Chapter 134: Keep going
When the battle between Leah and Terx broke out in another room beneath the giant chamber, Finn, Lilith, and Arya were unaware of the duel between the two Alfred brothers, which more or less indicates that the space below the ruins was as vast as the deep underworld, so that the young people's party scattered after the fall to the point where it was difficult to communicate with each other. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Of course, the space under the ruins is very huge, but this space is not really an underground world after all, so when Finn and the two girls start to explore deeper from the shore of the underground lake of the stalactite cave, they will naturally not encounter natives such as goblins, dark elves, and underground dwarves who live in the underground world of Ferdia all year round, but only after leaving the campfire on the shore of the underground lake for some distance, they will find a bronze tunnel at the end of the cave with traces of artificial construction tomorrow.
The bronze corridor represents traces of man-made, and the traces of man-made prove that most of the ancient craftsmen of the Third Age did not forget to develop this area when they built this ruin, so whether it was to obtain the obsidian code or to find a way out of the ruins, the road ahead still needs to be explored.
As a result, the young paladin, the blonde witcher, and the warlock girl with the owl pet on their heads were forced to step into the dimly lit corridors for whatever reason—but without Camus, Finn and Arya were forced to take on the task of detecting physical traps, and they all missed their fellow thieves when they first teamed up to explore the depths of Melore's mines.
Arroyo's experience and skill in adventure and combat are not as good as Camus's, but he is a professional thief.
Now, with the lack of a thief in the team, Finn and Arya, who are paladins and witchers respectively, have become much clumsier when it comes to detecting traps, and the pace of the young paladin and the two girls has slowed down a lot because of this inevitable difficulty.
For example, now, just looking at the straight road about fifty long in front of them, it took them nearly ten minutes to walk the whole way of this road and reach a stone gate at the end of this road.
There is a mechanical lever set up manually next to the stone door at the end of this passage, and the rod with a lot of rust on the metal surface looks like a mechanism used to open and close the stone door at first glance, and people with a little exploration experience and alertness will immediately think, will there be other hidden malice on or around that lever?
God knows.
So Finn and Arya carefully inspected the surroundings of the stone gate again, and then asked Lilith to stand aside, before carefully pulling the mechanical lever in front of the stone door from its initial position to the end, and the two of them immediately hid against the wall on both sides of the stone door.
The closed stone door then rumbled and slowly rose to reveal a new exit, and several successive arrows whizzed from behind the door into the corridor, shooting straight in the direction they had come from right under the noses of Finn, Arya, and Lilith.
Seeing a few arrows flying in front of him, Finn glanced at Arya standing on the other side of the door, then bent down at his feet and picked up a few pieces of rubble that had fallen off the stone wall, and threw them into another area inside the door, and after a second or two he heard a creaking sound from inside, followed by a jumble of feathered arrows coming out of the holes, flames rising from under the floor, and rolling stones falling from the platform.
"Sure enough, the ancient craftsmen don't seem to be friendly to the invaders of this ruin at all." Listening to the various noises coming from the area behind the door, Arya's pointed elven ears trembled slightly, and the corners of her mouth smiled slightly, and she was glad that neither she nor Finn were the kind of people who acted in a reckless way.
While Arya was glad in her heart, Finn heard her words "The ancient craftsmen don't seem to be friendly to the invaders of this ruin", and he suddenly smiled bitterly in his heart, and he really wanted to confess to the blonde elf girl that the program apes in the game production team of "Ferdia" were the ones who were really full of malice towards the players.
Of course, Arya is a native of this world, and she doesn't know that her world is actually just a game in another time and space, so Finn just thought about it in his heart, and didn't say so much to Arya, and then after the various noises behind the door stopped, he confirmed that there didn't seem to be any new traps in it that were triggered, and then he and Arya and Lilith walked through the stone door to the doorway of a new area under the ruins.
"Lots of space, bright lights, ...... It looks like an underground hall deep in the ruins. Arya raised her hand and tightened the scarf at the collar of her fluffy cloak, exhaled a breath of heat, and looked at the situation in front of her, "But compared to the diametrically opposite environment along the way, the traps here have been induced by us, but they still can't make people let their guard down." ”
As she spoke, she saw that the light in the underground hall in front of her was bright enough, so she put down a glowing stone lantern that Countess Kalea had given her before the party entered the ruins, and untied the large crossbow she had purchased from Orlan from behind her back and held it in her hand.
While Arya continued to sweep her gaze into the underground hall, Lilith stood quietly beside Finn for a few seconds, then blinked, came back to her senses, looked up and told Finn, "Finn, there is no new magic reaction ahead." ”
"Hmm. Good work, Lilith. Finn nodded, habitually raised his hand to touch Lilith's black hair, but accidentally pressed a palm on the head of the fat fat owl demon pet above Lilith's head, frightened at some point and closed half of his eyes and dozed off Pol, who fluttered his wings and woke up suddenly, and his two big eyes looked around blankly, which made Finn very embarrassed, and then withdrew his hand, thinking that Lilith was not a child, and he should really pay attention to changing this not very good habit.
Suddenly, Arya looked at a wall facing the doorway in the far part of the hall and found something in that place, then raised her hand to something in front of the bronze stone wall, prompting the two beside her, "Finn, Lilith, look there." ”
Following Arya's fingers, Finn and Lilith turned their heads to look over there, and immediately saw a treasure chest with jewels inlaid on the surface of a wall at the end of the entrance to the hall.
The beautiful chest was so blatantly placed there, and when Finn thought of the various traps he had induced with a few gravel before entering this hall, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his mind, thinking that the treasure chest was clearly a bait, so that those adventurers or tomb robbers who had worked so hard to get here from the upper level of the ruins could not resist the temptation of greed after all, so he relaxed his vigilance and took steps forward to embark on the road of no return to the land of death.
When Finn looked at the treasure chest that was easily exposed to him and the two girls, although Arya also knew that the trap in this hall should have been lured by Finn, deep down, like Finn at this time, she felt that the chest might be more than just bait for those traps and spell traps in the hall.
So she thought about it, raised the crossbow in her hand and aimed it at the luxuriously decorated treasure chest, and clicked the trigger of the crossbow with her finger to shoot an arrow at the treasure chest.
Then, only a "ding" sound was heard, and the next moment Arya's arrow hit the box, the gorgeous treasure chest suddenly bounced open, and a disgusting long tongue stretched out from the inside of the box and hung outside, making an ugly strange scream, and two pairs of dry and slender hands and feet grew even more strangely at the bottom and sides of the box, and stood up from the floor of the underground hall. (To be continued.) )