Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

Returning to [Island Drifting]’s side, Yang Yu asked Iyas to carefully sense the surroundings, but nothing was discovered.

The disappearance of the bodies was too eerie.

Just now, their attention was on Kekarlos and Moli, completely ignoring how those bodies vanished.

To erase traces to this extent, it’s no wonder the Curse Sect has remained hidden until now.

”I roughly understand the situation, truly sorry...”

Lingshan crossed her arms and apologized for what she had just done, but before she could finish, her head was pressed down hard by Lang Yi.

”Since you’re apologizing, do it sincerely.

I just told you, it’s too late already, that girl might have issues.

The other side is at least an S-Class adventure group, even if they ran, we could find them, but if that kid really has issues, finding her is not the problem!

What kind of leader are you?

Every time I’m left to clean up after you, can’t you be a bit more stable for me?”

”Lang Yi, this is still in front of outsiders, give me some face. The way you treat me, someone will get jealous!”

Lingshan grabbed Lang Yi’s wrists with both hands, trying to move his hand from her head, but Lang Yi held on tight, no matter how hard Lingshan tried, it was futile.

Only after Lingshan sincerely apologized to Yang Yu and the others did Lang Yi move his hand.

Smoothing her disheveled hair, Lingshan grumbled discontentedly, ”The once-respectful Lang Yi is becoming increasingly arrogant lately, wings are getting harder.”

”It’s only because I’ve seen the gap between you and other adventure group leaders. I was too naive to join the group because of a word from you back then.”

With a long sigh, Lang Yi handed the longsword back to Yang Yu,

”Your decision-making is far superior to our leader’s.

Unfortunately, we were still fooled into sympathy by that cute girl.

In the end, due to my oversight, she got away.”

”No way around it, who could resist someone with a pretty face who can act pitiful.”

Yang Yu placed the longsword into the system, since they admitted their mistake, he wouldn’t pursue it further.

With less than a year until the Demon King Descent, S-Class adventurers will become a significant force. As long as there’s someone in their team who can communicate, Yang Yu doesn’t wish to make enemies with them.

Right now, they still knew nothing about the Demon King and the Demon King Army’s strength.

The more people they can ally with, the better.

If given the chance, Yang Yu even wanted to see how the current Hero was doing.

He’s not hoping for a Hero as omnipotent as in stories, but hoping he could be slightly reliable, play more roles in dealing with the Demon King, and reduce the risks of the strategy against the Demon King.

It’s been said before, have him challenge reputable places and Underground Mazes...

Even a fool, after suffering setbacks again and again, would grow somewhat and become less naive, right?

Temporarily setting aside matters about the Hero, Yang Yu introduced himself to [Island Drifting], and the people there returned the gesture with their introductions.

[Island Drifting] is one of the few S-Class adventure groups of the Ocean Duchy, currently having seven members, they rarely leave their operative area, and the reason for appearing here was to attend the Dragon God Conference.

After some simple conversation, Yang Yu naturally steered the topic toward the appearance of the Super Large Maze in the Ocean Duchy.

Upon hearing this, Lang Yi knew Yang Yu was quite interested in their Underground Maze.

As a gesture of apology, Lang Yi revealed all the information he knew:

”In the Ocean Duchy, Underground Mazes are generally divided into two types.

One that’s flooded, and one that’s not.

The flooded type, as the name implies, means the entire Underground Maze is submerged in the sea, and most of the monsters appearing within are aquatic. For you adventurers active on land, it’s probably challenging to strategize.

The non-flooded type...

Such Underground Mazes are protected by something, requiring one to pass through a membrane to enter, and the monsters within are ones that can move freely on land.

We, who enjoy operating in the sea, aren’t adept at strategizing such mazes.

Unfortunately, no matter which type of Underground Maze, so long as it doesn’t appear in the public sea but in some Sea-dwelling Species’ territory, it’s usually hard to enter and strategize.

Those Sea-dwelling Species will treat the Underground Maze as part of their territory.

Yet due to a lack of skills and experience, they can’t strategize the Underground Maze, so they usually leave it be.

On the Continent, many adventure groups eye the Ocean Duchy’s Underground Mazes, but most give up due to the Duchy’s extreme exclusion.

If you wish to enter the Ocean Duchy to strategize an Underground Maze, you have to prepare to oppose those Sea-dwelling Species.”

Lang Yi didn’t know if Yang Yu and the others intended to strategize those Underground Mazes, but he still shared the recent discovery of the Super Large Maze’s locations with Yang Yu.

[Island Drifting] has only managed to strategize one Super Large Maze, while the others are on the territories of some troublesome Sea-dwelling Species.

They’ve negotiated multiple times but couldn’t enter those territories.

If the strength were formidable, one might consider using some extreme measures.

But [Island Drifting] still needs to operate in the Ocean Duchy, their way of handling things is relatively moderate, they won’t easily tear ties with other Sea-dwelling Species.

If forbidden, they won’t force their way through.

Recently, adventurers in the Ocean Duchy have surged; should Yang Yu and the others wish to strategize the Ocean Duchy’s Underground Mazes, it’s best to do it sooner.

Once the races of the Ocean Duchy, rarely united, stand together to resist adventurers from other countries, it will be too late.

After imprinting Lang Yi’s words in his mind, Yang Yu took out three drawings.

These three drawings depicted the figures Yang Yu saw through the black tunnel at that time.

Despite not having seen much, Yang Yu still tried to replicate every detail he observed.

Using the time difference, Yang Yu roughly calculated the time zone where the Demon King’s Vanguard was located.

Then, based on the Subhuman race, he narrowed it down to the Dragon God Evaluation Country and Ocean Duchy.

Among them, the Ocean Duchy, with its countless scattered islands, was the most likely stronghold for the Demon King’s Vanguard.

Encountering people from the Ocean Duchy, Yang Yu naturally wouldn’t pass up any opportunity to gather intelligence.

After examining Yang Yu’s drawings for a while, Lang Yi confirmed several times before speaking:

”I can confirm that one seems to be from the Wind Wing Hapi Clan, and another with sharp scales... should belong to the Spiny Scale Lizard tribe, the last one I can’t make out...”

Curious, Lingshan leaned over to take a look, and exclaimed in surprise:

”Isn’t this the Wind Wing Hapi Clan’s Clan Leader, Miss Zhimu?”

Yang Yu and Lang Yi simultaneously turned their eyes to Lingshan, asking in unison, ”Why are you so sure?”

Lingshan pointed at the wings of the Birdman in Yang Yu’s drawing,

”Only she has this kind of feather pattern, she isn’t a purebred Wind Wing Hapi.

Every Hapi’s feathers and feather patterns have their unique features, just like mermaids.

This position also has a white feather, which basically identifies it as her.”