The Last King Of Darkness-Chapter 1449 - 700: Calier’s Dark Plan

Contrary to Rod’s imagination, the underground base in Stone City isn’t gloomy or dim. It uses rocks as the main structure, allowing light sources to fill every corner, making it look clean, bright, and grand.

But once you delve deeper into the base, its sinister side becomes exposed.

Rod saw countless dungeons sunk in darkness in a gigantic pit.

Numerous living monsters were imprisoned within, with a faint black mist flowing inside, unpenetrated by the light of fire.

The roars, snarls, and clashes of the monsters were constant, echoing in the ears.

Great Priest Megan said, "This is our dark dungeon, where a large number of monsters below Strong Level are held. To ensure the monsters’ vitality, we haven’t illuminated this area with firelight."

Rod furrowed his brows. He and Great Priest Megan stood on a bridge, looking down, the dark pit like the abyss’s maw, seemingly poised to devour them, instilling a bad feeling.

"How did you introduce the black mist?"

"The black mist spreads up from underground. To ensure this, the dark dungeon is built at the deepest part of the base, far from Stone City’s Guardian Fire. Meanwhile, there’s a Guardian Fire in the base, but it’s very weak. If something happens, the staff on duty will immediately add Fuel Element to the fire; the enhanced light will dispel this thin black mist."

Rod then asked, "What if the monsters lose control?"

"We have a comprehensive alert process, with First Level Combatants at the helm; these monsters can’t stir up trouble."

Rod nodded slightly, but felt somewhat uneasy inside.

He knew Calier’s secret unit mainly consisted of Black Inheritors and Unawakened, the latter being twisted existences where human and monster remnants were fused into a half-human, half-monster.

And once the monsters lost the support of the Dark Soul, they would quickly collapse, which is the quantization of the black mist, eventually leaving only ashes.

Therefore, it’s extremely difficult to bring back monster remnants from the battlefield.

They must raise live monsters, fuse them with humans while still alive, ultimately allowing the monster’s soul to dissipate and the residual soul to integrate into the human soul.

And the human soul replaces it, becoming the carrier of the monster remnant.

In other words, at that moment, the person is already gone, his soul transformed into the carrier of darkness, while the dark soul is chaotic, mad, rampant, and he inevitably will descend into madness and destruction.

In the past, the Unawakened were Troli’s standard cannon fodder.

Their sole purpose on the battlefield was mutual destruction with the monsters, or else they would quickly turn into monsters themselves.

The extreme cruelty of this act led the New King to ban it from his early reign.

Until Great Priest Megan found new ways to balance and control the Unawakened, allowing them a relatively long-term stable existence, the King re-approved Calier’s secret unit to return to the battlefield.

Among this, Rod also played a part.

It was his support at the crucial moment that made the King agree to Great Priest Megan’s request.

Thus, Megan has always hoped to win him over to his faction, thereby gaining greater support for Calier’s Non-Human Voice and secret unit.

He always believed that the path of the Fire Holders would ultimately reach its end.

During the Epoch of Gods, in the era of fire, countless strong individuals reached the extreme on this path, but the end result was the black mist enveloping the earth, and the sun, moon, and stars lost their light, severely polluting the Three Realms.

This ironclad fact proved that fire cannot defeat darkness.

What can conquer darkness is only darkness itself.

Therefore, humans must learn to utilize darkness as they learned to use fire, and the Unawakened is the first step in this direction.

Indeed, it’s imperfect and has many side effects, but everything is like this at the start. As long as persistently pursued, it will inevitably succeed, and humans will eventually become masters of darkness.

This is the ideology Great Priest Megan devoted his life to.

After countless failures, he embarked on this path, firmly believing it’s the only path to save Troli and humanity.

The brilliance of fire is only temporary, and Troli should seize this opportune moment to rapidly develop Calier’s Non-Human Voice.

Unfortunately, his theory had virtually no support and was even labeled as a Doomsday believer, due to its similarity with the Doomsday believers’ constant claims about the harmlessness of black mist or the new human theory.

If not for Great Priest Megan’s previous high regard in Royal City, coupled with the Internal Affairs Court finding no evidence of his collaboration with Doomsday believers, along with the peaceful laws since the New King’s ascent, he would have been executed.

Rod was the only one of Troli’s high-ranking officials to explicitly support him.

If he were willing to take over his cause, Great Priest Megan had no qualms about committing suicide.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before Rod’s strength skyrocketed, overcoming numerous obstacles, becoming the first powerful Monarch in Troli besides the King.

This broke Great Priest Megan’s heart.

With such formidable strength, Calier’s Non-Human Voice couldn’t offer anything to sway him.

Fortunately, Rod’s attitude towards him didn’t change and he even supported him in disputes with Bossivale and Lin, offering thousands of soul resources to Calier.

What thrilled him even more was that during the Sun Knight’s resurrection, Rod even persuaded Kai to hand down his remains to Calier.