43. Underground gnomes

A shrill whistle sounded in the palatial dwelling room decorated by Archbishop Amer. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"There is an enemy attacking the deep valley cage. Archbishop Amal looked at the talisman teleportation device in front of him with a gloomy face. A corrupt and corrupt walker tasked with guarding the cage in the deep valley activates the area's alarm system. Now on a magical map in front of Amal Amar, the place marked as the cage of the deep valley was shining with a blinding red light. There are several more places on this map that also glow red.

"How did they get there!" said one of the high-ranking cultists, looking at the other shining spots on the map, which were so far away from the prison area that it was hard to believe that the enemies from those places could have infiltrated them.

"It doesn't matter how they get by. What we need now is to know who and how many enemies are attacking the prison area. ”

Amal pointed to the two high-ranking cultists next to him, "You two awaken the Flower of the Magic Eye in the prison area. We need more intelligence. ”

"It's my lord. The two high-ranking cultists immediately began to act. They instructed a live puppet to bring a wooden basin, then slit the puppet's throat and fill it with his blood. A high-ranking cultist carefully inserted something resembling a rhizome into the tub. Then, the blood in the tub began to boil, and the steaming blood formed a curtain of blood in midair. A somewhat reddened image appeared in the midst of the bloody curtain.

At first, the image was blurry, but after a few minutes, it became clearer. The archbishop looked at the picture with a blank expression—a large group of believers lying in the deep ravine, most of them shot through the head by a short arrow, and some of them killed by being shot in the back. What surprised the archbishop the most was that there was still a large area in the valley that had been burned by the flames. This made him wonder if there were powerful alchemists. The view of the Blood Curtain rotates around a cardinal point, showing the different corners of the valley back and forth. In these images, only dead believers can be seen, and there are no scenes of battle or enemies.

"The enemy is strong, an elite troop-level infiltrator. Amal said, pointing to the screen. "They wiped out the resistance in the ravine almost instantly, and our men only had time to sound the alarm. ”

"You two," he pointed to the two high-ranking cultists who had awakened the Flower of the Magic Eye, "to activate the two Flesh Golems, and then take fifty more people to the prison area." If there are not many enemies, annihilate them, and if you find that you can't deal with them, use the golem to cut them off. You have to remember to figure out what the enemy is and why you can attack the valley directly. I will watch you here, and the time has come to be faithful to the true God. ”

"The true God is supreme!" the two high-ranking cultists shouted in a high-pitched voice.

"God is supreme!" chanted the entire Green Cross High Ranking Cultists, including Archbishop Amal in the room.

The team led by Master Gad had already explored a large area on their own. His alchemical map shows a large number of caves and forked roads. This alchemy map has changed dramatically from the previous version of the underground map. Some places that were originally indicated as passages are now blocked by boulders and traps, and some places that were originally marked as caves with only one exit are found to be accessible in all directions. Some of these changes are due to geological changes in nature, and more often than not, the Green Crosses carry out large-scale destructive road modification activities after each sweep.

Master Gade had long wondered why Green Cross had such a powerful construction capacity. This was answered after the discovery of a hidden underground cavern. The cave is full of bones. Most of these bones were only half a man tall and thin, but they were definitely not children's bones. Master Gad was well-informed, and quickly recognized the bones of a highly intelligent humanoid creature known by the scientific name of an underground gnome. The bones in the cave were stacked on top of each other, more than a thousand, and it was clear that such a number could not be accumulated in a short period of time.

The Green Cross cult is in control of an underground community of gnomes. This is shocking news.

In the top-secret archives of the Alchemists' Guild, the first sapient beings to come to Coronia were not humans. This has always been concealed by the Coronian upper echelons as the greatest secret.

Long before the Koren family came to Coronia, an underground dwarf tribe migrated to Coronnia. Of course, the underground gnomes do not call this place Colognesia, but rather the Jewel of Brydon, in honor of the underground dwarf adventurer Bryden Blackstone, who discovered this plane. Bryden is said to be a powerful dwarf mage. He came to Coronia by accident during a teleportation spell. After all kinds of arduous journeys, Brydon finally returns to his clan. By this time, he had set up a surface portal to communicate between the mainland and Coronia. In the days that followed, Brydon's tribe made a fortune with a variety of precious gems acquired from Coronia. The clan also grew into a powerful clan with 8,000 soldiers and 200,000 miners. In the end, this wealthy tribe became fat in the eyes of many of its neighbors.

Hostile forces, led by the Dark Elves, attacked them, and the war lasted for twelve years. The underground dwarf tribe lost eighty percent of its population and was eventually unable to hold out. They abandoned their homeland, and the entire clan came to Coronia through a portal. At that time, the entire tribe had less than 100,000 people left. The underground dwarf tribes have once again built a massive underground city beneath Coronia, digging a system of tunnels in all directions. They graze their livestock and grow crops (mainly moss and mushrooms) in the underground caves of Coronia. Soon the tribe grew again in peace and abundance.

But the good times didn't last long. Just one hundred and thirty years after the arrival of the underground gnomes in Colombo, the first Void Ship belonging to the House of Colon and the 5,000 passengers it carried arrived in Colonnia.

Because one of the two sides lives on the surface and the other on the ground. So at the beginning, I didn't find out about the existence of the other party. More than three hundred years passed until one day a team of human miners accidentally opened an underground passage for gnomes while digging an amethyst vein.

The Colognese are extreme human supremacy racists. When they discovered that there were other intelligent beings in Coronia, the first thing they thought of was not to be able to communicate with each other and develop trade. It is this that threatens the purity of Coronia. These non-humans must be cleaned up.

Underground gnomes are not a strong fighting race. In the face of the powerful onslaught of the human race, the entire tribe retreated again and again, and many supplies and populations were lost in the retreat. After two hundred years of defeat, the capital of the underground gnomes was finally breached by the mercenaries of the House of Cologne. All the underground gnomes were captured.

According to the original intention of the Corons, these captives were to be put to death. But the underground gnomes are just too good miners. Many of the local nobles who excavated the veins kept a group of underground gnomes as slaves to dig the veins for them. These underground pygmy populations generally only have a few hundred to a thousand people, and they are unable to maintain a healthy continuation of the race. In the days that followed, the profession of professional dwarf slave breeder even appeared in Coronia. They kept the blood relations of all the underground dwarf slaves into secret documents, which were circulated among only a very small number of people. Any slave owner who wants to produce the next generation of healthy slaves has to do so through breeders. Otherwise, mental retardation, deformities, and congenital diseases will often occur.

In this way, the underground gnomes existed like livestock in Coronia for another five hundred years. During this time, their writing and language were completely wiped out. Aside from their innate ability to mine, all underground gnomes are illiterate and do not do any work other than mining.

It was as if the dark ages of the Great Judgment and the Great Extinction had come. In this chaotic ******, all the underground dwarf slaves were slaughtered by their masters to save food. The underground gnomes of Coronia became extinct.

At least that's what the Alchemy Guild's secret archives say.

It now appears that at least some of the underground gnomes escaped human slavery during the Dark Ages and returned to the dark underground. As for how these underground gnomes came together with the Green Cross Cult, and how many of them there were, this is not something that Master Gade can understand. He pulls out his communicator and informs his mentor of the discovery.

"Good. "Master Sal Montaro was very pleased with his disciple's discovery. "I'll just say you're going to find out. This also explains why the Green Cross has such a strong ability to change the terrain of the underground. Go ahead and see if you can find this underground dwarf tribe, and use the portal scroll I gave you in case of danger. ”

Esther suddenly felt sick. , he felt something appear nearby and was going to peep at him. For this reason, he immediately hid behind a tall rock. He could be sure he hadn't been noticed by anything. But he could still feel waves of malicious gaze sweeping past his hideout.

"What the hell is it!" Esther could be sure that there was no one around. Sonia had already hunted down the cultists and stormed into one of the largest caves, and now there were only the corpses of the cultists lying on the ground in the deep valley. What the hell is peeking here?

Esther took an alchemy telescope from his armband and twisted it a few times, turning it into a periscope. He cautiously poked one end of the periscope out from the top of the rock, taking a closer look around.

Where is the best place to peek into the valley?, Easter pondered, searching his periscope for what he thought might be something lurking.

Do you stand high and see far? This thing must be in high places. Esther looked carefully at several of the higher summits of the deep valley, but found nothing.

"It's weird. "East doesn't think anyone will be looking up at the bottom. But there was nothing at the top of the valley. "Did I miss something that I didn't expect?"

"Wait, wait. Esther had a flash of inspiration. He put away his binoculars and slowly got up from behind the rocks and climbed onto them. He slowly poked his head out of front of the rock.

A small, bright red flower is blooming beneath the rock. The florets are the size of a teacup, with red tentacle-like petals on all sides, and a round eye in the center. The flower disc and stems of this small flower are turning, and they keep looking in all directions.

Esther breathed lightly and crept around the side of the rock. When Xiaohua turned her head to look at the other side, she jumped out and came directly in front of Xiaohua. As if sensing the arrival of an uninvited guest, Xiaohua twisted the stem of the flower and turned back.

But it's too slow.

Archbishop Amal sat majestically in his palatial apartment, observing the situation in the deep valley through the eyes of the Flower of the Magic Eye. His heart was not as calm as it seemed, and the enemy's swift attack on the prison area gave him a very bad premonition. That's the map of the underground traffic that was taken away by a lowly traitor. If those unbelievers really use this map to attack, it will be extremely difficult to resist with the current strength of the Holy Sect.

He stared at the images on the bloodscreen, wanting to see what the enemies were made of, which would allow him to deduce if the enemy had gotten the map. But to his disappointment, he didn't see a single figure for half a day. Just as he pondered where the attacker had gone, a pair of boots that were beautiful but covered in dirt appeared in front of him.

Then, he saw a pair of scissors zoom in on his field of vision.