Volume 3 Blood and Fire Chapter 170 Ancient Tunnel (3)
"Mithril, what is that?" Brown asked curiously. Over the long years, everyone in the War Eagle clan has lost a lot of the knowledge and records they inherited, so they don't know what the mithril veins mean.
"Mithril! Everyone in the world will fight for it. It is as malleable as bronze and can be polished like glass. Skilled craftsmen can make it stronger than steel, yet as light as steel.
Goose feather metal. Its beauty is like ordinary silver, but the luster of mithril will not fade with time. The elves love this metal and made it into star and moon gold, which is the magic you see on the door.
Metal. The reason why Shire is able to be self-sufficient and independent from Albrex is that it has a considerable amount of mithril veins."
Yekaterina explained to everyone, and then gave Elos a meaningful look, as if to say: You Ciel have wealth that is coveted by everyone in the continent.
Elos smiled bitterly, facing the imminent invasion of the orcs, what's the use of having more wealth if it can't be converted into military power in time!
Everyone fell into silence, and they fell asleep one after another.
When it was Brown's turn to keep vigil, a breath seemed to come out of the pit, and he felt a chill.
Brown's palms were cold and he was covered in cold sweat.
He listened intently, and during the two long hours of the night watch, all his thoughts were focused on any suspicious noises in all directions.
But he heard nothing, and even the suspicious footsteps seemed to have disappeared.
When Brown's two-hour shift was about to end, he suddenly felt that he saw a pair of shining things in the direction of the west gate, which seemed to be the eyes of some kind of creature, but the summoned creature sent out did not give him any feedback.
.
Brown stared at the thing, feeling a little distracted.
"I must have dozed off! This was probably a nightmare," he stood up and rubbed his eyes, refusing to sit down, staring into the darkness until a druid named Dutch came to take over.
Brown fell asleep quickly as soon as he lay down, but the nightmare didn't seem to stop.
He could hear whispers and see the two bright sources of light approaching.
Suddenly, Brown was awakened by several dying wails of beasts and the feeling of his summons being destroyed. He immediately stood up and found that Elos was already walking towards the entrance of the cave with the Broken Star in his hand.
The other druids were also awakened by the abnormal noise and the destruction of their summons. Knowing that unknown danger was coming, they all prepared for battle.
Eloise seemed to be walking in front easily, but in fact he was extremely alert, constantly scanning the surrounding environment with his mental power.
Even if the ability of extraordinary perception is suppressed, no existence in this space can escape from his mental power.
We can no longer stay here. An unknown entity is already targeting everyone. We must escape from here as soon as possible.
He slowly opened a door and led everyone into a large, empty room.
Ilos suddenly reached out and pointed at the corner of the wall. Ekaterina, who had already established a tacit understanding, immediately threw several lightning balls. More than ten light gray little monsters suddenly appeared. They screamed and rolled all over the ground, trying to
The electric fire hit his body, but after struggling for a while, there was no sound at all.
Elos pointed to the ceiling again, and the druids behind him immediately reacted and fired out natural thorn spells one after another.
Then there were bursts of sharp screams from the high ceiling, and dozens of huge green bats were pierced by thorns and fell one by one.
Eloise suddenly took a step forward, reached out and grabbed it in the air, and a faint shadow wrapped around his fist, struggling constantly.
The shadow is getting darker and darker, and the struggle is getting weaker and weaker.
After a moment, Elos loosened his grip and the shadow regained its freedom.
It turns out that this shadow is a ghost that has been cast a spell.
The resentful spirit immediately flew out of the room, and after a while, returned to Elos.
The luster on the resentful spirit kept fluctuating, as if it was communicating with Elos.
Elos nodded, and then activated the power of his true name to redeem and purify the resentful spirit, freeing it from endless pain and waiting.
Elos stood quietly in front of a stone door for a moment, took the giant hammer from a warrior of the War Eagle clan, then picked up the giant hammer and smashed it hard against the stone wall.
Amidst the flying smoke and dust, a large one-meter-square hole was smashed into the wall, and a loud squeaking sound came from the stone chamber.
Elos took the lead. After getting into the stone room, he launched the combat skill Glory of the Silver Moon.
Countless radiating sword energies wiped out all the creatures in the stone room, which turned out to be a group of green bats.
"Hurry up, this place can lead to the outside world, but the passage just now is no longer accessible!"
Ilosu greeted everyone. Although this passage is not the main road, Ilosu can sense that it leads to the outside world and is parallel to the main passage because there is a faint light in front of it, which comes from outside.
sunlight.
Under the leadership of Elos, everyone walked through the arch of the stone chamber and found themselves in a very wide corridor.
As they continued to move forward, the faint light in the distance became stronger and stronger, and they finally determined that it was coming from a gate on the right.
The tall door was ajar, but could still be opened.
There is a wide square space inside the door. Although the light inside is not very strong, because everyone has been in the dark for a long time, the light makes them feel very dazzling. When entering the room, the group must continue to
blink.
The footsteps of everyone disturbed a lot of dust on the ground, and there were many things on the ground that they couldn't see clearly at first.
The light source of this hall comes from an opening on the west side, which is tilted all the way to the sky. Everyone can see a piece of blue sky through this opening, and the light that comes in falls directly on a stone table in the center of the hall.
It was made of a square stone pillar, about two feet high, with a huge white stone slab at the top.
"This looks like a tombstone." Ekaterina muttered. She bent forward curiously and saw clearly the magic runes carved on the stone slab.
"This is a rune carved in the High Elf language. It says: The legendary general of the High Elf, Lor'themar Theron."
"Then he has passed away," Eloth said.
"I'm afraid that's the case!" Ekaterina covered her face with her hood.
In this dusty hall in the mountains, everything seems to have happened thousands of years ago on the other side of the world.
After a while, everyone raised their heads and began to look for any clues that could show what happened to the legendary high elf general Lor'themar Theron, or the fate of his compatriots.
On the other side of the room, just below the opening, is another small door.
Only then did everyone see that between the two doors, there were many white bones scattered on the ground, as well as broken swords, ax handles, bucklers and helmets.
Some swords are curved in shape, such as the black scimitars favored by dark elves.
There are many spaces for placing boxes on the rock wall, including many large wooden boxes covered with iron sheets. Each box has been pried open and looted.
However, next to one of the broken boxes, there were fragments of a book.
The book had been damaged by swords and other sharp objects, and some parts were even burned. Other parts were stained with black old blood, so there was very little that could be read.
Ekaterina carefully prepared to pick up the book, but the pages instantly shattered under her touch.
She read it carefully for a while without saying a word.
Elos stood next to Ekaterina, watching her gently flipping through the book written in high elven language, protecting her.
Finally, Ekaterina finally raised her head:
"It seems that this is a booklet that records the encounters of the high elves stationed in the tunnel. The content in it is no longer complete. Based on fragmented information and guesses, I concluded that this is the last moment of life recorded by the high elves stationed here. Listen.