One Hundred and Ninety-Seven, The Journey of the Ruins (8)
It seems that most of the wraiths are concentrated in the Acropolis of Brindon Stone, and it is true that in the deserted inner city, the treasure hunting team has not found anything related to the wraiths, and there is only a deathly silence here.
Alpha walked into a room where he could barely stand upright, which was the ideal room height for the gnomes.
Everything in the room is as neat as it was 10,000 years ago, it seems that the tragic war did not cause much damage to the room, from the display it should be a simple parlor, the room is very large, a fireplace is facing the door, there are still residual charcoal slag inside,
"I don't know if the road can be ignited,"
Alpha thought, there were stone tables and chairs on one side of the room, some jars and jars lined up on the shelves on the wall, and the small door next to the shelves led directly to the other room, where hung the hammocks belonging to each member of the family, and it seemed that the owner of the house had placed the bedroom behind the living room.
Alpha reached out and brushed the dust off the wall, leaving a clear trail.
Ten thousand years of desolation have completely buried this once warm and happy city in the dust, only the graffiti on the walls and the scattered bedding in the hammock show that it was once inhabited by a group of kind and hard-working underground gnomes, only now, this race that once upgraded underground for a while is only a few thousand people sheltered by the Mithril Hall.
"There's no smell of cursed curses here,"
Shar crawled around Alpha, then waved another spider silk and looked around, leaning into Alpha's ear and saying.
"I went in through the minecart passage over there and went all the way to the outskirts of this living quarter. Nothing was found. Not even a corpse was seen. ”
Oz walked in from the outside to report on his findings. Alpha frowned. It is a disturbing situation that a city that killed hundreds of thousands of dwarfs in battle 10,000 years ago should not see a trace of war.
Hasler, the gray dwarf, trembled against the door, looking out for fear of seeing something but also missing out on useful information.
Although Zelifa pretended to be calm, Alpha knew that this young high-ranking priestess did not have any experience in exploring ruins, and Zelifa's performance was only confident in his combat power, but for the unknown situation of this dead city, Zelifa was not much calmer than Hasler.
In contrast, Oz and the remaining two scouts performed much better, after all, they ate this bowl of rice. The combat effectiveness is not good, but the experience is still there.
Several people looked at Alpha, waiting for Alpha to come up with an idea, and Alpha thought for a moment:
"We should go inside, oh - it seems like someone has been here."
Alpha pointed to the slender marks on the higher part of the wall, which were in stark contrast to the place where his right hand had just brushed, it was obvious that it was not a human hand-scratched mark, it was thin and long, as if it had been whipped by a slender whip.
"Looks like this is just a stop for someone to come, and the treasure hall should be going inside."
Alpha added. The Treasure Hall is a former military and political place for the dwarfs, and it belongs to the royal palace and the like. It is also the location of the ruins of Brindon Stone City in intelligence.
"Let's go, then, Hasler, and go and light the way!!"
Zelifa commanded.
"Yes, yes,"
Hasler gritted his teeth, and threw a demon fire rod towards the road outside the stone house, this cold light source was made by the Drow mage to bless the demon fire with a special material, it is a strange light source with no temperature, and Drow uses it to find the way without worrying about alarming the underground creatures with only infrared vision.
A wide stone path leading to the lower terrain disappeared into the area where the demon fire could not illuminate it, and there was a deathly silence inside.
In this environment, it is Sha'er's demon vision that can be seen more clearly, and the infrared vision of underground creatures mainly perceives the temperature of living organisms, in fact, infrared vision has lost its meaning here, because there seems to be no other living creatures in the entire stone city except for the treasure exploration team,
Apart from lifeless houses and abandoned mining tools, there is not even the slightest trace of the existence of the war.
Since there have been tragic wars, what has the war left no traces? In Xiu's imagination before the imagination, even if the resentful spirit did not exist, there should be a dense body here, at least there should be traces of slashing and axes on the walls, Alpha frowned suspiciously.
"Master, this should be the palace of the dwarf king,"
Hassler pointed to a magnificent stone door in the distance and whispered, as if he was afraid of alarming something.
On either side of the stone gate stand two huge gnome statues, both of which are the image of a mine hoe in one hand and a Mithril hammer in the other, male gnomes generally have short beards, unlike the dwarves' thick bearded aesthetics, the dwarf's artistic style is more in the expression of a wise and erudite temperament, so that the facial expression of the two gatekeeper statues is also a kind and slightly sly smile.
"What is written?"
Alpha looked up and carefully read the handwriting on the stone door,
"This is probably the earliest dwarf language, and the affix is related to treasure - it should be the gnome palace, the treasure hall,"
Oz carefully identified it for a while by the light of the demon fire rod, and said to Alpha, Alpha nodded, after the preliminary identification of [Language Specialization], Alpha found that these words not only have the affix of "treasure", but also the element of "palace", Oz is right, this should be the treasure hall, the royal palace of Brindon Stone City.
"The Treasure Hall is where the ruins in the intelligence are located, right?"
Alpha checked Oz again, and the latter nodded, it was another scout who traded his life for a message,
In fact, it's not that the poor guy is so selfless, this scout just ran for his life and came back, and the scout who didn't know what he had experienced was already crazy when he returned to Mosobrada City, and his already dissipated consciousness completely disappeared after just saying the words "Treasure Hall".
In the end, it was concluded that in Brinden's treasure hall was a broken stone slab brought back by the scout, with words and phrases related to the dwarf's national politics back then.
——According to research, it is a stone tablet of dwarf state affairs inscriptions erected in the treasure hall, so it is certain that the location of the ruins is the treasure hall.
"Take a break."
The destination has arrived, and it is time to prepare for battle, and it can be seen from the state of the scout who brought out the information that he was embarrassed and finally went crazy and died, what incredible things he experienced in the stone city, abuse and torture are not a good thing in short, and the battle is inevitable.
Of course, this also shows once again that there should be no resentful spirits in the inner city and even in the treasure hall.
- Because the damage to the mad and dead scout is mainly concentrated in the brain, this is not the way the wraith attacks, and the wraiths who feed on the flesh of the living will not allow him to return to Morsobrada intact.
"What did you just pick up?"
Patronizing and walking inside, Alpha didn't have time to look at the loot dropped by the petrified crystal lizard after it died, and of course Hasler didn't dare to hide it, so he hurriedly offered it.
It's two beautiful stones.,It's impossible for a beast like a petrified crystal lizard to drop any equipment and weapons.,A beast is a beast.,After being killed, the materials that fall are basically related to yourself.,And the petrified crystal lizard, a beast with an abnormal body structure, is even more so.,
How do these two shiny stones look familiar, and when I touch them in my hand, I find that I have already seen them:
- [Energy Essence]!!
It turned out to be one of the raw materials for the manufacture of [Intermediate Light Energy Arrow], it seems that this kind of raw material item that can still be called expensive at this stage can not only be made by relying on the [refining] profession, and there are also drops in the wild, I wonder if I can use the cliff in the dark region to brush the petrified crystal lizard to obtain this rather rare raw material in the future.
Alpha then made up his mind that this place should come to him often,
Anyway, the map of the dark region has been opened, and if the task is completed well, it is estimated that he will establish a good personal relationship with the Drow family, and it should be okay to come over to fight monsters and brush materials or something, and when the time comes, the [Energy Essence] will be piled up, and the [Intermediate Light Energy Arrow] will be thrown casually, and it will be enjoyable to think about.
But this is just the wishful thinking of Alpha and a non-professional Xiaobai, how can the high-grade material [Energy Essence] be so easy to brush?
Let's not talk about whether the petrified crystal lizard drops this thing one by one, let's just say that the job of hooking up the petrified crystal lizard to jump off the cliff is not something that anyone can do, it is not an ordinary effort, but also has to have skills, this is a job that attaches equal importance to perseverance and skill, rather than brushing like this, it is better to learn a [refining] and burn some money to do it yourself
- Well, it seems that Alpha has a greater advantage in perseverance than burning money, and for someone who has been sitting in the library for months, hooking up with a big lizard and jumping off a cliff is not a big deal at all!
Okay, okay, afterword, afterword, our protagonist is just a flash of thought, so he won't continue to worry about this, and now, the focus of the group's work has become how to open this door.
It's really a mystery how those scouts opened this dusty stone door and entered the treasure hall in the first place.
You must know that even the equivalent thrust of the 44 points of the [Arcane Hand] force force can't shake the stone door of the hall for a single bit, and the 6 people who go up to this door together are still motionless, and its heaviness can be seen, under the condition that there are no tools such as winches and crowbars around, and there are no traces of brute force cracking on the door, how did the people before enter the door?
I really couldn't figure it out, after trying several times to no avail, everyone's focus has shifted from opening the door to finding the door, maybe there is a secret door hidden in a corner or something? Don't have to work so hard to get in?
Just when 6 people and 1 demon hunting spider looked around to check the possible "secret door", a deafening roar invaded everyone's hearing, and everyone in the treasure hunting team subconsciously looked up,
- I'm going to you, what's this called?! (To be continued......)