Chapter 15: The Caveman Riot

The cavemen of the Yara continent are humanoids endemic to caves. Cavemen are thinner than the average human, with a rickety back, strong arms, and a long length that can touch the ground even when standing upright, allowing them to easily navigate through caves. They have small heads, only a slit in the location of their eyes, and no vision at all. The nose and ears are large, and the sense of smell and hearing is so sensitive that it can easily distinguish sounds and smells from kilometers away. Due to the lack of sunlight all year round, their skin is miserable white, and they have no hair all over their bodies, only bare skin. Cavemen possess a certain level of intelligence, but not high, and live in groups in caves in tribes, and if they are large cave groups, they tend to be inhabited by several tribes at the same time, and several tribes have a common chief as the general leader in addition to their respective chiefs.

When the troglodyte tribe is invaded by demonic energy, the entire tribe members are often transformed into monsters. The demonized cavemen still live in groups as tribes, and their intelligence has decreased, but their strength has increased significantly. The members of the tribe of demonized cavemen have at least the strength of Black Iron Rank professionals, and most of the members can be classified into the Bronze Rank. Silver-tier demonized cavemen belong to the tribal leader level in small tribes, and although they will be below the gold-level tribal leader in large tribes, they can also enjoy special treatment as warrior leaders.

According to legend, the various demonized caveman tribes in the lower layers of the Weeping Cave even have a common chieftain, and legend has it that this caveman chief has even reached the realm of legend. Unfortunately, this legend has never been confirmed.

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"Vivien, lamp. Standing at the entrance of the caveman's approaching cave, Catherine began to build a position. Vivien heard Catherine's order, and pulled out several metal rods from a long pocket on the side of the huge backpack behind her back and handed them over. The opening of this pocket is under the backpack, making it very easy for Vivien to access.

Catherine took the metal rod, twisted it a few times, and then connected it into a bracket with a sharp lower end with the help of the tenons at both ends of the metal rod. Holding the metal bracket and looking around, he inserted it into a crack in the rock on the ground not far from the hole and fixed it.

As Catherine searched for a place, Vivien had pulled out several sets of parts from her backpack and assembled them into a glass hexagonal cylinder with a metal lid fastened to the top and bottom in a matter of seconds. Through the transparent glass, you can see a silver crystal ball inlaid on the metal cover at the bottom, and the metal around the crystal ball is depicted with many dense magic arrays. Although there was only one magic circle on the metal cover at the top, the magic array covered the entire metal disc.

Pannis watched Vivien quickly adjust the items in her hand, and asked with some curiosity, "You modified this lamp yourself?"

"Yes. Vivien raised her little face proudly, her hands kept moving, and she was showing off her achievements: "This is different from those standard bargains." The lamp I made, although the magic circle also needs to be charged with 1,000 tels of crystal energy at a time to activate, but after activation, it can really completely store the energy of 1,000 tels. And those bargains, the activation also requires a spar of 1,000 terres, but it can only store 500 terr of energy, tsk, it's too wasteful. Moreover, even if those bargains are turned off and not used after charging, all the energy stored in the store will be dissipated for a month, but I'm here, every year of release, the energy that escapes will not exceed one-fifth. It's a pity that this one of mine is twice as big as those bargains, and it is not easy to carry. I have a research project right now, which is to try to reduce the volume of the lamp without reducing the performance, but this requires the transformation of the magic array and some magic inscription skills, in fact, I think it is ...... here."

"Hey. Seeing that Vivian was moving more and more slowly, and finally stopped completely, once again immersed in thought, completely ignoring the voices of the outside world, Lina jumped to Vivian's side, took out a book and slapped Vivian's head: "It's adventure time, wake me up." ”

"Ah, sorry, sorry. Vivien, who had just woken up from a dream, handed the adjusted lamp to Catherine. Catherine took out a 1,000-terre spar from her backpack, and with a miserable heartache on her face, she reluctantly inserted the spar into the groove of the metal cover at the top, and hesitated a few times before gritting her teeth and activating the spar.

"Twenty gold coins, eldest sister. Lina smirked and teased: "Twenty gold coins just flew away, and they will never be recovered." ”

"Shut up for me. The magic array patterns inside the spar lamp began to flicker from top to bottom, until all the lines lit up again before returning to the previous dim state, Catherine took out the spar that had lost its luster, assembled the charged spar lamp through the small hole reserved at the bottom and the metal bracket, and finally pressed a miniature magic array switch on the chassis of the spar lamp.

As the switch was pressed, the crystal ball inside the hedron lamp immediately lit up, and the dazzling light softened through the surrounding glass cover, filling the entire space.

The four of them are in a long and narrow passage, and there are several cave entrances scattered on both sides of the passage, and the cave dwellers are about to come in all directions, and the cave entrance where the caveman is about to arrive is the largest one.

"It's Miss Ben's time. Lina, who enjoyed the normal brightness for the first time after entering the cave, looked around intoxicated, walked to the entrance of the cave and knelt on one knee, deep in her left hand, the law book automatically opened, suspended above her left hand, and tapped the ground at the entrance of the cave with her right hand, chanting in a low voice: "In the name of the earth, in the name of my lord, I hereby call on the spirit of the earth element, magic, terrain change, and stonemaking." ”

As Lina chanted, the hard rock on the ground suddenly rippled like a wave, and a huge rock slowly rose from the ground, as if emerging from the water. The rock, several meters thick, grows upwards until it connects to the dome.

"Perfect. Looking at the rock that had closed half of the wide cavern entrance, Catherine cocked her thumb in admiration, walked to the remaining half-open cavern, and held her sword in front of her, silently waiting for the caveman to arrive.

"Pennis, can't you really seal the hole completely?" Lina didn't give up trying to confirm again, "The stone I made can last six hours before disappearing, it should be enough for us to get rid of." ”

"No, I can't. Without thinking, Pannis replied, "The cavemen have locked on to our scent, and they will chase us wherever we run, and there is no way to get rid of them in the cave." Only once can we scare them, so that they will not dare to chase us again in their lives. ”

"Then let's fight. Lina spoke like a normal person for a rare time today, with compassion on her face: "I don't want to fight humanoids, even if the other party is a monster. Alas, may the Lord of Love forgive me my sins. ”

Hearing Lina's self-talk, and seeing the formation that was completely different from the previous battle on the mushroom, Pannis nodded clearly: "You should be able to hear it, they are coming soon." ”

"I hear you. Catherine, who was standing straight on the front line, had a calm face: "There are a lot of them, but there are only footsteps, no screams." Sure enough, the sound of cavemen talking to each other is inaudible to humans?, then, Mr. Pannis, I leave it to you to guard the other caves. ”

"Of course. Pannis did not have the slightest prevarication about his job: "Your will." ”

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The four of them encountered one of the more powerful demonized cavemen tribes in the lower caves, with a golden primary leader and a golden junior wizard, in the past, most areas of the lower caves could run rampant, especially in the turbulent period, the strength of all the cavemen has increased, and there are no monsters willing to provoke them, and they are also smart not to provoke those top monsters, so the tribe has not met an opponent for more than ten years, until they meet Nelly's adventure group.

The battle made the tribal leader extremely depressed from the beginning, and when his tens of thousands of troops were about to catch up with five prey, they found that the familiar terrain had changed, and the exit of the passage had inexplicably become smaller, and the hole that used to allow five or six clansmen to rush out was now only allowed to pass through three people, and there was also a prey blocked at the entrance of the cave, and every clansman who rushed over was cut off his head.

This prey seems to be a little stronger than himself. Although the leader muttered a little in his heart, he still commanded the clansmen to continue to storm the entrance of the cave, and in his not high wisdom, tens of thousands of clansmen could crush the opponent to death even if they were pressed. Unfortunately, he didn't last long, until he heard the sound of a crystal bottle shattering in the crowd.

An orange crystal bottle exploded over Catherine's head in the caveman, and a raging sea of fire erupted in the crowd centered on the crystal bottle, and it continued to burn for thirty seconds before it was suddenly extinguished. The landing point of the crystal bottle was very accurate, and the range of the sea of fire extended just one meter in front of Catherine, and it did not cause any harm to Catherine. As soon as the sea of fire was extinguished, the white crystal bottle exploded in the same place, and a cloud of icy frozen air filled the space that had just been heated by the sea of fire. The moment the freezing gas disappeared, another sea of fire ignited, and the continuous alternation of ice and fire made the cavemen miserable.

The caveman leader was horrified to find that his people had been difficult to advance while transporting their corpses backwards, and at this time, more and more clansmen continued to fall in pain in the alternation of cold and heat, and even the two silver-rank warrior leaders did not resist, and the skin and muscles of their bodies turned into pieces under the alternating cold and hot attacks.

"Wizard, wizard, kill that prey. The leader silently called out to his wizard, who waved his staff in obedience, and a large fireball condensed from the top of the staff, passed over the heads of his people, and flew towards the prey on the other side. But the prey didn't even dodge, the glowing iris shield tree was in front of him, and the big fireball containing the power of the golden rank exploded on the shield, only making the prey take half a step back, and leaving a charred mark on the shield. However, the exploding fireball affected many of his own clansmen, and several clansmen died tragically in the aftermath of the fireball explosion.

"Come back, come back first. Seeing the clansmen wailing in the hell of fire and ice, the leader anxiously commanded, hoping that the clansmen would go first

Fall back and attack again.

But.

"Sacred words, barriers. A coquettish shout interrupted the leader's expectation, and the leader could not see it, and an illusory wall of divine light appeared on the outskirts of the sea of fire, cutting off the way for the people to retreat. Although he couldn't see it, the leader could sense what was happening, and the helpless leader had no choice but to jump up, step on the heads of the dense clansmen in front of him, rush to the sacred barrier, and wave the stone axe containing the power of the golden rank in his hand, and three axes in a row broke the barrier.

The moment the barrier disappeared, the leader did not have the slightest joy of victory, but only felt a piercing chill from the bottom of his heart. In its perception, the prey at the entrance of the cave, which had not moved, finally moved.

"Sacred Word, petrified skin. "Spells, weapon enhancements. ”

Lina and Vivien's chanting rang out in unison, and the brilliance of the two spells fell on Catherine's body. Catherine's gaze stared at the leader in mid-air, a cold smile on the corner of her mouth, and the knight's sword raised a dangerous arc, ignoring the attacks of the cavemen around her, and launched a fearless charge against the leader in the air.

The sword shines.

The two figures in the air parted, and Catherine turned and rushed back to the same place, blocking the cavemen who wanted to break through. And the leader of the cavemen, with black blood spraying on his chest, fell directly into his own people.

As if they had heard some command, the cavemen who were rushing forward were suddenly stunned, stunned for a moment, and then the tide receded, leaving only a few hundred mutilated corpses on the ground.

As the cavemen retreated, deep in the cavern of another passage, the two men wrapped in cloaks shook their heads with regret and disappeared into the darkness without a sound.