King rode the wolf into the tunnel first, and Elizabeth immediately followed at a trot.
The mage rode on the wolf just to pretend that he was leading the way. The tunnel is quite high now, and when he enters a place that is not so high, he will have to be careful about being hit on the head.
Elizabeth walked beside the wolf and asked in a low voice: "Aren't you scared if you just walk at the front? There is no big gong to protect you now, and the cavemen can hear the sound very accurately."
Wang: "Then sit in front of me. That way you can block most of the projectiles."
Elizabeth hesitated for a moment, and finally did not climb onto the wolf's back. Instead, she took off her defensive wristband and handed it to the mage: "Wear this and return it to me when the matter is over."
"No need." Wang shook his head, "I prepared a mage armor spell today."
Although it has the word "armor", this spell is of the conjuration system, probably because its underlying principle is to create a force field shield - similar to the effect of Elizabeth's defensive wrist guards.
Most of the spells that have the attribute of "creating something" are from the conjuration system. From life-oriented spells to create water and bread, to summoning creatures, monsters and even otherworldly beings to fight for you, they are all conjurations. Even summoning the undead, which intuitively belongs to the necromancy system, is actually a conjuration system.
Only those who reverse death and "summon" the undead by dragging the corpse up are the necromancy type. The difference is that one needs a corpse as "material" and the other is generated out of thin air.
Mage armor belongs to the conjuration system. It is a protective spell that can be used by kings who have banned the protection system. It is also the most useful spell in the face of physical attacks (*).
Elizabeth put the wristband back on with some disappointment and muttered: "I thought you would use invisibility."
"Invisibility is not useful in situations like tonight. In an underground environment like this, I can't put away the dragon-headed scepter. I have to ensure that there is enough light for the team. I can't use invisibility at this time."
Elizabeth admired: "Did you even predict tonight's situation? You are so smart."
Elf Nini walking next to Elizabeth said: "You seem to trust the mage very much."
Elizabeth: "Yes, if you have experienced a complete crisis together, you will also trust his wisdom. No, this should not be called wisdom, because wisdom is a combination of intelligence and intelligence. He is far from being called wisdom." Be wise."
Nini looked confused: "I'm sorry, maybe I don't speak Mandarin very well, so I didn't quite understand what you said."
The princess waved her hand: "Don't worry."
At this time, the drow who was walking a little ahead to detect traps suddenly turned around and asked with hand gestures: "There is a fork in the road ahead, which way to go?"
The king patted the wolf on the back, then remembered that the druid might not be able to understand sign language, so he asked: "There is a fork in the road ahead, which way to go?"
The druid suddenly transformed back into human form: "Left!"
The other mercenaries following their team were shocked when they saw this scene: "He is actually riding such a small girl!!"
"That girl has a tail and is a type of lycanthrope!"
"You must have bought a slave!"
"By the way, isn't he looking at the map to guide the way? Why would he ask the girl?"
Wang turned around and explained: "I look at the map to determine the location, and at the same time the werewolves in our team use scent to track the enemy. This is double insurance!"
"Oh, double insurance."
"It sounds more reliable."
"Their team has such a diverse composition, including elves, drows, and dwarves. It must be that kind of legendary team. It's right to follow them."
"Haven't you heard? The mage who leads the way can use the howl of the female ghost!"
Wang frowned, and finally suppressed the urge to turn around and correct the mercenaries: it was clearly the howl of the banshee.
It seems that what he did in Langdon City has been compiled into poetry by the bards, and some "artistic processing" has been done by the way.
Nini looked at Wang in surprise: "Are you actually a nine-ring mage?"
Even if the elf can't cast spells, he still knows enough about magic to know the correct name and ring number of the Banshee's Wail.
Wang: "No, this is misinformation."
His words were also heard by the people behind him, but everyone expressed disbelief: "This must be a hidden identity."
"Magics like to keep their cards close to their chest."
"Looking at him walking at the front so calmly, he must have a chain trigger technique on him."
The chain trigger spell is a nine-level version of the trigger spell, which can trigger three spells in a row in a preset order.
During such small talk, the group continued to move deeper underground.
After walking for about half an hour, Xiaobai stopped: "The smell has become stronger, and it smells like poop. I think we should have entered the caveman's lair."
The king immediately said to the people behind him: "We have entered the caveman's lair, be alert!"
The mercenaries immediately felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy - although they knew that the Nine Ring Master was behind this operation, they knew that they could not completely trust their lives to others, as they were licking blood from the tip of a knife.
The guy in his hands is still reliable.
However, everyone waited for a while and was not attacked.
A bold mercenary held up his shield and approached a short hole nearby.
"Lancero is on top!" he exclaimed, and at the same time thrust the long sword in his hand into the cave, and screams immediately came from the cave.
Wang: "What did you find?"
"A caveman's cub! Just dumped in the den! There's a lot of shit-smelling stuff next to it!"
That's probably caveman shit.
Wang looked at the map and muttered: "We only walked down for half an hour, and now we have entered the caveman's lair? The area of the lair is much larger than what is drawn on the map. Xiaobai, can you still track the smell?"
Xiao Bai raised his head and sniffed: "I can't smell the cavemen anymore. But those monsters are so smelly, I can still smell them!"
Wang: "It seems that there are no such monsters in ordinary nests. That's right, that kind of thing cannot be mixed with ordinary cavemen no matter how you look at it. Xiaobai, follow the smell of the monster and continue to advance deeper into the nest. Everyone does Get ready for battle, the caveman attack is coming soon!
"Their hearing is particularly sensitive. They must have heard the clanking sound of our armor from far away."
Hearing what the "Nine Ring Mage" said, all the mercenaries did not dare to neglect, so when they started moving again, the entire team slowed down. The mercenaries even kept holding their shields during the shield fight, for fear that a caveman would jump out from somewhere and launch a surprise attack.
After walking like this nervously for another half an hour, someone finally couldn't stand it any longer: "Master Mage! Will the cavemen really come?"
Wang pretended to look at the map and said: "We are so deep into their lair, they must be watching us. Remember, cavemen have almost no vision, they rely entirely on hearing, so they may hide in various caves and corners , those corners where the dark vision of the drow and dwarves cannot see, eavesdropping on our movements."
Another mercenary said: "Cavemen have no vision, but we do. Your staff illuminates the environment so brightly. Even if we are attacked by cavemen, we can deal with it perfectly, right? We also have torches!"
Wang looked at the staff in his hand and suddenly discovered something: with this staff, except for the far back of the team, most of the team seemed to be in the sun. In this case, the caveman The advantages of good hearing are offset.
After all, the hearing of cavemen is still a bit inferior to that of monks who can pick flies with chopsticks with their eyes closed (*).
Their hearing has no way to counteract the human visual advantage in bright light.
Wang stared at his luminous stick and muttered: "Could it be that the caveman commander knew that launching a surprise attack under this kind of light would not be effective?"
Ralph's grandfather definitely didn't have such a powerful eternal light source. They must have used torches to illuminate the ground.
With such dim light from torches, the cavemen's advantage must have been infinite, and most of the cavemen at that time were strong warriors. After all, everyone could eat mushrooms.
Moreover, it is inconvenient to fight with a torch. During the battle, the torch can easily fall from your hands and fall to the ground.
So... this stick is the key to the caveman's lack of offense?
Wang looked at the stick again. It turns out that it just shines and has such a big effect? This originally thought to be the ability to add head, is actually the most awesome function of this scepter?
Elizabeth patted his leg hard: "Don't be silent suddenly, speak!"
Wang: "Ah? Oh yes. I think the cavemen should have a leader with certain tactical abilities. He knows that attacking well-trained and experienced mercenaries under the light of my scepter will cause heavy losses. That's why we can always Make your way safely through the lair.
"If I were the leader, I would..."
Wang's expression suddenly changed, he turned around and said to the end of the team: "Count the number of people in the team at the end!"
Everyone looked back together.
Although the light of the dragon-headed scepter is powerful, its coverage is ultimately limited. The further back in the team, the less light you get.
In other words, the lighting conditions behind the team may be more suitable for cavemen to launch sneak attacks.
Immediately, someone from behind exclaimed: "The team behind us is missing! The whole team is missing!"
King: "The enemy is already attacking us! Form a tight formation and don't leave the light range of the scepter!"
The experienced mercenaries quickly changed their formations.
At this time, the werewolf girl's ears twitched, and she shouted: "Wait a minute, there is the sound of digging, under our feet!"
Wang: "Disperse the formation!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a large hole collapsed in the middle of the formation.
The sudden pit not only caused the mercenaries who had no time to disperse to fall into it, but also created a "light blind spot". Although the mage had raised the scepter, the light of the scepter still could not shine into the pit!
Screams came from the pit.
The mercenary captain at the edge of the pit shouted: "Set arrows! Shoot arrows down there! Throw the rope ladder down and rescue the people!"
Wang was looking at the map at this time: "Wait a minute! Below this mine is another layer of mine! Don't stop, run quickly, or we will all fall in!"
Elizabeth: "Isn't that the same as giving up on the person who fell?"
However, another mercenary said loudly: "The Master Mage is right, we have to make a choice between total annihilation and the loss of only a few people!"
Wang was even more decisive: "Xiao Bai! Go forward! Go straight to the source of the monster's smell!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a smaller hole appeared, and several people fell into it.
There were female screams in the cave.
Xiaobai ignored this and ran forward, even forgetting to transform back into wolf form. Fortunately, she didn't turn back into a wolf, otherwise the mage's head would have hit the wooden beam supporting the mine in front.
The mercenaries also followed behind them, and everyone tried their best not to escape from the light range of the dragon-headed scepter.
Flint was also trying to run, but the dwarf moved too slowly and couldn't catch up with the human who was running at full speed. He shouted anxiously: "Gotrek!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the barbarian grabbed him and carried him on his shoulders like a wine barrel. It seemed that Manzi knew that Shorty couldn't run away early on, so he took the initiative to move closer to him.
While the group of people were running wildly, a mercenary suddenly shouted: "Cavemen! On the beam, they are destroying the rotten part of the beam!"
Nini raised her head and immediately drew the bow and set two arrows on it. With the sound of the bowstrings, the two caveman "untouchables" who were destroying the beam fell down screaming, and their necks were immediately cut off by the mercenaries.
The elf opened his bow while running, and the cavemen who tried to destroy the beam fell one after another, like ripe apples in autumn.
The king rode on the druid and continued to look at the map. While looking at it, he read: "Theoretically, cavemen do not have high intelligence. Their spell casters are mainly divine spells and spirit casters, which do not require intelligence. How can such a tactic be arranged? Woolen cloth?"
As he was talking, Elizabeth, who was running next to him, suddenly staggered and was about to fall.
The mage threw the scepter and reached out to pick up the princess. The scepter floated beside him, but its height suddenly dropped much lower than before.
Immediately, screams came from behind the team: "Don't stop the light, Master! Ahhhhh!"
Seeing this, Marika came over and hugged the princess in a princess hug.
"No one detects traps now. If there is another trap, we will be finished!" Drow shouted.
Soon enough, the mage shouted: "Jump!"
Xiaobai jumped up and flew into a shaft with the mage on his back.
The mage turned around and saw Marika holding Elizabeth and Gotrick carrying the dwarf. They jumped up without hesitation, and then shouted a spell——
Feather fall technique!
In an instant, everyone's falling speed slowed down.
Xiaobai: "I'm sorry, I just followed the taste and didn't know there was a pitfall."
Wang: "This is called a shaft, which is used for ventilation in the mine. Thanks to this map."
At this time, Nini, who hesitated to take off, finally took off. She did not receive the effect of the Feather Falling Technique. However, she jumped directly to the wall on the side of the shaft, kicked off the wall and flew to the other side.
She just kicked the wall back and forth and jumped left and right in the shaft, while maintaining the same falling speed as everyone else.
The other mercenaries rushed to the edge of the pit and did not stop their cars. Several of them fell down and immediately overtook the people who were slowly falling.
The king heard the mercenaries shouting from above: "Who prepared the Feather Falling Technique? What? Damn it, why didn't you prepare the Feather Falling Technique!"
Nini: "You should remind the mages to prepare the Feather Falling Technique."
Wang: "Even if I warned them before setting off, they wouldn't be able to change the spells they prepared today. And who knew they could walk down a shaft?
"The situation is so urgent now. The poison prepared by Ralph is almost used up. It may not be able to block the next attack. We can only set off as soon as possible."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiaobai shouted: "I saw the bottom of the pit!"
Tens of seconds later, Xiao Bai landed firmly on the ground, and the drow also showed off his dexterity.
Only Gotrick sat directly on the ground, but Barbarian stood up immediately and patted his butt.
Nini was the last one to fall down, then looked up at the shaft and said, "Even for me, it will take me a while to climb up."
The dwarf who had just been put down by Gotrick said, "How can you still climb up? It's so deep!"
Nini: "It's not too difficult. It's just time-consuming."
Wang: "Xiaobai, do you hear the caveman's voice?"
Xiaobai turned his ears and shook his head: "No."
"It seems we have good news," the mage said. "It seems that the wise caveman who arranged the ambush did not expect us to go down so deep so quickly."
Flint: "There's even better news."
He carefully examined the patterns on the wall and said while examining: "This part of the shaft is not made by humans. It was built by dwarves. The inscriptions on the stone bricks are in ancient dwarven language, and all the inscriptions have the same meaning: Lamashtu.”
The king pointed to the center of the entire wall: "There is the holy symbol of Lamashtu."
"What?" The dwarf was shocked, and then he also saw the holy symbol, "Oh, ah, at least it means that I did not translate the ancient dwarf language correctly."
(*) The effect of armor in this book is to reduce damage, so Elizabeth's defensive wristbands are treated as having the same effect as a force field shield. The same goes for mage armor.
(End of chapter)
