"A subsonic alchemy bat! Captain Weiss, you are really generous..." Qin Lun and Hill couldn't hide their astonishment.
Regardless of whether this thing has attack power or not, its speed alone is at least a purple-gold item, which is probably worth a lot. Most of the reconnaissance items are easy to lose. Using such high-quality items, the high-level apostles are indeed rich and powerful.
"It's nothing." Weiss waved his hand inadvertently. As a high-ranking apostle, he has accumulated much more resources than Qin Lun and others.
With the speed of the light-sounding bat, it doesn't take much time to cruise the entire mushroom forest. Moreover, this thing is small and can get into hidden corners of the mushroom forest. Qin Lun and others quickly found clues about the trapped dwarves.
"Ratman?" Qin Lun and the others looked at the image outlined by the light-sounding bat with ultrasonic waves, their eyes were full of surprise.
"It's the Gathra Rat Monster. I've seen this monster in the books and materials of the Zhentarim Society." Weiss' expression relaxed a lot.
Gaslar rat monsters are low-level creatures. Their only advantage is that they have strong reproductive ability and large numbers. They are violent and ferocious in battle, and they are not afraid of death. However, as long as you don't fall into their siege, the threat to the apostles is not as strong as that of large monsters.
There are more than a hundred rat monsters in this group, and the two huge mud monsters are more eye-catching in the team.
Mud monsters are mid-level monsters unique to the Underdark. They don't have high attack power, but they have strong defense power and are immune to most elemental magic. If it weren't for their slow movement and lack of attack methods, they might be more difficult to deal with than the high-level Dreadclaw beasts that Qin Lun and others encountered before.
Mud monsters and rat monsters are a very suitable team combination. The large number of rat monsters largely makes up for the slowness of the mud monsters, and the mud monsters are the best meat shields for rat monsters. The two are perfectly matched, no wonder the dwarf exploration team can't hold it.
Now Qin Lun knew what monster caused the dent in the dwarf's chest. With the force of the mud monster's pounce, it is not unusual to cause such a wound.
I saw those rat monsters dragging a dozen mutilated corpses towards the left edge of the mushroom forest. Qin Lun and others knew that the previous batch of dwarven exploration teams might have been wiped out.
Compared with the previous Dreadclaw beasts, these low-level rat monsters made Qin Lun and others feel a little tricky.
Unlike most subterranean creatures, rat monsters have excellent eyesight in the dark, as well as a keen sense of smell and hearing. When they get close to a certain distance, they can't even hide the stealth of the thieves, and there is no possibility of a surprise attack at all.
"Let the light-sounding bats hang them far away, and find the nest first."
After discussing with the rest of his companions for a while, Qin Lun decided to continue waiting for the dwarf exploration team behind. There are such a group of rat monsters in the Mushroom Grove, and Gilliam must first clean up the creature's lair before he can explore with confidence.
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About half an hour later, the dwarven exploration team led by Gilliam finally arrived here.
"Prince Feral, I'm so glad to see you!" Seeing that Qin Lun was safe and sound, Gilliam breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart was relieved. They had already seen the corpses of the two Dreadclaw beasts in front of them. .
"Sorry for worrying you!" Qin Lun apologized with a smile.
"It's nothing, as long as you're fine!" Although he doesn't like Qin Lun's utilitarianism, Gilliam is a bold shield dwarf after all, and now he has put some unpleasantness behind him.
"Filar, you are so reckless, the Underdark is extremely dangerous, even I dare not intrude!" Mustaxia looked at Qin Lun with some resentment. From Qin Lun's point of view, the highland elves were probably complaining that he didn't bring him with him.
However, Qin Lun couldn't care less about Mastasha at this time. He now has another elf beauty full of anger to deal with.
"That... Elistine, hehe..." Qin Lun carefully observed the expressionless elf beauty. Although he had had various relationships with several women, he was still not very good at handling such feelings.
"Hmph!" The elf druid gave him a hygienic eye, turned his head, and ignored him angrily.
Qin Lun sighed and touched his nose in embarrassment. Just as he turned around and wanted to leave, he felt a pain in the soft flesh around his waist, and was pinched severely by the elf beauty.
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"Rat man? It's a rat man!" Gilliam was shocked and angry when he learned the information Qin Lun and others had found.
As the successors of the ancient Santana Empire, the shield dwarves were once a kind of underground creature. But among the humanoids of the Underdark, shield dwarves hold a different status than ratmen.
The shield dwarves were the most powerful rulers of the underground before the drow appeared, and even the rare beholders and illithids were ashamed of themselves.
The ratmen are the weakest humanoid creatures, far inferior to dwarves in terms of force and wisdom. Most of the time, they are just vassals of other underground races. The Santana dwarves in ancient times also raised many ratmen as slave labor.
Hearing that the members of the dwarf exploration team were killed by the ratmen whom he looked down upon, and even the corpses were dragged away as food reserves. All the dwarves, including Gilliam and below, were furious, wishing to kill all those rat monsters immediately.
"Our summoned bats have found the Rat Monster's lair, which is a rock formation cave on the left side of the Mushroom Grove..." Qin Lun informed Gilliam of the light-sounding bat's surveillance.
"Let's go now, kill all these rat monsters, and let the souls of our compatriots return to the Moradin Temple." Before Qin Lun could finish speaking, Lorraine roared angrily.
Gilliam took a stern look at the dwarf prince, but he didn't say anything to blame. In the heart of this legendary strong man of the dwarf, he also approved of doing so.
"Are you sure the number of rat monsters is only a little over a hundred?" Gilliam asked cautiously.
"We didn't let the summoned bats enter the rock caves, so as not to scare the snakes. However, from the situation detected by the bats and the information you provided, it is estimated that this mushroom forest can only support 300 rat monsters, and the adult rat monsters will not There are more than one hundred and fifty, and the rest are old, young, sick and disabled." Qin Lun said after deliberation.
"By the way, there are still an unknown number of mud monsters!" Weiss added cautiously beside him.
"Don't worry about those mud monsters. Among the exploration team I brought this time, there are two servants of Dumathoin. They will control all the mud monsters." Gilliam said indifferently.
Everyone was amazed, and they asked Mustacia privately, only to find out that Dumathoin is the god of exploration of the dwarves. The priesthood is about mines, treasures, and exploration, and its servants (cleric-type occupations) can control earth elemental creatures such as mud monsters and mountain giants.
"In this case... Lord Gilliam, please let me and my followers join the battle!" Qin Lun bowed and begged, "I sincerely regret not being able to save your compatriots in time!"
"Well, on behalf of all the fellow shield dwarves here, I accept your friendship and help!" Gilliam's rock-hard expression relaxed slightly, and he took a deep look at Qin Lun, "In the days to come, we will live and die together, Until the mission entrusted by the dwarf king is completed!"
No matter what he thought of Qin Lun in the past, at this point, he could no longer refuse Qin Lun to join the Mithral Hall Exploration Team.
Following Gilliam's words, a task reminder sounded from the soul seals of all the apostles at the same time.
"Apostle No. 70053, you and the joint team you belong to have triggered the epic plot branch-exploring the mine of Mithral Hall!"
"[Explore the Mithral Hall Mine (Difficulty Unknown): The pre-branch task of the epic plot 'Mithral Hall', the apostle team accepting the task needs to help the dwarven exploration team headed by the dwarf elder Gilliam and the Xuefeng dwarf prince Lorraine , find the mining tunnel of Mithral Hall in the Underdark area under the Spine of the World."
Objective of the mission: Find the real mining tunnel leading to the inner city of Mithral Hall, and ensure that one of the two plot characters Gilliam or Lorraine returns to the ground alive during this period, and complete the mission after confirming the location of the tunnel.
Mission basic rewards: 50,000 broken crystals, 20 contribution points, one master-level skill crystal, five broken fusion crystals, 10 lifespan cap.
World Exploration Reward: The apostle's contribution to this mission will be distributed, and the stay time will be increased by one natural month, and the timing will start immediately. Because the black iron team where the apostle No. 70053 belongs has increased the stay time once, once this task is completed, it will automatically return to the Broken Starry Sky within three days.
Reminder: There is no competing team for this plot task, and you can share the task with other apostle teams. After the apostle dies in non-killing mode, the blood cube will not drop.
Reminder: The completion of this task is over 90%, there is a certain chance to generate a world token, so that the apostle can join the plot of Mithral Hall again in the future.]
Qin Lun and the others showed joy in their eyes, they finally received the task before their stay time ran out!
Although it is only the pre-branch of the epic plot, the mission rewards are still generous enough. Compared with the previous "Alliance of the Stars and the Moon", the upper limit of the lifespan given by this mission is a little less, but the master-level skill crystals and contribution value are compensated.
The most important thing is that they have the opportunity to get the world token again, which is a surprise.
"The time of stay has actually increased by one month. Is there still a long way to go from the mining tunnel of Mithral Hall?" Qin Lun frowned slightly looking at the other companions who looked happy.
Judging from the distance shown on the surface, the dwarf camp is actually very close to Mithral Hall, not counting mountain roads, the straight-line distance is less than a hundred kilometers. Thinking about it this way, even if the Underdark is a three-dimensional space, the dwarves have been exploring for nearly four months after all, and logically speaking, they should have almost reached the vicinity of the mining area.
"Unless the Underdark region that the dwarves are currently exploring can't connect to the Miyin Hall mining area at all, and we need to find other cracks on the surface, otherwise..." Qin Lun felt a faint worry in his heart.