Chapter 21: The Stone-Blind Barbarians
The stone-blind barbarians live underground all year round and have an extremely high reflex to such sneak attacks. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Byron forced his grip on his uneasiness, swirling ice chips and cold air appearing on his fingertips. Keeping his focus to maintain the spell, he took a step back, leaning against the wall.
"Bernie, it's human!" Aya's voice trembled with excitement, and he opened his large mouth full of fine fangs, stretched out his long tongue, and rolled back the crystal saliva that slipped from the corners of his mouth.
"Don't make noise, don't let anyone else hear. Bernie also subconsciously sucked the saliva that couldn't stop secreting.
They began to move, sprinting with stone axes.
Byron snorted coldly, these two guys didn't know whether they wanted to eat alone. But this was also what he wanted, and he quickly drew his short dagger and retreated into the narrow hole in two steps. There is no trace of artificial excavation in this stone cave, and the entrance of the cave is a narrow gap that is naturally cracked, and it seems that these stone-blind barbarians have no interest in taking care of this place.
The two were carried away by the temptation of the food in front of them, and chased after them directly, of course, it is more likely that they felt that Byron had thrown away his weapon and was already a lamb to be slaughtered.
The narrow gap was not enough for the two of them to pass at the same time, and the powerful sense of hearing and smell of the brute who rushed ahead allowed him to outline Byron's location in his mind. He wondered a little why the other party didn't run, but stood still in front.
The last scale of the spell finally sounded in the narrow passage, and the trembling scale made both barbarians feel inexplicably palpitating. Unfortunately, the narrow terrain had no place for them to move.
The frozen ray hit the stone-blind barbarian at the front, and he screamed, and the power of the ice pierced through his abdomen, raging wildly in his body.
A whispered low chant immediately rang out again, and fear snatched Bernie's heart like a ghost, and a strong sense of powerlessness stretched out within him, almost driving him to raise his hands in surrender.
An evil human wizard! And he wants to eat a wizard!
There was still a chance, Bernie pulled himself together, used all his strength, and let out the biggest roar of his life. Huge echoes immediately echoed in the complex and chaotic tunnels and caverns, Byron's face sank, and there was already a noisy sound in the distance.
Bernie began to retreat, and Byron had to follow, and if it was too far away, the sight of the frozen ray would not know where Biao had gone.
"Help!" Bernie roared.
The ray struck him in the back, and Bernie fell to the ground, sweating profusely crawling forward, consciousness blurring. The sound of light footsteps moved to his ears, and then cold metal pierced his heart from his back.
No sooner had Byron covered Bernie's blood-gushing wound with his cloak than a voice roared in the tunnel.
"Bernie, what are you yelling about?"
After a second of silence, a voice somewhat similar to Bernie's returned: "Aya gnawed me when she was dreaming, this guy has been knocked unconscious by me, damn it, it hurts." ”
"Haha" came a laugh from the other side. "I knew that last time that idiot was holding my leg and biting him hard and beating him hard, Bernie. ”
Byron didn't answer anymore, and after waiting for a while, the footsteps faded away, and he exhaled, touched the sweat on his head, and felt a little weak all over.
After resting against the cold stone wall for a while, Byron dragged the two corpses on the ground into the stone cave and then took down the wind lamp.
Picking up the scimitar with a blade full of gaps, the fact that these barbarians could smell the "scent" of humans made Byron a little hesitant, should he go out and have a look?
The temple was in ruins, and no one had come to this place for centuries, but it was occupied by these stone-blind barbarians.
Byron pondered the rumors of Vic's town and the quest of the Adventurers' Guild, but there was no news about the discovery of these barbarians.
The way out is either blocked or they haven't been discovered.
He felt a headache.
However, he also sat on the stone bed in the cave with a dead heart, took out the magic note, and by the bright light of the unquenchable flame, the messy and twisted words on the page made Byron raise his eyebrows, he didn't expect the god's words to be so ugly.
He didn't know most of the above texts, and the basic knowledge (Level 1) only gave him basic literacy skills. This kind of writing, which I don't know how many years ago, made him embarrassed to put the pages back away.
The two stone-blind barbarians gave Byron a total of four points of experience, which means that he is stronger than the goblins, and his combat effectiveness is about the same as that of a heavily armed skeleton soldier. Luckily, they are not immune to ice or illusions. For Byron, this is undoubtedly better than facing a skeleton alone.
"Coo-goo. Hunger welled up in Byron's heart, and at the same time, the sweat that had been lost made him feel thirsty.
Byron flipped the brutes over, their long, messy hair scattered over the back of their heads, making them look more like savages hiding in the forest.
Both barbarians had warm lips, there was plenty of water nearby to provide them with, and it shouldn't be far away, these two guys didn't even have a water bag.
I touched their bellies, they were shriveled and thin, just like the beggars who were starving all year round.
Lacking food, it seems that they have not found a way to the surface, and there is plenty of food to fill their stomachs in the wild of Vic.
The rugged ground of the tunnel is full of shallow pits, stones and debris, making it difficult to walk. Byron carefully touched the rough uneven stone wall with a wind lamp, but fortunately, Bernie's cave was on the outermost part of the settlement.
A short walk along the other side of the tunnel is an empty cave filled with stalactites and stalagmites. The jagged stone blades stand jaggedly on the fine stones, making it difficult to see far. Water droplets slide off the stalactite surface at the top of the cave, and the sound of puddles falling to the ground echoes throughout the cave.
Not knowing if the water could be drunk, Byron turned around the huge stalagmite in front of him, and a stone mace swept towards his head from behind the pillar.
Byron subconsciously raised his hand to block it, and the whole person flew out upside down, rolling twice on the gravel floor, the wind lamp made of glass snapped, shattered, and the cold unquenchable flame fell to the ground, burning forever.
Behind the stalagmites revealed stone-blind barbarians dressed in waists full of holes.
"How did a human come out of behind us?"
"There's a tunnel behind that leads to the surface!" the brute roared in realization, and he took out a bright black horn and put it to his mouth.
"Woo~"
They are the guards here.
Byron stood up leaning on a stalagmite, his right hand drooping unnaturally, and his health instantly dropped to 50% (seriously injured).
However, he still had the strength to resist, these stone-blind barbarians had no eyes, although they had a strong sense of smell and hearing.
Strengths are likewise their weaknesses.
A few strands of wool fell from Byron's hands, and the faint chirping of mosquitoes flapping their wings rang out.
"What is he talking about?" a brute wondered, and even with his hearing, he could not make out what Byron's hurried tone was trying to indicate.
"Whatever he says, arrest him first. As soon as the barbarian said this, the sound of small footsteps sounded around them.
"There are others!" the three barbarians were startled, and immediately turned their backs on their backs as if they were facing a great enemy. The people who can appear around them silently are definitely not easy to dismiss.
Byron, taking advantage of their panic, ran towards the mouth of the cave, and the smell of movement made the brutes commotion.
"Damn, that human ran away, what to do, Alger. A brute said in a deep voice.
Alger raised his chin slightly, sniffed the air, and his face moved slightly: "We were deceived, and there was no one around." ”
They immediately swooped towards the sound of footsteps, and sure enough, there was a cloud of air.
"What's going on!"
Alger groaned, then said, "That human is a wizard. ”
The other two barbarians were immediately startled, they couldn't believe that they had actually attacked a wizard and succeeded!
In the dwelling caves behind them, a large number of gray-skinned brutes poured out.
Byron held his right arm with his left hand to prevent the whole arm from swaying as he walked. Rushing out of the cave, it was already completely dark, and his wind lamp had just been shattered.
Byron continued to run in a panic as he removed his backpack, which contained a light rod that would allow him to see through the darkness. He brought the backpack to his chest, reached for the light staff, activated it with a simple password, and the dim light of the fire lit up.
At this moment, his feet suddenly fell into the air, and his body suddenly leaned forward, and the light reached the bottomless abyss.
"Ah!!h
After a while, the crowd of stoneblind barbarians reached the edge of the cliff, and the leader in animal skins frowned and said, "Sure enough, it smells of humans, Alger, can you be sure that he came from behind you?"
Alger immediately understood what the leader meant, and he was worried that the mage was stealth from the front to the back, with the aim of probing their cave.
"Sure, Chief, the human wizard came from behind us with a loud noise, and he didn't notice us at all. ”
The leader nodded, and for the first time his bitter face showed joy, in order not to be enslaved by other races, he led his people to build a nest on the cliff, which should be "home" in the words of those fragile humans.
He hoped that one day, the stone-blind barbarians would be able to completely break free from the control of those evil races, and be able to build their own cities, just like other powerful races, and occupy a place underground.
However, ideals are always good.
The location of the nest avoids being controlled, but it also makes it difficult for them to find food.
Praise the gods, O abundant surface world!
The leader turned his head and said, "Check, check every cave!" Alger, take two people down to see the human. ”
"Yes. ”