Synthesis Wizard.

Chapter 104: The Lion

Deep in the cave.

In the low basin, the honest clay golem is working diligently.

The crisp sound of the pickaxe hitting the rock wall was endless.

There were also clay golems pushing mine carts filled with ore, clanging along the mine tracks as they were transported outside.

Over the past two months, this mining area has contributed nearly 15,000 gold coins in profits to Sunan, which has offset the cost of killing the hundred-armed monster and even had some left over.

What made Sunan even more delighted was that the reserves of the mineral veins were far richer than expected.

Sunan estimated that if the mine was completely mined to exhaustion, it would still provide him with at least another 80,000 gold coins in profit.

It’s equivalent to three or four years’ profit from medicine sales!

If the space in the mining area was not limited and could not accommodate too many clay golems, he would have wanted to allocate more clay golems to mine.

After walking around the mining area and finding nothing wrong, Sunan went straight to the warning point.

The so-called warning point is the previous residence of the Hundred-Armed Monster.

The place has been cleaned up, and five iron golems are guarding here loyally, motionless like statues.

The magic alarm also remains intact.

Su Nan came to the entrance of the underground world and walked in without stopping.

It had been delayed for nearly three months, and he felt it was time to investigate the situation in the city-state.

Now he has the powerful trump card of the magic pattern core, and he also carries twenty high-level rune gems on his body.

In addition, most of the income from mining in the past few months was used by him to refine golems.

There are currently two Iron Golems, eight Elite Stone Golems, and one hundred Stone Golems in the Rubik's Cube.

With so many trump cards in hand, Sunan is full of confidence.

Even if you encounter danger in the underground city-state, you can be sure to escape even if you can't defeat it.

When he arrived at the entrance that turned downward, Sunan cast the levitation spell on himself, and then added the lightness spell and invisibility spell respectively.

The latter two were his fifth and sixth second-level spells that he had recently mastered.

Specially prepared for this exploration.

As the spell took effect, Su Nan's figure instantly disappeared into the air.

The body also becomes lighter.

With a leap, he landed lightly into the passage.

Not long after, Sunan came out of the stalactites, and the strange island city-state appeared before his eyes again.

After activating the Ultimate Protection Ring on his hand and casting a shield and energy particle protection layer on himself, Sunan slowly flew forward.

The lake at the bottom of the cave was eerily calm, without even a ripple to be seen.

The dim light emitted by the fluorite embedded in the stalactites cannot reach the bottom of the lake at all. Looking down from the sky, the entire lake is like a dark curtain, revealing an eerie silence.

One can't help but wonder if there are any living creatures living in this lake?

Su Nan looked around and did not find any bridge or road across the lake.

He couldn't help but secretly wonder how the people in the city-state would leave the island and enter the entrance to the stalactites above?
However, not long after, Sunan saw a strange bird flying in front of him.

It looked a bit like a hairy manta ray, with a wingspan estimated to be over five meters, and two half-human, half-lion creatures sitting on its broad back.

They look like a combination of handsome humans and strong lions, with a human upper body and a lion's lower body.

"The Sphinx!"

Su Nan's eyes focused and he recognized the origins of the two creatures.

The Sphinx is a very cunning and evil creature.

They have strong bodies and superb fighting skills and are natural warriors.

Some lion-faced creatures even have innate spell-like abilities, such as various illusions, invisibility, etc.

The Sphinx, who has mastered this kind of spell-like ability, is a feared assassin in the underworld.

In addition, sphinxes often have high intelligence and can speak many languages.

An adult Sphinx possesses strength close to that of a knight, enough to easily take on four or five apprentice knights.

If they are elite warriors or nobles among the Sphinxes, they can reach the level of Grand Knight or even Legendary Knight.

"It seems that is the means of transportation for the residents of this city-state."

Sunan watched the manta ray-like bird slowly fly to a stalactite with a hole in it, and then two sphinxes jumped in one after another.

After the human-faced lion left, the manta ray slowly landed on the lake and floated on the water motionlessly, looking very leisurely.

Su Nan's eyes flashed slightly, and he quickly made an idea in his mind. He immediately turned around and came to the entrance of the stalactite cave and rushed in.

Behind the cave entrance is an upward passage, and after passing through it, you will come to an open cave.

Unexpectedly, there was a mineral vein in the cave.

On the uneven rock wall, red metal is exposed in many places, stretching out in a continuous strip.

Two sphinxes were hammering on the rock wall with scimitars, and it was unclear whether they were exploring or doing something else.

Sunan fired two weakening rays directly, and the two sphinxes didn't even have time to react and fell to the ground.

When they saw Su Nan appearing out of nowhere, they all widened their eyes in horror.

"Humanity!"

"Who are you?!"

Sunan didn't waste any time talking to them. He knocked one of the sphinxes unconscious and then started to torture the other one.

"Don't try to lie. I will ask your companion the same question later. If I find out that you have lied to me, believe me, you will regret it."

Under the effect of the spell of proficiency in languages, the Sphinx completely understood what Sunan said and a look of fear appeared on his face.

After a period of torture, the lion-faced man couldn't bear it anymore and answered Su Nan's questions obediently.

After obtaining the information he wanted, Sunan knocked out the sphinx, woke up the other one, and repeated the torture.

It's no wonder he is so cautious, because the Sphinx is notoriously cunning, evil and dishonest.

Without some precautions, you might be led into a pit by these two lions.

Unfortunately, Charm Human only works on humanoid creatures or bipedal creatures that are similar to humans. It has no effect on the half-human, half-lion sphinx, otherwise there would not be so much trouble.

After getting the information he wanted, Sunan killed the two sphinxes without hesitation.

After burning the body to ashes, he looked at the scorch marks on the ground and fell into deep thought.

According to the answers of the two sphinxes, the island in the center of the lake is an underground city-state ruled by sphinxes, with a population of about four to five thousand people.

Among them, the sphinxes only accounted for about two-fifths, and the rest were all slaves of various kinds.

"The city-state ruled by the human-faced lion is in trouble now."

Su Nan frowned secretly.

Although most of the residents of the underground world are evil by nature and have a very bad reputation.

But there are also races such as fire dwarves and gold dwarves who are not so evil by nature and can communicate.

Originally, Sunan was thinking that if he met a race that was easy to communicate with, both sides could sit down and have a good chat and develop a friendly trading relationship.

But it was a sphinx!
This is absolutely not someone you can communicate with, or even trust.

Sunan dared to guarantee that once the human-faced lions found the entrance to the surface, they would definitely invade the surface to plunder the population and resources. Or in other words, they had actually found the entrance and were now sharpening their knives.

In any case, as long as the entrance to the surface still exists, a battle with the Sphinx is inevitable.

"Big brother should be prepared early."

Even Sunan found the guarding force of the Sphinx city-state very difficult to deal with.

After all, there are nearly two thousand people with combat power close to the knight level.

And there are also many elite sphinxes and sphinx nobles among them.

There are probably quite a few legendary fighters.

"Let's sneak into the city and investigate first."

Sunan left the cave and flew towards the island.

After crossing the lake safely, he slowly landed on the edge of the island.

The entire city-state occupies about four-fifths of the island, and the remaining one-fifth is the unobstructed lakeshore.

Whether swimming from the lake or flying from the sky, any creature would be observed by the guards on the distant city wall the moment it landed on the island.

It was precisely because of this that Sunan made it a priority to learn the art of invisibility.

Sunan swaggered across the lakeshore and soon arrived near the city-state.

The towering city wall is estimated to be more than 20 meters high and is made entirely of square bluestone. The craftsmanship is unexpectedly good and it looks thicker and more solid than the walls of many human towns on the surface.

Sunan was not surprised at all.

After all, a considerable number of residents in the underground world are dwarves.

Including gray dwarves, fire dwarves, derro dwarves, shield dwarves, gold dwarves, etc.

It is well known that dwarves are very good at casting and construction.

Therefore, the weapons and buildings in the underground world are actually not inferior to those on the surface.

Looking over there, there were many naked upper body sphinx warriors patrolling on the city wall.

There was also a group of human-faced sphinxes holding scimitars on both sides of the city gate, checking the residents entering the city.

However, what attracted Sunan's attention more was a black lion perched beside the city gate.

It was completely black, even its eyeballs were dark, blending perfectly into the shadows. If it weren't for Su Nan's keen perception, he would have almost overlooked it.

After looking for a long time, Sunan still couldn't recognize what kind of creature it was.

Shaking his head, he didn't worry too much. Because of the radiation from the earth veins, various mutated creatures often appeared in the underground world. No matter how knowledgeable a person is, it is impossible to recognize all of them. It is normal to encounter unfamiliar creatures.

He turned to look at the team queuing in front of the city gate, preparing to enter the city.

There are all kinds of creatures in it, including lizardmen, kobolds, minotaurs and even ogres.

Under the intimidation of the Sphinx, these strange-looking monsters and creatures of different races stood together quietly, lining up in long queues waiting to enter the city.

"Good luck."

Su Nan looked delighted.

Magical Disguise is similar to Charm Human, and can only disguise as a human, humanoid, or other bipedal creatures that look like humans, but not a Sphinx.

Sunan had originally planned to use invisibility to see if he could sneak into the city, but now that he had discovered the existence of sub-human creatures like the Lizardmen, things had become much simpler.

Just when Sunan was planning to find a place to disguise himself as a lizard man and come back, something unexpected happened at the city gate.

The pitch-black lion that had been quietly standing by the city gate suddenly stood up, staring straight at a lizardman in the team with its pitch-black eyes, then suddenly opened its mouth and let out a deafening roar.

When the sound reached Su Nan's ears from more than 200 meters away, his head suddenly hurt, as if he had been hit hard by someone.

At the same time, the lizardman in the team in front of the city gate who was being stared at by the black lion groaned and staggered back a few steps.

As soon as the black lion stood up, the human-faced lions around him had sensed something was wrong. Now, seeing the lizard man staggering, their eyes suddenly became particularly sharp.

"That guy is weird!"

"catch him!"

With a loud shout, more than a dozen sphinxes drew their scimitars, roared angrily, and pounced on the lizardmen.

There was a sudden uproar in the team in front of the city gate, and all the creatures retreated one after another, leaving the Lizardmen exposed.

Seeing that his identity was exposed, the Lizard Man no longer hid. His figure instantly twisted and blurred, and in the blink of an eye he turned into a man wearing a gray robe and a gray mask.

The next second, a huge fireball shot out from his hand and hit a sphinx with a bang. The latter instantly turned into a torch, fell to the ground howling and rolled over.

"Blazing Sphere!"

Su Nan's eyes narrowed.

This gray-robed man is also a wizard apprentice!

call!
Six magic missiles tore through the darkness, blasting the heads of four or five sphinxes into pieces.

Several of its companions died tragically at once, but the sphinx was not afraid at all. Instead, it was aroused to its ferocity. It brandished a scimitar in each hand, stepped on the ground with its four claws, and surrounded the gray-robed man from all directions with a roar.

The gray-robed man took out a staff and swung it, continuously releasing spell missiles, while his other hand quickly released spells.

Scorching rays!

Flaming orb!

The scorching heat wave spread immediately and the temperature in the air soared sharply.

It was obvious that the Sphinxes were the more numerous party, but they were beaten back step by the gray-robed man's spell storm.

However, at this moment, a majestic figure emerged silently from behind the gray-robed man.

He swung his two swords alternately as if he was crazy, and slashed out seven or eight times in a row, almost simultaneously hitting the gray-robed man on the back.

Tuk-tuk-tuk!
There were dull sounds like a knife hitting leather.

The invisible shield behind the gray-robed man was shattered almost instantly, and the powerful sword shadow then drove straight in, but was intercepted by an invisible force field a few centimeters away from the gray-robed man's surface, and could not move forward an inch.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, a red light flashed on the gray-robed man's body. He turned around suddenly and kicked the sphinx more than 20 meters away.

Brute force!
The surrounding sphinxes never expected that this skinny human could burst out with such amazing strength. They were all shocked and their offensive paused.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the man in gray robe suddenly jumped up, paused slightly in mid-air, and then flew away quickly.

The Sphinx came to its senses and chased after it, but was stopped by the lake.

By the time the human-faced lion riding on a manta ray arrived, the man in gray had long disappeared.

"Damn it!"

The human-faced lion holding two swords stood up from the ground, cursed with a sullen face, and swung his sword fiercely to cut a trembling dog-headed man next to him into two pieces.

In the passage of one of the hollow stalactites scattered across the top of the cave, the gray-robed man paused and looked behind him.

"Come out."

Sunan walked out from the darkness.

He didn't hide his tracks at all, so the man in gray robe found him easily.

"Who are you and why are you following me?" the gray-robed man said coldly.

The voice beneath the mask was a neutral one.

Sunan smiled slightly.

"Long time no see, Rose."

(End of this chapter)