Zhulu Arrived

Not long after entering the Valley Maze, the two saw bodies sprawled across the ground. The deeper they went, the more bodies they found.

Beneath the sand, Magical Beast Sandworms emerged from time to time to carry the bodies away.

Zhulu frowned at the soldiers, all of whom had been trampled or crushed to death, then led Luca farther in.

They had not gone much farther when A Da and his three brothers, who had stayed behind, surrounded them with the Black Armor Guards.

The guards did not know either of them, but the fact that they had dared to come in after seeing so many bodies outside was enough to show they were no ordinary men.

Luca looked nervously around at the Black Armor Guards surrounding them, searching for a way to break through.

"Stop looking around. You can't escape, so surrender quietly. We treat prisoners well."

A Da spoke to Luca, who was still looking every which way.

Zhulu patted Luca on the shoulder and said,

"You'd better listen to him."

Then Zhulu raised his hands toward A Da.

"We surrender."

Seeing his grandmaster surrender, Luca surrendered too.

A Da sent a Black Armor Guard to take Zhulu's staff, then had the two escorted back to the valley.

"Well, I never expected you to change this place so much. I wonder what the valley itself looks like now.

"And how much wear has the main magic disk of that Magic Array suffered? No one's maintained it for hundreds of years."

Zhulu chattered all the way. A Da and the others ignored him, but his words made it clear he was intimately familiar with the Valley Secret Land where they lived.

Fortunately for him, the Black Armor Guards were all seasoned soldiers. His words threatened the foundations of their