Chapter 228: A Journey to the Underground (3)
Eight or nine torches dispersed the darkness around them, bringing a light that made people feel safe, but the wind that poured in from the mouth of the cave swayed the flames one after another, and distorted the figures on the ground.
The passage was quiet, no one spoke, for everyone's attention was on the perimeter, but after a few minutes of walking forward in this way, nothing unusual was found, not even a fork in the road.
Leon walked in the front with a torch, and now the battlefield map could cover everyone behind him, as long as it was not a sneak attack by an enemy who exceeded his own two levels, no movement could escape his perception. And when he enters the cave from the first moment, he will keep the "Inspection" skill on, as long as there are any secret doors, traps and traps in the vicinity, they will be discovered in advance, and the price is only to continue to occupy 5% of the body, which can be said to be no burden at all.
But after walking for nearly twenty minutes, he still didn't find it, could it be said that the mercenary group that entered through this passage did not encounter any danger?
Just as Leon was thinking this, there was a shaking in the ground.
"Be careful!"
For a moment, everyone was unsteady on their feet, especially the cowardly girls, Leon took a few steps back and grabbed Sophia, and the other hand grabbed Luna, helping the two of them to keep their balance. Thankfully, the shaking quickly stopped, but then there was a small thud from the entrance.
"It seems that the hole has collapsed very coincidentally," Leon said casually as he let go of the two girls' hands, shrugged his shoulders.
This news was definitely bad news for those who were already in the underground caverns, and although the young people still seemed calm, almost all of them had their eyes on the young lord.
Leon smiled and said, "Don't worry, with me, we can't be trapped underground." ”
Such a simple sentence made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
"I don't know where you got your confidence...... "Erin muttered in an unreachable voice, but the nervous expression on her face just now disappeared as well.
Li Ang was really confident in this, when he went to the depths before, the wind surging in from the ground had almost disappeared, but he could still feel a slight flow of air, which meant that somewhere, and even many places in the underground cavern led to the ground, as for where, how deep, and how to walk...... There's a map, isn't it? The worst thing is to take a few more detours, but I brought in a whole bag of food!
"Alright, Dick, shall we continue to go inside?"
Since entering the cave, Dick's state has been a little wrong, he has been looking confused, and his eyes are a little straight, so Li Ang deliberately asked.
"How do I get there...... How to go...... Dick repeated the words in his mouth, and then turned his head to look at Leon, his eyes bloodshot and his face began to turn blue.
"Dick, what's wrong with you?" Leon frowned, a little puzzled by the condition of the tall and thin man.
Although he realized that the other party was indeed hiding some things, and his body seemed to be a little wrong, he didn't expect that he didn't know when Dick began to become like this.
Suddenly, Dick's body changed again, especially his face, which swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye, which seemed ridiculous at first, but soon became extremely strange.
Erin and Kaka also turned around, and were taken aback at the sight of Dick's appearance, but they reacted immediately, and the mage girl was the first to shout: "It's the Enslavement Technique of the Revenant Master!
The alchemist had already started to move, but just as he was about to rip off his fur shirt to set up a protective circle, Leon sprang out from his side and swept his foot across Dick's stomach.
The young lord used all his strength for this kick, and Dick had no intention of dodging at all, and his body flew out as if he had been hit by a sledgehammer, and disappeared into the darkness in the distance, although he could no longer see where he landed, but the sound had to be at least a hundred meters away.
Then there was a muffled sound in the darkness, followed by a slight sizzling sound, which lasted for a minute or two before it calmed down, but then there was a pungent sour smell that made people almost sick.
"What is the art of servitude?" Leon asked, frowning.
"Looks like we're wrong about him...... No, it must have been a misjudgment of the target," Erin began with this sentence and explained to Leon the purpose of this secret method.
Servitude is a natural spell of the Revenant Master, which can transform any low-level creature into its loyal servant, and maintain its original appearance without much change, in the process of transformation, the Revenant Master will first transform the mind of the creature, so that it can completely obey its own orders while maintaining its normal thinking ability as much as possible, so if it is not specially observed by someone with a heart, people below the strength of the third or fourth order will hardly find anything abnormal about this creature.
Minions transformed by the Slavery Technique do not have much combat power of their own, but there is a place where the Slavery Technique can be advanced - if a trace of the Soul Power of the Revenant Master is implanted in the transformation process, then when needed, the Soul Power will transform the creature itself into a "biobomb" full of corrosive elements. When it explodes, the body will first expand, and then it will explode, sputtering a large amount of corrosive liquid, and if a professional below the third order does not have the corresponding elemental resistance, a drop will definitely corrode even the bones, which can really be described as a self-propelled weapon of mass destruction.
Since there is a servant of the Revenant Master, on the one hand, it means that he must have been targeted, and on the other hand, it means that there is a fourth-order Revenant Master among the enemies faced on this trip, it can be said that except for the alchemy master Kaka who can confront it head-on, the others are also in vain, just like facing the miscellaneous soldiers of the Fireball Technique.
Fortunately, Erin quickly added that he explained to Leon that the servants of the Revenant Master could only exist at most two at the same time, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
However, thinking of Red's group, Leon's mood became even heavier, he knew that the strongest strength of the Flame Soul was Red, how could he fight against a fourth-order professional, not to mention that there were so many undead creatures!
Now I finally know that Dick must have been captured and transformed by the Revenant Master, and then sent to Campbell to find Leon, and used Red's mercenary group trapped underground as an introduction to attract them, but the cost of doing so is inevitably a bit big, because most of the strength of the undead creatures depends on the strength of their own soul fire, and the same is true for the Revenant Master, even if only a trace is implanted when transforming the minions, it is quite important, so casually wasted just to deal with their own people?
What is the reason for this?
There are very few Revenant Masters, and most of them are wandering the mysterious lands of the Dark Realm, and now this place has suddenly appeared, is it for the treasures and magic of the ruins? or...... Did he use this relic to attract the mercenary group directly under the mercenary union, and then find himself again?
If it's really the latter...... Li Ang thought about it, the only person who could make such a big enmity with himself in the Dark Realm was the master of those undead armies who had attacked the Chaos City, could it be that it had to deal with itself? It didn't make sense, the other party was a dignified fifth-order professional, not to mention that if the Speaker of the Parliament hadn't arrived in time in the end, the things he did in the Chaos City would not have played much role at all.
And even if he wanted to take revenge for the defeat of the Chaos Capital, he would first send a fourth-order Revenant Master to target several mercenary groups directly under the Mercenary Guild? This is a bit too evasive, believing that a fifth-order professional would not do such a boring thing.
Thinking about it, he couldn't get an accurate judgment, Li Ang took a deep breath, and simply followed the attitude of the instructor - if you go on, you will definitely meet someone who wants to deal with you, and then you can see who it is.
He thought about it for a while, the pungent smell had gradually dissipated, Li Ang held the torch and continued to walk forward, less than ten meters later, he found that there were countless small holes in the ground, and when he got closer, there was still an acidic smell, and then he looked forward, and the ground within a few dozen meters was in the same condition.
Li Ang couldn't help but secretly speak, the power of Dick's self-explosion just now didn't sound great, but the ensuing elemental damage looked a little terrifying, worthy of the innate skill of a fourth-order professional. He hurriedly turned around and told the people behind him to pay attention to their feet, in case the acid had not completely leaked in some places, it would be troublesome to step on it.
Almost tiptoeing through this section of the "corrosive road", under the reflection of the torches, I saw that there were finally no traces of corrosion on the ground in front of me, and the passage gradually began to expand, and it was possible for four people to walk side by side, but now six people side by side will not feel crowded.
Leon habitually looked up, because he felt that the distance between the strata above was getting higher and higher, and there were beginning to be irregular and twisted textures, and it seemed that he had officially entered a huge deep hole that had naturally formed underground for thousands of years.
At this time, there was a sound in his ears, and Li Ang raised his hand and waved it back, and said in a low voice: "Stop, it seems that something is coming!"