Chapter 449: The Battle of the Underworld

“You may not understand how important this answer is to me. Anyway, just tell me what you know.” Jiang Lu didn’t want to explain too much.

“But how do you think I know that?”

An Dan looked embarrassed.

Lucifer on the side was stunned for a moment: “You have been in the battlefield of the underworld for so many years and have been exposed to so many core secrets. Don’t tell me you don’t know anything.”

Jiang Lu was also a little embarrassed. After analyzing the situation with Lucifer, he realized that he had already put on a show. Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if he couldn’t get the real thing from An Dan?

Fortunately, although An Dan did not give an answer that satisfied the two of them, he was not completely ignorant, which allowed Jiang Lu to save face.

“I don’t know where Hades is now, but I know he won’t appear again in the future.” An Dan said with certainty.

“What do you mean?” Jiang Lu was confused.

“Up to now you probably only know the general idea of ​​the war. There are some specific things you definitely don’t know, so I think I’ll start from when the war in the underworld began.”

An Dan explained:

“Before we launched our full-scale attack on the underworld, none of our battle plans or tactics explicitly discussed how to deal with Hades.

This is not because we are inconsiderate, but it is the instruction of Yin Di. He tells us not to care about him.

Just like how Lord Lucifer felt after talking to him privately, we were also very confused at first. The most dangerous enemy in the underworld is Hades, but all plans ignore him. Is this really right?

However, Emperor Yin rejected all objections and abandoned the initial plan of steady progress, and instead chose a more radical blitzkrieg plan, reducing the baggage and supplies he carried and exchanging everything for mobility.

They didn’t even open up supply lines, and adopted a method of fighting to support the war. Every time they captured an area, they plundered supplies from the local area as supplies.

When the plan was just drafted, several of us in charge of coordination and command read it and we were actually very unsure and had some doubts.

At the time, everyone understood tacitly that something big might go wrong. This was the underworld, not just some random people. Would they really be crushed by us without any resistance?

Yes, this is the feeling that Yin Di’s plan gives us, as if wherever we go will be trampled down by the underworld. We don’t know if Yin Di is too confident, or to put it bluntly, a little self-willed and blindly arrogant.

But there is no way, because the authority of the Yin Emperor is too great. Let alone objecting, we don’t even have the chance to persuade him. We can only do as he plans.

The old marshal at that time felt it was too risky and refused to carry out the order, so he was directly dismissed by Emperor Yin and no one knows where he is now.

If I came to power, I would have no reason to oppose him. Even though I knew I might lose my first battle, I had no choice but to go ahead with it.

What we didn’t expect was that the underworld seemed to have no resistance to us.

Not only are the borders of their world non-existent and completely defenseless, but even when they penetrate into the hinterland, they do not encounter any effective organized resistance. This almost gives us the illusion that the underworld has become an empty city, waiting for outsiders to take over. Whoever arrives first will control the world.

At this time, the advantages of blitzkrieg are reflected.

The army of the underworld is highly mobile and can march even faster than the refugees fleeing. Before the news of the occupation of the periphery reached the inland, we had already appeared in the inland area.

We caught them by surprise and didn’t give the underworld any time to react, so we were able to reap such great results right when the battlefield was just opened up.

By the time they realized what was happening, we were already approaching the Agron River, the last line of defense of the underworld.

It was at this time that we encountered resistance that could really cause us trouble.

First of all, there was no bridge over the Agron River, so in order to cross the river, we began to build a bridge. Then the people from the underworld would come to stop us from building the bridge. Sometimes we were able to repel them, and then we could extend the bridge forward hundreds of meters.

But sometimes they would gain some advantage and repel the soldiers guarding the bridge, thus destroying part of the bridge, and perhaps our months of hard work would be wasted.

The only good news is that, although the progress is extremely slow, we are still moving forward steadily.

The offensive and defensive battles around the Agron River alone lasted for nearly a hundred years.

When the bridge, which the Yin Emperor called the Bridge of Conquest, was completed, the underworld realized that our advance was unstoppable, so they pushed their defense line back and opened up the vast plain they called the Garden of Truth as a new battlefield.

Then the tug-of-war turned into a war of attrition.”

At this point, An Dan paused, still feeling a lingering fear, and seemed unwilling to recall that memory:

“It was a meat-grinding ground, a hell the underworld soldiers had never seen before.

Countless soldiers from the underworld and the underworld were buried there. We have done statistics, and on average, tens of thousands of people from both sides die there every day. Sometimes there are more from the underworld, and sometimes more from the underworld.

Fortunately, the supply line had already been built at this time, and soldiers from the underworld could be continuously replenished from the rear, and the wounded could also retreat from the front line and recuperate and receive treatment in the rear.

We can continuously replenish manpower and material resources, but we have already conquered a lot of the underworld’s territory. They will definitely not be able to compete with us in terms of foundation. If we continue to fight like this, we will win no matter how you look at it.

But what no one expected was that the underworld released all the vicious prisoners held in Tartarus, the place of suffering, and then released a group of Titans who were defeated by Zeus and his men from Tartarus.

I don’t know what price the Underworld paid, but in any case, these troublesome guys who should have had a blood feud with both the Underworld and Mount Olympus actually stood on their side and joined forces to deal with us.

There was a period of time when the battle line we had pushed forward with great difficulty was compressed back to the vicinity of the Bridge of Conquest. Fortunately, the Yin Emperor sent some powerful gods to help, and the situation was gradually stabilized, which bought us time to find a way to deal with those Titan gods.

This war continued for hundreds of years. When we killed the last Titan, we thought it was finally over, right?

We were all full of anticipation and could almost see the scene of ourselves leaving this nightmare-like battlefield and returning home in glory. With this mood, we stepped into the underworld, the royal city of Hades.

Rather than a city, it is more like a castle, a huge palace, which is located on the top of a cliff, with the back facing the endless black sea without a trace of ripples.

As the old saying goes: Clear water is shallow, green water is deep, and black water is profound.

There was no sign of life on the sea. The fog and almost black water on the sea surface made us feel extremely uneasy.

The castle was also unusually quiet, and although it was Hades’ base camp, it was not luxurious or grand at all. Instead, it gave us a feeling of decay and dilapidation.

But since we were already here, there was no reason not to go in and find out what was going on. We were extremely alert, slowly moving forward while guarding against ambushes from the underworld.

It took us two hours to walk a distance of only a few hundred feet, and we walked through it carefully bit by bit.

It was not until we reached the palace gate that we were able to confirm that the castle was deserted.

What made us feel very strange was that we didn’t know where those defeated soldiers who had retreated here before had gone. There was clearly no other way out, but they all seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth.

We can only guess that there may be some secret escape passage in the palace, but at this point, it doesn’t matter whether those deserters are still alive or not. They no longer pose a threat, and there is no need for us to kill them all. Nothing is more symbolic than the fall of Hades, and nothing can better represent a great victory.

But just when we relaxed our vigilance and planned to enter the palace and plant the flag of the Yin Emperor at the top of the underworld, something strange suddenly happened.

First, the originally calm sea surface suddenly surged with waves, as if something was stirring inside. Then, a huge monster slowly walked out of the fog. It was a giant with countless arms.

We couldn’t see anything above its chest as it was completely hidden in the thick fog, and its lower body was in the sea water.

The sea that seems bottomless to us is just like a swimming pool to it.

If his body proportions were normal, then judging by visual estimation, he might be six or seven thousand feet tall, and that sea would be at least four thousand feet wide.

Watching it gradually approaching, we were in a state of panic, but what we didn’t expect was that it suddenly stopped near the underworld, then slowly sank and knelt in the sea, with only its back like an island exposed.

From its back, a giant dog with three heads stepped on the sea water and pounced towards us at a terrifying speed.

When it came closer, we could see clearly that the three-headed dog, which looked like a small dot on the giant’s back from a distance, was actually dozens of feet tall, almost as big as the castle of Hades.

Just by seeing its ferocious appearance, many soldiers were frightened and took several steps back.

Still unexpectedly, the three giant dogs did not attack us. It seemed as if they didn’t see us at all, and then they crashed into the castle and died, with their brains splattered and blood flowing.

The castle could not withstand the fierce impact and collapsed.

In a flash, I saw a huge black cocoon in the castle. Countless mummies were kneeling and lying around the cocoon.

Just before the castle turned into ruins, I saw something breaking away from the cocoon. “

“What is that?” Jiang Lu asked.

“I don’t know.” An Dan shook his head. “It was just a moment. I wasn’t even sure if I saw it wrong, because the others saw different things. Some saw the fleeing soldiers who had escaped earlier being crushed to death, some saw that there was nothing inside, and some saw a corpse sitting on the throne. It seemed that everyone saw something different.”

“and then?”

“Then.”

An Dan also looked confused:

“Once we came to our senses, we were standing in the Garden of Truth again, and the Underworld soldiers who were supposed to be fighting us had all turned into Olympus soldiers wearing bright armor.

All the famous gods on Mount Olympus stood before us.

The scene was so shocking that it was not enough to describe it. Any one of them could create an epic poem on their own, but at that time they could only be drowned in the crowd.

Among them, there was one person who overwhelmed all the others with his aura alone, as if the other main gods standing there were just to highlight his power.”

“Zeus?” Jiang Lu and Lucifer asked in unison.

“Yes, Zeus.” An Dan nodded: “He only said one sentence – now Mount Olympus will take over the battle between Hades and the underworld.”

“and then?”

“And then… nothing happened.” An Dan smiled bitterly. “At that time, we had just finished the war and had no energy left to continue fighting. We could only avoid the battle and retreat to the Bridge of Conquest. Then, we rested while confronting Mount Olympus and waited for further instructions from the Yin Emperor.”

“So from that time until now, the so-called war in the underworld is actually fought against Mount Olympus. What about the fighting power of the underworld?” Jiang Lu asked.

“Never again.”

Andan replied:

“Ever since the enemy came to the city, the underworld seemed to be completely extinct. Not only have we never seen soldiers from the underworld again, but we have never seen creatures from the underworld either.

Because everything happened so suddenly, we even doubted whether everything that happened in front of the underworld was a collective illusion.

Some people think that no matter how powerful Zeus is, it is impossible for him to transfer all of us, and they acted like they had just arrived at the battlefield and bumped into us trying to advance, and they knew nothing about the underworld, so it might just be the special ability of the last Titan, an illusion cast on us.

Some people also think that it is not an illusion, because everything is too real. No matter how powerful the Titans are, there is no real god among them. They are only so difficult to deal with because they are immune to various spells and have advantageous body functions. In essence, everyone is a god. What kind of illusion can cause hallucinations in so many gods at the same time?

I thought this would become an unsolved mystery, but Yin Di seemed to have known this would happen. He said something that I still remember vividly.

An Dan recalled and said word by word:

“How self-righteous! If he can succeed like this, then our attack on the underworld will be in vain.”

Chapter 450 Arrangement

Jiang Lu keenly sensed the implication.

“So there are other purposes for attacking the underworld?”

“I think so.”

An Dan nodded:

“After Yin Di said that, he asked us to keep it secret. No one in the underworld was allowed to discuss matters of the underworld anymore. All those who had personally participated were interviewed one by one and told to keep their mouths shut.

The Yin Emperor seemed to know what Hades was planning to do, and he wanted to stop it, and the way to stop it was by attacking the underworld. “

“So that wasn’t an illusion, but proof that Hades had failed?” Lucifer asked.

“That should be it.”