Green Monster Epic

#505 - Enter the Valley

Chapter 490: Entering the Valley

Allen didn't stay in Mansa City for too long. If it weren't to avoid unnecessary complications and to quickly declare his existence and gain recognition within the Alliance, he wouldn't have rushed over so hastily.

There was no other way. Over so many years in the wilderness, Allen was unprecedented in using a small force to annex powerful tribes and improve his own tribe's strength and status. Without a precedent, it would naturally attract discussion. Although Allen had already gained the recognition of the Church of Nature, the Oak Court, and several major northern tribes, he was still worried that there would be other dissenting voices within the Alliance.

Therefore, completing the tribe's succession of power in the Alliance as soon as possible was Allen's top priority on this trip south.

However, Allen's idea was beautiful, but reality would not allow him to get his wish. The Mansa Alliance had its own rules of operation. If Allen wanted to gain the recognition of other tribes, he would have to wait until the routine Alliance Council during the Month of Ice Melt to achieve his goal.

Including the matter of renaming the Ajina tribe to the Green Field tribe, it would have to be announced to all tribal members at the Month of Ice Melt Council four months later to be considered a fulfillment of the charter.

Allen eventually stayed in Mansa City for a few days before continuing south. The four months would be a good time for him to do something he had long wanted to do, but had never been able to find the time for.

The stronger Allen's strength, the less human light he had in his heart, especially since his peers in the tribe were almost gone, and the students he had personally cultivated were gradually withering away. Every time a familiar goblin passed away, it seemed to take away a part of his humanity.

Many times, when someone in the tribe did something against his will, or when there were dissenting voices, Allen often had an impulse to slap these guys to death like ants and insects.

This made Allen feel very scared, and he was also worried that he would become like someone who had been subjected to a mechanized mind spell, only considering the gains and losses of interests and the direction of goals, but ignoring the feelings of the surrounding goblins and restricting their behavior, and so on.

Such a result might help Allen continue to grow and develop the tribe in the short term, but in the long run, it would be harmful without any benefit. Even irrational beasts have their own interests, let alone goblins with considerable wisdom. When their interests and pursuits are suppressed for a long time, it will only lead to the tribe's alienation and disintegration.

Although Allen was aware of his own changes, it was not easy to stop himself from continuing to change in this direction.

Therefore, with this rare four months, he wanted to complete a persistent thought in his heart to regain some of the lost emotions. And the source of this persistent thought was his goblin student, whom he had high hopes for and regarded as the continuation of his bloodline and inheritance—Coeur Green Field.

This girl, Coeur, was not born in the Green Field tribe. Instead, she was a wandering gnome cub adopted by Flower Snake when she was traveling in the wilderness. At the beginning, when Coeur first came to the Green Field tribe, she dared to bare her teeth at Allen and throw stones to attack him. In addition, due to her adoption by Flower Snake, Allen became slightly interested in her.

Later, because of a piece of dragon meat, a strange effect occurred in Coeur, which made this gnome girl, who was not good at close combat, suddenly possess extraordinary power-based talent and embark on the same path of berserker as Allen.

Whether in terms of talent or combat style, Coeur was the most similar to Allen among the younger generation of the Green Field tribe at that time. Therefore, because of his love for her, Allen put a lot of effort and emotion into Coeur.

Even now, in the decades since Coeur disappeared, Allen had always held a glimmer of hope in his heart that this little girl had not disappeared in her adventure, but was temporarily unable to return home due to various irresistible factors.

Based on this idea, Allen had spent a lot of money in the past few years to spread the task of finding Coeur's whereabouts in organizations such as the Assassin's Guild and the Thief's Guild.

Even if she was dead, Allen hoped that Coeur's remains could be buried beside Green Lake and be worshipped by the descendants of the Green Field tribe. Few goblins had ever made Allen care so much, especially since Allen had no descendants of his own.

When the Assassin's Guild's intelligence system finally found out the place where Coeur finally disappeared, Allen had an impulse at that moment to set off south immediately to find Coeur's whereabouts. Unlike other goblins who traveled, Allen had given Coeur a pair of magic beacons when she traveled. As long as this beacon was on Coeur, then the other beacon would sense it and point the direction when it appeared within a certain range.

This was a precious magical tool that had little practical value. If someone destroyed it or placed it in a sub-dimensional space, the beacon's effect would disappear. In addition, the beacon required precious gems and crystals to absorb free energy and provide magic power, so its value was really expensive. Therefore, few indigenous people in the wilderness would give this thing to their tribesmen.

Only a few legendary seeds or family backbones would have the opportunity to be granted this type of tool by the tribe, so that they could find each other when necessary.

As Allen's most valued junior and student, it was not surprising that Coeur had such a beacon in her hand.

This was also the reason why Allen had always retained hope in his heart. Even if he only found Coeur's remains in the end, it would be considered a complete end to Allen's thoughts.

Along the way south, Allen also learned a lot of information about the Burial Valley, such as the impact of the negative energy turbulence in the valley's sky on the flying ability of legendary powerhouses, and the possible existence of legendary or higher-level undead creatures in the valley…

The more Allen learned about the Burial Valley, the more he felt that Coeur was still likely to be alive. If legendary or higher-level powerhouses lost their ability to fly, it might not be impossible to escape the pursuit. Just like in the underground labyrinth of the Misty Forest, Allen had used the environment of the labyrinth to delay the pursuit of the legendary gnoll for several days, until he met Commander Nordin and his party from the Oak Court, and finally survived by luck.

If he had been in Coeur's situation at the time, he would probably have made such an escape arrangement!

Sure enough, when Allen rushed south to the Burial Valley, the magic beacon that he had been keeping suddenly reacted when he just entered the entrance of the Burial Valley. As several pigeon egg-sized rubies on the beacon were activated, transmitting the energy stored in the gems and flashing a light red light, the beacon's arrow-like pointer pointed straight to the front left.

The negative energy storm above the valley was indeed like the information Allen had collected, constantly eroding the vitality and energy of the creatures in it. At the same time, the spatial cracks scraped out by the violent gusts of wind appeared and disappeared from time to time. If you were not careful, you could silently be cut into two pieces, even the keen mental power of a legendary powerhouse would find it difficult to detect its existence.

After testing the negative energy storm above his head, Allen felt that it was too dangerous and consumed too much anger. If a battle were to occur later, there might be accidents. Allen finally decided to walk inside the valley.

When entering the valley, the ground was full of corpses and bones, which made people shudder. Allen could not help but imagine the bloodshed and tragedy of the great battle back then. Thinking about his nearly a hundred years of time, the biggest war he had experienced was the protracted battle with the human coalition forces on the Centaur Grassland, which involved hundreds of thousands of troops.

A war of hundreds of thousands of troops, just the battlefield spread out was tens of miles wide. When viewed from the sky, teams of ant-like troops were entangled together, and the blood and fire aura had already made Allen feel extremely shocked, let alone the legendary war in this Burial Valley that involved millions of troops.

Crack!

Bang!

One skeleton after another had not had time to climb out of the ground before being chopped into bone slag by Allen wielding Bone Cleaver. It was the first time he had encountered groups of undead creatures, and Allen had really opened his eyes. In the end, he found that unless he wrapped Bone Cleaver in anger and annihilated the negative energy elements attached to the bones, it would be really difficult to eliminate these guys.

However, it consumed a lot of anger to wrap Bone Cleaver in energy flames. Even with Allen's current high-level legendary anger reserves, it was still a considerable burden.

Afterwards, Allen simply held Bone Cleaver horizontally and used Bone Cleaver's wide blade to slam down. The bones within a radius of tens of meters were all crushed into bone powder, making it difficult to form complete skeletons to harass Allen.

The environment in the valley was very complicated, with crossroads everywhere. Although there was a beacon to indicate the direction, Allen would always find himself trapped in a dead valley or going backwards after turning at the crossroads several times, which made it difficult for him.

The further he went, the more powerful the undead creatures inside became, but for Allen, it was only a little more troublesome. On the contrary, the rare magic potion plants such as Ghost Mushrooms and Weeping Grass that occasionally appeared along the way added a lot to Allen's dimensional bag.

More than half a month later, Allen finally encountered an undead creature comparable to a legend—a bone dragon with complete bones and blue flames bursting out from the pupil positions of its skull.

Just as Allen poked his head out from a valley corner, the bone dragon with sharp horns on its head raised its gray-white skull, glanced at Allen from a distance, and rushed towards Allen.