Chapter 101: The Ground Falls
The Apostles have been on high-stakes otherworldly missions for many years, and their vigilance is comparable to that of a warrior on the front lines of the battlefield.
Weiss had a sense of uneasiness, as did the other apostles on the team, most notably Lolita, the priestess with the highest perception. The strongest attribute of the shield guard is physique, the strongest attribute of the mage is spirit, Weiss is both strength and sensitivity, and as a priest, perception is the first attribute.
As the team descended into the mushroom glade, Lolita looked around warily, sensing a potential threat from all sides. The reason why it has not been said is because the feeling of these threats is not too strong, like a group of small mice scurrying around them.
Although it is disgusting and frightening from time to time, it is not life-threatening.
"There's nothing to worry about, the regimental commander has already released several light sound bats, and the reconnaissance radius has reached more than five kilometers. There are only a dozen or so medium-sized creatures in the vicinity, presumably underground creatures foraging in the mushroom forest. Seeing Lolita's cautious appearance, Romon couldn't help but comfort him.
If the reconnaissance radius is about five kilometers, then the reconnaissance area is seventy or eighty square kilometers, covering almost half of the mushroom woodland. The ultrasound detection capabilities of the light bat never let them down, and the shadow in Lolita's mind faded a little.
They had already learned from the Dark Elf Raven that each dungeon team chasing them would have one or two Drow Priests, a dozen or so Drow Warriors of various classes, plus some slave classes such as Lizardmen, Arachnoid Elves, and Zedi Bears, and the overall number would not exceed fifty.
If the drow elves wanted to ambush them, it was certainly impossible to form a large ambush circle with such a small number alone. As for the fact that there is a team that can surround the entire mushroom woodland, the number must be at least in the thousands.
The city of O'Baran was too far away, and it was too close to the surface for the dungeon to send so many troops to hunt them down.
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What Lolita and the others didn't know was that the mother of the seventh family of Obaran City, Wendini the Drow priest, was sitting under a giant mushroom that was only about fifty steps away from them.
The female elf, whose face was a little old, and there were still traces of the old charm between her eyes and eyebrows, draped a piece of the fur of the devil-horned deer over her body, covered her head together, and sat under the giant mushroom with her wand in her hand. If you don't look closely, you'll probably think of her as a jurassic beast eating mushroom bark under a tree.
"That's the light bat? Looks like the surface elf didn't deceive us! ”
Wentini raised his head slightly, a cold light flashed in his smoky Danfeng eyes, and his gaze flowed with the slight fluctuating ripples in the air. Drow elves have good eyesight, and the environment of the dark region has basically no effect on them.
The speed of the light bat also decreased slightly in the obstacle mushroom forest, and it was completely watched by the Drow priest.
Weiss and others' blind trust in the light bat is also an important factor in their stepping into the trap. With Qin Lun's careful thinking, how could he possibly ignore the reconnaissance ability of the light sound bat.
For others, it is almost impossible to hide the reconnaissance ability of the light bat that can bypass obstacles and sketch an image of an object with ultrasound. However, for Qin Lun, who has the perspective pupil skill and the reconnaissance ability itself is explosive, he knows better how to crack the reconnaissance skill of object imaging.
He didn't need to hide from the light bat, but only from the person who got the light sound bat's reconnaissance image.
The light sound bat's object imaging ability is not prioritized, and like Qin Lun's perspective pupil technique, it will feed back all images to its owner without any error. Whether there is a danger in it or not needs to be discerned by the owner himself.
The image formed by ultrasound and perceptual lines has a weakness, although it can bypass obstacles and break the stealth effect for a certain extent, but the pattern like a black and white sketch is blurry. In layman's terms, the resolution is not enough, and you can only roughly recognize what it is.
If someone disguises this, such as Wentini sitting under a tree in a deerskin, and a light bat that doesn't get close enough to scout, it will be mistaken for some kind of herbivore. Drow warriors who climb on giant mushrooms and stick to mushroom pillars are thought to be creatures such as beetles or monkeys.
It's normal to have a dozen or so animals in a jungle. Weiss, who commands the Light Bat, doesn't pay attention to these things, and even if they are all enemies, there aren't enough of them to pose a threat. What he really wanted to see was a large pile of unidentified objects gathered together, and that could be the Drow Elves' pursuers.
"It's completely encircled, almost now!"
Looking at the dwarves and apostles who had completely entered the encirclement, Wendini slowly rose from under the tree, and the staff in his hand lightly stomped on the ground under his feet. A faint wave of magic rippled beneath the mossy vegetation of the mushroom forest floor like a dark brown velvet carpet.
In the dark underground, which was only a few feet deep, a pair of earthy yellow vertical pupils slowly opened, and the evil bloodthirsty aura spread out like mercury.
The ultrasound of the light sound bat can be seen through like Qin Lun's gaze aura, but it cannot form a "thermal image" of the gaze aura according to biological breath and mental fluctuations, so it is easy to be deceived.
The ambush circle that Qin Lun created for Wei Si and the others was not on the ground, but underground. He had two Drow priests, Wentini and Kirkna, bury the lizardfolk cavalry alive underground, albeit only a few feet deep, but enough to hide from the light bats.
Whether it is a lizard man or a monitor lizard they sit on, they are all cold-blooded animals, they can fake their death and hibernate for hibernation, and they will die if they lack oxygen. In addition, the lizardmen and monitor lizards have thick scales on their skins, which can resist the absorption of moss vegetation for a short time, making this plan completely feasible.
In fact, the drow elves are very familiar with underground ambush tactics. Unlike surface creatures, many classes in dungeons can be buried deep underground, even without food or drink for weeks.
Therefore, when Qin Lun proposed this plan, the two Drow priests agreed almost without any consideration, which was originally a trick of the dungeon troops.
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Lolita, who was walking in the center of the team, suddenly throbbed, and a creepy feeling came to her heart.
Before she could react, a pair of dark green scaly claws burst out from under her feet, clasped the priestess's ankles, and pulled her downward.
"Underground!" Newton, the shield guard on Lolita's left, reacted very quickly, and while alerting his companion with a loud shout, the tower shield in his right hand smashed into the ground like a heavy hammer.
"Poof!" The tip of the triangular cone of the tower shield dug deep into the soil, and a furious roar like a wounded beast rang out from underground.
However, after all, the shield guard made a hasty attack, and there were still two feet of deep soil to remove most of the impact, and the owner of the two scaly claws did not suffer fatal injuries, but instead burst out with brute force through the pain, and actually pulled Lolita down.
"Ahh The priestess's calves sank deep into the soil, and she couldn't help but change color on her face and screamed in surprise.
Whether it is a plot character in the world of Feron or an apostle in the shattered starry sky, everyone knows that the priest is the most irreplaceable character of a team. The Priest may not be the soul of the team, or the heart of the offense, but at least there is no other role that can take its place.
Therefore, no matter how anxious the dwarves were to return, they took great care to keep the priestess in the center of the procession. And the first target of the drow elves to sneak up on is also Lolita. Killing Lolita is equivalent to leaving the exploration team without the ability to recover, and no matter how strong the others are, they will be slowly grinded to death.
The lizardman attack force was very lucky, the lizardman who captured Lolita happened to be the leader of this lizardman cavalry, and the strength attribute firmly suppressed the female priestess, so that she could not break free with her own strength at all.
"Lolita!" Weiss, who was at the front of the line, was startled and quickly turned around to rescue the priestess.
However, the ground in front of him burst into clouds of dust on the left and right, and two tall lizardmen surrounded him with flails and grinning.
Behind him, there was a rattling of rattles, and two monitor lizards spitting snake letters staggered out of the ground. These are two lizardmen's mounts, and they can still cooperate with their owners to attack when they are not ridden by the lizardmen.
"Get out of here!" Weiss's eyes were red, the skin of his whole body squirmed, and the pale bones broke through the epidermis and quickly covered the outside of the body, turning into a complete set of seamless bone armor.
Weiss swirled and danced like a whirlwind, the jagged blade at his elbow slashed at the two lizardmen in front of him like a full moon scimitar.
Starting with Lolita being caught, it was as if a silent horn was blowing at this moment.
Every member of the exploration party, whether it was a dwarf or an apostle, was suddenly attacked. The lizardmen and their monitor lizard mounts burst out from close range, as if countless enemies had sprung up around them at once.
The entire exploration team was divided and surrounded by the lizardman cavalry in an instant, and the defensive formation was wiped out, and it actually fell into a desperate situation in a very short time.
Although the Lizardmen who grabbed Lolita's ankle are underground and can no longer attack the priestess, this core area has the largest number of lizardmen, with a total of five and ten enemies with their mount, the monitor lizard.
Among them were three lizardmen and their monitor lizards, who intervened to stop the shield guard Newton. They may still not be a match for the shield guards, but at least they have dragged Newton to the aid of the priestess. The remaining two lizardmen did not hesitate to pounce on Lolita, even giving up their own protection.
To these ugly lizards, the command of the Drow priest was absolute. Since she was asked to kill this human woman at the first moment of the raid, there was no room for compromise. Once there is a cowardice, even if the final victory is achieved, these lizardman cavalry will all be executed.
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