In a courtyard full of wild grass in the north of Elrethalas, the dwarf explorer is placing explosives in front of a secret door. This is where the secret passage mentioned in the diary is.
"Okay, everyone retreat to a safe distance!" Brian pressed his hat, trotted all the way to Alsace, and shouted to the dwarf who was looking at the detonator on the other side, "Hey, kid, you can press it! "
The dwarf over there heard Brian's shout and quickly pressed the detonator down hard. Everyone covered their ears and leaned down.
However, embarrassingly, the deafening explosion he imagined did not come. Brian let go of his hands covering his ears and cursed in a low voice, "Oh, no, the explosives those damn goblins sold me are expired again." of?"
The dwarf adventurer complained as he walked towards the direction where the explosives were planted. Arthas' brows jumped, and an extremely bad premonition arose in his heart.
Alsace spread his fingers, and a barrier of holy light condensed around Brian. Brian glanced at the holy light barrier around him and laughed, "It's not that, it's not that, I'm an old expert at placing explosives. This kind of thing I’ve encountered so many things—"
"boom!"
A dark sphere flew out from the explosion of fire. Who was it if it wasn't Brian?
The dwarf rolled on the ground three times before he was supported by his teammates. Brian's face was scorched, and he exhaled a breath of black air. He almost rolled his eyes, "Cough-cough-! Okay, I'd better be more careful next time." .”
Arthas helplessly looked at Brian, who was knocked away by the impact of the explosion. Although without his holy light protection, this rough-skinned dwarf who inherited the blood of the Bronzebeard clan would not have any major problems, but he could not avoid suffering. Slightly injured and dizzy for a while.
Fortunately, although there was a problem with the detonation of the detonator, the explosive itself did not malfunction, and the closed door was successfully blasted open by the dwarves, which was much faster than the high elf mages breaking the magic seal.
Including the time spent transporting explosives, it didn't take more than half an hour.
After the secret door of the secret passage was opened, it seemed that the flow of air triggered the well-preserved magic mechanism inside, and the magic lights that were originally extinguished turned on one after another.
Brian was actually not injured at all in the explosion just now, he just looked embarrassed. He patted the black ash on his body, wiped it on his face randomly, and rushed to the secret passage in three steps and two steps at a time.
"Wait! Let me take a look first - this kind of secret passage usually has various mechanisms and can be very dangerous. Just leave this kind of thing to professionals like me... Hey, you two Why did you just walk in?!"
Arthas and Kael'thas ignored Brian who was standing outside the passage watching from left to right, and entered the passage from his side. Kael'thas smiled before entering and said very kindly, "Ah, there is something in that diary." Mentioned, this is not so much a secret passage as a private express passage for library administrators and mages, and this kind of magic lamp is also commonly used to decorate such passages."
Brian's head was filled with black threads, "Why are you just talking about such an important thing now...and, since it's just a fast track, there's no need to pretend to be a secret passage!!"
Kael'thas still said patiently, "The word used by the owner of the diary does mean secret passage in ancient Saras language, but his other records show that it is a secret passage for staff and mages." Use the fast track.”
"It's better to be careful." After Alsace entered the passage, he first looked around. "The owner of the diary is a lunatic who dared to defy the mage's ban at that time. We cannot expect that everything left in the diary by such a person is true. of."
"You're right," Kael'thas also agreed. He couldn't imagine that even the ancient elves were very cautious in their relationship with the dragon army and could capture a dragon alive. The experimental mage is definitely not a good person.
However, there is now a question buried in the hearts of the two people. Why did this mage only use the word "secret passage" once in the entire article, and never used it again after that? Was it a mistake in using the word, or was it intentional? ?
Brian lit a torch casually and held it in his hand. If the torch went out, it would be a warning. He had drilled this kind of secret passage for at least 80 years, and he basically knew what might happen.
I don’t know if the construction art of the ancient elves reached its peak. Even though it was closed for a long time, there was no lack of oxygen. It seemed that the entire corridor was still ventilated during the long period of time when the door was closed.
Brian admired this ancient corridor as he walked. Due to the closure, the architectural style in this corridor was kept quite intact, with almost no damage except for the oxidized and faded glaze.
Arthas always maintained a high level of vigilance when walking in the corridor. The mysterious mage's diary had already made his nerves tense. He always felt that Elre'Thalas was hiding more unknown secrets - and that It's probably something that even the highborne living in Elre'Thalas don't know yet.
While walking, Brian suddenly stopped in front of a wall. He frowned and looked at the wall, which was no different from other walls, and inserted the torch into the gap between the bricks on the side.
"What's wrong?"
"Uh... this wall is a bit strange." Brian stretched out his right hand and lightly pressed a button on the wall, then put his ear against it. "It always gives me a... very abrupt feeling." Feel?"
He didn't know whether it was the dwarf's intuition or Brian's experience. When he passed this wall, he felt his eyelids twitch.
"Sound? This should be unlikely. According to the architectural style of the ancient elves, this corridor is integrated with the buildings in the northern city of Elrethalas." Kael'thas also came to the wall where Brian stopped. In front of me, "In other words, there is either a building or dirt behind this wall."
"Buildings and soil...wait, yes, there is indeed something wrong with this wall!" Brian pulled out the torch inserted into the cracks of the bricks, took two steps back, and said to Alsace, "Alsace, use your Hammer against this wall!"
Arthas held the war hammer and asked Kael'thas, "No problem?"
Kael'thas nodded slightly, "The damage to this wall will not affect the stability of the entire corridor."
"Then give it a try."
Driven by Alsace's majestic power, the war hammer directly dispersed the air blocking the hammer's path. The hammer head of the war hammer was directly embedded in the wall. The entire wall radiated cracks from the point where the hammer fell, and even the entire passage It seemed to tremble, and the power of this hammer was obvious.
Alsace pulled out the warhammer from the wall without changing his expression and brought out the rubble on the ground. Brian's expression changed, he picked something from the rubble and handed it to Kael'thas on the side.
After seeing clearly the scraps of material Brian had given him, Kael'thas rubbed them in his hands and said to Alsace in a very sure tone, "There is indeed something wrong with this wall."
