"Something new?" Urs reacted for a second when he heard Moredi's words, and then immediately realized that Zeken's eyes were different from the others.

The Gis Seret had been secretly helping the enslaved underground gnomes liberate the city of Palomet before the group arrived, and was finally officially seen by the city's public the day after the battle was won.

His eyes were lost in exchange for a gift for a glimpse into the future. Urs looked up at the two hollow sockets in Zeken's eye sockets, thought for a moment, then nodded to them, and summoned all members of the team from all over the city as quickly as he could.

Urs thought to himself that the blind prophets of history would not have made a special trip to him for the slightest triviality.

In the afternoon, the young man and his companions confirmed their conjecture in the underground warehouse of the tavern where Doriel's story was held.

What Zeken's eyes "saw" was indeed related to the rest of the team's journey, and the blind Ghissere prophet reminded them: "You will soon continue your quest to find treasure deeper into the earth—but beware, some kind of malice lurking in the shadows has set its sights on you." ”

For this trip to the Dark Regions, Urs did not forget that his group's real goal at the moment was to reach the Gate of the Forgotten at the suggestion of the Grey Court Sage Yustina, so as to find part of the legacy left by the pioneers of the Esoteric Order, and obtain an important artifact called the Ring of the Warbler, so that they could amass enough power to intervene in the cruel war that was destined to break out in the future.

The Gate of the Forgotten is conceived by the inhabitants of the Underground as a massive rock wall somewhere in the Shadows, and there is a surprising record in the data room of the Palomet City Hall, which even contains a valuable map.

Different from the geographical features of the surface world, whether it is a hive maze as a middle layer or a dark area deep underground, the world under the surface is not as vast and open as the land under the sun due to the geological structure, and often presents a variety of tunnel environments in the eyes of travelers.

For all of these reasons, route maps of the underworld, especially the Dark Ones, are particularly valuable.

The Thorns were the benefactors of Palomit, so after learning of the goal of Urs's journey and finding the map in the data room of the town hall, Moredi took the map with Zeken to Doriel's tavern and found the young man sitting by the window and having breakfast with the wolf-eared maiden.

Waiting for Zeken to finish his prophecy as a prophet, Moredi placed the map he found on the ground where everyone could see it. The material of the map did not look like the parchment common on the surface, the rough and slightly concave paper, the milky gray color, and the black ink on the paper traced many slender and curved lines, forming several simple routes and geographical areas.

"The cliff itself is an edge of the hive maze. Below this edge, the Rocky Hills are the first places you will reach when you go down. Moredi crouched on the edge of the unfolded map, pointed to a dot on the paper representing the city of Palomite and the cliff, and slid his fingertips along the dot to an area next to it, where there was a note written in the lingua franca of the underground, "The barren rocks are essentially a huge underground cavern, some raised rocks and undulating ground can provide a little shelter, and no matter which route you choose, you must pass from the bottom of the cliff to the dark land." ”

As he spoke, he paused, then moved his finger further to the side, pointing to another path near the southern edge of the barren hilly area.

"This tunnel is here, leading to an area called the Crushing Pit." Then, as an underground dweller, he pointed to the road drawn on the map, and then explained to everyone, "The Broken Mine is said to have been carved out by a tribe of Dilo Dwarves a long time ago, and the mining area contains some underground iron ore, which was abandoned about two hundred years ago and became a complete no-man's land. The northern entrance to the pit connects to the Wasted Hills, and the southwestern end leads to the Nameless Hill, where the Forsaken's Gate is located. ”

"Uh-huh......" Listening to Moretti take a moment to finish the above information on the map, Urs sat cross-legged on the other side, his brown eyes looking left and right at the expressions of his companions, his rough right hand raised and pinched his chin, and then asked him in a tone of asking for confirmation, "In other words, we just need to follow the route you have proposed, and we will eventually reach our destination, right?" ”

"That's right." Moretti nodded, hesitated for two seconds, and shook again, "But I don't recommend you to go to the Broken Mine to the Nameless Hills. ”

"Why?" The young man blinked, watching him subconsciously ask.

"Because the name of the crushed pit is not without origin." The underground gnome followed up with an explanation, his eyes serious, "That mine, rumored to be a very terrifying eye-demon lair before it was dug out by the Dillor dwarves, and since it was abandoned two hundred years ago, there have been earthquakes from time to time, in short, it is not a relatively safe and good place. ”

As the words fell, he pursed his lips, and the two dark eyes in his sockets returned his gaze to the unfolded map, and his outstretched fingers circled to the other edge of the southwest of the barren hilly area, pointing out another curve drawn there—that is, another cavern tunnel that was more detouring.

"What if...... I mean, if you're not pressed for time, Hero, I'd suggest you and your friends go this way. Moredi looked up after considering his words and arranging his sentences, "The place where this tunnel connects is the Black Sea, a huge underground sea. Along the land along the edge of the bay, you can also reach the Nameless Hill, but you should only be aware of the need to stay as far away from the sea as possible, because there are benthic devilfish in the deep sea, a very terrifying ...... Monsters, monsters in the true sense of the word, fortunately, they generally don't leave the water and go ashore, so try not to provoke them if they don't provoke them. ”

"In other words, the order of the route is to start from the cliff here, to the barren rocky hills, the coastal land of the dark sea, the nameless hills, and finally the final destination, the Gate of the Forgotten." After listening to the information that the underground gnome had finished as carefully as possible, Urs stared at the map, thinking about it for a while in combination with his experience in his previous life, and then smiled and nodded at the former, "I understand...... Thank you, Moredi. ”

"This is the little thing I and my people should repay you, Lord."

For the young man's gratitude, Moretti was sincerely happy that he was able to repay his kindness on behalf of his people, but at the same time, he had to show that he could not act with the Thorns in the future, because many of the reconstruction work after the liberation of Palomet City still needed to be done by him and his own people, not to mention that the remnants of the Gray Dwarf prisoners were still imprisoned in the fortress dungeon after the battle, and they needed to be guarded by someone experienced in dealing with them.

The Grey Dwarves were not completely wiped out by the Thorn Squad, and after several rounds of extensive magical bombardment, mainly by Abel and Dorothy, they gave up their resistance, and the few remaining remnants of the defeated army surrendered under the leadership of the two surviving officers.

The captives who surrendered have now been confiscated with weapons and equipment and imprisoned in dungeons. They may have important information about the Drow Elves in their mouths, and if they can successfully recruit them, the military combat quality may also be of some use in the young man's future plans, and it is more beneficial to leave a few people than to kill them all.