"Wang Luo, we've discovered some humans from the underground world!"
Yang Shu suddenly found Wang Luo, who was cultivating, and said.
"Humans? Isn't that common?" Wang Luo asked curiously, as it wasn't the first time he had seen them.
Yang Shu said, "They were injured and comatose near a mist rift. They were discovered by our scouts searching for heavenly treasures!"
"However, after they woke up, they actually expressed a desire to join us!"
"Join us?" Wang Luo was surprised. The underground world humans he had seen before all acted high and mighty. These people actually wanted to join them?
This was quite strange!
"Let's go take a look. When you ask for a favor, you should have the attitude of someone asking for a favor!"
Not long after,
Wang Luo arrived on the city wall. Outside stood three men in ancient attire, all appearing to be in their early thirties. Their complexions were somewhat pale, and their clothes bore many stains of blood.
"It's them!"
Zhao Qingxuan said, "According to their own introduction, all three are SSS-grade demigod awakeners, and one of them is a spatial ability user!"
"SSS-grade spatial ability user?" Wang Luo was even more surprised.
SSS-grade was rare,
and an SSS-grade spatial ability user was even rarer!
Apart from Xiao Bai Long, whose spatial ability grade was boosted by heavenly treasures, Wang Luo had only seen that monkey-headed human as an SSS-grade spatial ability user.
"They weren't with the mutated beasts?" Wang Luo asked.
"No, according to the people who discovered them, there were only these three individuals at the location, and they were severely injured when found. Later, these men themselves said they were injured while escaping the underground world."
"If they are not allied with the mutated beasts and their attitude is proper, it's not entirely unacceptable. However, we'll investigate them first. Once their injuries heal, we'll have them kill some mutated beasts to see."
It wasn't that the base didn't welcome humans from the underground world, and they had even held some expectations for them. However, the humans who appeared with theongoose last time had given them no good feelings whatsoever.
After the group entered and had a discussion, Wang Luo learned that the spatial ability user was named Yuan Ye, and the other two were named Zhao Zhen and Guo Wu, who were wood and earth element users respectively.
Subsequently, someone arranged for them to be housed in the base's residential area.
In the following days, everyone gradually learned that the city where the three men resided had been overrun by zombies, forcing them to rely on other powerful mutated beast races.
However, the city lord of their city was well aware of the consequences of relying on those mutated beasts. Therefore, he risked his life to send a few SSS-grade seeds to the Sky Ladder, allowing them to enter the surface world to seek a glimmer of hope!
"But in the end, they were still discovered by the enemy. Several of our companions died at the hands of mutated beasts, while I used my spatial abilities to lead my two companions to safety!"
Yuan Ye's voice was low.
He could already imagine the torment the city lord would endure.
"How strong are the humans from the underground world?"
Zhao Qingxuan asked.
According to the information they had gathered, there were quite a few humans in the underground world, and there should be some strong individuals, right?
How could they have fallen to such a state?
"Their strength is not weak. The city we were in had a population of hundreds of millions, and the strongest among them even reached the Heavenly God level. However, the number of powerful zombies was simply too great. You might not know this, but above the God level, there is no such thing as fighting above one's rank. Even an SSS-grade ability user can only fight one zombie boss of the same rank!"
Zhao Qingxuan asked curiously, "Then why could those mutated beasts hold back so many zombies?"
Yuan Ye looked at the little girl with two pigtails in front of him and was surprised to find that she was also a demigod!
How long had it been since ability users appeared in the surface world, yet demigods were already emerging?
Moreover, upon closer inspection, it seemed that all the people before him were demigods, which made the pupils of the three men shrink drastically.
To be able to achieve demigod status meant they would definitely become gods in the future!
Were the opportunities in this surface world so great?
Especially the man standing between the two leaders of the base, his aura always gave him a strong sense of pressure.
[This person's strength is definitely the strongest among this group!]
"Because of World Imprints!"
"World Imprints?" Zhao Qingxuan looked at Yang Shu and the others. They had heard of this thing more than once. They had heard that black-scaled giant python mention this thing before.
"That's right, World Imprints. There are a total of nineteen imprints that appeared in the underground world: seven Emperor Imprints and twelve King Imprints. These nineteen imprints were obtained by nineteen powerful individuals, known as the Seven Emperors and Twelve Kings!"
"You should know that even if we ability users become gods, the greatest difference in our offensive means compared to those below the God level is ultimately the laws. However, if one can fuse with a World Imprint, they can mobilize the laws of heaven and earth in the universe, forming a barrier of heaven and earth to protect the base. As long as the person who fused with the World Imprint is alive, even countless zombies of the same level cannot breach the barrier!"
This was why the territories of the Seven Emperors and Twelve Kings had become the last strongholds of the underground world.
"If our humans had strong individuals who could fuse with World Imprints, we wouldn't have fallen to this point!"
Yuan Ye said with reluctance.
If there were any other options, who would be willing to depend on other races?
"I didn't expect World Imprints to have such a significant effect!"
Wang Luo was once again shocked by the effect of World Imprints.
"It seems that we must fight for the World Imprints in the surface world!"
With World Imprints, the base could be safer.
"It's not easy to fight for them. All the mutated beasts that appeared from the underground world are almost fully aware of the immense value of World Imprints, so even if they have to risk their lives, they will not give up on World Imprints!" Guo Wu shook his head.
"Not give up? Then we can only kill them!" Wang Luo said indifferently.
"Do you know when those things will appear?"
"No one knows the exact time for World Imprints to appear, but once they do, there will inevitably be a magnificent phenomenon in the heavens and earth!"
Yang Shu said, "Then it will be troublesome. If it appears too far away from us, won't others get there first?"
The Earth is not small!
Wang Luo shook his head, "Did you forget that we are already demigods now?"
Although they were not true gods yet, they were somewhat related to gods, so reaching a location would be easy!
"Moreover, even if other mutated beasts seize them, we can just kill them and take them away then!"
Since World Imprints had such an effect,
at the very least,
they had to snatch one to protect the base's safety.
"Although I haven't seen what a World Imprint looks like, I have heard from elders that it takes quite some time to successfully fuse with such a thing. So even if others manage to get a World Imprint, we will still have a chance!" Yuan Ye said.
This was also what the city lord had mentioned as a glimmer of hope!