After spending a night in the Orc Empire, Luo Fan discovered that the administration here was quite lax. They were organized into groups based on their respective Orc tribes, with some members elected to the empire to assist the Orc King, while the others governed their own territories, similar to a feudal system.
The advantage is that it facilitates the Beast King's rule, while the disadvantage is that the central government's control over the periphery is weak. Although the leaders of each department are sent from here, it is still quite troublesome to gather troops when it is crucial.
After reviewing some records of magical script, Luo Fan found no further information. There wasn't much publicly available research on this militarily-minded nation; much of it originated from human empires.
However, Luo Fan discovered that the orcs, on the whole, had a higher affinity and adaptability to magic than humans. In addition, the relatively barren environment and fierce competition here made their average strength even stronger.
The imperial city was built in this location because there are several underground cities nearby, including one of advanced ones.
If it weren't for the Demon Forest, the chances of these guys invading the human empire would probably be quite high.
Before dawn the next day, Gandalf, along with Ellie and Ahri, left the capital city with the Beast King's return gift.
They wanted Ahri to stay, but sensing the powerful divine will of the Fox God, they were frightened and abandoned this unrealistic idea.
As the Holy Maiden of the Fox Clan, Ahri has yet to find her own people, but she is the representative of the Fox God. Her presence in the Beastman Empire will give the Beast King and his people more peace of mind.
"Luo Fan, why didn't you let Ahri stay here?" Ai Li muttered to herself.
"It's not safe here, and I can't stay here to swindle people for long. If I say too much, I'll be exposed. Ah Li will grow faster if she stays with us."
"But Ahri doesn't seem to want to leave."
"She was just a little reluctant to leave the country where she was born and wanted to find more information about her people."
Then Ellie saw Ahri nod; she was also unfamiliar with the orc royal family. If Terra hadn't been so enthusiastic, she would have wanted to leave long ago.
As Luo Fan flew over Death Valley once more, he suddenly sensed danger below. Immediately afterward, his divine sense spread out over the valley.
He sensed three dark-elemental holy mages blocking their path.
There are probably still spies from those guys around Saint Lin City, otherwise how could they have reacted so quickly!
"Luo Fan, what should we do?" Gandalf looked at the enemy in front of him. The enemy did not seem to have any intention of making a direct attack, so he sent a telepathic message to Luo Fan.
"I'll take the girls and retreat first. You figure out your own way and run separately." Although she didn't want to talk to the old man, now was not the time to be arrogant.
"Listen to my command, three, two, one!" After saying that, Luo Fan took the girls to the place where the tree branches were planted deep in the canyon, summoned the tree spirit, and asked it to take the two girls into it.
He himself changed his form again and went into hiding.
Those people reacted a bit too slowly, tracing the spatial traces left by Gandalf. The old man's mastery of spatial magic was poor, leaving obvious traces, but Luo Fan also arrived nearby.
"It's spatial magic, chase!" The three were stunned when they realized their prey had suddenly disappeared, and quickly fled down.
Gandalf was so angry he wanted to curse. That slime had just abandoned him like that! Although wind magic is good at escaping and hiding, there were three of them, and their divine senses covered the area.
"No, there's another terrifying being down there, resisting my divine sense!" Someone transmitted a message to the two people who were investigating, warning them to be on high alert.
At this moment, Gandalf was fleeing rapidly along the top of the canyon, occasionally making clumsy space jumps, but he still hadn't completely distanced himself from his opponent.
Meanwhile, Luo Fan, hidden in the shadows, launched an attack from below on the last guy who had fallen behind.
Sensing danger, the opponent activated their full domain and quickly located Luo Fan. The two then clashed using their divine senses.
The sky was dark, the sun had not yet risen, and the darkness was perfect for a dark-elemental mage to fight. Moreover, the opponent noticed that, aside from possessing strong spiritual power, the other party had not deployed any domain.
"Who are you? Why are you attacking us?!"
"Wandering into the canyon at will deserves to die!" Luo Fan said in a low voice, pretending to be a local, leaping along the dark domain. His divine sense was clearly stronger than the other party's, and he could move freely by using the other party's domain.
If it were any other attribute, he would quickly expose his spatial attribute in combat, and he would no longer be able to hide his true abilities and deceive his enemies.
"We have no intention of fighting with your monsters. As long as we kill that archmage and capture those two girls, we will retreat immediately!" The other side was stalling for time, planning to summon their allies to kill this annoying monster first.
As it turned out, Luo Fan had already arrived, wielding a weapon and slashing towards them.
It turns out you were just a trashy magical beast with only divine sense. Although I don't know how you learned divine sense, using weapons is just courting death, isn't it?
Soon, countless vines from the dark domain swept towards Luo Fan, who simultaneously shifted his position, completely concealing himself in the darkness.
At the same time, black mist surged and dark flames swirled, threatening to utterly destroy Luo Fan.
Just as the other party was thinking about quickly dealing with this magical beast that was enveloped by divine sense and whose species could not be identified, a sense of crisis suddenly arose in their mind.
Just as they were about to escape, the surrounding space was sealed off. It turned out that the opponent was also skilled in spatial magic, not just dark magic.
"You are the Void Thief! So you really are colluding with that empire!" the man cried out in terror, only to see the man in black approach him and, with incredible speed, sever his head.
Immediately afterwards, his divine sense attempted to escape to his teammates, but was intercepted by the man in black.
No~
A mournful cry struck his very soul, and the man in black completely destroyed and absorbed his divine sense. At that moment, his companions, who had just arrived, only saw a corpse falling downwards.
Who exactly are you?
The death of their companion immediately put these two on high alert, and they pressed down with all their divine senses.
However, the man in black disappeared suddenly after killing the person, leaving obvious spatial traces, very similar to those left by Gandalf.
"withdraw!"
Sensing the impending danger, the two dark-elemental holy mages decisively split up and fled. Luo Fan quickly caught up with one of them, using his full divine sense to intercept him.
"Dark magic? You're not Gandalf, who are you?!"
Luo Fan didn't want to waste time, so he immediately used his teleportation ability and added a delay to prepare to kill him again.
As a result, this guy activated several escape scrolls and forbidden spells in an attempt to buy time and escape with all his might.
However, when the shadow disappeared, Luo Fan followed closely and killed his opponent from a hundred miles away, taking away his divine sense and ring.
Immediately afterwards, following the trail of the last dark mage, they once again used spatial manipulation to catch up.
After spending a considerable amount of time, we finally killed it, achieving a great victory.
After absorbing the divine senses of these three holy archmages, his divine sense has grown significantly, now capable of sensing a range of over 300 kilometers in an instant.
After confirming that Gandalf had escaped the Grand Canyon, Lofan then turned his attention to finding the dragon.
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