Chapter 358: Lord of the Azure Throne 11
"Pick it up, it's not quite where we are. â
"Yes. â
Gehr withdrew his gaze from behind him, and his feet were a little faster, and he hurried forward without looking back.
The fungal spider mother does not rely on its eyes to perceive its surroundings, in fact, those bulb-like eyes are more just decoration, and its perception of energy fluctuations is also unusually dull, which can be said to be unique among countless mutant beasts, as for its real eyes are actually those cobwebs or spider silk under its feet.
It relies on vibration to sense the position of its prey, but it cannot spin silk itself, so it can only rely on the silk web of other spider creatures to be its sensing organ, and any slight vibration will attract its attention, which is also an important evidence to judge its coexistence with spiders.
But fortunately, Gehr has detached himself from the densest area of cobwebs, so that the fungal spider mother cannot accurately locate him for the time being, and can only roughly sense where he is.
One man and one spider fled and chased, and soon came to the edge of the territory of the web-forming spider.
Gehr searched for the narrower paths in his escape, which slowed down the fungal spider mother, but even so, the huge monster still followed him closely, and it seemed that he had no intention of giving up.
The road ahead seemed to have no end, the light of the illuminating gems extended forward, and the traces of artificiality reappeared, which was a grayish-white wall, this color was not natural, indicating that this wall was painted with a layer of lime-like paint, which was used more in tombs to prevent water and corrosion in the tomb.
The sound of footsteps quickly amplified ahead. This indicates that the environment ahead is beginning to widen, forming a cavity. And the underground river has gone from a hidden channel to another place at some point. This is good news for Gehr, as web-forming spiders don't like this environment. They don't build nests here, and if they don't, they won't be covered with cobwebs, so they won't be able to provide enough range to the fungal spider mother.
At this time, the fungal spider mother also seemed to realize that something was wrong, and suddenly let out a low hiss and accelerated suddenly, and immediately chased after her, holding her two chelicerae high and swept towards Gell from left to right.
"Don't fight, keep running!"
At Barbarossa's shouts, Gehr threw himself straight forward and rolled on the ground. It looked like a bloated, more pillar-like chelicera had swept over his head.
At this time, the fungal spider mother reversed its previous sluggish state, and reacted surprisingly quickly, and when Gehr just stood up, it raised its chelicera and cut it off.
Gehr, who had been unable to avoid it, simply straightened up, and the cyan luster quickly flowed around the blade of the long dagger in his hand, extending upwards from the sharp blade, and suddenly changed from a long dagger to a one-handed long sword, and then he swung his sword to meet it.
A dazzling spark suddenly bloomed in the darkness.
Half of his body was numb, and he felt like his sword was slashing at the mountain wall. The other party did not move, but he himself felt a huge force spread all over his body, and directly flew him upside down, flying nearly ten meters before falling down. The illumination gem that had been holding in his left hand fell out of his hand for a moment, rolling away with a ticking sound. The dim light seemed to break through the confines of the narrow terrain and spread out in all directions. Poured into a hall full of carved traces.
It turned out that by accident, Gehr had left the Stone Forest area.
The hall in front of it resembles a gallery in front of a palace complex. The rows of pillars stood in the deep darkness, because the illumination of the gems was limited in distance, but they could illuminate a small area of the vicinity, far from the standard of the front porch, and the huge stone pillars loomed into the darkness, and the ground was made of a whole block of fiery red rock, covered with dust and cracks under the erosion of time, but one can imagine how splendid and magnificent the building was when it was first built.
However, at this time, Gehr did not have much time to observe this miraculous underground structure, and in front of him, the huge fungal spider mother had already rushed towards him with her bloated eight legs.
Gell tensed his nerves, ready to fight to the death, the situation was much better now than before being surrounded by countless web-forming spiders.
But at this moment, Gehr felt a flash of inverted light in the corner of his eye, which seemed to be fusiform, and the speed was very fast, leaving only a vague afterimage in his field of vision, and then, he heard the screams of the fungal spider mother.
A silver flame burned from the chest of the fungal spider mother, silent, like a dream, as if there was no zĂ i in this world, but the fungal spider mother did not think so, and saw that the fungus or mushroom on the area affected by the silver flame quickly began to wither and turn into ashes, and the hissing contained a sense of pain, obviously hurting it very much......
The Fungal Mother stopped her charge, and then began to hiss and retreat with the silver fire burning in her chest, as if she was afraid of something, and quickly retreated into the complex stone forest area where she had come from, and disappeared.
"What is this?" Gehr looked back in surprise to see the direction in which the light shuttle was flying, and only saw a fleeting pale silver luster in the dark depths surrounded by stone pillars, which disappeared in an instant.
"I don't know. Barbarossa said calmly.
"Anyone? Thank you for helping me. â
Gehr shouted into the depths of darkness, his words echoing through the vast space with a long tail note, but after a long time, no response came, empty, as if nothing existed, and what he had seen before was like an illusion.
But the mother fungus's reaction can't be faked, so there is only one answer - the other party doesn't want to meet and communicate with Gehr.
"Forget it, it can be regarded as saving me once, and it shouldn't be considered an enemy. Seeing no response, Gell picked up the illumination crystal, held it high above his head, and began to look at the building.
"Perhaps, be careful. Barbarossa reminded.
"Hmm. â
Gehr raised his head, looked at the top that loomed in the darkness, and estimated that the height of this front porch was about twelve or thirteen meters, and according to architectural conventions, it would only be higher when entering the depths of this building, and he came here as if he had entered the realm of a giant.
Hey?
Gehr leaned in front of a pillar, looked carefully through the light, and found that it was engraved with very complicated patterns, and the patterns were inlaid with the precious mineral Mithril, which constituted a very special rune pattern.
"I've seen patterns here. Barbarossa suddenly said, "Thirty years ago, I saw a similar pattern in the Obic Wind Corridor. â
"Where is that?" Ger wondered, and that's when Barbarossa said for the first time what he never knew.
"Gasako, the northernmost stronghold of our patrons, continues north, and will be reached beyond the Kling Mountains. â
"Gasaco...... Crossing the Kling Mountains...... "Gell immediately came up with information about these two place names, and then pieced together a rough map, "Isn't that a wild land?"
"That's right. â
"How did you end up there?"
"At that time, it was the council who was tasked with sending most of the elite forces to escort some very special creatures there, and I was one of them. â
"What is a creature?"
"Frost Dwarves. â
Gehr was stunned when he heard this, and then continued: "Dwarves?
In the introduction of the sorcerers about the continental race, some wizards who are proficient in archaeology have found that there should be a kind of humanoid creature - dwarves, judging from those ruins, this race should have a civilization system similar to that of human beings, but since the discovery of the first dwarf ruins, no one has ever found a trace of a living dwarf, not even a corpse, a tomb and the like, so there are also wizards who believe that this race does not exist or has long been extinct.
"Of course, our purpose is to send these frost dwarves back to their home, the Obic Wind Corridor, and sign a covenant with them. â
"Oh, doesn't it mean that the wilderness is only inhabited by mutant beasts and monsters, and it is an area that humans can't set foot in, and those dwarves can live there?"
"This is true for most of the Savage Lands, but there are exceptions, and the Obic Wind Corridor is one of them. â
Gehr nodded, and did not continue to ask, but continued to ask about the patterns on the pillars: "Then what do you know about these patterns?"
"I remember attending a special ritual of the Frost Dwarves, an underground ruin in the Windswept Corridor, and it was there that I saw this pattern, and the Frost Dwarves said that it was a sacred place that they had guarded for generations, and that it was said to have been left behind by the rune dwarves, the noblest of the dwarves, just like the nobles of the dwarves. Barbarossa spoke slowly, like a memory.
"So what does this have to do with rune dwarves?"
"I think maybe the patterns are too similar. Barbarossa's calm tone sounded in his head, "You're going to go in?"
Gehr nodded.
"Is there any other option now?"
Barbarossa was silent for a moment before continuing: "Be careful, the dwarves are very good at traps, if this place is really related to them, it is likely that some dangerous traps will be left behind, plus that guy who doesn't know friend or foe, we must be vigilant." â
"I see, thanks. â
Gehr thought for a moment and began to shape the spell light ball, carefully observing his surroundings, he needed to determine what kind of consequences would be caused by the spell energy fluctuations emitted here, which was important for the way he acted later.
A spell orb of light was shaped, and nothing happened.
Gehr threw the orb of light far forward, and the ball of light drew an arc in the air, dispelling the darkness nearby and illuminating a large area. (To be continued......)