Since the sun is not as scary as the legend says, why do the dark elves scare themselves and hide in the underdark?
The surface world not only has the abominable sun, but also has forests and grasslands, rivers and mountains, fertile fields, and countless prey and resources.
Why not leave the resource-poor underground world, migrate collectively to the surface world with abundant products, conquer those weak surface peoples who are not worthy of these resources, and demote them all into slaves of the noble drow?
These thoughts made Ares excited. However, not long after, an unexpected incident poured a bucket of cold water on his head.
Just three days after the spider elves came to the surface world to investigate, another earthquake occurred in the forest.
This earthquake was the aftershock of the last major earthquake. It was not large in scale, but coincidentally it destroyed the road that the spider elves came from.
The cracks returning to the Underdark are completely blocked by mud and sand. Ares and his friends are now unable to return to their hometown.
Hearing this, Gao Fei and others all breathed a sigh of relief.
When the spider elves revealed that they were a small team coming to explore the surface world under the orders of a drow dungeon ruler, Gao Fei was worried that more dark elves would arrive for reinforcements later.
Now that I know that the road to the Underdark has been blocked, my long-awaited heart can finally fall back into my stomach.
Ares and his companions have the ambition to conquer the surface world, but they also clearly realize that they cannot achieve it with just the four spider elves.
They are not willing to spend the rest of their lives away from home like this, and they also want to return to the Dark Territory, report the results of this surface investigation to the family mistress, and encourage the drow family to dig out the "earth navel" blocked by sand and march into the land.
Surface world.
In order to achieve this goal, Ares has been actively planning to return to the Dark Area for the past six months and has come up with a seemingly feasible plan.
Ares kidnapped a group of surface elves living in the jungle, and dug out a lot of information from the surface elves before torturing these dark elves' old enemies to death.
The most important one is that Lady Glinda, the lord of Quedlin Township, is a powerful witch who is said to have mastered teleportation magic.
When Ares heard the news, his thoughts became vivid.
If we could manage to break through Glinda's castle and subdue the Witch of the South, wouldn't we be able to force her to use teleportation magic to send herself and her companions back to the Underdark?
Of course, Ares is not arrogant enough to challenge Glinda immediately. In order to realize this plan, he has been actively preparing and recruiting troops for the past six months.
The thugs recruited by Ares are various mutant spiders.
As an 8th-level sorcerer, Ares is especially good at taming and controlling insects.
He searched for giant spiders in caves and jungles and tamed them into his loyal followers.
Later, he also conquered a group of super-large mutant mother spiders and phase spiders. The former can breed more giant spiders for him, and the latter are elite assassins in the spider web pit.
Ares gathered so many spiders under his command and ordered them to weave webs from morning to night, thus building a huge nest in the natural pit formed by the subsidence as a base for attacking Glinda Castle.
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In addition to his own magic, Ares also possesses a magical scepter that can temporarily transform small insects into giant insects and obey his control.
According to the prisoner, Ares can use the "Giant Insect Scepter" to transform an ordinary spider into a size comparable to a giant spider, and its vitality and combat effectiveness are much stronger than that of an ordinary giant spider.
However, the magic power stored in the scepter is limited, so this trick cannot be used frequently.
Moreover, the giant spider transformed with the scepter can only last for a short period of time, and then it will return to its original shape.
There is only so much information provided by the prisoners.
When the Tin Woodman was interrogating the captive, Goofy used an astrolabe to investigate the spider elf, and discovered that he belonged to a large aberration from the chaotic evil camp, with both "bug-like subspecies" and "elven subspecies".
The spider elf has 123 HP, and its attributes are: Strength 19, Agility 18, Constitution 18, Intelligence 13, Perception 16, and Charisma 18.
The blood of the dark elf makes him immune to sleep, and he has an advantage in saving throws against charm. He is naturally good at using long swords, rapiers and bows, and has magic resistance, but he also has the weakness of "sunlight sensitivity".
When a spiderling is in full light, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and Perception checks.
The lower body in the form of a spider provides talents such as "tremor perception", "spider walking", and "spider web walker", as well as a pair of fangs that can secrete sleeping toxins.
Spiderlings also master the feats "Combat Spellcasting", "Dual Wielding", "Weapon Focus (Slashing)", "Weapon Focus (Piercing)", "Ability Focus (Poison)", and "Multiattack".
Finally, all adult arachnoids are equivalent to a 7th-level sorcerer and automatically learn the following innate spells:
Level 0 - Dancing Lights, detecting camp;
1st ring-demon fire;
Level 2 - Darkness, Levitation;
Level 3 - Suggestion.
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At the bottom of the cobweb pit, there are three spider elves.
Two of them are similar in strength to the one captured by Gao Fei and others, and the other one is Ares, the leader of the spider elves.
The prisoner could not provide any more information about Ares, except that he was an 8th-level warlock who was good at controlling insect swarms.
Gao Fei did some calculations and found out that the basic spider elf alone has 7 challenge levels, plus 8 warlock levels... This Ares's comprehensive challenge level will probably not be lower than level 11. He is indeed a dangerous person.
opponent.
After the interrogation, Tin Woodman Nick asked Ma Yun: "Miss Wizard, what should I do with this prisoner?"
Before Ma Yun could make up her mind, Dimitri started shouting.
"What else is there to think about? You all get out of the way and let me bite this guy's head in pieces!"
"Don't be impulsive, my friend!" The Scarecrow quickly stopped the irritable lion, "The prisoner just told me that there are many traps on the way to the lair where Ares lives. We shouldn't kill him in a hurry. We should keep him.
Let’s lead the way to avoid stepping into traps.”
"I don't trust this venomous monster!" The lion shook his head repeatedly, "Let him lead us, and we will definitely lead us to the wrong path! It's better to let Janet continue to be a guide!"
"Uh...I'm sorry, I have to make something clear in advance." The tigress took over the words awkwardly, "From here to the lair of the spider elves, I have never set foot, so I'm afraid I'm not qualified to serve as a guide.
