Chapter 96: The Beast of Silver Temples
Of course, Urs was unaware of Miera's existence, for he had only heard about it from the Grey Dwarves in the city of Palomit on the cliff - about the visit of the noble Drow lady, and that the grey dwarf officer named Barende had even planned to hold a gladiatorial tournament for her to be taken seriously and welcomed.
Quickly sorting out the memories in his mind, the reason that the young man could think of, in a short period of time, only his own group may have inadvertently angered the Drow woman who had not appeared in the eyes of everyone.
He grabbed as few clues as he could and thought about them in his mind, and he didn't sit idle, examining the dwarven corpses in the tunnel for a while before continuing towards the darkness ahead.
After all, if you don't move forward, you probably won't be able to make more discoveries, and you'll be trapped in this ghost place where you can't see the light...... That's what he thought in his heart.
As for the Dillo Dwarves, another subspecies of the dwarven race, Urs, although he did not often come to the dark regions in his previous life, he still knew those little men who were extremely evil by nature.
They are rumored to have a little blood of ancient humans, and their body size is almost the same as that of other dwarves, but they are easy to distinguish because their skin is white and blue, their hair is generally pale yellow, they cannot see iris or pupils in their direct white eyes, and they have skin and body hair similar to that of humans after being stripped naked.
And men usually have beards, but they don't have the signature beards of other dwarves on their chins, so much so that some of the troubadours on the surface who know more about it have made an interesting analogy on the subject—
"The beard of the dwarves symbolizes the order in their hearts."
Although it is unfounded, it seems to make some sense to talk about it - because the Dillor dwarves are indeed an outlier among the dwarves.
The highland dwarves above the surface and the gray dwarves below the surface subconsciously obey the leadership of an order, whether good or evil, but the ideology of the Dillor dwarves is relatively closer to a disordered evil, chaotic evil.
They are a crazy group of underground dwarves, wildfire-like aggression towards everything, and notoriously tormenters of the underworld, who love to take their defeated enemies captive and find new ways to abuse them, and then feel a heartfelt twisted pleasure in them.
In addition to this, they are natural miners just like other dwarves when it comes to mining.
As he walked forward, Urs thought back to the information Moredi had told him about the place of the Crushed Pit...... Let's just think that the place where you are now is the Crushing Mine.
The hellish place that Moredi was especially afraid of.
As he walked, he thought about it, and he was probably able to make up the bloody scenes of those dripping dwarves digging through the Eye Devil's lair many years ago.
The Eye Demon and the Dilo Dwarves are known to be known to be notoriously aggressive in the treacherous underworld, except that the Beholders are adept at using magic rays and some spell-like abilities of the Confusion Control system, while most of the Dillor Dwarves are better at borrowing many dastardly weapons, such as poisoned crossbows and daggers, to gain an advantage in battle.
When the two meet, a life-and-death group fight must be inevitable.
The follow-up exploration followed closely and proved from the side that the young man's conjecture may be right. After leaving the place where the body of the Dwarf of Dilo had been found not long ago, and passing through a fork in the road and a new tunnel about two hundred meters away, Urs's vision suddenly widened.
He saw the entrance of the tunnel in front of him, and quickly walked out of it with a little reflex in his heart, and then found himself on the edge of another underground cavern with a relatively wide space.
The cavity is relatively high, the vault at the height is five meters above the ground, and the outline of the ground facing the rock wall is roughly a large ellipse, the area is about half a small square, and the surrounding rock wall is full of a relatively natural curve and angularity.
Such a scene in the eyes of the young man made him judge that this place must have been formed naturally, although the Dwarves of Dilo in the past also dug through this place when they were digging the pit, and by the way gave the place a little basic "decoration" - such as a few small tents for resting, a lot of scattered metal tools, some iron supports built against the rock wall, and wooden stairs, everything looked scattered and tattered after washing over time......
Well, there are more corpses on the ground, lying upside down or lying on their stomachs.
The corpses of the Dwarves of Dilo, as well as the corpses of some of the Eye Demons, have long since decayed in appearance.
"A few years ago or decades ago, this might have been one of the battlegrounds between the Dwarves of Dilo and the Eye Demons, right?" With his hands in a sword-holding position and his eyes watchful on alert, Urs took a few more steps closer to the center of the cavern, his eyes sweeping around like the light of a searchlight.
Helplessly, in such a strange and gloomy environment alone, he boasted that he was probably a reckless man who fought and died in his last life and in this life, but in the end he was still quite worried that something would suddenly come out of an inconspicuous shadow nearby.
If you can fight, don't die, it doesn't mean that he is invincible.
With the above-mentioned self-knowledge in his heart, the young man took advantage of the fact that the new round of battle did not seem to have come to the door, and took advantage of the situation to observe the next direction for his next in-depth exploration.
The dark vision provided by the Cloak of Shadow Scales is at least a good match for the 12 perception attributes that he can see.
He walked along the edges of the rock walls around him, and quickly, roughly counted the other passages that connected the cave from other places, excluding the entrances and exits of the other three tunnels in the direction he had first come.
The three tunnels are scattered and separated from each other by a short distance.
Urs walked in a clockwise direction through the openings of the three tunnels, and when he came to the end of the last tunnel, he suddenly heard a burst of footsteps coming from the depths of the opening.
From far to near, little by little, they approached him......
But he knew that the body of the Eye Demon was floating in mid-air.
The footsteps of the Eye Demon ...... This cold joke is not funny at all.
"Isn't it the group of dark elf lizard cavalry chasing after you?" The young man immediately turned his head, looked into the depths of the cave and took a step back, subconsciously opening a certain distance from the darkness at the edge of his vision, and at the same time clenched the giant sword in his hand, causing the slender blade to raise a little slanted forward.
He took a deep breath and said to himself that this time there should be no tricky enemies......
Time didn't keep him waiting long, and after a few seconds, he finally saw the image of the person who sent the movement walking deep in the tunnel. The other party showed his outline little by little, and gradually entered his field of vision, making him vigilant but involuntarily widening his eyes.
That's—
The moment he saw the comer, he was alert, then blinked in surprise, and his eyes widened to see the graceful beast......
It was a giant wolf with silver sideburns, and its beautiful figure stood in this dark underground as if glowing with a layer of colorless light, the height of its back was almost close to the top of the tunnel, and it was a little higher than his head in its four-limbed position, and the two golden vertical pupils embedded in the socket like jewels were also focused when they suddenly focused.
After a brief silence and confrontation, he stood at the entrance of the cave and watched the other party, who also cast their eyes from the darkness to look at him......