MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter
Chapter 1678: Desolate Place

Chapter 1678: Chapter 1678: Desolate Place

The Blue Dragon Queen frowned slightly. When had she ever been used as a mount? Although she was mentally prepared, it still felt a bit awkward.

Of course, she automatically ignored the times when the Lich King controlled her mind and used her as a mount, back when she hadn’t yet recovered her own will.

After hesitating for a moment, the Blue Dragon Queen transformed into her Dragon Form.

Li Yao smiled and said nothing as the Valkyrie Wing spread open, lifting his body into the air.

Having mastered aerial riding skills, his Valkyrie Wing was no longer just for show. However, in terms of comfort or speed, it couldn’t compare to the flight speed of the Dragon Queen.

Li Yao rested directly against the Dragon Horn, and the Blue Dragon Queen soared into the sky.

As she flew, the Blue Dragon Queen realized that her speed had now increased more than fourfold.

Her speed was already incredibly fast, and now it was even faster – like streaks of light and shadow, breaking through the sound barrier.

A small light shield enveloped Li Yao, neutralizing the gale.

"Still too slow. To get to the West Continent, this speed isn’t enough. Fly at full speed, and in ten minutes, there will be a surprise."

The Blue Dragon Queen didn’t understand, but she flew at full speed. Ten minutes later, she found herself surrounded by lightning, and her speed increased several times again.

If she weren’t a world-class leader, such speed would leave her unable to see anything.

The Blue Dragon Queen flew not too high, just below the clouds.

Many monsters and players could only feel a blue shadow flashing across the sky, unable to capture the Dragon Queen’s figure.

Even surrounded by lightning, the Blue Dragon Queen couldn’t feel the presence of the wind, as if swimming in the void of space without air resistance.

Countless lightning bolts formed a shield, isolating her and Li Yao, almost turning her into a spectator, effortlessly winging her way through.

This time Li Yao’s destination was the West Coast of the West Continent, a desolate land.

The desolate land was a gray, rocky place with skeletal remains scattered everywhere. It seemed to bear an inexplicable curse, with a stormy sky often filled with lightning and gales raging across the region.

Once, this was part of the Endless Forest of Feralas, beautiful and prosperous, the origin of the centaur race.

Cenarius, the natural demigod, had a son who fell in love with a princess of earth elements, and they flourished here, leading to the creation of the centaur race.

During the cataclysmic war of ten thousand years ago, Demons invaded The Ancient God World, and the centaur tribes joined the United Army to resist the Demons.

The Burning Legion ravaged half the continent, after countless brutal battles and the devastation of numerous prohibited curses, this land turned desolate and barren.

Now only madness and savagery can survive here, vultures, lions, hyenas, Thunder Lizards, Demons, and the already defeated centaur tribes.

After the great war, the harsh environment was the real reason the centaurs became frenzied and invaded the Tauren lands. They needed survival too, though this place was no longer suitable.

But now, on the brink of exterminating the Tauren to dominate the endlessly bountiful plains, the Dark Camp rose and defeated them.

Now, a large group of surviving centaurs fled back to their once-abandoned homeland. The three major centaur tribes are barely clinging to life here, resisting the attacks of the Dark Camp Allied Army.

Recently, the situation here has also become more complicated; originally it was just a war between the Dark Camp and the centaurs.

But the dormant Fireblade Clan Demons, quiet for millennia, have begun to rage and act, their schemes unknown.

With the merging of dimensions, map expansion, and the emergence of sub-dimension zones.

Though barren, the land is incredibly resource-rich, with gold mines, various gemstone deposits being continuously excavated, becoming the focus of The Ancient God World.

The map is now like a giant powder keg, ready to explode at any moment.

The unified Plane of the Dead, led by the Lich Marshal, has begun its invasion, using the desolate land as a stepping stone, sending large numbers of the Undead Legion and several Lich Marshals to occupy the centaur Holy Land, also the centaurs’ graveyard, aiming to revive the Undead there, even demigod sons.

The three centaur tribes and the Dark Camp’s last battle is being closely organized, with constant skirmishes but no major battles.

The harpies have even built crude Sky Cities on cliffs here, while the Fireblade Demons are plotting their intrigue continually mobilizing Demon Legion to capture various living creatures.

Even the Light Faction has occupied a stronghold, similarly not wanting the Dark Camp to exclusively enjoy this resource-rich land.

Along the coast, an ancient Elf City has emerged from beneath the waves, a spire towering along the shore, with myriad Naga taking over the area. A human trickster, seeking fragments of the Time Staff, confronts the Nagas alongside his apprentices.

It can be said that the desolate land has become a place of mixed creatures, and as fresh recruits, players, even some guilds, have oddly chosen their bases here; intending peace but turning into the focus of many, yet still a place of opportunity.

After all, countless players know this map hasn’t been fully developed yet, particularly those practicing mining lifestyles consider it a Holy Land, many hilltops see these players mining under guild group protection, trying to find new veins for profit shares.

Providing a focus, the area mainly holds monsters between levels 57 to 60, very suitable for current-stage players to level up.

With various forces converged, NPC tasks are endless, making battle players and lifestyle players flock to this place in frenzy, much like players from the East Continent migrating to the Ghost Land.

Li Yao and the Blue Dragon Queen wore cloaks that wrapped their entire bodies, and along with the mechanized form that became an Orc warrior, the trio entered the Tauren base here, Beast Soul Oasis.

It’s a peculiar place, the most resourceful of the desolate land, where mysterious cyclical forces influence the area.

Reportedly, it’s the resting place for the soul of Cenarius’ wife, a wilderness demigod, now called Kodo Beast Rebirth Area, seeing many Kodo beast spirits that can reincarnate into Kodo beasts.

In the center lies a mysterious Lake of Souls, beside a newly built giant tavern, a Task Release Point.

Li Yao sat in the tavern with the Blue Dragon Queen to gather various news, though forums may have information, it’s often outdated.

In fact, Li Yao had already met the leader here, Guldad, and got detailed intelligence on the map, including strong players of races above the rank that each faction revealed.

He also accepted a few commissions to hunt those strong players.

"Useless in this chaotic place," the Blue Dragon Queen remarked, evidently unsuited for such a noisy chaotic environment...