Dwarves are generally fond of liquor and tobacco, and they also like to smash cutting boards with hammers, and mining and digging pits is an innate skill for every dwarf. This can be seen from their short and strong body characteristics.

There are only 5 Dwarves in the Silver Eagle Scouts, but they are stronger fighters than ordinary Dwarves, and they naturally know where the catacombs are and where to start. The five dwarves took turns wielding sharp and heavy iron pickaxes, and soon a dozen ventilation holes were carved into the catacombs. Immediately afterward, the dragon hunter Yudrite chose a spot and casually slashed at the rocks, sparks splashed, and the stones shattered and rolled, revealing a black hole, from which a rotten and unpleasant smell permeated the air.

Eglo Greybeard had already stated that there was a tomb beneath the ruins, and when the entrance to the tomb was revealed, Victor and the elven warriors furrowed in amazement.

Elves instinctively hate cramped cavern environments, especially those who have mastered the talent for wind walking, preferring open areas where the wind element is active. Victor was no exception, the rocks blocked the flow of the wind elementals, and he had not sensed that there was a space beneath the ruins.

The dwarves with thick lines didn't care about the complicated emotions of their elven companions, and Aglo Graybeard stopped a few dwarven brothers who were picking up dead vines, and shouted to Victor and the others, "Hey, if any of you send a burst of fresh air in, we won't have to light a fire." ”

Olavi Yuege whispered, "Of course it's okay to send air for air, but I don't want to go into the tomb. ”

Victor stepped forward and called for the wind element, allowing the cold fresh air to pour into the cave continuously, squeezing out the filthy gas in the cave from the air holes just dug by the dwarves, and by the way, using the wind element to perceive the environment of the tomb.

The underground space was much larger than expected, almost ten times the area of the ruins, and it took Victor a while to control the wind elemental blowing before changing the air inside, and even the dwarves looked at him with admiration and surprise.

The dwarves thought to themselves that if Olavi had injected air into it, the guy would have been lying on the ground pretending to be a dead dog.

Victor stopped the surging of the wind elementals and turned back to Elus Moonsong and said, "There is no sign of monster activity inside, it seems to be a normal tomb. ”

Eaze keenly grasped the subtle message in the nightingale's words, first glanced at the halfling Qiqi, then turned to Victor, and asked suspiciously, "I don't feel any danger inside...... What do you mean by 'no signs of monster activity'?"

Kiki also didn't feel the danger inside. The halfling adventurer raised his round face and said.

Elus Yuege belongs to the top powerhouse of the Golden Rank, and her danger instincts do not apply to other Silver Eagle Scouts, but the halfling Qiqi said that there is no danger, then everyone will be relatively safe.

Victor nodded, and said in a flat tone: "The wild instincts of ferocious creatures are ineffective against dormant undead creatures, and I have personally seen the fierce warriors and fierce war beasts of the human expedition being raided by the undead...... The lack of signs of monster activity below does not mean that there are no sudden dangerous situations. ”

"Thank you for the reminder, Lord Nightingale. Elus thanked Victor sincerely, and then chose three dwarves, one Wind Dancer, two War Dancers, and the halfling Kiki to go down with her. Angelis Windsong led the other scouts to guard the perimeter of the ruins.

Of course, Victor wouldn't stay on it, he just hated the cave environment, even if there were very few enemies in the cave who could actually threaten him. What's more, the wind elements inside and outside the tomb have blended with each other, providing a way for the void to walk, even if the cave suddenly collapses, don't want to trap him underground.

In fact, there is no need for him to worry about the danger of the collapse of the crypt, just as the fierce warrior can sense the danger, and the dwarves are also naturally sensitive to rock formations, knowing where and when they will collapse, and how to solve the problem of collapse. So the Dwarven stonemasons have a talent for building wonders on cliff faces or transforming a mountain into a dwarven fortress.

The dragon hunter Udite was the first to burrow into the crypt, followed by his dwarven brother and prophet Agello. Elven warriors and halflings Kiki followed the dwarves to guard, with Victor at the back of the line.

The tomb was dark, with only a faint glimmer of light leaking from the vents. With his talent for dim vision, Victor can roughly see the topography of the tomb, and details such as color are difficult to distinguish. Dwarves with dark vision, on the other hand, were not affected by the lightless environment, but they pulled out some kind of stone-like object from their pockets and rubbed it repeatedly with their rough palms, and the stone gradually bloomed with golden light, like a torch to drive away the darkness and illuminate part of the area.

The Dwarven Prophet explained to Victor while holding the glowing stone, "This is not a low-grade item like fluorescent...... Oh, you see how dazzling and brilliant their light is, like sunlight. That's why we dwarves call it the Sun Diamond. Don't look at it usually inconspicuous, put it under the sun tree can absorb the sun, the longer the time, the more powerful the sun diamond, if you put it for half a year, it can continue to illuminate for a day...... With such a high-grade Sun Treasure Diamond, there are not many pieces in Silver Eagle City. ”

"It was Kiki who stole it from the treasure trove of Silver Eagle City. The halfling adventurer hiding behind Victor poked his head out and said triumphantly.

Iglow ignored the little thief who took advantage of the opportunity, and said in a rambling voice, "It's not a good idea to light in a dark cave, dwarves don't need light, but elves with long ears need ......"

"Shut up!" Eluss scolded the dwarf in a low voice, pushed him forward with a palm, and ordered: "The dwarf guards go ahead, the elven warriors pay attention to the surrounding movements, let's explore the entire tomb first to make sure there are no monsters, and then carefully investigate the clues...... Be careful, let's get started. ”

Heavily armoured dwarven guards strapped the Sun Diamond to the grooves of their helmets and cleared the way with shields and iron rods in their hands. They were tasked with attracting monsters, and the sound of heavy breathing and the clanging of armor was particularly piercing in the dead silence of the tombs. Elven warriors and halfling adventurers armed with bows and arrows quietly followed the dwarves like silent ghosts. They rely on their blind perk to determine the location and distance of their teammates, and if the heavily armed dwarven guards who open their way are attacked, they immediately use their bows and arrows to support them without chaos.

The four major races of the Elven Empire live together, and according to the talents of different races, they form efficient and complementary tactical coordination methods, which can cope with different environments. In the current situation, the heavily armored dwarven guards act as meat shield bait, while the light-armored elven warriors provide cover.

However, the three dwarves with light above their heads are striking enough, but they look a little comical, like large walking candles.

Thanks to the lighting of the "big candle", the details of the tomb are clearly displayed. The tomb is well preserved and is about 2.5 meters high from the top to the ground, with a low stone wall forming a corridor, like a labyrinth. Probably because it was built on a hill, the tomb ** is quite dry, and there is no stagnant water and silt on the ground. But the strange thing is that the closed and dry tomb ** can not see the iconic sculptures, murals, ornaments and funerary goods.

It is less like a tomb pit and more like a crypt.

The team walked along the low wall and found no valuables, to be precise, except for the stone low wall, there was no trace of human activity. Victor was even more puzzled, the scale of this tomb is not small, and it takes a lot of labor to just build a low wall. It stands to reason that the Azorean Tasman's craftsmen always had to eat, drink and laze when building the tomb, which inevitably left traces of life in the tomb, such as containers for food and water, and damaged tool parts...... Even if the Assyrian craftsmen had cleaned up their belongings, the tombs were so well sealed that there would always be some grain particles or metabolites such as hair feces.

However, Victor didn't see these small things. So, the clean tomb exudes an unusual weirdness.

The lively halflings Kiki and the chatty dwarves stopped talking, and the oppressive atmosphere gradually spread through the ranks. It wasn't until the dwarf led everyone into the core area of the tomb that the cramped space suddenly opened up, and an empty hall appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

There are still no statues, stone slabs, or burial objects in the hall, but in the center of the hall there is a square pool made of stone blocks, about 8 meters long, and in the center of the pool is a high stone platform on which a faint humanoid object lies.

The Silver Eagle Scout cautiously explored every corner of the hall, and after confirming that there were no anomalies, the dwarven dragon hunter Udride stepped forward to check the pool alone, he spun around, exhaled, and said, "Oops, I couldn't speak just now, I was really suffocated...... Come and see, there's a dead man...... Uh, dead monster, whoever it is, it's not an elf, it's not a dwarf, it's not a halfling...... Certainly not a four-hoofed centaur either. ”

Aiglo rushed forward, glanced at the pool, laughed, and shouted excitedly, "Black mud...... There is black mud in the pool, and my divination interpretation is accurate!"

The graybeard dwarf has a fluttering eyebrow, and he has divined the pit holes, black mud, ants and other prophetic elements in the forest, and now the black mud that appears in the tomb greatly boosts his self-confidence, and at the same time gives confidence to the Silver Eagle Scout.

Victor used his rival talent to spy on the whole process of the dwarven prophet's divination, and he didn't bother to pretend not to know, and only focused on the stone platform.

It is a stone platform made of black glazed rock, 1.6 meters high, 2.2 meters wide and 2.9 meters long, which reflects a deep glow under the light of the sun diamond, making it look solid and heavy. Victor visually weighed 14 tonnes of the black-glazed rock platform, but it was by no means a product of the nearby mountains, but was brought in from the outside. It has strange characters on its side, which are related to the common script of elves and humans, but Victor does not recognize them. The base and base of the stone platform are smooth and flat, which contrasts sharply with the rough appearance of the upper part. This smooth bottom was apparently intended to facilitate the movement of the stone platform.

On the stone platform lies a withered corpse, as if it had been sleeping in a tomb for hundreds of years. It was about the size of a human, but it had a thin layer of withered scales on its neck and palms, and two sharp teeth protruding from its shriveled lips, exactly like the Assyrians described in Trigovar's ancestral notes—human-like, with vertical eyes and hollow fangs in the mouth, and a few with tiny scales on their necks and limbs.

Neither the warriors of the Elven Empire nor the civilians of the human realm are afraid of dead corpses, and in this world of monsters, although the Assyrians are intelligent species that everyone has never seen, the people present will not make a fuss. Strangely, the corpse was dressed in brightly colored fabrics and had a crown of colorful feathers on its head. The style of the costume reveals traces of mystery, nature and primitive worship. Compared to the dried corpses, which seemed to have been dead for hundreds of years, they were so well preserved, like they were the product of decades ago.

If the corpse had gone through a process of decay to dryness, its clothing would have shown signs of contamination with corpse fluid, but they were clean, unorthodox. It's as if someone had changed their clothes for hundreds of dead corpses.

So, how did the people who came to change their clothes get out in this sealed tomb?

"I think there's a ghost hiding in a corner of the hall to spy on us, it's the tomb owner's servant, and when we move the corpse, the ghost slave will appear. Halfling Kiki began to weave the story of his adventures again, chattering with his fellow dwarves.

"Aglow, what do you say now?" asked Elus to the Dwarven Prophet.

The graybeard dwarf was studying the text on the side of the stone platform, and said without looking back, "Don't touch the things here for now, wait for me to take a look first...... These texts seem to be a variant of the ancient scripts of the Empire, and it will take me a long time to translate them...... Also, the costume on its body is a bit odd, it looks like it was twenty years ago, but this tomb has been excavated for more than 1,000 years. ”

Victor's heart moved, and he asked, "How do you know that this is a tomb more than 1,000 years ago?"

"I just know...... Dwarven stonemasons know. I am the miraculous prophet of Aglow. The graybeard dwarf replied triumphantly.

When it comes to the bloodline talent of the son of the dwarf, Victor doesn't need to ask the truth anymore, nodded and said: "This corpse should be a famous nobleman of the Azores, his blood has been drained, and he has taken some kind of medicine to make his body dry and not rotten, his clothes, especially the feather crown, are no more than 30 years old, which means that this Azorean nobleman entered this tomb that has been going for more than 1,000 years within 30 years, lay on the stone platform, and let go of his blood...... He committed suicide, or more precisely, he was like a sacrificial sacrifice. ”

The dwarven prophet was dumbfounded and asked, "How do you know?"

"I just know. Victor smiled slightly, the air elemental perception was more subtle than the dissection of a corpse, allowing him to "see" not only the bleeding wounds of the Azorean nobles, but also the age of the corpse, clothing, and feather crown.

"More than 20 years ago, an Azorean nobleman ran into a tomb that was opened more than 1,000 years ago and sacrificed himself...... However, the entrance to this tomb is well sealed, and who opened the door for it?"

"That's a good question. Victor nodded appreciatively and said, "If you ask how the sacrifice came in, I can answer it now...... There was a hole under this stone platform, and I could feel the wind element inside. ”

The dragon hunter dwarf Udriit was afraid that there would be a trap on the stone platform, so before Graybeard moved, he jumped over the black mud pool, landed on the pedestal of the stone platform, stomped his feet, and said loudly: "There is really a stone cave down there...... This hole is still straight down more than ten meters before it crosses, and there is a very long stone tunnel below. ”

"Black mud...... Tunnels?"

The other dwarven guard remembered something, slapped Agro's shoulder armor forcefully, and exclaimed, "The moon god is above, and the hills are below." Brother Aiglo, you were right last time!"

Elus's eyes flashed slightly, and she said in a deep voice: "Push away the stone platform and take a look." ”

"Okay, look at me!" The dragon hunter Udite found a suitable foothold, held on to the stone platform, took a deep breath, the muscles on his arms swelled and bulged, and struggled to push the more than ten tons of black glazed stone platform away, revealing a deep dark hole below, from which a fishy and astringent smell gushed out.

Victor, Elus, and the Dwarven Prophet all jumped onto the pedestal, observing the cavern with the help of the glow of the Sun Diamond.

"This mountainside tunnel uses the gaps in the mountain wall to build a ventilation system...... Tsk, the Azorean Tatars are about to catch up with us dwarves in digging tunnels. Udrite smacked his lips.

"That's not right...... Look at the stone wall of the pit, there is no trace of digging with an iron pickaxe tool on it....... it is a claw mark?"

Aglow and Udritte lay at the entrance of the cave, pointing to the obvious claw marks on the stone walls of the tunnel, and said incredulously: "The Azoretans dig the tunnel with their hands, and the stones are as soft as mud in their hands...... How is this possible?How can the Azorean Tatars be better at digging stones than the dwarves?!"

Ignoring the two dwarven stonemasons with inner pain, Elus thought for a moment, shook her head and said: "It's not the masterpiece of the Azorians, at least this mountain belly tunnel was not dug by the Azorites, it's an Ant-Man monster." ”

As she spoke, she looked up and explained to Victor, "The Ant-Man monsters were the old enemies of the ancient Yalta, and after the fall of the Azoreta Empire, they attacked the forest centaur territory in the far east. Silver Eagle has been working with Forest Centaurs to deal with the Ant-Man threat for over 1,000 years. Ant-Man monsters are said to be better at burrowing than dwarves, and they are able to secrete a slime that softens hard rock. ”

She paused, then added, "However, these are all records of Silver Eagle City...... My men and I had never fought in the war to destroy Ant-Man, and I heard from the veterans of the Silver Eagle City Guard that they had never seen Ant-Man monsters burrow. The Silver Eagle City Guard is generally suspicious of rumors that Ant-Man will dig holes...... Now it seems that the rumor is true. ”

The last war between the forest centaurs and the Ant-Man invaders should have been more than thirty years ago, and the young General Tsukige and most of her men were not yet born.

Victor nodded, and tried to say, "Maybe two different Ant-Man monsters, like soldier ants and worker ants. ”

According to the accounts of the alchemists of the Esoteric Society, there is only one type of alchemy ant-man, but it is divided into flammable old ant-man and non-flammable ant-man. The reason why Ant-Man doesn't dig holes is because the Ant-Men who fight the forest centaurs are all old Ant-Men who are about to die, and the Ant-Man Empress deliberately consumes them.

Elus, who didn't know the truth, shook her ears to show that she didn't care. Aglow Greybeard became happy, and he and Udrite jumped back into the clearing, holding each other's arms with the other dwarf, and did a dwarven kick dance, shouting, "Black mud, tunnels, ants...... Graybeard's divination is not wrong, black mud, tunnels, ants, ....... Graybeard's divination is accurate. ”

Kiki, the halfling, took the dwarf's previous position, and said in a crisp voice: "Thirty years ago, an Azorean nobleman entered the tomb of the Azores more than 1,000 years ago through a tunnel dug by his old enemy Ant-Man, and then lay on the stone platform and killed himself...... It's a bizarre story. Well, I think it's even more bizarre that this vertical tunnel is not easy to borrow, how can the suicidal Azorean tower push such a heavy stone platform from below. ”

Olavi Yuege jumped over and said, "Kiki, you want to say that there are ghosts in this tomb that helped the nobles of the Azolians push away the stone platform from inside?"

Kiki nodded repeatedly, his sparkling eyes scanning back and forth to find the ghost hidden in the tomb.

In fact, ghosts are weak and have no power to change reality, and can only affect the minds of living beings. Short-lived ghosts can't do that, and the Silver Eagle Scouts aren't afraid of ghosts, and the moonlight leaf charms they carry have the blessing effect of expelling ghosts.

Without the ghost factor, the Azoretha nobles climbed into the tomb from the belly of the mountain to form an unsolved puzzle. Olavi stared at the rotten black mud in the pool and said, "I guess it has something to do with it." ”

"Fools think about black mud. Agello stopped singing and dancing, and said confidently: "Don't guess, let the magical prophet Aglo come to know divination once, and any problem can be clarified." ”

Divination?

Victor expressed his doubts with his eyes, and Olavi Yuege explained in a low voice: "Divination is a compulsory course for dwarven prophets, and only after learning divination can they learn prophetic divination, just like dwarven blacksmiths have to hone their blacksmithing skills, but they are still born miners...... Eglow's prophetic divination failed to gain the approval of his mentor, but his hindsight divination was still very accurate. ”

Graybeard, who was preparing the ritual utensils, looked up and shouted, "Hey, I hear you all with long ears that speak ill...... The miraculous prophet of Aglo accurately divined black mud, tunnels, and ants. My mentor will definitely give me prophetic robes. ”

Olavi bowed and apologized to the angry dwarven prophet. Victor interjected with interest and asked, "What is the principle of divination?"

Aglow's expression became solemn and solemn, and he said with a little pride: "You came, and the hill saw it, and when you were gone, the hill was still there, and he silently recorded that the hill was gone, and the stone was gone, and the earth was gone, and the dirt was gone, and the dust was still there, and the hill expounded His record to the dwarven prophets." ”

After saying that, the dwarven prophet buried his head in preparing the ritual supplies. Victor was silent for a moment and asked in a low voice, "And what about the price?"

“...... Graybeard turns into a whitebeard. Elus Moon Song replied softly, looking at the busy dwarve, and muttered with a complicated expression, "However, the dwarven prophets are proud of their white beards. ”