"It's a pity, if the Ratmen can have a few long-range attack professions, even if they are only low-level archers, your followers will not be so easy." Lorraine came to Qin Lun at some point, looking at the battlefield below commented.
"The Ratmen are just inferior humanoid creatures after all. If they are intelligent enough to grow into a race with all kinds of professions, how can they be at the bottom of the biome in the Underdark?" Qin Lun looked at the rats in the distance and turned away. Curling his lips, he said disdainfully.
"Master Gilliam, when will the signal be sent out, their forwards have already entered the ambush circle?"
"I guess we have to wait, the number of Ratmen is a little bit beyond our burden!" Lorraine said not confidently.
Because he originally wanted to rescue the trapped dwarves, the exploration team brought by Gilliam this time is stronger than the previous team, with more than 20 people in number. A super strong player is three or four times as strong as the previous exploration team.
Qin Lun had seen a few heavily armored soldiers in the team whose arms were thicker than Elisteen's waist. The heavy armored fighters of dwarves are different from humans and elves. The heavy armored fighters of humans and elves often move at a low speed, while the heavy armored fighters of dwarves are faster and fiercer than ordinary dwarves.
Short legs are a natural weakness of dwarves, but dwarf heavy armored warriors have a "jump + heavy strike" jumping and slashing skill, which makes up for their shortcomings to a certain extent.
This kind of high-level dwarf fighter is a nightmare for all professions in close combat. They were all in heavy armor and held heavy double-edged axes or war hammers. Once they activated their jumping and slashing skills, they were as powerful as battering rams. Even the MTs of the apostle's team might not be able to withstand them.
"It's almost there!" The rat man's battle circle slowly moved towards this side. Qin Lun stood tall and looked far away. He was already at the rear of the rat man's battle circle by the mushroom forest, and saw the dwarves who were outflanking.
Qin Lun took out the "Wind Chasing Frost Weapon Case" from the storage space, and with a light shake of one hand, the weapon case opened into a World Tree longbow. He took out a dozen long arrows from his quiver, and inserted them one by one into the giant fungus cap under his feet, so that he could use them easily.
Qin Lun steadily drew his longbow, and lightly pressed the finger on the bowstring to his cheek. For the first arrow, he chose the Mithril Magic Arrow made for him by Elder Adeline. One of the two priests of the Skaven tribe.
The Mithril arrow resting on the World Tree longbow slowly deflected with the movement of a Ratman Priest. Just as Gilliam's war cry came out, there was a soft "boom", and the black mithril arrow disappeared from the back of the bow.
One of the ratman priests standing behind the ratmen's encirclement showed an eggshell shield on his body, but with the flash of black light from the mithril long arrow, "Boom!" Its ugly head exploded like a watermelon , the headless corpse danced and fell to the ground.
And the Ratman who was in charge of guarding it was still dazed with blood on his head, completely unaware of what happened just now.
In just a few moments, a priest with divine power was dead. Elf archers who use mithril magic arrows are the nemesis of all middle and low-level legal professions.
When the sound of breaking through the air sounded again, the guards around the Ratman Priest finally came to their senses. A big and round rat man roared and threw his body across the body of another priest.
"Pfft!" The long arrow shot from high above unceremoniously pierced through the chest, carrying the corpse of the ratman with great force, and hit the priest behind it, and the two ratmen immediately rolled into a ball.
"Moradin is on top!" The dwarves roared in all directions, except for a dozen or so weaker dwarves who were pulling nets around the outer circle, Gilliam rushed forward with the other dwarves, splitting the rat man like a battle axe encircled by .
"Kill!" Weiss finally tore off the camouflage, and the pale bone armor instantly covered his whole body, leaping towards the last priest behind the Ratman.
This time there was no need for Mustasia to command, the apostles who had formed a defensive formation rushed forward in all directions. They never thought they were surrounded, they just patiently gathered their prey around them.
The shield guard of Weiss' team took a deep breath, and let out another "war horn". In fact, this battle cry skill was just a dull roar to the ears of the companion, but it was no less than a thunder to the ratman's ears, as if even his thoughts were blank for a moment.
After the horn of war frightened the group of Ratmen in front of him, the shield guard leveled the tower shield in his hand and swept it across the middle. The ground-piercing cone at the lower part of the tower shield was like a saber, cutting the three ratmen in front of them into two pieces, and their intestines spilled all over the floor. The other ratmen who stood a little closer also had broken bones and tendons, and they were either dead or maimed.
Mustaxia, the black-robed mage, Hill and Rand no longer kept their hands.
Mustaxia launched the archery skill that she had performed in front of Qin Lun - hunting. The dexterous body jumped and moved among the giant mushrooms, and the longbow in his hand threw out pieces of silver light of death. Although the accuracy has decreased, the attack coverage has greatly increased. For a moment, almost all the Ratmen seemed to be facing the shadow of an arrow symbolizing death.
The attack efficiency of Hill and the black robe mage was not as terrible as that of the highland elves, but under the panic of the sudden ambush of the rat group, their spells achieved better damage effects than before. Especially for the Ratman who was hit by "Shadow Word: Pain", it is even more difficult to pass the will judgment at this time.
Rand was no longer cooperating with the thieves at this time, and his task was more onerous than anyone else. Because the eruption of the lava ball has the largest range, everyone asked him to control the lava to block the escape route of the rat man, so that the rat man could only run in the direction where the dwarves were mainly attacking.
The only ones in the team who were relatively free were the monkey and the female priest. The monkey needed to protect the female priest from being attacked by the rat men and thieves. In this battle, there are only a few ratmen and thieves left, which will become the final variable.
Qin Lun jumped down from the mushroom cap, and the world tree longbow in his hand has been replaced by the legendary double guns—light and dark funeral!
He is now quite experienced in switching between the World Tree Longbow and the light and dark funeral. When killing a single target and needing the power to break the magic, he usually chooses the World Tree Longbow paired with the Mithril Magic Arrow.
In melee and chaotic battles, he will basically choose light and dark funerals. Seriously speaking, the several weapon skills that come with the legendary dual guns are more important to him than bows and arrows.
However, the use of light and dark burial requires energy points, and the world tree longbow consumes little energy in addition to arrows, and the small amount of energy consumption is also due to the skill consumption of the "weak point sight".
As for the main skill "Light and Dark Funeral", the power of "Light and Dark Funeral" is not less than that of the Demon Breaking Arrow, but this skill is too dynamic and consumes too much, so it is not suitable for dark sniping, and generally can only be used for strong attacks.
The battle ended quickly, and when Weiss stood in the middle of the battlefield holding the head of the last Ratman priest in one hand, the Ratmen collapsed. Although there are more than eighty of them at this time, this is the case for this timid race.
Once there is no hope of victory, they will choose to flee from the battlefield. This trick has always been unfavorable in the past. The Underdark is the home of the Ratmen. As long as they burrow into any tunnel, the chances of other creatures trying to find them are basically zero.
However, this time is different, the Ratmen fell too deep into the ambush circle, and there are fire nets laid by Lander around them, as well as the net bags of the dwarves, most of the Ratmen were left behind and turned into a living creature. Rat carcass.
At the end of the battle, only twenty ratmen escaped the hunt, and the others, including the two ratmen priests and all the mud monsters, became the fruits of the apostles and dwarves.
Although not perfect, this battle still achieved the desired effect. There were no priests and slime monsters among the twenty or so ratmen, so they could no longer cause trouble to the dwarves.
After the battle was over, Qin Lun had an idea and ordered the thieves to sneak up and follow a few ratmen who had fled to the lair.
They haven't completely finished their work at this time. If they don't find the bodies of the previous batch of dwarven exploration teams, I'm afraid Gilliam will stay in this place for a while, and time is what the apostles lack the most.
Qin Lun's thinking was correct. After the battle, the dwarves really wanted to search the Ratmen's lair. If the thieves hadn't given them directions and found the Ratman's food storage, the network of tunnels extending in all directions in the cave would have wasted a lot of time.
After bringing out the corpses of more than a dozen dwarves, the exploration team randomly searched the Ratmen's treasure house.
The Ratmen like to collect all kinds of shiny items. Most of the items in the treasure house are worthless in the eyes of the dwarves and apostles. They only took away some gems and magic cores.
However, when distributing the spoils, there was a small oolong.
Gilliam distributed the gems to Weiss and others, leaving behind the magic core and magic crystal. Perhaps in the eyes of the strong dwarves, Weiss and the others, as mercenaries, should prefer gems.
Therefore, Qin Lun had no choice but to exchange these useless gems for the magic core and crystal from Gilliam under the pretext that the mages in the team needed the magic core and crystal as research materials.
Although these things are divided into one point, each apostle can only get a few thousand broken crystals, but it is better than nothing.
After this, the exploration team delayed for half a day to cremate the dead dwarves, and then they started on the road again.
About one natural day later, the exploration team led by Gilliam finally walked out of the Mushroomland Plain, and set foot on the dark region that had not been explored for the first time.
After passing through the mushroom forest, the team's progress slowed down greatly. Every time the dwarves advanced a certain distance, they would stop and let several ore prospecting experts in the team collect rock specimens, and then give a vague direction.
This kind of guidance often needs to be repeated before the team can determine the correct route. The exploration team started a boring exploration of two steps forward and two steps back. Sometimes, every time Qin Lun went to a place, he would feel that he had already been there.
After three or four days of journey in this way, the entire team, except for the dwarves, other humans and elves seemed exhausted. The apostles with irregular lives could still bear it, but the three beauties, Elistine, Mustasia and Idriya, were almost on the verge of collapse. The curiosity at the beginning of the adventure has long been swallowed up by the darkness of the Underdark!