As the words fell, Gloriden's fingers suppressed the irritability in his heart, and tapped softly on the table with an orderly regularity, as if he knew that this would somewhat keep his mind calm when he faced this matter again at this moment after eight years ago, and at the same time urged the elven swordsman in front of him to give a decent answer to everyone quickly.

The atmosphere was a little stiff for a while.

Draco seemed to have expected that he would be made of such a request, which was not too much to say, and then took off the smile that had been hanging on his face until now, and changed to a serious expression and reminded the old thief, "This is a chance for revenge, Gloridon." ”

"But it could also be another opportunity to annihilate." Gloryden replied with a sneer that grinned, "After all, do you know what the hell is in that ruins?" ”

"As you know, the ghostly form of the void undead creatures, a large number of 'Shadows' and a small number of 'Shadow Demons', and the ...... in the deepest part of the ruins," Draco's words paused between words, "Shadow Dragon. ”

After saying that, he saw the old thief's eyes leak a sharp murderous aura as sharp as the tip of a knife at him, but he knew that Groleiden's hatred was not directed at him, but the last noun he mentioned seemed to have passed the immunity resistance of orcs and dwarves like a confusing spell called "Law Order: Shock".

In the observation of the rest of her eyes, the drow poetess in the black robe and hood seemed to freeze for a moment.

Raven, Stonefist, and Koto had no idea of the despair that Grolayden had faced, so all three of them were stunned for a moment when they heard the Elven Demon Swordsman's words.

If the ears are not mistaken, it is a dragon......

Although "only" is a shadow dragon, the overall strength of the wurm species is generally stronger than that of pseudo-dragons, and weaker than five-colored dragons, metal dragons, and gem dragons at the level of true dragons.

But dragon names always have such a powerful effect that some of the more capable adventurers and mercenaries would not have been trying to hang the honorary title of dragon slayer around their necks all day long, even though they might have slaughtered "dragons" such as the earth-walking dragons themselves...... Or rather, the big lizard.

The topic pulls back -

"Looks like you've spent your time investigating the ruins." Glorydon stared into Draco's eyes, "Still, before the fall of the Thorn Adventurer I was in?" Or after? ”

"It's after the destruction of your past adventures." Draco replied, "Besides, didn't you buy a fake map of the ruins from a black market intelligence dealer before you left the city?" ”

"Yes. Don't tell me that the intelligence dealer is your secret master. ”

"How so? If the city lord really wants to harm you, why bother to come up with such a troublesome set? ”

"Your explanation sounds harsh, but I don't know how to refute it." The old thief gritted his teeth and exhaled, "So, what the hell is going on with that intelligence monger?" I remember that guy had reached out to my adventure party at the time, and now it seems that he must have had bad intentions. ”

"To be precise, the guy who indirectly has bad intentions towards the city lord through you is Dambert."

"You mean the Red Scorpion Adventure Troupe? But the red-haired monkey had not officially ascended the throne at that time, and the time for Dambert to become the leader of the red scorpion had to be further back...... Slowly. ”

"Got it, old man?"

“……”

Draco waited patiently for Gloledon to smooth out his thoughts.

The brown-haired old thief said that he had some small but friendly encounters with the elven swordsman during his adventures eight years ago, and he remembered that the Thorn Adventure and the Red Scorpion Adventure were competitors to each other at that time, and Dambert happened to be in a key position in the Red Scorpion Adventure Group at that time, and he had a lot of power to mobilize the resources in the group, and secretly transferred funds to spend money to buy people from the black market to sell false intelligence maps to his team, which could be done theoretically.

Regarding the fake map, the route depicted in the map that Grolay had registered was more than 90% consistent with the actual situation, and the only problem was that a dark cave lair where the shadow dragon was hiding in the deepest part of the ruins was not marked on the map page with the annotation symbol "Dangerous" or "Undiscovered".

If that is not a mistake made by the cartographer, but a deliberate trap......

"But how did you find the man and make sure he was instructed by Dambert?" Assuming Draco hadn't lied to himself, Gloledon continued to ask.

"After the fall of the Thorn Adventure Troupe, Dambert shut down the intelligence dealer he had bribed." Draco stretched out his index finger and wiped it down his throat, "He thought that guy should have died under the knife of an assassin he paid for, but he didn't expect the Lord of the City to secretly rescue him as an important information carrier." ”

"So in the end, you rescued the man and tortured him?"

"Magical torture."

"Is he still alive now?"

"Unfortunately, the person in charge of interrogating him at the time was Ted." The elven demon swordsman spread his hands helplessly, "About Ted...... Well, Ted is good at some kind of spell, and the guy he tortures will spit out the truth, but the chances of survival are not very good. ”

After all, the leader of the Oak White Mage Guild named Ted Hearst is actually a spirit-absorbing monster from the Dark Regions...... While explaining, he thought so secretly in his heart, but naturally he wouldn't say it together.

The secret of Ted's identity is a taboo for ordinary residents of the human realm that must not be easily disclosed.

Draco then switched to a more euphemistic way of defending a particular torture technique of the Spirit Sucking Mage that did not affect the overall situation.

Gloriden thought for a moment, then turned his gaze back to look at Urs.

The young man read the inquiring glance in the old thief's eyes, then nodded, and then asked the elven demon swordsman in front of him himself: "In this way, the city lord really wanted to use the Thorn Adventure Group to go to the depths of the ruins of the Russ Canyon to complete a certain task for himself, and now we are actually playing the role that we once belonged to the Thorn Adventure Group?" ”

"That's pretty much the way it works." Draco recounted.

"But to be honest, even if I have some questions I want you to answer, I don't think our team's current strength is enough to challenge the underground ruins of Ras Canyon." Speaking of which, Urs simply made his difficulties clear to the other party, "And if the lord of the city insists on forcing us to run to the shadow dragon to die...... Mr. Draco, have you ever heard that rabbits bite when they are in a hurry? ”

"Naturally, I did." The elf suddenly withdrew the seriousness on his face and turned back to his previous smile, "So, you will not be the rabbit who is forced to hurry, but the hero of the dragon slayer...... With the support and help of these magical items that the Lord of the Castle has provided for you. ”

With that, he took out the third dimensional storage bag from his body since this meeting, and took out several magic scrolls from it in turn......