The group returned the way they came.

I don't know if they were alarmed by something in the battle just now, and there was a cold aura in the entire underground labyrinth. Especially Stephen, who was holding the scroll of death, there were still geismos who were not afraid of death appearing beside him on the road, as if something had a fatal attraction to them, making them constantly hover around Stephen. However, these geists were disembodied, and they did not dare to approach because they were shocked by Stephen's power, but they only appeared and disappeared from time to time, occasionally making a weeping whimper.

"It always feels weird!" whispered Akasha the Insight, waving his hand to dispel the geist in front of him.

The geistes of the Misty Continent are weird.

They are not afraid of people at all!

Unlike other spirits that hide when they see people, they can often be encountered here even in the wild, and some spirits can even appear during the day (graveyards).

Inside the camp.

The originally neat camp was a little messy at the moment, with the wizards of the Five Rings Tower cleaning the battlefield in front of them, and the people from the astrological platform laying out new spell traps.

"What's going on?"

"Why did the ancients attack us suddenly?

In front of him, a wizard from the astrological platform leaned over and said, "Lord Stephen." Please follow me. The people of the Elemental Pool are torturing. ”

The captives were held in a mana prison.

When Stephen came over, the wizard of the elemental pool had just finished the torture, and in the cage was a middle-aged woman with gray-blue skin, similar to an ordinary human, but with a hooked nose and deep eye sockets, black eye shadow, hair tied into many braids, and special tattoos on her bare skin, which looked a little weird, full of fierceness and wildness.

At this moment, the target looks sluggish, and it looks as if it has been played badly, needless to say, it must have been under the spell of mind domination.

Wizard torture targets have always been simple and brutal.

Unless it's a person with a strong willpower, it's basically a break when it falls into the hands of a wizard, and a lot of charm spells can be used with psychic hints, and if it doesn't work once, you can always break through the target's will defense line twice.

"What's going on?" asked Stephen as he walked over.

The Elemental Pool wizard at the head of the group leaned over slightly after seeing him, and continued, "Your Excellency Stephen." ”

Soon.

The information that came out of the ancient mouths was known to all.

Things are not as complicated as they seem, they are a tribe of ancient people who live near the desert, and their civilization is probably about the same as that of nomads. The reason why these ancient people attacked them is also very simple, as they are exploring this underground labyrinth. According to the legend of the ancients, their ancestors sealed a terrible demon here, and these ancients were afraid that Stephen and his party would release the demon and cause a terrible disaster, so they attacked them to try to drive the invaders away.

"Demons?" said Stephen, a frown.

What are the demons in the underground labyrinth?

He didn't feel the demonic aura at all, there was only the power of death that was incomparably strong!

But.

Considering that the civilization of the ancients has been lost, then the demon in their mouth may not be referring to the real 'demon', it may refer to the gods who are sealed in it.

The purpose of these ancient people was simple.

They tried to stop Stephen and his party from going deeper into the underground ruins, but because the Fifth Ring Tower was too powerful, their scouts couldn't find the right time to do so after several investigations. This time, the main force happened to go deep into the ruins, and the ancients saw that they could not sit still at all, so they ventured into their camp.

The strength of these ancient people in front of me is very good!

Their strength, agility, and physique are far superior to ordinary humans, but they don't seem to be high in intelligence, they are fierce, fierce, and aggressive, a bit like the savages of primitive tribes.

At the same time, they have become shamanic teachings.

All the ancient people had tattoos on their bodies, and the knowledge inherited by the ancient wizards had disappeared, and their belief was actually that the ancestral spirits believed that the souls of the ancestors would continue to protect them after they died. A small number of the ancients who raided the camp had the ability to cast spells, but they would only have been relatively single spells, and these were supposed to be gifted warlocks, but now reduced to shamans.

Second-rate spell casting ability, first-class hand-to-hand combat ability.

It's sad and lamentable!

The casualties on the side of the Five Ring Tower were very small, on the contrary, the losses on the side of the ancients were a little greater.

There are spell traps in the camp.

These ancient people suffered a great loss as soon as they attacked, and they had no choice but to flee in the wilderness.

The other side.

The wizards of the astrological platform were curiously watching the ancient man, and some even suggested dissecting her to see if she was still human. (Note: The proposal was rejected.) ）

Stephen was not very interested in this.

Ancient humans belong to a branch of mutants, and they have been exposed to radiation contamination for a long time, and they have produced some mutations themselves. However, because the radiation pollution here is too serious, the proportion of deformed children born in ancient people should also be very high, and the harsh living environment has led to cruel survival of the fittest, otherwise the population of ancient people would not have been so small after thousands of years.

The total population of the tribe that attacked them was only a few thousand.

In other places, a slightly larger town has such a population. And on this misty continent, they are already a relatively large tribe of ancient people.

The environment of the Misty Continent resembles that of the post-nuclear explosion region.

In this environment, humans will either be completely extinct or mutated to adapt to the harsh environment.

But because newborns are so fragile that it will be extremely difficult for them to reproduce, the chances of babies dying in ancient times should have been quite high!

"Lord Stephen!"

"I think we should have a little bit of contact with these ancient people. "A certain high-ranking wizard of the astrological platform said.

It seems that the people at the astrological observatory are really curious, and many of them actually nodded in agreement, as if they were very interested in the mutation of ancient people.

The ancient woman in front of her has the strength to be close to that of a high-level professional.

Her strength, agility, and speed are beyond the limits of ordinary people, and in terms of specific data, she has the strength of an orc, the physique of a dwarf, and the agility of an elf, but her intelligence is slightly worse, and she may be about the same as an orc. Their population has evolved into a separate branch of the human race, with slight genetic changes in flesh, organs, and bones. The wizards of the astrological observatory even proposed to co-opt these ancient people, who were very suitable as followers of wizards, with higher combat effectiveness than warriors selected from among ordinary people, and completely crushed ordinary people at the starting point of physical fitness.

"These ancient people are only fit to be trained by the [barbarians]. Stephen saw that they were in high spirits and it was not easy to fight, and said slowly.

It's obvious.

The ancients had the potential to go berserk, which meant that they would not be very obedient.

Truth be told, they're not very suitable as followers.

The shamanic race originally worships [wildness], and it is easy to give birth to berserkers.

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