There was silence in the mine, only the sound of sighs continued.
Marvin's will is firm, and he can pass every fear check safely.
That's why he dared to enter the mine alone.
These huge strange faces are a kind of wild creatures - earth spirits.
The earth spirit is a relatively rare creature. It is said that the earth spirit is formed from the soul of a miner who died in the mine.
These creatures are between the spirit body and the real thing. They have various shapes, but most of them have strange faces.
Those sighs are actually the natural sounds made by the earth spirit when it moves. Every sigh carries a faint fear technique.
Those who are timid will be scared away immediately.
But Marvin was obviously not that kind of person.
Ordinary earth spirits will not attack humans, they are kind.
And the earth spirit here seemed to be polluted by some kind of object, became irritable and irritable, and even started to attack Marvin!
Marvin was intrigued by the tainted item. Contaminated items are often magical items made by wizards. Because of the leakage of magic power, creatures with low intelligence are affected by chaotic magic power and appear various abnormal behaviors.
In this era, items made by wizards are very valuable.
From another point of view, where there are large groups of earth spirits gathering, there must be treasures.
Marvin has always spared no effort in searching for treasures!
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What he took out from the Void Conch was nothing but a large bouquet of fireworks!
Earth spirits are not afraid of fire, but they are afraid of strong light!
Ma Wen quietly took out the flint and rubbed it, and instantly ignited the fireworks!
Although it was just the simplest kind of crude fireworks made by rural craftsmen, the brightness that erupted at this moment could barely reach the effect of half a flash technique!
The polluted land spirits were irritable and irritable. Under the strong light, they opened their mouths wide open and flocked to Marvin!
It's just that they can't make a sound, so they can't alert other people in the camp outside the mine.
This is exactly what Marvin wanted.
He sticks the firework stick on the ground, draws the knife and hits it!
Under the interference of the strong light, the actions of the earth spirit were obviously affected.
Their eyes were drawn in, and their movements became very clumsy.
Marvin, on the other hand, played to his heart's content!
The two white-board scimitars are just like a flower in his hands.
His whole body was like a nimble fish, shuttled back and forth among the strange faces, the scimitar rose and fell, and it didn't take long for almost twenty earth spirits to be wiped out by Marvin.
The average level of the earth spirit is 3. But the actual combat ability is very average.
The reason why they have a higher level is because of their fear. Under the interference of the fear technique, it is difficult for ordinary people to exert their full strength.
Sometimes you can't control your muscles to make the most accurate attack, and often the end is injury-even death!
But Marvin was not affected by the fear technique at all.
That's a bit of a bully.
The twenty-four earth spirits contributed 609 killing experience points to Marvin, which was very generous, comparable to the zombies summoned by the ghoul Hesse.
However, Marvin also knew that this method of gaining experience could not last long, and such things as earth spirits were rare in the first place.
This is the only example of such a group of level 3 creatures, and there are few other cases.
Marvin was already very satisfied.
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After killing the earth spirit, Marvin continued on.
He continued along the tunnels of the mine.
Along the way, he found some gnoll corpses.
It seemed that these earth spirits really became very irritable and started killing wolf men.
Those jackals must have suffered a bit too. Their intelligence is not enough, and they are prone to fear spells.
In the vast mine, they have nothing to do with the earth spirits, they can only build the camp far away from the mine.
The mine is not deep, but there are many forks. Before the mine was abandoned, many miners came and went here.
At that time, the earth spirits probably hadn't been fully infected yet, so they just harassed the miners and didn't attack.
After a few months, things were different.
If it was a blind search, given the complexity of the mine, Marvin would not be able to find it even after several months of searching.
He is skilled.
The actions of the earth spirits are often close to the stone wall, and the soil under the ground will also undergo some slight changes due to the passage of the earth spirits.
The originally solid rocks will become a little soft.
Marvin bent down all the way, trying to walk as far as possible where the ground was soft.
Along the way, he killed two more batches of earth spirits, gained 377 killing experience points, and finally found the source of pollution.
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Deep in the mine, there is an underground cave.
There is a vine plant growing in the cave, and each vine has long barbs.
"The poisonous seed?"
Marvin looked at the vine solemnly.
Where did this thing come from
This kind of poison developed from [Very Toxic Seed] is very toxic, but this thing will not affect the earth spirit.
"Did I go to the wrong place?"
Marvin murmured in his heart.
But since they met, Marvin would not just sit idly by. After all, this is his territory.
Poisonous seeds will not be planted out of thin air. If this vine is allowed to grow for a period of time, it may grow into a very terrifying plant-like monster.
You must know that although plant monsters are born with disabilities, they cannot move.
But their vitality is surprisingly high, especially after advanced, they are not so afraid of flames.
"As far as I know, poisonous seeds are only owned by a small number of wizards. It is also used as a test object."
"Other than that, it's the tree shepherd..."
"Could it be that group of evil things are also eyeing the White River Valley?"
Ma Wen was puzzled, but set fire to it without hesitation.
Although the poisonous seed is terrifying, it is after it grows up.
The current small vines are not enough to cause trouble.
With a big fire, it burned cleanly.
In fact, the poison of this kind of vine is so powerful that it can quench the poison of a dagger or a scimitar.
But Marvin didn't have a powerful pharmacist by his side, nor did he carry powerful interpretation items. If one of them accidentally got poisoned, it would be over.
After the fire was over, the mine was filled with gunpowder smoke. Marvin held his nose and poked it over.
He just scanned it with the mind of not letting go of all possibilities.
Unexpectedly, under the ashes of the poisonous vines, he found a treasure chest!
And this treasure chest is still unlocked!
"It turns out that the real source of pollution is here!"
Marvin suddenly realized.
There are many things in the treasure chest, and the culprit that caused the change of the earth spirit is among them!
It was an overturned bottle, and a strange smell wafted from it.
Marvin sniffed lightly, and was immediately choked several times!
So strong and acidic!
This is magic acid!
[Magic Acid], like [Very Poisonous Seed], are things that tree shepherds often carry on their bodies. They use these items to spread evil on Feinan Continent.
Enchanting acid is very volatile and spreads in the air, forming a gas capable of infecting low-intelligence earth spirits.
But judging from the shape of the bottle, it seems that it was not deliberately knocked over here.
Ma Wen pondered for a while, and searched again by the light of the fire, and sure enough, he found some bones under a pile of ashes.
These bones are already hard to distinguish under the burning of the flames, and they look like tall humanoid creatures.
"The Shepherd!"
"A tree shepherd really came to the White River Valley? How did he die here?"
Questions popped up in Ma Wen's mind one by one.
The highly poisonous seeds and the demonic acid should have been accidentally produced by the tree shepherd before his death.
This guy seemed to want to put these things in a treasure chest and bury them... But he died before he could finish these things.
The level of this tree shepherd should not be very high, he may have died of serious injuries when he was hunted down!
The question is, how did he appear in the mine!
This kind of question, even if Marvin has rich experience, he will not be sure for a while.
At that moment, he threw the tree shepherd's body aside and covered the bottle in the treasure chest to prevent the magic acid from corroding the creatures in the mine.
In this way, those earth spirits should return to normal.
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There are two other items in the treasure chest. An emerald green dagger, and a thick envelope.
Marvin was attracted by that dagger at first glance!
The original owner of this dagger didn't seem to have deliberately used the [Cover] skill, so Marvin only needed a simple [Scout] to see the dagger's attributes.
[Emerald Dagger+1]
Quality: shimmer
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