"There are not many creatures in the Underdark that can cause similar wounds, and even fewer of them can kill the Minotaur independently." Facing the curious eyes of the crowd, Gilliam sighed, and said with a heavy face, "At least in my impression, there are There is only one kind, the spider elf!"
The spider elves are evil creatures that are half-spider and half-human. They were originally drow elves, but due to various reasons, they were transformed into spider elves by the queen of the spider god. Normally, after the family ranking battle in the dungeon is over, there will be many spider elves, which is the treatment of some losers.
When the drow are transformed into skunk elves, they lose their human-like intelligence and become ferocious beasts. The spider elves are fallen creatures that can only live in the endless abyss of the Underdark.
The Endless Abyss of the Underdark is a bottomless ditch, and apart from the spider elves, almost no subterranean creatures live there. According to legend, it is connected to the Kingdom of God, the Queen of the Spider God, and the Spider Elves are the watchdogs of the Kingdom of God.
Spider elves have no intelligence, and cannot be collected as summoned beasts by any creature. Only the Spider God Queen can enslave them.
"Impossible. If it is a spider elf, it means that this matter is related to the spider queen. How could she care about a minotaur's lair?" Mustaxia exclaimed in a low voice. Know some secrets behind the spider god.
"No matter what the truth is, we can't back down now, otherwise we will have to give up the previous efforts and go back to the ground to find other surface cracks." Gilliam said with a heavy heart.
In fact, after the dwarf king Bruno Warhammer led the shield dwarves back from Icewind Dale, he vowed to recapture Mithral Hall from the Shadow Dragon. The shield dwarves have not had a real foothold until now.
This era is different from the period when the elves ruled. Even in the heyday of the elves, their population was not too large. And the main rulers of the mainland in this era are humans, and their reproductive power is extremely strong.
Although it seems that humans can only coexist with other intelligent races on the mainland, they have actually occupied the most fertile land along the coast of the Sword Coast, the coast of the Falling Star Sea, and the coast of the Steam Lake. peak.
Even though other intelligent races and wild creatures still occupy most of Faerun, those are barren and barren lands, wild lands, primeval forests and rugged mountains.
As a race, unless the shield dwarves enter the Underdark and fight drow to snatch existing dungeons. Otherwise, cities can only be built in some inaccessible mountains. However, the shield dwarves are no longer the former Santana dwarves, and their resources are not enough to rebuild a majestic and magnificent mountain city.
Therefore, I had to choose the existing dwarven castles, among which Mithral Hall was the best choice.
In fact, when Lorraine arrived in the Northland, the Dwarf King even moved the idea of Iron Star Castle. The ruins that Qin Lun and others passed by were once a great dwarven city.
However, Iron Star Castle is too far away from the Northland, and Mithral Hall is the hometown of the Warhammer family, so the Dwarf King only used Iron Star Castle as a backup in the end.
Of course, in order to recapture Mithral Hall, Gilliam and others must speed up the pace, because the longer the delay, the more resource reserves the shield dwarves will consume for this. When winter comes, if they have not captured Mithral Hall, the shield dwarves will be frozen.
"Then keep going!" Since the shield dwarves were unwilling to give up, the apostles certainly had no objections. However, their next exploration was more cautious.
"Come and see!" Qin Lun, who was exploring the way at the front of the team, quickly discovered something.
Qin Lun looked up at the top of the passage, where there was a huge breach. The top of the labyrinth castle is a rock formation more than one meter thick. In addition to the possible traps, they have never thought of directly breaking into the core of the labyrinth from the top, but the spider elves guessed by Gilliam don't seem to care about it. .
"There is a pungent smell on the edge of the breach, like some kind of strong corrosive liquid." A dwarf in the team jumped up to the breach, observed it for a while, and then conveyed this message to everyone.
"As far as I know, although the spider elves can secrete weak and corrosive toxins, it seems unbelievable that they want to corrode such a large breach!" Mastacia said in surprise.
"This wasn't done by the spider elves. I guess the team that attacked the Minotaur may have priests of the Spider God Queen. Those dark-skinned female elves can use all kinds of dark magic." Gilliam said firmly.
"Every drow priest is the backbone of the dungeon, and there should be other drow warriors around them!" Mustasha said with a heavy heart.
Warriors, priests, plus the fearless spider elves! Qin Lun and Weiss looked at each other, feeling a little helpless in their hearts, the plot of the task they took on was not easy to do.
The higher the difficulty of the task, the richer the rewards. Qin Lun and Weiss are not cowardly apostles, but they prefer to use their brains to fight with their strengths rather than face-to-face confrontations. In other words, most of the apostles are of this type. Those apostles who do everything hard can hardly survive a few mission worlds.
After seeing the first breach at the top of the maze, they soon found more and more breaches, and some of the breaches at the top of the passage could even see clear chisel marks.
"There are at least 30 spider elves. If we cooperate with drow priests... no wonder those minotaurs can't stand it!" Gilliam's tone became more and more solemn, his eyes flickered and he stopped.
"No, we have to get out first. This time the exploration ends here. Although I don't know why the minotaur provoked the spider elves, those beasts will not stay so close to the surface forever. Maybe wait for us next time." When they came here, they had cleared out the minotaur lair and left here."
The apostles felt tense. They have spent about ten days so far, and if they quit and start over again, the stay time is definitely not enough.
"Gilliam, we haven't seen the enemy yet, so we're going to retreat like this..." Qin Lun frowned to express his objection.
"Filar, I must be responsible to you. You have helped us a lot. I must not let you lose your life here." Gilliam said seriously and firmly.
"Master Gilliam, I'm not used to giving up halfway. If you must go out, I will take my people and stay alone." Qin Lun said with a sullen face, expressionless, "You have already said, here with The Mithral Hall mining area is very close, and at this location, I believe that even without the guidance of ore hunting experts, we can find the secret passage of the mining area."
"Oh..." Qin Lun's cold tone made the old dwarf unable to react for a while, and stared blankly at the silver-haired elf. For the first time, he discovered that there was an elf in this world who was more stubborn than the dwarves.
"Hey, thin guy with pointed ears, what are you talking about!!!" The old dwarf finally reacted and was furious. He never thought that his good intentions would be treated as a donkey's liver and lungs by the elf prince.
"Do you want to listen to it again, Shidun with a long beard!" Qin Lun crossed his arms and said disdainfully, "If you are afraid of death, you should go home with your tail between your legs and wait for me to pass through the maze castle." After finding the Mithral Hall mining area, I will reward you with a road map!"
"You..." The old dwarf's eyes were wide open, his beard was raised up, and the back of his hand holding the double-edged ax erected veins like small snakes.
Lorraine and the other dwarves stared nervously at the old dwarf, for fear that he would be stimulated and attack the lifeless elf prince in front of him.
Compared with their strength, shield dwarves are more violent temper. Most of them have a mocking face, but they are also easy to explode when touched. Especially when drinking and carousing, it often turns into a gang fight.
"Da da da!" Just as the atmosphere became rigid, there was a sound like fingers hitting glass at the end of the passage, and a huge monster poked out half of its body from the corner.
Everyone turned their heads involuntarily, and saw a creature about two meters high, with a humanoid upper body, a spider lower body, and two sickle-like chelicerae looking at them.
"Aww..." The creature's eyes had no pupils, and they were gray-white, and the eight spider legs on the lower body were propped on the ground like a dragonfly on water. After seeing Qin Lun and others, it squatted down slightly, arched its huge belly, opened its mouth to reveal a mouthful of jagged fangs, and roared at everyone.
The next moment, it jumped lightly and jumped onto the wall on the left side of the passage, as if it had escaped the influence of gravity, and rushed towards everyone at high speed.
"Whoosh..." Just as everyone was about to take a defensive posture, a strong wind blew past them. Before they could recover, Gilliam's figure had appeared in front of the spider elf.
"Bang!" The spider elf only had time to raise the chelicera of its right arm before it was slashed squarely by Gilliam's broad-faced double-edged axe. A chelicerae with burrs flew into the air, splashing black liquid.
The spider elf rushing at high speed seemed to be hit head-on by a truck, and was directly blown away by a huge force. It spun and hit the wall at the end of the passage. Cobweb-like cracks.
Gilliam stared at the copper bell eyes, took a deep breath in mid-air, his chest puffed up high, and kicked off the wall with his right foot, rebounding all the force of the impact just now.
"Boom!" A big hole exploded in the wall on the left side of the passage, and the figure of the old dwarf reappeared in front of the spider elf like lightning. It hadn't slipped from the sunken wall yet.
"Aw..." The spider elf only let out a half-scream, and it was broken in two from the left shoulder to the right rib, and was chopped into two pieces by Gilliam with an axe.
However, the spider elf's vitality was strong, and at the moment of life and death, he still raised the remaining chelicera and swiped towards the old dwarf's head.
"Squeak..." The knife-sharp pincers rubbed harshly on Gilliam's helmet, and a string of dazzling sparks exploded in the darkness.