Marika seemed to have lost interest in her new teammates and turned directly to Wang: "This is the registration form of the mercenaries I brought. I think based on my observation of the cavemen's combat effectiveness, such a force should be enough to go underground.
"I also bought some poison along the way. Although the amount is not large, it should be enough to support us in completing the entire offensive operation."
As she spoke, she took a step forward and handed over the list, but the elf who was still far away from her took three steps back and stuck to the wall.
Wang glanced at the list and nodded: "Thank you for your hard work. Well done."
Marika continued: "There are still some mercenaries who are not sure that they want to join the operation, but they are coming. They want to make sure that we have a detailed map of the underground first."
Wang looked at Ralph.
The latter replied: "My grandfather has carefully preserved the mine tunnel maps from that year, as well as the maps they drew when they conducted underground reconnaissance operations. But these are all information from before I was born. I'm afraid you You need to find your own way down there.”
King: "We have dwarves."
"What?" Flint was shocked, and his hand that was stuffing tobacco into his pipe stopped, but he immediately nodded, "Oh, yes, don't worry, our dwarves are top-notch at finding our way underground! Uh, yes, yes first class!"
Marika: "I told these doubtful mercenaries that I was once a member of the Drow Army. When I was still serving the Mother Mother, I also learned to identify the location underground through the soil on the rock walls. . But they are not very convinced, and a detailed map is needed to get them to join."
The drow is basically a matriarchal society. The drow society is organized into families, and each family has a "mistress" who speaks the truth.
"Sir Ralph," the mage gestured to the earl's son, "please choose the map that is in the best condition and looks the most detailed and bring it to me."
Ralph: "You really want to rely on this for exploration? It's older than me, and according to the information you got from interrogating the cavemen, haven't the cavemen been expanding underground recently?"
The mage smiled: "No, I just used this to convince the mercenaries. In fact, I have already thought about it. After the next caveman attack is over, we will follow the smell and go deep underground. What we really have to rely on is Xiaobai’s nose.”
Ralph: "This is too ridiculous. The mercenaries will not rest assured."
"That's why I have to use a map. When the time comes, I will hold the map and ride on Xiaobai's back, pretending to read the map. In fact, Xiaobai will follow the taste."
Xiaobai: "Then I want enough meat."
"Don't worry," said Elizabeth, "it's enough to take care of you."
The elf girl leaning against the wall suddenly said: "Are you deceiving other mercenaries? You are indeed liars. I want..."
Wang: "Don't say you want to quit now! I have included you in the whole plan. I need your bow skills and you need to shoot poisoned arrows into the monster's eyes. Only you can do it." You are our ultimate weapon when encountering monsters in small groups underground.
"If you quit now, my entire plan will be ruined. The elves shouldn't be such a race that breaks their promises, right?"
The elf girl hesitated for a few words and gave up: "The elves kept their word, and I promised to go down together. But I only promised to solve the caveman problem together. When the problem is solved, we will part ways. I have already separated from you. I know how humans can deceive others."
King: "What about the crisis of annihilation? You are the representative of the elves in solving the crisis! Do you hope that in the future, bards' poems will say that the elves withdrew from the team to solve the crisis because of their suspicion and arrogance?"
Nini's mouth was half open, speechless.
Elizabeth said, "You clearly said that we are a voluntary team. Since she wants to leave, let's go."
Nini immediately responded: "Yes! The principle of voluntariness! You said it! You also said that your cat ranger can leave whenever he wants! You can't break your promise!"
The king glanced at Elizabeth: "You...we need rangers."
Elizabeth: "Then you can look for her again later. That's what you said when Misha Sara left. Or did you say that you couldn't walk after seeing her long legs, so she had to do it?"
Nini looked down at her legs, gently rubbed her hands on her thighs, and then looked at the sweat sticking to her fingertips.
Wang Ze didn't look at the elf at all. He frowned and looked at Elizabeth: "The elf is an excellent archer. You have also seen her strength. If our opponent is a sect that can easily produce a seven-ring spellcaster, We need good soldiers and strong generals.”
Elizabeth: "But people don't trust us. Just like the proverb from your eastern hometown says, forceful melons are not sweet."
Wang was silent for a few seconds and nodded: "What you said makes sense. Forcing her to stay may cause problems in the future. Okay, Miss Nini, let's finish solving this caveman crisis and then go our separate ways - I That is, if you insist on doing so."
The elf was distracted looking at the sweat on his fingertips.
Wang: "Miss Nini?"
"Ah?" The elf girl raised her head, "What?"
Wang: "I said if you insist on parting ways after this is over, we can just say goodbye."
"Oh, this, very good, very good!" The girl nodded.
The drow looked at his sworn "common" and suddenly asked: "Excuse me, how old is this elf?"
Flint: "A hundred years old, you are probably an old woman compared to her."
Marika looked understanding: "Oh, so she is traveling to confirm her name? I think it's better to let her go. There is no place for a baby bird in the journey of saving the world."
The elf immediately frowned and stared at the drow's dark skin: "I, I can't pretend that I didn't hear what you said!"
"Come on," Marika said, "You probably have only seen drow in the stories of the elders, and you thought we were all evil beings who drink hair and drink blood. You are so scared that you are sweating. Why, does your mother often scare you?" , saying that elves who don’t sleep well will be caught and eaten by drow?”
The elf girl blushed: "No! I'm not afraid of you!"
Wang looked at her legs and wanted to reach out again, but was blocked by Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: "Stop touching girls' legs! It's rude!"
Wang: "But the elf's sweat is really fine. You can't tell whether she is sweating just by looking at her."
"Whether someone sweats or not is none of your business!"
Nini glanced at Elizabeth gratefully.
Marika: "The lady is protecting you so much. For the sake of the lady, I have no problem with you joining. If you want to destroy this evil creature like me, you are welcome to do it at any time. When the time comes, I will fight back and accidentally kill the poor little elf girl." Even if I die, I don’t think the lady will blame me.”
Elizabeth: "Okay, don't scare her anymore. I think as the contact time increases, she will also understand that you are different from other drows. Drows can also be kind."
Nini stared at Elizabeth suspiciously: "Is that okay? I have never heard of a kind drow!"
Elizabeth: "Uh... I guess so. You see the world is so big..."
Wang: "Yes. I have read in the documents in the tower that a drow was born full of sin. As the third son of the family, he was originally supposed to be sacrificed to the Spider Goddess. As a result, A second before the sacrifice, a vendetta broke out in the family, and he survived as he was no longer the third son of the family.
"Later, he was trained as an elite drow. However, his father soon discovered that his son had a pure and beautiful heart. This purity allowed him to let go of the surface elf girl who was captured by the family.
"His behavior caused the entire family to be abandoned by the Spider Goddess and lose the magic given by the goddess. For this reason, the matron of the family decided to sacrifice him to gain the goddess's forgiveness. But his father wanted to protect the rare pure heart among drow elves. , volunteering to trade his own life for his escape.
"He has struggled with the true nature of the drow ever since, living his entire life as a good ranger. (*)"
Nini looked at the mage: "I have never heard such a story! Never!"
"Because it's not a story about this plane." Wang shrugged, "The Mage Tower built by my teacher has people from all planes of the multiverse, and the professors often travel to various planes of the multiverse. So we gathered there. Knowledge and history from across the multiverse.”
Nini: "I... I wanted to be suspicious at first, but after seeing your dimensional bag, I thought it was quite believable."
Marika: "Don't worry, I'm not the kind-hearted drow the mage said. My essence has not changed because of my loyalty to Elizabeth."
"Marika!" Elizabeth exclaimed, "I think you are a good person and there is no need to repeatedly emphasize your evilness like this."
Malika looked at Elizabeth with a kind expression, as if a grandma was looking at her granddaughter: "No, my dear lady, I am burdened with sins that are unimaginable to you, and no good god will accept me, no, miss.
"Just like what the mage said just now, I have also hunted and killed those fair-skinned cousins, and there are quite a few of them. I have broken the necks of countless girls like this elf girl, and dug out their beautiful eyes to make them into decoration.
"When I was still loyal to my mistress, I hung these ornaments proudly on my chest. Later, I betrayed my family for revenge, and I pawned the ornaments to raise travel expenses. Now maybe I can make elf eyes. The necklace is still hanging on the chest of someone who has a morbid hobby for elves."
Nini trembled slightly, but this time it was obviously not fear, but anger.
Nini: "One day, you have to pay the price."
Marika: "I'm ready. You are qualified to take revenge on me, but you don't have the ability to take revenge now, little girl."
Elizabeth shouted: "Marika! Stop provoking her! At least now we are teammates!"
In such an atmosphere, Wang suddenly said: "I remembered that because the eyes of elves are very beautiful, there are indeed some planes that crystallize the eyes of elves and sell them as gems."
He stared into Nini's eyes as he spoke: "I used to regard this as a rumor and just throw it away. After all, I have never actually seen an elf. When I saw it today, I understood it. Real knowledge comes from practice!"
The originally tense atmosphere immediately became childish when Wang disrupted it.
Marika sighed: "Damn it, Wang, you made me look like a fool when I was serious just now. If I hadn't known that you had no emotional intelligence, I would have suspected that you were deliberately making jokes to muddy the waters."
Wang: "Huh? You can continue. I just felt it."
Elizabeth, who was originally anxious to reconcile the conflict between the black and white elves, was now staring into Nini's eyes.
Then she looked at Nini's secondary sexual characteristics and thigh base in turn, and finally her eyes returned to Nini's eyes. She didn't know why her expression was a little desperate.
And Nini stared at Marika and said: "I can't kill you now. My intuition tells me so."
Marika: "You have good intuition."
"But," Nini continued, "if I discover that you have done something evil, one day in the future, I will definitely kill you with my own hands to show justice."
Wang: "I thought back on my experience working with Marika. Some of her actions were indeed very evil, and she had a tendency to kill indiscriminately. But the people she killed were originally bad people."
For example, the rogues of the rogue guild.
Marika: "If I were a paladin, I would definitely think that my behavior was evil. After all, although I killed bad people, I had not been tried. So, as I said just now, elf girl, if you want to kill me, just go ahead. .I am mentally prepared, the murderer must have the consciousness to be killed."
Nini nodded seriously: "I will."
Xiaobai: "I'm hungry. Is it time for dinner?"
Everyone looked at the druid who, like the mage, couldn't read the atmosphere.
Elizabeth: "Of course! Let's eat!"
**
This evening.
All the mercenaries who were willing to participate in this operation gathered behind the underground fortifications, waited for the cavemen's attack to end, and then went underground and went straight to the temple of Lamashtu.
Some mercenaries were actually worried, feeling that when the cavemen did not dare to attack the ground, the regular armies of the local princes could not do anything to the cavemen. As a result, as soon as they saw the situation of the local soldiers, they immediately felt that the cavemen were not a big deal: after all, such soldiers could kill the entire underground fortifications with corpses of cavemen.
As agreed before, Wang took the map provided by Ralph and claimed that he knew the way.
Because he always had a matter-of-fact expression no matter what the situation was, he deceived many well-informed mercenaries.
Of course, it may also be that he claimed that the treasures in the Lamashtu Temple follow the principle of whoever finds them owns them, which attracted many mercenaries.
In short, most of the mercenaries who came were ready to go underground with them to see what was going on.
The few who were still waiting and watching decided to see the caveman's combat effectiveness first.
So this large group of guys with much better armor than the local troops waited behind the array of local soldiers.
At almost the same time as yesterday, a scream came from the tunnel.
Just like yesterday, Nini raised her hand and shot an arrow, and the scream turned into a wail.
The mercenaries looked at the elven archers in amazement.
Local soldiers then beat large gongs to disrupt the cavemen's orientation.
Then the cavemen threw out smelly meat, here they threw poisonous meat, and terrible monsters appeared and were poisoned.
Everything is exactly the same as yesterday, and there is no change even from the day before yesterday and the day before yesterday.
Finally, all the cavemen died in front of the human battle.
The king mounted the druid-turned-smaller wolf, held up his glowing stick in his left hand, and held the map in his right hand: "Okay! It's our turn! Let's go!"
(*) This experience pays homage to Drizzt Do'Urden, Lord Trin, with changes.
By the way, Nini’s ears are longer and more pointed than those in ordinary Western fantasy, and they are Japanese elf-style. Nothing else, I prefer this kind, and I can play unique PLAY in the future
(End of chapter)
