The king looked at the elf: "Are you really blind?"
"Well, I have never been very good at identifying positions by hearing sounds. My master can even shoot by sound in a completely dark environment." The elf girl said modestly.
As soon as he finished speaking, the caveman's charge began.
The big gong set at the rear of the fortification began to ring, attracting long-range attacks from the cavemen like a magnet.
The human crossbowmen also started shooting, and the first wave of cavemen fell to the ground.
Nini looked at the evil creatures scrambling to die in confusion: "Can their attack be effective?"
Ralph, who was standing nearby with a few messengers, heard this and replied: "Yes, we have been being wasted. At the end of every day's battle, the priests and paladins have used almost the same amount of magic, and as a result, there is no way to heal them."
Of all the injured, only the slightly injured can be sent back to recuperate, and there are fewer and fewer troops available."
Nini: "But judging from the caveman's attack, it shouldn't be able to break through the arrow rain. Is it because of that kind of monster?"
Wang mouthed to the caveman: "It's coming."
Putrid pieces of meat were thrown from the array of cavemen, and the monsters chased the pieces of meat in a low-to-the-ground posture and rushed towards the array of humans.
The humans responded by throwing poisonous chunks of meat.
The monsters began to fight for the pieces of meat, regardless of the poison spreading on their bodies.
Ralph: "Thanks to these poisonous meats, but our poison has bottomed out. We just sent a purchasing group to Monrovia today, but we have no gold coins anymore, so we have to try to exchange some leather for some money to buy it."
Elf girl: "When I traveled in this territory in the mountains, I didn't find any minks. Don't humans like mink fur? There should be no minks here, mainly deer, goats and rabbits."
Ralph: "You are right, so you may not be able to get money in exchange. The situation is very serious. And because of the caveman problem, even deer skins have been produced less recently."
Elf: "Then you should reduce your consumption."
After speaking, the elf went straight to the nearby poison barrel.
The person who was soaking the meat next to the poison bucket saw her and was stunned: "What? Pointy, pointy ears!"
Kuosania is originally far away from all elven territories. Except for Langdon City, which is a famous trade center and transit station where elves are often seen, other places may regard elves as part of the bard's stories.
Especially in rural places like Ximu Town.
After all, Lakeside City was once prosperous, and ships were constantly passing by. People inside may have seen the pointy-eared elves from a distance.
Nini frowned slightly: "My ears are normal among elves. We need to use these ears to feel the wind, whether it is flying in the forest or listening to the sound to identify the position, it is very important."
As she spoke, she dipped the arrow head into the venom, making sure that the arrowhead was coated with a thin layer of slurry before taking aim with her bow.
The bowstring rang lightly, and the arrow went straight to a monster and accurately inserted into the monster's eye socket.
The monster screamed, struggled and fell down. The fallen monster was not dead, and was still squirming and struggling, but it stopped moving forward and could not reach the human soldiers.
Wang touched his chin: "Should you shoot the eye socket? Indeed, although it is a very underdeveloped eye, it has an optic nerve after all. After being exposed to the venom, it will quickly spread in the nerve network, quickly causing the monster to lose its coordination ability."
The elf kept repeating the steps of smearing venom and then firing. The targets she chose were all monsters that had not found their own poisonous flesh, so they rushed towards the stinky flesh among the array of human soldiers.
Soon all the monsters fell.
At this time, the main force of the cavemen has not yet come into contact with the human front.
The elf continued to fire his bow.
The king shouted from the side: "Shoot the round cavemen. Those are all warrior chiefs or priests of Lamashtu."
Nini immediately deflected the longbow and switched target selection.
The location where the elves shoot arrows is at the very back of the entire human military formation, past a large number of miscellaneous obstacles - after all, this is underground, and high projectile trajectories are not allowed. All shots are directed, and the targets are the eyes.
The monster's eyes, the round caveman's eyes, and the elves' arrows seem to specifically hunt eyeballs.
The members of the rescue team were stunned.
The mage was the most fascinated.
Elizabeth waved her hand in front of the mage: "What are you looking at?"
Wang looked at Elizabeth excitedly: "I suddenly understood why her leather armor had such a thick piece of skin on the front. I thought it was to protect the heart and lungs before, but now I discovered that it was to prevent the bowstring from hitting her when shooting.
of secondary sexual characteristics.”
Elizabeth: "Isn't it appropriate for you to stare at people's secondary sexual characteristics at this time?"
"I'm studying a problem!" Wang said solemnly, "The pursuit of knowledge is not shameful."
While the two were talking, the caveman's line finally collided with the human soldiers' line. This time, perhaps because most of the monsters did not rush into the military formation, the human spear formation was quite neat.
Although they are all spears that have been shortened to adapt to the underground terrain, and the thickness of the spear array is not as thick as the standard square array, the forest at the tip of the spear still makes the caveman drink hard.
A large number of cavemen were directly stabbed to death by the spear points. The few who encountered the shield array were also directly hacked to death by the shieldman's sword.
The short and fierce fight lasted for about five minutes, and then the entire underground fell silent. Just like last night, the cavemen had no intention of retreating, and everyone who entered the attack died in front of the human army.
Nini asked the king in confusion: "Are the cavemen attacking like this? It seems like they are just consuming humans through numbers."
Sir Ralph nodded: "That's it. Caveman soldiers - I don't know if they are soldiers - in short, they are basically unable to deal with a human soldier who has gone through basic training after being deprived of their keen hearing.
.
"Basically, their combat effectiveness is the same as what my grandfather recorded, even a little weaker. With their sophisticated armor, my grandfather and the others could basically defeat five or six cavemen by themselves. Unfortunately, they went underground, and the cavemen were in the dark cave.
The advantage is too great, and sneak attacks are often launched from unexpected directions.
"As for now, we can't afford sophisticated armor, so we can only equip ourselves with captain-level weapons. The cavemen's simple spears and sharp claws can easily break through the defense of leather armor. Leather armor only turns fatal injuries into serious injuries.
effect."
The elf girl looked serious: "It has indeed reached a point where it must be resolved."
At this time, a messenger came over and saluted Ralph: "Sir, today's losses are less than before, but the healers still consumed three-quarters of the magic."
Ralph: "Look, even in such a crushing situation, there are still casualties. This is caused by the inability of the leather armor."
The elf nodded, and then said to the king: "I am going to recycle my arrows. There is something wrong with the human arrows. They are not as accurate and durable as the elf arrows."
Wang made a gesture of invitation.
The elves passed through the human line nimbly.
This time the mage stared wide-eyed to see how she could pass through the dense infantry array without touching anyone at all. However, the elf moved too fast and passed by in an instant.
Wang exclaimed: "It's amazing. If it were Elizabeth, she would definitely want to mess with the soldiers in Ximu Town."
Elizabeth said angrily: "Because I'm bigger."
"No, my lower body is obviously bigger. And those legs look really nice."
Elizabeth said in surprise: "So you want to push her down?"
"No, I'm beginning to understand what my teacher said, women are a kind of art. You, and Miss Elf, all have works of art appearance."
It took all Elizabeth's good manners not to grin.
The dwarf was worried about another thing. He stood on a platform with three boxes stacked on top of each other. While loading his pipe, he said: "Don't be happy so early. When the drow comes back, the little elf girl may have to leave the team."
Forest elves and drow elves, they are like sodium and water, they will bang when they come into contact!"
Wang frowned: "It's useless to worry about it now. The boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge. But you see, I mentioned at the beginning that we have drow, and she pointed an arrow at me, but now I still join the team.
Okay. It shouldn’t be a big problem.”
The dwarf held his pipe in his mouth: "Is there a possibility that she forgot."
The savage agreed: "High!"
The mage was stunned: "It's possible. I'll mention it when she comes back after picking it up."
It took the elf a quarter of an hour to recover all the elf arrows that were still usable on the battlefield, and then once again passed through the human military formation like water and returned to the team members.
Wang cleared his throat: "Um, maybe you forgot, there is actually a drow in our team."
The forest elf froze.
Dwarf: "Well, she just forgot."
The elf girl turned and glared at the king: "Why are you with evil creatures? You also have Kailin's priest here!"
It seems that the elf girl has long recognized the Holy Emblem of Kailin on the dwarf.
Flint shrugged: "Kaelin is quite happy that his priest is traveling with the evil drow."
Wang: "Race cannot represent honor and character. I have seen the noblest orcs and the despicable humans. Because of Elizabeth's kindness, Marika has been following her to repay her kindness. She is an outstanding
Wanderer."
Nini: "You actually believe in Drow's loyalty!"
"Look, I said they're going to blow their brains out." Flint said in a playful tone, which matched his holy symbol.
Elizabeth: "If you meet Marika, you'll know she's actually a nice person."
Flint: "Just a little cruel sometimes."
The elf immediately said: "I can't travel with a cruel and ruthless drow. It seems that the trip must come to an end."
Elizabeth was about to stay, but the king held her back: "Leave her alone. Let her go. In the future, I will remember that elves are an arrogant race full of prejudice, which makes people doubt whether they have brains and intelligence."
Nini: "What did you say?"
"I'm stating the facts. I always say whatever I have facts. Just because Marika is a drow, you subjectively believe that she is a bad person and she will betray you. You don't know that everyone has their own personality.
Even drow can have loyalty and love."
The dwarf was shocked: "Is it okay?"
After all, Kailin's pastor, Kailin, loves to have fun.
The king ignored the dwarf who was looking for fun and continued: "If I were you, I would stay to see if the drow is really trustworthy. If I find that she is not trustworthy, I will use all my strength to kill her.
She was brought to justice. This is what people with the most basic sense should do!"
Nini lowered her head and fell into thinking.
"What you said makes sense."
Elizabeth looked at the mage: "You have succeeded in persuading me again. I can't figure out whether your eloquence is good or not."
Wang: "Everything I do is based on reason. When I need to use emotion, it's your turn."
Xiaobai: "You are both male and female liars."
Nini seemed to have made up her mind: "I should at least meet that drow. Where is she now?"
Wang: "She went to Watergate Town to hire mercenaries with a box of gold. When we go underground, we need them to take the lead."
Elizabeth suddenly said: "If Malika is not loyal, she will run away with the box of gold. If she comes back successfully with the hired mercenaries, it means that she is trustworthy, right?"
Wang: "You don't think this statement is reasonable, do you?"
"Eh? Isn't it?"
Nini replied thoughtfully: "Since you trust this drow so much, let's wait until she comes back. Anyway, you don't seem to have any intention of restricting my freedom of movement."
Wang spread his hands: "Of course not. Everyone in our team can come and go as they please. There was a cat ranger before who just slapped his head and left."
"Well, then I'll wait and see."
**
It was already noon on the third day when Marika came back.
It took her a day and a half to get to Shuimen Town, then a day to recruit mercenaries, and finally she took the mercenaries back to Ximu Town in two days.
During this period, the elf had almost become familiar with the rest of the team.
At noon on the third day, a large number of mercenaries entered the air force camp of the stone barrier. Not only were they fully armed, each team was also equipped with spellcasters.
Even if such an army wanted to wipe out all the militiamen in Ximu Town, it would be easy.
All members of the team met Marika in the room that had been used as a conference room.
"Hey, I've only been away for a few days, and there's an annoying forest elf in the team." Marika said with a smile.
The forest elf tensed up and stared at the drow. She muttered: "You can't be wrong, this smell is the smell of the evil drow."
Marika: "So do forest elves also like to use their noses to smell others like werewolves?"
Elizabeth stepped in between the two of them: "Okay, Marika, don't irritate Nini. She is only a hundred years old and just a little girl."
Marika: "It turns out to be a baby bird. I advise you not to take any chances with me."
Nini tensed her body: "I know that you are a powerful wanderer, and I have no chance of winning at this distance. But the legendary evil creature is right in front of me! You are a believer of the Spider Lady, you..."
Marika: "I'm not that anymore. In fact, I killed the Spider Lady's priest out of revenge. She must have hated me."
Nini was stunned for a moment: "What?"
Elizabeth: "I testify. I helped her complete her revenge."
"From then on, I vowed to devote the rest of my life to serving Elizabeth. She is my new master."
Elf: "You are..."
"Don't say that I am a drow, so I swear that I cannot be trusted. I have been by Elizabeth's side for many years, and I will continue to protect Her Royal Highness the Princess until she reaches the end of her life. Even if this loyalty will last for sixty to seventy years.
In ten years, I am ready to implement it to the end."
Nini wanted to say something else, but suddenly Wang touched her thigh.
"Yeah!" She screamed and jumped up, but she jumped too high and hit the ceiling.
Wang carefully studied the things stuck on his hands and nodded: "Well, her legs are sweating. Elves are a race that doesn't like sweating. She is actually very afraid of Marika."
Nini: "I didn't! Well, actually, I did. This evil creature makes my skin crawl!"