The Rise of the Cemetery

Chapter 0095

"It's the trace of the patrol team." Zena quickly made her first judgment.

A tunnel in front showed obvious signs of perennial walking. The traces, new or old, are on fixed lines, and only routine patrols can make such traces.

From the analysis of the composition of the traces, there are tauren, bear goblins and lizard cavalry in the team.

"There won't be a city here." Zena made a second judgment.

As a dark elf, the ruler of the Underdark, it is impossible for a new city to appear within 400 miles of his own city, at most it is the lair of a special and powerful creature. The development of a city requires a large population, as well as moving caravans, so it will not be kept secret to the point where no one knows. This newly discovered unknown settlement is 200 miles away from Rasmuffel City, and the straight-line distance may be closer, which is impossible. No dark elf who wants to build a city will do so, unless she is sure to repel the continuous crazy attacks of nearby cities.

If it's not a city, it's a creature's lair. There are only a few powerful creatures that can have a large number of subordinates patrolling nearby and build their own fixed lairs. Now it is necessary to find out which one it is.

Mind flayers or beholders, or liches?

No matter which one is the existence of the archmage level, if you are lucky, you may almost encounter a legendary level enemy. Of course, the probability of this is too low. Every legendary existence will build its own good living space, and it is impossible to succumb to obscurity in such a lonely and narrow airspace. It is a mind flayer or a wild beholder from a nest, or a wandering lich. Only they will take root in a place with sufficient food, and when they are driven out by the local owner, they will pack up The luggage continued to wander.

The team chose to retreat a certain distance, and after disappearing the traces of their appearance, they began to camp and rest.

How long has it been since the last rest, Li Xun didn't feel it, he was hundreds of feet underground, with hundreds of millions of tons of rock and gravel on his head, and his heart was full of depression and boredom. Common manifestations. I don't know when to eat, I don't know when to rest, when I open my eyes, I see the deepest darkness, when I close my eyes, I feel like I'm wading in a large grave, even sleep can't completely eliminate my tiredness.

Maybe several hours later, or maybe only half an hour later, Li Xun woke up from his sleep profusely sweating. Wiping off the cold sweat on his forehead, Li Xun brushed off the heavy blanket wrapped around his body, stood up and gulped the cold air greedily, the cold wind soaked from throat to stomach, and finally suppressed the lingering pain. bored.

Go check it out! Congested, Li Xun also made a risky move that he would not normally do.

After walking out of the campsite and greeting the patrolling drow warriors, Li Xun silently walked through the dark tunnel and disappeared along the traces of the patrol team he found.

On the way, I met a small team that had just gone on tour. One tauren and four lizard cavalry marched alone in the tunnel with solid footsteps, and various sounds could be heard far away in the empty and deep corridor.

The tauren appears to be a tall human with the head of a bull. About 7 feet tall (about 2.1 meters) when standing upright, weighing more than 700 pounds (about 320 kilograms), with thick hair growing all over the body, a pair of huge horns on the head, hands similar to humans, with five fingers on the palm, The thumb is opposite to the other four fingers, with sharp claws at the end of the fingers, and the feet are similar to the broad and flat hooves of cattle.

The tauren's nose was pierced with a metal ring, and the breath exhaled while walking made the metal ring vibrate continuously, making a rattling sound. A pair of blood-red angry pupils scanned the left and right, and scars that were as long as one foot on the chest could be seen everywhere. He was holding a huge giant ax in his hand, as if he wanted to choose someone to eat.

The four lizard cavalry in the back looked a little thin, but they were the most elite cavalry in the Underdark, similar to human heavy cavalry, once they charged, they were unstoppable. The paw pads of the cave lizard's paws form a suction cup, which not only lands silently, but also climbs over most obstacles, and even runs on the ceiling of the dark area. Lizard cavalrymen held their own special sharp-toothed spears. The handle was only 3 feet short, but the spear blade at the front was 6 feet long. With a faint blue cold light.

The simple team of five came head-on with a bloody aura, many times braver than the same kind in the Dark Elf team. Could this be the difference between captive monsters and wild monsters, Li Xun kept smacking his lips as he passed by the patrol team.

Stealth can eliminate body shape, but it cannot hide body odor, so the mage wrapped himself tightly with the ever-changing spirit skin, so as to avoid the sensitive sense of smell of the patrol team. Judging from the flexibility of the patrol's limbs, the possibility of a lich inside can be ruled out, and those bone sticks only believe in ignorant undead, and it is impossible to spend energy to use "command" or "memory weaving" to enslave Peripheral slaves, only mind flayers and beholders, due to their talents, love to control their subordinates by means of mind.

After turning around a few empty caves and following the traces left by the patrol team, Li Xun came to a long corridor, squinting his eyes and looking at the opposite side. Opposite the corridor is a gate that can be opened. Outside, there are two goblins holding spears leaning against the wall and dozing off. The corridor is full of magic traps, and there are also many ordinary mechanism traps mixed in. So powerful, so delicate, it is actually a two-stage tunnel. The traps outside can prevent the enemy from sneaking in. When patrolling in and out, they have to pause between the gate and the trap group, and wait until one side is closed before they can pass. Unexpectedly, intelligent creatures in this world also know double-stage defense.

It's a pity that the stone movement technique is a level 5 spell, and I can't learn it yet, otherwise it would be much easier to pass here. After thinking about it, I can only make up my mind from the tunnel, but there are double guards of magic traps and living guards, so it's not easy to start! In this situation, it is much better to use teleportation, but at the moment of teleportation, one's invisibility will inevitably disappear under the agitation of mana, and it takes 2-3 seconds to replenish invisibility, which is a bit unsolvable. Do you want to use the charm monster? I have always done it alone before, but this time it is difficult to charm two at the same time.

No matter, Li Xun, who is in an irritable mood, doesn't have so much patience today. He wants to use the easiest way to do everything, and it doesn't matter if he is violent. At worst, the enemy will be alarmed, and everyone will come out to fight, Li Xun thought bitterly.

The two goblins on duty were dozing against the wall boredly, when suddenly they heard a series of crackling sounds from the outside of the corridor, like the sound of rolling stones. The two goblins immediately jumped half a foot high, gathered the spears in their hands, and looked out of the corridor nervously.

It was still pitch black outside the corridor, and after returning to the tranquility, the deathly stillness was a bit creepy. Just when the two goblins were suspicious, two small light spots suddenly appeared in the air on the other side of the tunnel, and they separated and merged suddenly, and their trajectories drifted erratically. The two goblins stared at the two light spots inexplicably, only feeling a little dazzled. Gradually, the speed of the light spots slowed down, and the clusters not far apart froze in mid-air, and gradually brightened.

What do these two dots look like? The two goblins stared at each other intently, feeling a little like...like eyes! It was too late to understand, a human figure had already appeared on the opposite side of the corridor, and those two light spots were his pupils when his spell was fully activated. The two goblins trembled, and wanted to turn around and pull the alarm lever, but their eyes seemed to be glued to the pair of black pupils on the opposite side, and they couldn't move away no matter what. The struggling and terrified expression on his face gradually eased, and finally became calm.

The mage's voice came over calmly: "Let me go!"

The two goblins hurriedly turned around and pulled the first wooden pole. After a crisp bang, the magical aura in the corridor gradually went out. The mage nodded, what a delicate design. After passing through the corridor, the goblin reopened the magic trap, and then pulled another wooden pole to open the gate behind him.

The mage looked at the dim light of the torch behind the gate, turned around and said to the two goblins: "You are tired, after I leave, you close the door and sleep for a quarter of an hour, and then forget about everything!" The two goblins nodded dully. . Only then did the mage bless his invisibility again, and walked out of the gate silently.

With the falling of the gate, darkness returned to Li Xun's eyes, only the dim light and shadow of the torches on the stone wall behind him were shaking. Without acting recklessly directly, Li Xun inspected the small town in front of him with the help of two kinds of visual effects, no, it should be said to be a large stronghold. There are no streets that a city should have, and there are no noisy ethnic groups. It is just a series of stone chambers dug on a huge stalagmite, and all the facilities are placed inside the stalagmite. Judging by this posture, the entire stalagmite is about to be hollowed out.

The periphery of the stalagmite should be a wrap-around corridor, with faint light shining through, and the footprints on the ground extend to an entrance and exit at the bottom of the stalagmite, where there are vague guards.

It seems that if you don't go deep into the wolf den, you won't find anything.