Chapter 248: Assassination

Diego limped two steps with his hot legs, his twisted legs as if he was still riding a two-legged wyvern.

He glared at the minotaur who was holding back his laughter angrily: "If you want to laugh, laugh, I will tell Her Royal Highness Princess SΓΉ about this." ”

"You're not going to snitch, Diego, I know, you're not that kind of person!" Dezko smiled triumphantly, and then he turned around and said proudly, "Now, then, allow me to introduce you to our city." ”

He stepped aside, revealing the incredible miracle of creation obscured by his figure.

It was a huge rock pillar rising from the flat and open Mogaure Plain, like a majestic Optimus Pillar. The position where they were standing was not far from the pillar, only a few miles away, and Diego looked up at the pillar that was tens of miles in circumference. It was surrounded by straight cliffs, as if cut by a knife and an axe, but the top of the pillar was very flat and open, and in the middle of the open area there was even a small lake. The pillar stands on the northwestern edge of the Mogaure Plain, but is far removed from the mountains surrounding the Mogaure Plain and has no connection to it.

However, this pillar is not lonely, for around it, there are also three thinner pillars, named Elder Heights, Hunter's Heights, and Soul Heights, and the three smaller pillars are about the same height at the top as the larger pillars, and the tops are equally flat. The tops of the pillars are connected to each other by suspension bridges, and it is on these four highlands that the Minotaurs built their city, Thunder Bluff.

These rock pillars are hundreds of meters high, and the cliff tops are connected to the ground by a lift, which is absolutely easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is said that before the city was built, the Minotaurs were nomadic hunters in the vast plains of the barren lands, and lived in search of water and grass. For all minotaurs, hunting is a recognized right, and it is the hunting of wild beasts that makes them strong, and they also learn a lot from hunting. Although the Minotaurs later found the Mogaure Plain as a new home. But it wasn't completely safe - the Centaurs, Hippogriffs, and Boar People were their opponents, until the peace-loving race built their own city on Thunder Bluffs.

The two men took a moment to reach the bottom of the cliff, where there was a rock-made platform, and on the side of the platform, a straight column was erected into the sky. Diego noticed that the column was not planted here, but rather a giant redwood that grew there and had its side branches cut off after natural death. This redwood is so thick that even four or five adult minotaurs may not be able to hold it.

They walked up the steps to the top of the platform. After waiting for more than ten seconds, a small pavilion consisting of a hexagonal base, six wooden pillars, and an umbrella-shaped canopy sewn into leather slid down. But Diego had no ropes or chains above or below it, any device that could pull it up and down, no traces of magic patterns or goblin engineering on the small pavilion, and no people who carried it in, which was incredible, neither magical nor scientific!

However, Diego had also heard of a legend that in the nearby wooden pillar lived an air elemental spirit. Year after year, day after day, it controls the operation of this Azeroth version of the elevator. In a sense, the wooden cylinder resembles the rails of an elevator, although the two are not in direct contact.

"I hope this wind elemental spirit is in a good mood today!" Diego followed Dezko into the pavilion.

After more than ten seconds, the pavilion slowly rose upward. Standing in the pavilion, blowing the mountain wind of hunting. On one side is a towering cliff, outside the pavilion is facing the void, Rao is Diego is full of courage, and he can't help but tremble, and what's more, there is not even a fence around this pavilion. If you make a mistake, you will end up with broken bones.

Diego leaned against a pillar with his eyes closed, not daring to look out, even though he would miss the magnificent and precipitous scenery around him, and now he couldn't care so much. If you want to, wait until you get to the top of the cliff. And yet at this moment. He smelled a strange smell in his nose.

It was a very strong stench, somewhat like the smell of decomposing corpses. Diego wondered how such a place that could not reach the world or the ground have such a smell.

"Why does it stink so much?" Dezko smelled it too, he shrugged his nose and sniffed around.

"It's the Forsaken!" The thought flashed through Diego's mind, because in his memory, Magatha? The Terror Totem has a strong relationship with the Forsaken. He opened his eyes violently, and the shadow of the stick swung down from the animal's skin canopy and smashed into the back of the minotaur's head.

"Dezko, watch out behind you!" He shouted in a mournful voice.

But it was too late, and Dezko only had time to tilt his head before he was slammed behind his ear. Although the stick didn't hit the spot due to Diego's reminder, even so, it was enough for him. The minotaur shook a little dizzily and struggled to hold on to a pillar next to him.

Just then, an even more deadly sneak attack came at him from behind, and he struggled to move his body to remove his vital point, and a gray-green dagger slashed through his waist, cutting a deep groove in his flesh.

"Wait, dastardly sneak attacker!" Dezko, who flashed this kidney blow, shouted in his heart, "In just three seconds, I will be able to wake up from my vertigo, and then it will be your end!" ”

However, the thief's attack was not as simple as it seemed, and after three seconds, Dezko found that he had not woken up from his vertigo, on the contrary, his head was even more dizzy, and even his vision was blurred.

Dezko blinked, then struggled to lift his arm and wipe it with the back of his hand, but it didn't help. He lowered his hand and found it trembling slightly. And his legs, which are so weak and weak.

"That dagger is poisoned!" He realized this immediately, and he struggled to move his fingers towards the slip pocket around his waist, where he remembered that his totem of detoxification was in the fourth.

Just in front of him, Diego had a gun, but he didn't dare to fire, because the thief had been hiding behind the minotaur and couldn't hit him. However, when the minotaur slowly fell to the ground with his whole body weak, he found that the black shadow hidden behind Dezko had disappeared.

He looked around nervously, but he didn't dare to replace the flashbang, because the space was so small that he didn't have time to shoot by the time the assassin was photographed. He squinted slightly, trying his best to unleash his senses to detect the other party's location.

In a short period of time, countless tactics flashed through his mind, but none of them could be applied to this kind of narrow space that could not reach the sky and the ground. Nervous sweat trickled down his forehead and down his cheeks into the socket of the collar, making his chest wet and itchy, but he did not dare to reach out and wipe it, not even to load a bayonet, nor to set a trap, for the distance between the two sides was so close that the thief could take advantage of the opportunity to attack at any moment.

He noticed that the elevator was slowing down, and it seemed that it was about to reach the top of the cliff. But he didn't dare to act rashly, lest he reveal his flaws, and since he came to this world, an unprecedented existential crisis weighed on his heart, making him walk on thin ice.

The elevator finally reached its highest point, and with a soft click, it stopped. The wooden trestle that runs from the edge of the cliff top is connected to the pavilion. But he did not dare to step out of the pavilion and step on the trestle.

On the edge of the cliff, the two minotaur guards were lying on their stomachs, Dezko and Diego, who were on the verge of a great enemy, hesitated for a moment, but still strode towards this side.

But before they could reach the pavilion, the elevator had run out of its waiting time and slid down again. But just as it was just about to fall, a ray of sunlight reflected off the tomahawks in the hands of the Minotaur guards shone into the pavilion. Faintly, Diego's shallow figure was illuminated about a meter to his left.

Got you! Diego moved the muzzle of his gun silently, but in the next instant, a dagger emerged from the air and stabbed him in the heart. The thief already knew he was exposed!

The enemy was so close that they had even gotten into Diego's gun, and Diego had no time to shoot his guns with both hands and press down to parry the swift attack. However, the thief then made a wrong step, and the dagger in his other hand slashed straight at Diego's throat, where the empty door was wide open.

The space in the pavilion was so small that Diego had no time to dodge, and the grim green color on the dagger's blade showed that even a tiny cut was undoubtedly fatal. He was cornered!

Diego let out a sigh and leaped towards the outside of the pavilion.

It's finally done! The thief breathed a sigh of relief, and he turned towards the pavilion, where the minotaur shaman was crawling on the floor, clutching a green totem pole in his hand, and muttering words in his mouth.

"Struggle." The thief thought proudly, he knew that it would take at least ten seconds for the Totem of Poison to take effect, which was enough time for him to completely kill the shaman four or five times.

However, at this moment, his terrified chest suddenly swelled forward, and then exploded with a thud, and shardy pieces of black flesh splattered everywhere, leaving only a large transparent hole in his chest.

And it was only at this time that he heard a banging gunshot, but it was already too late, and even the Forsaken who had died once could not withstand such severe damage. He slowly slid to the ground, once again losing his life.

At this moment, a circle of emerald green light spread throughout the elevator, and Dezko, who had finally succeeded in stimulating the detoxification totem, let out a long breath. He was vaguely outside the elevator, and a huge umbrella flower was blooming in the air, slowly falling into the distance. (To be continued.) )