023. Skeleton Monster
This underground space can no longer be called a cave, and the height alone is at least four meters high, and the orc warrior can't reach the top with an axe.
It was more than six meters wide, spreading forward into the darkness.
Iger looked at the environment of the underground space and said, "This should be the nest of those scavenging spiders." ”
The tattered corpses and white skeletons on the ground, as well as some disgusting cobwebs and spider eggs beside them, were all traces of scavenging spider activity.
"It should be. ”
After taking a few steps with the beast holding the torch, Levi found another cave, which was full of spider eggs.
"Egger, come and see, this must be the reason why the scavenging spiders are stopping us, right?"
Egger walked up quickly, and his scalp tingled when he saw the scene in front of him: "That's it." ”
Dai Erman rushed over curiously, but looked at it and didn't look away.
"Egger, do your dwarves build walls?"
"Huh?"
"Plug this little hole, I don't want to deal with all that stuff of disgusting stuff anymore. ”
Egg smiled wryly, and immediately asked the dwarves to block the hole full of spider eggs with rocks, and seal the tiny crevices as well.
It's just that after doing this, Levi was a little confused.
"Since this is a scavenging spider's nest, where do you say this empty tunnel leads?"
This question made Egger frown, and Dai Erman's face was full of excitement, "Why do you want to do so much, why don't you go and see it?!"
With that, she took Dina and walked forward.
“......”
Seeing Dai Erman's reckless energy, Levi felt that she was just indebted to a social beating that was pressed to the ground and rubbed.
"Let's go, I guess we won't be able to resist the temptation of curiosity in the end, so the result is the same with or without her. ”
Levi comforted Egg, and then ordered the beast to run to the front with the other two orcs to explore the way to prevent any further accidents.
This wide tunnel was longer than they expected, and there was no end in sight for most of the day, sometimes wide and sometimes narrow in the middle, and the three of them estimated that some of it should be naturally formed, and the other part was dug the day after tomorrow.
There was no danger along the way, only occasionally I saw some skeletons and spider eggs, and it is estimated that scavenging spiders would have been active in it before.
"Why don't we go back, it's too far. ”
"Smack!"
As soon as Dai Erman finished speaking, her head was slapped by Levi.
"You are the one who said you were coming, and you were the one who said you were leaving, what do you want to do?!"
"I want ......to go," Dai Erman begged in a rare whisper.
"Then move on. ”
Iger glanced at Delman and continued walking.
This made Levi slightly surprised, but he didn't expect Egger to have no affection for his sister than himself.
Not long after walking further, corpses began to appear in the tunnel. At first, the three of them didn't pay much attention to it, but as they went deeper, the corpses gradually increased, and the three couldn't help frowning.
After pausing to observe for a while, Levi asked, "Can you recognize any race other than the kobold's skeleton?"
Iger shook his head, "I don't know, it doesn't seem to be the race of the Norsen plane. ”
He felt that many of the skeletons in it were mutilated, as if some of them had been randomly extracted from a pile and placed here.
"Keep going, maybe there will be an answer ahead. ”
After saying that, the three of them continued to move forward, and after a few steps, they heard the sound of "bang-la-la" bones colliding.
Needless to say, the orc warriors immediately protected the three of them in the middle, and the elven girls also raised their bows and arrows and stared vigilantly around.
Between breaths, a corrupt aura of the undead gradually struck, and clusters of ghostly fire suddenly lit up in the pile of corpses on the ground, and the skeleton monsters crawled up one after another.
"I scared my sister to death, I thought it was something, but it turned out to be just cannon fodder among the undead. ”
Delman patted her chest, and the two peaks trembled, and then ordered Dina to shoot the skeleton monsters.
In the past few days, the dwarves have made a batch of arrows made of real iron materials, and the elven girls are just using these skeleton monsters to get used to the feel.
"The key to the skeleton monsters is the soul fire in their skull, and if you break it, you can completely destroy it!"
Without hesitation, the orc warriors and dwarves rushed at the undead, but Egg's words were of little use to them, as one was to split the skull's skull, and the other was to crack the skull to pieces.
"These skeletons are just born and are too fragile to be feared. ”
"Well, indeed. ”
Levi nodded, then pouted to the front of the tunnel, "There's a threat ahead." ”
Following his gaze, dozens of black shadows came from the tunnel, and the soul fire in the skull was bright and flickering, and it seemed that it was two levels from the skeleton monsters around him.
He now felt like the mouths of the siblings Egger and Daerman were cursed by fate, and they said whatever they wanted.
"Let the dwarves continue to clean up these low-level skeletons, and leave the front ones to me!"
The dark blue portal appeared, and Levi summoned all the orc warriors and immediately rushed towards the black shadows.
The orc warrior's axe intersected with the skeleton monster's sword, and the chaotic sound of fighting echoed through the underground tunnels.
Compared to those low-level skeleton monsters that had just been born, the black shadow that came out of the tunnel was indeed stronger, but it was still not an opponent of the orc warriors, and the numerical advantage was not obvious, so it was quickly seen as a pile of bones.
On the dwarven side, because of the large number of low-level skeleton monsters, they were still fighting, and Levi immediately ordered the orc warriors to help the dwarves.
As they left, a faint glow appeared in the pile of bones scattered on the ground.
"Egger, what do you think this is?"
Picking open a pile of broken bones, Levi found three stone-like objects inside, glowing a faint red light.
Iger took one of the pieces and looked at it, muttered for a moment before saying, "This thing...... Don't you know?"
“...... Should I know each other?"
"Okay. ”
Iger knew that Levi didn't need to lie to himself, so he immediately explained: "This is a necromantic fragment, or some call it a contaminated soul fragment, and the undead may form after death. ”
"The name sounds good, what's the use?"
"Necromantic shards are of no use to us, but the undead lords need them because they are the foundation of the undead plane, and the number of necromantic shards is constantly accumulating, which can elevate the undead plane and thus create more powerful undead. ”
"I see. ”
Levi nodded thoughtfully, "Then this thing won't be useful to you?"
"Hmm. ”
"Then I'll put it away. ”
Levi consciously collected all the necromantic fragments, and also rummaged through the pile of bones to see if there was anything missing.
He knew that the name alone would work for him, but it wasn't clear how he would use it.
While the two were talking, the low-level skeleton monsters were also knocked to pieces, and everyone stood in place for a moment until no skeleton monsters stood up again, and then continued to move forward.
"Let's go, see what's at the end of this tunnel. ”