Chapter 374: Fel Empire
At this time, Owen had already brought Charle and Ai Mi Er to the roof of the command center, watching the upcoming mecha battle at the foot of the mountain with great interest.
Although doing so was somewhat risky, as a man, there was no one who wasn’t interested in mecha battles. Therefore, he was willing to take the risk of coming out of the heavy and sturdy bunker, using the Disillusionment Charm to stand on a high place and watch this rare scene.
Both Da Gu and Ai Mi Er felt a little uneasy about Owen’s risky decision, but he himself didn’t think so. After all, even if he was unlucky enough to be directly hit by the Fel Mega Cannon, he was confident that he would be fine, otherwise, he wouldn’t have come out.
Not to mention these, Owen’s current attention was all on the upcoming mecha battle. These scenes of heavy footsteps, first shooting each other with Fel Cannons and Steam Nail Guns, then swinging their giant mechanical claws and Chainsaw Swords at each other, made his blood boil. But he didn’t know that as more and more Fel Skaven died, the concentration of Fel here was also constantly increasing, and it set off waves of undetectable ripples.
Regarding the increase in Fel concentration, the Goblins had discovered it long ago, and even knew that if creatures other than Goblins stayed in this environment for a little longer, they would either mutate or go crazy. Only Goblins, who had also undergone mutations and had very stable genes, could adapt to the environment here. However, they still needed to rotate out every once in a while and return to Green Shade City to clear the slight distortions in their bodies, souls, and will.
However, the Fel Secret Realm was too unfriendly to spellcasters, causing many targeted studies on Fel to be like scratching an itch through boots. Therefore, the territory didn’t know that the Fel Skaven had already surpassed their expectations in their control of Fel, such as using Fel to perceive certain things.
Fel’s penetration of the Secret Realm had reached an irreversible level. Therefore, with the help of the ubiquitous Fel, what happened on the battlefield was quickly transmitted to the Fel Skaven’s base camp, the Bottomless Empire in the Shattered Lands.
The Shattered Lands were full of large and small rifts, as if the entire land had been shattered. In fact, this was because the Essence had been over-extracted and could no longer maintain its shape. However, this also made it easier for the Fel Skaven to mine various minerals hidden underground.
Right now, countless tunnels connected the surrounding great rifts to form a whole. Various minerals were mined and thrown into the Fel Furnace to be cast into various parts, and then assembled by Fel Mechanics who liked to modify themselves using mechanical clamps that replaced their arms, becoming the Fel Guns, Fel Cannons, and Fel Mechs commonly used by the Fel Skaven.
Obviously, with the help of Fel, these Skaven had developed their own industry and technology at an accelerated pace. The price was that more and more of the Secret Realm’s Essence was converted into Fel, causing a thick Fel mist to permeate the sky above the great rifts, and giving rise to more and more Fel Skaven.
Countless Fel Skaven lived, grew, and trained here. As for death, there were no Fel Skaven who died of old age, because when their physical and mental strength began to decline, they would be thrown into the Fel Furnace to ignite their souls and bodies, becoming fuel for the Fel Empire. Dying of old age was an unacceptable waste to the Fel Skaven.
The vast majority of Fel Skaven were just consumables to the Fel Empire, but that didn’t mean there weren’t high-level beings.
A large group would always be divided into classes, this was inevitable, even for the Fel Skaven.
For the Fel Skaven, Fel was their foundation. Therefore, the Fel Warlocks who controlled Fel deservedly became the high-level beings of the Fel Empire.
Deep underground, in the Fel Council, several Grand Fel Warlocks gathered here, discussing the future of the empire.
“We’ve finally waited, their King has finally appeared!”
“Kill their King, seize the gate!”
“We need to leave this place as soon as possible, the underground has begun to collapse, we don’t have much time left.”
“Go inform our King, gather our most elite troops, and launch the final war!”
In the Fel Council, whose power was second only to the Fel King in the Fel Empire, several Grand Fel Warlocks who maintained their vigorous vitality through Fel quickly reached a consensus and immediately took action.
The Fel King’s palace was located at the bottom of the great rift, deeper than the Fel Council, a dark and abyss-like place, which was also the bottom layer of the Fel Secret Realm, the closest place to the Essence.
Here, one could clearly see a huge band of light formed by Fel, a kilometer wide and astonishingly long, directly piercing through the bottom of the Secret Realm, like a mark left by some kind of being.
Even if it was just a mark, the concentration of Fel left by this unknown being was still astonishingly high. Although it only brushed past the core of the Secret Realm and didn’t cause much damage, the Fel it emitted aggressively invaded the core, contaminating the Essence, and creating the twisted species of Fel Skaven.
When the Fel Skaven gradually mastered the power of Fel, they instinctively found this place and regarded it as the holy land of their race. They also built a magnificent palace, where their most noble King lived to guard the holy relic.
As a Grand Fel Warlock of the Fel Empire, the Ratman with Fel fire in its eyes and shrouded in Fel mist had a status and power second only to the Fel King. Therefore, it smoothly passed through the gate guarded by the Fel Guards and came to the palace to meet the Fel King.
What was the biggest impression the Fel King gave people? It was obesity, extreme obesity, so fat that even its fur was stretched by the fat and couldn’t be seen. The originally triangular rat head was even more sunk into the fat of its neck, like stuffing a meatball into a meat filling. Its body was even more covered by layers of fat, and its limbs couldn’t be seen at all.
Then there was its hugeness, so huge that it made the spacious palace seem cramped, making any creature standing in front of the Fel King involuntarily worry that it would be crushed by the mountain of flesh in front of it, or drowned by the fat that was oozing out of its skin.
“Great Fel King, the King of the other side has finally appeared!” The Grand Fel Warlock excitedly knelt before the Fel King and said in a trembling voice.
The eyelids, thicker than a manhole cover, didn’t block the vigorous Fel fire burning in the Fel King’s eyes. It looked at the Grand Fel Warlock and spoke in a viscous voice like bubbles rising in magma.
“Dispatch the army, kill their King, and seize the key to the outside world. The holy relic needs more lives to be converted into Fel. Only by accumulating enough Fel can the holy relic guide us to find the Master.”
“Everything is for the Master!” The Grand Fel Warlock, who had already been infiltrated by Fel, shouted fanatically. Because it was too excited, the Fel fire in its eyes burned its eyeballs until they sizzled, but then they were repaired by Fel again. This pain made the Grand Fel Warlock even more fanatical.
