"Hiss......"

After the tremor under his feet gradually subsided, the black lizard walking on two feet blinked its vertical snake pupils, hissed in a low voice, spat out the tip of its bifurcated tongue from its mouth, and under the control of the riding gear and reins, it carried its owner on the saddle one by one to stop outside the rock wall tunnel that the Thorn Squad and his party had been forced to enter not long ago.

They are domesticated to be obedient and have a natural wildness that succumbs to acquired orders and discipline.

The Dark Elf Knights, armed with reins and spears, surrounded the tunnel in a semi-circular formation, controlling the lizard mounts under their crotches to make way for an aisle in the middle of the formation, and then looked at Miera, the lady of the spider queen who had the power and status to command them all, riding her own black lizard along the aisle that belonged to her, and her charming lips opened and closed lightly with a playful tone:

"Did you hear that, what was going on?" She blinked, dark purple eyes, a rare sight in Drow society, and looked happily at the tunnel in the rock wall ahead, "Sevis? ”

"Yes, Miss Miera." Servis and several other Drow knights formed a small group of followers to follow her, and his respectful and humble tone expressed his inner loyalty, "The earthquake just now...... Your prey may have been swallowed by the dangerous pit ahead. ”

"After all, it's no accident that this is the case, and we all know that the crushing pit has been 'eating people' since a few years ago." The corners of the Spider Lady's mouth curled up at the Zergun family, "Except for the ill-informed middle-class inhabitants of the Hive Labyrinth, and the few groups of adventurer fools who always come down from the surface world every year. ”

As the words fell, she sat on the saddle and leaned forward slightly, the silhouette of her upper body outlined the graceful curve of human desire by a light and close-fitting enchanted soft armor, and the body temperature of her fingertips caressed the lizard mount's cheek through the metal hand armor engraved with the spider's evil emblem.

"But do you know why? Servis. Why did the crushing pit start to 'eat people' so often a few years ago? ”

"It is said that the Dwarves of the past dug through the lair of the Eye Demon, and at the bottom of the deepest part of that lair hides an earth elemental lord whose spirit has been tainted by magic." Servis thought for a moment, and replied honestly based on what he had heard, "The exact origin of the Earth Elemental Lord is unknown, some say it was summoned by an ancient mage, others say it was lost from the Earth Elemental Plane - but in any case, the battle between the Darrow Dwarves and the Eye Demon woke it from its slumber. ”

"In the end, it continued to go mad with the remnants of its tainted spirit, not only purging the Dillor dwarves and the Beholders, but also bent on causing an earthquake to bury any other living creature that dared to approach it?" Miela smiled and finished for him.

"Isn't it, miss?" Servis carried his gun, his pale hair swaying under his helmet with the movement of his head, and there was a curiosity in his respectful attitude.

He didn't belong to the aristocratic class of Drow society, and although he had grown up as a childhood sweetheart with the three daughters of the city ruler's family, he could only get the surface truth about some things from various rumors.

Miela glanced at her, who seemed to be in a particularly good mood today, and then controlled the black lizard under her crotch to turn around, and the lips under the bridge of her nose were tilted to the earlobe of the former.

"Second question, Servis." Then she spoke to her trusted dog with her breath, in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Do you know what can happen to tadpole hatchlings that leave their brains unattended?" ”

“……？！”

Servis froze for a moment, and after two seconds it seemed as if something terrifying had suddenly come to mind from Miera's words, and his hands gripping the reins of the lizard and the cavalryman's spear trembled slightly.

"Looks like you've heard of that taboo too." The Spider Queen's Handmaiden of the Zergon House grinned, "But even so, we still need to make this operation a little more perfect, after all, my terrible eldest sister and second sister are women who have left a deep shadow on our city. ”

"So, what's next for you?"

"The infantry was handed over to the other officers, who remained in charge of sealing off all the tunnels that connected the broken pits to the barren hills. The cavalry troops, led by me and you, will quickly make a land route through the shores of the Black Sea to bypass the Broken Mine to the Nameless Hill, thus completely blocking Edith's theoretical last hope. ”

"Then as you wish, miss."

Seves looked at him steadfastly, and immediately made a peugeot cavalry bow to his mistress in his saddle.

……

……

At the same time, the depths of pitch black.

The loose gravel rolled down the steep slope, and one of them fell on Urs's face with a bit of painful weight, causing the young man, who was still in a state of fainting a second, to frown and take a breath, and his brown eyes suddenly peeked out from under the open eyelids, and then grinned as if muttering:

"Uh, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts......"

He woke up, lying on the dark blue rock floor in an indecent posture on all fours, and when he woke up, he subconsciously complained that he had retained the whining habits of his previous life, although the physical pain did not actually have much of a negative impact on his strong physique, and then reflexively pinched his fingers, realizing through the touch of his memory that his +1 enchanted cross greatsword seemed to still be in his hand.

Perhaps it was the underlying psychology of being a hand-to-hand combat professional, and the touch of the weapon made him feel more relieved in this confused state of awakening after coma.

Tighten the five fingers of your right hand and grasp the hilt of the sword, trying to move your limbs, and feeling the control of your body quickly return to the depths of your soul......

Feeling as if his consciousness had returned to normal, he hurriedly sat up before saying anything else, and it didn't take long for his mind to remember what had happened to him and his teammates before he fell unconscious.

Earthquake......

Yes, the earthquake - to make sure his head hadn't been broken, Urs realized that his team had probably been hit by an earthquake in the hollow before they fell.

Although earthquakes are not an uncommon natural disaster in the deep and dark underground world, it is not impossible for some fragile tunnels or cliffs to collapse as a result.

Thinking of this, the young man secretly cursed in his heart for being unlucky, and by the way, he raised his neck, and sure enough, he found that there was really a big hole in the air above his head.

Did I just fall from there?

The earthquake shattered the cavern above, causing all of us to fall deeper before we could figure out where we were and where the dark elves came from......

And we all seem to be scattered in the process of falling?

Or rather...... At least I'm separated from the rest of the group, right?

He looked up at the gaping hole, thought to himself, and then simply stood up from the hard-to-touch rocky ground with his greatsword, his eyes lowered from the top of his head to look around.

This is another underground cavern, surrounded by a few inexplicably annoying rubbles except for the stony rock wall and the ground, and there are no other creatures other than him at the moment, the overall space is smaller than the one that collapsed before, about the size of an ordinary inn room, and the exit of the cave is only a new tunnel that leads to nowhere other than the direction he fell, located at a corner of the entire edge of the cavern.

The blind spot in his vision made it difficult for the young man to see the inside of the new tunnel at the corner of the edge of the cavity.

After standing up, Urs shifted his gaze to look there, and after making sure that his very resistant body had not broken anything, he could not help but feel a little worried about his companions who had accidentally separated from him during the fall.

Where are they now? Is their situation dangerous or safe? Are they far away from me now?

And also...... Thea.

Is Thea okay now?

The familiar face of the wolf-eared girl suddenly flashed in his mind, and the black-haired young man suddenly frowned solemnly, and gritted his teeth involuntarily...... But after a few seconds, I thought it was over.

It's useless to worry so much at this point.

Instead of wasting time on pessimism, try to explore the neighborhood first, and maybe you can find everyone and your way out of this hellish place.

He figured it out quickly, and shook his head to signal that he was pulling himself up—but the unexpected came like a drama.

The young man carried the sword to his shoulder, and was just about to adjust his mind and take a step forward, when suddenly a strange buzzing sound came from the tunnel behind the corner of the cave.

The strange movement made him immediately stop his steps, and he was silent for a long time, and in the blink of an eye, he lowered the sword from his shoulder and held it in both hands, and his vision focused in the direction of the sound in this sudden and unknown situation.

He was vigilant and prepared for battle no matter what.

Time didn't hesitate to wait—about three seconds later, a wrinkled, bloated ball of flesh continued to hum out of the corner of the tunnel.

The ugly ball of flesh floating in mid-air was the size of a storage box, and the moment it turned to Urs, it immediately saw that its face was completely occupied by a large bloody mouth full of fangs and a large one-eyed, and the cortex above the head danced like Medusa's snake hair with many slender tentacles, and each tentacle was also ended with small eyeballs the size of eggs.

The floating one-eyed ball of flesh immediately sensed Urs's presence as well.

Urs grasped the greatsword in his hand and looked at the other party, such a classic monster image made him immediately realize what he had encountered.

If he wasn't mistaken—he was sure it was an eye-eyer.