Mage Legend
Chapter 315: Episode 16 Magic Bead_2

Chapter 315: Episode 16 Magic Bead_2

Zilvra closed her eyes, lightly biting her lower lip. After a moment of thought, she looked at the mage with her violet pupils: "Lynch, since you insist on staying here to fight, then I’ll tell you this. If my memory serves the name of Dark Elf well, then I know the origin of those undead creatures."

"Know? What’s going on?" Lynch appeared very surprised. "Could it be that those creatures are connected to the Underworld?"

"Lynch, do you know how the First Family began to rule Ratris City..."

What Zilvra narrated was a secret only known to the First Family. Thousands of years ago, even after allying with the Spider Goddess, the Dark Elves still couldn’t become the overlords of the Underdark. Monsters fleeing from the Great Arcanist War roamed the dark underground, constantly threatening the safety of this new race. Moreover, the internal strife among the Drow greatly weakened their strength. Though each family knew that if they couldn’t unite against external threats, they would inevitably lose the right to continue surviving, the Dark Elves’ evil nature prevented them from trusting one another. Until one day...

The matron of the First Family made a sacrifice to the Spider Goddess. The specifics of what offering was given to the goddess are unknown, but she obtained a powerful item—the Necroman Magic Pearl. This was actually an item crafted by a surface Great Arcanist, lost amidst the chaos of war, eventually becoming a gift the Spider Goddess bestowed upon her followers. There were still a few surviving mages among the Dark Elves at that time; together with the matron, they summoned a terrifying army.

Fortunately, the First Matron did not use this army to attack her peers. The Drow of Ratris City were spared from a battle against ghosts and vampires. It was the native monsters of the Underworld that became the victims of this massacre, their blood staining the entire passage of the Underdark.

Even those with thick shells and sharp claws, even those containing deadly poison or horrific plagues, found these powers useless in the face of necromancy. In just over a month, starting from the passages around Ratris City to the entire Underdark, the First Family’s terrifying power "combed" through the non-submissive creatures.

The brutal undead creatures combined with the disciplined army of the Dark Elves made concealment exceedingly simple, and the details of these battles were never leaked. The other families of Ratris City had no idea that the First Family had achieved victory through the undead.

When countless slave soldiers and piles of spoils returned to Ratris City, every family was astonished by the First Family’s prowess. They didn’t dare to investigate the battle process at all—even if they had the desire, they lacked the capability—thus, under the First Matron’s deliberate concealment, only the core members of the family knew about the Necroman Magic Pearl. From then on, no one questioned the First Family’s status anymore.

The Spider Goddess maintained her own form of "fairness," and to better appreciate schemes and intrigues, she reclaimed the Necroman Magic Pearl. She informed the matron of the First Family that the item was placed in some corner of the surface world and would reappear when the Dark Elves counterattacked the elves.

Because Batana once wanted her fair-skinned daughter to become a candidate for matronship, she told her this history. The First Family has never given up searching for this treasure, as regaining it would greatly enhance their power.

"If those undead creatures suddenly appeared in the world, it might be related to this item," Zilvra said. "When countless undead surge towards you, even a place as dangerous as the Underdark wouldn’t be able to stop such terror, so why risk yourself for these weak creatures?"

Lynch rubbed his chin, pondering Zilvra’s words. Although these two matters seemed related, there was a significant flaw. If that Necroman Magic Pearl still existed, it would be one of those rare magic items handed down from ancient times, like his refined gold arm, and impossible to wield without the corresponding ability. This Necroman Magic Pearl was clearly a mage’s item, otherwise, the former matron wouldn’t have sought the assistance of mages. At present, there was no one capable of wielding Great Arcanist power, except for Lynch, who obtained similar power through the "Arcane Secret Scroll." All detailed records of ancient magic disappeared with the death of the Magic God, and the ancient Great Arcanists were entirely wiped from the world.