Chapter 22: Grantham (5)

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The passage to the surface of the "You Are ......" is also controlled by the dwarves, who come out of the water, either by going up the river or by coming down from the spring that leads directly to the Ransom fortress on the surface.

Captain Jim was secretly on guard, even if he killed the monsters and necromancers, until his identity was confirmed, he was not sure that he was not another intruder who wanted to disadvantage Sand City.

"I'm ...... Count the people of Watchman who were commissioned by Captain Black to clear the water monster that was taking over the water source. ”

If it weren't for the fact that a single lightning bolt had killed the monster and the necromancer, Jim would have wanted to shout 'nonsense!' Who doesn't know that the commander of the Watch Castle, Alex, and Grantham's vengeful leader Blake are at odds with each other, but Link's title to Blake makes Jim hesitate.

The world only knows that the leader of the revenge army is Blake, but few people know that the rank of the leader of the revenge army is 'captain', which has never changed from the beginning of its establishment to the present, because this army has a bad reputation, and there are years of war, few people will call Blake like this, maybe it really came down from above...... Not...... It could also be the bitter ploy of the Undead Empire, where untransformed mages can manipulate the elements.

Link didn't expect the captain of the dwarven guard to think about such a complicated idea, thinking that he could go back after completing the mission, and he was very concerned about the battle on the ground.

"Now that the water monster is solved, I should go back too. ”

"Wait!" Jim called out to Link, his gaze shifting to the fork that was constantly radiating thunder and lightning in his hand, "I want to clean up the water, and I'm going to have to do you a favor." ”

"What?" Link followed the dwarf's gaze at Storm Fury, remembering that the dwarves hadn't even penetrated the monster's skin with a ballista shot before, and suddenly realized, "Do you want me to dismember it?" With that, he raised the Storm Fury and plunged it directly into the beast's huge head. With a 'poof', Storm Fury's blade instantly sank into two-thirds.

"Ahhh

"This is's skin, how can you ......get it like this," Jim was excited, forgetting that the other party had killed the monster with a single blow. stepped forward and wanted to snatch the elemental weapon in Link's hand and do it himself.

"This is my destiny treasure, no! it's my holy relic, don't you ...... Bumper ......" Before he finished speaking, his fingers almost touched the captain of the dwarven guard of the Storm's Fury, and the lightning on the winding blade of the sword bounced directly out and fell into the water. The dwarves on the shore set up their ballistae and aimed them at Link.

"Stop!" said Jim, who came out of the water, and told his fellow citizens not to be reckless.

He who holds the relics is a chosen person. At this point, it can be determined that he is not sent by the Necromantic Empire, but this is a god who can control thunder and lightning...... Jim guessed in his heart. No more asking for Link's identity. He swam to the beast and climbed to the top of his head again on his wrists and feet, which were covered in slimy liquid, and Jim changed his words to a more polite tone.

"I was reckless just now, please don't care, be sure to help dismember this demonic beast, if you let it soak in the underground lake, it will continue to pollute the water source. ”

Jim sued SΓΉ Link, because Trollope's skin was tough. It is an excellent material for making zuΓ² leather armor and bowstrings, which must be stripped from the base of the wrist and foot so as not to be wasted.

Raft 6 was renewed. Tie the beast's wrists and feet with strong enough ropes, and hundreds of dwarves pull the big man to the shore. Under Jim's guidance, Link cut out the opening in the epidermis along the base of the brachiopod, and the dwarves could do the rest themselves. Putting away the storm rage, he plunged headlong into the water and witnessed Link diving. Jim's heart hung in the air.

When did the Children of Nature join forces with humans?

The dwarf was right, there was a dark river underground, the air was much fresher than before, it was not so smelly, and the color of the water was dark brown and clear. Luckily, the beast had no blood. Otherwise, we will have to pollute the water again.

Swimming some distance in the direction of the current, relying on the light source of the elements to find the spring to the ground, Link went upstream, and as soon as his head appeared above the water, he was stunned, isn't this an underground lake? How did I turn back? The dwarves were also stunned, and they all stopped what they were doing and looked at Link.

Link dived again, this time increasing the brightness of the light source to make sure it was a narrow hole before diving in. When I came out of the water again, it was still an underground lake, with the corpses of dwarves and monsters, and huge pillars of crystal pillars set up on the shore to illuminate them.

Jim's heart lifted again, and he went and went back twice, for what?

"Uh...... I seem to be lost. Link scratched at the back of his head, trying to make himself appear harmless, why were these dwarves so defensive of him?

Jim almost slipped and fell into the water.

"There's only one spring leading to the ground. ”

"But I swam there, and after a few tries, I came back to the lake......" Link suddenly had a not-so-good thought in his mind, but he didn't want to admit it, and decided to try again. He came to the waterway up again, from the curved straight, the traces of artificial repair were so distinct, there was no mistake, but he poked his head out of the water, and what he saw was still the corpses of dwarves and monsters, and he was still in the underground lake, and above his head was not the sky, but the hard rock wall.

Link climbs up to the desk and asks Jim about the underground passage to Grantham.

"It's not like a waterway, it's going to go around a long way. ”

"The fighting is tight up there, and I have to rush back. ”

"War?"

Seeing the surprise on the face of the captain of the dwarf guard, Link's heart sank: "Didn't anyone take refuge in Grantham?"

Dante said that the civilians had taken refuge in Sand City five days earlier, but the dwarves here had no idea what was happening on the ground...... The restlessness is like the ripples caused by a stone thrown into the water, expanding more and more.

Seeing his solemn expression, Jim also realized that something was wrong on the ground, take refuge, could it be the undead?

"Take me to the passage to the ground!"

Leaving the clean-up to the others, Jim personally led a team of famous men with Link to the passage to the surface. The passage that had been going up shone brightly, and the impatient Link hurried the dwarf out in a few arrows.

"Hell!" he was back in the underground lake, still standing on the stone staircase that led to the surface passage. What is this, is the ghost hitting the wall? I'm wearing a fantasy world, not a fairyman!

The dwarves who returned to the starting point looked at each other, and they patrolled the passage once a day. I've never seen anything like this.

"Turner, Warok, Worthley!" the captain of the guard called three shrewd and capable men, telling them to go again, and if there was anything unusual, they would withdraw immediately, and not rush in.

After about twenty minutes, Link couldn't wait to go again, and the three dwarves returned. Carrying an unconscious human on his back.

The dwarf named Turner reported that they had found the human halfway up the ground, with only minor injuries.

Link leaned over and saw that it was Finn, who had a lot of blood on his body and looked like he had been stained.

"Wake up!" Tapping him on the cheek, Link tried to wake Finn up.

Moaning a few times, Finn really woke up and he opened his eyes. First he yelled and kept waving his arms, and the dwarf who carried him was caught off guard, and Finn fell to the ground, but fortunately it was not too high, and at most it hurt a little. Link shouted his name a few times to calm Finn down, but no matter what Link asked, he just kept his head down and refused to speak.

Hurry back to the ground. Holding on to the last glimmer of hope, Link walked into the artificially dug tunnel again, and soon he was in front of the dwarves again. There is no shelter from the water. Up close, they all witnessed Link appear out of thin air, like a portal through guΓ².

Listening to the dwarf's words, Link was so anxious that he pulled his head.

I said how could it be so easy to kill the water monster, it turns out that the real purpose is not to occupy the water source, but to trap someone here through the bait of guΓ².

The law of cause and effect! This is the only possible option. If the 'cause' is not broken, the 'effect' will always exist.

Want to crack it...... Who is the guy who is designing the law of cause and effect trying to bring down? Blake? Or me?

If the person who laid out the law of cause and effect is Frost, then it is likely that he is targeting me. No, you can't think that it's just for me, frost and cold are masters of the law of cause and effect. The double law of cause and effect can also be used. It is possible to aim for something bigger...... Set to be able to kill the monster or start by killing the monster...... If it's the latter, then it's bad, the monster named Trollope has already been slain by me, and isn't the law of cause and effect unsolvable? Calm, calm, and if you think about it, there is no other possibility, such as limiting the scope to the electorate......

After several inferences, Link still went back to the law of cause and effect by killing the monster. This is the most likely, and the most inexplicable. It turned out that the dwarf had brought Finn back from the halfway, and when he walked with him, he went straight back, and the strange teleportation was only aimed at him.

The captain of the dwarven guard, who had not been silent, asked Link if the undead were attacking the city, and the other underground passages were far from the ground and mostly in the remote wilderness, so as long as the caravan entered the surface without being seen by the undead, it would not be invaded by the undead. But the situation of Sand City is different, it is a newly built stronghold, too close to the surface, and if Grantham is breached by the undead, Sand City will not escape.

"As the waters rose, the undead took advantage of the situation to flood large swaths of the wilderness, and the Watch Fortress withdrew to Grantham. Glancing at Finn, who was still with his head down, he didn't see Ron, and Link guessed that it was probably more than lucky. Coupled with the dead in Gray Heights, the civilians of the Watch Fortress and the fortress were basically killed, and even if there were lucky survivors like Finn, there would not be too many.

As soon as they heard the rising water, the dwarves began to talk about it, and the reason why they chose Grantham in the first place was because of the high terrain and the presence of the Vengeant Army, which could not only dig ore, but also support the war on the surface.

"How's the battle?" Jim had to think about the safety of Sander, and if the Overwatch and the Avengers couldn't deal with it, they would have to retreat.

This is also what Link is worried about, the relationship between the dwarves and humans has deteriorated since they lost the war for land, and after moving underground, they have to fight with night elves and various underground creatures in exchange for a pitiful living space, if it weren't for the undead being the number one enemy of all creatures, they wouldn't trade with humans, and it is rare to be willing to befriend humans like Dante.

"Not optimistic......," Link replied, adding to the dwarves' voices, and some had even begun to discuss whether to abandon the mines and evacuate deeper.

"Quiet!"

Noticing Link's expression of some displeasure, Jim let out a loud shout, and even the dwarves who were still handling the corpses of the monsters in the distance stopped, and there was only the sound of water flowing in the grotto in the underground lake area.

"This time, the undead seem determined to destroy Fort Overwatch and Grantham, if they succeed. The new will lose the last line of defense. Link is obviously talking nonsense with his eyes open, he has seen from the big 6 Zhi that there is a clear difference between the real Edgar and the illusion, the most obvious is the proportion of 6 places, the illusion is only a projection after all, which greatly shortens the gap between the cities, take River Valley and Aiden, the two cities he is most familiar with. In fact, they were far apart, one to the west and the other to the south, separated by a large field now classified as a Befast territory.

The situation is urgent, and Link can't care so much, he wants to convince the dwarves to go up to the surface to help humans fight the undead, but he also knows in his heart that the chances of this are slim, allowing the caravan to borrow the underground passage. It is not the same as forming an alliance with humans, and the allies of the dwarves have only been gnomes since ancient times.

"Whatever humanity has done to you, you must be on the same side in the fight against the undead. Otherwise, when the undead destroy humanity, it will be your turn next, and they will devour every living thing in this world until the planet is destroyed by death. Link's persuasion didn't work, he was in a hurry. "At the very least, send a messenger. I went to the fortress and informed the Grand Duke of Befast, saying that I was trapped under the law of cause and effect. ”

Jim said that he could not call the shots, and that he would report the matter to the patriarch for decision.

"The war up there is urgent, and I can't wait here for you to make a formulaic report. For the sake of me helping you get rid of that monster, can't you do me a favor?"

"I'll go. ”

A voice rang out from among the dwarves, and Finn, who had kept his head down, stood up. There are obvious tear stains on the pale face.

"I can help you deliver a message. ”

Link wasn't happy at all, compared to the dwarves who were born warriors, Finn couldn't protect himself, what if he encountered the undead in the passage?

Rubbing his cheeks indiscriminately, Finn offered to deliver the letter. Let Link take him as an apprentice.

What is this unfolding?

"No! no!" Link refused without thinking about it, the power of the child of nature comes from the gods, and if the divine power is removed, he is just an ordinary person, what is the use of taking apprentices, and he can't teach him anything.

Finn is stubborn and must learn from Link, "Rono died to protect me." "On the first day of the siege of the undead, in order to protect himself from the panicked crowd, he was killed by a rain of arrows fired from outside the fortress. In order not to become a force for the undead, the commander ordered all the corpses to be burned, and he couldn't even get Rono's ashes, all of them were mixed together and buried in a freshly dug pit.

"Your adoptive father wants you to live, not to avenge him. "Even if the Child of Nature wants to take in apprentices, he must teach other Children of Nature, just like Hull and Irees, it is impossible to pass on the knowledge of the Children of Nature to ordinary people. And Link wasn't sure if he would be able to stay at Fort Watch after the undead attacked the city, and carrying such a person who had no ability to protect himself would not only be a burden, but would only kill him.

"There are no eggs under the nest, I can escape for a while, I can't escape for a lifetime, didn't you just say that the goal of the undead is all living beings. ”

Link finally realized what it was like to lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot, but the current situation was that the dwarves refused to help, and he was trapped by the law of cause and effect and could not leave the area, and the only hope was this fellow man who was also from Earth.

"My strength is a godsend, and I can't pass it on to anyone else. ”

"It doesn't matter, anything is fine, as long as it can deal with the undead. ”

"Okay......" Link turned his gaze to the captain of the dwarven guard, "it's always okay to give him a weapon to defend himself, right?"

Naturally, this was no problem, and at Jim's signal, Turner, who had carried Finn back, handed Finn his spare weapon, a dagger.

Tell him to be careful on the road, withdraw if something is wrong, and save his life.

When Finn's back disappeared into the dark passage, Link returned to the lake and stared at the remains of the necromancer that had been left on the ground.

Will it be frost?

Thinking of this old rival Link's back is cold, and the series of inside stories that come out of investigating the frost life box in the illusion has proved that the harsh winter, who was still a teenager at the time, has extremely careful thoughts and wisdom beyond ordinary people. I've been a lich in this world for a hundred years, and its ruthlessness and experience have increased greatly, can I fight this perverted madman?

The law of cause and effect, through the prophecy of divine power, in the case that there is no way to break the cause, there is only this option left to destroy the caster. If it is really the law of cause and effect under the frost, Alex, Gonzalez and Black, who are the strongest individuals in the fortress, are not its opponents, and I heard that they are already at the legendary level, and I am afraid that only the level of the High Priest of Dawn and Hull is enough to be its opponent.

I already have divine power, but I can't break this little prophecy, when will I be able to have the four special skills of the four elemental gods in the illusion? If there is one...... At least you can know how to leave, instead of standing here.

While Link was frustrated that he couldn't break the law of cause and effect, Finn, holding a torch in one hand and a dagger in the other, stopped at a fork in the road along the artificially hewn stone steps. This is where the dwarves appeared, leading to Grantham on the ground to the left, and another dwarven city to the north to the right.

What to do, left or right?

After hesitating for a few seconds, Finn chose to the left, and he vaguely heard a voice from this side.

Hopefully it won't be the undead, Rono bless me.

Fenn prayed as he cautiously walked forward. (To be continued!)