Xyrin Empire

Chapter 416 - 416 416 Crystal Jungle

?Chapter 416: Chapter 416 Crystal Jungle Chapter 416: Chapter 416 Crystal Jungle The Third Raven Squad suddenly lost contact with us.

This was completely unexpected by everyone; the last message they left indicated that the squad had entered deep into the dungeon and had not engaged in any battles. After they discovered “the cave suddenly opened up, with a large void ahead” and “were about to enter a fault zone,” communication was abruptly lost. The calls from the Mother Ship went unanswered, and the two regular squads approaching this Raven Squad from two other passages in the dungeon also lost contact immediately afterward.

The eerie situation prompted me to immediately instruct the teams conducting searches near that dungeon to halt their activities and switch to a high alert state, ready to repel an enemy that could appear at any moment. Shortly after, Qianqian, Lilina, and I took a landing pod directly to the vicinity of the target dungeon.

After the successive loss of contact with the three teams, the First Squad led by Jaina was the first to arrive on the scene. With ten powerful Ravens and a hundred Great Mages from Dalaran and Silver Moon City, this squad possessed an unprecedented formidable strength. They had already sealed the entrance and exit of the cave with Arcane Shields and Ghost Energy Barriers under my order. However, as it stood, no enemies seemed to be coming out from that location.

The place where we now stood was a wasteland strewn with rubble, which the Insect Race had clearly infested for a long time. Although the raven-like Insects’ mold on the ground had been burned to ashes by the Flame Storm, the occasional charred remains of Insect Race limbs that bristle out from the desolate Gobi desert terrain still managed to churn one’s stomach. Since these insectoids had been dead for so long, the various characteristic chemicals within their bodies had long lost their activity, and coupled with their firm flesh, the Ravens did not spend too much effort to burn every blackened internal organ and muscle. As a result, large patches of quite uncomfortable insect corpses had been left behind.

“How is the situation now? Still unable to make contact?”

I addressed not Jaina but Raven 001, who assisted Jaina. While the former was the leader of this squad, she was more of an honorary leader and didn’t understand the advanced communication technology of the Xyrin People.

“Your Majesty,” Raven 001 dispersed the intense Arcane Halo floating on the black cloak and bowed upon seeing us arrive, “We have released several detectors and, so far, have not encountered the ‘fault zone’ mentioned by the Third Squad. There are no abnormalities in the current situation.”

From the real-time images transmitted by the detectors, I could clearly see the interior of the dungeon.

To be honest, the inside of the dungeon did not look as disgusting as I had imagined; in fact, it was much better than our surroundings—at least there were no suddenly exposed eviscerated Insect corpses to ruin your appetite.

The entrance to the dungeon was located under a gentle hillock, with a diameter of about ten meters, enough to allow light Single Soldier Fighter Jets easy access. The interior was mainly composed of a type of high-strength black mixed rock, with no possibility of collapse. The first hundred or so meters inside were flat and the environment dry. The footsteps of the First Squad were clearly visible under the lens of the detectors, and beyond that point, the terrain gradually sloped downward and grew steeper, while the walls of the dungeon slowly expanded, forming a flattened dome. The agile detector, following the information left by the First Squad, mirrored the latter’s route of action before their disappearance, gradually nearing a suddenly expansive area.

“The terrain here is like entering a flattened fuel tank through a slender tube,” Raven 001 provided a vivid description to portray the underground landscape, “Your Majesty, that is the fault zone up ahead.”

As Raven 001’s words fell, the images in front of us turned a corner and underwent a seismic change.

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