Going all the way down a cramped mine road, I don't know how many turns I passed, and then my eyes suddenly became clear.

It was an underground space larger than the central square of Tarta, at least twenty meters high.

Hundreds of huge log pillars are supported from the ground to the dome like towering giant trees, and the four walls are hung with mining lamps, illuminating the dark underground space.

Between the log pillars and the log pillars, they are connected to each other by a wooden trestle bridge about one meter wide, and hundreds of wooden trestle bridges constitute a three-dimensional street interlaced by the kobold dungeon.

The hut where the kobolds lived, hanging below the wooden trestle. Luo Songxi kept seeing the jumping kobolds, happily climbing up and down the log pillars, running happily on the trestle, and happily entering and exiting through the doorway above the hut.

There are about three to four thousand kobolds in this dungeon, and according to Bobby, this may be the last tribe of kobolds. It is hard to imagine that with these three or four thousand small bodies, the construction of such a magnificent dungeon can be completed.

Poppy led Rosong Creek up the giant tree, and they were going to climb to the highest hut to meet the Grand Elder of the Kobold Tribe.

Along the way, from time to time, kobolds noticed Luo Songxi and crawled over to him and shouted, "Ah, despicable humans, shameless humans. ”

At this time, Poppy will explain to him, "This human is different from other humans, he is a friend of our kobolds, he brought us elemental ore, and he also killed the enemies who discovered the secrets of the dungeon for us. ”

Then Luo Songxi took out an elemental crystal and threw it to the kobold who came over, and the kobold immediately turned his anger into joy, "Oh, thank you, Bobby, thank you, different humans." Then he happily ran away with the elemental crystal in his hand.

Luo Songxi sighed at these little guys.

Kobolds may have many shortcomings, such as timidity, cowardice, and some cunning, but they are undoubtedly the simplest and most trusting intelligent beings in this plane.

Luo Songxi thought that if it weren't for being bullied too badly by powerful humans, they might be the happiest beings in this plane.

Putting aside the unpleasantness of the first meeting with the kobolds, in the later cooperation with these little guys, Luo Songxi felt that they were very cute from the bottom of his heart.

When he saw the kobold Great Elder, the Great Elder was equally furious, "Ah, despicable humans, shameless humans, get out of our dungeon. ”

Luo Songxi turned his hand and sent a piece of dark and translucent elemental black diamond the size of a pigeon's egg to the Great Elder.

The Great Elder couldn't hold it with one paw, so he quickly picked it up with both paws, and the beard on his chin shook with excitement, and he said in disbelief, "Oh, is this for me?"

Poppy wasted no time in saying to the Great Elder, "Dear High Elder, this human friend has the technology to detect the Elemental Cave, and he is willing to share this great technology with us. ”

The Great Elder let down all his guard in the next second.

"Ah, you are indeed different from other humans, you are a good friend of our kobolds. ”

In the Great Elder's cabin at the highest point of the entire dungeon, the Great Elder happily played with the tin man with his feet.

The kobolds returned here because it was their ancestral home, and because they believed that there would still be a lot of mines that humans had missed after they abandoned it.

But over the years, the kobolds have still had a hard time.

The kobold are the best miners and diggers in Tia, but their prospecting technology is not very clever, and in the past few decades, they have only relied on the method of finding a needle in a haystack to find two small mines of dozens of square meters.

However, the quality of the elemental ores in the mine is far from being as good as the minerals found by Luo Songxi and Bobby, and the elemental ores in it are only enough to maintain the barely subsistence life of three or four thousand tribesmen.

Therefore, it is no wonder that the kobold people will be happy as if they eat a piece of elemental crystal.

Now the Great Elder listened to Luo Songxi's introduction to the function of the noisy tin man, and he was so excited that he couldn't describe it in words, with this tin man who can prospect for mines, he can make earth-shaking changes in the life of the kobold.

This is a real favor to the entire kobold race, and it is not difficult to understand that the Great Elders, on behalf of the entire kobold race, regard this shameless human who he just called a despicable human as the most sincere friend.

"Ah, my good friend, what kind of help do you want from the kobolds in return? The kobolds will do their best to repay your friendship. The Great Elder said to Luo Songxi.

"It stands to reason that as long as it contains the technology of the inheritance, it is not allowed to be passed on. By giving this tin man to the kobold, I took the risk of being sanctioned by the regulatory process. You have to remember that you owe me a favor. ”

In Luo Songxi's mind, 77 was shouting, but Luo Songxi ignored her, and just politely said to the kobold Great Elder, "Don't say it so solemnly, I just want to know something about black magic and blood sacrifice rituals." ”

The Great Elder shook his paw while holding the noisy robot, and it was obvious that the Blood Sacrifice Ritual still had a deep psychological shadow on the timid kobold. But the Great Elder still mustered up the courage and began to tell Luo Songxi.

"Thirty-six races settled in Tiana with the human race. Dark magic originated from the Naga of the Thirty-Six Races from the plane of Solaris. ”

"The Naga live at the bottom of the sea and are the first force to guard the seals of dark creatures under the sea. At that time, the elven rangers who enforced the whole plane did not prohibit the Naga from using black magic, but they made a covenant with the Naga in three chapters, and the so-called black magic was not passed on, not ashore, and not used on ground creatures. ”

"The Naga kept their promises, so in the earliest history of the Tia face, the people who lived on land did not even know about the existence of black magic. It wasn't until the cataclysm 10,000 years ago that the Naga were wiped out because they were abandoned by you humans, but the dark magic was not lost, but spread in the counterattack of surface creatures since then. ”

In order to show his sincerity, the kobold elder came up and revealed the most little-known secret in this plane, and Luo Songxi seemed to understand it.

He didn't have a systematic general education, and he didn't know much about plane history, but he only learned about it through some books he read in his spare time—

He knew about some big events, such as the evil underground creatures living beneath the plane of Tia, who would break through the plane seal and attack the surface every few thousand years, known as the "Black Tide".

There is not necessarily unity between the various races and countries on the plane, but at this time, everyone will unite to resist the Kuroshio.

The battle between surface creatures and dark creatures is the core conflict in this plane, and the Kuroshio Tide is also the most tragic time in the entire plane.

It's just that for the vast majority of ordinary people, the Kuroshio only exists in history. Because the interval between Kuroshio is too long, it is actually difficult for most people to be born at the right time.

and the catastrophe 10,000 years ago, Luo Songxi also knows a little about it.

At that time, the dark creatures took over almost the entire plane, and although they were still driven back to the surface in the end, the surface world was also devastated by it, and almost all history and inheritance were cut off, so that the long history before the cataclysm is now almost unknown to the people now.

Therefore, Luo Songxi did not know anything about "30,000 years ago when the thirty-six races settled with the human race", as well as the origin of black magic and the unheard of Naga tribe, these were all plane secrets before the cataclysm.

But why did the kobold know the secrets before the cataclysm? Luo Songxi showed a puzzled expression.

The Great Elder sensed Luo Songxi's doubts and explained, "What I said may be different from what you have in your history books, don't doubt it, the kobolds are the only race that has retained the historical inheritance in that cataclysm, if there is another race that knows the entire 30,000-year history of Tia's face, then there are only plane kobolds." ”

"Every kobold is actually a walking history book, but there is a lot of history in it that you humans are unwilling to make public. ”

"Back to the dark arts, we talked about the cataclysm of 12,000 years, and the surviving surface creatures finally launched a counterattack against the dark creatures. During the counter-offensive, the Elven Rangers acquiesced in the first large-scale use of Dark Arts on land, but after the war, they initiated a reckoning with the Dark Arts, banning them. ”

"Of course, that's the duty of the Elven Rangers. At the beginning, the human race and the thirty-six races jointly established the basic laws of the plane and handed them over to the elven rangers to implement for generations, the first of which was the equality of all races, and the second was to strictly prohibit the exercises and techniques that could allow individuals to exert far more power than their own cultivation. ”

"Although this first rule is not well executed, this second rule has been strictly enforced by the Elven Rangers for thousands of years, even after the cataclysm. And black magic is precisely through the large altar circle and sacrificial rituals, through some medium to communicate with the legendary gods, so as to pry a huge power that does not belong to itself. ”

"A skilled priest, even if he is not half-cultivated, can pry the power to even confront the demigods and true gods. ”

"So, black magic is not forbidden because of its darkness and evil. Of course, there is a huge price to pay to communicate the power of the gods, and the most representative medium in the dark arts is blood and soul, because legend has it that it is easier to please the gods with such things as sacrifices. But on the other hand, what kind of power will not become an evil weapon when cultivated to a high depth?"

"There is never a distinction between good and evil power, and black magic is forbidden because elven rangers believe that black magic is difficult to control, as dangerous as a child holding a peerless divine weapon. ”

"And the dark magic has not been lost, it has only been sealed by the Elven Rangers. Since then, whenever the situation is critical, the elven rangers have always had a way to let the black magic leak out, and then ban and take it back after the war. ”

"The most recent Kuroshio, the leader of the Surface Life Alliance, Jill Gonzalez, was trapped in what is now Gilsdu, and in order to break out, he chose between sacrificing himself and sacrificing his allies. ”

"He used the Dark Magic Blood Sacrifice Ritual he received from the Elven Rangers to blast open a spatial passage at the cost of sacrificing 100,000 kobolds who participated in the battle without the knowledge of our kobolds, allowing his human army to break through. ”

"After this battle, the kobold almost died. We have escaped the cataclysm of 12,000 years ago, but we have not escaped the hands of your human leaders. As you can see, we may be the last kobold tribe here, with thousands of people, surviving to this day. ”

"This is where the kobolds' deep malice towards humans comes from, a race that is hopelessly selfish. The Kobold Elder's beard began to tremble again. But in the end, the shaking subsided.

"How we wish that the leader of humanity would be a noble human like you, my human friend. The Great Elder said to Luo Songxi, "But according to history, this is impossible. No noble human being can be a leader, and they were all stabbed in the back by their own people before they succeeded. ”