Human?

  Jenn retracted his gaze and reached out to adjust his glasses. He didn't have any telepathic connection with Elise, but he didn't need one either - just assign a morph to tail her and it could keep tabs on her 24/7. That's how Jenn had also witnessed the conflict between Elise and those humans firsthand.

  As for Elise's choice, Jain didn't think there was anything strange about it. The ground and the surface were two worlds, where tolerance, harmony, and coexistence weren't even mentioned. For the inhabitants of the dark underground, the crawling creatures from the surface were all disgusting and dangerous goods, and killing them directly was more convenient than anything else. And those surface dwellers who came to the dark region obviously didn't just come to satisfy their own boring curiosity.

  To a certain extent, the contradictions between the underground and the surface are just like those between the Sky God Realm and the Demon Realm - they cannot be reconciled. The people on the surface view the inhabitants of the dark regions as sinister, evil, and cunning losers, and think that the world would be better off without them.

  The inhabitants of the dark regions consider surface dwellers to be inferior, shameful and dangerous hybrids. It should be known that apart from the Heart Demons, other races are actually the same as El'goroth's people, originally exiled from the surface. So their hatred for surface races is like old wine, getting stronger with time.

  Especially dark elves like Vyrna, from the beginning of their history they were indoctrinated with the evil deeds of their kin, telling about the long-lasting war and how those foul elves stabbed them in the back when they were struggling to support them, leaving them as bait and cannon fodder for a powerful enemy that was almost impossible to resist, and also destroyed their tribes, slaughtering their women and children. Even the dark elves' sad pleas did not change the surface elves' cruel behavior towards them, ultimately they could only flee to this desolate region, cursing and bearing a painful life forever.

  So if those people had met Vern instead of Iris this time, the outcome would not have been much different.

  As for Zhan En himself, he didn't have any particular feelings towards these humans. If they were humans from Earth, perhaps he would still feel some affection. Unfortunately, the humans in this world and him had already become completely different beings, although they looked exactly the same as the humans in his cognition, but what's the difference?

  After all, Zhan is no longer human, not in his position, not planning for it, and he needs to sit in the right position before talking about other things. Being in Cao's camp with a heart in Han has no good ending, and even if Hollywood becomes an alien, it still wants to think for humanity, and such a literary film hero can only have one dead end. Zhan doesn't want to be the protagonist of this kind of movie.

  But what bothered Zhan was not Elise's act of killing these humans, but the humans themselves.

  The dark region is a vast and profound underground world, where it takes at least half a month to enter or exit the surface. Not to mention the distance of the journey, but just the easily confusing maze-like caves and the monsters lurking in the darkness are enough to make any spirited expedition army drink a pot. In addition, the scarce water sources, insufficient food supplies, and the time difference that does not distinguish between day and night are all enough to drive any surface expedition army mad.

  However, this does not mean that surface dwellers have no way of coming to the dark region.

  Long ago, the dark realm had a long and brutal war with the surface world. At that time, the inhabitants of the dark realm who lived in darkness still hoped to return to the surface one day and reclaim everything they lost.

  However, the inhabitants of the surface obviously would not tolerate this "invasion", so under the union of the Holy Temple, a coalition army composed of elves, dwarves, humans and other surface races marched deep into the dark territory, attempting to eradicate those "dark and evil monsters" once and for all.

  In the face of the Allied Forces' attack, the Dark Territory finally put aside their differences and launched a crazy counterattack led by the Heartless Devil, Dark Elves, and Dwarves. This war lasted for 135 years, with both sides pouring in all sorts of troops like madmen, from golems to dragons, from angels to demons, resulting in hundreds of millions of deaths. In the end, the Holy Church even summoned the God of War, Makka, who descended upon the Dark Territory in his true form.

  In the face of the desperate attack by the surface races, the dark elves also went mad, sacrificing a full 100,000 prisoners to open the transmission gates of the three major legions of the demon world.

  In the end, this war was a two-way defeat, and all three marshals were killed in battle. The god of war, Makka, thoroughly fell, and was dragged into the demon realm, never to be turned over again. Now his divine corpse is still tied up on the mountain of judgment, as a symbol of the demon tribe's victory over the heavenly kingdom.

  A war that killed a True God and three Great Demon Kings was unprecedented in the history of the entire Klein continent. After that, the surface coalition army retreated hastily after losing the blessing of the True God. The subterranean races who suffered heavy casualties in the war also had no interest in beating the fallen, but instead curled up to lick their wounds and recover. It was only then that the connection between the Dark Territory and the Demon Realm became increasingly close, and finally, they completely abandoned the surface and threw themselves into the arms of darkness.

  At that time, the surface coalition was able to deploy so many troops in the dark territory, of course, not just relying on the expeditionary force. In fact, after the first batch of expeditionary forces arrived in the dark territory, they gathered the power of the great mages, dwarves and elves, and built a kind of transmission gate in the dark territory. With the help of these transmission gates, the surface could easily transmit troops to the dark territory. This made it possible for the surface coalition to continuously replenish its forces, making it easier to attack.

  After the war, most of the portals were buried in ruins, and some were destroyed. However, many portals remained, serving as outposts for surface races to monitor the Underdark, so occasionally surface warriors would travel through the portals to explore the region. Of course, striking at evil was also a good excuse.

  If Zhan En were to explain it, then this transmission gate is simply a copy entrance for the surface races. When they want to upgrade and get equipment to fight BOSS, they will beautify the name "trial", and then assemble several teams through the transmission gate to come to the dark region, stir up a mess here, and then retreat with the heroic halo and upgraded elite.

  No wonder the residents of this dimly lit area are so unhappy.

  Zhan En was particularly concerned about the transmission gate because in the library of the demon world, he had browsed similar materials. It was one of the sons of the previous demon king who built an underground city very coincidentally or very coincidentally next to a transmission gate. This also made his underground city the best place for warriors and heroes who tried to brush副本.

  Unfortunately, the real world doesn't have a difficulty selection, so when that group of idiots happily walked into the underground castle, planning to play on normal mode, they only then discovered that they had actually chosen the nightmare difficulty. Their outcome was clear - the dark lord's army easily disposed of those foolish and incompetent idiots. Then, following the trail, they found the location of the transmission gate, occupied it, went to the surface, and ultimately succeeded in destroying two or three countries.

  This is the point.

  No, what Zhan En cares about is not these humans from the surface, but the meaning they represent. From their numbers, it's impossible to be too many or too few. There's no fatigue from a long journey, which means these guys didn't come on foot to the dark realm. So it's very likely that they are members who activated the transmission gate and came here.

  This also means that there is a high possibility of having a portal nearby.

  That was Zean's goal, the portal was a good thing, if he could rely on the portal, then Zean could go to the surface - the small skirmishes in the dark underground were nothing, the ultimate goal of the demon king's son had always been only one, that is to attack the surface, let those basking in sunlight and divine power experience destruction, despair and death.

  Zhan En was no exception, he didn't have much aversion to invading the land and didn't struggle - thinking of others when you can't even save your own life is great, but it's not realistic. In fact, even if Zhan En begged for mercy on behalf of the land and got killed, what would be the point? The demons wouldn't acknowledge this foolish act, and the people on the land wouldn't even know that such a person existed, let alone that anything would change because of it - Zhan En's brothers and sisters would still launch an attack on humans, mercilessly sweeping everything away, including his two younger sisters.

  But Zhan also has his own plan.

  It seems that Elise is still a bit too tender, if she doesn't completely annihilate the opponent or capture one alive, then investigating intelligence on her own might be easier... Forget it, this is a good opportunity to properly punish this miss.

  If Elise knew what Jen was thinking at this moment, I wonder how she would react.

  As he thought of this, Zhan En came back to his senses and looked ahead - at this moment, the earth spirit in the empty cave had been completely annihilated, and in front of Zhan En, on the stone platform surrounded by the broken earth spirit nest, a black stone that was emitting an eerie magical glow could be seen. It seemed that the earth spirit had treated it as some kind of sacred object for worship, and this was also the main reason why Zhan En came here.

  Zhan En walked slowly onto the high platform, coming to the front of that stone, carefully observing it. At first glance, it was no different from a giant dinosaur egg, with strange patterns emerging on its smooth surface like a goose egg, black and emitting an eerie aura, quietly spreading out along with the dark purple light, becoming the most dazzling gem here. Zhan En stretched out his hand and pressed it onto the surface of that stone.

  Soon, a line of system prompts floated before his eyes.

  [Obtained Dark Magic Stone, possible construction of Dark Sacred Temple]