Abe the Wizard - Chapter 243

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Chapter 243 Blowing Up the Valley of the Deurgars

Abel was at on top of a valley somewhere near the border between the Duchy of Koror and the Great Dividing Mountain Range . As he stared down to the ground below, he could see a large number of wild beasts and venomous creatures moving by . This was where the deurgars lived, which meant that humans wouldn’t choose to come here at all .

Even hunters wouldn’t watch to catch their games here . Because of this, there was an especially large population of dangerous beasts . For the sake of their survival, the deurgars picked their hideout at a campsite that was easy to guard .

While White Cloud circled around in the sky, Abel took the time to understand the geography of this location . The valley range here was smaller than he thought, with a width of just about 800 meters in width .

When he saw some of the wooden houses below, he realized how old and broken they were . It’s hard to imagine someone using them as shelters to cover against rain and wind . As unusual as it sounded, there weren’t any farms or any kind of crops to be seen . Apart from the deurgars, nothing alive could be seen at all .

Black Wind was scratching its nose this entire time . Abel could smell it, too . The stench was very strong . A part of it must’ve come from the filth that was piled up on the ground . Mostly, however, it must be from the giant pot that was boiling in the middle of the town square .

These deurgars were just like the fallen . They didn’t live in the dark world, but the way they exist was the same as repulsive as those spawns from hell . Actually, the deurgars should be a lot smarter than the fallen . They didn’t seem to care about using their intelligence for hygiene purposes, so it seemed .

In the town square in the middle of the valley, there were a bunch of deurgars forming a circle together . They were watching a bloody duel between two deurgars .

As one of the deurgar’s blade swept across another’s legs, a stream of dark grey blood spilled on the ground . All the spectating deurgars started cheering when they saw this . They were screaming on top of their lungs . It’s almost like the sight of blood was all that they lived for .

As the injured duergar backed down with his injured leg, his head was quickly severed by the blade of his opponent . When the fight was over, the spectators ran in to pick up the dead body . While doing so, they chanted loudly and danced in a very strange fashion .

Abel couldn’t believe what these deurgars did next . After they finished dancing, they picked up the dead duergar and, including his severed head, they threw his remainings into the big boiling pot . They then added more timbers .

It’s one thing to eat another intelligent species, but just how sick did these deurgars had to be to eat their kind? Abel couldn’t fathom at all . Maybe the deurgars were really the minions of the devil . They clearly had no business existing in this world .

Abel looked away for a bit . He saw a cavern in the innermost part of the valley . Judging from how there were two guards standing their post there, it must be the residence of an important figure .

Two guards . They had a full set of dwarven armor on them . They were well equipped, too . Unlike the deurgars in the town square, they seemed a lot more civil, in a way .

While Abel was still observing, a squad of about ten deurgars came out of the cavern . Just like the guards, they had weapons in their hands and were wearing dwarven armors . They were heading towards the town square . When they arrived, they picked two deurgars and carried them back in chains .

Abel was in the sky when he heard the two deurgars screaming for their lives . It was not a pleasant thing to hear . Whatever fate awaited them, it’s probably going to be very dark .

So that’s how it was . The world inside and outside the cavern was completely separate from each other . The inside must be where the armies and the ruling class were . The outside was more like a farmhouse for keeping livestock .

Abel placed a giant arrow on his ballista . He added a net on the tip of the arrow, which he planned to place his super exploding ball . Just when he was in the middle of setting his ballista, he could feel a malicious presence rising out from inside the valley .

The protective gear that White Cloud was wearing could guard against some of this malicious aura . It wasn’t completely immune against it, however, so it had to fly higher to stay away from the evil force’s influence .

Abel was brutally disgusted . As it turned out, the two deurgars were sent to be living sacrifices . The other deurgars were sacrificing them to pray for power and protection from the great being of evil .

So that’s why they looked so ugly . They were literally defiled by the power of evil . The ruling deurgars were using the less significant deurgars to gain more powers for themselves . This way, even when the deurgars were rivals to both to humans and the dwarves, they could still produce a lot of powerful fighters amongst their kind .

When the deurgars felt the presence of malice, they knelt on the ground, and, like a bunch of madmen, they started crying out words that Abel didn’t understand . All of them had a fanatic look on their faces as they were doing this .

The evil presence continued for about another ten minutes . When it disappeared, those deurgars went back to whatever they were doing before . It’s almost like they all forgot what happened just then .

White Cloud came down again . As Abel pointed his ballista towards the cavern, he searched for a six-second delay super exploding ball inside his private storage box . He then placed it in the net on the top of his arrow .

With no hesitation at all, Abel released the arrow from his hands . When it flew straight towards the cavern, the stat on his ring started to look a lot different from it originally was . The attack precision point was now 73, which was much higher than it was in the Holy Continent .

Also, for a moment there, the ballista was shaking for a bit when he was shooting the arrow . Abel knew that he didn’t do anything to make the ballista shake . It must be his blue ring . By making a ballista shake a little, the direction of his shot was slightly adjusted .

Abel had thought that his arrow would go straight inside the cavern, but because of how big the cavern was, he wasn’t sure where exactly it was going to enter . He wasn’t a profession ballista shooter, per se, but he knew enough about archery to shoot the arrow to where he wanted it to be .

After the blue ring helped him adjust his shot, Abel could see the arrow flying straight towards the center of the cavern .

“Invaders!” the guarding duergar screamed as he tried to locate the source of the attack .

Abel whispered to himself, “6, 5, 4…”

White Cloud was flying as high as it could . While it was doing this, Abel kept counting down to himself .

“3, 2, 1 . ”

When Abel counted to “one,” a massive explosion occurred in the middle of the valley, right inside the center of the cavern . When rocks split from above, they fell down like giant arrows that were flying towards the deurgars .

All the deurgars inside the valley were completely petrified . Every rock that was flying at them was strong enough to kill them . The wooden houses they lived in came down like toys . When the rocks hit them, the only response they could make was to scream painfully to their deaths .

As quick as the explosion was, it was a lot more effective than what Abel had in mind . While the super exploding ball killed most of these deurgars, a lot of surviving ones were knocked down on the ground, screaming in anguish as they didn’t even have the time to beg for mercy .

The cavern was gone . Instead, everything inside became a giant, deep hole . As the entrance of the cavern was blocked by several large boulders, the only way to get in was through a passageway that was wide enough for just one person .

Abel didn’t want to waste another one of his super exploding balls . As powerful as it was, meteorite irons were quite hard to get back . It’s not like he didn’t have a filthy rich dwarf on his side, but he’d rather save as many materials as he could .

Abel equipped himself with Raven’s claw . As he took out a quiver of iron arrows from his portal bag, he started aiming at some of the surviving deurgars . Flaming red arrows kept shooting out of his hands, and the ground he was pointing at started exploding like wild .

All the deurgars that lived outside the cavern were on basic levels . Since White Cloud was in hiding, none of them could find a target to fight back . While some of them were looking for the whereabouts of their enemy, a lot of them decided to run for their lives .

Abel wasn’t sparing any one of these deurgars . Whenever they tried to escape, they would either die from the flying arrows or by the explosion that was ignited by Abel’s flame spell .

Pretty soon, all the deurgars in the valley were dead .

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