Lupin Town

Lupin Town (卢平镇 lupingzhen), Ruping Town, in Blue Lava Estate. Town Lupin was one of the largest towns in the Blue Lava Estate. It was the size of a medium-sized city in Chen Rui’s other world.

## Location

According to Ryanne:

“Town Lupin is at the southernmost part of Blue Lava Estate. After passing Town Lupin, the south is the Dead Sea. It is far away from us here. I don’t know the specific news. I just heard that many townspeople have disappeared and the sir lord has also ordered to close down the Town Lupin. No one is allowed to go out. As for General Sumen’s affairs, it seems that there is another secret. At present, Azure Legion only has a name, and it has almost disband. There are soldiers here who escaped from there. It is said that General Sumen has an important family member in Town Lupin. The so-called rebellion is probably related to this…”

## Story

Lupin was very likely to be related to the Bloodfall scheme. Chen Rui already wanted to go there initially, but the reason why he refused it just now was to gain more benefits by retreating.

In the suburbs outside the town, the Dark Moon Army encountered an army, that was sealing off the Town Lupin, with a total of about 3,000 people.

These troops were originally ordered by Lord Chandler to seal off the Town Lupin where the strange disappearances occurred. They even set up magic circles, which should be instructed when Mousse was controlling.

The army had received Chandler’s latest order to cooperate with the Dark Moon Army to investigate the secrets of Town Lupin.

The commander of the army was called Aglas. Facing the Dark Moon Army and the overwhelming breath faintly emanating from Athena, he seemed considerably tense.

### Black gas

The residents of Town Lupin have inexplicably been involved in various fights and bloodsheds a while ago. Soon afterwards, it was said that a huge bottomless pit which exuded a strange black gas appeared in the middle of the town. When the body of the person was wrapped in the black gas, they would wither quickly. In the end, there was only a pile of white bones left. Some people try to fill the pit or go down to explore, but those who explored never returned, including the Demon Emperor powerhouse, Sotsen, who lived in seclusion in the town. The black gas of that pit will take the lives of some residents every day. Many people fled out of the town because of this, but sir lord claimed that these people were infected with incurable poison. If they escape, they will spread to the entire estate, so he ordered us to block all exits and prohibit anyone from entering or exiting. Some residents tried to escape before or asked us for help, but we were forced by sir lord’s order and refused these people’s demands. Since then, no one escaped.

A bottomless pit that exudes black gas that devours people? What does the Bloodfall scheme have to do with this? Chen Rui thought for a while and asked, “I got news from Lord Chandler that General Sumen came here?”

“Yes,” Aglas nodded. “General Sumen came here 5 days ago. He brought about 1,000 people. He insisted on entering Town Lupin, and I couldn’t change his mind. Instead, hundreds of soldiers followed the general and went in with him.”

Chen Rui thought for a while. It seems that Sumen has a high prestige in the army. Even though his “rebel” reputation is well-known and Town Lupin is obviously a dangerous place, many people are still willing to follow suit.

### Corpses

The whole town was very large, but they still couldn’t see a living person or even a living thing up till now. They just occasionally saw a few piles of bones in the ground, giving people a sense of lifelessness everywhere. It was as though they came to Town Yankou where Guradam made the undead.

Could it be like Town Yankou last time where an undead magician is messing around? But these skeletons are abandoned in place. It is unlike an undead magician’s work; it is more like some kind of terrifying monster that devours life.

Chen Rui frowned as he continued walking. The closer he looked, the more corpses he saw with various postures. The ghastly white mist drifting around was creepy.

Chen Rui deliberately walked into a few rooms to have a look, and he found that there were also many corpses in the room. It seemed that that terrifying “thing” did not spare any life in any corner.

Is it some kind of monster created by Bloodfall? Chen Rui frowned even more thinking of the terrible experiment in Crystal Valley and Mystic Valley.

The interference of elements here was very strong. Items such as magic map and magic compass couldn’t be used. Chen Rui could only rely on a simple hand-drawn map provided by Aglas to proceed cautiously all the way.

The strange thing is that when Sumen broke in a few days ago, he brought in about 1,500 people, and some of them were cavalry, but no relevant corpses could be seen along the way. Where did they go?

### Mysterious pit

Chen Rui walked around a few times, bypassed a river, and gradually approached the center of Town Lupin where the mysterious pit was located.

From afar, Chen Rui saw dozens of bizarre spires in the mist. When he got closer, he discovered that these buildings like bone towers were actually made of piles of bones!

Not only that, there were maroon strange patterns on the ground which should be painted by blood. Skulls were used to decorate in many places, which made it very strange.

The largest town in the Blue Lava Estate is equivalent to the number of lives in a medium-sized city. Are all of them…

What’s even more hateful is that under the control of Mousse, the army is actually dispatched to block the way out, cruelly ruining the last hope of all innocent townspeople.

Although Chen Rui was not an eminent monk or saint who was compassionate and benevolent, facing such a gruesome scene, rage surged in his heart suddenly. Bloodfall! Damn it!

Just when Chen Rui stepped into the range of those patterns, the lump of maroon suddenly emitted a faint light, and a puff of black smoke emerged from the bone tower and wrapped toward Chen Rui.

Chen Rui wanted to try the attributes of the black smoke. He did not dodge or launch any protection skills. Instead, he let the black smoke wrap around his body. Sure enough, the Super System gave a hint that the poison was converted. After a long time, a pulling force came, and Chen Rui withdrew the power around his body. He let the force control his body like a dead person. He felt his mind being drowsy as he was “dragged” to another place.

This was an empty area surrounded by several bone towers. There was black smoke wafting around, and he couldn’t see things in the distance. The poison conversion data in the Super System kept changing. This was obviously a poisonous environment.

Chen Rui accidentally saw a large group of people. To be precise, a group of unconscious people, but they were not skeletons or corpses.

Judging from the clothing, they should be soldiers in the army. After counting the number, there were about 1,000 people and over 100 horses. These people were probably the army brought in by General Sumen. Judging from the effect, the black smoke should not be fatal. It was just to render someone unconscious.

Why are the flesh and blood of the corpses seen on the road completely devoured, but these soldiers and I are treated differently? Chen Rui thought of what Aglas said- “The black gas of that pit will take the lives of some residents every day.”

That’s right, that should be the case, the pit requires lives in phase. In other words, life will be swallowed every once in a while, so these soldiers, including myself, are currently “stocked food.”

### Detoxification

Chen Rui didn’t want to wait for the monsters to come. Besides, there were nearly 2,000 lives (including war horses). He immediately took out a bottle of detoxification potion and tried to detoxify a soldier beside him.

However, the grand master-level detoxification potion of the exchange center actually only made the soldier a little awake. Chen Rui’s eyes fell on the black smoke that was permeating everywhere. With a thought, God-Eating Mask, one of the seven artifacts, appeared on his face. He activated the additional skill God Eater that was obtained by cracking the artifact.

As soon as the skill was activated, the surrounding black smoke rushed toward Chen Rui’s head. The mask was like a whale sucking water. It had swallowed all the black smoke in the nearby hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye.

The artifact’s power was indeed not trivial. This [God Eater] skill could swallow all spirit power, magic and soul attacks. The only drawback was that it could only be used once every seven days.

After the black smoke disappeared, the several bone towers that had been condensed by some force seemed to have lost their support; they collapsed one after another.

Perhaps due to an illusion, when the bone towers collapsed, Chen Rui seemed to feel a vengeful emotion rushing toward him. However, the God-Eating Mask was immune to attacks from souls, so Chen Rui, who was still wearing a mask, was not affected at all.

After the black smoke’s unconscious effects subsided, the surrounding soldiers began to regain consciousness. They didn’t seem to have any serious problems. However, because they had been in a coma for a few days without eating, their physical condition appeared relatively weak.

He then meets Sumen.

### Bone tower quake

During the transfer, the ground suddenly began to shake as if something was about to break through the ground.

The magic map was once again strongly disturbed and lost its function. Fortunately, Chen Rui had made corresponding marks on the physical map to be on the safe side, so he quickly led Sumen’s army out of the town.

However, those bizarre bone towers began to emit strange power. Although the God-Eating Mask swallowed the power of several bone towers, the power of the artifact was not infinite. He only absorbed the strange power within hundreds of meters just now, but dozens of bone towers were releasing the strange power at the same time now. It coveredalmost a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

The entire sky was shrouded in dim smoke, and the light of the 2 moons could not pass through. The visibility was reduced by 10 times. It was almost impossible to see the direction, and the poison began to spread gradually again.

Fortunately, everyone took the grand master-level recovery potion and detoxification potion in a sober state, so they were able to sustain it for a while. However, the terrain seemed to have changed in the dark; they were lost in a certain kind of maze.

Chen Rui knew that the bone towers were the key. 3 light balls appeared in his hand and flew toward the nearest bone tower. However, the bone tower that was easily disintegrated under the power of the God-Eating Mask was stronger than he expected. Aurora Shot’s impact could only shake it slightly and several skeletons fell off, but it did not hurt the root.

Perhaps it was the shock of [Aurora Shot] that caught Paglio’s attention. Chen Rui finally sensed the existence of the poison dragon from the spiritual link. Chen Rui immediately activated his territory power and screamed loudly.

The group of bone towers combined the souls and blood of countless creatures, so the power was very unusual. It could block and disturb the audiovisual signal. Even Paglio couldn’t completely crack it for a while, but Chen Rui’s territory power, that integrated a trace of the power of “rule”, was extraordinary. It straightforwardly penetrated the strange force of the bone towers.

Paglio suddenly sensed it, and quickly approached this direction. Chen Rui only saw the bone towers in front of him collapsed suddenly, and Paglio’s figure had appeared in the air.

Even [Aurora Shot] couldn’t destroy the bone towers, but under the power of Paglio’s peak stage of the Demon Overlord, the towers collapsed completely with just one blow; this was the gap in power difference.

The poison dragon threw a punch in the air again, and the bone tower in front collapsed again. A path suddenly appeared in the misty land enveloped by the black smoke. At this moment, the ground trembled more severely. Paglio seemed to feel something. His face became solemn, and he shouted, “Go all the way to the north now. I will help you clear the way. Rush out of the town as soon as possible and reunite with Athena!”

## Elementals

“May I ask Your Highness Lambost, what is going on with Town Lupin? Have all the townspeople been killed?”

“In the Elemental War, the Earth Elemental King died and the Dark Elemental King was severely injured. He needs 3 sources of darkness and a large number of living beings sacrificed to recover his power. Town Lupin… is already the third place. There is a darkest source in the dark element underground, and there are dense living beings on the ground. With my help, Hegel has basically recovered, but he still needs to rest for a while to return to his peak state. Otherwise, the dragon may not be able to suppress him.” Lambost glanced at Paglio, and the poison dragon snorted coldly and did not refute. It could be seen that the Water Elemental King was not lying.

“Your Highness helped Hegel… sacrifice so many living beings?” Chen Rui frowned slightly. Judging from Lambost’s words, I’m afraid that there is no living person in the entire Town Lupin, including Chandler’s son Tagow whom Sumen is looking for.

Lambost faintly replied, “We didn’t need so much initially, but at Hegel’s request, I helped another person who needs dark power to break through the bottleneck… For elements, any life or death is just a change of existence form. One day, you, me, and all living beings will face this moment.”

Chen Rui took a deep breath, “Those lives are not elementals.”

## Conclusion

The source of darkness is the root cause of the extinction of Town Lupin. This can be concluded, but what is the relationship between Bloodfall and the dark elementals?

And who is the “person who obtained the dark power and broke through” whom the Water Elemental King mentioned?

What role does Bloodfall play in this?

Who is Bridget? How much hidden power does Bloodfall have?

The Dark Elemental King said that elementals will not simply intervene in the dispute of demons, then he vaguely stated in front of the Water Elemental King that he will not take the initiative to seek revenge from “Aguile”, so there’s no need to worry about it for the time being.

Chen Rui was also doubtful of some details from the past to the present, but he could be sure that the focus of the Dark Moon now was the Fallen Angel Capital and Prince Obsidian. I will probably face Bloodfall again in the future. Therefore, I will once again encounter Bridget and Dark Elemental King Hegel. I must become stronger as soon as possible. Today’s scene of burdening friends and unable to protect my lover must never happen again!

In this battle, the Flame Legion’s elite lost 361 people. 540 people were seriously injured, and there were more with minor injuries. As for the Blue Lava Estate Army, adding the original left-behind army plus the soldiers Sumen brought from Town Lupin, fewer than 800 soldiers survived.

After this fierce battle of life and death, both the Flame Legion and the Blue Lava Estate Army that luckily survived had passed a true battle test. If they were trained properly, their combat power and willpower would be improved in terms of quality.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 411 (Steambun)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Chapter 417 (Steambun)
3. ↑ Chapter 414 (Steambun)
4. ↑ Chapter 416 (Steambun)
5. ↑ Chapter 418 (Steambun)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 422 (Steambun)