Fearing that the light of the torch would reveal the team's whereabouts, Surdak extinguished the torch of light, and the surroundings were immediately plunged into a cold darkness.

The ground in the cave is not flat, the stone walls are full of protruding stone ridges, some gravel under the feet is also as sharp as a knife, and the stalactite pillars on both sides are like spears in the hands of knights.

Andrew slammed his head into the raised rock with a dull thud.

Surdak hurriedly grabbed Andrew and said, "Wait, this won't work!" Before we could find the Hellhounds, they might have run away, and we still wouldn't be able to adapt to the lightless world. ”

Andrew rubbed his forehead with his hand and knocked out a large bag, and said depressedly: "But if you light the torch, we will become targets in the dark." ”

Surdak crouched down and laid out four clay bowls on the rocky ground, igniting the dark blue flames inside, the cave emitted a cold light, and the flames reflected everyone's faces blue, especially the face of the ogre Gulitem, which was the most terrifying, this was the first time that Surdak started the sacrifice ceremony in front of the team members.

Although several sacrifices had been performed before, the altars were hidden in tents, and the team members had not seen the full ceremony.

'Thou art the holy essence of light and sound, the most beautiful and harmonious, the most radiant, the most pure and unblemished......

After Surdak finished reciting this prayer, the face of the two-faced four-armed demon god turned to Surdak, and the hollow, deep eyes under the mask stared straight into the distance.

Surdak took out two Hellhound heads and placed them on the altar, the two Hellhound heads slowly disappeared in the air, and four pillars of light fell on the team members one after another, Surdak prayed for the 'True Eye' this time.

The 'True Eye' can not only see the mana fluctuations of the magic patterns in the demonic beast's body, but also has the effect of detecting stealth and night vision, the only drawback is that the effect of the True Eye can only last for an hour or two, which is far less durable than the 'Divine Blessed Body'.

The ogre rubbed his eyes vigorously and said with a look of surprise: "Hehe, Andrew, I can see ......"

It was still dark in front of everyone, but in the darkness, the rock walls and the rubble under their feet suddenly had a pale outline, like some kind of perspective, Sami stretched out his hand and touched the stone wall, touching the cold and hard rock wall, obviously the outline of those simple lines in his eyes was real.

The half-elf archer suddenly understood why Surdak asked those guards who healed his wounds to hand over the corpses of the hellhounds in the treatment room at the edge of the city wall, and he was very lucky to find the demonic spirit bones from the bodies of these hellhounds.

Samira asked with some surprise, "Captain, did you rely on this to discover the demonic spirit bones in the body of the hellhound?" ”

Knowing that this matter could not be hidden, Surdak frankly admitted: "That's pretty much it! ”

After Andrew had the 'True Eye', he also knew what this ability meant, and he thought of the hellhounds that were killed on the battlefield outside Warzhmara, and sighed: "After most of the hellhounds died, they were directly carried to the corpse pile and burned without even looking at them, I don't know how many precious demonic spirit bones were burned. ”

Samira said flatteringly to Surdak: "Captain, otherwise, when this mission is over, we will go outside the city to help clean up the battlefield after returning to the city, and we will definitely gain something at that time." ”

Surdak knew that the half-elf archers would not let go of any good opportunity to make money, especially after having the 'True Eye', the corpses of those hellhounds on the battlefield were like untapped treasures, as long as they found a 'Demon Pattern Spirit Bone', they would make a lot of money, and if they blocked Samira's financial path, it was estimated that this half-elf archer would hate him for the rest of his life.

However, the question of principle still needs to be raised first, and Surdak said to Samira: "The premise is that it does not affect the dispatch of the Hylanza guard battalion. ”

"Of course!" Samira readily agreed.

Surdak stood beside the stone wall with the torch of holy light in his hand and said to Samira and Andrew: "When the time comes, I will help you bless the effect of the 'True Eye', as for who can pick up the spirit bones, it is all up to personal luck, you can deal with these demon pattern spirit bones yourself, so that you can subsidize your family." ”

Samira and Andrew didn't expect Surdak to be so generous, and directly gave them all the money they had obtained from the search for spirit bones, and both of them were overjoyed.

The half-elf girl stood beside Surdak with one hand and her right arm, and said to Surdak with an excited face: "Captain, I want to hear you tell you about the city of Highland!" ”

Perhaps in her heart, she decided that the city of Hylanza was a rich city, otherwise how could there be such a generous person.

Surdak didn't know how to speak for a while, so he had to organize some language before saying: "Well, it's still a cold winter in the city of Highlandsa, and it has snowed three times this winter, and it's a very beautiful mountain town, and the people in the city are very welcoming, just like Squadron Leader Karl......"

He remembered the scene when he had come to the city of Highlandsa on horseback, and before he could finish describing the city of Highlandsa, Samira, who was walking beside Surdak, stopped, put her finger to her lips, and said in a low voice to everyone in the team:

"Shhhh There's a hellhound in front of ......"

Instead of whispering to each other, the team followed Samira's footsteps and moved forward.

In fact, Hellhounds are also very unaccustomed to the extreme darkness of the environment, and they will rarely attack a city at night unless there is enough light at the head of the city.

The hellhound was at the fork in front of the cave, and the lava stream burning on it could be seen from a distance, this hellhound was like a moving flame in the dark, it was swimming back and forth in this cave, but because it was the only light source in the cave, it could not see the space outside the surrounding light, it kept sniffing around with its sensitive nose, and listened to the movement around it with its ears.

It may have heard the conversation of the Surdak team, but in this echoing cavern, he still needs to carefully discern the source of the sound, and it is at this fork in the road that the target suddenly becomes silent, and the hellhound does not know which way to go.

Suddenly it smelled a strange smell, and it rushed towards the darkness,

Before he could even wail, he was struck in the forehead by a large axe that emerged from the darkness, and before the hellhound could make a whimper, he fell to the rocky ground.

A notch in its forehead that had been cut by an axe, and its brain shattered, killing it almost instantly.

Even though its head bones were the hardest part of its body, it was a little fragile compared to a large axe mixed with magical black iron.

It's a pity that this hellhound does not have a precious demon pattern spirit bone on its body, Andrew quickly cut off the head of the hellhound, and the ogre squatting on the side was a little hesitant, he has been eating the gruel cooked by the marching rations for the past two days, and seeing such a big hellhound, even though he knows that the meat on the hellhound will hurt his stomach if he eats too much, but he is still a little reluctant.

Surdak walked up to the ogre, reached out and patted the ogre's broad shoulder, and said to him: "This thing is not delicious, when we complete the task this time, I promise you, I will buy you a whole cow to roast and eat in the city of Warzhmara, you may not have eaten that whole roast cow, it will have a sheep wrapped in its belly, and there will be a fat chicken in the belly of the sheep, and these meat will be marinated with spices and salt in advance once a day. Night, there's nothing more delicious than that. ”

"Well, Surdak, I know you're going to take me to eat something like that, right!" The ogre asked expectantly, swallowing his saliva.

"Of course, I will do what I promised." Surdak patted his chest and said to the ogre.

"I can't wait! How much longer are we going to stay in this hellish place? The ogre now complained with a depressed face.

Samira was at the front, and she followed the path of the hellhound and felt her way into the cave.

"When we find out the secrets here, we'll find a way to get out of here!" Surdak said to the ogre Gletham.

Walking forward nearly a kilometer along the route of the hellhounds, there was a faint howl in the distance, and I didn't know how many hellhounds there were in front of me, but the team didn't stop because of this, the battle team walked to a stone door that was nearly ten meters high, and through the 'True Eye' Surdak saw the stone door carved with ancient patterns, I couldn't understand the specific meaning of the patterns on it, and it looked like a huge magic book from a distance.

The gate was ajar, and the Hellhound's voice came from inside the gate.

Surdak could vaguely see the intricate gearing mechanism hidden in the shaft of the stone door, and he knew that the Grimm Empire did not have such exquisite mechanical craftsmanship.

The battle team passed through this huge stone gate, only to feel a cool breeze blowing out through the stone gate, and at the same time, there was a faint light coming from inside the stone gate.

Surdak stood at the entrance of the stone gate, and at his feet it seemed to be a huge cave that could accommodate nearly an entire city, the top of the cave had some dim moonstones like a sky full of stars, which was the source of all the light in this underground ruins, the cave hid a piece of ancient city ruins that could not be seen at a glance, although most of the buildings were dilapidated to a pile of rubble and gravel, but among these rubble and gravel, there are still some stone buildings standing still, but most of the buildings lack complete roofs.

At this point, he carefully and carefully surveyed the position of the team.

He found that the team actually came to a long stone platform, where they could almost look down on the extremely large arched space in front of them, and the stone platform where the team was located looked like a huge window sill, maybe only giants could build the building so tall, and this ten-meter-high stone door did not look like a stone door at all, this stone door opened in mid-air, there were no stairs leading to the bottom on both sides, and it looked more like a ventilation window in a huge space.

Apparently Samira and Andrew didn't know that there was such a large area of ancient ruins hidden here, a team of hellhounds with dark red lava streams shuttling through the ruins at their feet, and in front of them a group of ghost monkeys were scattering and fleeing, under the faint light, these huge hellhounds were rampaging through this complex, and there were always some slow ghost monkeys who fell under the claws of the hellhounds.

When the hellhounds bite a live ghost monkey, they leave the hunting party and take the prey in their mouths along a wide path deeper into the ruins.

This ruins are much larger than the small town of Umezu, and the scale is almost as large as the city of Vozmara, and although the city is so dilapidated that only a ruin remains, the orderly streets, the buildings that have turned into gravel, are said to have a pattern that the city of Vozymalla cannot compare with today.

"The maca plane once lived with a group of underground giants?" Surdak asked the half-elf archer in a low voice.

Although the half-elf archer Samira was once the guide of the city of Warzhmara, she did not know much about the history of the maca plane, so she could not answer Surdak's question for a while.

She set her eyes on Andrew, who explained in the lowest voice, "I'm just an indigenous member of the Nanai tribe, and the civilization inherited by our tribe is not as long as you think......

Surdak crouched on the stone platform, observing the underground ruins below.

This stone platform is dozens of meters high, and God knows how the hellhound climbed up, but if the team members want to go down from here, they need to use a strong rope, Surdak has a rope in his magic waist bag, but he only bought this rope with the weight of ordinary knights, and it is unknown whether this rope can withstand the weight of ogres.

Surdak said to Andrew and Samira, "Those hellhounds have taken over this underground ruins, maybe the Demon Gate or Hell Passage that Command is looking for is here, and we have to find a way to sneak in." Then he turned to the ogre and said, "Glitham is here to guard our last retreat, don't worry, I'll leave you enough to eat to make sure you don't go hungry." ”

When the ogre heard that there was food, he naturally didn't have any opinion.

Andrew sighed at this time: "If only there was the secondary invisibility potion that I had in Umezu Town." ”

Surdak thought of himself and Carl in the midst of a pile of scrolls in the magic grocery store in Pena City, and when he thought of the battle in the Ice Lake Manor, Surdak spent a lot of money, and really bought a few secondary invisibility scrolls, and he said to Andrew: "Wait, it seems that I really brought a few bottles, this kind of secondary invisibility potion is not rare in the Grimm Empire......"

As he spoke, he rummaged through his magic fanny pack for a long time before he pulled out five bottles of secondary invisibility potions from a pile of scrolls.

"Let's drink it now?" Andrew asked.

Samira quickly resisted Andrew's suggestion, saying, "Actually, you can drink it again when you are in danger, and there is nothing more interesting than disappearing under the noses of those hellhounds...... And no one knows how big this ruins will be and how long we'll be here! ”