Chapter 4: Encounters

On this day, after walking for about four or five hours, Mike released a sentient creature as usual: the Dark Elves.

It's a Tier 4 prophecy spell that works exactly as its name suggests, but each time you cast it, you can reselect the creature you want to perceive. Mike uses it "every day at noon" - he can't figure out the time underground, who knows what noon and night, anyway, after eating his second meal and taking a nap - hoping to find out. After using the Tectonic Technique to construct a temporary circle with pure energy to increase the caster's level and increase the range of the Magic, the spell lasts for two and a half hours, has a detection range of 600 meters, and can pass through soil and even rocks. If you turn up and down like this, you can perceive a spherical area with a radius of 600 meters, which is very sharp.

"We're camping here today. Mike suddenly opened his eyes.

Sermena just glanced at him, then at Thrall, who continued to sleep, and continued to perceive the "natural environment" underground, to improve the druid's cultivation. In this case, it is usually Mike's brother who has detected the dark elf or has made some special discovery. At first, everyone was a little surprised and expectant, but every time they found some traces of dark elves, and the real dark elves had never been seen.

Alas, there is no way, Mike's younger brother has a low and slow pace, and it will take a day or two to open a temporary passage, and unless people wait for him in place, no one can be found at all. I can't keep up if I want to, there are too many mercenary groups to move forward quickly, and there is no master who can quickly track in this underground environment when rushing alone. Sensing that kobolds have been caught repeatedly, otherwise it would not have been possible to catch so many.

Two days later, Mike used his magic to temporarily open a passage more than twenty meters long, allowing everyone to slide down with a rope. No way, this magic is not commonly used and is as high as the 5th order, Mike doesn't want to use the precious warlock spell to awaken, so he can only use the mage method to cast it, but he only has a total of two general spell slots at the 5th level that can be used to memorize this change spell, and the other is a specialization bit that can only be used to memorize prophecy spells. If it weren't for the fact that the various enhancements lasted for 18 hours, Mike wouldn't have been able to cast the spell in two days, and he would only be able to open a passage within fifteen meters. In fact, Mike can also cast spells in the magic circle, and there is no need to memorize spell slots at all, but the cost is a bit high, and the magic material mercenary group is relatively lacking......

Of course, the dark elves couldn't wait for them in place, so this time they still found nothing, but ......

"Mike, humanoids here have been more frequent in the past, at least three times in the last half month, and there are more than a few, the last time there are more than a dozen, are we waiting here?" Wukong asked after leading people to search.

Mike thought for a moment and said, "Let's follow the traces first, and then talk about it when we encounter a fork." ”

Sadurilna was both confused and worried about the current situation. She led her team to trade in neighboring cities, and until eight days ago it was going well, without any danger on the way, without any trouble in the trade, and successfully sold her weapons and armor and slaves to buy food. But the good fortune ended five days ago.

Seven days ago, when the Dark Elf caravan returned, it found traces of a large number of humanoid creatures in a tunnel that did not fork, mainly kobolds, and a small number of gnolls and goblins. The number of people is difficult to judge accurately, and it is possible to have anywhere from 100 to 1,000. Because the traces had suddenly appeared from here, Shadurilna thought they were coming from the other side, and somehow retreated here. But after walking for a while, I found something strange, and the direction of the footprints changed to only leaving and not coming. Could it be that they "fell from the sky"?

Six days ago, the caravan had caught up with the group of inferior creatures, or rather, the road had been blocked by the group of inferior creatures. They camped at the water source about three days from the city of Faturi, not knowing whether they were resting or waiting for anything. Sadurilna's caravan had brought a lot of food, but there were only twelve dark elves and six slave warriors, and she didn't want to clash with each other.

Because the other party sent a large number of people to look for food, Shadurilna and the others easily captured three kobolds and two goblins as prisoners without alarming the other party, preparing to understand the purpose of those low-level creatures.

The captives were very honest, but they were almost unaware. In addition to knowing that he was "an honorable member of the armed merchant group under the leadership of the great master Mike and the wise master of Sal, the reserve of the Sanzang Shinrikyo Cult", he only knew that the goblins would give out enough water and a small amount of food every day, so they didn't need to bring as much food as they could. As for the strength of the merchant group, where it came from, where it was going, and what it wanted to do, I didn't know it. Somewhere underground, they themselves were "inspired by the passing Sanzang Truth Order and volunteered to join the Order." In terms of joining time, the three kobolds and two goblins entered in three batches, one said five days, one said five hundred years, and three simply said they didn't know.

The only important and conclusive information is that they really "fell from the sky", and that one mage spent two days opening a temporary passage.

Faced with this situation, no matter how superb the dark elves' torture art is, there is still nothing to be done. They tried to get the goblins who were well-equipped and supposedly important, but the guys stayed in the camp and couldn't get out, and they were very disciplined and alert, and they couldn't get them in without alerting the camp.

The next day, the lower creatures hit the road and began to make their way towards Fatuuri, making seven or eight wrong trips along the way, but the ranks were longer and each turn back was faster, and the caravan of Shadurirona could not overtake them without alarming them. The Dark Elves captured three more captives, but the interrogation was the same as before. Elite goblins are always disciplined and stay in the center of the group, unable to find a chance to capture.

So Shadurilna decided to follow them, keeping her distance, and wait for them to leave on their own, or be dealt with by the Faturi patrol. But what she didn't expect was that for some reason, the caravan was discovered by the other party.

"Dark elf friends, we are a Sanzang armed merchant group from afar, there is no malice, please show up. A half-orc in a leather skirt shouted in this direction.

Shadurellna was about to give the order to quietly retreat, but before she could do so, the orc spoke again.

"If you refuse to show up, we will have to ask you to come out ourselves. ”

Before the words fell, the Sanzang armed merchant group threw a fireball and exploded about ten meters behind Shadurellna.

Shadurilna and the others had to "show up". The other party didn't bother them much, but they searched back and "invited" the entire dark elf caravan over.