The Drow Elves' surprise attack did not work, and naturally they were counterattacked——— and there were many powerful adventurers and mages among the travelers living in the Black Oak, perhaps they did not notice anything unusual at first, but when the battle officially began, everyone except the blind and deaf found out about the Drow Elves' attack, so they also hurriedly fought back.

The result was predictable, and when the city garrison arrived, the Drow Elf commandos were wiped out.

"These damn black-skinned mongrels."

The captain of the garrison looked at the corpses on the ground with a grim face, unable to suppress his anger, the surprise attacks of the drow elves have never left a living mouth. This time was the same, nearly half of the Black Oak Tree, including the staff and guests, was killed by the Drow Elves, and those who survived were basically experienced in a hundred battles.

"It's strange that these black crumbs rarely come to the ground."

A dwarf with a battle axe frowned and stroked his beard——— he was one of the guests of the inn, and just now he had smashed his axe through the skull of an unlucky drow elf.

"These degenerates never appear on the surface of the earth easily, and they must have come here with a plan."

Standing beside the dwarf was an elven ranger, whose delicate brows were furrowed tightly, and his face was solemn———Elves and Drow are mortal enemies at all times.

"I guess it's not for you, is it? Skinny bamboo poles? ”

"I don't think I'm worth being attacked by an entire Drow commando, but it's a weird thing."

The elven ranger shook his head at the dwarf's quip.

"Moreover, we are only killing stragglers, someone has eliminated the main force of these degenerates, otherwise things may be more troublesome."

"You mean that?"

The captain of the guard turned his head and looked with some disgust at the end of the corridor not far away——— where the corpses of several drow elves were lying on the ground. However, their appearance was very strange, the muscles and bones of these drow elves had melted, and they looked like wax figures that had been burned by fire, and their expressions were even more eerie——— half of their faces showed a certain intoxication, as if they were smiling in supreme happiness, while the other half of their faces showed a distorted, frightened, and eerie fear.

Both expressions appear on a melted face at the same time, and it makes people feel sick just to see it.

"Gods above, I've never seen such a weird guy die."

The dwarf glanced over for a moment, then withdrew his gaze and shuddered.

"I don't know what these guys went through, but my instincts tell me that they must have been in a lot of pain before they died, and that they probably didn't do it."

"Unfortunately, I don't think there's any spell that can have such an effect."

At this moment, a middle-aged man in a white robe and holding a staff walked down the stairs, and he came to the pile of corpses with great interest and took a closer look.

"It does look like I've been attacked by some kind of illusion, seeing that the illusion only attacks the spirit, not the body, and I don't remember any spell that can make a creature's body so ........."

As he spoke, the mage stretched out his staff and stirred it on the other party's body——— only to see that the corpse of the dark elf was like fermented dough, and the whole body wriggled throughout.

“……… So strange. ”

"Hey, do you mages always have to get these weird things?"

Hearing the disgusting sound, the dwarf protested, and the mage spread his hands.

"I said, it's not magic, maybe the elves would have something to think about it?"

"I don't know much........."

The Elven Ranger looked at the half-melted pile of corpses in disgust.

"All I know is that the evil gods they worship do do punish Drow when he doesn't please her, but it usually seems to be related to spiders........."

"Ah, then maybe that guy has a hobby of making human dough now."

The dwarf muttered.

"I don't think so, they're the main force, and judging from their current position, it seems that they are planning to attack someone, maybe the drow have found their prey, launched an attack on the prey, and then been eliminated by the other party........."

"And who would do it?"

Faced with the quarrel between the elven rangers and the dwarven warriors, Duanmu Huai yawned.

"Maybe it's a handsome kind person who passes by and doesn't leave a name?"

Kasim and Roxia stood by in a daze, a little unintelligible, even if they were the heroes who saved Neverwinter, they were just rookies who had not been on the adventure for a long time, but luckily the Dark Elves' attack was a little slower and they discovered it, so the two of them were standing here, not being corpses lying on the ground ready to be moved out.

As for Amelia, she knelt there praying for the bodies of innocent victims, asking for peace for their souls and did not join in this boring discussion.

Everyone discussed for a while, but they didn't come up with any useful opinions, and even Duanmu Huai didn't know what this group of Zhuoer were doing on the surface when they were idle and bored. He knew that Drow had a tradition of attacking the elven community on the surface, but it was usually in the deep mountains and forests, and Drow would not come to Waterdeep City to make trouble......... Anyway, it shouldn't have anything to do with yourself.

From the corpses of those drow elves, no useful evidence was found, drow elves never stupidly wrote down the mission goal on paper, the captain of the guard searched again, and asked everyone present, in the end he found nothing, and left in a hurry——— but he encountered this kind of thing on the night he was on duty, and the captain of the guard could even foresee the tragic fate he would face next.

At the same time, the innkeeper also hurried over, and looked at the dilapidated inn in front of him, and the whole person was about to faint. As an apology, he announced that all customers present would be exempted, and at the same time said that the hotel would be closed for maintenance and rectification on the same day——— and the innkeeper would certainly not be able to go to the dark area to find Drow for compensation, which could almost be regarded as a pure loss.

The Black Oak attack immediately made headlines of the day, and when Duanmu Huai and the others were having breakfast at a nearby tavern, they could hear that many people had already started discussing the matter.

"Big cities are horrible."

Qasim sighed as he drank the soup.

"When I was in Neverwinter, I never thought I'd be attacked at the inn."

"Generally speaking, Drow rarely go to the ground, let alone a multi-racial gathering place like Waterdeep, which is not a race with a good reputation."

Duanmu Huai patted the little head of Ogis beside him and spoke.

"But I didn't expect those drow elves to be so cruel, they didn't even spare the children of the helpers........."

Emilia clenched her fists, and to be honest, she couldn't eat any of the bread in front of her now.

"Or else? Do you think the drow elves' bad reputation was made up out of thin air? They're not good people, and basically you meet a drow elf and cut it a hundred times out of a hundred times without saying a word, and you won't cut the wrong good person a hundred times. ”

Duanmu sneered, and then he looked at Casim and Rosha.

"Remember, too, that this is how the Drow elves act, this is still the surface, and they are not resistant to the sun. But when we reach the Dark Realm, then it will be the home of the Dark Elves, and by that time you will have to deal with attacks and assassinations of this intensity 24 hours a day. ”

"No..............."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's words, Luo Xia's face suddenly changed greatly, and Kassim was no better.

"This is the Dark Territory, otherwise you think this is an outing? If it were that simple, then those adventurers wouldn't be unable to come back. ”

Drow's attack can be regarded as the first time that this group of surface rookies have experienced the horror and cruelty of the dark region, except for Duanmu Huai and Ogis, the other three have not obtained much benefit in the battle with the Drow elves, it can be said that they have exhausted all their efforts, and they can barely get the enemy they face.

But what they faced was just scraps for the Drow raiders.

However, there are many such enemies underground.........

However, no one flinched, and although the atmosphere at the table was a little solemn during breakfast, after eating, Kassim, Rosha, and Emilia all went to buy goods and made preparations to go underground.

"Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers."

Sitting on a chair with a cup of honey tea in his hand, Duanmu Huai shook his head. In fact, he would have liked them to retreat now, but unfortunately, these people obviously wouldn't give up so easily. Young, hot-blooded, reckless——— well, it's not a bad thing.

But...............

"Alright, Ogis, it's time for us to go."

Duanmu Huai stood up.

He didn't plan to continue to act with them anymore, especially after experiencing his "triple killing move", Duanmu Huai couldn't wait to go deep into the dark region to kill and improve his experience points a little more, so that the [God of Pleasure] and [Old God's Will] could be upgraded as soon as possible.

And if you let them follow you, it's hard to let go. Especially Emilia, the paladin, who knows if she'll say something troublesome to herself.

So...............

"It's time for a happy outing, let's go."

Duanmu Huai lowered his head and said to Ogis, who also put down the book in his arms, and then climbed onto Duanmu Huai's shoulder. Then Duanmu Huai glanced towards the street like this, turned around and walked to the other side——— unlike the others, he knew the situation in Deep Water City very well, and he also knew the entrance to the road leading to the dark area, so even if Duanmu Huai was alone, it was impossible to encounter any danger.

As for the task of taking care of the rookie, let's ask for another skill.

(End of chapter)