Chapter 38: The Dungeon Branch
"Samsara 228, you have triggered the Panasimus Dungeon quest side quest - 'Setting things right'. Dungeon Chief Priest Wendini Lustina, please help free the Saldardo family from their control and restore their power over the dungeon. The goal of the mission is Wendini Rustina, who is safely out of the tower where the Family Council is located. ”
"Hint: The plot of this quest is detached from the original history of the dungeon, and the trigger point is caused by the reincarnation team, which is a unique quest temporarily released by the five major spaces. The recipient is centered on the X-Space Reincarnation 228, with a co-team member within ten kilometers of the perimeter. Completing this quest will add a 30% final reward to the main quest. ”
"I refuse!" Xu Mo's eyes flickered slightly, and he said coldly, "I'm just trying to scout the specific situation of the dungeon, and I'm not going to accept other hiring tasks." ”
"Your Excellency, a few hours ago, the Saldardor family sent a large number of Drow soldiers from the dungeons under the guise of an order from the United Council. The Dark Realm will soon be full of dangers, and if the Patriarch is not free, Breeland's team will be in great danger! Arrons, who was standing on the side, said lightly.
"Your Excellency, if you are willing to take me out of this tower, then I will try to convince other parents to support Breland as the only partner!" Looking at the indifferent Man in the Iron Mask, Wendini said helplessly, "At the same time, we will pay one-third of the dragon crystals that have been mined in the dragon crystal vein to the Red Rose Organization as a hiring fee. ”
"A third? How many? Xu Mo's eyes lit up, and he finally asked.
"About five hundred shadows!" Wendini said with a smile, "This is the maximum I can strive for, otherwise I will inevitably be impeached by the United States afterwards." ”
"How many guards are there in the tower?" Xu Mo pondered for a moment, and then opened his mouth to ask Arrons.
"The warriors and mages of the Saldardor family have basically left the city, leaving only a dozen guards in the tower, but ......," Arrons said with a grimace, "There are also eight two-headed hounds, two dementors, and a ghost-faced spider in the tower!" ”
Before Xu Mo entered the underground world, he had learned a little about some of the underground creatures of the Drow Imperial Envoy in the materials prepared by the Cross family. With Arrons' introduction, he began to learn more specifically about the combat power of these three underground monsters.
With a keen sense of smell and movement like the wind, and sharp claws like swords, the two-headed hound is Drow's most loyal combat companion. Dementors are unique underground creatures, humanoid ghosts, somewhere between entities and spirits, and specialize in psychic spells. The dementor howl that comes out of his mouth, capable of plunging most sapient beings into the abyss of fear, is the nemesis of the mage.
As for the ghost-faced spider mentioned by Arrons, it is the most powerful underground creature of these three monsters. Adult ghost-faced spiders are seven meters long, and when they stand up, they reach a height of four meters and can fit a small living room.
Covered in a thick carapace, the ghost-faced spider has four pairs of arthropods at its sides, and its feet are so sharp that they can cut through the hardest of the rocks. The needle-like hairs on the body are highly poisonous, and the mouthparts of the head have a pair of short serrated chelicera, capable of chopping through steel. The most perverted thing is that when this giant beast encounters danger, it will also spit out a highly corrosive venom, almost nothing melts.
Unlike most underground creatures, ghost-faced spiders have excellent eyesight. There are a total of 8 single eyes at the front of the cephalothorax, arranged in four rows. The abdomen has six neat breastplates with fluorescent stripes that resemble skulls, hence the name Ghost-Faced Spider.
"How did you sneak into here before?" After listening to Arlons' introduction, Xu Mo looked at him with a wry smile.
"I've been lurking outside for days, until the Saldardor family has drawn most of the tower guards, and the ghost-faced spider in the hall on the ground floor has fallen asleep again, before I can sneak into the tower. As for the two-headed hounds and dementors who are too few to fully inspect the tower, they can be easily avoided! Arlons shrugged his shoulders and said lightly.
"It's hard to avoid her with you!" Xu Mo looked at the beautiful Wendini and couldn't help sighing, "How do I feel that you don't want to run away, it's like adding dessert to those beasts!" ”
"Hee-hee, the family war in the dungeon is extremely cruel, and the defeated family will indeed have many members, becoming a delicious meal for the two-headed hound and the ghost-faced spider!" Wendini played with a strand of silver hair with her slender fingers and laughed deliciously.
"It's hard for my companions to enter this tower, and the three of us can't defeat so many monsters!" Xu Mo spread his hands expressionlessly, "Madam, do you have any other better way?" ”
"Dear Shadow Dancer, you are wrong! It's not just the three of us, it's just you and Arlons who can fight! Wendini smiled slyly, "As the seat of the family council, there is an altar of the Spider God Queen under this tower, and no goddess priest can perform magic in this tower. ”
When Xu Mo heard this, he suddenly realized and solved the last puzzle in his heart. It's no wonder that the two top teams are so easy to seize power in the dungeon, and the highest-level combat power of the dungeon is not the male elves with high martial arts skills like Arlons, but the patriarchs of the various Drow families who have become priests of the goddess.
With the gods bestowed by the Spider God Queen, these patriarchs are all great arcanists who are skilled in dark magic. And inside this tower, they are like ordinary weak women. Of course, the family guards guarding the council tower alone could not stop the counterattack of the two top teams.
Xu Mo could fully imagine the scene at that time, when these Drow family patriarchs were discussing on the top floor of the tower, the two top teams began to clean the tower floor by floor, and replaced the original guards with Saldardo's family members, until they captured the top floor and controlled these family patriarchs.
It has to be said that the plans of the two top teams are very bold, if in the process of capturing the tower, a tower guard or a parent finds out and sends a distress signal to the outside world. Then the two top teams, not to mention completing the main quest, will even be questionable whether they can leave the underground world alive.
Xu Mo rubbed his temples with a headache, the world of Alberon is a magical world. In this world, reincarnators are able to freely use various skills. Superstring Space has few restrictions on this, and even his stellar particle cannon has a magic crystal cannon to emulate.
The young man can use Ghost Walk to come and go freely in the Council Tower, but unfortunately he can't use Ghost Walk with the characters. Otherwise, the task would be a joke. Now Xu Mo can only take Wendini to avoid the two-headed hound and the dementor, descend to the bottom of the tower, and then defeat the huge ghost-faced spider and rescue Rustina's parents.
Xu Mo's mind spun rapidly, pondered for a while, and then slowly spoke, "Madam, do you have any tokens that can allow me to trust the members of Lustina's family!" ”
"Yes, but it doesn't work!" Wendini shrugged her shoulders, "When the council parents were imprisoned, the Saldardors announced a family ranking challenge to the entire dungeon. ”
Xu silently, the families in the dungeon get benefits according to the ranking, and once the lower-ranked families feel that their strength is enough, they will challenge the top-ranked families. The challenge mode has individual battles and clan battles, and the individual battles are fought between the heads of the two families, and the loser will die, but the family will survive.
If it is a clan war, then among the losing clans, all the adult dark elves will be killed. Minors become slaves, the clan emblem disappears, and the challenge mode is determined by the top-ranked clan.
The Saldardo family's previously announced challenge mode is a one-man battle, in which Saldardo's parents challenge Wendini Lustina. Until the outcome of the two is known, the family members of both sides are not allowed to approach the tower, and the other family members are not allowed to help either side. Otherwise, the cheating family will lose the Spider God's deity.
In other words, with the exception of the Saldardo family members who disguised themselves as guards in the tower, the council tower has become a forbidden place for other dark elves. Unless Wendini Lustina walks out of the tower herself, there is no way to break the trap set by the Saldardo family.
"Well, I can take on this mercenary assignment. But I want you to understand that if the danger is more than I can bear, I will just leave you alone! Xu Mo said lightly.
"Of course, you just have to do your best!" A hint of joy flashed in Wendini's eyes, and she hurriedly said.
Lustina's parents are unaware of the arrangements between the two top teams, and in her mind, as long as the Saldardo coup is successful, then she will definitely die. Now there is a life-saving straw in front of her, and no matter what, she has to give it a go.
"Also, I want you to summon the Spider God and make her the notary of our employment agreement!" Xu Mo's eyes flashed and he said slowly.
"It can't be!" Wendini exclaimed angrily, "To summon Goddess Rose, you need at least four Goddess Priests!" ”
"Then find three more priests, aren't there other family heads in this tower?" Xu Mo grinned, a cold light flashing in his eyes, "Feed the ghost-faced spider a little, maybe it will ignore your existence!" ”
"You're such a demon!" Wendini smiled and threw a amorous wink at Xu Mo, "But, it's very flattering!" ”