Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Dwarven Treasury
Xu Mo and the others soon discovered the disappearance of Luo Ning and Amira, and after repeated searches to no avail, a strange atmosphere appeared in the small team. Xu Mo quietly moved his steps, a little farther away from Brigitte and Wen Leisa, the resentment that these two beauties now exuded had simply turned into substance, showing their teeth and claws behind their backs.
Everyone's anger is basically directed at the nerdy mage, and no one blames the dwarf girl. In Amira's mind, it was already an extra joy that she could help everyone find the secret passage of the treasure house, so why blame her for not helping everyone take advantage of Luo Ning, a nerd!
If Luo Ning used the wrong magic for the first time and killed himself in the wrong place, which made Xu Mo feel angry, then this time, he was left with only deep helplessness. The nerdy mage proved once again that he was only fit to study magic in Dalaran's Great Library, not on the battlefield.
Although Xu Mo didn't know how Luo Ning completed this historical plot that seems completely incredible at the moment, he estimated that it was definitely an accidental event that could not be replicated.
"Cole, what now?" After a moment of silence, Britcht, who had a fiery temperament, couldn't help but ask first.
"We move on, this mission is related to the fate of the whole of Kazmodan, and we can't give up halfway because of the disappearance of the two of them." Xu Mo sighed and said slowly.
"Then the two of them ......" Wen Leisa was still a little worried about the safety of those two people, after all, one was a dwarf girl with a low mind, and the other was ...... Uh-huh, human babies!
"They should be fine, this secret passage is a secret passage for the Hammer Dwarves to transport the treasure trove of minerals in case of emergency. There won't be any lethal traps in there, and I guess they've stumbled upon other secret passages, and while they don't know where they lead, they should be able to get out. Xu Mo explained with a smile.
Xu Mo's explanation made the other two temporarily put aside their worries about their companions and continued to move towards the depths of the secret passage. The three of them walked for a while, and after turning a corner, they found that the secret passage had come to an end, and a stone wall appeared in front of them.
"Hey, wait! Cole, put out the torches, I hear some movement! Wen Leisha pressed her pointed ears against the stone wall and whispered to the other two.
"There is someone on the other side of the stone wall, it seems that there should be a dwarven treasure house over there, we have arrived at the place!" Wen Leisha listened for a while, then turned her head and said excitedly.
"You two get out of the way, I'll dig a little hole in the stone wall and see how it goes." Xu Mo also began to get excited, after so many days of hard work, he finally saw the dawn of completing the task.
As the stone powder poured down, Xu Mo quickly dug a small hole in the stone wall with his wrist blade, but soon he found that he couldn't dig it. There is a steel interlayer inside the stone wall, which is so hard that St. Cesse's Nightmare can't dig it, and even if it does, it will make a lot of noise.
"This should be a portal mechanism, let's look for it!" Bridget whispered from behind.
"I've found it, it should be this brass ring!" The attentive Wen Leisha pointed to a quaint copper ring half-buried in the moss at her feet.
"There's one over here, too, and judging from the distance between the two copper rings, it's a sliding door!" Bridget said happily.
"Well, but we don't know the situation on the other side of the treasure house, and if we open it rashly, will it alarm the guards!" Wen Leisha furrowed her thin white eyebrows.
"Leave it to me!" Xu Mo stretched out a finger, and the fingertips slowly oozed black as ink.
When the water stain came into contact with the steel interlayer, the two beauties were surprised to find that the steel slowly began to dissolve like ice cubes that had met the sun. Soon a small hole was corroded into the mezzanine of the three-inch-thick secret door, and the light on the other side of the wall penetrated through the hole, creating an extra finger-thick pillar of light in the dark passage.
"There's an empty warehouse on the other side, and a few orcs at the door are carrying something?" Xu Mo put his eyes in front of the small hole and whispered the situation to the other two female companions.
"Let me see, let me see!" Bridget excitedly pushed Xu Mo away and brought her eyes to the observation hole.
When the beautiful knight was in the plague land, she could only participate in frontal battles, and it was the first time she came into contact with such a tense reconnaissance mission at all times, and she felt extremely novel.
"The orcs in the treasury are all out, should we go in now?" Wen Leisha took her eyes off the observation hole and whispered to her two companions. They had been observing for several minutes on end, and it seemed that the orcs in the vault had just finished carrying them.
"No, wait half an hour to see if these orcs will come back. If, after half an hour, they haven't come back, we'll go in again! Xu Mo shook his head cautiously, judging from the time, it was still the middle of the night, and they really didn't need to be in such a hurry.
"Three, two, one, pull!" Xu Mo and Britst exerted force at the same time, pulling out the two copper rings together, and Wen Leisha stood behind the stone wall, the big bow in her hand had already been mounted with two arrows, and her eyes were staring ahead.
"Click!" There was a slight sound of mecturning from beneath the stone wall, which silently split in two and slid to the sides, revealing a wide portal. Deserted behind the stone wall, a huge warehouse appeared in front of the trio, who curiously stepped into the dwarven treasury of Grimbaatar.
The dwarven treasury was extremely empty, and the walls were surrounded by leather lanterns for lighting. Except for the portal where Xu Mo and the three of them were, there were all stone steps on top of each other all around. The stone steps are extremely wide, and they look like they should be used by the dwarves to stack all kinds of ores.
But now on these stone steps, there are some oval objects made of straw poles and swamp reeds, which look like bird's nests the size of a basin. Xu Mo put his palm on these nests and sensed them for a while, and found that these nests still had a faint warmth.
"These things are made of withered sungrass and wetland reeds!" Wen Leisha looked at the nests and said in surprise.
Seeing the inquiring eyes of the two companions, the elven ranger, who was familiar with plants, explained briefly. It turns out that the sunweed is a small grass that can store the heat of sunlight inside the plant's fibers, while the wetland reed has the characteristic of absorbing water and keeping it dry.
In general, these two plants are the main raw materials for the construction of a bird's nest. Wetland reeds can also be used as woven straw mats and carpets.
"I know what the orcs are using this dwarven treasury for!" Xu Mo smiled faintly, "I'm afraid these nests should be called ovaries, they were supposed to contain the red dragon's dragon eggs. ”
"Could it be that the things they carried before were dragon eggs?" Bridget and Winetha looked at each other in amazement, "But why did they move the dragon eggs now, they shouldn't have known that we had entered the secret passage of the treasure vault." ”
"Have you forgotten the escaped red dragon?" A strange expression appeared on Xu Mo's face, "The appearance of Deathwing may have alarmed the leader of the Dragonthroat Clan, Necruz, I suspect that Necrus wants to evacuate Grimbaatar and move these dragon eggs to a safer area!" ”
"So, Deathwing's purpose in helping Ronin ......" Brigitte and Winresa's eyes showed a hint of understanding, these two beauties were very intelligent, and immediately guessed Deathwing's purpose.
"Well, you said that Deathwing was the last black dragon in this world, and it wasn't unusual for him to want to use these dragon eggs to reproduce." Xu Mo said lightly, "I originally thought that Deathwing wanted to get that artifact 'Demon Soul', but now it seems that the dragon egg is his main purpose. ”
"Demon's Soul!" Wen Leisa exclaimed in a low voice, "The artifact that Necrus got turned out to be the 'Demon Soul', so it's no wonder that the Red Dragon Queen Alexstasa will be controlled by Necrus!" ”
"You didn't know that artifact was the 'Demon Soul'?" Xu Mo asked in surprise.
"The first appearance of the Demon Soul was during the Ancient War, almost ten thousand years ago, how could we guess that it was this artifact!" Wen Lisha glanced at Xu Mo angrily, "Kenrito's Mage Council is only guessing that Necrus has an artifact in his hand. No one thinks of objects from 10,000 years ago, how do you know? ”
"Hahaha, I'll guess too!" Xu Mo laughed awkwardly. Of course, he couldn't say that he knew that the artifact was a demon's soul through the mission issued by the space, "Wen Lesha, can you explain the origin and information of the 'demon's soul'!" ”
"Well, of course you can!" 'Demon's Souls' is a legend from 10,000 years ago, but its story has been recorded by the Night Elves of Kadolim, as well as our High Elves, and it is a tragedy about dragons! Winetha sighed and slowly began to tell the legend of tens of thousands of years ago.
The "Demon Soul" is actually an artifact forged by the Black Dragon King Nesario, using the power of the four Titans that protect the dragon and the power of the demons.
Nesario used the "Demon Souls" to easily destroy the countless demonic invaders of the Burning Legion, but he himself was corrupted by the demonic power of the Demon Souls, and was finally bewitched by the Dark Titan Sargeras in the Dark Flames, and degenerated into the Burning Dragon, Deathwing.
The "Demon's Soul" is infused with the power of the Titans of the other four guardian dragons except for Nesario, and as long as they are within the area of influence of the "Demon's Soul", the other four guardian dragons will become extremely weak. In addition, because the "Demon Soul" was forged by Nesario's own hands, it can also be destroyed by Nesario.
"You're saying that 'demonic souls' can only be destroyed by Nesario's powers?" Xu Mo narrowed his eyes slightly.
"It can be said that although the 'Demon Souls' can be destroyed by the same Titan power, except for the five guardian dragons, there are very few items in this world with the power of the Titans, at least we don't have them in our hands!" Wen Leisha smiled wryly.
"Who said we don't have it!" Xu Mo thought secretly, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and a mysterious smile floated.
However, he would not share his judgment with the other two companions. Although he had not seen the Red Dragon Queen Alexstassa, nor Nexus or the Demon Souls, the historical truth about this mission was as clear in his mind as a palm print.