There was silence in the dark and deep underground tunnel.
There were originally no roads in the underground world, only winding rock cracks and water channels eroded by thousands of years of water. However, after countless generations of underground creatures' efforts to dig out, each large or small burrow, cave, and cavern has been dug out one by one.
Long or short tunnels and tunnels are connected to form a staggering three-dimensional passage extending in all directions in the underground world.
There are never straight roads here like on the surface. All passages are cleverly carved out along the cracks in the rock formations and old waterways, winding and twisting. Sometimes they are only less than ten meters away from the next cave.
The thick rock formation is about 100 feet, but it can only be reached by winding back and forth for more than ten miles in a dark passage.
Countless stalactites hang from the top of the cave, and there are also some tooth-like protrusions on the ground. Water drops drip from between the rocks, and the ground they pass through is covered with slippery lichen.
To be honest, walking in such a closed and quiet environment can easily give people the terrifying feeling that they will be crushed to death by hundreds of tons of earth and rocks above their heads at the next moment.
Greem and his group of ten people held torches, lined up in a long line, and walked slowly and arduously through the underground passages.
The light of the torch could only illuminate a small area of less than 5 meters, and the hidden cracks in the cave wall blew out gusts of dark wind. The torch flickered on and off, projecting their figures on the stone wall on one side, and they became like twisted demons.
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Although they tried their best to keep silent while walking, the rustling of footsteps and the sound of bodies scraping against the cave walls could be heard far and wide in the deep and dark tunnel. This would bring a lot of surprises to their subsequent journey.
Danger outside.
After walking for three hours, everyone finally arrived at the first stopping point on the patrol route.
Seriously speaking, the previous three hours' journey was just a small trial before they entered the dark crypt. From here on, it was the real starting point of their exploration and inspection mission.
"Okay, it's time for us to break up when we get here. Let's all try to complete the task as soon as possible and then return here to gather. I hope you have a smooth journey!" Sabrina's clear voice sounded like a ringing sound in this stuffy cave.
Ten wizard apprentices and five teams rushed to different areas to complete their missions. The mission point deep in the underground was taken care of by Sabrina and Sheila's team. For her to take the initiative to take on this most dangerous mission,
Of course, everyone had no objections, so they acquiesced in her leadership.
Although everyone was dissatisfied with the group of Mary and Greem, they could only be assigned the simplest task in comparison. After all, Tu had tricked them this time, and next time the team would only have eight people.
Go and do the work of ten people.
Everyone wore thick black cloth robes, covering all their skin to prevent breath and body temperature from being exposed to the eyes of underground creatures with infrared vision. After whispering blessings to each other, the five teams submerged into the cave outside the cave.
In the darkness, they ran towards different goals.
After breaking up, Greem stopped walking along the deep and dark passage in front of him for less than half a quarter of an hour.
After listening carefully for a while, he could no longer hear any movement in the distance. Then Greem casually extinguished the torch in his hand. When the last light disappeared into the shadows, a strange and confusing world appeared in front of Greem's eyes.
The fluorescent moss growing all over the cave wall gave off a faint cold light in the deep darkness, and in Greem's eyes, which temporarily had low-light vision, it outlined a completely different and strange scene. Against the backdrop of the faint light,
The darkness is slowly fading away, replaced by a magical world of green.
The gloomy and cold rock cave walls are black, and the area where the water flows is gray. In addition to the large green light scattered in Greem's strange vision, there are large areas of gray and black. However, in the dark corner far away from the cave wall
, one or two strange crawling red dots can be vaguely seen.
The red dot indicates leaked life energy.
Judging from the size of the red dot, it should be a small creature such as a rock scorpion or a gecko.
Greem turned his head and looked around. Mary in red was still wearing the bright red gauze skirt, with a large area of greasy white skin exposed. But the strange thing was that even though Greem was only three steps away from her, he could not detect half of it.
The temperature unique to silk life species. If he relied solely on infrared vision, Mary would probably be no different from a human-shaped stalagmite in his eyes.
Okay, okay, vampires are really unpredictable.
With infrared vision, the concealment of life breath, and super high agility, this deep and dark underground world is indeed more suitable for agile killers like them.
Grim pulled up his hood and took the lead, starting his journey along the rugged road that twisted downwards.
Their mission point is near an underground pool 7 miles away. They may pass two or three underground habitats along the way, but the threats are not great. As long as they are careful, there will be no problem in passing without damage.
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Although they possess powerful witchcraft abilities, in this dangerous underground world, even Mary, who has the status of a senior apprentice, is just a toddler.
Greem, who thought he was well prepared, encountered his first ambush in the underground world before he had gone 100 meters.
Yes, it's an ambush!
A rock python that curled up in a crack in the rock wall suddenly jumped out from inside the moment Greem passed by, and bit its neck without hesitation with its smelly and vicious snake mouth fangs.
It's too hard to guard against it. It's really too hard to guard against it.
The cold rock wall blocked the rock python's weak breath of life. When Greem saw a red dot suddenly expand in front of his eyes, the venom-filled fangs of the rock python were very close to him.
If Greem had more than 10 points of agility, he might still be able to react, but 4 points of agility severely limited his instinctive reaction. He could only close his eyes in horror and wait for the ferocious bite.
A rock python wouldn't be able to bite him to death, but the pain on his flesh and skin would be inevitable.
Bah...
A sharp sound of breaking wind sounded in his ears, and Mary, who was clearly behind him, appeared in front of him the next second. Pointing her finger like a knife, the sound of breaking wind could be heard endlessly, and the rock python was killed by her in an instant.
Cut into seven pieces.
A foul smell of blood began to fill the passage.
Greem took a few deep breaths to calm down his beating heartbeat, and he broke out in a cold sweat. These damn underground creatures are so good at picking places for ambush!
Although there was no light in the passage, Greem's cheeks felt vaguely feverish.
I'm so confident, I'm so confident! Theoretical knowledge is theoretical knowledge. I think I have so many skills and experiences for travel and adventure stored in my mind, but there are still so many unexpected traps in real life.
After this twists and turns, the two people's positions changed.
Mary, dressed in red, walked lightly and silently in front. Any underground creature that burst out from hiding could not escape her sharp nails that were as sharp as magic weapons. Even if it was a surprise attack close at hand, she could rely on her own
With super high agility, he can attack first and cut the enemy into several pieces.
Therefore, in just one hour, eleven underground creatures had already died under her hands.
Faintly, Greem could hear the distant roars of creatures fighting for food in the passage behind him. It seemed that a small war was inevitable. In the underground world, making unnecessary noises or having wounds on one's body were all
A big taboo, it can easily attract larger and more ferocious underground creatures.
Although Mary and Grim are not afraid of such small characters due to their strength, it will bring unnecessary trouble to their schedule.
The first real trouble occurred seven hours after they entered the underground. A group of 11 Terrorclaws attacked them.
This kind of dinoclaw, which is widely distributed underground, looks like a small dinosaur covered in biological scales. It is only 2 meters tall when standing upright. Although they are not huge in size, they have thick bones and dense scales on their bodies. They are huge.
In the mouth are two rows of thick, sharp fangs that gleam with cold light. Sticky saliva is constantly dripping, and he looks like he wants to feast.
They did not choose to sneak attack like those small underground creatures, but waited for Greem and the two to enter their encirclement before walking out of the darkness with steady steps. Before seeing their bodies, Greem first saw a pair of them.
To the hazy khaki eyes.
Such hard-skinned monsters are very difficult to deal with. At least Mary's sharp claws can hardly break through the dense scales outside their bodies. If they do not attack the armpits, eye sockets, and crevices of the head and neck, which are weakly defended key points, Mary's attacks will not be effective against them.
They were harmless. However, the pair of slender and sharp upper limbs on their chests could cause her horrific harm.
If coupled with the collision force brought by the heavy body and the unique paralysis and slowing effect of earth monsters, it would be difficult for ordinary wizard apprentices to escape unscathed in such a small area.
Shaking his head and smiling bitterly, Greem took out two summoning crystal cores and threw them onto the nearby soil.
Although most of the underground passages are dug into hard rock walls, using hard rock layers to prevent the tunnels from collapsing, soil and sand can still be found everywhere, so there is no shortage of shaping materials for Grim's clay golems.
A silent roar sounded, and the Demon Crocodile Hunter slowly emerged beside Greem.
"Hey, good boy, you actually hid something!" Mary's voice in red rang out in the darkness.
With Mary's 17 points of agility, it was easy to get rid of the Terrorclaw monster. If it weren't for Greem's "drag", Mary would only need 5 seconds to get through the opponent's extremely crude encirclement.
After several random attacks on the side of several Direclaw monsters without any success, Mary could only give up the attempt and slipped back to Grim's side to carefully examine this novel puppet.
This... seems to be a little different from the one he saw last time! Could this mud crocodile be the newly acquired puppet he obtained after killing the giant swamp crocodile queen? It seems that this kid is not as weak as he thought!
With endless questions, Mary watched Grim step up to the back of the Mud Crocodile and sit down. Then, with a slight rumbling tremor, the Mud Crocodile twisted its huge body and crushed it towards the surrounding Terrorclaw monsters.