Chapter 32: The Ancestor of the Orcs (1)

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Unlike the mountainous areas that cut it off from the civilized world in the south, the plains and hills occupy most of the northern wasteland, and only a few large mountains are scattered in between, and it is one of these few mountains that Regar is in at the moment - a huge mountain mass spanning nearly a thousand kilometers rises abruptly from the vast plain, like a winding python dividing the entire land in two, forming a natural dividing line between the outer part of the wasteland and its depths. This is the famous Troubled Age Mountains, and the birthplace of the orcs is located in the depths of this mountain.

Despite having a cursory understanding of the valley's topography from Heim beforehand, when Rhaegar and Willy arrived at the entrance to the valley where the orcs had entered, they couldn't help but sigh at the treachery of the place: the steep rock walls on both sides of the valley that were hundreds of meters high began at the bottom and gradually moved closer to the middle, almost connected at the top, with only a gap of less than half a meter allowing a glimmer of sunlight to leak in; The valley is gradually declining, and most of the valley roads are shrouded in huge shadows, like a passage into hell.

"Are you sure you want to go in?" Looking at the valley of the Black Hole Cave, Rhaegar asked Willy again, "Or you can wait for me here and send you a signal if I need you." ”

"I'm going in. Willy's attitude was almost stubborn, and when Rhaegar raised her hand slightly, the warrioress immediately sensed his intentions, and she turned to face him with a sensitive expression, "I swear, I will never forgive you if you use any means to keep me here, or if you forcibly send me out after I go in." ”

This tough attitude made Rhaegar feel helpless, and he had to sigh softly. For some reason, it was always difficult for the geist to really harden his heart in front of Willy, and he never wanted to be hurt by his words and actions, a belief that had become more and more firm since the female warrior was injured in the battle with the Chatula. This is completely different from the feeling of Els, in Rhaegar's heart, the gentle female mage always reminds him of the fallen Philos, he can't separate the two, and he can't know how much of his feelings for her are for himself, and how much of them are from the goddess of spring rain, this contradiction and confusion makes him only escape, and when he is with Willy, he has never had such pressure, there is only a lightness that he can't feel in front of others, this girl's sincerity, and his maintenance of himself, make him regard her as his closest person。

Rhaegar stretched out his hand and whispered a spell, and a white glow emanated from his hand and sank into Willy's body, "This spell will protect you from nine attacks in six hours," he said, and then cast an acceleration spell on the other party, a spell that allowed him to see in the dark, and a camouflage spell, and strode out into the valley.

To their surprise, the orcs did not set up any defenses in the valley, and Rhaegar and Willy easily walked through the valley road nearly a kilometer long, and above their heads, the mountain walls that had gathered together had merged, making the canyon a long, closed tunnel, and the darkness completely ruled around them, and if it weren't for Rhaeggar's spell, they would have had to grope their way forward.

"Follow me," Rhaegar said in the silence of the darkness, and the sudden sound almost made Willy pull out the greatsword behind her back, "We're going to have a very difficult road ahead," he grabbed the knightess's hand with his sensitive senses, "If you want to go in with me, you'd better not move." ”

A strange sensation spread from Willy's grip on Rhaegar's hand to her body, and the warrioress, who was fearless even in the face of the most ferocious monsters, suddenly found that her heart seemed to stop beating, and it seemed to be beating almost out of her chest, and she felt her body hot even though it was in a cold hole.

Willy's anomalous change didn't hide from Rhaegar but he didn't have time to think about why the other party was in this situation, and all the geist's attention was on the road under his feet - he could clearly feel the magic fluctuations coming from there, and it was clear that there was more than one magic trap laid along the way.

Like a large spider sitting in his own cobwebs, Rhaegar received the information about the front in great detail from the detection magic, and quickly sorted out and analyzed it in his mind, at this moment, he turned into an incomparably sophisticated computing machine, constantly drawing conclusions one after another and transmitting them to his body, so that he could avoid the traps set in the road ahead in time.

His behavior quickly became infectious, and the samurai struggled to get out of that inexplicable state, carefully following Rhaegar and stepping on where the other had stepped with every step.

In fact, the magic traps on this passage are not very advanced, although these traps are enough to withstand hundreds of enemies, most of them are only fourth- and fifth-order spells, and only a few of them are more powerful than sixth-order, if there are not too many of them and they are afraid of alarming the orcs by triggering the traps, Rhaegar can even force his way through it with his own strength. But the geist was not relieved by this, on the contrary, Rhaegar became more cautious than ever - among the orcs, except for the elders who were responsible for prophecy, sacrifice and taming the beasts, no one had more spiritual power than ordinary people, and there had never been a magic apprentice among them, let alone a mage who could set such a magic trap, there was only one explanation, there was at least one mage from another race with those orcs.

After about twenty minutes, Rhaegar finally led Willy through the treacherous tunnel, and when he saw the apparently much wider passage in front of him, he knew that they were close to the place where the orcs finally met.

A jumble of footsteps came from behind the two of them, accompanied by a frenzied and brutal roar, the voice of the orcs, which made Willy instinctively put her hand on the hilt of her sword, but before she could draw it, Rhaegar stopped her.

"That's the orcs from the other tribes who came to the festival," Rhaegar whispered, "and we're not following the only sacrifice attendees. He made a quick gesture with his free hand, and then lifted Willy into the air with him.

A sound louder than a thousand horses running together reached the corner of the tunnel as they approached the top of the cave, and then, with the help of magic, Willy clearly saw a group of orcs with red eyes shining in their field of vision. There was a frenzy in their eyes, and the roars they let out from time to time fully showed the excitement in the hearts of these orcs, but their performance was unusually calm, everyone lined up, moving forward quickly and orderly, no one forced ahead, no one fell behind because of slowing down, the long line was not crowded and chaotic, even those creatures of other races who were caught in the middle of the line and were taken as sacrifices seemed to be infected, and no one tried to escape or struggle.

The orcs were moving fast, the darkness was not hindering them, and the magic traps seemed to be able to identify them, and despite being trampled on by countless pairs of feet, none of them were triggered, even if the sacrifices walked up - this further increased Rhaeggar's vigilance, because only a mage with a certain level of mastery of magic could automatically identify their targets while setting a trap - It took less than five minutes for the procession of about three hundred men to walk past the feet of the two men, one by one, into the wide, smooth passageway.

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