18. Dredging tunnels
In the depths of the three huge caves located south of the royal city, hundreds of people are working day and night to clear them.
Anka carried a kerosene lamp into one of the caves, where Anka was alone.
"Why do I have to come to this cave alone? Forget it, it doesn't matter if you pay more than others! ”
Ankka had just dug up a few huge boulders covered in dirt and the boulders on them rolled down with a grunt, and if Ankka hadn't dodged quickly, he might have been crushed.
"It's not very sturdy!"
When Ankka turned around, he noticed four bright lights drifting towards him, and when he got closer, Ankka noticed that the four children from yesterday were opposite.
The eldest child who led the way to the front and said, "Look at what?" ”
"How did you end up here?"
"We saw a lot of pay, so we came here!"
"It's dangerous here."
"It's none of your business."
After saying that, the four children divided into two and climbed on it and tried to push the stone down, and then the four of them worked together to put the stone on the cart.
Ankka shrugged and went about his work, Ankka was a little quicker than the kids, and in a few moments he dug up a large number of rocks, but the dug up stones were quickly piled up on all the carts.
"I remember that there are earth elemental spirits that can be used to move stones, so let's borrow them."
With that, Anka left the cave and came to the camp outside, where everyone was eating, and Anka turned around to find the earth elemental elves locked in the warehouse.
"By the way, can't these elemental spirits be used?"
"You need to be authorized!" An overseer in a purple robe with a fleshy face stepped forward and said.
The Overseer puts his hand on the door and forbids Ankka to try to open it, and Ankka shrugs his shoulders and says he doesn't care, then turns to leave.
Before leaving, I saw food piled up in the corner, so I planned to take a few of them, after all, I was a little hungry at noon.
"Hey, who told you to take it?" The overseer came over and stopped.
Ankh glanced at the overseer and said, "I'm also working, why can't I take it?" ”
"Who can guarantee that you are indeed working......"
In the face of the chattering overseer Anka, he was anxious like an ordinary child who was speechless after being in embarrassment, and directly picked up five boxes of lunches and turned around to leave, and the overseer stepped forward and put his hand on Anka and shouted: "Whose child is here to steal?" ”
The Overseer's voice attracted the other workers to come and watch, and Ankka strode away with his head down and shook the Overseer away, and he didn't dare to stop him after seeing Ankka throw the Overseer flying.
"Elemental spirits are not allowed, do I need a cart to push out? If only I could make elemental sprites. ”
Just as Ankka was talking to himself, Elanhi suddenly crawled out and spat a mouthful of water on Anka's armor and roared, the saliva actually stood up and swayed around, although it exploded after a while, Ankka found that Elanhi's magical talent was simply amazingly powerful, not only using resurrection magic, but also making elemental spirits.
"In that case, you should be able to make an Earth Elemental Elf!"
Alanch whined twice in agreement.
Just as Ankka was about to return to work, Ankka found the youngest of the four children, the girl, standing at the entrance of the cave with a kerosene lamp and waving her hand back and forth.
"What's wrong?" Ankh stepped forward and asked.
"Woo, everyone is suppressed."
Ankka then followed the girl back to the cave where she worked, only to see that the three of them had been crushed by the falling stones, and blood was still flowing from the cracks.
Ankh picked up Elancy and asked her to summon the elemental spirits to lift the stones, and Alanxi snorted twice and gasped tiredly after only summoning two earth elemental spirits.
"Thank you!" Ankka puts a piece of jerky in Elanhi's mouth and tells Ellanch to return to the package to rest.
After Ankka instructed the tall elemental elves to slowly lift the stones, Ankka lifted the injured and fainted children out, and after lifting the children out, all the elemental elves fell apart due to the end of the magic end.
"Push the cart here!" Anka commanded the girl who was crying in a daze, and checked the injuries of several people.
After that, Anka and the girl first went to the camp just now, and found that there was no one, and then sent the wounded to the camp of the Knights not far away.
With Jouse's help, the wounded were well cared for, and although they were still unconscious, there were no major problems.
"By the way, why didn't we assign earth elemental spirits to that cave?" Ankh asked, turning his head.
"Maybe there's a problem with the distribution on the field! I'll check it out. Jousei responded.
After that, Anka took out four of the lunch boxes and handed them to the girl, then turned to her head and asked, "Who should I pay for?" ”
"I'll give you your words in person." Jousei said.
Ankh then said, "I'm going to breathe." ”
So saying, he walked out of the camp and found a boulder to sit on, and just as Anka was resting, a ranger came out.
"His Highness Karn is looking for you!"
Ankka looked back and found only a red mark on the wall, and the red mark quickly disappeared, and then Ankka followed the mark through a hidden passage to the back garden of the palace.
"Huh? Kahn! Ankka said as he saw Karn sitting in the middle of the flowers.
Karn motioned for Ankka to be quieter and said, "Sit down! ”
"Excuse me, what's the matter?" Ankh asked.
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to retrieve my sword after clearing the cave."
Karn thought for a moment and asked, "What kind of person do you think the offseason is?" ”
"Why do you like to ask this kind of question as a family? I don't know who he is. ”
Karn was a little surprised that the offseason also asked such questions, so he asked, "How did you respond when he asked you?" ”
"That's how I responded, and I won't interfere in your family's affairs."
"Is that so?"
Karn then took out a round transparent glass orb and said, "It's a magical creation, it should be useful to you, I'm giving it to you!" ”
"Thanks, what is it for!"
"You can use it ten times to see the ephemeral future, just put it in front of your eyes."
Ankh then quickly left when he saw soldiers coming to patrol, after which the Ranger came out of the corner and said, "Is this okay for Your Highness?" If he wants to be neutral, why would he give him such a rare magical creation? ”
"If he has to be neutral, there's nothing anyone can do to change his mind, and that thing can keep me on track with him, so I can be prepared even if he's not really neutral."
When Anka returned to the Knights' camp, he found that Josse had summoned thirty knights to stand in the square.
Ankha stepped forward curiously and asked, "Is it training?" ”
"It's a huge ironclad worm in the cave, which has caused casualties, and we are preparing to deal with it, do you want to go with you?"
After Anka answered, he followed them to the front of the construction cave, only to see dozens of seriously injured workers in front of them lying on the ground waiting for rescue.
"Bastard, what about the elemental elves?"
Josse and Ankh break into the warehouse to find the Overseer still in front of them and not allowed anyone to get closer.
"Get out of here!" As he spoke, Jousee stepped forward and slapped the Overseer away, opening the door.
Seeing that the three huge elemental spirits were all standing in place without any movement, Jousei stepped forward and pinched it and said, "It's fake!" ”
Later, when the overseer was about to escape, Ankh stepped on him and couldn't move, and Jouseh stepped forward and said, "You sold the real elemental spirit!" Who did you say it was sold to? ”
"Woo, I can't say."
Qiu Sai angrily gave the order: "Send him to the underground ice for interrogation." ”
After that, he angrily returned to the temporary command post with Anka and said as he walked: "These damn noble descendants are really unreliable. ”
"Why would the descendants of the nobility come to work as overseers?" Ankka asked curiously.
"There are some noble descendants who are not angry, and they can't do important work, so they have to be arranged here to eat."
"Then why not stop it?" Ankh asked.
"It is very difficult to stop such a thing, because almost all people with even a little power will benefit their own family and the forces that support them, so the king who implements this kind of national policy will become the target of public criticism, and no one has dared to do this."
"Is that the same true for other countries?" Ankh asked.
"I don't know about the other races, but the words of humans must be like this." Jousey responded.
While the two were talking, a knight stepped forward and said, "My lord, the bed crossbow is ready." ”
"Good, put them at the entrance of the hole and set some traps and bait in front of you." Jousey commanded.
Then, at the moment when the bait was arranged, the ironclad worm attacked quickly, and the raised ironclad quickly wriggled although the huge iron cage temporarily trapped the worm, but it was only a moment before the worm escaped.
After that, the worm quickly wriggled and directly destroyed everything arranged, and then the worm directly blocked the huge mouthparts with countless fangs at the entrance of the hole.
"Disperse!" Jousei shouted suddenly.
Suddenly, the worm spewed out a large amount of acid, and the acid sprayed out more than ten meters away like a high-pressure stream of water, and all the knights in front of it were completely corroded by the acid, and in the best case, only half of their bodies were left.
After that, the worm arched itself and went straight underground to escape, and then Jouseh said as he sorted out the scattered scene: "It's really unlucky, why is there such a big ironclad worm here, and besides, shouldn't this kind of thing live in an underground cave?" ”
"Maybe you can use it to dredge the cave quickly." Ankka stepped forward and put his hand on the huge hole that had been drilled by the smooth ironclad worms.
"What are you going to do?"
"It's okay to hang bait on the gravel, and at this rate, the cave can be completely cleared in a few minutes."
"But even then, the bug hasn't been disposed of."
Ankh pondered for a moment and asked, "What is this bug afraid of?" ”
"I remember just throwing a bomb in its mouth."
"Then we can lead the cavern to a wide area after it is completely cleared, and then tie it with strong chains."
"You can try, you go and set the trap!" After saying that, Jousei ordered the rest of the knights to be brought to set up the field and prepare the bait.