats flying at high speed, among them were the figures of vampire aristocrats, a large number, heading in the same direction.

After thinking for a while, Raistlin followed.

Soon, he saw more vampires, and also found the Duke of Vampires, who were patrolling the area with a large number of vampires, seemingly looking for something.

"what's the situation?"

Raistlin frowned. The area the vampires were searching for was within the source crystal mine. These demons wouldn't have noticed anything, would they? For countless years, the demons knew nothing about the source crystal mine and had never mined it. Could it be that they had an idea as soon as they came here? It shouldn't be such a coincidence.

Thinking of this, Raistlin quietly approached a group of vampires.

Then I heard a few words.

"Succubus……"

This group of vampires was looking for a succubus, who seemed to have escaped from the court of the succubus queen for many years. Not long ago, she broke into the Wilderness of Sighs. She was injured after fighting with a vampire duke, and escaped , hiding around here.

Raistlin shook his head, as long as it has nothing to do with the source crystal mine.

He has no interest in succubus.

So they avoided the group of vampires, but half a day later, when Raistlin used his all-seeing eyes to look through the ground to find the mine, he saw a sleeping succubus hiding in a cave.

With just one glance, he was amazed.

This is too pretty!

At the same time, the eyes of the soul saw more information, which stunned Renn who was far away in the empire, and couldn't help but whispered in surprise: "A demon? An angel? He's still a holy swordsman!"