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It may not be much in the surface world, but for the underworld, it is a large caravan.

The journey was not as simple as the caravan imagined, and all kinds of predators lurked in the dark underground, and the greedy eyes were always on the caravan. Among them are robbers who are carried away by greed, but even more terrifying are the calculating guys who lurk in the shadows.

The closer he got to the Molten Iron Keep, the more silent Tekrin became. It can be seen that his pressure is gradually increasing, and even his usual favorite lava wine is no longer at hand.

Over the course of the week, the caravan had repelled several bands of bandits, creatures of all races. Some of them came for the vast amount of material, while others simply craved flesh and blood.

Towards the end of the day, Tekrin checked the time with a characteristic metal hourglass and planned to camp by the cold pool underground.

Of course, Tecklin didn't die and set up camp directly on the edge of the cold pool. As we all know, all water sources in nature are full of dangers, whether vegetarians or predators are inseparable from the water sources necessary for life, killing and fighting are the main themes of water sources.

The same applies to the Underworld.

Tekrin camped on the high ground a few miles from the Coldpool, and the dwarves commanded the tall, lanky half-bloods to set up tents, sewing soaked lizard skins into impermeable leather tents, driving steel tips into the hard dirt as foundations, setting simple but effective traps, and picking up underground bushes for fire.

In a few moments, a bonfire was lit up in the Highland camp. While the flames attract the attention of others in the dark underground, they are effective in banishing vicious monsters. Life in a lightless world makes most of the species here afraid of fire, which can reduce the caravan from a lot of pointless trouble.

As for those with ill intentions, even if the caravan doesn't make a fire, it won't stop those people from prying eyes, can it?

But for the caravan, the most important thing is the water source. Hundreds of people need to be fed up, and they have to send a team to Hantan to fetch water, even if it means a crisis.

Charlotte, who believes that the truth is realized, decides to take Lolita and Vivien to fetch water, and Sylvia, who has been staying all day, also decides to go out together to get some air, even though the wind in the underground world is full of dampness.

This cold pool is a branch of the Atayom River, which is the source of life in this dark underworld, and the seemingly calm but surging underground river is deep and invisible. According to Teklin, the underground river stretches for thousands of miles, creating a perfect ecological environment for the indigenous people in the vicinity.

Therefore, the dwarves called the river Atai, which means a gift from Mother Earth in the dwarven language.

Over the past 10,000 years, this river basin has given birth to countless brilliant underground civilizations. There are the remnants of the Goblin Dynasty who fled underground after being ruined, the slave kingdom of the Eye Demon once ruled by violence, the bloody tribe of pure-blood snake people, the Minotaur tribe known for their warlike warfare, and the Molten Iron Keep kingdom that was built to escape the war during the War of Annihilation.

Some of them have died out in the long history, some are still surviving, and some are thriving. Just as the surface world gave birth to a powerful civilization, so the dark underworld follows the same pattern.

The waters of this cold pool are about thirty miles in radius, and on the way to approach the cold pool, you need to pass through a small stone forest. These strange stone forests rise from the hard rock ground, and the thick rocks at the bottom and thin at the top look like thick thorns, and some of them branch out to form slender stone shapes that resemble branches.

The Creator's magic is on full display here, with green fluorescent ferns and jellyfish-like silvery filaments clinging to the stone forest, and occasionally colorful underground rock pythons clinging quietly to the stone forest, quietly waiting for the careless prey to invade their territory.

An Altay venom lizard strays into the territory of an underground rock python, and two equally dangerous predators nervously assess each other's strength. The battle was on the verge of breaking out, but the sudden noise in the woodland alerted the two predators, and the Atay Poison Lizard stepped down, quietly turned around, and left the area with a quick four-legged dance.

The rock python looked at the source of the sound with its indifferent snake eyes, it saw that it was a group of well-armed dwarves and four strangely dressed species, its natural sense of crisis made it retreat, and following the laws of nature, it gradually retreated into the depths of the stone forest with a reluctant mentality.

In the stone forest, Charlotte pointed to the strange glowing plants and asked the mages about various pharmacological knowledge. Not only that, but if he encounters a suitable spellcasting material or medicinal herb, he will also practice it, and ask Vivian and Lolita to collect it themselves.

Occasionally, Sylvia would interject a few sentences to add a few points of obscure knowledge that had not been recorded in books and that she had discovered over the years. In this way, knowledge is stored bit by bit, and Vivien and Lolita grow rapidly in an entertaining and educational way.

Even Charlotte, in the process of teaching and reviewing, has continuously consolidated the foundation, laying a solid foundation for the future roots.

Stop-and-go, Hantan is in sight.

The cold and low temperatures of the groundwater fill the cold pool with a thin mist, and a herd of elk-like underground leaping deer is vigilantly searching for water by the cold pool with their ears open, these leaping deer have evolved to adapt to the environment to become pure black fur, their limbs have amazing elasticity, and they are also known as the most flexible creatures in the dark underground.

However, the cold pool is also full of dangers, a young leaping deer just put its mouth to the edge of the cold pool, the originally calm water surface suddenly splashed, a terrible water monster with chrysanthemum-like sharp teeth opened its mouth, and bit the body of the leaping deer.

The young deer was dragged into the water before it could even struggle, and in a moment the cold pool was dyed a light red color and became calm again.

The herd of leaping deer scattered in panic, leaving only the poor mother of the young deer on the shore, howling and making a sad sound.

The group who had just arrived at Hantan happened to see this scene, and the dwarves took out the kettle to get water, but Vivien and Lolita looked at the wailing mother of the leaping deer with indignant and sad expressions.

Killing the leaping deer are the Hantan Worms, which are as abominable as worms magnified countless times over, amphibious monsters are some of the most fearsome predators in the waters. In the water, they can swim at incredible speed with their swaying fat bodies, and in the short sprints on the shore, they can also rely on their strong muscles to achieve extraordinary speed.

The most terrifying thing is their vitality, these monsters can grow completely different individuals even if they are cut in two. Unless it is burned to death or chopped into shredded flesh, this monstrous and terrifying creature will split into separate individuals to continue its predation.

With Charlotte's encouragement and Sylvia's tacit approval, Vivien and Lolita, who had been promoted to the third ring, decided to hunt down this terrifying monster that challenged the level of the fourth ring.