Chapter 41: The Darkness of Exile III.

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After learning the news that the Edgar Merchant Group was in distress in the Endless Forest, several kind merchants helped the two mercenaries who had fainted on the ground, and the priest in the merchant group hurriedly treated the two of them. Fortunately, both of them had some skin injuries, and after a while, the two slowly woke up, looking around with fear on their faces, and it was not until they were sure to return to the hotel at the Gold Digger's Station that the two of them settled down a little.

At this time, Rachel came over with two large glasses of spirits and said, "Have a drink to suppress the shock, and then tell everyone what happened to the Edgar Merchants." ”

The two took the liquor and raised their glasses to drink, when the fiery feeling rose in their bodies, the fear that permeated their hearts gradually subsided, and after a while, the two put down their glasses, and a lightly injured mercenary pinched his forehead and said: "Early this morning, the head of Duke ordered the merchant group to set off, and everyone was not very happy at that time, until the head of the regiment said that after completing this transaction, each person would be rewarded with three times the amount of gold coins. Later, the head of Duke also introduced Coria to everyone, and learned that a middle-level warrior monk had joined the escort, and everyone was even more motivated. The mercenary sighed, picked up the wine glass and said, "Can you have another glass?"

Rachel hurriedly took the glass, poured a full glass of rye wine, and handed it over. The mercenary took the wine glass and drank more than half of it, let out a long sigh of coldness, and continued: "When I entered the Endless Forest, everything went smoothly, the wind and rain were very light, and everyone sped up at the request of Commander Duke. However, due to the storm, the road was muddy and difficult to travel, and the speed of the march was unusually slow, and the regimental commander, fearing that the storm would strike again, ordered the caravan to drop the heavy loads, concentrate all the goods in one wagon, and left only one day's rations, and hurried towards the entrance of the Hero's Road. ”

"Where are you in distress?" asked a tall merchant suddenly.

The mercenary pondered for a moment and said, "The merchant group rested once at the foot of the Broken Bone Mountain, and then followed the main road for less than an hour before they were in danger. There was a withered forest nearby, when we passed through the woods, we felt that the soil was unusually loose, the head of the regiment said that it was caused by the rain, and everyone didn't take it seriously, but it didn't take long for the ground to suddenly collapse, and the entire pine forest that couldn't be seen was swallowed up in an instant, and Pop and I watched everyone disappear into the deep pit, if it weren't for the fact that we were responsible for the safety of the rear of the merchant group, we would definitely be more auspicious now. After saying that, he hugged his head and cried.

Everyone comforted the two mercenaries, and at this moment, another mercenary named Pope suddenly shouted: "Which one is Lord Cohen?" Cohen was discussing with Xuelu how to fly over the Endless Forest at this time, when he suddenly heard someone in the crowd shouting his name, and subconsciously said: "I am, who called me?"

Hearing Cohen's response, Pope struggled to stand up, walked towards Cohen and knelt down on one knee directly, and said in a trembling voice: "The moment the Chief of the August Guard was engulfed, he shouted at me, let me find Master Cohen, you to rescue them." ”

Cohen looked incredulous and said, "You guard chiefs also think too highly of me, I'm just an ordinary elven beginner warrior, how can I have this ability?"

Pope suddenly hugged Cohen's legs and pleaded, "Please, the captain of the guard told you to go, there must be a reason for him, please, Lord Cohen." Cohen looked at Pope and the surroundings hesitantly, and many merchants also hoped that Cohen would go to rescue the Edgar merchants, and they all begged for help.

At this moment, Xuelu suddenly stood up and said, "Since everyone wants us to go, but let's talk about the ugly things first, if it's beyond our ability, then we can only say sorry." Pope, do you think that's okay?"

Upon hearing this, Pope quickly nodded in agreement, regardless of the pain on his body, he clenched his weight and stood up, and said, "Then let's go now, Lord Cohen!"

Cohen stopped Pope and said, "You can recuperate here with peace of mind, and I will do my best to save them." After speaking, he motioned for everyone to settle the two of Pop.

"Wait for your good news, Master Cohen!" said Pope, and went to rest with the help of the crowd.

Cohen nodded, and the group of four walked out of the hotel. At this time, the dark clouds in the sky were gradually fading, and the gray sky and a dead endless forest became more and more eerie. Cohen smiled bitterly at Xuelu, but he didn't expect that he still couldn't stay out of the matter after the end, and sighed, "Let's go too." ”

The figures of the four disappeared into the gray sky in the blink of an eye.

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At this time, in the bottomless pit of the Endless Forest, August was struggling to support the defensive magic array, and in an enchantment five meters away, Duke, Dylan and Coria were lying in the enchantment in embarrassment at this time, and the four of them were covered with mud and couldn't speak. Duke clearly remembers that the moment the collapse occurred, Coria grabbed Duke and Dylan, and with the help of falling rocks and giant trees, she used all her strength to cast a bow and bullet, and rushed towards Auguste.

When the earth completely submerged the bodies of several people, August took a lot of effort to cast a defensive magic, and the continuous gushing water frantically squeezed the surrounding dirt, until Auguste's forehead was covered with green tendons, and the barrier five meters away was completed.

In this dark and narrow space, the four of them didn't know the time of the passage at all, and after a long time, Duke finally couldn't help but ask, "Captain Auguste, how long are we going to stay here?"

August gasped for breath before he said, "Popper's boy has escaped, and I told him to go back to the Gold Digger's Station to move the rescuers, it should be too late." ”

"Hmph, do you think that group of snobbish businessmen will come here to dig sand and dig up the earth to save us?" Koria snorted coldly and laughed disdainfully. At this time, August didn't even have the strength to get angry, and the mental power it took to support this enchantment was not a little bit, and he said weakly: "Don't worry, I'll let that boy Pope go to Cohen and them, and only they can feel the existence of this water element enchantment in the collapsed mound, and the rest of the things will be easy to do, just dig us out." ”

Hearing this, Duke breathed a sigh of relief and said, "As long as you can get out, Captain August, I will definitely reward you heavily." ”

Who knows that August smiled bitterly: "Commander Duke, you still pray that Cohen and they can come as soon as possible, with my spiritual power, I can only barely support this defensive barrier for less than half a day, and with the downward movement of the soil layer, no one knows where the current location is, this will make me really not optimistic." ”

Duke and Dylan, who were already relieved, sat down on the ground like deflated balls when they heard August's words, and kept repeating in their mouths: "What to do!

It was Coria who stood up and asked, "August, I can blast a way out with my fists, and then you can wrap the four of us with an enchantment and run out of the city directly." ”

August shook his head and said, "Can you think of anything other than brute force? Let's not talk about whether your fist strength can blast out a way, even if you have such strength, the question is whether we know the direction of the road? Now that there is dirt on all sides, are you sure that the top of our heads is directly above? When we opened the barrier and rolled down the giant crater just now, we don't know how many times the road turned. If we have reached the depths of the crater at this time, even if you hit the right direction with your fist and open an escape passage that can last for a few seconds, if the passage collapses when we are halfway through, we will still be buried alive. ”

Coria was annoyed and roared, "This doesn't work, that doesn't work, let's just sit here and wait to die?"

"I really can't think of any other way than to wait for Cohen and them, you have the strength to quarrel with me, it is better to recover your strength, at least this way has a better chance of survival. After saying that, he didn't care about Kolya anymore, and concentrated on maintaining the operation of the magic array. Knowing that she was wrong, Coria let out a roar and leaned into a corner, closed her eyes and breathed away.

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At this time, above the forest, the four Cohen were floating quietly in mid-air, stunned to see the big outrageous pit in front of them, and after a while, Rachel said: "If you want to rescue them in this pit, let alone the four of us, even if the miners of the entire dwarf clan gather here to dig for three days and three nights, it may not work." ”

Cohen nodded, agreeing with Rachel's point of view, sighed, pointed to a stone mountain not far away, and said, "Let's go there first, and if we really don't have a chance to rescue Duke, let's talk about it." ”

After the four of them stood on the top of the mountain and watched for a while, there was a mess all around, and it was difficult to find any trace of the Edgar merchant group. Xuelu walked up to Cohen and suddenly said, "Do you notice it, the water element is extremely abundant in this area, but the other elements are so thin that they can almost be ignored. ”

Cohen hurriedly closed his eyes to perceive the elements around him, and suddenly a strange elemental flow appeared in his mind, only to see countless water elements rushing towards the deep pit frantically, a blueprint like a leaf vein gradually formed in Cohen's mind, and a thick elemental stream kept devouring the smaller elemental streams, surging towards the ground layer by layer, and near this coarse elemental flow, a water elemental crystal with a light blue light was trying its best to tear a very small number of water elements from the elemental flow, as if resisting something。

Xue Lu suddenly exclaimed, "Water Elemental Defense Magic, it's August!"

Cohen opened his eyes and asked, "Is it the crystallization of that pale blue light?"

Xuelu nodded and said, "It's them, find a way to save them, fortunately, their position is not too deep now, but with the slippage of the soil, they will be buried somewhere sooner or later." ”

Rachel suddenly interrupted the two of them and said, "Usually this kind of collapse is caused by the erosion of underground water flow, there should be a huge underground water vein underground, if they can fall into the water vein, maybe there is a glimmer of life." ”