Darkness, the underground world that knows no difference between day and night.
As the adventurer team moves further and further away from the "Twilight City", the environment around them is gradually changing, as if it is gradually evolving from the sunny noon to the low-light dusk or even the dark and gloomy night.
"Ahead is the 'Dark Territory'. I only vaguely heard that the snow elves seemed to be very afraid of this place and the name 'Zak Tower'. I don't know exactly why." Jane Russell said, perhaps because it was far enough away from the Black Sun.
, she no longer has to maintain contact with Arthur to maintain herself, which relaxes the atmosphere in the entire team.
"It's incredible." Sophie hugged the rabbit and her eyes widened.
Ahead, bounded by a shallow underground river, the light coming from the direction of Twilight City suddenly stopped. Although judging from the splash of water, the river water was still clean and transparent, but the dark river bed made the entire river look...
It seems like ink is flowing.
As Jane Russell named it, the other side of the river is a complete "dark area". From the still bright areas here, it is completely unclear what is going on there. Only some dark light mushrooms that are relatively close can be vaguely seen.
People on this side of the river noticed it.
"Ha, as expected, that side is the Black Fall that I know. This side is too bright." Septim said without hesitation and crossed the small river that served as the dividing line.
"Well, we can't stay here any longer anyway." Arthur looked at a few Zerus in the distance that seemed to want to catch up but were a little afraid, "Thanks to them, I haven't had much rest in the past two days——
It should be two days, right?”
"To be precise, a day and a half," Ella shot a few arrows at the giant beetles to drive them back: "As soon as they stopped to rest, they started spitting. I have never seen such disgusting creatures."
"If they dare not cross this border, we can camp and rest after crossing the river." Lydia nodded to Arthur, raised her shield and rushed into the darkness.
"Ah, Rabbit -" Sophie's rabbit suddenly jumped to the ground, and then rushed across the river with a splash, and the little girl quickly chased after it.
"It seems that there is one across from the Scarlet Nairnroot." Arthur said casually, and then rushed into the "Underdark" with other companions.
——17:01——
"Hmm... we probably had a fake black landing before."
After Arthur crossed the underground river, his eyes were temporarily dark. After a short adaptation period, the "starlight" in the sky illuminated the surrounding scenery for him. The nearby cave walls, stalagmites, ghost plants and dwarf ruins remained the same as before, but more
Only the dark outlines of things in the distance can be seen. Under the dim starlight, people unconsciously feel mysterious and strange.
Septim silently stood on a boulder and looked around, Lydia was looking for flat ground to prepare a position for camping, and Rabbit was nibbling on red nairn roots as expected, even though Babas was beside him and kept chewing on it.
He keeps barking without stopping.
"I felt something was overflowing from my body, but it disappeared directly into the air, like, uh, that..." Jane Russell raised her arms and observed, but couldn't find a specific adjective to explain it.
"It's probably something used by [Twilight City] to control the residents. There is no sunlight from the 'Black Sun' here, so it has failed and disappeared." Septim glanced at the dark elf silently: "Don't worry about it.
We are in trouble now, a little bigger."
Creak, creak, creak - boom! Boom!
In the darkness not far away, there was the friction sound of dwarf machinery and the tremor of heavy monsters stepping on the ground.
"Spherical guards and... small centurions?" Ella listened attentively and asked with some confusion.
Zhizhi—sah!
The first figure to come out of the darkness was indeed the spherical guard that I had seen before, but it was in an "expanded" state. After seeing Arthur and others, he immediately accelerated and waved the dwarf metal sword towards the nearest Lai.
Dia cut it off.
choke!
When the spherical guard sword was halfway swung, Lydia took the initiative to meet it, raised its shield and smashed it, interrupting its attack and knocking the sword away at the same time, and then launched a charge towards the spherical guard who lost his weapon.
The entire hollow body structure collapsed before it could take any measures.
Well, it can only be said that the previous journey made Lydia very good at dealing with the spherical guard. Arthur drew his sword, walked to the guard and looked in the direction where the spherical guard appeared.
Boom, boom. "Gah——!"
As heavy footsteps approached, a huge figure appeared in front of everyone. It was a snow elf wearing heavy dwarf armor - a mutated survivor who could not open his eyes and was very thin. Through some way, he noticed
After the spherical guard fell to the ground and was smashed, it roared and rushed over.
"[Stop]!" "Catch them alive!"
Septim's silent cry and a strange mechanical sound sounded at the same time.
The snow elf in armor was stunned, and Arthur, who had already swung out his sword, had to temporarily change his chop into a slap, and hit the dwarf's metal armor with Lydia who was wielding a shield at the same time, knocking him down.
On the ground.
Ella and Jane Russell, who were originally preparing to launch cold arrows, put away their bows and rushed over to tie up the snow elf. The rope was made of fluorescent plants, and it was quite weird and ridiculous to be trapped in the same shiny dwarf metal armor.
"Grrrr!" The mutated snow elf didn't struggle, but fell to the ground and roared repeatedly.
"Well," Septim jumped down from the boulder silently, walked to the prisoner and observed carefully: "I thought all the snow elves had been collected by the king. Is there any fish that slipped through the net?"
"If there is something wrong with Twilight, it doesn't seem orthodox." Arthur said, "Also, who shouted 'stop' just now?"
"[It's me.]" A mechanical friction sound came from the chest of the snow elf's dwarf armor, and a steady male voice came out.
"Tsk——" Ella uttered an onomatopoeia.
"[I am Paladin Galeb, the only remaining ancient snow elf,]" the voice said before Ella asked "Who are you?" "[I think we need to meet and talk,
Please follow Already to leave the 'war zone' - Already, they are not enemies, bring them to the 'tower'.】"
"Hoo--" The snow elf known as Orred, after receiving Galeb's instructions, shook his body to show Arthur and the others the rope that bound him.
"Hmm... Master of Septim's Inspiration?" Arthur looked at the old mage.
"Originally I just wanted to see if I could communicate with it. After confirming this, it doesn't matter if I don't have to restrain him." Septim nodded silently.
"Gulu..." After being released, the snow elf muttered a few times in front of the smashed ball guard. He raised his head and signaled to the adventurers before walking into the depths of darkness.
——17:37——
Different from the standardized roads in the Twilight Zone, the paths in the "Underdark Zone" are fragmented, sometimes just a few broken bricks. Darkness follows the shadow, and the "starlight" in the "sky" can barely illuminate the front of you.
A few meters away, there was a flash of scarlet eyes staring at this place in the darkness, while Orred led Arthur and others towards the depths with familiarity.
Although Arthur was not worried about traps ahead, this eerie and dangerous environment made people feel much more at ease than when approaching the Twilight City. After all, that city was too unreal.
Seemingly sad about the damage to his mechanical companion, the snow elf named Orred was in a depressed mood and ignored their inquiries.
"Mr. Galeb, are you the leader of these snow elves? What is the purpose of looking for us? And why is this place completely different from that near the Twilight City?" Encouraged by his companions, Arthur turned to "The Voice of Armor"
"say.
"[If we don't talk face to face, it always feels a little rude to talk about those topics, but it's okay to introduce the 'Underdark' a little bit.]" Galeb's voice came from the armor.
"[Currently, there are roughly three safe entrances to Black Fall, namely the 'Eltanvod' in the middle, the 'Zincha Ruins' in the northwest and the 'Radbar' in the southeast. There may also be other accidentally connected ruins, but
There are no specific statistics yet.]”
"['Twilight Zone' controls the central and northwest entrances, and occupies the 'Eltanford Cathedral', 'Silent Ruins' and 'Zincha Square', basically controlling more than two-thirds of the
Black fall.】"
"[As for me, although it occupies the former city centers of 'Radbar Black Market', 'Stinky Tower', 'Power Pump Room' and 'Zak Tower', due to the failure of most of its functions, I can only master the Black Fall.
The remaining one-third to the east.]"
Oh, "Zak Tower"? Arthur looked at Septim and saw the old mage nodded and shook his head, perhaps expressing the meaning of "it is there, but don't mention it now".
"[Since you have been close to the 'Twilight City', you should have seen the defense measures there. It's either Zerus or an ordinary Dwemer mechanism. That's of course, because all the mechanical guards and manufacturing workshops are there.
It's under my control, which is why I can persist until now without being defeated by those 'living dead'."
"Living dead?" Arthur asked doubtfully, and at the same time looked at his "Sword of Oath and Victory". If there were all undead in [Twilight Saga], then the advantage would be great.
"[If we have specific content, we can discuss it in detail in the tower,]" Galeb paused: "[There should be the 'Stinky Tower' ahead, but you can rest assured, although it is responsible for processing the garbage in the Dwemer city.
name, but that work has stopped for thousands of years.]"
Hmm... Understood, just like we can't find any store in [Radbar Black Market], but as expected, [Power Pump Room] should still be functioning.
Arthur thought as he looked at the vertical tower-shaped dwarf building that was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom.
