After the drow priest teleported away, once the bloodthirsty rage she bestowed on her men ended, the situation in the battle took a sharp turn for the worse.
Although the remaining spider elves and drow warriors are still powerful, the dwarf exploration team has the legendary strong Gilliam, the high-level apostle Weiss, the second-level field control shield guard and the giant bear druid. There are archers, ax throwers, and magicians. The professional system is complete and they cooperate with each other for cover.
Without the decisive factor of the drow priest, one after another, the spider elves and drow warriors died one after another. Except for one of the thieves who also trained in the shadow profession, and a magic warrior who summoned a faceless knight stand-in, all the other drow were killed in battle, and the members of the dwarf exploration team basically suffered no serious casualties.
After the battle, the two drow elves who defected from the dungeon finally walked out of the portal at the back of the hall with two adult minotaurs and a group of young minotaurs, dragging their exhausted bodies to salute everyone.
They were covered in blood and wounds all over their bodies, and the wounds on the two adult Minotaurs were even more layer upon layer. The blood cocoons were still under the blood cocoons, and even their self-healing talents could not offset the wounds that burst open from time to time.
"Woo..." After coming out, many young Minotaurs ran to the gravel in the field to look for their dead parents, sobbing one after another. The two adult Minotaurs sat cross-legged on the ground exhaustedly, their eyes full of sadness, and they remained silent.
"Are you all followers of the Dark Maiden?" Mustasia cautiously looked at the two drow in front of her.
Although the dwarves helped the two drow, it was still Mustasia who was in charge of contacting them. Who made the highland elves the harpers and led the battle.
"I'm Raven, and this is Kesena next to me. We are all dark elves from the city of Albaran, thank you for your help." The male among the two defected elves leaned over and took out a A map was handed to Mustasia.
"I and my brethren were in the dark, praying for the light, and in our agony, were guided by the Maiden of Darkness, my father once got this map from a harpist. He said it would lead us to the surface world It's just that during the long journey, we were constantly hunted down by the dungeon, and after arriving here, all the fellow dark elves left me and Ke Sena."
The male dark elf's eyes were full of sorrow, and after a few short words, he was already sobbing.
The drow elves who defected from the dungeon generally did not call themselves drow. Instead, they restored their identity as dark elves when they first entered the Underdark in ancient times.
Mustasia opened the simple map in her hand, and when she saw clearly the secret sign of the Harper Alliance in the lower left corner of the map, she was 90% convinced in her heart that there was no way to fake this secret sign that no one else knew.
"Then what about these minotaurs?" The highland elf lowered his voice, pointed to the minotaur sitting next to him and asked, "Don't tell me, they are also followers of the dark girl?"
"The Minotaur is not as evil as you imagined!" Raven said with a wry smile and shook his head.
It turned out that Raven's father was the martial arts chief of a certain drow family in Obalanel City, and he had reached the surface world when he was young. It was also at that time that he met a harpist. And with the help of Harper, he drew this road map to the surface world from memory.
After returning to the dungeon, he did not tell the mistress of the family all this, but secretly hid the bright world on the surface in his heart, and later slowly influenced a large number of young elves in Oranbar City.
It was during that adventure that Raven's father met the leader of the Minotaur. The Minotaur was still very young at the time, and was chased and killed by a group of magic sunflower insects when he went out. He panicked and lost his way back to the maze. It was Raven's father who rescued it from the magic sunflower and brought it back to the Labyrinth Fortress.
Although the Minotaur has a violent temper and is a creature of the chaotic camp, some ethnic groups are not evil and belong to the chaotic neutral camp. Moreover, most Minotaurs are very loyal to their friends, they value righteousness rather than life, and are not as selfish as most underground creatures.
Since then, Raven's father has never been able to walk on the surface again in his life. He died in a family war, and before he died, he handed over the map and the token of the Minotaur leader to Raven, and asked him to lead the dark maiden believers who had developed in secret back to the surface, and everything that happened next happened.
"No. 5364 Black Iron Team, you have triggered the hidden plot mission - the dawn of O'Balanar!"
[The Dawn of O'Bailan (Sergeant-Colonel): Large-scale combination plot missions. In the dungeon community centered on O'Balanar, a large number of followers of the dark girl appeared. These young drow living in the dark underground are always yearning for a free life on the surface world, and a group of young elves as the pioneers have embarked on a journey to the surface.
However, during the journey, they were chased and killed by all the dungeons along the way. The Spider God Queen would never allow any of the dark people to escape her control, and sent dark servants such as wax melt demons and spider elves to assist Zhuo of the dungeon. Er priest.
Mission objective: The apostle team that accepts this mission first needs to escort the first batch of dark elves to the surface. When the first dark elves reach the surface, the mission will receive basic rewards and they can continue to accept the mission. Under the guidance of the map, the apostle team can go to the Obala area to pick up other dark elves.
Mission basic rewards: Each dark elf who reaches the surface will give the apostle 10,000 broken crystals, 5 contribution points, one broken fusion crystal, and 200 point exchange coupons. For each additional dark elf that is attracted in the follow-up missions, an additional 3 life soul caps will be rewarded on this basis.
Reminder: The stay time of the No. 5364 Black Iron team in the world of Toril has reached the upper limit, and this hidden task cannot increase the stay time. The task can be shared with other apostle teams. Note that this task is a competitive plot, and there are apostle teams of opposing camps.
Reminder: This plot is a long-dimensional time-span task. The apostle team that already has this task will have a certain chance to trigger this hidden plot again next time they enter the world of Toril near the Spine of the World.]
Hill and Weiss, who deliberately stood near Mustasha and Raven, each smiled. The shepherd was right. They really triggered a small plot mission, and the execution time of the mission also spanned two extra-world teleportation, which would greatly increase their chances of obtaining world tokens.
"The Dawn of Oranbar", the difficulty of this mission is a bit strange, but after reading the mission introduction, both of them generally know it well. Escorting Revan and Kesena to the surface is no problem at this point, and the sergeant rank is kind of an introductory plot.
And then go to Oranbar to pick up other dark elves, it will be different. Once their whereabouts are revealed, they will face the pursuit of the dungeon, as well as monsters such as wax melting monsters, drow priests, spider elves, etc. It is not surprising that the difficulty reaches the colonel level.
However, the rewards for this mission are quite generous, not to mention the basic rewards for the time being, just a dark elf giving the upper limit of 3 life souls is very tempting. Ten is the upper limit of 30 life souls...
After figuring out the cause and effect, Mustacia ran to explain to Gilliam. The dwarves didn't have any special opinion about these two dark elves, anyway, they wouldn't hinder their mission any more, but they could send them a guide to take them to the cave camp on the surface first.
As for the future life of these two dark elves, it is not related to the dwarves, and the Harper Alliance will naturally make corresponding arrangements.
"Master Mustasha, what about the... Minotaurs, will they continue to stay in the maze fortress?" Lorraine blinked and asked with concern.
"Don't worry, since these minotaurs are willing to take over the entire tribe in order to repay Raven's father, they will not harm the dwarf exploration team in the future." Mastacia said firmly.
"No, master, that's not what I'm worried about." Lorraine looked at the little minotaurs squatting in the rubble sobbing, and said hesitantly, "I heard that the drow are a kind of vengeful Strong race, will they come back?"
"It's possible!" Mustasia frowned, "But Raven has communicated with them. The Minotaur is very stubborn. They don't believe in other surface races, and they don't want to live on the surface with the dark elves. They want to stay. come down."
"Are we going to watch the drow slaughter the last blood of this tribe?" Lorraine raised his head and looked at the old dwarf solemnly, "Elder Gilliam..."
"Lorraine, needless to say, I know what you mean, let me think about it, think about it!" The old dwarf scratched his beard, and after a while, he sighed and said, "Mastashia, can you let Rui Wen communicate with the Minotaur and ask them, can we dwarves set up an outpost camp near the maze fortress!"
Mustasia's eyes lit up, she nodded with a smile, she understood what the old dwarf meant.
The ultimate goal of the dwarves in exploring this dark region is to find the Mithral Hall mining area and recover Mithral Hall through the mine passage. If the route so far is correct, then they must set up a relay camp in this Underdark region for troop projection when retaking Mithral Hall.
The location of this camp is very important. Seriously speaking, the underground cave in front of the maze fortress is more suitable. There is a large space there, and there are forks connecting the front and back. The location is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which can prevent sneak attacks by the gray dwarves who are currently occupying Mithral Hall.
The vicinity of the labyrinth fortress is a plain area, and there is no danger to defend. The internal terrain of the labyrinth fortress is not suitable for dwarves, so it is not the best choice.
However, the establishment of the dwarf camp here is good news for the currently weak Minotaur tribe. Even if it was a small camp, there would be hundreds of dwarf warriors, plus the large defensive equipment made by the dwarves, even if the drow elves retaliated, they would still be able to stand firm.
Of course, this is also beneficial to the shield dwarves. As long as they help the minotaur tribe in front of them to tide over the difficulties, and when the population of the minotaur increases again, Mithral Hall will have an ally in the Underdark in the future.
The labyrinth fortress of the Minotaur tribe can also help Mithril Hall guard the mining passages in and out of the Underdark.