While driving on the path, a dark elf riding a lizard overtook him from behind.
If there hadn't been a torch at the overtaking place, Yun Xiaohan might not even have noticed that he was being overtaken.
This kind of lizard that lives underground has a thick layer of fleshy pads on its four hooves, and its footsteps are silent. They step silently on broken floors, walls, and even the ceilings of long tunnels, using their easy and fast movements.
The pace is moving forward at a high speed.
With the help of their three-toed sticky feet, underground lizards can fly over walls like spiders, so they have become one of the favorite mounts of most underground creatures.
If it is in the bright surface world, underground lizards will not leave visible footprints when they step on the hard ground. However, creatures with dark vision use abilities similar to infrared to observe the underground world. They use temperature anomalies to observe the underground world.
The phenomenon can be traced to underground lizards.
Judging by the naked eye alone, Yun Xiaohan estimated that the lizard's moving speed was about 18. This moving speed is actually not particularly fast on the ground, but the underground roads are much worse than the ground, and there are basically no ready-made roads.
The narrow tunnel is even more bumpy. Due to groundwater, there are still many places where water is coming out, and the road cannot be seen clearly, so Yun Xiaohan's movement speed is greatly affected. His actual movement speed now is probably only about 5 points.
.So it seemed that the underground lizard was very fast, and it overtook him in no time.
After running for about 6 minutes, Yun Xiaohan finally came out of the tunnel and entered a huge cave.
This is a huge cave about a thousand meters wide and hundreds of meters high. In the center of the cave stands a brightly lit city. Yun Xiaohan doesn't know what kind of light it is. It is not sunlight on the surface, but a city with bright lights.
A slightly dark red glow with a mist-like effect.
But no matter what kind of light it was, it was a good thing for Yun Xiaohan. His field of vision suddenly returned to about 150 yards. Although it was not as good as the 200 yards on the ground, it was much stronger than before, and the hit BUFF was reduced.
The impact has also been much smaller, now only reducing the hit rate by 10%.
Yun Xiaohan glanced to the left and found another main road. This should be the main road heading due west before. The small tunnel he just took should be a shorter path, both of which lead to the same destination.
There are countless stalactites growing on the upper cave walls around the city, and there are countless stalagmites on the ground. However, the stalagmites in front of the city gate have obviously been cleaned up, and only a small part has been preserved.
The largest stalagmite in front of the gate was about 20 meters high and about 10 meters wide. There were some words engraved on it with magic seals. Yun Xiaohan took a few steps closer to see clearly what was written on it.
It turned out to be the name of the city written in elven script - Menzoberranzan.
Regardless of the fact that players from different camps can understand each other when speaking, this is a credit to the system. There is also the factor that players speak common language. However, if you do not master the relevant languages, you will not be able to understand the texts of other races, even in certain situations.
In some plot spaces or special occasions, without system translation, players of different races cannot communicate with each other.
In addition, in the middle and late stages of the game, if a merchant player wants to run the trade routes of other camps, he must master the relevant languages, otherwise he will not be able to communicate with NPCs of other races. But in addition to merchant players, there are several battles
Careers will waste valuable skill slots to learn language skills? Isn’t this a pain in the ass?
Of course, players who choose the Elf race will definitely be able to understand Elf texts. Humans are at a disadvantage in this regard. As the new overlord of the continent, humans speak the common language. NPCs in each camp may not necessarily know the common language, but non-humans
Players of all races have basic mastery, but the level of mastery is not as high as that of humans.
So at this time, you can see the benefits of the Erudite Scholar's secondary job. Although the Erudite Scholar is only an entry-level profession in the Erudite career system, it allows Yun Xiaohan to be proficient in most common languages. Although occasionally there are small parts that cannot be understood when reading.
I understand the part, but it’s pretty good if I can understand most of it. I can even figure out the meaning even by guessing. And after all, this situation is rare. Basic communication can be guaranteed, which is also very consistent with Yun Xiaohan’s current situation.
, it is normal for orcs and bugbears not to be able to master Elvish very well.
When he saw the name of the city, Yun Xiaohan finally received a new task prompt.
The "Ghost Shadow" exploration has been completed. You have discovered the dark elf city - Menzoberranzan, and think that the "ghost shadow" is probably the dark elf. The branch mission has entered the second stage - exploring Menzoberranzan.
Get other relevant task information.
Players please be careful to hide your identity. The last three days are the sacrifice days (9 days in the game). Once discovered by the dark elves, the player may be sacrificed as a blood sacrifice to the Spider Queen Rose, and the player will lose his integrity as a result.
Two levels of experience, and may randomly drop one to three items.
When Yun Xiaohan saw this, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. Didn't it mean that he only lost one level? Why did it become two levels? Looking further down, he found out the reason after seeing the mission notes. It turns out that players may also be sacrificed under normal circumstances.
, but because it is not a very formal sacrifice and there is no high-level priest to preside over it, the player will only lose one level of experience and no items will be dropped.
There are days in the game, and the mission prompts don't say what day today is the sacrifice day. It could be the second day, or it could be the third day. If he had to be three days late, he would definitely not be able to meet this day.
If something happened, you might be a day late and miss it. Yun Xiaohan was also unlucky to catch it.
Yun Xiaohan has no choice now. He can't wait a few days before doing this task. He can't afford to waste time. He can't level up normally for the past two or three days, and he can't return to the territory. Hearthstone and territory teleportation
All are disabled.
Even if the task is interrupted, all the previous efforts will be wasted if the task is interrupted. Since taking on the branch task, the option to abandon the task has disappeared directly, and the system does not allow him to give up halfway.
This is very painful. Losing one level is acceptable, but Yun Xiaohan cannot accept losing two levels. If he had known that the risk was so high, he would have retreated at 80%. Now he has no choice but to rush to the shelves.
Perhaps because the task is too difficult, there is some useful information for players at the bottom of the task prompt, including brief city information and some information about underground races.
Menzorberranzan: It means Home of Menzorberranzan, named in honor of the first dark elf to come here.
City size: Medium-sized city with a population of 600,000. There are about 60,000 dark elves in Menzoberranzan and about 2,500 nobles, divided into 134 recognized families. The others are civilian warriors.
Apart from the Dark Elves, the rest of the population consists of humanoid slaves, and the city trades poisons, delicious mushrooms, lizard mounts, magic scrolls, wine, and water. Guarding the city are Dark Elf forces (including full-time soldiers and armed men of noble families) and
Slave troops, as well as spellcasters assist in defense.
Menzoberranzan was originally an empty cave filled with stalagmites and stalactites.