"Mira, look at this, it seems that someone has camped here. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info" Roland put his hands on his knees and crouched down to observe the pile of ashes.

It was close to the middle of the subsidence area, and a large rift valley ran through the corridor from east to west, and the good news was that it showed them the direction of their trip, and the bad news was that they were not the only visitors.

Lyudmila threw the reins to Veronica and walked quickly to Roland's side, only to take a look at it to confirm his guess: "This is the ashes of the campfire." Reaching out and touching the temperature and humidity of the ashes, his face became a little solemn: "The bonfire has been extinguished for no more than eight hours so far, and it seems that someone is one step ahead of us." ”

"It must be the pervert named Nero, we must stop him before he enters the temple ruins, and at least rescue the kidnapped child." The dwarf shouted impatiently.

Roland got up and looked at the sky, the sun had not yet set, and night had fallen early in the Great Rift Valley. Looking through the twilight into the depths of the rift, a lone stone pillar towered beside the pit, with a rope wrapped around it, apparently someone had used this simple device not long ago to descend to the bottom of the rift, the dark unknown world.

"If Ronnie's intel is not wrong, and we continue to track, we will face an unprecedentedly powerful opponent, including a half-dragon warlock with advanced mana, a priest of Tiamat, and a drow assassin who is proficient in assassination.

At this point, Roland couldn't help but consider the risk of continuing to track down Nero and the others, after all, the purpose of this team was not to hunt for treasures or to do chivalrous deeds, and there were more important diplomatic missions waiting for them in the mountains of Lucia. Personally, he doesn't want to give up halfway, but he must prioritize the safety of his companions.

"Of course you have to chase it!" Lyudmila was indignant, "Think of the people who were slaughtered in the lumberyards, and the children who were taken captive for sacrifice, can we bear to ignore them? ”

Bloom fully agrees with the female ranger's position: "Moradin is above, and to indulge evil is to commit a crime against justice!" ”

Veronica smiled and said calmly, "I don't have such a strong sense of justice, but I heard that there are treasures of the Elder Dragon Era buried in the underground ruins, as well as the artifacts that Nero and others are trying to seek. ”

"Moradin is on top! There are many things that people can miss in their lives, but they can't miss the opportunity to get rich! The dwarf became more and more agitated.

Roland smiled bitterly, in the face of this group of teammates with a strong sense of justice and money-obsessed hearts, he couldn't bother with any opportunity costs.

"Now that everyone has made up their minds, let's move on." He turned to look at Veronica, "Ronnie, go over and check the stone pillars and ropes, if they're strong enough, we can save a lot of work." ”

Veronica walked up to the pillar and stopped suddenly, holding her saber in both hands, a look of wariness in her eyes.

"Who's sneaking around there, get out!"

With the sound of rustling footsteps, a group of zombies came out of the shadows behind the stone pillars, with blood still dry, and staggered towards her.

Roland lit the torch and observed the zombies by the light of the fire, and found that they were all transformed by gnolls, and he had already realized seven points in his heart, and said to Veronica: "These guys are a little familiar, they seem to be the group of gnolls who chased you yesterday morning, it seems that the employer is very dissatisfied with their work." ”

Veronica pulled out her twin knives and said coldly, "When they are alive, they can't help me, and when they die, they are a bunch of waste." As he spoke, he was about to rush at the zombies.

Roland raised his hand to stop her, shook his head and said, "There's no need to do anything with these walking corpses, in case it is troublesome to get contaminated with rotting corpses, leave it to me to deal with." "Zombies are the lowest undead creatures, slow and unintelligent, and the greatest threat is their ability to spread diseases through contact, so hand-to-hand combat is not the best option.

He took off the emblem and held it in his hand, and took a step towards the zombies that surrounded him, "Lord Sindra, the weaver of fate, correct the path of life and death, and return dust to dust and dust to earth." ”

With a solemn prayer, Roland held up the Sindra emblem and released the light to dispel the spirits of the dead. The affected gnolls retreated in terror, and two of them burned into flames, turning to ashes in the light.

Within 60 feet in front of Roland, only one figure stood as tall as ever, and suddenly lunged towards him, far faster than ordinary zombies.

Veronica was the first to notice that there was a corpse demon mixed in the zombie group, and hurriedly reminded Roland to be careful, and at the same time rushed forward to intercept it with a knife.

Burst!

The two ninja knives staggered and blocked, setting up the long-handled battle axe in the corpse demon's hand. When she looked closely, she found that the other party was covered in red and bare tendons, and his skin had been stripped off, and a painful and crazy light shot out of his eyes, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

In the moment of distraction, the corpse demon's body suddenly twisted, and a shriveled human skin wriggled along his arm, like an extended limb, and whipped at her.

Veronica hurriedly dodged but was still half a step slow, her left arm was swept by the gnoll's relic, her sleeves were shattered to reveal her forearm, her white and tender skin was red and swollen and oozing blood, and the pain was so painful that she could barely hold the ninja knife.

The corpse demon smelled the blood, and immediately let out a crazy roar, simply throwing away the battle axe, and grabbing the girl's arm with his bare hands.

Bang! Roland pushed Veronica away in time, raised his shield to block the corpse demon's swing, pulled out Durandal with his right hand, and slashed at the corpse demon with a slash, and rotten blood splashed in the scream.

Veronica poured a bottle of potion, her pretty face turned bloody, and shouted, "There is a relic hidden in the corpse, beware of that monster sneak attack!" ”

Lyudmila was reminded by her, pulled out two arrows from the quiver behind her back, put them on the bowstring, and shot them out in one volley, which was the new ability "Multiple Shot" that she realized after the Ranger class was promoted to level 6.

The two arrows hit the corpse demon with precision, nailing the relict firmly to its body, and it could not be separated from the corpse demon even if it writhed desperately.

The scope of the relic's activities was restricted, and Roland didn't dare to be careless, preferring to be whipped by the relict rather than touched by the corpse demon.

The high-level undead creatures such as the corpse demon are completely different from zombies and skeletons, and they still retain their wisdom after death, and they also have two vicious supernatural abilities, one is "energy absorption", simply put, when being scratched by the corpse demon, not only blood will be lost, but also the level will be dropped, while the corpse demon can replenish blood by absorbing the victim's level; The other is "Creating Derivation", where humanoids killed by the corpse will turn into a corpse in less than two minutes.

With Roland's current level, he can't dispel the corpse demon, and if he steps forward in melee combat, he is afraid that he will be drawn from the level, which will be a big loss.

After a little thought, Roland decided to take advantage of the group of gnolloll zombies.

Holding up the emblem and reciting the prayer, this time he did not try to disperse, but instead released negative energy, scolding the zombies gathered around the corpse.

Both scold and dispel can scare off the undead, but the energy properties used are reversed, and the additional effects are completely different. There is a chance to destroy the undead directly when dispeld, and under the same conditions, there is a chance to enslave the opponent and make them obey.

Roland was lucky, except for the corpse demon and the relic, the other four zombies were firmly controlled by him, following his mental instructions to turn around and pounce on the corpse demon.

Zombies themselves are undead creatures, immune to "energy absorption", although the combat effectiveness is far less than that of corpse demons, but they don't want to kill or injure each other, just surround it and hold it to death.

The corpse demon did not guard against the defection of his companions at all, and was unexpectedly hugged firmly, unable to move his feet for a while. Frustrated, the four zombies were splattered with blood from the carrion it tore, and they couldn't hold it anymore.

"To hell with rotten fellows!" Bloom roared and threw the hammer, smashing the ghoul's head with a thud.

Lyudmila also fired a succession of deadly arrows. Within two rounds, the corpse demon fell down with a wail, and the remnant attached to it was not spared, and was torn to pieces by the swarming zombies.

"All glory be to my lord Sindra!" Roland once again held up the emblem and prayed solemnly, this time he released positive energy.

Rumble! The Mithril Emblem shone with divine power, spreading rapidly like a round of silver ripples, enveloping the zombies who were frantically biting the corpses, and the silver flames were burning all over their bodies.

In an instant, all the zombies were burned to ashes by the flame, turning into specks of dust. The souls of the dead were also freed and returned to the outer planes.

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