Act 54: The King of the Underworld (Part 1)
Not long after the two entered the fourth layer, Brando suddenly heard Akane whisper: "Lord Lord." ”
"How?"
"Let me go down and try it." The girl's voice was almost inaudible.
Brando looked down and found that the physique of the oracle was indeed worthy of its reputation, although it had lost its strength, the body's recovery ability was still much stronger than that of ordinary people, and Brando saw that the wound on Akane's thigh had stopped bleeding and scabbed.
He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Is it okay?" ”
But at the girl's insistence, Brando finally helped her down, and Akane frowned slightly when she landed on her feet, but after shaking a little, she still stood firmly, and although it was a little slow, she could barely walk alone with the support of the Thunder Spear.
Akane seemed a little happy to find this, and she happily raised her head and smiled at Brando, "Lord Lord! Brando had rarely seen Akane smile like this in the past, and he couldn't help but be slightly stunned.
But the latter also quickly realized his gaffe and didn't overdo it.
Brando thought that the red-haired girl was actually quite good when she smiled, but of course he couldn't say it. The two of them remained silent and walked through the low tunnel, and after walking for long, Brando suddenly saw a faint white mass in the darkness ahead, and he let out a soft, huh, sigh.
"What's wrong?" Akane asked from behind.
"Something seems to be there." Brando explained in a whisper, he knew that Akane's eyesight was no different from that of an ordinary person, and it was difficult to see farther away in this environment, although there was a lighting crystal, but the light was too bad.
He drew his sword with one hand and walked slowly with the girl, finally seeing a man lying on the ground. It seemed to be a miner here, and he looked at the other party carefully, but he didn't find any obvious wounds on his body.
"Not dead yet." Akane glanced at this person and immediately judged.
Brando also saw that the other party's chest was rising and falling slightly, and it seemed that he was just unconscious. He nodded, tried to scream but didn't wake up, and pulled the stuff from the water bag and put some water on the other man's forehead.
Considering that they didn't know how long they would be trapped underground, and the two of them had limited fresh water with them, Brando subconsciously lightened the movements in his hands.
Thankfully, his methods worked quickly, and the miner didn't appear to be hurt, and soon came back to life in the blink of an eye.
But as soon as the other party opened his eyes, he saw that the two of them first subconsciously shrank back and crashed into the cold rock wall. Brando looked at him with a restless look, and hurriedly said, "We are also from here, you don't have to worry." ”
The miner was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted. He took a breath and looked at the two of them carefully before calming down and asked, "Are you in charge?" Supervision? Or is it ...... the people of the garrison? He saw that Brando's sword and Akane's halberd were only armed in the mine, but Brando and Akane were more like the latter than they were not wearing the uniforms of the garrison.
"We are members of the garrison." Brando, knowing that the miners knew almost every foreman, replied.
The man looked visibly relieved, but quickly became nervous again, "You guys have encountered monsters too?" He saw blood on Akane's body.
"Monsters?" Brando turned his head to exchange a look with Akane.
The monster here was probably the Wind Spirit Spider he had summoned, but he frowned, "What kind of monster?" "Brando used the Wind Spirit Spider to find his way when he was on the third floor, but Brando instinctively felt that it wasn't that simple.
The "Stone Statue" is like a monster like a stone statue, and Martha is on it! ”
"A monster like a stone statue?" Akane crouched down beside Brando and asked in a whisper.
Stone? Brando thought to himself that there were many monsters in Vaugard's rock form, typical of which were the gargoyle sentinels and war golems made by Buga's artisan wizards, but given the environment here, the stone elemental was more likely.
Brando thought for a moment and comforted the other party: "You don't have to be afraid" With us here, slowly recall what form those monsters are, are they humanoid? Or is it beast-shaped? ”
The miner gasped heavily: "It's like a beast, but it's all made of rocks, sir" I swear I can't be mistaken! ”
"Beast-shaped? Do you have wings? ”
"Nope!" Answer categorically.
Brando's strange, he hadn't heard of such a rock-shaped monster, although there were many strange types of monsters and monsters in Vaughnde, but most of them could be traced back to their origins. For example, monsters in the form of dirt and rocks are either magic golems or related to the earth elemental world, but except for a few gargoyles, beast-shaped ones are very rare.
Creatures in the earth elemental world are more insect-like.
However, seeing that the miner became suspicious again, he hurriedly stabilized the other party's feelings: "Is there anyone else here besides you?" He knew that miners generally entered the mine in groups.
The miner swallowed a mouthful of saliva, as if he had just remembered this, "Hurriedly nodded: "Yes" He said: "I came with a group of us" But when he met the monster, he was swept away, he couldn't help but look at the depths of the deep cave, and said with some uncertainty: "I don't know where they went, I don't know if they are still alive, the monster may have chased them............"
He seemed a little lucky, but also a little afraid.
"By the way," the miner suddenly remembered, "and Lord Mahan is also here."
"Lord Mahan?"
"You don't know him?" The miner was slightly stunned: "He is the foreman of this area, I heard that he was also in the army before, and his swordsmanship is very powerful." When the earthquake started, he said he went to the front to have a look, and then the monsters appeared. ”
Brando was embarrassed, thinking that he almost missed a casual question, but fortunately this worker saw that "his own people are not vigilant."
However, he didn't hear the question, but Akane frowned slightly: "Didn't it start collapsing in an instant when the earthquake started, and what did he go to see in front of him?" ”
As a mercenary from a very young age, the girl thinks in a much more vigilant and sensitive way than Brando.
When Brando heard this, he also reacted: "That's right, shouldn't you find a safe place to take refuge at this time?" ”
"No, no, no," the miner hurriedly waved his hand: "The shaking was not so strong at first, and the rock formation below here is relatively solid, and the collapse is not so powerful." The point is that the shaking is coming from the south, don't you feel it? ”
The shock came from the south, and this unexpected information made Brando react, and it seemed that his suspicion was not far from ten, and that something terrible had been dug up under the Shavrund mine. However, although he didn't know each other, he was still worried about Ke Wen and the teenagers, presumably they were already fierce and unlucky at this moment, Brando couldn't help but sigh.
"It doesn't look like an earthquake," Akane turned around and whispered, "My lord." ”
Brando had already made up his mind to go ahead and take a look, although the silver inheritance was not as rare as the golden apple, it was also a rare good thing, but the reward was so valuable, the task must not be so simple.
He suddenly interrupted Akane's words and put a finger to his lips: "Shhhh
There was silence in the tunnel, except for the heavy breathing of the miner. Soon, however, both Akane and the miner heard a sound of Susan coming from the south, as if something was moving towards the ground.
"Here they are."
The man's face turned pale all at once.
But Brando put down his sword, but there were some doubts in his heart, there were a lot of things, but this slightly heavy footsteps didn't look like something powerful.
Soon, however, the monster in the miner's mouth emerged from the darkness, and the first to appear was a gray-white feline, which gracefully stepped into the light range of the illumination crystal, staring at Brando with a pair of grey jewel-like eyes.
No, it should be said that it was a pair of grey gemstones.
Because this slender feline is actually just a stone statue, a living stone statue with gray crystals as eyes.
As soon as Brando saw this thing, he knew for a while, it was so, this was not a rock-shaped monster at all. Rather, it is a summon, a creature formed by mimicking the earth element.
As for what form it takes, it's all up to the summoner's wishes.
However, Brando was slightly stunned, "There's an elf envoy down there?" The thought crossed his mind for a moment, "Or is something unconsciously controlling these creatures?" ”
It looks like the latter possibility is much more obvious. But if it's a device with autonomous consciousness, even if it doesn't have the potential consciousness of intelligence, it's at least a fantasy level or higher.
And it may still be a very high-level fantasy level.
When Brando thought of this, he burst into tears, thinking that he had finally been able to see high-end equipment once since he came to this world.
As he thought so, more and more felines had appeared in the darkness, more than a dozen of them, and beyond the line of brilliance, there were several pairs of shimmering eyes shaking.
More than twenty rock panthers have formed a semi-circular encirclement to encircle them.
Brando's face was not a little flustered, and he took a step forward and lowered his sword: "You stand away, Akane." ”
Akane grabbed the miner, who was straining his legs and feet to run away, and then nodded back to Brando, and stepped back a little in obedience. She knew that she didn't have much strength now, at most, she was only relying on the divine envoy's physique to be slightly stronger than ordinary people, and staying on the front line could only interfere with Brando's actions.
However, although she had lost her strength, her eyes were still there, and she could already see that these big stone cats didn't seem to be threatening, especially for Brando.