The apostles have been carrying out high-risk alien missions for many years, and their vigilance is comparable to that of soldiers on the front line of the battlefield.
Weiss had a premonition of uneasiness, and so did the other apostles in the team, among which Lolita, the female priest with the highest perception, was the most obvious. The strongest attribute of a shield guard is physique, the strongest attribute of a mage is spirit, Weiss pays equal attention to strength and sensitivity, and as a priest, perception is the first attribute.
As the team went deeper into the mushroom forest, Lolita looked around vigilantly, and she faintly sensed potential threats from all directions. The reason why I haven't said it all the time is because the feeling brought by these threats is not too strong, like a group of little mice scurrying around.
Although disgusting and occasionally startling, it is not life-threatening.
"There's nothing to worry about. The team leader has already released a few light-sounding bats, and the scouting radius has reached more than five kilometers. There are only a dozen or so medium-sized creatures nearby, and they should be underground creatures foraging for food in the mushroom forest." See Seeing Lolita's cautious appearance, Romon couldn't help but comfort her.
The reconnaissance radius is about five kilometers, so the reconnaissance area is seventy to eighty square kilometers, covering almost half of the mushroom forest. The ultrasonic detection ability of the light-sounding bat has never let them down, and the shadow in Lolita's heart has subsided a little.
They had already learned from the Dark Elf Raven that each dungeon team chasing them generally consisted of one or two drow priests, a dozen or so drow warriors of various professions, plus some such as lizardmen, spiders, etc. There will be no more than fifty slave units such as elves, swamp bears and the like.
If the drow wanted to ambush them, of course it was impossible to form a large ambush circle with such a small number. As for the fact that there is a team that can surround the entire mushroom forest, the number must be at least several thousand.
The city of Obalan is too far away, and it is too close to the surface. It is absolutely impossible for the dungeon to send so many troops to hunt them down.
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What Lolita and the others didn't know was that the mistress of the Seventh Family in Obalan City, Wendini, the drow priest, was sitting cross-legged under a giant fungus only about 50 steps away from them. .
The female elf with a slightly aged face and the faint charm of the past still remained between her eyes and eyebrows. She put a piece of magic-horned deer fur on her body, covered her head together, and sat under the giant fungus with a wand in her hand. If you don't look carefully, you might just think of her as a jurass eating mushroom skin under the tree.
"That's the light-sounding bat? It seems that the surface elf didn't deceive us!"
Wentini raised his head slightly, a cold light flashed through his smoky red phoenix eyes, and his eyes followed the slight ripples in the air. The eyesight of the drow is very good, and the environment of the Underdark basically has no effect on them.
The high speed of the light-sounding bat also dropped slightly in the mushroom forest with many obstacles, which was completely noticed by the drow priest.
Weiss and others' blind trust in the light-sounding bat is also an important factor for them to step into the trap. With Qin Lun's meticulous thinking, how could he ignore the scouting ability of Qingyinbat.
For others, it is almost impossible to avoid the scouting ability of the light-sounding bat, which can bypass obstacles and outline images of objects with ultrasonic waves. However, for Qin Lun, who possesses the see-through pupil technique and his scouting ability is beyond the charts, he knows better how to crack the scouting skill of object imaging.
He doesn't need to hide from the light-sounding bat, but only needs to hide from the person who gets the scouting image of the light-sounding bat.
The light-sounding bat's ability to image objects does not distinguish between primary and secondary. It is the same as Qin Lun's see-through pupil skill, and it will feed back all images to its master without any mistakes. Whether there are dangerous individuals in it needs to be identified by the owner himself.
The image formed by the ultrasonic wave and the perception line has a weakness. Although it can bypass obstacles and break the stealth effect to a certain extent, the black and white sketch-like pattern is relatively blurred. In layman's terms, the resolution is not enough, and you can only roughly recognize what it is.
If someone made a corresponding camouflage for this point, for example: Wentini was wearing a magic buckskin and leaning against a tree, and the light-sounding bat didn't come closer to scout, it would be regarded as some kind of herbivorous animal. Those drow warriors who climbed on the giant mushrooms and attached to the mushroom pillars would be regarded as creatures like big beetles or monkeys.
It is normal to have so many animals in a jungle. Weiss, who commanded the light-sounding bat, would not pay attention to these things, even if they were all enemies, the number was not enough to pose a threat. What he really wants to see is a large group of unknown objects gathered together, which may be the chasing force of the drow elves.
"It's completely encircled, almost now!"
Looking at the dwarves and apostles who had completely walked into the encirclement, Wendini slowly got up from under the tree, and lightly stomped the ground under his feet with the staff in his hand. A faint wave of magic penetrated the moss vegetation like a dark brown carpet on the ground of the fungus forest, rippling below the ground.
In the dark underground with a depth of only a few feet, pairs of khaki vertical pupils slowly opened, and the evil and bloodthirsty breath spread rapidly like mercury.
The ultrasonic wave of the light-sounding bat can see through like Qin Lun's staring aura, but it cannot form a "thermal image" of the staring aura based on biological breath and mental fluctuations, so it is easy to be deceived.
The ambush circle Qin Lun created for Weiss and others is not on the ground, but underground. He asked the two drow priests, Wendini and Kekena, to bury the lizardman cavalry underground. Although it was only a few feet deep, it was enough to hide the light bats.
Whether it's the lizardmen or the monitor lizards they sit on, they are all cold-blooded animals. They can hibernate in suspended animation, and they will die from lack of oxygen. Moreover, the thick horny scales of the lizardmen and monitor lizards can also resist the absorption of moss vegetation for a short time, making this plan completely feasible.
In fact, the drow are very familiar with underground ambush tactics. Unlike surface creatures, many units in the dungeon can be buried deep underground, and even a few weeks without eating or drinking will not endanger their lives.
Therefore, when Qin Lun proposed this plan, the two drow priests agreed almost without thinking about it. This was originally a trick of the dungeon troops.
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Lolita, who was walking in the center of the group, suddenly felt a throbbing, and a creepy feeling came to her heart.
"Wow..." Before she could react, a pair of dark green scaly claws broke out from under her feet, tightly grasped the female priest's ankles, and pulled her downward forcefully.
"Underground!" Newton, the shield guard on Lolita's left, reacted very quickly. He yelled to remind his companions, and at the same time, the tower shield in his right hand smashed towards the ground like a heavy hammer.
"Pfft!" The triangular cone tip of the tower shield was deeply inserted into the soil, and then there was a furious roar like a wounded beast from the ground.
However, the shield guard made a hasty move after all, and the two-foot-deep soil removed most of the impact force. The owner of the scales and claws did not suffer fatal injuries, but instead erupted with brute force through the pain. , actually forcibly pulled Lolita down.
"Ah!" The female pastor's calves sank deep into the soil, she couldn't help but her face changed color, and she cried out in alarm.
Whether it is a plot character in the world of Faerun or an apostle in the Broken Starry Sky, we all know that the priest is the most irreplaceable character in a team. The priest may not be the soul of the team, or the core of the offense, but at least no other role can replace it.
Therefore, no matter how urgent the dwarves were to return, they paid great attention to protecting the female priest in the middle of the team. And the drow's first sneak attack target was also Lolita. Killing Lolita means that the exploration team has no recovery ability, no matter how strong the others are, they will be slowly worn to death.
The lizardman attacking troops were very lucky. The lizardman who captured Lolita happened to be the leader of the lizardman cavalry, and his power attribute firmly suppressed the female priest, making it impossible for her to break free with her own strength.
"Lolita!" Weiss, who was at the front of the team, was shocked and turned around quickly, trying to save the female priest.
However, a cloud of dust exploded on the left and right sides of the ground in front of him, and two tall lizard men surrounded him with flails and grinning grinningly.
There were also rustling sounds behind him, and two monitor lizards staggeringly crawled out of the ground with snake letters. These are the mounts of the two lizardmen. When they are not being ridden by the lizardmen, they can still cooperate with their masters to attack.
"Go away!" Weiss' eyes were red, and the skin all over his body squirmed. The pale bones broke through the skin and quickly covered the body, turning into a set of seamless bone armor.
Weiss turned his footsteps and danced like a whirlwind. The jagged bone blade on his elbow was like a scimitar, slashing towards the two lizardmen in front of him.
Starting with Lolita being caught, it seems that a silent trumpet is blowing at this moment.
Every member of the expedition, whether dwarves or apostles, was suddenly attacked. The lizardmen and their monitor lizard mounts rose up from a short distance away, as if countless enemies appeared around them all of a sudden.
The entire expedition team was divided and surrounded by lizardman cavalry in an instant, and the defensive formation disappeared. They fell into a desperate situation in a very short period of time.
Although the leader of the lizardmen who grabbed Lolita's ankle is underground and can no longer attack the female priest, the number of lizardmen in this core area is the most, with a total of five, and ten including their monitor lizards. enemy.
Among them were three lizard men and their monitor lizards, who blocked the shield guard Newton. Maybe they were still not the opponents of the shield guards, but at least they held back Newton's rush to help the female priest. The remaining two lizardmen rushed towards Lolita without hesitation, and even gave up their own protection.
To these hideous lizards, the orders of the drow priests are absolute. Since he was asked to kill this human female at the first moment of the raid, there was no room for compromise. Once there is a show of cowardice, even if they win in the end, these lizardman cavalry will all be executed.