Act VIII: The Dead (IV)

The ground was still shaking, and the gaze was swaying up and down as the ground shook. As soon as Avis's footsteps stepped into the pitch-black underground space in front of him, he heard a terrible chirp behind him. The ground began to tremble, but after a while, the shaking finally stopped. As Ives first ran into the underground space, his body lost its balance due to the shaking surface, and he inevitably fell to the ground. When the shaking stopped, Ives sat up a little wolfishly, touched his forehead, which had been stained with some gray mud, and slowly regained his chaotic gaze.

The black underworld could not stop Avis's gaze, and half of the elven blood in his body provided him with extremely good dim vision. In Avis's sight, Ilya was slowly lifting up Issinger who had fallen to the ground, and the three mercenaries were all safe and sound, but their appearance really couldn't be associated with 'elegance'. Avis's gaze scanned back and forth in this somewhat dark underground world, and finally sighed and said, "It seems that we can't get out for the time being. "There's a digging bug out there, and that guy isn't the one they can deal with right now. Avis stood up and looked out of the cave, where more green creatures could be seen crawling out of the ground.

But this is also normal, and of course a single digging worm is not enough to cause such a terrible earthquake. Avis opened his mouth, only to feel the bitterness in his mouth.

"These things...... I seem to be attracted to something. Ilya said with a pale face, "Even if there is the power of the rune to disperse animals, it can't stop these guys from wanting to move. Hope...... Speaking of which, the need to engrave 'Dispel Animals' in a magic circle is a bit unusual in itself. Because generally speaking, magicians don't make rune circles too complicated, and the more complex the circle, the bigger the flaws......"

"Looks like you know a little bit about us magicians." Avis agreed with Elijah's words, "Yes, we magicians believe in simple language to interpret everything in the world—runes can be counted as one of those languages...... Since His Excellency the Mage here has carved the rune 'Dispel Animals' into his circle, it proves that there is something crazy about these animals in his research. Aavis was silent for a moment, then said, "Could it be related to the power of the druids?" ”

There are also people in this world who are not believers in any god, but can cast spells similar to priests, and this kind of being, is the druid. In the Elvish language, the noun of the druids is 'ev-intif', which means 'people who are close to nature', and nature, whose power can also attract those animals in nature.

"What do we do now?" The shield warrior in the team said with some hesitation, "It seems that we can't get out." ”

Avis stood up and looked into the darkness ahead, "Then we have to keep going." ”

Mondo looked at Avis with some frowns, and he spoke, "Although I also agree to continue to explore. But how do we get out of here after that? Are you praying that there will be some other exit at the end of this passage that will allow us to escape from this damn place? ”

"Even if there is no other exit." Avis laughed, "I can find that prop to attract the Diggers, too." As long as this thing can be destroyed, the digging worms will naturally disperse. ”

The archer was silent for a moment, and finally spoke, "I don't think Mr. Ives is right, we don't have much choice but to move forward. I just observed, there are at least a dozen diggers outside, and there is one very large one, who should be the lord of the diggers...... If we really had to fight them, death would be our only destination. ”

"Then we don't have any choice, do we?" Ilya smiled, she took the hand of little Esinger, who looked a little timid, and said, "Go on." ”

It's not a wise choice to let a magician go ahead. In fact, most mages are quite weak, and their melee combat is far less powerful than that of warrior paladins. But at this time, Ives and the others had no choice but to let the young mage walk at the forefront - except for Avis, who had half-elven blood on his body, no one could see the enemy ten steps away in such a dark situation. Avis had the light crossbow in his hand, and he knew that if he was in danger, the weapon would be the last guarantee of his life.

There was not much light to see in the dark underground space, and there seemed to be the sound of water droplets echoing on the ground, which disappeared after a short walk. The entire underground space appears quiet and monotonous. Ilya held a torch in her hand, and the 'click' of the flame was the only sound they could hear. Avis's eyesight was perfected in the dark space, and he could see the dry bones of some fallen travelers on the side, and Aavis searched for those bones, and finally came to the conclusion that they were once adventurers, but by this time, they had long since returned to the underworld. On their bodies, some traces of necromancy spells could be faintly discerned, but these deceased who had begun to decay had long since lost the strength to stand up again.

Avis didn't let his guard down because of the quiet environment, and the more he advanced, the more he felt a faint wave of magical power. Avis could feel the magic leaping in the earth, it really didn't look like the little magic left of a long-abandoned ruin. Then Ives may only have to find the only reason - someone has touched the magic circle here recently, and there is a high probability that this magic circle will continue to move.

"That's really bad news." Ilya said with a frown.

"We may soon be 'welcomed' by the owners here." Ives shrugged helplessly.

The battle came faster than anyone could have thought. When Ives and the others turned a fork in front of them, a piercing 'coo' sound came into the ears of everyone present. The archer subconsciously picked up his short bow, pulled the bowstring and shot forward. It's just a pity that this bowstring didn't directly solve the target, not that it didn't hit. It's just that the arrow didn't hit the point, it just stuck in the ghoul's dry body.

"Ghoul...... Avis let out a sigh of relief, a mocking grin, "Looks like we've met an old rival." ”

Mondo quickly rushed to the forefront, and he took a quick step and rushed forward past Avis. He held a huge two-handed sword in his hand, and even in this dark underground space, this two-handed giant sword could still be wielded with the sound of 'whirring'. Immediately afterward, Ilya took out his shield and one-handed greatsword and stood in front of Avis. The silver armor on her body slowly began to glow of its own, and Avis made sure that he had not misjudged - the armor was indeed enchanted. At this time, the fluctuations of the divine magic it emitted were extremely strong, and Ives estimated that it was the divine magic of 'power man'. In the game, the effectiveness of this spell is to increase the strength attribute by 1 to 4 points, but in reality, the effect of this spell is to increase the strength of the caster.

The other shield warrior also took out his large shield, untied a mace from his waist, and stood next to Isinger. In any case, mages and priests are important people who need to be protected in the first place. Avis nodded with some satisfaction, these people are indeed elite mercenaries, and this cooperation is quite tacit.

“B1ess！ (Blessing)"

Isenger casts her first spell, which is a one-ring spell that has a +1 bonus to the Attack Dice Roll and Fear Immunity for a certain duration. To put it simply, it's easier for you to hit your enemies and harder to be scared in battle. This is almost worthless compared to the later high-level divine techniques such as 'Righteous Blessing' and 'Powerful Divine Energy Protection', but at this time, there is no more suitable divine art.

Avis opened his mouth and said, "Be careful to leave your magic slots, don't release all your magic at once!" "Priests, like mages, have a limit to the amount of magic they can unleash each day. After the admonition, Ives took out his staff, and as the staff began to glow faintly, Avis's eyes focused on the ghouls who crawled out of the coffin on the side.

Because there was a corner before, Avis and the others didn't see where these ghouls came from, but when they looked at it now, the open space on the side was almost full of coffins. No wonder there are so many ghouls here...... Avis was a little bitter, he lacked the magic of area attack now, and the only area magic was spider web, but it was still too worthless to explain this spell here.

So...... You can only pick the big ones to fight.

Avis's gaze was focused on the tallest undead. It was an undead creature about two meters tall, and its eyes had long since lost all sparkle and had become hollow. At the corners of its mouth, there was a trace of scarlet blood. The clothes he was wearing had long been tattered, but he could vaguely see the exquisite workmanship. Avis laughed excitedly, and it looked like they had met a baby.

This guy ...... He was a nobleman during his lifetime!

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Yesterday I signed a contract, so there was only one change, and to be honest, this signing is getting more and more troublesome......

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