The dark red lava flowed on the surrounding rock walls, the roof was about a few inches above the head, and the whole room had no windows, of course, even if the windows were chiseled, it didn't make much sense, and the outside was just a larger cavern, so the whole space was filled with an indescribable stuffiness and sulfur and other underground smells. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe furnishings of the house are also extremely simple, with several tables and chairs made entirely of stone, and they are all shaped by dwarf figures. From a dwarven point of view, this is a very comfortable and intimate environment, but if you put an ordinary human in such an environment, it will only take an hour or two to get sick. Fortunately, Feng Yinqiu and Liu Xuanying are not ordinary people, and they can still face the earth dialect in front of them for a long time.

"There's nothing to entertain human guests here, and I hope you two will understand. There are ale wine and roast goat meat specially brought from other places, which should be something to suit your taste. "The accent of the Imperial Lingua franca of the Earth Dialect is a little strange, but fortunately, Feng Yinqiu can still understand it. This was the dwelling of the chief priest of the dwarves, the most powerful of the dwarves, a plain-looking, barely decorated cavern hut, perhaps more spacious than the dwellings of other ordinary dwarves.

"It's okay, we don't mind. Feng Yinqiu picked up the middle wheat wine and mutton in the stone bowl and ate it, and Liu Xuanying only took a piece of roast goat meat. The ale wine was bought from humans, and after Feng Yinqiu came to Europe, he drank this kind of bitter wine a few times, and he slowly got used to it, but Liu Xuanying didn't. However, this thing is considered a luxury in the dwarves, and the dwarves can hardly grow crops in an environment where they can only exchange gems and specialties for humans. The so-called goat is also different from ordinary goats, and appears to be an underground creature that feeds on moss, and its flesh is so rough that it looks like it is gnawing on grease-soaked sandstone.

But it was much better than the high priest's food, and in the stone bowl in front of the high priest was a dark green paste mixed with a few pieces of miserable white solid, which slightly emitted a strange stench. It was supposed to be a porridge made of moss and mushrooms, which Feng Yinqiu had seen on the way here, and it seemed that even ordinary dwarves did not like to feed on it. Feng Yinqiu didn't think that it was necessary for this dwarf to pretend to be tall in front of the two of them, maybe the dwarf himself didn't have the concept of 'clear height', this should be the natural reaction of some priests after cultivating to a high and profound realm on the path of the Divine Dao, and the same as those outside the realm on the Shenzhou Continent, the more they perceive the heavens and the earth, the more they care about the harmony between their own avenue and heaven and earth, and other desires and distractions will naturally fade, as long as the diet can maintain survival. The same is true for lust and shallowness.

"I believe that there is no reason for us to be hostile to each other, and there may be a common enemy, right?" said the Earth Speaker, wiping his beard as he finished drinking the juice from the bowl.

"So to speak. Feng Yinqiu nodded. "From our personal point of view, neither the Golden Stone nor the Cave Sage have the slightest affection for him. It's just a boring assignment from a mediocre bureaucrat at the top, and if you can get rid of that evil goldstone dwarf once and for all, we won't have any problem with that. It's just that now it seems to have turned into a duel in which hostage-taking threatens us to participate. Couldn't you rescue those human boys who were captured? As the dwarven high priest, can't you suppress his divine arts?"

"I saw that, too. Unfortunately, if Cave Fury really wants to take them hostage, we can't be sure we'll be able to get them out safely. The Earthspeaker shook his head, his braided beard and hair swaying like a dangling mop. "Strictly speaking, I am only the chief priest elected by everyone, not the high priest. The altar dedicated to the Lord of the Earth, Mother Earth Spirit, the great god of the elements, has been destroyed, and the Dwarves will no longer have a High Priest. In a face-to-face situation, I can rely on Mother Earth's bounty to suppress the Cavern?Fury, so that he can no longer use Mother Earth's powers, but it will take a short process, and if he does hold those human children hostage, it is very likely that he will add a triggering magic to them, and maybe it will only take a thought to spark them to kill them completely. ”

Feng Yinqiu nodded silently. Those are just aristocratic teenagers with little fighting power, and I don't know what companions Angelo has found to accompany him in this extremely dangerous activity, but they can't think of any more intelligent and powerful than him, and in the hands of that gloomy and treacherous cave sage, they are indeed just poor worms who can be crushed into pulp at the slightest thought.

The earth speaker looked at Liu Xuanying, his eyes were full of admiration, and asked, "But this... Mr. Liu can have a way, right? The power he used when he defeated the Calondo Dragon was very powerful, and he was able to completely block the will of the Earth Mother, disrupting the power of the Calondo Dragon and causing him to collapse, his ability should be able to subdue the cave in an instant?

Feng Yinqiu turned to ask Liu Xuanying: "Is Daoist Liu sure that he can restrain the big cave sage in an instant?" This dwarven sage said that it is very likely that he has placed a mechanism on those euro boys, and the time to move will kill them, although he can win, it is impossible for him to not even move his thoughts. ”

Liu Xuanying thought about it, shook his head with a wry smile: "Poor Dao has never seen the big cave sage's shot, I don't know his depth, I don't know his methods, and of course I don't know how sure he is." And since the dwarf is very scheming, and has observed the methods of the two of us, I'm afraid he won't give the poor road a chance to get close. ”

Feng Yinqiu only nodded speechlessly. Liu Xuanying's True Martial Sect Innate Martial Dao is indeed strong, but this kind of high strength is not the kind of pure brute force between the same level of power crushing, you have ten points, I have a thousand points and ten thousand points, but his extremely powerful and keen perception can detect the laws and veins between the operation of heaven and earth Yuan Qi, or in the words of Euro Arcane, it is the law between the fluctuations of the law, his innate realm Xuantian True Martial Qi and Nine Heavens Xinggang are the top masters of the Divine Martial Dao, from the perspective of the arcane, they are all the power of the law with a high priority, and its own structure is perfect in circulation, so in the face of the opponents such as Jinshi Dwarf and Lava Dragon, they can only break the surface with a point and kill with one blow。

This is also the essence of Shenzhou martial arts, Taoism, exploring the deeper and more mysterious nature of heaven and earth, and when the realm is high, when facing the enemy, it is natural to be able to lift weights as lightly, rather than simply thinking about increasing brute force. Otherwise, with the power of that lava dragon, it would be easy to crush hundreds of such pure gold blade golems as if they were destroying cities and destroying the earth, but Liu Xuanying found the opportunity to break the lava dragon with a single blow with all his strength, and it would take a lot of effort to deal with a golden stone golem that didn't know its structure.

Therefore, when he didn't find out the depth of the big cave sage, or didn't find the right opportunity, it was still quite difficult to suppress it with one blow, not to mention that the scheming dwarf sage must have learned a lot about Liu Xuanying's methods from Jin Shi, and it was very likely that he also had targeted countermeasures.

"The most important thing is that everyone is wary and defensive against each other, and the time is too short, it seems that it is really difficult to rescue those noble teenagers safely...... Your Excellency, what is the duel that will take place tomorrow?What does the Cave Sage want?" Feng Yinqiu felt that it would be better to discuss the other directions.

"He wants to return to the territory that was usurped by the Furnace Fire Clan's Fluorescent Clan, and he also has the right to go to those two clans to preach. ”

"Preach what?"

"Preach his theory that he will bring more ale and more roast meat to the dwarves. The Earth Speaker sighed. "Cave?Fury has always advocated close association with humans, and used the contradictions between humans to make them kill each other for their own benefit. By nature, we dwarves, as children of Mother Earth, are not naturally fond of intrigue and cunning, but have a deep hatred for humans, and our young children are very fond of their ale, so some people still listen to the story of Cave and Fury. The Blackstone Clan's Jinshi and his dwarves are his faithful followers. And now Jin Shi led the people to succeed in human society and obtain abundant materials. This is a temptation for many young children. ”

"It sounds like this cave sage is a very special being. Feng Yinqiu's eyes flickered.

"Yes. In fact, there have been voices that questioned that he wasn't our dwarves. But I've known him since three hundred years ago, a small man among the wandering people who fled here after being driven out by the orcs to the south. Although he is an unpleasant fellow and looks a little weird, there is nothing wrong with Mother Earth's love for him. ”

"So, your Excellency the Earth Speaker, what do you think of his request?"

"Of course we're going to stop it. He is shaking the foundations of the dwarves, using ale roast meat to lure the children away from their homeland and forget the bosom of the Earth Mother. This may not be a danger in the short term, but in the long run, it is no less than the oppression and persecution of the Arcane Empire. Without culture and faith, the children of Mother Earth will eventually be truly reduced to animals with only ale in their eyes, tools of humans, and then the dwarven clan will gradually die out. Culture and belief are the foundation of a race's existence. It's just a pity that these young and impulsive children who only like ale can't understand this. ”

After saying this in a heavy and slow voice, the Earth Sage focused his gaze on Feng Yinqiu and Liu Xuanying. "I am honest with the two of you, I just hope that two powerful Western friends can understand. If you can help us, at least not to help the caves, Fury, we will repay you. Because of Mother Earth's gift, it is relatively easy for us dwarves to obtain elemental crystals, and we have accumulated a lot of ...... in the past few decades without the oppression of the Arcane Empire and without trying our best to find it."

"We don't really care about that. Feng Yinqiu waved his hand. He's not really an Arcanist, he doesn't have a hard need for these things, and there are no legal Arcane Scrolls on the West Coast that can be exchanged for them, and there are countless troubles to bring to places like Oroyosta to exchange them, and to find channels to find middlemen. And that's not the point. "The most important thing for us is how to get those teenagers back safely...... Now it seems that the only way to do this is to obey his conditions and help him complete this duel..."

"Are you really going to do this?" said the Earthspeaker's face sank. "Don't say I didn't warn you, Cave?Fury is not like the rest of us, and he may not necessarily abide by the terms he has promised you. ”

"But it seems that we have only one choice now..."Feng Yinqiu's face was also a little gloomy. "And I've always felt that this thing is probably not just going to be as simple as it seems now......"

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"They can't guess what we're trying to do, don't you?"

In the middle of a large grotto, the cavern was smiling at a dark red orb not far away. It was a sphere of flowing lava, but it was empty in the middle, and there were many hollows on the surface of the flow, revealing the frightened appearance of the four Euro boys in the middle.

The space in the middle of the lava ball was large enough for the four teenagers to stay in it safely, at most they felt a little stuffy, but this did not give them a sense of security, only made them more frightened. They all had a basic education in the arcane arts, and they could vaguely see that the orb's composition was actually very fragile, and if some turmoil caused it to collapse, it could burn them into four charred black flesh in the blink of an eye.

"You see, I'm a very cautious person, and even though I knew there was a ninety-nine percent chance they wouldn't come, I still put a lot of effort into designing and building this lava cage. Whether it is the earth speaker or that Liu, it is impossible to save these little cubs intact. Speaking of which, thanks to them this time, if it weren't for these human cubs, we wouldn't have been able to get those two Westerners into submission so easily. I have to admit that they were really smart and didn't fall directly into the trap we set for them......"

The voice of the Earth Dialect was still so gentle, he seemed to be talking to the Golden Stone Dwarf standing not far behind him, and it was still in the lingua franca of the Empire rather than the language of the Dwarf, but the Golden Stone still stood expressionless, like a stone statue without the slightest reaction.

"These Westerners came at the right time. If they hadn't messed things up like this, it would have taken me at least two or three hundred years to take control of this race, and it would have taken me at least two or three hundred years to plan and implement it... Now that they can be used, and with your cooperation, then I can go faster and more violently. I've been trapped in this deformed modified body for so long that I'm tired of it, and I've almost forgotten what it's like to chew on a living body...... I can't wait, for tomorrow's duel. ”

The strange sound of the blind dwarf talking to someone there and muttering to himself only intensified the horror of the teenagers in the lava cage.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... It's all my responsibility to cause everyone to fall into such a situation. I didn't expect to be caught by them all when I went to their camp to investigate a little, that old blind dwarf is too powerful..."Among these four teenagers, the only one who can maintain basic composure and sanity is the big-faced boy Angelo. The bloody storm he experienced in Gray Valley Town seemed to have strengthened his mind a lot, although there was still the radicalness and recklessness unique to young people, but in the face of such a desperate situation, he finally did not panic too much, while admitting his mistakes, he also knew to comfort the other three partners: "But you don't have to be too afraid, these two dwarves are going to take us as hostages." So we won't be in danger of our lives. And today I went out and saw Mr. Feng and Mr. Liu from the envoys of the Qian Empire, and they also saw me, and they will definitely find a way to save us!"

"Really... Really?" this gave the other three teenagers some energy and vitality.

"Of course it's true. Angelo nodded affirmatively, reassuring the teenagers. When they looked out again, the blind old dwarf and the golden stone were gone.

"Angelo, you've really changed a lot now, and although you're in danger now, I don't underestimate you because of that. A young man who was dressed most luxuriously on his body also regained his senses at this time, and his eyes were quite complicated when he looked at the big-faced young man. "It's like you said, these dwarves are really going on a huge conspiracy. If we can go back safely this time, those old guys will never dare to underestimate us anymore, and you will be gone. I'm curious, what holds you up the guts and the will to do this? I remember you used to be just a fool who followed your brother. ”

"Because I am seeking my righteousness. The big-faced young man replied lightly, some inexplicable light flashing in his eyes.