The time entered the night, and although the "Broken Rock" team underground could not directly see whether the sky outside was light or dark, they had a way to confirm the exact time.

For example, the treasure hunt rats, which have been specially trained by the two dwarf mages, will sleep and rest at a fixed period of time, which can be judged by observing whether they are resting and sleeping.

However, at this time, the dwarves who were digging suddenly stopped.

And the reason is that Vagur "stopped".

The leader of this team has ten energy levels, to be precise, he is about to complete the life energy construction of the eleventh energy level, and he can strengthen the rune construction on himself again, or risk building a new rune.

However, it was clear that the team leader was not about to prepare for the rune construction, hoping that they would be able to be quiet and watch for him.

Vagur felt a sense of discomfort.

Like many Winterkeep Dwarves, his runes are focused on strengthening.

The strengthening runes on his head, body, hands and feet, the continuous strengthening effect was still acting continuously, allowing him to easily hold the solid long-handled war hammer.

However, through the resonance runes on his arm and the warhammer, he could feel from the warhammer in his hand that seemed to extend the limbs that the earth elemental somewhere nearby had changed abnormally.

Why is there such an anomaly?

And soon, he doesn't need to wonder -

But no sooner had he alerted his companions than the walls of the rock in front of them suddenly cracked.

With a low sound, the dwarf who had just stopped swinging the rock-crushing hammer was affected by the abnormal sound at this moment, and immediately slammed the rock-crushing hammer in his hand forward, driven by vigilance and defensive awareness.

However, at this moment, a black shadow rushed from behind the cave wall, bringing a rumbling sound.

With a rumbling sound, a rock-gray silhouette nearly six meters long burst out from behind the cave wall—

Dragon?

A dragon creature with exaggerated scales and a triangular head, or maybe it's some kind of lizard!?

But he could only make such a brief judgment, the forelimb claws of the slate-gray glimpse, an extra-large "claw" had already pierced towards him.

Clang!

！

With a metallic clash, the spiked "claws" the size of a knight's spear slammed into his long-handled warhammer grip, stabbing the dwarf in the shoulder blade in a sliding friction sound.

If the enemy is only one or two meters or two or three meters in size, this spike "claw" may only be able to leave him with a sharp and deep wound.

However, the size that appeared in his field of vision was far more powerful than any type of underground raider he had ever seen, and the "spikes", from the tip upwards and slightly back, were the thickness of his warhammer grip.

With the action of the stab, the moment the spike "claw" stabbed his body, his body was directly pushed out.

The dwarf could feel the pain of the metal leather chain mail he was wearing as he stabbed into his flesh under the pressure of the force.

However, in the next moment of bursting out of his strength, when his body flew backwards, slamming heavily on the ground, bringing up a puff of sand and gravel, he watched as the rock-gray monster that attacked him quickly retreated into the deep hole in the collapsed rock wall.

He tried to stand up, but his right arm was completely out of strength......

"Alert! Back off! Defend retreat! ”

With a low roar, Shattered Rock "Shattered" Vagul grabbed his hammer and rushed forward, bringing his fellow dwarves back to the ground after a sudden attack, and quickly assembled to form a defensive formation.

It was at this moment that the dwarves discovered how tragic the wounds on the dwarf's body were—

A fist-sized bloody hole almost through his chest and back appeared on the left side of his chest.

The leather and chainmail sweltering armor went straight through the blood hole and protruded from his back.

Despite the fact that there are reasons for the lack of timely defense, despite the fact that this chain mail is not very effective against puncture wounds, but ......

Can that thing be considered a piercing weapon too?

The shocked dwarves tensed their nerves, it was clear that the physical strength of the rune enhancement maintained by normalcy was no longer able to deal with the enemy, and they were ready to activate the rune that could further strengthen their strength or defense.

Several of the Hearthcastle dwarves in the group stood silently in the direction closest to the breach in the rock wall.

"Keep back!"

Once again, "Broken Rock" Vagul gave the order not to waste time on his companions.

The enemy is more tricky and insidious than imagined.

Vagur thought calmly.

Anyway, the enemy, these dragons can't have discovered them long ago, right?

He had just sensed the anomaly, and those dragons had just appeared, apparently because of the excavation of the tunnel on the rock wall.

It can't be that they have been ambushed for a long time.

Even if the other party starts to assemble from now on, there is no way to be so fast, and there should be no bag and clamp attack or something.

Whether the opponent is strong or weak, they have a chance to evacuate.

However, at this very moment, when Vagur was fully engaged, focusing his attention on the front, guarding against a possible enemy, and covering the retreat of his companions, a low cry came:

"Vagur, there's also in the back! They shut us up. ”

Vargul turned his head in shock and shock, only to see that in the direction they had come, in the direction of their retreat, something resembling the root of a tree had fallen to the ground, and a slate-gray dragon had poked its head out from the top.

On the triangular skull, a pair of cold, murderous eyes were staring at them.

"Balor, Rune, I'll leave it to you later, follow me! Keep retreating! ”

Vagur immediately let out a low roar, and with the strength of his legs and waist, and his vitality surged, he passed directly through the line from the back of the cover and appeared at the front of the retreating team.

Without the slightest hesitation, he directly held the heavy war hammer in his hand and slashed a heavy hammer blow at the rock-gray dragon beast.

In the hum of the resonant runes brought by the life force, the earth elemental surged and gathered, forming an arc that seemed to be substantial as the warhammer in his hand smashed the trajectory-

Winter!

！

The extremely heavy war hammer directly smashed into the ground, and the rock wall of the ground quickly cracked and shattered at this moment, and a huge fracture area with a diameter of nearly four meters instantly formed and collapsed.

In the dust of the sand and gravel raised, Wagul's eyes widened—

The squeaky gray dragon didn't make any moves to meet it at all, but the moment he picked up the war hammer, its body retracted directly into the hole above, allowing him to fall into the void with this blow.

However, at this very moment, a black shadow suddenly struck!