The long arrow shot by Mustaxia was directly blocked by a drow warrior, but in this way, there was no room for compromise between the two sides.
"Fuck!" Weiss cursed secretly. After seeing the situation clearly, he was instinctively unwilling to join the battle. The Minotaur side was at the end of their battles, and the Drow side didn't target them. This battle was unnecessary in the first place.
The main purpose of the dwarven exploration team is to find the passage to the Mithral Hall mining area, and to clean up the biological nests along the way from the surface cave camp to the Mithral Hall mining area, laying a solid foundation for the shield dwarves to occupy Mithral Hall in the future.
For this purpose, they could not ignore the Minotaur Labyrinth Fortress that was on their way. But now the minotaurs have been maimed by the drow and the spider elves, and the drow will not stay in the maze fortress for a long time, so there is no need for them to join this battle.
The best option is to leave here quietly, bypass the Minotaur Labyrinth, and continue to explore the Mithril Hall mining passage. When they come back, it is estimated that these drows have already left, and even the cleaned Minotaur Labyrinth can be used as a relay camp by the shield dwarves.
However, with Mustasia's arrow shot out, the dwarves and the apostles had to join the battle.
The Highland Elf is the master of the Harper League, and her job is to maintain the balance of the world.
In fact, in the eyes of Qin Lun and others, the Harper Alliance's so-called maintenance of world balance is not true to its name. The so-called balance is when one side is more powerful than the other, to help the weaker side, this is called maintaining balance.
However, the Harpers will always only help good alignments. For example: If the Silvermoon Alliance and the Zhentarim will have a war, even if the Silvermoon Alliance is the initiator of the war, and the Zhentarim will be defeated steadily. Harpers will never help the Zhentarim, and they will even help in order to speed up the progress of the war.
Of course, if outsiders questioned them about this kind of thing, the Harpist would only say that this was to avoid involving more innocent people in the war. Therefore, in the eyes of the completely neutral apostles, regardless of their camp position, the Harper Alliance is simply a whore and a chastity archway.
Although the Underdark region does not belong to the surface world, the Harper Alliance still has some factions here, and this part of the forces is the chaotic and good camp headed by the followers of the Dark Girl.
The dark girl Eilistraee is a very special god. She is the daughter of the spider queen (formerly the elf goddess Aiyushine). After Aiyushine and Corellon failed to compete for divine power, she followed her mother into the dark region .
Eilistraee is willing to answer the prayers of those drow who still have good hearts, and guide them back to the surface world, back to the light. She formed an alliance with the elven gods, the goddess of magic, and the goddess of the moon, Su Lun. Her church secretly contacted the Harper Alliance and the druids of the natural sect, so that the drow who returned to the surface world could have a place to stay.
This kind of behavior of the Dark Maiden naturally made all the dungeon drow, especially the drow priests of the Spider God Queen, regard her as a thorn in the flesh.
However, the Dark Maiden was the daughter of the Spider Queen after all, and the dungeon and drow priests had nothing to do with her, so they had to vent their anger on the church members of Eilistraee.
Whenever a follower of the dark girl is found in the dungeon, the mistresses of the various drow families will send people to hunt them down until they die. This kind of behavior will often be affirmed by the Spider God Empress, and get some help in the process of chasing and killing. For example: Goddess Rose's maid Waxmelt Demon, or the impromptu attack of the God's Kingdom Watchdog Spider Elves.
Obviously, the Spider Queen was also deeply dissatisfied with her daughter's betrayal.
Because of this, the Harpers view the church of Eilistraee as allies. This was the main reason why Mustasha risked losing her companions to help that drow female elf.
In Mustasia's eyes, whether the dwarf exploration team can find the Mithral Hall mining area is not as important as rescuing the two drow in front of them. It's just that her arrow forced the dwarves and the apostles to passively participate in an unnecessary battle.
Of course, in the eyes of the bold shield dwarves, Mustasia is their friend, so it is only natural for a friend to help a friend. What's more, the followers of the dark girl are not bad people, so save them as soon as they are saved.
The only people here who are unwilling to fight are probably the only apostles like Qin Lun and Weiss, who have nothing to offer.
It's just that the apostles have nothing to do. This is the biggest backlash by using the power of the plot. Because the characters in the plot are all intelligent races, with their own thinking and behavior patterns, they don’t know when they will drag you to participate in the inexplicable plot, whether you want it or not.
"Let's do it. The number of spider elves has been greatly reduced by the Minotaur, and it's not impossible to win. Maybe helping those two Eilistraee followers will leave a quest clue for the next time you enter the world of Toril." Hill sighed and said quietly in the team channel.
Hearing Hill's words, Weiss raised his eyebrows slightly, and glanced at the shepherd quite unexpectedly. The high-ranking apostle found that his attention had been on Qin Lun, and he seemed to have neglected Hill and Rand among the three.
In fact, Hill has been quiet in this world, not because he is unwilling to contribute. But Qin Lun has the status of an elf prince, and his own strategy is no worse than Hill's. Many things can be solved directly in his hands, and Hill doesn't need to do anything.
Naturally, Hill was happy to be at ease, hiding behind Qin Lun and enjoying his success.
However, it is different now, Qin Lun has a mental problem, and he may not be able to lead the team anymore. Hill's mentality changed at this time, and he had to show up to fight for the initiative of the task.
Not to mention whether it was a good thing or a bad thing that Hill got Weiss' attention. At least what he said at this time cheered up the spirits of the apostles who were reluctant to fight, and rushed to fight before the dwarves.
All of a sudden, dazzling sword lights and brilliant magic skills came and went one after another in the maze hall.
Except for Gilliam, the eight dwarves in the exploration team are all mid-to-high-level powerhouses. Needless to say, the apostles are more explosive than the characters in the plot, and even the three beauties, Elistine, Idriya and Mastashia, are not easy to mess with.
The two drow priests obviously underestimated the combat power of this group of people. Before the spider elves could pounce on them, they flew back at a faster speed, and all of them were seriously injured. Among the three drow warriors with weaker defenses, one was directly beheaded by the dwarf's ax thrower, and the other two were injured and retreated.
However, Gilliam, the only legendary strongman in the exploration team, did not make a move. The old dwarf hid in the team and quietly approached the two drow priests following the attack.
When everyone saw this, they naturally understood, and the shield guard Newton and the other apostles were always paying attention to blocking the sight of the drow priests, so that they would not find Gilliam in advance.
Most combat occupations on Faerun Continent have ability levels, such as: low-level, middle-level, high-level, and even legendary. Only religious occupations such as priests, priests, dependents of gods, voters, etc., actually have no so-called occupational level.
Their fighting ability is rooted in the magic and favor bestowed by the gods. If the gods withdrew their blessings and gifts at a certain point, then these people would be no different from ordinary people except for their own physical fitness.
Of course, most gods do not exclude their followers from practicing other combat professions. For example: Lord of Silvermoon, Elastra Silverhand, besides being the chosen one of the goddess of magic, Mystra, she is also a legendary mage herself.
The so-called legendary priests, legendary priests, and legendary voters are actually meaningless.
Because no matter how high the combat ability of believers is, in the eyes of the gods, they are just slightly stronger ants. They pay more attention to the devotion of believers to them, so there are distinctions such as superficial believers, devout people, fanatics, and family members of gods.
The same is true for the priests of the Spider God Queen. Compared with the priests of other gods, most of the priests of the Spider God Queen can't practice magic, because Rose hates Mystra, and the Goddess of Magic is one of his mortal enemies.
The mages of the dungeon may not be inferior to the priests in terms of combat ability, but their status cannot be compared with them at all. The patriarch of every Drow family in the dungeon must be a fanatic priest of the Spider God Queen.
Because the drow priestesses have a special status in the dungeon, they generally disdain to practice male drow's knife skills and bows and arrows, and instead use some special weapons. Apart from the staff, another special weapon is... the snake First whip!
Seeing a group of people rushing menacingly, the faces of the two drow priests changed slightly. Among them, the younger and more beautiful drow priest took off the snake head whip in his right hand and shook it lightly, uttering a few harsh syllables.
The triangular snake head of the snake head whip suddenly opened its tightly closed eyes, and a string of obscure runes flashed through the golden vertical pupils. The next moment, the snake's head swelled rapidly, and after falling to the ground, it had already turned into a colossus.
The dwarves and the apostles were astonished to see the huge snake, spitting out snake letters, winding towards us, and it was still expanding. When the snake's head crossed half the distance of the hall, the triangular head together with the upright neck almost filled most of the cross-section of the hall, making everyone who faced it change color.
You must know that this hall located in the core area of the maze is not only more than 20 meters high, more than 100 meters long, but also more than ten meters wide. The upright snake head can fill most of it, even blocking the scenery behind it, which shows its huge size.
The golden vertical pupils of the snake's head reflected the figures of the people. It suddenly opened its upper and lower jaws, and its neck retracted. A huge suction force was generated out of thin air, pulling all the objects in front of it, and sucking them into the dark snake's mouth.
Under this suction, the blood of the corpse scattered on the ground, as well as the broken sword next to the corpse, were thrown towards the mouth of the snake like a sea of rivers.
The dwarves and the apostles were shocked, and they inserted their weapons into the stone slabs on the ground to balance their bodies. No one wants to try whether they can come out alive after being swallowed by the snake's head.
The priest of the Spider God Queen is indeed as difficult as the legend says!