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The answer is simple. Just like the underground waterway connecting the Emerald Strait in the Velen Mine, Lake Tania and the Fog Sea to the west of the Federation also have underground passages, and more than one... The water of Lake Tania is actually the seawater of the Fog Sea.

While their kin were fighting back, a group of cunning squid people took their most valuable possessions and entered the Fog Sea through underground waterways, intending to leave the Federation continent and wait for an opportunity to make a comeback.

However, while Lake Tania's underground waterways are indeed hidden, they are a feature that appeared in the original game and cannot be hidden from Emerald.

So Amelie had already made arrangements on the other side of the Fog Sea.

The strongest merfolk, Machira, and the strongest merfolk warrior, Ketu, personally led a group of guards to stand guard here, waiting for the escaped squidmen.

After a thousand years of conflict, the two races joined forces once again to fight, aiming to exterminate the squid people. They even went so far as to send their strongest warriors with their most elite troops to intercept and kill the squid people.

After all, the merfolk and fish-men are the races that hate squid people the most. In order to prevent this hatred from being forgotten, their ancestors even used secret methods to engrave this hatred into their bloodline, reminding them that they must unconditionally kill any squid people they encounter.

The strongest warrior led his most elite troops to block the gate, and none of the squid people who wanted to escape to the Fog Sea managed to escape; they were all killed by the sea creatures.

The wealth they carried with them during their escape, as agreed, became spoils of war for both races involved in the battle, much to the delight of the merfolk and fish-people.

The squid spirits that stubbornly resisted within the city were wiped out, those that fled out of the city into the depths of the wilderness were intercepted, and even the squid spirits that traveled through the underground waterways of Lake Tania were killed.

The battle was now in its final stages, the plan seemed to be going smoothly, and it was time to pop the champagne and celebrate the victory.

However, Judy quickly discovered a problem.

After all, while her rapid promotion was certainly related to Emerald, she was also a person of genuine talent. Before Emerald stopped being so low-key, Judy had become a major-level deputy commander of the Demon Tide Extermination Legion entirely through her own abilities.

“This is a bit strange, Miss. You’d better come out and take a look for yourself.”

After discovering the problem, Judy thought for less than 10 seconds before decisively notifying Emerald, who had already emptied the Ise Group's treasury of top-tier materials.

"what happened?"

Emerald quickly reunited with Judy, glanced around the city where the fighting was mostly over, and asked with some curiosity:

"Isn't everything normal? The squid monsters are almost all dead."

"No cubs."

Judy took a deep breath and got straight to the point without any preamble:

“I have just personally inspected all three cities. Not a single cub appeared in this battle, neither squid cubs nor human cubs.”

"...No cubs?"

Emery frowned slightly, but still didn't seem to care much:

"Perhaps, just like in those legendary tales, the squid spirits wanted to leave hope behind, so they sent the cubs away by some means... Let me ask."

If the squid demons want to escape this battlefield, they only have two routes: water and land. The land route was personally blocked by Judy's subordinates, but Judy didn't find a single cub, which means that the cubs definitely didn't take the land route.

So Emerald contacted Machira to inquire about the situation.

"A cub? I don't see one."

Machira quickly gave her answer:

"I did have quite a haul here, but they were mostly old squidmen with their confidants and wealth. I rarely saw any young squidmen, and I didn't even have a single baby squid."

"You don't have any there either?"

Emery then became serious, her beautiful eyebrows furrowing tightly, as if she had forgotten something important.

Just then, Julia, who had seen Emerald, flew over, waved from afar in the air, and landed beside Emerald and Judy, asking curiously:

"What are you discussing? Why don't you go after that leader squid demon?"

"The leader of the squid demons?"

Emery was stunned for a moment, then seemed to be electrocuted, her eyes glazed over, and she gently pressed her temples with her hand:

"Good heavens... that's a really powerful special ability... I thought I'd be fine since I knew about that guy's ability beforehand, but I still got caught... tsk, it must be Yogg-Soth that hid all the cubs... I have to find it as soon as possible!"

. . . . .

Yog Soth is the leader of the Squid People. He is over 2000 years old and is a true thousand-year-old squid.

Although it lacks natural talent, being over 2000 years old and still getting beaten up by a 20-something girl, it has a unique and powerful magic that it developed itself.

A thousand years ago, when the Merfolk and Fish-Men joined forces to exterminate the Squid-Men, Yogg-Soth was able to escape the pursuit with a group of Squid-Men and hide on land using this tactic.

After Emeryte shattered the defensive magical barriers of the three cities of Basha, Shama, and Era with her second Holy Transcendental Magic, Sunset Strike, Yogg-Soth knew that he could not hold out today, and that all his kin would most likely die.

Judging from the previous battle record of a certain witch, it is clear that witches are always like this: they rarely make a move, but when they do, they wipe out their opponents without leaving them any hope.

Therefore, after the magic barrier was broken, Yogg-Soth decisively chose to use the final contingency plan.

It first sprayed ink to cover itself and slipped away from Emery's nose. Then it rushed to the cub sanctuary built underground in the city and took all the cubs with it.

That ink is Yogg-Soth's special ability. The ink can not only obscure vision, but also reduce Yogg-Soth's presence at the level of rules, making everyone temporarily forget about him.

After all, Yogg-Soth was a powerful being who had reached the late stage of the third phase. Although he was panting heavily after casting a super-tier spell, he still had his own concept of magic.

Eliminating one's sense of self-existence is one of Yog Soth's specialties.

In the original game, Yogg-Saul, as the final boss of the Squid Man dungeon, was also designed to have this ability. Emery clearly remembered this and even paid special attention to it during the battle.

Unexpectedly, this ability was even more powerful than Amelite had anticipated, allowing Yog Soth to escape right under Amelite's nose and even be temporarily forgotten by her.

Thankfully, Yulia was there.

Although Yulia doesn't have any special abilities and can't use any magic, most abilities and magic are useless against her. Fighting her is just a matter of numerical superiority; mechanics are ineffective.

As luck would have it, in order to help Emerald fight against powerful enemies, Julia had been diligently training herself to resist attacks based on the rules.

During the water magic duel at night, Julia will have Amelie use the concept that all things must die to deplete her physical strength and energy, and try to fight back to gain resistance.

During the day, Yulia would occasionally take time to visit Suzuran, where she would fight against Suzuran, the highest-level administrator, in the virtual world created by Suzuran, and continue to improve her resistance to the rules.

While Yulia could still not withstand Dao Zu's sword of annihilation, she could now withstand Emerald's "All things must die" for about half an hour longer before her energy was completely depleted, a significant improvement compared to a few months ago.

So while Yog-Soth's abilities did affect Julia, the impact was minimal, allowing Julia to quickly recall him. Now, Ameliete has also remembered him.

Amelie immediately ordered a search for Yog-Soth, but unfortunately it was a little too late.

During the battle within the city, Yogg-Soth had already led approximately 11 cubs from the three cities into the depths of Lake Tania.

As a veteran powerhouse, Yogg-Soth may not be able to defeat Emeryte, but he can still control these cubs with magic.

Squid baby squid are born with the ability to move freely underwater, and human babies are also encased in magical bubbles by Yogg-Soth, allowing them to breathe underwater.

The group dived deeper and deeper, and soon reached the bottom of Lake Tania, which is about 300 meters deep.

This place seems unremarkable, with only some aquatic plants and deep-sea fish, as well as some unfortunate anglers' shipwrecks, a common sight on the bottom of any body of water.

But all of this was actually a cover-up. A thousand years ago, the squid spirits hid a major secret at the bottom of Lake Tania.

This secret was not mentioned in the original game because Yogg-Saul was killed by Julia before he could activate the final plan.

After all, in the original game's timeline, the event of annihilating the squid demon wouldn't begin until next year, and it was the last main storyline dungeon before fighting the Dao Ancestor. By then, the protagonist group was already very powerful, and they didn't give Yogg-Soth a chance at all.

Now things are different. Although Emerald's strength is no weaker than that of the main characters before the final battle in the original game, Emerald doesn't have the same rule resistance as Julia. She was still affected by the presence elimination, which allowed Yog-Soth to seize the opportunity.

At that moment, as Yog Soth chanted the incantation, all the magical runes hidden at the bottom of Lake Tania lit up, the false illusion disappeared, and the true face of the lake bottom was revealed.

A strange altar shaped somewhat like an octagonal table.

Scattered around the altar were numerous skeletons, numbering at least hundreds of thousands. Judging from their size, they were all clearly infants, including both humans and squid-men.

For his experiment, old man Langdon was once the biggest buyer in the baby trafficking market. However, the baby trafficking market existed before old man Langdon was born, and there were naturally other buyers as well.

Clearly, the Ise Group is one of them.

Moreover, unlike the old man Langdon who bought cubs for experiments, the cubs that the Ise Rei Foundation had secretly bought over the years were all sacrificed and thrown to the bottom of Lake Tania.

The same is true now.

With Yogg-Soth's magical manipulation, the more than 11 squid demon cubs and human cubs quickly stood around the altar, and each cub had an ice blade shaped like a dagger in front of it.

Yogg-Soth began chanting in a strange and eerie tone again, and the cubs it controlled with magic followed suit, each holding an ice blade in their hands as they chanted.

"!!"

As the last strange syllable was uttered by Yog Soth, the cubs under its control simultaneously gripped their daggers in reverse and thrust them into their hearts without hesitation.

Puff puff puff!

In an instant, blood gushed out, and the water at the bottom of the lake was almost stained red with the blood of the cubs.

But soon, the altar, sensing the blood, reacted, creating a strange suction force that absorbed all the blood, restoring the lake's clarity.

The cubs that pierced their own hearts with ice blades were turned into blood by the strange suction force, and after being drained, only their bones remained, lying around the altar, keeping company with the skeletons of the cubs that had been there before.

Evil ritual sacrifice.

Anyone familiar with otherworldly theology would surely gasp in astonishment upon seeing this.

If the clergy of the Holy Fire Meow Meow Cult were to witness this, they would surely unleash divine magic to completely destroy the altar and even dry up the lake.

Just as there are good and bad people among humans, there are righteous gods and evil gods among the gods.

The sacrifice method used by Yog-Soth at this time was a sacrifice to an evil god, an evil act that the clergy of the true church would unconditionally destroy if they encountered it.

Although this world has not yet acquired the technology to traverse the endless void, visitors from other worlds within the endless void occasionally arrive.

However, not every visitor can be spotted by the 15th squad in time, nor is every visitor as kind and law-abiding as the Sword Saint Uncle or the beautiful female priestess of the Holy Fire Meow Meow Cult.

Among them were many criminals, madmen, and dangerous individuals killed by the 15th Squad, as well as cultists who believed in evil gods.

Hundreds of years ago, a cultist accidentally arrived in the Federation and was captured by the Ise Reizak Group before being discovered by the 15th Division.

The Ise Rei Foundation was certainly aware of the dangers cultists posed, and they killed the cultists outright. However, they kept the cultists' belongings and studied them.

The result of this research was a major discovery: they found a way to make creatures stronger through the blood sacrifice of their offspring, and it was even possible to break through the limitations and become the first fourth-stage being in the world.

According to the world's definition and classification of strength, a fourth-stage powerhouse has undoubtedly transcended the world and entered the realm of gods.

This significant discovery gave the Ise Rei Foundation a bold idea—to create an absolute superpower to protect the Squid People, freeing them from dependence on others and allowing them to rebuild their own civilization and nation, and even usurp the Allen Federation.

As the first race to establish civilization and kingdom in the sea, just like the Merfolk and Fish-Men worship a mysterious giant fish, the Squid People also have their own powerful creature to worship, and that creature has been sleeping at the bottom of Lake Tania for many years.

Therefore, the Ise Group planned to use a blood sacrifice on that creature so that it could successfully advance to the fourth stage and protect the squid man.

According to the plan and calculations, the blood sacrifice should be successful in at most 200 years... but unexpectedly, the squid people are facing another crisis of extinction today.

Having no other option, Yogg-Soth activated his final contingency plan—to sacrifice all the cubs in the Financial Delta region at once, awakening the powerful creature that sheltered the squid-men and greatly enhancing its power to repel the formidable enemy.

boom!

As the last sacrificial cub's skeleton fell, the entire Lake Tania region began to tremble violently, and the lake water seemed to boil.

Chapter 328 Why is your undead space radiating holy light?

"What happened?"

The sudden earthquake quickly caught the attention of Amelie and her companions, and the strange phenomenon of Lake Tania's waters boiling but not heating up was even more suspicious.

Amelie immediately ascended into the air, looked at the lake with her radiant golden right eye, and activated her enhanced ability to perceive the truth.

"It's actually a sorcery sacrifice... Hmph, you're really desperate, you squid demon."

This was the first time Emerald had ever seen such a situation, but she had previously consulted a lot of information with the 15th Division in order to find out how to use divine magic and divine power. Combined with her memories from her previous life, she was able to immediately deduce the general cause and effect of the matter.

However, Emery didn't panic; instead, the corners of her mouth turned up in a smile.

"Well... the previous squid spirits were all too weak and couldn't really test my current strength. This time I should be able to dance to my heart's content."

After thinking for a moment, Emery didn't immediately fly towards the lake. Instead, she used the communication magic device to give orders directly to everyone involved in the battle:

"Everyone, immediately cease your current actions, find cover on the spot, and try to avoid being affected by the aftermath of the upcoming battle."

"Yes, Miss!"

The officers and soldiers of the Federation Army did not find anything wrong with Amelie's direct orders to them and immediately began to carry them out.

All the officers and soldiers searching for surviving squid monsters and those assisting in the evacuation of humans sought cover nearby and implemented self-protection measures according to plans they had practiced many times in training.

"Then I'll leave this place to you for now, Judy. Be careful yourself."

Seeing that the soldiers below had all sprung into action, Emerald gave Judy one more instruction before reaching out to intertwine her fingers with Julia's:

"Let's go, baby, let's go see what those squid demons are up to this time."

The two quickly flew to the center of Lake Tania, where the water was churning most violently.

Yulia took a deep breath and was about to plunge into the water, but was stopped by Emerald.

"Honey, don't rush."