Dark, narrow underground passages.

Garfield held the torch in his left hand and the one-handed greatsword in his right hand, half-crouching and cautiously moving forward, the torch flickering on and off, casting his shadow on the two teammates behind him, his teammates Grace and Casper, who were now following Garfield, ready to deal with the sudden situation.

The team had been in the passage for about 60 minutes. Garfield felt more and more strange about this passage, no anomalies were found in 60 minutes, there were no monsters or stalkers, no traps or traps, and what was the purpose of digging this passage for such a long time?

Grace's face was half-shadowed by the flickering firelight, "There should be no problem, although my mechanism detection ability is only at a medium level, there shouldn't be a master-level mechanism setup in this kind of place", she moved to the right side of the passage and grabbed a handful of dirt, "The passage I just passed through is all this kind of dirt, very soft, if there is a secret passage behind it, ventilation will change the color of the soil, and similarly, it is very difficult to hide the mechanism, I think we should move on" Grace turned to Casper with an inquiring look.

"I haven't found any anomalies yet", Casper was as expressionless as ever, "Maybe this is the biggest anomaly, keep going, I'll sue you if I find something".

Garfield shrugged his shoulders, reluctantly turned around, and continued on his way. He began to think that maybe the person who hired them here was just to make fun of them, and asked them to walk around the underground passages, and then go back in disgrace, what was the employer, the halfling, called, he couldn't remember, he just remembered to go to "Night Shadow" after completing the mission He can be found at the bar, and when it comes to the Nightshade Bar, the waitress, Sheryl, is such a lovely girl, always pestering him to tell adventure stories, always wanting Garfield to teach her some swordsmanship, and secretly pouring him a large glass of wine while the boss is not paying attention, and Garfield almost laughs at the thought of this.

"There is a situation ahead", Casper's keen perception found the situation, he suppressed his voice but said very powerfully: "There should be a lot of space ahead, you may encounter the enemy, prepare!" Casper's perception rarely goes wrong, Garfield came back to his senses, he was finally able to move his hands and feet after being suppressed for so long, his whole body began to feel excited, the left hand holding the torch had already begun to be sore, he inserted the torch into the mud next to him, the fire was extinguished instantly, and he couldn't adapt to the change of light for a while, and the three of them became blind in front of their eyes.

Grace was slightly angry, "I've already said it once, Garfield, you pig, you should put out the fire after I finish casting the spell, if there is a situation now, I will be very passive if I can't cast night vision, especially in this situation of imminent encounter, you have to be responsible for the whole team! This is the second time I have said it, I hope there will be no third time." Garfield was so embarrassed that he echoed Grace: "I'm sorry Grace baby, I promise there won't be a next time, now let's light it up."

In this case, of course, it is more important to prepare for the enemy first, so as not to let Garfield's recklessness affect the caster's state of mind, Grace took a deep breath, "Hold my hand", Grace stretched out her hands to both sides, held Garfield's and Casper's hands respectively, and said the term in the ancient language, which means "Spirit of all things, I pray with the soul of a slave that you will grant you the gnosis that knows all things in the night, and I would like to give you the gift of a few points and offer our most sincere intentions." "The effect of the spell was instantaneous, and they temporarily gained a faint ability to see darkness, and could see a range of about 10 meters in the dark.

Of course, the preparation for a battle is far from so simple, Grace took out the spirit pattern bag, took out a piece of luminous dragonfly scales from it, put it on the ground, and whispered to her teammates: "Remember this position, don't step on or step over", and then Grace began to cast a spell, "The spiritual space has been permanently solidified, and the Void Spirit Realm is firmly guarded, and any violation will be hit by chaos." "This is a high-end white magic, but also a trap magic - psychic blast, build a trap around the place where it is cast, once an intruder touches it, it will trigger a series of psychic shocks, and there is a high chance of causing a short-term mental breakdown to humanoid creatures, low-intelligence creatures will be directly stunned, and high-intelligence alien creatures will have a collapse, confusion, and gloomy situation depending on the situation, and it is also possible to completely ignore psychic attacks. Grace is an experienced adventurer, always thinking about the problem of retreat, each time will keep a few traps in case of emergency, in case of disadvantage, you can use these high-end traps to retreat, traveling around the Redstone continent is a very dangerous thing, if not prepared, you can pay the price of your life at any time.

At this moment, Garfield has entered the state, he feels that the air is beginning to boil, a battle is about to begin, although there is only a 10-meter line of sight, it is enough for him to make a powerful melee attack, and at the same time, it is impossible to have a long-range shooter in such a narrow passage, and if you want to shoot the opponent in a dark environment, you will not hurt your own people, probably only the dark elf can do it, of course there will be no dark elf power in this kind of place, what Garfield has to do is to show his skills after the war, first knock down the opponent's spellcaster, and then test the swordsmanship with the rest, as for protection and treatment, Casper is in charge。

The team slowly moved forward to the right, and soon reached the "large space" that Casper had predicted, but there was no "encounter with the enemy", it was just a large space, about the size of the Nightshade Bar, as if this space was just a node in the underground passage, and there was nothing inside.

The three of them slowly entered the space, Grace carefully checked the perimeter to see if there were any traps or secret doors, Garfield's spirit was still very high, he believed that something would be found here, maybe someone was ambushing here, forcing his eyes to scan the whole area cautiously, Casper was also a little surprised this time, but as a cautious priest, he still held the macehead tightly, trying to use his perception to find some clues.

After carefully examining the area, Grace looked at the other two and said, "It's strange, I don't think the passage here has been dug for a long time, it's probably only recently dug up, and it's ......" Grace stopped talking, obviously not sure about her conclusion.

Caspar thought of something, walked to the edge, and carefully examined the traces of the excavation, his face bewildered. Garfield looked at the two of them, completely unaware of what they had discovered, and began to shout, "What the hell is going on, have we been tricked? Damn halflings!"

"It's probably been dug up in the dirt, and it's only been a few days," Grace finally concluded. Soil spirits are humanoids, living in the underground of the Red Stone Continent, brutal by nature, muscular, the upper limbs are 3 times the size of ordinary people, and the lower limbs are the same as ordinary humans, the body shape shows an obvious inverted triangle, the height is about half that of humans, their food is soil, plus they have lived underground for a long time, their skin color is often jet black, at the same time, they have low intelligence, no different from animals, and are often enslaved by high-level biological control thoughts.

Casper looked at Grace and sighed, "It should be so, this passage was done by the earth spirits, but it was not eaten by them, but dug by the accusations", Casper turned to Garfield, "Who the hell entrusted us to come here?"

"Uh......" Garfield began to reminisce about the halfling, "an ordinary halfling, no characteristics, probably ...... He's dirty, as if he's just been dug out of the dirt, and his eyes are glazed, but halflings are like that," Garfield couldn't think of any other details, "and he said something strange was going on in the house, like something was going on under the ground, let's take a closer look, that's all." ”

The glazed-eyed halfling entrusted the task, and then the three of them arrived at the room where no one was around, Grace found the secret door on the side of the room, and passed through this narrow passage, and the earth spirit who was accused of zhì, there must be some connection, Casper looked down and pondered this chain of events, and suddenly, he felt a slight tremor on the ground. Casper's nerves throbbed for a moment, and he looked up, and it was still dark around him, nothing had changed, and Grace and Garfield didn't feel anything.

Is it an illusion? Casper tried to experience it again to confirm the shaking of the ground, but felt nothing. Is it because the journey of the past few days is too tiring? In the past few days, Garfield, Grace, Caspar and Adrian have been tracking the clues of the spirit sucking monster in this border town, and finally found a lair of the spirit sucking monster yesterday, and it took 3 hours of fighting to destroy the entire lair in one fell swoop, and the combat effectiveness has not been fully recovered, when Adrian was in order to protect Grace, the tentacles of the spirit sucking monster were stretched into his nostrils, and his sanity was greatly affected, and now he is still lying in the priest's church in the town, and it takes a period of rest to recover.

The vibration, which had been regarded as an illusion, came again, and Casper looked at Garfield inquiringly: "Do you feel the vibration?" As soon as the words fell, the voice of "Si Xi Suo" was heard in the front right, and it was clear that something had happened.

Garfield quickly picked up his one-handed greatsword and half-crouched, staring in the direction of the voice, Grace moved behind Garfield's back and pulled out the staff of rapid fire of the fireball. However, Casper vaguely felt that the vibration just now came from the left rear, he looked at the sides vigilantly, and picked up the mace with his right hand to warm up, a fierce battle, he was sure.

"Bang", a big hole was broken in the wall in front of the right, and a black thick arm stretched out from the hole, and then the head of a beast poked out, looking at Garfield, and then, the whole body came out of the hole, a strong earth spirit, Garfield had completely entered the battle state, but at this moment he looked at the earth spirit, and did not act rashly, there may be more earth spirits in the hole, they usually go together. Grace has already begun to cast a protective spell on Garfield, the Holy Shield, to deal with the earth elves, and only needs to strengthen his defenses.

followed by the first earth spirit, followed by the second and third earth spirits, and the fourth one did not appear, it seems that there were only three. Garfield was already experienced with the Dirt Elves, and he figured that it would only take a few minutes to end the fight and return to the Nightshade Bar.

The battle was initiated by the first earth elf, it roared and rushed towards Garfield, Grace picked up the fire bullet rapid-fire staff and pointed it at the earth elf eye, the staff energy quickly turned into a fire bullet from the head of the staff and hit the earth elf eye, the earth spirit was hit and let out a painful cry, but it did not slow down the speed of the collision, the unresponsive creature, of course, will not flinch. At the moment when he was about to hit Garfield, Garfield turned sideways to the right and swung his sword to slash down at the soil spirit's right leg, and the sharp blade cut a strict wound on the soil spirit's leg, and black blood came out from the wound. The strength of the lower limbs of the earth spirit was not enough to maintain the weight of the upper limbs, and he stumbled towards Casper, who was already ready, jumped up with all his might, and smashed a hammer on the head of the earth spirit, and the earth spirit fell to the ground in a duffled manner.

The remaining two earth spirits rushed towards Garfield together, and if they were hit by such a force, even the strongest human would not be able to withstand it. Garfield breathed a sigh of relief, holding his sword in both hands and preparing to attack, Grace behind him chanted the second spell - rainbow light spray, emitting colorful rainbow light from his fingertips, spraying a fantastic light at a large angle in front of Grace, the second earth spirit flashed in front of his eyes, lying straight on his back on the ground, motionless, the originally blank brain was even more blank, and the remaining earth spirit, shocked by the light in front of him, stood in place blankly, as if he had forgotten what was going on, what it was doing here, just looked at Garfield.

Garfield was slightly disappointed, he didn't expect this low-level spell to solve the battle, he stepped forward with a relaxed step, looked at the earth spirit for a moment, and then plunged a sword into the earth spirit's chest, and Casper solved the one lying on the ground.

The battle didn't end as expected. Garfield had just inserted his sword into the scabbard on his back when a violent headache hit him, making him almost unable to stand up straight. Casper had already noticed the situation and quickly chanted the priest's spell "Spirit Realm" to protect the recipient Garfield from the psychic attack.

There was a "bang" in the left rear, and another dirt spirit came out. Grace realized that the attack here was far more than just the earth spirits, there were more powerful creatures attacking the three of them, and immediately activated the spell sequence, the blade protection and stone shield were activated, and the air around Grace was quickly squeezed into pieces of transparent knife-like objects, rotating along Grace, the objects that entered this rotating space would be chopped, and a thin layer of earthy yellow protective shell appeared on the outer layer of Grace's body, such a spell was enough to resist melee attacks.

From the hole on the left, a group of earth spirits and the real opponent of the spirit attack Garfield, the Spirit Sucker, came out one after another. The spirit sucking monster is one of the most dangerous creatures on the Red Stone Continent, they are a typical example of highly evolved intelligence and extreme physical degeneration, the skin of the spirit sucking monster is sickly purple, the head is very close to an octopus, surrounded by a lot of wriggling tentacles, and the body is close to humans, but they do not have a hard bone in their body, all supported by cartilage, so that they walk strictly zhòng twisted, their internal communication is completely completed by the induction of the brain, and for the monsters controlled by the spirit sucking monster, it is issued by the "octopus antennae" on their faces" Their food is the brain marrow of various creatures, of course, of higher creatures, the brains of earth spirits are not on their menu, and the soul sucking monsters reach into the brains of the sucked to fill their stomachs. The Spirit Sucker looked at the three Garfield and did not hesitate, the tentacles made a "sizzling" noise, and the earth spirits immediately attacked Garfield.

Grace began to chant a wide range of fire spells, Flameburst, and Casper silently chanted Flame Protection, and Garfield would take a lot of damage in the Flameburst if he didn't protect it. Under the protection of the spiritual realm, Garfield was in high spirits, wielding a giant sword to kill the earth spirit in front of him, black blood splashed, and the earth spirit in front of him was slashed by Garfield neatly, every time the earth spirit's giant arm was waved, Garfield was dexterous to dodge, only two rounds, Garfield was surrounded by a red rising enchantment, like a circle of flames around the center of Garfield, and then a huge fireball flew straight from Garfield's back to the earth spirit in front of him, bursting into a large circle of fire, although the skin of the earth spirit was thick, it was also greatly damaged, showing purple, and the bursting embers emitted a glittering fire in the whole body of the earth spirit, the red enchantment shielded Garfield from a large amount of fire impact, only to make Garfield's armor slightly hot.

Garfield and the Dirt Spirits continued their hand-to-hand combat, and another batch of Dirt Spirits began to emerge from the first hole. The situation was obviously even worse than expected, and the three of them were already surrounded by earth spirits. Garfield was already lacking in skills and could only be resisted by Casper, who originally wanted to cast a spell to support Garfield, and began to cast protective spells for himself. The earth spirit obviously didn't want him to continue casting spells, the first earth spirit to drill out waved his huge arm at Casper, Casper's spell was not as successful as it was cast, and he was hit hard in the chest, and the whole person flew out several meters, and the earth spirit split into two groups, attacking Caspar who fell to the ground and Grace who cast the spell.

At this time, Garfield has been surrounded by earth spirits, and the giant arms have been smashed from the top of his head in turn, relying on Grace's holy shield skills and strong armor protection, Garfield has not been actually injured, but it will not last long, he will be overwhelmed by the earth spirits, plus once the protective effect of the spiritual realm is exhausted, he will definitely be knocked down by the detonation of the spirit sucking monster, Garfield is desperate, hoping to kill the earth spirit circle, without the protection of the earth spirits, he can chop the spirit sucking monster at will like cutting a cucumber. He no longer dodged the giant arm that was swung at him, and swept the giant sword with all his might, and the two sides fought each other to kill, and the earth spirits surrounding Garfield fell to the ground with a bang, and the ground shook heavily, and more earth spirits surrounded him. Even the nest of the Psick Monster that was taken out yesterday did not have so many Earth Spirits, and Garfield understood that this was the revenge of the Spiritsucker, and that this passage was simply a death trap dug for his team.

Grace was surrounded by layers of earth spirits, they tried to attack Grace with their arms, but their arms were cut off by the air blade, Grace chanted the frost technique, spewing out swords of frost from his fingertips, freezing the earth spirits in front of him to pieces, if the opponent was a human, they would have fled long ago, but now only more earth spirits are pouring in. Casper may be in great danger, Grace must save Casper first, she sends out a rainbow jet, shocking the earth spirit between the two, relying on the blade to kill Casper's side, Casper's armor all over his body has changed, large and small dents appear, but he can barely maintain his close-range attack ability.

"Kill the psionic monsters first, Grace, don't worry about me," Casper shouted.

"Understood!", Grace knew that this was their last chance, there were too many earth spirits, they were already in a big mess, she would be instantly torn apart by the earth spirits when the energy of the blade protector was exhausted, Garfield would be used as dinner by the spirit suckers, and Casper was the footcloth of the earth spirits. She uses the Red Magic stunt - Death Finger, which can directly destroy a creature with a poor constitution, and the Psitron is one of the worst creatures on the Redstone Continent.

Sensing the danger, the Spirit Sucker quickly replaced the target of the mind attack with Grace. The caster must be fully mentally focused in order to successfully cast a spell, and Grace suddenly became dizzy, her mind was a little wandering, and she couldn't even gather her spirit to chant the spell. Grace knew that her last chance would be missed, and she didn't want to be torn apart and spilled on the ground in a place that would never be discovered. She struggled to concentrate, ignoring the killing sounds and dizziness of the outside world, and the spell began to chant: "The withered spirits, gathered in the aura of life, bring the lowly souls and the decayed, into the dark abyss ,......", the psychic monster's psychic attack failed and let out a violent "sizzling" sound, and the earth spirits around Grace rushed more blindly towards the air blade, being cut into small pieces. Grace had finished chanting the spell, pointing at the spirit sucking monster in the distance, a purple light penetrated the layers of earth spirits and shot directly at the spirit sucking monster, the moment the magic energy came into contact with the body, the spirit sucking monster trembled, its weak body burst open like a water bag that had been squeezed, purple blood splattered all over the hole, and its tentacles curled up on the ground.

The offensive of the earth spirits did not stagnate, on the contrary, it became more violent.

Caspar couldn't withstand any more attacks, the Earth Elves' attacks prevented him from casting any spells, and the armor on his body was a burden that could not resist any more damage for him. A dirt spirit rushed from behind Casper, slammed his arm on the back of Casper's head, and the helmet was knocked out, Caspar fell to his knees like a puppet with a broken string, and then the whole person fell on the leg of a dirt spirit beside him.

After Grace resisted the attack of the Spirit Sucker and successfully cast the Finger of Death, she was so exhausted that she could no longer concentrate on casting spells, and she suddenly heard a "sizzle" sound coming from behind the hole, and this was probably the real lair of the Spirit Sucking Monster. The magic power of the blade of the body protection was exhausted, Grace looked at the ground in despair, and a thought suddenly came to mind, the cloak on her body, this cloak was given to her by the great druid of the Cuilin Mountain, which could cast a stealth spell to protect the user under the cloak for a short time, and that was the only way. Grace grabbed the cloak, but before she could activate the energy, her mind suddenly went blank, and she stared blankly at the battle in front of her, like a puppet.

A swaying figure in the cave, twisted and approached Grace, the earth spirit moved out of the way, and a spirit sucking monster, staggered in front of Grace, if Grace was still conscious, it only took a fire bomb to solve the monster. The octopus head of the Spirit Sucker approached Grace, its tentacles protruding through her nostrils, pierced ears, and mouth. Garfield shouted hoarsely, "Grace!" Grace stared at the monster in front of her with a blank look in her eyes, silent.

Garfield no longer dodged the attack of the earth spirit, and killed the spirit sucking monster, his head began to ache, and the effect of the spiritual field did not last long, the situation was very difficult, Grace had become an idiot, Casper was also killed, if he didn't leave, he would immediately become a can of the spirit sucking monster, and if he left now, he would have a chance to ask the king to encircle and suppress the spirit sucking monster lair here. Garfield made up his mind and turned to kill in the direction he had come, his greatsword slashing wearily at every earth spirit that stood in his way. A glow-in-the-dark dragonfly scale appeared on the ground in front of it, and that ...... What was that, Garfield looked at the scales but couldn't remember where he had seen it, he didn't have the heart to think about it, now he just wanted to kill this passage as much as he could.

The moment he stepped over the scales, a white ripple was launched from the center of the scales, and Garfield only felt that his consciousness was shaking violently, as if he was about to rearrange them, but he couldn't think of anything, he didn't know anything, he just wanted to lie down and get a good night's sleep......

Twisted out another spirit sucking monster from the hole, twisted all the way to Garfield's side, the tentacles violently "sizzle" at Garfield, and Garfield, who fell to the ground, seemed to come back to his senses and slowly got up, he only thought it was "sizzle" before, but now, Garfield heard the spirit sucking monster say to him: Follow me. Garfield obediently followed the Spirit Sucker into the cave.

Then, several halflings walked out of the cave and cleaned up the battlefield, and the black blood and earth spirit corpses everywhere needed to be worked for a while, but it didn't matter to them, they all looked dull and covered in dirt, as if they had just been dug out of the soil......