Chapter 30: The Deadly Trap
Bury pointed to a map with fresh handwriting. He whispered, "Look, this is a place we have explored in the past six days, and I have sketched out the general situation with charcoal on the basis of the original map." ”
Ryan and the others all nodded, in the past six days, the six arrow mercenary groups had encountered at least twenty gargoyles, and Daphne and Tedane had also lifted more than fifty traps. But the place that the six Arrow Mercenaries had already explored was little more than a corner of the entire tomb on Bury's map. Everyone was secretly anxious in their hearts, if each stone chamber had multiple exits as they had already explored, then it would take quite a long time to explore the entire tomb.
In the past six days, Ryan has shown strong strength, although he has repeatedly kept a low profile, but the gap in strength still makes Burry and others change their previous impression of him, and now the six arrow mercenary groups, although Bury is still nominally the captain of this team, but Ryan has unknowingly become the core of the entire mercenary group.
Sometimes, Ryan's casual words are enough to make the regiment leader Bury change the plan that has been made, such as the one three days ago, the six arrow mercenary regiments met five gargoyles in a stone room, Burry was worried about being outnumbered, and gave the order to retreat, his original plan was to attract gargoyles one by one to kill, which was originally a safe plan, and Ryan said casually: "Don't be so troublesome, right?"
So, in the surprised eyes of the others, Ryan and Allendo made a move. Allendo lured the enemy in front of him, drawing the five gargoyles together, and Ryan beckoned them with a blazing fireball. With Elendor's agility and Ryan's subtle magical control, in just a few breaths, the five gargoyles were reduced to five lifeless piles of rubble, and they were unscathed.
In Tedane's words: "It's a great win." At a young age, he finally understood why a mage had countless privileges, and why it was expensive to hire a mage. Daphne, who was initially prejudiced against Ryan, fell into a deep silence, and she didn't say a word except for a brief conversation with Tedain while dealing with the trap.
Of course, Bury knew that Daphne regretted it very much in her heart, and she shouldn't offend a powerful magician, but now it was too late to regret it, but Bury had been observing Ryan for several days, and he found that Ryan didn't seem to take that matter to heart, so the well-informed Bury admired Ryan even more, not only Ryan's superior strength, but also Ryan's good cultivation, which was the rarest.
In order to encircle Ryan, and at the same time for a better expedition, since then, Bury will ask Ryan's opinion in advance before giving any orders or orders.
"Magician Lane, most of our time is now spent searching for traps, and at this rate, I'm afraid it will take at least twenty days or more to complete the main passage here. ”
Ryan nodded again, this is all true, there is nothing to say.
"But," Burry said, pointing to their backpacks helplessly, "we don't have enough provisions. We underestimated the magnitude of the tomb this time and prepared only ten days' worth of food. Today is the seventh day, and if we can't find a way to the main tomb in three days in these false tombs, we will have to leave. To be on the safe side, we have to set aside at least one day's food, otherwise we will be in a dilemma......"
"Find another one!" Tedane's voice came from the front, it was supposed that Daphne had found a new trap.
Everyone immediately stopped talking and turned their attention to Daphne and Tedain in front of them.
Daphne whispered a few words in Tedain's ear, who immediately took off his backpack, buried his head in rummaging for a while, and pulled out a circle of black chains about the thickness of a finger.
Seeing that Tedain had some difficulty holding it, Ryan estimated that the black chain was probably made of pure iron, and because the chain was coiled, Ryan didn't know its approximate length, but it was estimated that it was ten meters.
Tedain placed the chain on the ground and slowly opened it, only to realize that one end of the chain was a triangular handle, and the other end was an iron ball the size of an adult's fist.
Daphne saw Terdain take out this thing, pointed ahead, and then whispered to Terdain the approximate location of the traps, and after doing all this, Daphne immediately quickly retreated, and came to the place where Burry and the others were standing behind.
After Terdain waited for Daphne to leave, he slowly picked up the iron ball with the chains on it. Tedain first slowly rotated the iron ball, and then gradually accelerated, the iron ball turned faster and faster, making a "whining" sound, and it was transmitted far away in the empty corridor.
When the speed of the hammer ball was almost spinning, Tedain suddenly let go of the finger that grabbed the stimp, and the chain hammer lost Tedain's restraint and drew an arc in the air, driving the pitch-black chain towards the front.
"Bang!" the chain ball smashed on the ground with a piercing crashing sound, then it was bounced up and smashed not far in front of it and slid for about half a meter before stopping.
With the sound of the iron chain ball hitting the ground, the walls on both sides of the corridor emitted a sound of mechanical rotation, and before everyone could react, the walls on both sides of the corridor suddenly shot out dense bows and arrows like a torrential rain, and the "grab, grab, grab" came into everyone's ears, and the place where the chain hammer landed was suddenly covered by dense bows and arrows, forming a "feather arrow forest".
This accident made Tedain, who was closest to the chain ball, break out in a cold sweat, and it was the first time that the six arrow mercenary groups had encountered such a large mechanical trap in this exploration. In comparison, the small, one-man traps they had lifted were insignificant.
Tedain took a few deep breaths, and the damp and rotten air in the corridor became so good, if it wasn't for Daphne's detection of this large mechanical trap in advance, I was afraid that if I stepped on it, I would immediately become a hedgehog. With such a short distance, such a fast launch speed, and such a dense coverage, Tedain believed that almost no one would be able to react and dodge in time, and it would definitely be a fatal whimper.