Humans?
Jenn retracted his gaze and reached out to adjust his glasses.
Elyse and he didn't have any telepathic connection, but Jenn didn't need it either. He just had to send a Xenomorph behind her to carry out round-the-clock surveillance.
Due to that reason, Jenn saw the conflict between Elyse and the humans clearly.
Jenn didn't find it strange that Elyse made the choice. The surface and the surface were two different worlds. There was no tolerance, harmony, and coexistence here.
To the inhabitants of the Underworld, the reptiles from the surface were annoying and dangerous. It was more convenient to kill them directly than anything else. And the surface dwellers clearly didn't come to the Underworld just to satisfy their boring curiosity.
To a certain extent, the conflict between the underground and the surface was as irreconcilable as the sky kingdom and the demon realm.
The surface dwellers regarded the inhabitants of the Underworld as sinister, evil, and cunning scum. It would be better if they didn't exist in this world.
On the other hand, the inhabitants of the Underworld regarded the surface dwellers as lowly, shameless, and dangerous bastards.
Apart from the Mind Flayers, the other races here were actually the same as Elyse and the others. They were originally expelled from the surface.
Therefore, their hatred for the surface races was like aged wine — the longer it was, the more fragrant it became.
It was especially so for dark elves like Verna. Ever since they could remember, they had been instilled with the evil crimes of their surface compatriots. They told of the long-lasting war and how the stinky elves on the surface stabbed them in the back when they were struggling to support them. They left them as bait and cannon fodder for the powerful and almost irresistible enemies. Not only that, but they also destroyed their tribes and slaughtered their women and children.
Even the sorrowful pleas of the dark elves didn't change the cruel behavior of the surface elves. In the end, they could only leave their homes and come to the Underworld, living in constant curses and suffering.
So if those people didn't encounter Elyse but Verna this time, the outcome wouldn't have changed much.
As for Jenn, he didn't have any feelings for these humans.
If it was a human on Earth, he might have felt a sense of familiarity with it.
But it was a pity that the humans in this world were completely different from him. Although they still looked no different from the humans that Jenn knew, so what?
After all, Jenn wasn't a human anymore. He wasn't in his position, so he couldn't meddle in politics. He had to sit in the right position before he could talk about other things.
There was no good ending for those who became aliens in Hollywood and still had to think for humans. Only death awaited Zayen. He was not willing to become the protagonist of such a hipster blockbuster movie.
However, what concerned Jenn was not Elyse's actions of killing these humans, but these humans themselves.
The Underdark Region was a gloomy and deep underground world. It would take at least half a month to travel from here to the surface. Not to mention the long journey, just the maze-like crypts and the monsters that lurked in the darkness were enough to make any high-spirited expeditionary army suffer a lot.
Coupled with the difficult to find water sources, the shortage of food supplies, and the time difference between day and night, these were enough to drive any surface expeditionary army crazy.
But this didn't mean that the surface dwellers couldn't come to the Underdark at all.
A long time ago, the Underdark and the Surface World had a long and drawn-out war.
At that time, the inhabitants of the Underdark, who lived in the darkness, hoped to return to the surface one day and take back everything they had lost.
But the surface dwellers obviously wouldn't tolerate this' invasion ', so under the alliance of the Holy Church, the elves, dwarves, humans, and other surface races formed a joint army and went deep into the Underdark, in a futile attempt to eradicate those' dark and evil monsters' once and for all.
Facing the pressure of the joint army's attack, the Underdark finally gave up their prejudice against each other. The underground allied forces of Mind Flayers, dark elves, and gray dwarves also launched a frenzied counterattack on the surface.
The war lasted a hundred and thirty-five years, during which both sides crazily threw in all sorts of forces, from automatons to dragons, angels to Demons. Millions died in the war.
In the end, the Holy Church even invited the God of War, Maca, to descend into the Underdark in the form of a true god.
Facing the desperate attacks of the surface races, the dark elves also went crazy, sacrificing a hundred thousand captives to open the portal to the three armies of the Realm of Demons.
In the end, the war ended with both sides suffering heavy losses. All three commanders died in battle, and the God of War, Maca, fell completely, dragged into the Realm of Demons, never to rise again.
Now, his divine corpse was placed on the Mountain of Condemnation, a great symbol of victory for the Demons against the Sky Kingdom.
A true god and three demon lords died in a single war, something rarely seen in the history of the Klein Continent.
After that, the surface allied forces retreated in panic after losing the true god's favor.
The underground races who suffered heavy casualties in the war were not interested in beating them when they were down. Instead, they curled up and licked their wounds to recover.
It was also after that that the connection between the Underdark and the Realm of Demons became even closer. In the end, they completely left the surface and entered the embrace of darkness.
The surface allied forces could not have invested so many troops into the Underdark just by relying on the expeditionary force.
In fact, after the first expeditionary army arrived in the Underdark, they gathered the power of the Great Mages, Dwarves, and Elves to build a kind of portal in the Underdark. With these portals, the surface could easily teleport the army to the Underdark.
That allowed the surface allied forces to continuously replenish their forces for the attack.
After the war ended, most of the portals were buried in the ruins, and some were destroyed.
But there were also many portals left. They were used as outposts for the surface races to monitor the Underdark, which was why there would occasionally be surface warriors coming to the Underdark through the portals to check out the situation.
Of course, fighting against evil was also a good excuse.
If Zhan Enlai had to explain it, then this portal was basically the entrance to the Instance Dungeon for the surface races. When they wanted to level up and get equipment to fight the Boss, they would call it a "trial". Then, they would form a few teams and go through the portal to the Underdark. After creating a mess here, they would leave with the Hero's Aura and leveling up elites.
No wonder the residents of the Underdark were so upset.
The reason why Jenn paid special attention to the portals was that he had read similar information in the library of the Realm of Demons.
He was one of the sons of the previous Devil King. At that time, the dungeon he built was coincidentally next to a Teleport Portal.
This made his dungeon the best place for warriors and heroes who wanted to challenge the dungeon.
It was a pity that there was no difficulty option in the real world. When the group of idiots happily entered the Dungeon and planned to fight in the Normal Dungeon, they found out that they had chosen the Nightmare Difficulty. Their ending was clear — the Demon King's Army of the Dungeon easily defeated those stupid and incompetent idiots. Then, they found the location of the Teleport Portal. After occupying the Teleport Portal, they went to the surface and successfully destroyed two or three kingdoms.
That was the point.
That's right, Jenn didn't care about these humans from the surface, but what they represented.
Judging from their numbers, there couldn't be too many or too few.
There was no fatigue after a long journey, which meant that these guys didn't come to the Underdark on foot.
Then it was likely that they were one of the members who activated the portal and came here.
This also meant that there was a high chance that there was a Teleportation Gate nearby.
That was Jenn's goal. The portal was a good thing. If he could rely on the portal, then Jenn could go to the surface. The small fights in the Underdark were actually nothing. The ultimate goal of the son of the demon lord was always to attack the surface and let those races bathed in the sun and divine power experience destruction, despair, and death.
Jenn was no exception. He didn't have much aversion to invading the surface, nor did he struggle. It was great to think for others when he couldn't even save his own life, but it was not practical.
In fact, even if Jenn was killed for the sake of the surface, so what?
The demons would not approve of the idiotic actions of this fool. The people on the surface would not even know of the existence of such a person, not to mention that things would not change because of this. Zayen's siblings would still attack the humans and wipe them out mercilessly — even his two sisters would be the same.
But Jenn also had his own plans.
Having said that, Elyse was still a little too inexperienced. If she didn't kill them all or capture one alive, then it might be easier for him to investigate the intelligence … Forget it, I'll take this opportunity to punish this lady.
If Elyse knew what Jenn was thinking at the moment, he didn't know how she would react.
Thinking of this, Jenn came back to his senses and looked in front of him. At this moment, the goblins in the hollow had been completely wiped out, and in front of Jenn, on the stone platform surrounded by the broken goblin nest, he could see a dark stone shining with a strange magic light. It seemed that the goblins worshipped it as some kind of divine object, and this was the main reason why Jenn came here.
Jenn slowly walked up the high platform, came in front of the stone, and carefully observed it.
At first glance, it was no different from a huge dinosaur egg. There were strange patterns on the smooth cobblestone-like surface. It was dark, with some kind of evil aura quietly exuding from it, and together with the purple light, it became the most dazzling pearl here.
Jenn stretched out his hand and pressed on the surface of the stone.
Soon, a line of system prompt appeared in front of him.
[Obtained dark magic stone, the possibility of building the Temple of Darkness]