April 3, 5th year of the federal calendar

If it weren't for the shadow cast by death over the underworld, it would have been like a dreamy fairy tale. Countless stars in the sky shed a faint blue light, making people feel as if they were in a magical stage play.

Descending a gentle slope from the entrance of the cave, there is a strange forest below. I've never seen anything like it, and if the plants growing on the surface are just a little different in appearance from our world, and are still within the scope of my understanding, then the plants in the underground world completely subvert the existing common sense.

As far as I know, the species and number of cave plants are very small, and they are generally found near the cave entrances, and as the light intensity gradually decreases, the plant species will also decrease. But in this underground world where there is no sunlight, there is such a lush forest.

These trees are tall and leafy, apparently many years old. If you don't cut off a branch, a light blue fluorescent thick juice will slowly flow out, and at the same time, it will emit a smell similar to sandalwood. In addition to the wide variety of trees, the forest floor is also covered with a variety of shrubs and herbaceous plants, and you can even find several plants that also emit fluorescence. In the dark forest, such embellishments add a bit of mystical beauty to her.

According to my observations, the reason why those plants emit light is because of the many tubes distributed in their leaves, and because the special sap with fluorescence is constantly flowing in the tubes, and because the leaves of some plants are almost translucent, making it look like they are glowing from a distance.

The forest was not large, but no animals were found alive until I stepped out of the forest and came to a savannah bordering it.

Here I encountered a kind of monster.

The monster has a strange name, which is shown on the Pokédex as "Jailer". This monster resembles an orangutan, with dark skin with a metallic sheen and no hair growth. Its arms are very slender, reaching vertically to the knee and ending in sharp, pointed claws. The jailer's eyes were particularly strange, nearly round in shape, with obvious outward protrusions, almost crimson in color, and seemingly no pupils.

My guess is that these monsters may have something to do with the death of the Rolands.

I met three jailers in the middle of the plain, and when I saw that they walked strangely, not sluggish but far from swift, I took the initiative to fight. I admit that it was a hasty decision without getting enough.

The Jailer's skin has excellent defense, and with my current strength, the damage to them is limited. What's more, this monster is very explosive, and although the movements are not flexible enough, the straight-line sprint speed is not below me. If it was just one-on-one, I was confident that I would have relied on the advantage of agility to beat it, but in a one-on-three situation, I didn't even have a chance to escape.

In desperation, I used my life-saving move "Honor of Death".

This skill is a set skill that I obtained after I created a full set of Starry Night equipment, and its effect is to increase the Berserk attribute by one level if I am injured, the effect lasts for half an hour, and the cooldown is two days.

In the end, in the competition of exchanging injuries for injuries, I relied on the bonus of the berserk attribute to defeat the three jailers with difficulty.

By the way, this is the stat of the third piece of equipment I crafted.

"Starry Night - Black Crown: Defense Lv1, Stamina Lv1, Skill: None. The Black Crown was the third piece of the Fire Commander to design after stepping into the Grandmaster realm, and when he combined three pieces of equipment derived from the Spotted Helm, he was surprised to find that they could give the wearer magical powers. The Commander has designed countless powerful equipment throughout his life, but he has never been able to explain why. According to the memoirs of later generations, before his death, the fire general told his disciples with great regret that he had naively thought that he had touched the corner of the robe of the god of forging, only to find that he was so ignorant. ”

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Duqi braced his hands on his knees, his lungs burning as if they were on fire, and he could only gasp for air with his mouth wide open.

The victory over the three jailers cost him dearly, and I don't know if it was because of the movement of the battle, or because of the smell of blood, more jailers were drawn to it.

Greed is the original sin, Du Qi was stunned to dissect the three corpses one by one, and poured a bottle of recovery potion before striding and starting to escape. Those jailers were very murderous, and they chased after them for a long time before giving up, but they exhausted Du Qi half to death.

The chase and escape staged before, his embarrassment can be described as a rat running with his head, and he fled on the plain in a panic for a long time, and he no longer knew where he had arrived. To make matters worse, he simply had a map to refer to.

"Over there...... There seems to be something. Duzi squinted, noticing a gray shadow in the southwest, which looked like some kind of complex.

Duzi suddenly excited, if there is a building, then it is likely that there are residents living in it. Thinking of this, he strode towards his goal. As the distance shortened, he finally saw the gray shadow clearly. As he expected, it was wooden huts, and a village was in the distance.

With the lessons he had learned, Dozi became much more cautious. He's in an underground world that has never been explored, with humanoid monsters like jailers. Even he couldn't be sure that the humans who called themselves Roland would draw their swords against him.

"Here...... Burned? ”

Approaching the village, Duzi finally noticed the anomaly in the village. The gray-white walls were not their original colors, but the marks left by the fire, and not a single figure was to be seen around. It's not a thriving human colony, it's like a dead cemetery.

"Could it be...... The corpses in the passage escaped from the village? Guessing, Duzi cautiously leaned towards the village, "What the hell is going on here?" Does it have anything to do with the jailers? ”

With his back to a wooden house on the outskirts of the village, Dozi walked softly to the window to see what was going on inside.

The interior of the house was in shambles, with furniture smashed, broken pieces of cloth and some odd-looking fruits scattered about. Even, Duzi saw several Roland people who died tragically, exactly the same as what he saw in the passage.

There were more than ten wooden houses in the village, and Du Qi used the same method to inspect the interior of all the buildings, confirming that there were only the corpses of the Roland people in this settlement, and there were no living creatures, so he reassuredly searched all the wooden houses one by one.

In the inhabitants' residences, Dozi discovers a very interesting thing. He discovered that the Roland people were using a special lamp, consisting of a finely crafted metal bracket and a glowing hedrons. This hedron is very interesting, and although it only has a soft pale blue glow, it can spread the light far away. Generally speaking, a hedron the size of a fist is enough to illuminate a large room.

Out of curiosity, Du Qi pried off a spar, and a sign with viewable attributes suddenly appeared in his field of vision. "Huh? Can these hedron players also use it? He was immediately interested.

"Fragments of the Firmament: The ancient Laurent believed that blue was the color of the gods, and that these fragments were a gift from heaven that would bring them good fortune throughout the year if they fell on the roof of a house. With gratitude, the Roland people brought these fragments home to worship. Over time, their image also began to transform into gods. ”

There seemed to be a lot of information hidden in the short paragraph, and Du Qi looked thoughtfully at the sky outside the window, as if he had thought of something. "I see, these are not lamps, but shrine-like things." He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said sorry.

In addition to these so-called Celestial Shards, the results of the search were much to Duqi's disappointment, and although there were many things stored in these resident houses, most of them were meaningless to the player. In the end, he only found a few large fragments of the sky in a wooden house where he worshipped his ancestors, as well as a very rough map.

"I'll see...... I should have entered the Underworld from this location, and then walked through the Firefly Forest into the Blue Sky Grassland, the location of this village...... Ah, it should be here. Dozi struggled to make out the markings on the map, glad that the underworld didn't use any strange language, "Uh-huh...... Aside from the dozen or so scattered villages, this location is probably the most valuable. ”

In the lower right corner of the map, a city is prominently marked, and her name is "The Eye of Leiye".