At night, Wang's team, together with the soldiers stationed in the fortress, entered the underground fortification area of the fortress.
They had already been here during the day, and there was still light leaking from the ventilation patio, so the whole underground didn't look so eerie.
Now that there is only the light of the torch, the whole environment suddenly changes.
Elizabeth was the first to express her feelings: "It's so eerie, I feel a little bit hairy inside and feel cold."
Wang: "You feel cold because the wind from behind is always blowing in."
He grabbed a little bit of powder from the bag of casting materials and sprinkled it in the air, observing the direction of the flying scale powder in the firelight: "My feeling is right, there is indeed wind. This shows that the air forms a circulation."
Elizabeth waited for a while and found that the wizard had no intention of continuing, so she asked: "Then?"
Wang: "Huh?"
He looked at Elizabeth blankly.
Elizabeth blinked and expanded her question: "Air circulation then?"
"Ah?" The mage became even more confused, "Does there have to be a sequel? Can't it just be describing this fact?"
Elizabeth: "I thought you would make a series of inferences and discover some crucial clues."
Wang scratched his head: "Sorry, no. I'm just describing the observed facts."
Xiaobai: "You humans' conversations are so difficult to understand. They are all lingua franca."
Gotrick nodded: "High."
Flint: "You are human too, right? Don't exclude yourself."
The drow coughed and said to the mage: "King..."
Xiaobai: "Pfft."
Marika glanced at the werewolf and continued without paying attention: "King..."
Xiaobai: "Pfft."
Wang: "The point of her laughter is that when you call me by my last name, it sounds like a dog barking. You'd better call me smart."
The son of the earl next to him heard this conversation and looked over with strange eyes.
Marika: "Smart... That's weird. Forget it, smart, should you show the effectiveness of the artifact in your hand? Although the current lighting doesn't matter to me, human soldiers shouldn't have dark vision, right?"
"Oh, that's right." Wang patted his head and quickly took out the dragon-head artifact luminous stick from the dimensional bag. The dazzling light suddenly illuminated the entire underground as if it were daytime.
Flint commented: "You stick, I originally thought that the light-emitting function was a useless function for free, but it is actually quite useful."
Marika nodded in agreement: "Yes, in Watergate Town, and during the night attack last night, this thing just glowed and gave us an advantage."
Elizabeth looked confused: "Last night? Sorry, I slept too much yesterday."
Wang: "Just cheer up tonight. We need your scorching ray."
The corners of Elizabeth's mouth were obviously raised, but she still complained: "I'm just a ray turret!"
"No," Wang shook his head, "The information in our tower contains a magical weapon called a melt cannon. The golem equipped with that thing is the real ray turret. You are still far away."
Elizabeth pouted: "Then get one now."
"Sorry I can't do it, so you are indeed our only ray turret under the current circumstances."
At this time, Sir Ralph, who had been watching, finally couldn't help but interrupt: "Excuse me, what is the relationship between the two of you? Why is a Duke's sister willing to be a hotline fort in your team?"
Wang: "My guess is that she wanted to..."
Elizabeth understood instantly and interrupted loudly: "I don't want to!"
Xiaobai: "I obviously wanted to."
"In no mood!"
Ralph looked back and forth between the two of them suspiciously: "What are you thinking about? It's not the one I guessed, is it?"
Elizabeth: "No!"
Ralph looked like he understood: "Ah, that's right, I understand. So the mage brother refused?"
Wang: "I don't. In fact, I don't mind experiencing this before I get love, but she refused."
Ralph's expression instantly changed from being in control to being confused: "What do you mean? I was fooled by you."
Marika explained: "Our mage has a unique and rigid set of criteria for judging love. This is too troublesome to explain. By the way, now is not the time to talk about this."
Flint: "Because the 'guests' are here!"
Dwarves and drow have darkvision, which allows them to see movement beyond the glow of a glowing rod.
As soon as the dwarf finished speaking, a strange roar came along the cave, making Elizabeth tremble. She subconsciously took a step towards the king and touched the mage's arm with her shoulder.
Wang: "Don't be like this, it will affect my ability to obtain casting materials."
"Oh, sorry."
Marika looked helplessly at the ceiling of the cave.
The next moment, the caveman appears.
Elizabeth exclaimed: "They are not afraid of the light of your scepter?"
Wang: "Nonsense, they have no eyesight!"
The next moment, the stone bullets fired from the sling came towards the king and Elizabeth, obviously targeting them based on the sound.
Wang hid directly behind Elizabeth, moving very quickly.
The stone bullet hit Elizabeth's chest and was directly bounced away by the force field. It looked like it was bounced away by the bulletproof shape.
At this time, the big gong placed in the center of the position was sounded.
All sounds on the position: the mechanical sound of the crossbows being wound up, the shouts of the infantry captains to maintain the formation, and Ralph's shouts of orders were all blocked, leaving only the noise of gongs in everyone's ears.
The stone bullets flew towards the gong intensively, resulting in more noise.
The crossbowmen fired desperately, and the cavemen fell down row by row.
Finally, the caveman got close enough to throw out the foul-smelling chunks of meat.
Ralph turned to signal to his men, and a trumpeter blew the horn under the cover of the shield bearer.
After receiving the order, the Ximuzhen troops threw a large amount of meat and landed in front of the military formation.
The next moment, a bunch of terrifying creatures were moving quickly against the ground. They looked like a bunch of centipedes with shortened bodies and four legs chopped off. They rushed towards the infantrymen in Ximu Town, but were stopped by pieces of meat on the way.
These guys immediately started feasting, not caring that the pitted skin around their mouths began to turn black.
Soon the poison spread all over the body, and the monster without intelligence finally woke up, began to roll on the ground, twitched, and let out an inhuman scream.
The screams made many soldiers' teeth chatter, and even Elizabeth, who was behind the military formation, shrank her neck.
The slow-running monster failed to grab the meat. At this time, it passed over the struggling similar beasts and rushed towards the rancid human soldiers.
At this time, the human soldiers picked up a lot of the meat that had just been thrown in and threw it out again, some of which was sprinkled with poison. However, they had already smelled of meat, and monsters rushed into the military formation.
At this time, only a few mages in the formation began to cast spells.
"It's an acceleration spell." Wang, who recognized the spell, quickly backed away and distanced himself. The team members around him who had not yet entered the battle looked at him with surprise.
Marika: "Speaking of which, you never prepared the acceleration spell. This spell is of great benefit to all martial arts professions. Archers can shoot faster, warriors can dodge more dexterously, and their attacks can be faster."
Wang nodded: "Yes, the acceleration technique is very good. But after being accelerated, I couldn't coordinate my hands and feet. I often fell when I moved, and I also got dizzy.
"My junior uncle said that he had seen this symptom in a certain plane. It was a chain reaction caused by the brain's inability to adapt to an organism whose functions have been greatly enhanced.
"But the strange thing is that strengthening spells such as Tansen's Transformation, Ox Power, and Cat's Lightness, which also strengthen the body, will not cause this symptom."
Flint: "You can serve it to us."
Wang: "Then I have to move far enough away from you first to prevent being caught by the area effect."
Acceleration is a range spell, and all allies within the range will receive the acceleration effect.
Wang shrugged and added: "I think it's better not to stay so far away from your teammates during team combat. Unless I give myself advanced invisibility."
The drow and dwarf looked at each other, both looking helpless.
While talking, the infantry of Ximu Town, with the help of acceleration, used poisoned daggers to kill the monsters that rushed into the formation. Many of the soldiers responsible for stabbing the monsters with daggers were also injured. They were dragged to the back of the formation by their comrades and were treated by priests.
After the monster threat was resolved, the caveman brigade also took advantage of the opportunity to rush in front of the Ximu soldiers.
Because in the cave, there is basically no way to launch the crossbow. The monster that charged just now blocked most of the crossbow's trajectory. Perhaps because these monsters are not very afraid of crossbows, most of the crossbows stopped firing to save ammunition when their firing range was blocked.
Suddenly the whole scene was in chaos.
However, the large gong continued to interfere with the cavemen's hearing, and most of the attacking cavemen were very thin. They did not have enough strength to break through the armor of the human soldiers, nor did they have enough dexterity to launch attacks from the gaps in the armor.
Wang held up his glowing stick and observed carefully, he found that most of the injured were soldiers wearing leather armor. The soldiers who had the money to prepare themselves chain armor or even plate armor were as unmoving as iron towers.
He turned his head and raised his voice and asked Ralph: "Don't cavemen have a way to break armor?"
"Yes, my grandfather's generation discovered that the cavemen lacked effective armor-breaking means. They went underground to encircle and suppress them, and their main losses came from sneak attacks that took advantage of the location. At that time, my grandfather was able to scrape together money to organize elite troops with full armor to fight head-on. Basically, it's all about crushing, but I can't help but the cavemen are too familiar with the underground.
"Now, as you can see, most of our troops only have leather armor, which can only protect the body. Even animal skin skirts on the legs can provide some protection."
Ralph looked helpless.
The soldiers in Ximu Town are indeed a bit shabby, slightly inferior to the city guard in Langdon City. The city guard at least has iron armor. No matter how much area it covers, it is still armor after all.
At this time, the caveman's attack finally ended.
Without retreating, all the cavemen fell before the human lines.
The king nodded, continued to observe the caveman's attack, and suddenly asked: "Where are the caveman spellcasters? I didn't see any divine spellcasters or arcane spellcasters."
Ralph: "Not today. Yesterday I met three shamans who used spirit magic and three priests who used Lamashtu magic."
Wang was stunned: "It's okay not to have one. But I originally thought that the cavemen would retreat, so that Xiaobai could catch them alive during the retreat. How to catch them alive now? All the cavemen who participated in the attack have fallen."
But Ralph said: "I have already ordered the soldiers to capture them alive. In fact, this is quite simple. Just remember to treat the injured cavemen when cleaning the battlefield. At most, some healing spells will be wasted."
Elizabeth: "Aren't healing spells precious?"
"If it is to completely solve the caveman problem, there is no problem in wasting it." Ralph paused and then said, "We are almost out of poison, and we really don't know how to deal with these monsters by then."
Wang: "How much poison is left in stock?"
"We can still withstand four nights like this." Ralph replied seriously, "Because the wanderer poison bought from Baicheng has been used up, we collected all the rat poison in Ximu Town, and the poisonous meat thrown this time There is rat poison in it. There is a piece of cloth behind the meat. If a monster eats this and is poisoned to death, there will definitely be a piece of cloth in its throat."
Wang: "It seems that it is urgent to solve the problem of caveman monsters. But after the battle just now, I discovered one thing. The cavemen do not regard monsters as weapons or as a weapon, but more like consumables."
Elizabeth asked in surprise: "How did you tell?"
Ralph also echoed: "Yes, how can you tell?"
Wang: "This is not the first time you have dealt with these monsters like this, right? The cavemen should have known that you would do this, right? They didn't make any changes and just allowed most of the monsters to be consumed."
Ralph touched his chin: "Indeed, if you think about it carefully, this is not the first time we have used this tactic. The result is that we use the same trick every time, the steps are the same, and the cavemen have not changed anything. This... It really doesn't look like this. It looks like he's using his own trump card. But I thought it was because the cavemen didn't have high IQs."
Wang: "It is true that their IQs are not high, but after all, there are also intelligent creatures from time to time. Monkeys can learn lessons from experience."
Xiaobai: "Wolves can do it too."
At this moment, a soldier in iron armor came forward and saluted Ralph: "Sir, we have captured alive according to the order, the five who are thin and the five who are rich."
Wang clapped his hands: "Okay, we want to interrogate them."
Elizabeth murmured in surprise: "I thought you were going to dissect..."
"Of course we need an autopsy, but we have to interrogate first."
The dwarf was surprised in a different direction: "You can actually speak the language of cavemen?"
Wang took out a ceramic step pyramid model from the dimensional bag: "I specially prepared a Blarney trick this morning."
Flint exclaimed: "Blarney? That's not the fourth level... No, a mage should be able to do it at the third level. You used a precious third-level spell slot to prepare a Blarney? But you didn't want to prepare one. Acceleration?"
Wang spread his hands: "I told you, I will be dizzy with the acceleration spell. I don't guarantee that I can successfully cast other spells in that state. Anyway, let's interrogate the caveman."
(End of chapter)
