CHAPTER XXXVII
A commotion slowly spread through the empty underground passageway, and the five dwarves argued in dwarven language as they walked in this direction.
The dwarves' footsteps were hurried and chaotic, and the faint crystal light on the rock walls of the passage could tell that they were embarrassed. Three of them were still covered in slime, like husks that had just rolled in glue. Thankfully, after a while, the viscosity of the slime had mostly disappeared, and it didn't hinder them much of a move. The dwarves looked a little angry and a little apprehensive, and as they walked, they were still discussing the battle that had taken place not long ago.
“... A human arcanist showed up and rescued the two men. Didn't the Northern Legion promise us that it wouldn't take care of this side of things? Those damned human liars, I said they weren't reliable!"
“... But that mage doesn't have to be from the Northern Legion, right? That enhanced spider web technique is at least at the level of the four rings, and the range mind spell that appears later will definitely not be lower than the four rings, is there such a powerful mage in Gray Valley Town? It can't be that those guys are deliberately ambushed here, right?"
Dwarves are both strange and familiar with arcane. Due to their talent and culture, the dwarves have almost never given birth to arcane mages, but years of enslavement by the Arcane Empire and wars with the Arcane Empire have made them familiar with the Arcane, or at least the most common low-level Arcane on the battlefield. The two spells that ended the smash braw were not unusual, and almost all the dwarven warriors could tell what it was.
The four-ring arcane is not too clever, but it is not something that a casual ordinary mage can use. The sudden appearance of such a mage in the arranged battle must have made these dwarves uneasy. After all, this is the territory of the Northern Legion, and they are not here to visit.
“... Boss Jinshi has already gone to the garrison commander. The largest caravan will arrive in about two days, and it's not good to have trouble at this time. That's why I'm against getting in trouble with those two humans before. I saw those two guys at the time, and I knew they weren't easy to mess with. ”
“... But one of them is the Paladin of the Guardian Hand. If we don't get rid of them beforehand, they'll be a big problem for us sooner or later... Looks like they're still here to investigate the Avengers Church. ”
“... Then let that group of Westerners deal with it themselves! Those yellow-skinned rats who hide secretly behind and only know how to play with conspiracies! Every time I see their obscene appearance, I am very unhappy! The last time Commander Jinshi couldn't help but pinch the head of that broken-mouthed guy directly......"
As they spoke, several of the dwarves walked to the specially built prisons at the end of the passage. It was a special prison built by the Arcanists of the Imperial Age to imprison spellcasters, and the five walls and fences were specially reinforced with alchemy, so that even dwarves and orcs could not destroy them empty-handed, and the magic circle buried in it, once activated, could suppress the spiritual fluctuations in it. Whether it's magic or arcane, it's basic to radiate spiritual power to communicate with the gods and the magic web. It is unknown how many dwarven priests and orc shamans have been imprisoned to death in such a demon cage.
After the Arcane Empire fell apart, the war with the aliens largely ceased, and even the occasional minor friction never expanded to the point where the high-ranking priests and shamans were imprisoned, and these demon prisons were left unused. After all, the magic array used to maintain the suppression of spiritual power also needs resources, if it weren't for the magic array buried inside the stone wall, once destroyed, it would be of little value, and I am afraid that it would have been dug up and sold by the soldiers long ago.
No one could have imagined that one day these prisons would be used by the dwarves to imprison the human clergy. Even these dwarves find it strange.
Looking at the human woman sitting on the ground and not moving, a dwarf with no slime turned his head and shrugged at the three people covered in slime: "You also heard the order of the Golden Stone Leader, he told us to deal with this Western woman." Whether she wants to or not, she has to forcibly mate with her for a whole day. ”
"What an inexplicable chore. What were you doing just now?" the three dwarves all wailed in dissatisfaction.
"Yes. If it weren't for those two escaped guys, I wouldn't have looked for you to replace them. The dwarf who took the lead explained to them. They stayed on the periphery after going out with the leader of the golden stone just now, and they were lucky not to be covered by the overwhelming arcane cobweb, and chased after the fleeing Feng Yinqiu and Gao Wen, but one of their heads was cut off by Gao Wen's sword, and the other two fought each other under the later mental spells, and when they woke up, they were seriously injured by vomiting blood.
"I'd rather be beaten half to death. You're going to make us mate with this human woman? Look at that human woman, she seems to be a Westerner, right? Her skin is so smooth, she doesn't have any body hair at all, she looks like a snake, it's disgusting!"
"That's right. And that waist, not as thick as my arm! That breast, is it in the lactation period? The human woman is so ugly, and you want us to mate with such a disgusting female...... What does Goldstone Collar think? I've heard that he sometimes goes to mate with those human women himself? Why do you force yourself to do such disgusting things? Aren't those old goats useful?"
"It seems that he thinks this is the greatest humiliation and pain that those humans feel? The Golden Stone Collar is not quite what we think in many places, he is very treacherous and cruel, and he hates humans so much, he is a good leader, and what he does must have a reason..."
"So don't grumble, but do as he tells you. The dwarf at the head opened the fence and walked in, and the three reluctant ones behind could only follow honestly. They knew very well what kind of leader the Golden Stone Leader was, so they never dared to be vague about his orders.
On the ground, Mu Qinyi was still sitting cross-legged and closed her eyes, as if she didn't know that five dwarves three times thicker than her were surrounding her. The one at the head grabbed Mu Qinyi's shoulders and lifted her up effortlessly like grabbing a chicken. But she still closed her eyes and didn't move, only a slight breathing continued, as if she was asleep.
"What's wrong with this Western woman? Is she asleep? or fainted?" the dwarves didn't really care. They are just here to perform a task that is not very comfortable, and it doesn't matter to them whether the task carrier is asleep or dizzy, or whether they are dead or alive. The dwarf carrying Mu Qinyi shook his hand casually, and looked at Mu Qinyi who didn't seem to react, so he didn't care anymore.
"Let's get started, let me come first?" The dwarf casually ripped open Mu Qinyi's culottes, and then unbuttoned the leather armor and pants on his lower body, revealing a huge organ that was somewhat unbelievable for humans. Unlike humans, dwarves don't need emotions or desires to be driven, just like muscles, they can congest and do work whenever they want, and keep doing so for a long time.
Seeing his companion start fiddling with Mu Qinyi, who was like a rag doll, the other four dwarves felt a little bored and looked at each other, and one of the dwarves suddenly proposed: "There can only be one at a time, so why don't we get two barrels of ale wine and barbecue here?"
Immediately, the dwarves clapped their hands in agreement: "Ah. That's right, and the boring time becomes interesting with the wash of ale. Others must still be running around with the Golden Stone Chief, right?
"Hey, hey..."The dwarf who was fiddling with Mu Qinyi suddenly called. The other four turned their heads to see that the Western woman he was holding was becoming transparent, shrinking, and deformed.
The speed of this strange change accelerated very obviously, almost in just three or four seconds, Mu Qinyi's whole person completely shrank and disappeared, just like an airbag full of air was emptied and then even the layer of skin disappeared together, leaving only some clothes scattered on the ground.
"It's... This is... How did you get it?" with the intelligence and understanding of the dwarves in the face of such a strange situation, it was immediately a little insufficient. The four dwarves looked at each other, and then could only look at the dwarf who was still holding Mu Qinyi just now, thinking that he should have used some strange mating method to complete this nasty task once and for all. They had all seen it just now, and the last place where the Western woman disappeared seemed to be his swollen organs.
Then they noticed that the companion really seemed to have begun to change unusually. He kept the posture he had just had, and his expression seemed to be fixed at that time, but his body was trembling slightly. Suddenly, his eyes did something that a normal mammal would not have done at all, and the eyes were split to the sides, and then turned in opposite directions.
"Hey, what are you doing? What did you do with that woman?" asked a dwarf, a little anxious, as he reached out and shook his companion.
The shake seemed to have touched some mechanism, and suddenly there was a vomit, and a large stream of water spurted out from between the dwarf's mouth and nose, and all shot straight into the head and face of the dwarf closest to him. And as if the dwarf himself was sucking it up vigorously, the water did not splash around, but all of them flew into the dwarf's mouth and nose without a drop.
With a pop, the dwarf, who had vomited up the large stream of water, fell to the ground, as if all his strength and vitality had been vomited out, and even the posture of the fall was as soft as a cloth bag. A dwarf reached out to pull him up, only to find that the tentacles felt so soft that they felt like they had grabbed a ball of over-leaved dough, and they tore off his entire arm with a single pull.
With the muscles and tendons of the dwarves, even if they rot to the point of maggots, they will never become such soft rotten. Carrying his companion's completely deformed arm, still dripping with blood and some minced flesh from the severed mouth, the other three dwarves continued to stare wide-eyed. Then he turned to look at his companion who was being sprayed with vomit, and found that he had suddenly become the same as the dwarf just now, his expression was sluggish and his whole body trembled slightly, and a pair of eyes turned unconventionally and illogically, and the remaining three dwarves seemed to have realized something, and shouted loudly.
Before they could turn around and run away, the dwarf's head was like a pig urine bag that had been filled to the limit, and the explosive water exploded from his mouth, nose, and even eye sockets and ears and shot at the three people around him. At this time, the three dwarves were somewhat vigilant and precautionary, and they either stretched out their hands to cover or turned their heads to avoid them, but they were not directly shot by these currents. But as if the water had a consciousness of its own, it either drilled through the crack or went around it of its own accord, and no matter how hard a few dwarves waved their hands and shook their heads, these torrents of water did not turn back and unyieldingly burrowed into their features.
The two dwarves made strange gurgling noises and fell trembling all over, only one barely managed to open the cage fence and staggered two steps before falling headlong to the ground.
The empty corridor fell silent for a moment, and when the slight trembling of the three dwarves quickly stopped, it was as silent as a cemetery that had been forgotten for thousands of years.
I don't know how long it took, but the sound of a faint stream of water sounded, and a clear and transparent trickle slowly flowed out of the facial features of the three dwarves. Obviously, the three dwarves were covered with mucus, snot, sputum and blood between their mouths and noses, but the water flowing out of their bodies was extremely clear, and there was a faint breath of freshness and agility, like the rarest mountain stream spiritual spring.
These streams of water gather together and slowly superimpose on each other, rising to change their color and solid shape. The process is very slow, and from time to time the current will not be able to maintain the disintegration of the water, but it will slowly change into a human form. And in this passage, which I don't know if it was underground or inside the mountain wall, no one bothered this strange-looking change.
Finally, after half an hour, Mu Qinyi, who was **** all over his body and closed his eyes, appeared. She slowly opened her eyes, her eyes hazy and confused, as if she was still immersed in a dream that was not easy to wake up. After another half an hour, she shook her head, and her eyes gradually became clearer.
Turning around and picking up his dress, shoes and socks from the ground of the cage, Mu Qinyi glanced coldly at the five dwarf corpses on the ground, and walked quickly in the direction where the dwarves came,
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"Didn't you say you promised that no one would disturb us?"
In the Resident Commander's office, the dwarven leader of the Golden Stone stared at the new Resident Commander, and there was undisguised violence in his small eyes.
"I just promise that my people won't come and bother you. The fat new commander sat in his special chair and glared at the alien barbarian leader with the same unkind expression. As the most orthodox origin of the Northern Legion, he only had a deep contempt and disgust for these barbarians, and when he was young, he did not fight with these barbarians with a long sword and a steel shield. There were two axe wounds on his back, which were left by these brutes, and they ached faintly on a rainy day. "Also, I did send patrols out of your neighborhood to create the environment you need. I've done what I had to do. ”
"So where did that mage come from? Did he come out of a crack in the stone? Or did he fall from the sky? Do you know how many warriors we died? Thirty-two! That arcanist made us sacrifice thirty-two brave sons of the earth for nothing!"
Looking at the dwarven leader's foaming roar, the commander also felt a little headache. He was quite disgusted with working with these dwarven barbarians, and in the eyes of most orthodox soldiers of the Northern Legion, the dead dwarves were good dwarves.
"You took the initiative to get rid of those two people!" the commander couldn't help but slap the table. The wrist strength that had not completely faded made the table top of the good pear wood make a loud bang. "If we had followed our plan, there would have been no need to do so! Are you blaming us for the wrongs of your recklessness?"
"That's the Guardian of the Guardian Hand, do you think he'll sit idly by if he doesn't clear it out beforehand?
"It's because of the identities of those two people that you need to plan slowly..."
"Just rely on the intrigues of you and those yellow-skinned rats? Don't you think it's easier to show your flaws? What will happen if they get more reinforcements? Just kill them and solve all the problems!"
"And what about the direct result of yours?"
"That's because in your Northern Legion's stronghold, there is actually a high-level mage who you don't even know to help them! How many arcanists do you think there will be in the entire Northern Legion who can use the Four Rings of Spells? Do you want to make me think that you are secretly playing tricks? For example, setting a dastardly trap and borrowing those two people to reduce our manpower and strength?"
There was a trace of blood in the eyes of the leader of the golden stone, and the bloody qi was spreading together, which made the commander feel that the two old wounds on his back began to ache faintly. He snapped his fingers a little uncomfortably, and the two golems standing behind him immediately made defensive movements, embedded in their heads, as if a pair of scout crystals of their eyes also lit up.
"Incompetent mage waste is to rely on these inferior alchemy items for security. The leader of the dwarves looked at the two steel statues, which were two or three times taller than him, and showed no sign of fear, but smiled gloomily, and the smell of blood in his eyes was still as heavy as that. "Do you want me to show you how to disassemble this broken metal with my own hands? Do you want me to shove that puppet's sword from your **** all the way to your throat? I can also promise not to hurt the deadly organs. ”
The Commander, of course, would not back down in the slightest under such vulgar and savage intimidation, and he stroked the ring in his hand, which was lit up with a faint light, indicating that it was an arcane item. As a mid-level officer in the Legion, the Arcane Ability of the Spell Apprentice level is the base, which can be used to activate Arcane items and scrolls.
The guards not far from the door also noticed the strange atmosphere. The matter that the commander and the dwarves were to discuss must be top secret, and they could not keep it in the room, but they could not go too far for the sake of the dwarves. Sensing the dangerous aura conveyed from inside, he immediately drew his weapon and rushed in, surrounding the dwarven leader.
The leader of the golden stone didn't even look back, he still looked at the commander with those dark, small, blood-filled eyes, and the smile on his face was strange and hideous. In the previous battle, he had ripped off a lot of his beard and hair because of the arcane slime, and he was left with the tall hooked nose that was only the tall hooked nose, and he now looked like a stout, huge, grotesque, and overly human rat.