The dwarven pits are indeed full of roads. In addition to the ramps and stairs carved out of the rock, the bridges that connect the places, there are also long ladders and scaffolds that are erected on the rock walls, soft and long, rope ladders that hang down from somewhere and where they lead, shallow pits carved out of the almost vertical rock......

"This is a thief's dream. "The dwarves have made their pits like this, and they haven't been stolen yet! ”

They found a rope ladder hidden in a crevice in the rock, which seemed to have been unused for a long time, and climbed down it, praying that there would not be a bunch of dwarves waiting for them below.

The rope ladder was old, but sturdy enough, and it passed through many levels of passages, and the girls had to wait carefully for a while as they crossed each floor, making sure that no one dared to go down. The crevices were too narrow for them to squeeze through, and Tess became more and more suspicious that the rope ladder was not left by the dwarves, and that their stout bodies would only get stuck in the middle of the stones.

"Where the hell are we supposed to stop?" asked Naria in a whisper, the light below getting dimmer and quieter, as if they had entered no man's land.

"At the bottom?" Tess wasn't sure, "the ice dragon must have fallen to the bottom of the pit, and there's no way they can carry a dragon somewhere else in a place like this." ”

Naria nodded, they had been climbing for a long time, her hand holding the rope trembled slightly, and it was already too dark around them, they could only fumble and rub down little by little.

She remembered Is's quiet light blue eyes, took a deep breath, and continued down, and Tess beneath her seemed to be a little distance away from her.

Suddenly her left hand loosened, and Naria's heart sank.

"Tess!" she warned loudly, not caring if she would be heard, as she kicked her legs hard and stepped on the opposite rock, keeping her back firmly against the stone behind her.

The rope ladder is broken.

The heavy rope ladder fell, whipping Naria's head and body, and she struggled to raise her arms to protect her head, tensing the muscles in her legs and back so that she could get stuck in the crevice of the rock instead of falling and smashing into Tess.

She didn't hear Tess, but she believed that the nimble thief had a way to deal with such a situation.

The rope that fell on her body became heavier and heavier, dragging her down hard, her legs began to cramp, and the whole person slid down involuntarily, even through the thick clothes, the long sword on her back almost pressed into her flesh, and she couldn't help but want to scream in pain.

One of her feet was still on the rope ladder at the time, and now it was completely entangled and she couldn't get out. She reached for her boots with one free hand, where a dagger was hidden, but her legs were pressed tightly by the rope.

She groped desperately, her legs went limp, she could no longer support them, and she fell involuntarily.

"Tess!" she yelled again, unable to tell whether she wished she could hold herself or that she wouldn't be dragged down by herself.

A hand reached out of mid-air and grabbed her belt accurately, but Tess's strength was clearly not strong enough to bear Naria and the messy rope wrapped around her legs, and the red-haired girl, who had been retracted into another narrow slit, was quickly dragged out.

"Tess ...... You've got to let go of me. Naria tried to turn her head, but she couldn't see what was going on with Tess, she didn't know how Tace could hold her, but she probably couldn't hold on for long.

"Don't be silly, sweetheart. The female thief's voice didn't sound too difficult, "Can you draw your sword?"

Naria successfully pulled out her longsword with a backhand.

"Now, cut the rope that is wrapped around you, be careful, and don't cut yourself, and don't cut your belt. ”

The rope ladder had fallen completely, and now it was all hanging on Naria's lap, but it didn't feel as heavy as it had just been. There was darkness in front of her, and she could only cut the tightest part of the strangulation little by little by feeling, and Tess waited patiently, not to urge, but to hum a tune softly, which made Naria feel much more at ease.

It took her a moment to get the rope off, and as soon as her leg loosened, she couldn't help but let out a small cheer.

The sound of the rope falling to the ground didn't sound far away, and they were probably almost there.

"Well, now we can't go up, we can't hang here, we can just keep going down. Tess said, and as soon as Naria was about to ask, "How do you get down?" she felt her body slowly descend, pausing with each little drop.

She kept her mouth shut and obediently stood still, her eyes widening and her feet slightly apart, testing the distance between the rocks on either side so as not to accidentally bump into them.

They descended slowly for a while, then stopped.

"Oops...... "The rope isn't long enough," Tates muttered. ”

Naria felt a loosening of her waist, and Tess's hand let go, and she was startled, but instead of falling, she continued to descend. She couldn't help but touch it with her backhand, there seemed to be a thin rope tied to her belt, so thin that it made her a little frightened, she didn't dare to move anymore, and let herself be slowly hung down until her feet touched the solid ground, and she stepped hard to make sure it was true, and then she breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Hell!" she shouted up, only a faint shadow of Tess could be seen.

"Let's see if you can move a little bit, sweetheart, I've got to jump off. ”

Naria kicked the rope off her feet, touched the stone, and stepped back cautiously, a cold gust of wind blowing by, and she looked back, vaguely feeling more cracks below leading in all directions.

"Alright!" she cried.

It wasn't long before Tess came down to the ground, and instead of jumping, she cautiously climbed down the rocks on either side with her feet.

"It's so dark!" she shouted as soon as she hit the ground, and she didn't know what was ignited, and a small but bright flame lit up her face.

She handed the small torch to Naria, and began to tuck the ropes on both wrists as Naria curiously admired the delicate little thing.

"It's easy to use, but it's a hassle to put away. She grumbled, "I'll have to give it a makeover when this trip is over!"

Only then did Naria realize that she had a holster on one side of her wrist, which was usually hidden in her sleeve and could not be seen. The holster is inlaid with a flat metal tube. Tess fiddled with the mechanism at the bottom of the metal pipe, and the thin rope, which shone a little in the firelight, was slowly withdrawn into the tube, and at the end of the rope there were small hooks of the same material, which were cast into serpentine shapes that bent to both sides, one of which was just hooked to her belt, and the rope on the other wrist was probably entangled in some protruding rock, otherwise the two of them would have fallen off with the strength of Tess alone.

"Awesome!" Naria exclaimed.

"Of course! I've always been well prepared. Tess lifted her chin triumphantly and whistled, and soon a small gray shadow came down from the rocks and landed on Tess's shoulder, jumping up and down as if congratulating them on their escape from death.

Tess squatted down and groped for a long time in the rope ladder piled up on the ground, and found a severed head. Nalya brought the torch closer, and in the flickering light of the fire, the severed head was so flat that it was immediately visible as having been cut by a sharp weapon.

"Bastard paladin!" Tates blurted out.