The Moonlight Thorn only lasts for one day, and if it does not eat after the time limit, it will regurgitate the object of protection. The lizards and wild birds in the crevices of the mountain's belly were obviously not enough to feed the moonlight thorns. Due to the urgency of time, Elus Yuege personally led the team to hunt in the forest below the cliff.

In about half a day's work, the elven warriors captured two wild boars and five takin. That's more than enough prey to feed the Moonlight Thorns, and the rest can also improve the food of the Silvermoon Scouts.

Elus placed the largest and most ferocious boar beside the moonlit thorns, and when the thorny vines pierced the boar's flesh, it soon ceased to struggle and became limp like mud. The vines of the moonlight thorns gradually turned red, winding and tightening the boar even harder, and growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The more lush the moonlight thorns grow, the more obvious the effect of healing injuries and protecting souls. The moonlit thorns swayed the vines and drew new shoots, and the Silver Eagle Scouts were all delighted, and the four dwarves even danced happily as if their brother Coelio had been saved. Even General Yuege smiled sweetly at this time, revealing a relaxed expression that contrasted sharply with the previous dullness.

In fact, Coelho's body and soul were not injured, and the greatest effect of the moonlight vine was to stabilize his soul from the assimilation of the realm of all souls. As for whether his soul was pulled out of the realm of all souls by the moonlight vines, as Mr. Nightingale had judged, and then returned to his body, it was still unknown.

Elus was expecting a good outcome. However, as a powerhouse of the Golden Rank, although she is not as indifferent as the Golden Knight, her concepts, way of thinking about problems, and even her personal emotions are completely different from ordinary fighters. In her eyes, the way to save the dwarven guards was more important than Coelho's life.

If this method is effective, the Nightingale's judgment is correct, and everyone will be happy to be rescued, but if it doesn't, Coelho dies or becomes something else, and Elus must reconsider the future plan of action to avoid the same fate for the whole team.

Victor also wanted Koelho to come back to life, whether it was his own will or the ghosts of the Realm of All Souls taking over his body, it was better for him or it to be able to communicate with people than to have his body eaten by moonlit vines.

While Elus was out hunting, Victor had already learned something about the realm of all souls from the mouth of Agro Graybeard, but unfortunately the dwarven prophet only stayed in it for a short time before being banished, and what he saw was very limited. The Azores ghosts in the realm of all souls certainly hold more secrets, but they may be hostile to the Silver Eagle Scouts, and their words are inevitably full of lies and deception, while Coelho's souls are undoubtedly more honest and trustworthy.

There was a rare dwarf in the team who had fallen into the realm of all souls, and he was so sorry that he never returned.

The fact that the moonlight thorns would pull the souls of the dwarves back from the realm of all souls is just a hypothesis put forward by Victor, and time will tell if his hypothesis is true. But what he lacks now is time.

Coelho's fall into the realm of all souls may have been due to the fact that he had coveted the amber orb of the withered witch doctor, but on the other hand, the reason was that something went wrong with the withered witch king's main burial chamber, which caused a meeting between the realm of all souls and the real world.

Victor could sense that the dragon maids, Lyra and Dilly, were near the withered witch king's main burial chamber, and had just experienced a medium-intensity battle.

The Red Dragon Maid Lyra and the Green Dragon Maid Dilly belong to the team of Wizard Emerson and are tasked with exploring the underground space of the temple. However, they suddenly moved to the main burial chamber of the withered witch king, and they didn't know what happened there, which actually caused a change in the realm of all souls.

The Four Seasons Witch King is the key to unlocking the realm of all souls, but the key is not the point. How to open the realm of all souls, and what will happen after opening it is the key to the problem.

Imerson's team has been working with the Lord of Sorrow, and Victor has reason to suspect that the Lord of Sorrow is playing tricks, asking the Dragon Maiden Lyra for ambiguous information through a psychic connection, while he needs to explore the other three Witch King Tombs as soon as possible.

It is still unknown whether there is any key information in the Witch King's main tomb, but the Sorrowful Lord, played by the Witch King, is already in action, and Victor must move to the vicinity of the temple before his plot succeeds, stop him in time, or wait for an opportunity.

"Let's get out of here now and head to the Witch King's tomb to see if there are any new clues. Victor looked away from the moonlight thorn and looked around at the crowd as he spoke.

Eudrite the Dragon Hunter looked up in amazement and asked, "Lord Nightingale, what about Coelho?"

"He's protected by moonlight thorns and can stay here. ”

When the dwarf heard that he was going to leave his brother, who was uncertain about his fate, alone, he blew his beard and glared and shouted, "No, no, how can this be done, poor Coelio will be eaten by the moonlight thorns......"

"Quiet, Lord Nightingale must have his reasons. Olavi Moonsong stopped his noisy dwarven companions and looked at Mr. Nightingale with reverence, and the other elven warriors saluted Nightingale.

The Dwarves and Elves of the Silver Eagle Scout Squad were thus divided, with the Dwarves wanting to protect their companions and the Elves instinctively trusting the High Elven Wanderers.

It is indeed difficult for the elves to resist the bloodline charm of the son of the moon god, and Elus sighed secretly and said, "Your ......, my lord"

Victor waved his hand and said indifferently: "If you need a reason, think for yourself, I have no evidence and no time to find a reason to leave." If you don't want to act with me, you're useless to me, and we'll go separate here, and I'll go to the main burial chamber of the Four Seasons Witch King myself. ”

With that, he sorted out his equipment and supplies, and left the cliff platform on his own, turning back into the cave in the belly of the mountain, leaving behind a group of dwarves and elven warriors who looked at each other.

Angelis Wind Song said anxiously to Elus, "Sister, we can't let adults venture alone! Lord Nightingale is our chance, and he is more important than the legendary Imperial Relic. ”

Mr. Nightingale may not be as important as Freya's Tears, but a living child of a quasi-moon god is certainly more in the immediate interests of the Silver Eagle Scout than an ethereal legend.

From another point of view, any city-state in the Elven Empire, including the imperial capital Elanta, will help the seventh-order son of the moon god repair the bloodline defects, and is willing to pay for it. But embarrassingly, the Wanderer Nightingale was superior in strength, and he didn't just say that he didn't need the help of the Silver Eagle Scout.

Eglow Greybeard was the first to react, nodding his head again and again, "We don't know why Coelho had a problem, and we don't know if the Moonlight Thorn will wake him up. We can't help him if we stay, and the others may become like him, and when we all become ghosts, who will save us? Well, we have to do something, and whatever we do, it's better than waiting here to die. ”

Udride immediately turned around and went into the tunnel, shouting as he ran: "Nightingale, Nightingale, wait for me, we will go with you." ”

Somewhere in the underground tunnels of the Assyrian Temple, swordsmen Todd, Blood Python Marcy and Caligula led dozens of third-level blood militiamen wearing composite leather armor and holding adamantite halberds to guard the entrances of the three passages, Charlotte, Wizard Emerson, Father Dane, Bertina and Halfling Tian Tian surrounded the black glazed altar in the center of the space, carefully observing a skull, and the dragon maids Lyra and Dili led a dozen scarred war beasts to guard the perimeter of the altar.

The skull on the black glazed altar resembles a human skull, but it is completely crystallized, as if it had been carved from pure crystal, and its surface is radiant and dazzling in the darkness.

Emerson swallowed and asked hesitantly, "Pastor Dane, are we really going to take this thing down?"

Dressed in composite leather armor and carrying a flail, Dane is now more of a warrior. The blessing effect of the fourth-level holy warrior crystal had just ended, and the Adamantite flail that had previously been like an arm had become extremely heavy, making his arms tremble slightly, but his spirit was very full, and his eyes were bright and sharp. He simply threw away the flail and said in a deep voice, "Those undead wormmen must be the minions of the Lord of Sorrow, and he forced us here for this crystal skull. Did you notice that since we entered the space where the crystal skull was placed, the undead haven't followed. This shows that the undead can't enter this space, and we are safe for the time being, but if we move this crystal skull, the situation here is not easy to say. ”

"Safe ..... for the time being"

When Emerson heard this, he suddenly breathed a long sigh of relief, and a deep sense of exhaustion followed. He found a place to sit cross-legged and used breathing to calm his nervousness and fear.

It had been 6 days since their team entered the temple's underground tunnels, and they had basically encountered no strong enemies on the way, only sporadic undead creatures. These undead creatures have a variety of forms, but they all have the dual characteristics of insects and sapient species, and Emerson simply calls them undead insects.

The undead are strong and weak, the most common being the Ant-Men who once invaded the Kingdom of Gombis, in addition to the larger, more bizarre-looking Bugmen. Some of the undead insects even reached the level of the Golden Rank in terms of combat power. Fortunately, the number of undead insects in the underground tunnels is limited, and they are scattered all over the underground space, and the Randall Expeditionary Force can easily exterminate the undead insects they encounter, and instead of major damage themselves, Emerson also took the opportunity to enslave more than thirty undead insects, but instead strengthened the overall strength of the team.

Fearing that the alienated beast would stimulate the predatory desires of the black-blooded undead, Emerson left the razormon and Philip II and III in the forest beyond the mountains. Without the alienated war beasts by his side, his extraordinary power would not be able to exert himself. The addition of the undead Ant-Man regains his confidence.

Historically, alienated sorcery has no effect on sapient species, and undead are not subject to this rule. In the process of infecting the soul and seizing the undead, Imerson inevitably came into contact with the will of the Lord of Sorrow. But he ignored the whispers of the Lord of Sorrows, forcibly took control of the target units, turned their pale eye sockets a dark red, and ordered them to walk ahead of the team and act as cannon fodder for the expedition.

The undead enslaved by wizards have shown a decline in strength, and their bodies have begun to decay and decay, and they can only be used for more than 30 days at most, but Emerson can use them enough as consumables. By the time the expedition had finished searching the underground tunnels, they would soon be able to leave the hellish place.

However, this afternoon, the Randall Expeditionary Force's underground expedition was attacked by a swarm of undead wormmen in the tunnels. Their numbers seemed endless, with all the minions under Imerson's control wiped out, and the expedition lost 11 elite warriors and 6 war dogs. Even the protected Father Dane took part in hand-to-hand combat, which shows how bad the situation was.

The underground expedition team could only fight and retreat, choosing the only tunnel without undead worms to move deep underground, until they entered this space and could be regarded as getting rid of the pursuit of the undead wormmen.

Seeing the black-glazed altar and the crystal skull enshrined on the altar in the subterranean space, Imerson understood that this attack was a ploy of the Lord of Sorrow, who wanted to force the expeditionary force expedition into this subterranean space.

Don't do what the evil gods want you to do...... With this in mind, Emerson and Dane decided not to touch the most visible crystal skull on the black-glazed altar.

Reverend Dane straightened up his appearance a little and asked Charlotte, "Madam, what is your opinion?"

Charlotte was dressed in a well-fitting suit of Thorsilver Ant-Man armor, her blonde hair was not messed up at all, and her green eyes were calm and calm, and she could not tell that she had just experienced a dangerous battle. In fact, she is the commander of the underground expedition, not only because the two powerful dragon maids are completely at her command, but Charlotte is capable enough to do so.

As the favorite concubine of Her Royal Highness Randall, Charlotte's beauty and gentleness have always made her status as a veteran knight overlooked, but in her expeditions, she has shown remarkable dominance and calm and rational judgment. Take Priest Dane as an example, he uses the fourth-level paladin crystal with the priest's magic to have melee abilities comparable to those of the Silver Knight, but after the magic effect disappears, he is as embarrassed as Wizard Emerson. On the contrary, Charlotte, a veteran knight of the bronze rank, always maintained her calm and graceful, and was also calm in the face of the fierce undead insects.

This intensity of combat has not yet reached the limit of a veteran knight, and Charlotte is the commander who is the commander.

She first counted the number of sword-wielding maids, a total of 9 people, not a single one. The personal strength of the sword-wielding maids is far inferior to that of the third-level source blood militia, but they are located in the inner circle of the team, and if the sword-wielding maids are damaged, it means that the situation is out of control. The fact that the nine sword-wielding maids in the team were unharmed means that the battle just now was under Charlotte's control, and at least everyone obeyed her orders.

Charlotte was very satisfied with this, nodded and said: "In the previous battle, we lost some supplies, but the supplies we carried with us were enough to hold out for 10 days, and the most important water bladders were all intact. I only hope that the Lord of Sorrow mistakenly thinks that we are at the end of our rope...... But we didn't give it all our might. ”

The underground expedition killed hundreds of undead insects in battle, sacrificing 11 elite warriors and 7 war beasts, Wizard Emerson lost all his minions, but two dragon maids did not transform, and Father Dane did not use the extraordinary power of the Relic Crystal as instructed by Charlotte. This team is hiding a lot more than they can see.

Priest Dain looked at the beautiful female knight in surprise and asked, "Madam, do you have any plans?"

"The security environment here is an illusion. Charlotte nodded and continued, "The longer we stay, the less likely it is to break out. Because we can't find a stable source of water, on the other hand, the Lord of Sorrow has more time to reorganize an army of undead worms. They don't need to attack us, they just dig down three tunnels and trap us inside. ”

Charlotte glanced at the wizard and said, "Before, there were undead wormmen controlled by Lord Emerson in the team, and I feared that the Lord of Sorrow would be able to 'see' us through them. Therefore, I asked His Excellency Emerson to call the shots, disguised as the leader of this team. Now, we have to reformulate our plan of action. ”

Emerson was stunned, and then felt a heat on his face. In addition to her beauty, Charlotte's presence has always been very low, and even her appearance is not so dazzling in the side of His Royal Highness Randall, so that Emerson ignores her authority as a knight of oath of the Earl of Golden-eyed.

The wizard now knew that Mrs. Charlotte had deliberately put herself in front, and that he was in high spirits at the beginning, and when he encountered a change, he immediately lost his ground, and was forced into this underground space by the evil god in a daze.

Charlotte smiled slightly and said softly: "Your Excellency Imerson does not need to blame yourself, in fact, our goal has been achieved. ”

"Purpose?, Madame, mean ......," Imerson asked, confused.

Charlotte's gaze fell on the crystal skull on the altar, and she bowed, "The master ordered us to explore the underground tunnels to find valuable clues. Doesn't this crystal skull meet the owner's requirements?"

Emerson was shocked and hurriedly said, "What? You're going to take the Crystal Skull?" but Priest Dane said don't touch the stuff here, or the undead might get in."

"So what? Even if they don't come in, we're going to break out. Charlotte raised her slender willow eyebrows, turned her green eyes to the Reverend Dane, and said, "Perhaps, when we enter here and see the altar of the Assyrians, the restrictions of the environmental conditions on the Lord of Sorrow have changed. ”

Dane's heart moved, and he stood up and asked, "Madame is saying that the undead couldn't enter here, but when we came, they could also come in?"

"I'm not sure...... But I don't think the Lord of Sorrow will do anything meaningless. Charlotte nodded, and said, "Anyway, we must give this crystal skull to our master, this is the task that His Highness has asked us to complete." Next, please recover your strength as soon as possible, we will rely on your strength to break through. Especially Lord Emerson, can you control more undead?"

Imerson thought for a moment and said embarrassedly, "There are no undead creatures here, even if there is...... They come in groups, and I can't control them. Also, I had to give up some of the aliens to control more of the undead. ”

Charlotte's eyes lit up, and she said without hesitation: "Then please give up all the razormons, they won't be of much help anyway." It is best to feed Philip II and III with Razormon, and those two Alien War Beasts may be the two hole cards that your Excellency and the Evil God will negotiate...... As for the undead, you don't have to worry, I will ask the two sisters, Lyra and Dilly, to go to the depths of the tunnel to bring back some undead wormmen for you to cast spells and enslave. We hold the entrances of the three tunnels firmly, the undead will not be able to attack so easily, and when the number of servants of Lord Emerson reaches the expected level, we can consider breaking out. ”

Imerson asked incomprehensibly, "Madam, what do you mean by saying that Philip II and III are the two hole cards that I negotiated with the Lord of Sorrow?"

"It's not the Lord of Sorrow, it's the Lord of the Black Blood. Charlotte shook her head and replied, "As we passed through the Desperate Forest, those ooze trolls and black-blooded snaketails were interested in alien creatures. The master had guessed that the Black Blood Master's construction of a perfect body required the bloodline laws contained in the alienated creatures. ”

"Oh, then I'll be fine. ”

"Well, you must also be prepared to communicate with the will of the Lord of Sorrows...... Pastor Dane, please bless Lord Emerson with divine magic and protect his soul from the temptations of whisperers. My guess is that the Lord of Sorrow has something for us, and we don't need to rely on Him, so He may weaken us and use the undead to wipe out some of the family soldiers, but He will never kill Lord Emerson ..... Emerson easily, you need to master the rhythm of the conversation and try to protect more people with your words. ”

Watching Mrs. Charlotte arrange her tactics in an orderly manner, Dane couldn't help but sigh secretly. He had just figured out something, due to the fixed path in the underground tunnel, the expeditionary force team entered the underground tunnel and actually fell into the control of the Lord of Sorrow. This unknown evil god has too many options to deal with the human expedition, and he doesn't need to rush to do it. While the Lord of Sorrow observes the human expedition, Charlotte Randall is quietly pondering what to do.

The underground tunnels are dimly lit and the environment is twists and turns, making it a completely unfamiliar labyrinth for the expeditionary force, and it is too difficult to find valuable clues inside. To be precise, it's almost impossible, because the Lord of Sorrow is watching in the shadows, and his undead wormmen can cut off paths, isolating human expeditions from clues. Unless, on his own initiative, he leads human expeditions to critical areas with clues, as is the case now.

In fact, the Expeditionary Force's underground expedition team had no choice from the moment they entered the pit, but Charlotte also knew that the Lord of Sorrow would take the initiative to hand over the clues, otherwise he should block the entrance to the pit and there was no need to let the human expedition in.

His Highness Randall's request for the underground expedition to obtain clues can only be those provided by the Lord of Sorrow. Therefore, his oath female knight was bound to take the crystal skull of the Assyrians.

The next question is, how do the expedition team get out of the Crystal Skull after they take it?

Charlotte considered two factors, on the one hand, that the Lord of Sorrow would not let go of human expeditions, especially the wizard of Emerson, and on the other hand, that the expedition's supply stock determined the tipping point between exploration and evacuation.

Charlotte calculates the amount of food, especially drinking water, and when the stock of drinking water is only enough for the expedition to leave the tunnel and return to the surface, she must lead the group out of the tunnel. However, the Lord of Sorrow will prevent the expedition from leaving, at least leaving Wizard Emerson behind. To do this, He could kill the other humans, leaving Emerson alone.

However, the Lord of Sorrow faces a problem, as the undead controlled by the wizard of Emerson are the ones who are good at burrowing and have very low food and water needs. Emerson could have ordered his undead minions to dig a passage and leave the temple's underground pits.

So, according to the consumption of drinking water, Charlotte instructed Emerson to gradually control more undead wormmen, and when the wizard's undead servants reached a certain number and could easily dig out the passage, the Lord of Sorrow could no longer sit still. He took action to eliminate the undead minions of Imerson in one fell swoop, and forced the human expedition to his intended position, using the human hand to solve the problems he wanted to solve but could not.

However, he didn't expect that the human expedition team would hide most of its strength under Charlotte's skillful command.

This is the key to Charlotte's reversal of the situation!

Originally, the human expedition's drinking water reserves were not enough to support the search of the entire underground tunnel, and if the water reserve was only enough for the expedition team to stay in the underground tunnel for 20 days, it would have to spend 10 days exploring and the remaining 10 days returning to the surface. It was a matter of luck for the expedition to find valuable clues in ten days. Now, the Lord of Sorrow has taken the initiative to lead the human expedition to a place where there are clues. Charlotte plans to evacuate when she gets the crystal skull, and the undead creatures of the Lord of Sorrow will definitely stop it, and the underground expedition team will use all their strength to kill it, and dig a tunnel to get out if it can't be killed.

Emerson is unlikely to enslave the burrowing undead again, but the expedition's four drake beasts are equally adept at digging holes, which is why Charlotte hadn't engaged the dragoon in her previous battles. Because of the dragon lizard war beast, the expedition team broke through to a suitable location and had the ability to dig a hole to the surface.

Dane knew that Charlotte had been the famous Viscountess of Buryatia, and belonged to the vase character among the noble ladies. As the favorite concubine of His Royal Highness Randall, she is also known for her beauty and docility, but the strategy she shows makes Dane impressed, and even sighs to himself.

Putting aside the strength and wisdom of this beloved beauty for the time being, she is a mere bronze-level knight who dares to fight with the evil god without fear?

Knights have no gender in mind, their strength, wisdom and courage always complement each other, and this is the beauty of balance.

The underground expedition team made all the preparations according to Charlotte's request, with the third-level source blood militia taking turns eating and visualizing to restore their mental and physical strength to peak condition, the sword-wielding maid reapplying the silver potion to everyone's weapons, the craftsmen on the team made practical tools out of existing materials, including biological materials taken from the undead, and the dragon maid Dili dived into the depths of the tunnels alone to reconnoiter and capture some of the undead to be enslaved by the wizard of Imoton.

Half a day later, there were 21 undead insect men under Imerson's command, all of them were combat-type black blood antmen, their individual strength was very average, but they had the characteristics of undead creatures, so they seemed to be difficult to entangle. Emerson used his wisdom to guide the witchcraft to control the black-blooded undead ant-man to investigate deeper in the tunnel, and sure enough, he couldn't find any burrow-digging black-blooded undead wormmen.

The Lord of Sorrow really wants to trap them underground.

When the number of undead ant-men controlled by the wizard reached 62, Charlotte put on her helmet, pulled down her armor to cover her delicate face, walked to the black glazed rock platform, stretched out her hand, put the crystal skull into her leather bag, pulled out the silver flowing pure gold sword, and shouted in a sonorous voice: "Randall's expeditionary force is assembled!