Chapter 729 Change Of Plan
After a few minutes passed by, Miranda suddenly clutched her chest in a rough breath.
"Huff… Huff… Damn!! I thought I was going to die!! I met the infamous Red Queen Nabe!! That's crazy!! Huff… Huff.." said Miranda excitedly.
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𝚋𝚎𝚍𝚗ｏ𝚟𝚎𝚕.ｏｒｇ"Luckily, she is going away without doing anything suspicious. Huff.. Huff.. Damn it!! All of this is because of that stupid Richie Alphonso. I am going to sue him later." complained Miranda, but still in an excited tone.
If Nabe had seen this scene, she would have become more confused by Miranda's actions. Miranda's current condition looks like a 'tsundere' hardcore fan but also fears Nabe.
This completely contrasts with Miranda's previous actions that keep taunting Nabe. Unfortunately, no one sees her situation or pays attention to her. Another minute later, Miranda returned to her cold expression while looking at the hard battle in the front.
Meanwhile, Nabe didn't immediately go to the Alder location. Instead, she appeared in front of a group of drunken dwarves riding a group of pigs. This group of dwarves is the one that just traded with Angus and got a lot of pig supplies.
They plan to lead these pigs to their underground tavern, turn them into delicious pork dishes, or keep the pigs alone. From a glance, Nabe could see all these dwarves different from other dwarf guards. Every single one of them was wearing different clothes and style.
They also have various sizes, heights, and skin colors despite coming from the same dwarf race. One even looks unreal, with a bloated fat body floating like a balloon. The only similar thing is that they carry a liquor bottle and smell strong alcohol.
"Good… Morning, Gentlemen. I have come to do business with you." said Nabe after checking the current time.
Currently, the whole Undermine Council is as bright as day. However, the light source does not come from the unique moss at the high cave ceiling.
It is coming from the blazing fire in the surrounding area. Still, a whole night passed by and turned to dawn without everyone noticing.
"*Sniff* *Sniff* Say, Lass… *Burp* You don't happen to have anything to do with the dragon that comes here, right?" said one of the drunken dwarves.
"Ehh.. You can tell? But, I am sure I don't have that lizard's smell?" asked Nabe.
Nabe didn't mind the dwarf's rude reply and brashness. As a merchant with a vast connection network, she knows these dwarves' characteristics are stubborn to the bone.
Not to mention seventh grade like Nabe, even if God appears in front of them, they will not give a single ounce of respect if they didn't want to. Hence, Nabe is already grateful these dwarves still allow her to communicate.
Moreover, she is also unable to judge some of these dwarf strengths accurately. Her instinct told her these dwarves were not something she could mess with, even facing one by one.
"Hahahaha…. It's been a while since I heard someone dare to call a true dragon a lizard. Guess you are his woman as you are still alive." laughed one of the gray-haired dwarves.
"Curious… How could you tell that just from smelling? Did that lizard mark me or something?" asked Nabe curiously.
"Ohh… Lass, it seems he didn't tell you. Hahahaha…" laughed all the dwarves.
"Hmm… Care to enlighten me, Master Dwarves?" asked Nabe.
"Well, dragons are very picky when it comes to finding partners. However, if they find one, they will not hesitate to mark them so no other dragon could snatch it from them." explained one of the dwarfs.
"No one knows how they mark their partner, but these marked people will give a unique pheromone." added another dwarf.
"Over time, the dwarf also learned to recognize these pheromones to avoid having trouble with the dragon. You know we have a rough history with the dragon race." added the floating dwarf in a deep voice.
Hearing this, Nabe's expression changes from frowning to a murderous cold before returning to her previous business smile. All this change happened so fast that no one would have noticed it if they didn't pay attention to Nabe carefully.
At the same time, a certain black-scaled humanoid lizard suddenly shudders and has a bad premonition. For a moment, he becomes serious and observes the gigantic dwarf carefully.
Using his keen eyes and perception, he didn't notice anything unusual and decided to not think about it too much. Unbeknown to him, his life will turn worse and completely restricted. (A/N: Another good man has fallen.)ραпdαs `n?ν?| сom
As Nabe is doing a business transaction with the drunken dwarf, Angus and Jayna find another predicament. With their current strength, they could gather and restrict all the nearby sleeping without a problem.
Angus also finds [Drunken Snore] a very powerful sleeping skill. Not only is the area very vast and contagious, but it is also very potent. As long as the people don't show any hostile intent towards the victim, the victim will sleep like a log even after getting piled like a rice sack.
To be safe, Angus decides to restrict their mana and body movement to not cause more trouble later. Unfortunately, Jayna couldn't control her hostile intent as well as Angus. Hence, He is responsible for restricting the dwarf while Jayna gathers and piles them.
Few fifth-grade dwarves somehow wake up during the gathering process. But, it is not a problem as Angus could just stab his Lava Twin Sword to their vital part and turn them to ash.
The current problem Angus and Jayna is the barrier. With the help of two giant firebirds roasting the whole area prevent the barrier from repairing the power source point.
They didn't need to worry about the power source point repairing themselves even if they were speaking and dealing with the drunken dwarves before.
After restricting and capturing all the snoring dwarf guards, Angus finds the power source point not only changing patterns from this area but also the area in the distance.
Initially, Angus thought the power source point changing pattern only happened in certain areas. It turns out the nearby area is also affected when the power source point keeps getting destroyed.
In other words, Angus needs at least to destroy the whole Undermine Council power source points to destroy or weaken the barrier. However, the Undermine Council area is vast. The barrier not only covers the ground but also the wall and high ceiling.
Even if Angus works himself nonstop, destroying all these power source points will take at least a few years. Although the barrier may collapse or weaken if the majority of it is destroyed, it will take a lot of time for Angus.
Undermine Council is a humongous area. Just traveling through three sectors with Angus and the others needs more than half a day. This already shows how vast and big the whole Undermine Council is.
In the end, Angus decided to give up on breaking more invisible power source points and thought of other methods.
'No wonder those drunkards didn't comment about me breaking their barrier. They know what I have done is useless from the start.'
'*Sigh* Now, I either try to break this barrier through my enchantment or wait until the barrier power source is exhausted.' thought Angus.
Angus also knows such a sophisticated and strong barrier also needs enormous energy to maintain. He may not know what is powering this barrier. Still, he knows it will soon be exhausted, especially with all the strong mana fluctuation in the air.
Although it is far from their area, Angus can still sense the fight of Alder and Warchief Might. Their fight is very destructive and fluctuates the surrounding air.
Angus even thought that if their opponent is not using a different type of energy, it may cause something like mana turbulence. Still, he didn't need to worry about these absurd and powerful people.
Their battle also helped Angus to pressure the barrier, especially at the previous Stonehall location. Not only is his boiling lava still bubbling and expanding, but it also makes all the barriers completely visible in a large area.
If this place is not the center of everyone, Angus may try to break or [Analyze] the barrier enchantment in this place. Unfortunately, he could go back to this place.
There are still many dwarves in this area and Angus also knows Dumrod is searching for them in this place. He didn't want another useless confrontation and be trapped by the brainwashed dwarves.
'Wait… If those drunken dwarves could find and notice me easily, why is Dumrod still not moving or at least send more dwarves to catch me. Was he somehow unable to move or preoccupied with something?' thought Angus seriously.
In the meantime, deep underground, hidden from everyone's sight, a heavy step was heard through the dark cavern. *Bam* *Bam* *Bam* After a while, a giant metallic robot with various magical lamps emerges from one of the dark cave tunnels.
Seeing the large dark cavern and humongous metallic door in front of it, the giant robot stopped moving. *Ssshh* *Ssshh* A moment later, the robot chest part opens and reveals an old dwarf with a gray beard and hair.
On the old dwarf's neck, a small dimly lit green rock helps illuminate the surrounding. This person is none other than King Dumrod, the perpetrator behind the Undermine Council whole incident.