Chapter I
"Are you sure this is the entrance to the temple?" Willy asked Haim suspiciously, looking at the ground beneath her feet and around her, "It's no different from any other place. ”
After spending the most comfortable day of entering the swamp on the back of the swamp monsters, the expedition team finally reached their final destination, but to their surprise, they did not find any clues about the entrance to the temple for a week, despite the fact that the map indicated that the temple was located somewhere underground in this area.
The elf hesitated, before going on this expedition, he had asked the most reliable experts to identify the treasure map, and everyone confirmed that the treasure map was indeed an artifact from a distant time, and until he arrived here, he had been convinced of the authenticity of the map, but his faith had been shaken by the fruitless search these days.
"Maybe we should broaden our search," Nack said, "or maybe the entrance is not far from here." ”
"My people have been dealing with ores and caves for many years," Tomahawk carefully chose his words, observing Heim's expression, "We have found that the earth is not static, in fact, the land we live in is divided into many layers, each of which is constantly moving, albeit slowly, but it has been a long time since the age of the gods..."
"It's here," Rhaegar said suddenly, his voice ethereal, as if coming from far away, "I can feel it, it's down there." ”
Suddenly a dazzling fire lit up around the geist's body, and instead of gathering around it, the light radiated from his body, and under the gaze of everyone, the fire changed from red to blue, from blue to white, and finally, to pure black.
A two-meter-diameter hole opened silently at Rhaegar's feet at the same time as the black fire appeared, and the geist's body gently floated down like a feather into the hole.
"What shall we do?" Nack asked Haim, looking at the swarthy cavern in the ground. At this moment, Willy was already in action, and the female warrior quickly fastened one section of the rope she had prepared in advance to a tree, and then threw the other into a hole in the ground.
"There's probably a suffocating poison gas there..."Before the dwarf, who had a lot of experience in caves, could finish speaking, Willy had quickly crawled along the rope into the burrow.
"She's crazy," Nack said, "she's going to die for it." The sub-giant quickly grabbed the rope on the ground, ready to forcibly drag Willy up.
The voice of the female warrior came at this moment: "Come down, there is no danger here." Judging by the voice of Willy, who reached the bottom of the cave, the depth of this cave is no more than five meters.
"Let's go down. Heim had finally decided that he couldn't let his partner venture alone. The remaining three members of the team climbed down the rope in turn, the last one being Nack, who would pull their companion up at the first time if there was any danger during the descent.
After a minute, all members of the team had successfully descended to the bottom of the cavern, leaving only the subdued swamp monsters on it, as determined in advance, although some kind of device made the entire cavern seem bottomless, and the true depth here was only a few meters.
"The entrance of God is here. By the light of the lit torches, Heim quickly mapped the three cave entrances in front of him to the treasure map and figured out the route, but before he could point it out, Rhaegar was already in the right place.
"He doesn't seem quite right," said Tomahawk, looking at Rhaegar as if he was sleepwalking, "I think we'd better stop him first." ”
"I'm fine," Rhaegar said to his companions, still walking forward, "I can feel something calling me." The black flames on his body suddenly disappeared, and then, a dazzling ball of light appeared above everyone's heads, and under the illumination of the ball of light, the deep and dark cave became as bright as day. "Trust me, follow me. ”
Without hesitation, Willy followed Rhaegar as Nack and Tomahawk set their sights on the team's long-standing leader.
Heim hesitated, Rhaegar was suspicious of his unusual behavior, the mage always gave him a mysterious feeling, he couldn't bet the fate of the entire team on such a person, but at the same time, the elf's instincts told him that following Rhaegar was the best option in the current situation.
"Keep up. Heim finally decided to trust his instincts, which as an elf had proven to be accurate through countless experiences, and he first stepped after Rhaegar and Willy, who were ahead of him.
When they reached the first fork marked on the treasure map, Rhaegar suddenly stopped, and then threw a magic missile at the ground more than ten meters in front of him, and then, at the same time as the missile touched the ground, countless sharp blades suddenly ejected from the ground, forming a jungle of sharp blades in the twenty-meter-long walkway.
Everyone couldn't help but take a breath of cold air as they looked at the blades of different lengths, but all of them shimmered with cold light, if it weren't for Rhaegar they would have been attacked as they reached the center of the aisle, and these blades were enough to turn everyone into meat skewers on iron chisels.
"This is the first line of defense here," Rhaegar casually created several wind blades, slicing them all against the ground, "Only the temple priests and their descendants know the location of these mechanisms, and obtaining a treasure map alone is not enough to safely enter the treasure land." ”
"Who the hell are you?" the elf asked suddenly and solemnly, his hand already resting on the hilt of his sword, "Descendants of the temple priests?"
Haim's words took everyone by surprise, and Willy's eyes widened as she stared at Rhaegar in disbelief.
"If I'm going to do you badly," Rhaegar said calmly, turning his back to Heim, who was almost drawing his sword, "there are so many opportunities to do so, I don't have to wait until now." He moved and continued to walk deeper into the cave, "You will understand everything, I promise, when we reach our final destination." ”
Heim was silent, his sword-holding hand sprouting from the veins, and after a few minutes, the elf finally let out a long breath, "Let's go," he said, "follow him." ”
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