Chapter 8: The Spider of Abbada
The rocky heights were littered with huge stones, larger ones like hills.
There have been several groups of jackals on the road, but fortunately, Yuan Mu has always let Urkan explore the way in front, and when he encounters many enemies, he will detour, and when there are few enemies, he will sneak attack, so he has not been discovered.
"It's not okay to go on like this." Amelia affirmed, "The deeper we go into the rocky heights, the more gnolls will surely become, and sooner or later we will be discovered." ”
"And why are there so many more gnolls than expected?" Yuan Mu also expressed concern.
"Afraid of what? With Uncle Ben here, these gnolls are not opponents at all, come and die a few waves, or listen to me and rush in directly. Tao Snow said lazily with his axe on his shoulder. He didn't do anything in the first few waves, saying that the enemy was too weak and he wasn't interested in making a move.
Yuan Mu and Amelia both ignored him. Yuan Mu said: "Let's go forward for a while." If it doesn't go well, after taking the things left by the orcs, you will go directly to the hidden entrance to the ancient tunnel, and some tasks will be just abandoned. ”
The orc's home is a few stone houses, but now it's a colony of gnolls. With the experience of being discovered by the dark troll last time, Yuan Mu asked Urkan to be careful this time and not get too close.
"It seems that there will be a special scout class in the future." Yuan Mu said secretly in his heart.
Urkan came back and reported that he had seen five or six gnolls, several wild goblins and two bear goblins, and two level 3 creatures.
"Quick fix. The gnolls will call out to their companions and run away, Amelia you attack directly from the front, and Urkan you take care not to let the enemy escape. ”
Creatures with heroic commands are still very strong, not to mention that Amelia's men are reasonably cooperative. Rushing out of the shadows caused big trouble for the gnolls, Yuan Mu also commanded his subordinates to outflank, and Tao Snow also joined the battle.
The gnolls suffered heavy losses, and Yuan Mu was ready to win the battle in one go. At this moment, the door of the stone house in the middle was slammed open, and a level 4 gnoll came out with two subordinates.
"Don't worry, it's just an elite unit. Destroy the other enemies first, Tausno, and you go and hold him back. Yuan Mu yelled at the minotaur.
Tao Snow smiled, and directly rushed towards the level 4 gnolls with a savage charge. As soon as the jackal came out, before he could react, he saw a large axe slashing directly at it, and the one holding the big axe was a figure much taller than it. "Ang" sounded, hugging his head and running away.
Tao Snow didn't give him a chance, and directly roared to deter it, and he was eliminated with three or two axes.
Seeing that the boss died so quickly, the remaining gnolls did not dare to fight back, and each fled, and was solved by Yuan Mu one by one, Tao Snow cut down two more, and several wild goblins surrendered directly.
"Leave them behind, the injured person directly uses the recovery potion, and we'll leave right away." Yuan Mu arranged it, and praised Tao Sinuo, who was lazily watching the play: "I take back my previous words, you are really powerful, at least worth my 400 gold coins, which is worth it." ”
Tao Snow got up again: "Now you know how powerful Uncle Ben is, hahaha." When I was under the orc lord, ......"
Yuan Mu didn't want to listen to him brag, so he called Amelia and went to find something stored by the orcs.
The thing was hidden in a hidden crevice in the stone, and the orcs didn't have time to take it when they fled, and it was a box.
Yuan Mu didn't want to open this box, but after taking a look at it with his insight talent, he was able to see that this box was divided into two layers. In addition to the gold coin resources on the upper level, there is also a mezzanine where a treasure map is placed. This treasure map points to a route that seems to be outside the Skyrim Mountains.
Leaving this matter aside for the time being, he and Amelia quickly led the troops to a stone mountain. Removing a large stone next to it, a small hole was revealed underground, and a cold, damp rotten air came from the hole.
"You go down first." Yuan Mu drove the captive wild goblins. Finding that there was no situation, he led his subordinates into the cave one by one.
"I hate it here." Tao Sino followed Yuan Mu down and started complaining directly.
"You minotaurs are no worse in the dark system than in the barbarian system."
"Humph! We're not like the cowards who huddle in the ground. Tausno said disdainfully.
Yuan Mu was speechless when he heard him say that the underground minotaur was a coward, so he no longer paid attention to him, and concentrated on observing the situation around him.
The tunnels are dark, damp, and cramped, and this environment makes the bears living in the forest very uncomfortable, and their morale is much lower, and only the two crypt kobolds can still see their surroundings.
After walking for a while, the surroundings became opener, and a relatively smooth road appeared on the ground, and Yuan Mu knew that they had reached the ancient tunnel.
I can see that this section of the tunnel has been taken care of, and I don't know if the orcs have ever entered. Yuan Mu unexpectedly discovered that the insight talent could still work in such a dark environment, he could read the attributes of the surrounding items, but he couldn't see the appearance clearly.
The elite kobold in front suddenly became alert and reported to Yuan Mu: "My lord, it seems that there is a creature coming over in front. "Yuan Mu is at least much better to the kobold than the jackal is to the kobold, and the two kobolds listen to Yuan Mu very much.
"Be ready for battle." As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of Suo Suo in front of him, and some creatures came towards the group.
Aybadam Spider, a level 1 class of darkness, has weak and poisonous skills.
Abba is a sword spider, a level 2 class of darkness, with skills to pounce and strong arthropods.
Aibadang Poison Spider (White), a level 2 class of darkness, an elite unit, has a talent with increased toxicity, and the skill is highly poisonous and bites.
There are more than a dozen of them in total, and there is also an elite unit with a high poison hidden in the middle, which is very insidious!
Yuan Mu pointed at the elite Abadang poisonous spider and said loudly: "It's spiders, they are all level 1-2 units, and some have a faint toxicity. Kill the one first, be careful not to be attacked by it, it is highly poisonous. Sidelines looked at Tausno next to him.
Tao Snow took a sip and scolded, "I knew it was Lao Tzu." "Rushed straight out.
This poisonous spider elite only relies on being highly poisonous, and its actual attributes are much worse than those of level 4 gnolls. Tausno rushed in front of it, and without giving it a chance to bite, he hacked it to death. The rest of the team also lined up and killed the spiders soon after, with only one or two escaping.
"How many have been bitten by spiders and have been poisoned, do you need to use an antidote?" Amelia asked.
Yuan Mu shook his head: "No, I don't know how far I have to go." The Ebadam Spider is not very poisonous, so let the Bear Doctor and Greenskin slowly heal it, but we still lack long-range firepower. "The more desperate I was to get a rapid-shooter.
Ahead Tausno came back. "If I get bitten by a poisonous spider, I'll want to leave the tunnel and go back to the surface. One of the most expensive drinks in the tavern isn't enough this time, so you'll have to invite me to at least three drinks. ”
"Okay, okay, when I go back, I can eat whatever you want, drink whatever I want, as long as I can afford it."
"Where are we going now? Moving on? I don't know where the spiders came from. ”
Yuan Mu thought for a while, and said to Wuerkan: "You go and check where the Aibadan spider came from, let's go to the spider's lair." ”
"Are you crazy?" Tao Snow said angrily, "Are we still going to take the initiative to send it to the door?" I hate these disgusting guys. ”
"There shouldn't be many spider guards in their lair, and the lair should have a way to other pits."
The team won the battle, their morale rose a little, and some shimmering mushrooms and a small amount of white fluorescent grass slowly appeared on the side of the road, which was the fluorescent grass mentioned by the witch. I hadn't gone far before I found a fork in the road.
Urkan pointed to the side: "The spider is coming from this side. ”
"Mark it and go this way." Yuan Mu still decided to go to the spider's lair.
"Ahh As soon as they turned the corner, the two wild goblins who were driven in front stepped on the ground and fell, and the ground was a trap, and the wild goblins were killed directly.
Tao Snow followed behind the wild goblin, and when this happened, he just shrugged his shoulders and didn't say anything about Yuan Mu.
Amelia also said gently: "It is normal for this ancient tunnel to have traps, and there are traps in other routes, it's not that your decision is wrong. ”
Yuan Mu just said with a dark face: "Keep going." ”
Seeing that his companion was dead, the remaining goblin said that he didn't want to go ahead and explore the way, and Tausno threatened it with an axe.
"Forget it," Yuan Mu stopped, "let's put it into my team." ”
"What about the trap?"
"I'll find out." Yuan Mu walked to the front of the team, and the subordinates next to him hurriedly followed to protect him. Yuan Mu waved his hand: "Tao Snow just follow me." ”
The team moved forward slowly, fearfully. Yuan Mu carefully used his insight talent to inspect the surrounding walls and the ceiling of the cave on the ground, and really found a few more traps. The traces of the Ebadam spiders did not remain on the trap, and it seems that they have been living here for a long time and have long been aware of the danger of the trap.
"Spider traces are particularly dense here." Urkan took a closer look at the ground around a corner.
"It looks like we've arrived at the place, ready to fight." The whole team was depressed, and a battle was desperately needed to ease the situation.
The team advances directly, and at the end of this corner is a spider's nest. There are only a few guards in the nest, some spider eggs on the ground, and some corpses. Yuan Mu saw that there was a big spider lying on his stomach in the deepest part of the nest, surrounded by several elite guards, and there was a big treasure chest under the big spider. This is a level 4 treasure chest!
Abadam Spider Mother (Green), a level 3 rare class of dark troops, an elite unit, with a talent for increased body size and a skill to lay eggs; Swallowed; Slow movement (negative skills); Boss grant (Nearby Wards attribute increased); Berserk Fluid (Causes an allied unit to go berserk).
Ebadam Giant Spider, a level 2 class of darkness, has a skill to pounce; biting; Defense. (Mother Spider's Guard)
There are also two strains and a few sword spiders, and the rest are level 1 ordinary Aybadan spiders.
"Kill those two poisonous spiders first, don't get too close to the spider mother, it can't move, the big spider next to it will also protect it, kill the others first."
Still the same way, Tao Snow wore the armor, and the poisonous spider was very little threat to him, so he rushed in and killed the strain first. The spider next to it was also cleaned up, and the spider mother could only watch anxiously, and soon only the spider mother and a few of her guards were left.
"Mother Spider will make giant spiders berserk, be careful."
"Let me do it." Amelia recited a spell directly next to her, the spell was quite long, Amelia pointed at the spider mother, and a gray light shot on the spider mother.
Yuan Mu looked at the spider mother again and found that the spider mother had been hit by a curse - the secret curse? Silence, the Spider Mother's Skill Rage Liquid turns gray (unavailable).
"Yes." Amelia gasped.
Mother Spider lost her most powerful skills and had no ability to resist the Tausno and the bears, and was soon killed.
"Are you alright?" Yuan Mu saw that Amelia was a little tired.
"It's okay, my magic power is too low now, and it's a bit difficult to use the arcane curse."
"But your skill is so powerful, you can directly seal the enemy's skill."
"It's still taking advantage of the fact that the spider mother can't move. This skill takes a long time to prepare, and the duration depends on the user's mana and the enemy's strength, as well as knowing what skills the enemy has. If you use the skill that may be sealed at will is not the one you want to seal, you will not achieve the desired effect. ”
Yuan Mu thought that if Amelia accidentally sealed the negative skill of the spider mother's 'can't move', then the battle would be troublesome, and several people might have to be reduced. But after thinking about it, if an allied unit also has a negative skill in the future, can you help him seal it during battle? What an interesting idea.
Thinking that the curse on Amelia has not dissipated for so long, and Amelia has been trying to find a way to exorcise the curse, it seems that the person who gave Amelia a secret curse is also terrifyingly powerful.
The treasure chest has been under the spider mother for a long time, and it really doesn't taste good. However, to open this level 4 treasure chest, of course, you still have to open it with Amelia, the 'divine favorite'.
Amelia endured the discomfort and opened the treasure chest, which contained several things: 2000 gold coins, 2 units of high-level crystals, and a basic diplomatic order (directly recruit a non-hostile level 0-2 wild creature); A Tier 1 Treasure War Drum.
War Drums, a level 1 treasure, morale +1, increases the attack speed of his subordinates.
This is the first treasure Yuan Mu obtained, but Yuan Mu still handed over the war drum to Amelia, and now Xiong Cai is the main force, anyway, Yuan Mu's subordinates are mostly mixed, and they are in a bad environment, and their morale can no longer be raised.
He also took out a few hundred gold coins and distributed them to his subordinates to improve the morale of the corporaries. Subordinates also need to spend gold, and there are some special opportunities that can also increase their experience points and the possibility of advancement.
The subordinates were searching the spider's lair, and there were some items left by the dead on the ground, and Yuan Mu found that there was also a class building in the lair.
Abandon the spider's lair, you can recruit the dark level 1 ordinary class Aibadang Spider, the recruitment cost is 15, and the current 6.
Yuan Mu was not prepared to recruit them. Although the level 1 Aibadang spider is easy to move in the ancient tunnels, it has poor attributes and no intelligence, so it can't be a scout. If it was Aibadang's poisonous spider, Yuan Mu would still consider it.
"My lord, look over here." What Urkan discovered.
Yuan Mu walked over, and it turned out that Urkan had found a diary on a corpse, and the corpse on the ground was a flower demon, as if he had just died a few days ago.
Flipping through the diary, it turned out to be a flower demon adventurer, who heard that there were treasures in the ancient tunnels, so he went around to find out the whereabouts of the treasures and how to enter the tunnels safely. And the last person he asked seemed to be known to Yuan Mu - the half-orc of the tavern.
Mission: Wish, give the relics of the flower demon to his relatives.
Yuan Mu fell silent, and Tao Snow walked over and asked, "It's time for us to leave, this nest smells too bad." ”
Yuan Mu shook his head and said slowly: "Don't worry, we still have a guest who hasn't arrived." ”