Chapter 24: Monsters
"Then let's go. ”
After Faust had finished speaking, he lit the torch and threw it into the cave, and when he saw that the torch had not been extinguished, he walked cautiously inward.
He was followed by Kuaza, who took a deep look at the five members of the party, turned to follow Faust, and as he passed by old Hama, he pulled him past without saying a word, and walked into the cave together.
Old Hama was originally mixing between the two villagers and pretending to be stupid, but he didn't expect to be taken down by Kuaza, and he wanted to struggle twice, but after being glared at by Kuaza fiercely, he was completely honest.
The five-man expedition team glanced at each other, nodded, and lined up to rush in. Gaunt lit a torch himself and walked in second place, ahead of him the thief Jebido, behind the professor and Annabella, with Reinhardt at the back of the line.
Faust was at the head of the line, constantly thinking back to the map he had written down all night the night before—he wasn't going to take it out and share it.
Entering the cave and walking a short distance, two forks in the road appeared, and Faust did not hesitate to choose the one on the left. The size of the dungeon is staggering, and more than seventy percent of them are complex forks and labyrinths - Faust merely memorized one of the roads and some of the passages around it in the direction indicated on the map.
Ever since Faust and his party entered the fork in the road, the road beneath their feet had gradually sloping downward, but fortunately, the ventilation was good, and although some odors could be smelled, the air currents could be felt, and the torches had not abated.
Faust touched the walls of the cave that had been eroded by time, and it could be seen that the walls of the labyrinth were painted with exquisite textures, but the glory of the past had vanished, the roots of plants squeezed through the cave walls, and the water and earth blurred the patterns.
Faust didn't walk fast, and the people behind him didn't rush - most of Kuaza's spirit was spent guarding against the adventurers behind him, and the core of the adventure team, Dr. Pacion, was writing something in his notebook by the faint light of the fire.
As the terrain flattened out again, there were more and more forks and junctions in the tunnels, and each passage looked similar.
However, the complex terrain did not pose an obstacle to Faust's intelligence of 17, and he had already formed a three-dimensional map in his mind.
The map doesn't cover the entire labyrinth, but the entire route can pass through all the burial chambers and return to the cave in the other direction.
So, although their speed is relatively slow, they keep moving towards their destination.
Everyone walked forward in silence, and suddenly, the professor raised his hand to signal everyone's attention, and he said, "Wait, here, and here, these symbols are painted later." ”
When Faust heard this, he immediately leaned over, put the torch close to the wall, and looked closely, and sure enough, there were several symbols cleverly hidden in the pattern, which would have been even more difficult to find if it were not for the fading of the paint.
These symbols, Faust recognized, they appear in Faust's map, along the path pointed out on the map irregular arrangement, what exactly to express, Faust is not very clear.
However, this was an opportunity, and the glint in Faust's eyes flashed, and a faint beep sounded in the tunnel.
While Faust and Professor Pacien get together to study the symbols, the atmosphere between the party and Kuaza is not very good.
It turned out that when the people changed formations to make room for the Professor and Faust, the big man's hand accidentally skipped over Kuazza's chest. Kuaza's spirit was already tense, and he subconsciously slashed over.
"Wow~~" A long sword flew from behind Gaunt and hit the back of Kuaza's knife, although it failed to block Kuaza's slash, but it successfully deflected the direction of the blade, and the tip of the knife only barely cut through the skin on Gaunt's chest.
The big man Gaunt's chest was cold and hot, and he subconsciously touched it with his hand, and it was already full of blood.
The thief Jebido reacted faster than Reinhardt, and his reaction was very different from Reinhardt's - he rushed into Kuazza's arms with an arrow, and the dagger in his hand stabbed Kuazza in the chest and abdomen.
As a toad man, one of Kuaza's strongest abilities is bouncing, and with the force of his legs, the whole person jumps six or seven feet backwards, causing Jebido's dagger to miss in an instant.
Reinhardt rushed to Gaunt's side and picked up his sword, the passage was wide enough for the big man Gaunt and Reinhardt to stand side by side, and Annabella behind her clenched her wand.
The thief Jebido misses a blow and bounces around the walls like a ball a few times before landing on the other side of Gaunt.
"Can't help but do it?" Reinhardt looked at Gaunt's wound and asked Kuaza loudly with a blushing face.
At this time, the clever old toad Hama had already hid around the corner they had just walked, only showing one head to watch the conflict between the two sides escalate.
Without an interpreter, Kuazza certainly couldn't understand what Reinhardt was saying, but he didn't care, "Come on, you greedy outsiders, and take advantage of Kuazza's wrath!"
As soon as the words fell, Kuaza's legs bent slightly, and with a sudden force, the whole person disappeared in place, leaving only the tiny cracks and smoke on the ground.
"Ahhhhh!!h
Reinhardt held the sword in both hands, the hilt raised to his forehead, the tip pointing straight ahead. He moved steadily behind Gaunt, his sword stabbing forward from the armpits and sides of his arms, blocking the rampaging Gaunt from tricky angles.
Jebido turned into a shadow and slipped through the gap between the blades of his sword and axe to Kuaza's back, and stabbed his dagger into Kuaza's waist.
The professor only realized that something was wrong at this time, and stood up to dissuade the two sides from stopping the fight, but he noticed that someone had tapped him on the shoulder, and Professor Pacien subconsciously turned his head, only to see a pair of eyes that shimmered with crystalline light.
"Sleep, Professor, sleep. Faust lulled the professor to sleep in an ethereal voice, and soon the light in the professor's eyes went out and he fell into a deep sleep.
After gently catching the sleeping professor and slowly lowering it to the ground, Faust straightened up, feeling the power of psionic energy flow from his mind, seep through his body, and evaporate from every pore on his body.
He twitched his nose as if he had smelled some wonderful aroma, and closed his eyes with an intoxicated smile, "Suspicion, greed, anger, hatred...... People always have beautiful flowers on them, and this fragrance is really intoxicating. ”
He seemed to be walking between the gardens, and strangely, the sword slashed past him, always strangely bypassing his figure, and the two sides of the battle ignored him. Only the old toad Hama in the distance swallowed his saliva and looked in fear at Faust as he wandered around the battlefield.