"Lord, the dimensions of the space are wrong." A kobold named Quint approached Gavin and said.
He is the leader of this kobold construction team. He is a fifth-level kobold warlock. He not only has the ability to perfect repair spells, but he is also an excellent cave digger and builder.
"Search, search one by one, search wall by wall, sew them one by one, and sew them for me. Don't let go of any suspicious places." Gavin waved his hand.
The kobold said there was something wrong with the size of the space, so there must be a hidden secret room.
Their perception of space is very different from humans. They don't need to measure. They only need their naked eyes to tell whether there are differences in the layout of the two-layer structure, just like birds can tell whether a narrow gap is suitable for them to fly through.
In this aspect, these kobolds are professionals. They took out a small sharp hammer directly from their own kobold-specific tool kit, knocked it from time to time, and climbed up.
These kobolds can use their ears to tell how thick the wall is, whether there are other caves behind it, how big the space is, etc.
Although this is an innate ability, it is more specialized and requires special training and rich experience to be put to good use.
The kobolds in front of them were undoubtedly experts in this field, and within a few minutes they had gained something. With a creaking sound, a secret door was opened.
Without waiting for the kobolds to greet them, Gavin rushed over immediately, "This is..."
What you entered was a rectangular standard room, but there were rusty shackles and ropes on the walls, and there was an iron chair fixed in place inside with dusty leather ropes on it. You could tell at a glance that it was not normal. A shelf full of supplies and tools.
"This is a torture chamber. Why is there such a secret room under a hotel?" Anna, who was following Gavin, asked with a face full of surprise.
Before Gavin could answer, there was another creaking sound not far away, and a new secret door opened, and two shriveled corpses, one large and one small, fell out.
Anna trotted up, checked the two corpses skillfully, and said in a positive tone: "The two deceased are both women. The older one is about thirty years old, and the younger one is fourteen or fifteen years old. They both starved to death. They died about three years ago, probably after the Laughing Bandit Tavern was abandoned. Sir, do you think they were the Weeping Witches? The sound they made while crying and wailing before they died made the villagers think it was haunted, or rather, Are they directly transformed into angry ghosts?"
"It's not them." Gavin shook his head and said, "Before they died, the Weeping Witch had already appeared, and you saw the phantom with your own eyes last night. Did you feel any aura of death in her? Or Negative energy? It’s just two corpses that happened to die in vain. It seems that the former owner of the Laughing Bandit Hotel is not as clean as the villagers of Amphail Village think, and most likely he is engaged in some robbery of wealth and sex."
"There is another room over here." Another kobold shouted.
Just next to this secret prison room, another secret room was opened.
This room is the largest, the sum of the two secret rooms in front. There is a huge solid wood bed in the middle, covered with fan gauze curtains. The surrounding walls are covered with various tapestries and oil paintings.
Anna just showed her head and glanced into the room, and like a frightened rabbit, she jumped out with a blush on her face and said: "How could...how...how could...someone arranged this... Shameless room, Mr. Gavin, this...this...these filthy things are all...all...used by the devil to lead people to corruption. They should not exist in the world, they should...should...should all be Burn.”
Due to shyness and nervousness, the old habit of stammering not only happened, but became much more serious than usual.
Those tapestries and oil paintings all depict extremely explicit love affairs between men and women. Gavin, a experienced and fierce man, felt embarrassed, let alone a young priest who had never experienced such a battle. I felt like my whole body was unclean and about to burn, because the images in the tapestry in the room kept rolling through my mind.
Gai Wen said sternly: "I have nothing to do with filth and evil. I am waiting outside. Let me go in and see if there is anything more evil hidden inside? I feel magic fluctuations inside."
"Sir, you...you...be careful. If...if there is...a problem, call us immediately." Anna hesitated outside the door for a long time, not having the nerve to follow in.
Gavin, with a critical spirit, began to examine these seductive and decadent tapestries and paintings.
It has to be said that the person who decorated this room has absolutely first-class aesthetic taste. All the decorations are not only erotic but also beautiful. It is estimated that in the hands of some special lovers, they should be able to sell for a good price.
Gavin's eyes finally fell on an oil painting, which was a portrait of a lady. Among the paintings in the whole room, she was definitely the most conservative one. At least her clothes were intact, but she was also the most alluring one. Vice, because its painter has perfectly interpreted the hazy beauty, completely arousing people's desire to peep, and they can't wait to get into the painting and peek at the beautiful scenery behind the hazy gauze mist.
The longer I stared at the portrait, the stronger my desire for voyeurism became.
This is not just one's own emotions, but also has magical factors.
It is a magical oil painting that has the ability to stir up the darkest desires in people's hearts.
It wasn't until Gavin quickly rolled it up that the feeling of fascination completely subsided. Without thinking, he threw it directly into the portable dimensional hole. Not only it, but also other tapestries and oil paintings were all taken in by him. .
He is by no means appropriating them as his own, but is preparing to use a critical attitude to conduct in-depth research and criticism on them in the future.
Then he launched a carpet-like search of the entire room, leaving no stone unturned. He found a lot of various sex toys, but there was no trace of his real target.
"Treasure, treasure, Lord, the treasure has been found." The excited barking of the kobolds came from outside.
Kobolds are also very sensitive to wealth and full of greed.
It's just that their greed is very interesting. They don't keep it for themselves, but donate it to their masters, especially the dragon masters, in exchange for their praise, which is the best reward.
Gavin naturally knew their virtues well and praised them without hesitation: "You have done a very good job. When you return to the territory, I will apply for a bottle of dragon soul strengthening potion for you."
Dragon Soul Strengthening Potion is a new kobold strengthening potion recently developed by Dragon Oak.
As the name suggests, this strengthening potion uses the dragon soul.
In terms of physical body, activating dragon transformation is already the limit of kobold bloodline strengthening. Even the dragon blood potion configured with a more powerful dragon only increases the success rate of kobolds activating dragon transformation and reduces the required professional level. Every time the dragon blood used in the dragon blood potion increases by one age level, the professional level requirement of the kobold will be reduced by one level.
For example, the dragon blood potion prepared with the dragon blood of the young copper dragon Ivinsa requires at least eight professional levels to have the chance to activate dragon transformation, while the young red dragon Roderick only needs seven. The young red dragon of you only need five.
After the dragon transformation is activated, if you want to take this ability further, you must let your soul begin to transform into a dragon, getting closer to the dragon.
This can be obtained slowly by serving the dragon at close range and being synchronized with its influence.
You can also take a shortcut - directly take the dragon soul strengthening potion containing the dragon soul fragments.
There is only one way to refine this potion - dragon slaying.
The amount of refining is also related to the maximum health value the dragon has. Basically, you can only make one bottle with one health value.
A young red dragon refined more than 200 bottles in total, which sounds like a lot, but among the 70,000 to 80,000 kobolds in the Dragon Oak Territory, it is simply not enough.
Moreover, there is no upper limit for taking this thing. The more you take, the better. The effect is simple and clear. Not only can you become more and more like a dragon, but it can also directly increase the number of daily uses of spell-like abilities. The more you take, the better. After the bottle, whether there are other effects remains to be further studied. It is now among the highest-level merit redemption items.
At present, only a dozen bottles have been exchanged and distributed among different kobolds.
"Thank you, Lord." These kobolds thanked them profusely. To them, the value of a bottle of dragon soul strengthening potion was far higher than that of these treasures.
"No need to thank me, this is the reward you deserve." Gavin replied with a smile and began to inventory the treasures of the former hotel owner.
In the end, I came back disappointed. This was a pile of scattered worldly treasures. A rough estimate was that it was no less than 50,000 gold coins. For an ordinary family, it was indeed a huge fortune.
But for Gavin, it was obviously not enough.
Compared to what he did here, just harvesting this little treasure would be like losing even his underpants.
This was the last secret room they discovered. Afterwards, Gavin led the group of kobolds and swept back and forth here three or four times, but found nothing new.
Gavin did not give up, but fell into deep thought. There must be something they ignored about this matter. After all, he had already had direct contact with the Weeping Witch, and her existence was the biggest doubt.
Having said that, if the thing was so easy to discover, it would have been found by the previous hotel owner before he arrived.
Anna muttered on the side: "Is it possible that the room is not hidden in the material plane at all? It is in the shadow plane or the spiritual world? It will be difficult for us to find anything if we only search on one side."
"Impossible, I have the Eye of Truth." Gavin shook his head and objected, "If such a room really exists, I should be able to see it directly."
"The Eye of Reality is not omnipotent. It can only see through illusions, but not real objects. What if it is blocked by real objects?" Anna retorted without thinking.
"That's right! Why didn't I think of this earlier?" Gavin turned over and hugged Anna, nibbling heavily on her round face and saying, "You are really my lucky star. Come over here and help me move this big bed." open."
Anna was a little confused by the sneak attack and stayed there for a long time without reacting.
Everything in the basement had been completely cleared out by Gavin and the others, except for the solid wood bed in the love room, which was too big and heavy and took up half the room. It was assembled directly there.
In addition, Gavin's previous attention was attracted by those unique portraits, and he ignored this matter - or in other words, their function was to divert his attention.
Gavin directly used the bionics Bull Power, Giant Transformation, and Overclocking on himself, plus the external bonus on the Dragon Fang Gloves, directly accumulating his power to 25 points, and the kobolds also activated it one after another. Giant transformation.
With a concerted effort, the huge wooden bed was dragged open with a gurgle.
"Quent." Gavin greeted the leading kobold.
The kobold immediately gave up dragging, jumped in quickly, picked up his small pointed hammer, and started tapping the ground bit by bit.
The kobold nodded towards Gavin and said, "It's hollow. There's a secret passage underneath. It's not a secret door. It was sealed with stone shaping techniques. It's at least one meter and a half thick."
"This is easy to handle." Gavin directly took out ten dragon vibration bombs from the portable dimensional cave and handed them to him, "Directional blasting, blow it up for me."
"No... no... no need. I haven't started using my spell slots today yet. Just hand it... hand it... to me." Anna was attracted by the movement here, with a round face and a smile on her face. Like a ripe big apple, red in color, seeing Gavin eager to use violence, he hurriedly spoke.
"You see, I was so impatient that I actually forgot about this incident. Okay, you try first to see if you can open a door. If it doesn't work, then blast again." Gavin couldn't help but pat his forehead, and unexpectedly, he let He was a little confused, after all, this was related to his path to advancement.
"Okay." Anna climbed over the big bed and walked to the kobold warlock's side. She tried hard to calm down and focus on casting spells, but her mind kept wandering involuntarily, thinking about Gavin's bite just now. Especially because the room they were in now was special, and the scenes from the previous oil paintings began to run out involuntarily.
Wandering around, the heroes and heroines inside no longer looked like what they had seen before, but became themselves and Mr. Gavin.
This made her whole body burn. She tried several times but failed to cast the spell.
"What? Is there a problem?" Gavin asked with concern, completely unaware that everything was caused by his excitement.
"No...no...no." Anna quickly recited a spell, which was not for stone shaping, but for treating minor injuries.
In order to cure her own spell-casting defects, she had refined this spell many times, as if it was engraved in her bones. The more nervous she became, the smoother it became. Then she cast it directly on herself. The feeling of countless ants crawling instantly filled her whole body. It lasted for several seconds before completely dissipating.
Her magical healing spell was used on herself. Although there were no terrible side effects, it was not very comfortable either.
The discomfort this time actually helped a lot, diverting her attention completely and taking the opportunity to prepare the stone shaping technique.
As it began to synchronize with the boulders underground, the stone slab seemed to come alive and began to grow upward and to both sides.
This door-sealing stone slab was thick enough. Anna used four stone-shaping techniques to barely open a passage that could only be reached by bending down. It was a dark passage diagonally downwards, the kind that could be seen all the way through at a glance. The end was empty, nothing.
At least in the eyes of ordinary people, this is indeed the case.
But in the eyes of Gavin, who had the Eye of Reality open, the end of the tunnel was shrouded in fog, and there was a small cabin looming in the middle of the fog. Even through the fog, Gavin seemed to be able to feel the small cabin. The unusualness of the wooden house, and the powerful magical waves emanating from it.
found it.
The goal you are looking for is right there.
With just one glance, he was 100% sure.
But it's one thing to be able to see, and another thing entirely to want to go in.
That cabin is in the etheric plane.
Can be seen but cannot be touched.
Even Gavin didn't have a good idea for a while.
Transforming himself into a transformed spirit body that can enter the etheric plane is a seventh-level spell. No one among his men knows how to use it, and it is also a personal spell that can only be cast on himself.
Being able to bring other people into the etheric plane to travel with the spirit world is a ninth-level spell. Not to mention that Gavin doesn't know spellcasters of this level. Even if he did, he wouldn't dare to bring them here to help him. If you do this, who knows if the other party will turn around and kill you, and then take the treasure inside as your own. After all, it is a magic book inherited from Netheril, and the temptation is big enough.
The third-ring flash technique, because of the characteristic of flashing back and forth between the etheric plane and the material plane, also gives people the ability to enter the etheric plane, but the duration is too short. The principle of flash technique is to stay in the etheric plane. After one round (six seconds), it will return to the material plane for one round, and then jump to the etheric plane, and so on.
Once this spell is cast, it will jump back and forth uncontrollably.
And the layout of this layout maker is very cunning. The material plane in the overlapping area with the etheric plane where the cabin is located is a huge rock.
Even if you use the flash technique to advance a certain distance in the etheric plane for six seconds, once you flash back to the material plane, you will be faced with a huge boulder.
Although you will not be directly embedded in the boulder, you will be forcibly excluded. Every one and a half meters outside, it will cause 1D6 damage.
The most important thing is that you have done useless work in the etheric plane. When you enter again, you will enter the original position again, and the cabin is at least twenty meters inside the boulder.
As for the method of digging directly on the boulder to reach the vicinity of the cabin, it is also not feasible.
The reason why the cabin is in its current position must be because there is a plane anchor point on the boulder. Once this anchor point is accidentally destroyed, the cabin may disappear directly into the etheric plane and disappear without a trace. If you want to find it again It, without clear guidance, is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
(End of chapter)
