Chapter 567: Into the Black Serpent Cave
Chapter 567: Into the Black Serpent Cave
Blackie’s incredible speed carried Marcus across several large islands. More than two hours later, an unusually shaped island finally appeared beneath them.Black Serpent Islet.
From the air, the island looked surprisingly small, covering barely a thousand square meters. Jagged black rocks protruded from every direction, giving it a bleak, lifeless appearance. There wasn’t a single tree, blade of grass, or wandering monster anywhere in sight. Aside from the endless black stone, the island seemed completely barren.
"Take us down."
Blackie descended toward the island’s eastern side. As they approached the ground, a massive boulder came into view. Hidden behind it was the entrance to a cave, its mouth constantly releasing thick streams of swirling black mist.
This was the Black Serpent Cave. The lair of the Iceflame Black Serpent Man.
According to both Silas’s map and the Town Lord’s account, the cave contained a unique mineral vein that constantly absorbed frigid and dark energy from the surrounding sea. Over more than twenty thousand years, the entire cavern had gradually transformed into an icy blue world of crystal-like glaciers. At some point, a powerful Demon Clan expert had claimed the cave as a cultivation ground, further altering its environment.
Under that demon’s influence, the cave eventually became a sprawling maze filled with countless twisting tunnels, all concealed beneath dense black mist. During the Divine War ten thousand years ago, the Demon Clan expert mysteriously disappeared.
Roughly two thousand years later, a colony of Level 60 Black Ice Serpents appeared within the mist-filled labyrinth. From then on, the cavern became known as the Black Serpent Cave, and the island itself earned the name Black Serpent Islet.
The sealing array at the entrance now lay in ruins.
Fragments of shattered magic crystals were scattered across the ground, making it obvious that the Iceflame Black Serpent Man had broken through the thousand-year-old seal from the inside.
Back then, five Arch-Sorcerers had pursued the creature deep into the cave, determined to eliminate it once and for all. Unfortunately, the dense black mist and endless maze of tunnels had kept them wandering for an entire day without ever locating their target. In the end, they had no choice but to seal the cave instead, hoping to trap it forever.
Instead, they had merely given it time to escape.
Marcus couldn’t help shaking his head. When dealing with an enemy like this, you either finished the job completely... or accepted that it might come back to haunt you one day.