Secret

After arranging the government affairs, Huo Ling returned to the City Lord's Manor.

The secrets of the dark elves were hidden here. Two legends had already died for this secret.

Xila and Iwa had both died because of this secret.

The Spider Queen Lolth had plotted here for so many years, while Iwa had endured for so many years.

Iwa had originally been about to reap the final spoils, yet he had not expected the mantis stalking the cicada, with the oriole waiting behind.

In the end, Huo Ling reaped the final benefit and became the ultimate victor.

Huo Ling assumed human form and descended from a hidden corner at the rear of the City Lord's Manor.

From the outside, nothing could be seen here, because dual concealment arrays of divine arts and magic had been set up outside.

But once Huo Ling approached, those things completely failed to serve their intended purpose.

Though he had already witnessed everything below through Iwa's soul, Huo Ling still intended to go down and see it for himself.

After entering the gate, he saw a staircase stretching endlessly downward.

The descending staircase was four or five meters wide, with roughly the same height.

Every thirty meters or so, the staircase turned. After descending more than two hundred meters in succession, a corridor appeared before Huo Ling.

The corridor here was even wider, with strangely shaped magic lamps lining both sides.

Huo Ling continued forward. Murals had already begun to appear along both sides of the corridor.

The murals depicted a dark elf's road to godhood—the story of the Spider Queen Lolth.

Judging from their style, they should have been painted by dark elf priests.

As he passed through the deep, shadowy corridor, Huo Ling could always hear faint, intermittent wails by his ears.