The dark elf, who found that there were signs of a break-in at the door of the basement, did not have time to stop the orcs from opening the door, so they had no choice but to make defensive moves first, preparing for a sudden attack by enemies who might still be staying in the basement.

But the moment the basement door opened, she saw only one person standing at a long table with a lot of gold coins piled up in the basement. To be precise, this should be a person wrapped in a whole set of heavy armor with almost no gaps, from the two points of yellow light that should be the eye, and the aura of death that fills the surroundings, this is an undead creature. "The undead from there, it's a nuisance. Privately complaining about her luck, Ness ducked into the shadows of the corner and followed the half-orcs who rushed forward without hesitation into the basement.

There was a soft "poof", and the orc seemed to break through an invisible wall, covering his nose and staggering forward two steps, while the undead also swung his long sword and rushed in the direction of the basement door.

"The Wall of Invisible Force, there are invisible mages here. Ness immediately understood her situation, and immediately prepared to retreat to the surface, fighting the invisible mage in a small space like the basement, which was a suicidal act.

At this moment, however, a sound from the old wooden door of the basement, as piercing as the sound of the door opening, was heard, and at the same time, the oil lamp placed on the long table was blown out, and the people in the basement were immediately plunged into darkness.

The Dark Elves are not actually an independent race, and people just use this name to distinguish them from the elves who have been expelled from the elven land for various reasons. As a result, Ness's eyes have the same night vision as the other elves, but in the current basement. There wasn't a single ray of light coming through the space. Ness couldn't see anything.

"The wooden door in the basement. It should be able to let in a glimmer of light, right?" Ness, who was a little puzzled, quickly leaned her back against the wall beside her, and began to try to judge the situation from the voice she heard in her ears.

The orc, who also has night vision, and is equally unable to see anything, reacts by immediately swinging the stone axe in frantically with the simple intention of smashing everything that comes close to him. As a result, the long table in the basement was immediately destroyed, and the stone axe of the orc smashed half of the long table lightly.

There was a sound of glass breaking, which was supposed to be an oil lamp on the table;

There was an uproar. In a short time, it was replaced by the intermittent clanging sound, and it appeared that the gold coins on the table had been spilled on the floor as the long table toppled over.

There was also a "boom", could it be the sound of the stone axe in the hands of the orc Fuge falling to the ground?

It's just that this problem doesn't need to be investigated by the dark elves anymore. At the same time as she heard the sound of the orc's tall body falling to the ground, Niss only felt a pain in the back of her head, as if someone had attacked her from behind.

"I feel that the thieves who are used to sneak attacks from behind are attacked from behind, what is this ......" This is the question that turned in the head of the dark elf before he was completely unconscious.

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"Looks like the Dark Elf Lady has fainted again. Bring her another bucket of ice water, Amtils?" was the voice of Archmage Aqiman. Slightly hoarse was the quality of his voice, and Niss, who had been gambling with the archmage for a long time, recognized his voice lightly.

"And the other handful is rounded. It could even be described as a sweet male voice, right?" thought to Ness.

Demon Amtils had a normal smile on his face, but he spat out a sentence that made the dark elf shudder: "The ice water doesn't seem to work very well, in order to prevent this young lady from waking up and fainting again like just now, I think it may be possible to cut off this young lady's ear directly, or let her wake up for a longer time." ”

"Good idea. It's a pity that the Dark Knight has already rushed back first, otherwise his long sword is sharper, and it will be easier to cut off his ears. As he spoke, the archmage shook the wrist of his right hand, and a small silver dagger landed in his hand.

As a biting chill approached, the long ears of the dark elf thieves began to shake uncontrollably, and the demons and mages were satisfied to see this symbol of the fear in the hearts of the elven race. Ness opened her eyes helplessly.

The demons don't joke anymore. The giant scythe fell next to Ness's ear, and the demon Amtils crouched down and pinched the dark elf's cheek, forcing her to look into her dark eyes: "Listen, dark elf, because that stupid orc doesn't speak the orc lingua franca that neither I nor the mage understand, so the obligation to answer my question falls only on you." If you don't give me a satisfactory answer to my question within five minutes, I'll cut off your ears and bury you alive, and you'll be a skeleton in half a year or a year and you'll be the mage's slave forever.

Now, listen to my question: What are you and your companions doing in my dungeon?"

Ness read the message from the demon's pupils that if she persisted, the terrible demon would make the terrible one she had just said come true. In order to get the Dark Elf Thief to tell her and her companion what she and her companions meant, the demon Amtils makes a series of threats that are indeed effective in priing open the Dark Elf's mouth.

Niss and her sister, the dark elf Niya who specializes in casting elven magic, are members of the Thieves' Guild, and organizationally they are under the jurisdiction of the Onyx City Council. Onyx City is the imperial capital of the Holy Asyr Empire located in the east of the Duchy of Sumerland, and the Agate City Association is also the head of the thieves' guild on the continent of Vesta.

Not long ago, a shocking news came out from the people in the palace of the thieves' union in Onyx: the second prince, Yagu Crane, threatened that if the thieves' union scattered throughout the Holy Asserr Empire did not submit to the second prince, it would disappear completely in the near future.

The Holy Asser Emperor Anfil XXXIV is very old, but the successor of the next emperor is still not specified. Almost the whole country looked up and watched the battle between the eldest prince, Verdor Crane, and the second prince, Yagu Crane. Traditionally, though, Grand Prince Verdor Klein is the rightful first heir to the throne. However, in recent years, the second prince, Yagu Klein, has led the Blood Griffin Knights, one of the three major knights of the Holy Asserr Empire, and has been active on all fronts of the empire. It is not unclear whether King Anfil XXXIV, who has been known for his innovation many years ago, will finally choose a surprising successor.

At this time. If the second prince Yagu can eliminate the thieves' guild that almost covers most of the crimes of the Holy Aserr Empire in one fell swoop, the chances of sitting on the emperor's throne will naturally increase greatly; or if the thieves' guild with its influence all over the Vestal continent is recruited under its banner, the second prince's power is actually no less than that of any king on the continent; but in case of any accident, the second prince will not only gain more than he loses, but also likely to lose his life at the hands of the killers of the thieves' guild.

Therefore, this rumor is actually quite strange, in fact, the second prince has no reason to take action against the thieves' union: the borders of the empire are full of wars, whether it is dealing with the small harassment of a few nearby nomads, or the large-scale invasion of the northern orcs. Achieving a feats that could boast of a lifetime was not a difficult task for the well-known Second Prince, at least it was much easier than going to war with the Thieves' Guild, which was already powerful in its own right, and had a long history of strict military discipline, adding to the disputable Thieves' Guild would probably cause the people to dislike.

However, the top brass of the Thieves' Guild took this rumor very seriously, and sent a considerable number of agents to search for information. None of the agents of the Thieves' Guild returned to the Guild, and even many of the high-ranking members of the Guild of Thieves themselves disappeared.

Then, a few days later, when the bodies of the missing people appeared on the streets of the imperial capital of Onyx, the top brass of the thieves' union could be 100% sure. Whatever the purpose, whether or not the rumor was related, there was a secret idea of the Thieves' Guild. A debate ensued in the thieves' union about how to deal with the current situation. The radical side proposed to declare war directly on the royal family. After all, there is no doubt that the members of the royal family will have such the strength to attack the spies and high-ranking members of the thieves' union on a large scale, while the conservative side believes that it is prudent to avoid a frontal conflict for the time being and prepare a way out in advance. The argument lasted for a week, and the result was that both sides went their separate ways.

While Assassins from the Thieves' Guild continued to appear in the palace of Onyx, Nith and Nia left Onyx City on orders from their conservative leaders.

Their mission is to come to the Principality of Sumerand and find an area suitable for the Thieves' Guild, so that if the momentum is not right, the Thieves' Guild will have a way out. The reason for choosing the Principality of Sumerand is very simple, no matter how prestigious the Holy Knights of the Principality of Sumerand are, it cannot change the fact that the people of the Principality of Sumerand are poor as a whole, and the citizens of the Principality of Sumerand were once so poor that even the most inferior thieves of the Thieves' Guild did not want to come to patronize Cheng Dù. Therefore, in the territory of the Principality of Sumeland, except for several prosperous large cities on the border and the national capital Sumer, there is no branch of the thieves' union, in other words, there is enough space for the thieves' union to store the zài.

And coming to Thor City was the idea of the two sisters themselves. The city of Thor is located on the border, and the surrounding forests and mines provide enough jobs for the residents, and the coins in the pockets of the residents will be an important source of nourishment for the survival of the thieves' union, and since there is no existing thieves' union, the two sisters thought it would be a good idea to establish a chapter here. The first priority in establishing a chapter is, of course, a field trip, so Niss and Nia took the orc Fugg, whom they had met on the road and had embarked on a journey in search of a paradise suitable for orcs, to the vicinity of Thor.

Although orcs are not an uncommon race in the Holy Asyr Empire, they are very different in the Principality of Sumerland. The vast majority of the citizens of the Principality of Sumerand are ordinary humans, and occasionally there are a fairly rare number of goblins or dwarves or even half-elves roaming the streets, but the half-orcs are creatures that many of the inhabitants of the Principality of Sumerand have never even heard of.

For this reason, when Ness found the location of the group near Thor, which is the basement. The orc Fugg stayed in the basement. Almost never took a half step out of the door. As for his quest to "find a place for orcs to live", Ness graciously announced that she would help orcs find a suitable location for free. Rather than wandering around the area in search of a location suitable for both orcs and thieves, Nia focused on the folklore and history of the land they loved, so although they entered Thor, the two sisters chose different places: Nia chose to go to the library where she founded, where the books would tell Sù about the origins and history of the area, and Niss went to the tavern where it was most convenient to gather information, where she met a mage with a pocket full of gold coins, and he sought the refuge of Rafa, the god of gamblers, at the poker table。

There is no shortage of thieves in the Guild of Thieves who are good at playing the table. Ness is one of them. With the archmage getting carried away, Ness secretly and slowly transferred the gold coins from the mage's pocket to her purse.

Although the mage eventually saw through the cheating trick due to a slight accident and began to attack the Dark Elf thieves, Nia, who arrived at the tavern at the predetermined time, easily knocked out the unprepared archmage Aqiman. Therefore, the gold coins in the archmage's money bag were either gambling, or robbing, and in short, all of them fell into the hands of the two sisters, which was also the second unexpected income of the two sisters that day, and the first income was the full money bag that the elder sister Nia picked up in the reading room of the library.

The arrival of Archmage Aqiman that night had taken the visitors of the Thieves' Guild by surprise, and they had no idea that the master, who was indulged in wine tables and playing cards, would be able to follow in the footsteps of the hardest-to-find thieves to their destination. However, after a battle that was not fierce, the archmage was defeated again and fled, which fully shows that the archmage did not accept the lesson of the final homecoming inn at all, and was still in a state of unprepared for battle.

But against a mage, if you don't cut the grass and eradicate it. It's like cutting down trees in the sacred forest of elves, and at any moment you can be shot through by a hidden arrow from nowhere. So after the mage left. Ness began to investigate the mage's residence and soon found the location of the dungeon of the demon Amtils.

So this morning, the two sisters from the Thieves' Guild rushed to the dungeon with Fugg, and when Niss returned, she told Sù Fugg that the area around the dungeon was definitely the most suitable place for orcs to live, so Fugg did not hesitate to join the group to "receive" the dungeon. However, after walking a distance, Nia was still worried about the gold coins left in the basement, so Niss and the orcs would turn back halfway, and only Nia flew in the direction of Thor's volcano with the help of the wind elves. Unfortunately, Fugg opened the basement door too easily, completely ignoring the signs of someone entering, and finally explained the fate of the dark elves who were now tied up and lying on the ground to be interrogated by the demon and the mage.

After listening to Ness's account, the demon glanced in the direction of the mage: if what Ness said should be true, Ness did not take the initiative to target the archmage at first, but was just sent to the door by the mage who was gambling and completely unalert.

The mage understood what was in the demon's eyes and nodded with an innocent expression. Then the demon's fist fell on the mage's face: "You idiot, bastard!

The mage lowered his head and flashed the demon's straight fist, and by the way, knocked the Trist staff in his hand to the demon's head: "Halfling, don't laugh at the dwarf, you demon with red mud in your head haven't lost your money bag in the library!"

With the wave of the staff in the archmage's hand, the light in the basement seemed to fluctuate in circles. The demon who was caught off guard for a moment only avoided the fate of being knocked out of a large bag on the forehead by the Trist staff, but it was a real blow to the shoulder. "At the very least, all the coins I lost are now lying in the purse, and you've been robbed of almost half of them!" Not only in words, but also in the flesh, the demon launched a physical counterattack: lifting up and kicking the mage in the stomach.

Archmages are more than a cut above demons in the use of arcane magic, but the opposite is true when it comes to hand-to-hand combat. The mage was immediately kicked by the demon's kick, and took two or three steps back in a row, and the staff could not grasp it, and flew in the direction of the orcs who were lying in the corner, but the archmage did not flinch, and without hesitation, he pounced again to scuffle with his dungeon master.

The Trist staff hit the orc on the head first, and then lay quietly on the basement floor, the milky white light emitted from the top of the staff disappeared in an instant. The "whine" in the mouth of the orc Fuge, who was hit by an unintentional flying staff, was several times louder than just now, but he didn't know if he was complaining about the unwarranted disaster that had a large swollen head on his head, or whether he was cheering for the wonderful fists and kicks between the dungeon lord and his men.

Even though there was no magical light, with the light filtering through the tiny slits in the basement door, Ness's vision could still clearly draw the figure of the demon and the mage fighting, even the demon's torn collar and the mage's blackened eyes were so clearly visible. Suddenly, a thought crossed Ness's mind.

"The money the mage lost is on my sister, and my sister should be in your dungeon right now, but until I and the orcs don't wait, Nia shouldn't attack your dungeon.

Instead of beating the mage to death here, take Fugg and me back to the dungeon first. After finding my sister, or maybe we can talk, the thieves' guild needs a safe place to stay in the principality of Sumerand, and it doesn't look like you're very rich. Of course, you know, the Thieves' Guild has never had to worry about gold. (To be continued......)