The cold wind whistled in the stalactite forest with intertwined teeth, and in the shadows that the monsters could not detect, a patrol team composed of drow warriors from the stalactites of the city of Rezim quietly grew out of this fluorescent flora. pass through.

In the outskirts of this drow-dominated Rizim city, there are labyrinth-like tunnels and caves everywhere, hiding countless ferocious subterranean monsters and evil humanoid races.

They lurk in every corner of the outer periphery of the royal city, quietly hunting ignorant adventurers and underground caravans.

Full of conspiracy and betrayal, the rulers of the Royal City of Rezim are a group of drows who believe in the chaotic evil **** Rose, who not only need to maintain their own powerful rule, but also ensure the security of the surrounding areas.

And these underground patrols composed of drow elf warriors are to clear the underground monsters that are hiding in the outer periphery of the king city and trying to hunt.

Therefore, in this place where sunlight can never reach, the scene of the exchange of prey and hunter identities is being staged all the time.

The patrol leader of the drow warrior led the four members behind him to walk cautiously in the shadows made of stalactites.

All of them were wearing pure black standard drow cloaks, and the hoods behind them also covered their heads, shrouding their long dry white hair.

The flexible body wrapped in the cloak is a light and soft drow-style chain mail, the scimitar or rapier, and the crossbow are firmly fixed on both sides of the waist, without making a sound of collision.

And they are wearing black soft boots specially made by drow elves, which can help them move quickly and silently, and their soles will not be cut into small wounds by the rocky ground of the underground world.

In this world where everything is silent, even creatures with low-light vision have no way to see the way forward in such an environment.

But for the drow elves, the impact is not great, because in addition to their dark vision of more than 40 meters, most elite warriors have keen hearing and strong mental perception.

In the complicated tunnel, even if they knew that this place was not very far from the Royal City of Rezim, they would be involuntarily affected by the surrounding quiet environment, so they were very careful in every step they took.

The patrol leader walked slowly with the help of the shadow, and the surrounding team members were as concealed as him, and they were as silent as ghosts.

They couldn't hear the footsteps of their teammates around them, and couldn't see their figures, only the occasional drow sign language played from the cracks in the rocks reminded them that they were not alone.

Experienced patrol captains skillfully lead them through the complex tunnels, and they form scattered formations in the wider tunnels and cave halls.

They swept through the dark corners like a sieve, hoping to find hidden monsters or those who were hiding in the dark and trying to act as hunters.

"stop!"

At this time, in a place where the terrain was relatively narrow and the passage was covered with small flora, the patrol leader used sign language to signal everyone to stop.

Feeling the red eyes of everyone's doubts, the patrol captain didn't know how to explain.

Because when he was about to take everyone through the terrain in front of him, an inexplicable heart palpitations instantly flooded his heart. Although he didn't know where the danger came from, he always believed in his own perception.

He is an elite warrior of the Wanruide family, the last ranked among the fifty-six families in the Royal City of Rezim. In a sudden but not surprising black dragon disaster, the Wanruide family lost their clan head. mother and two high priests.

The spider queen Lorth incites endless chaos in drow society and plunges the drow into perpetual kin-war for her own sake, to prevent complacency and runaway pride, or the rise of hostile beliefs.

Therefore, in this royal city of Rezim, which is full of conspiracy and betrayal, it is not too unexpected because of the war between families.

Every few years, there will always be some clans secretly planning to eliminate another clan in order to raise the ranking of their own clan, because only the top six drow clans have the ruling power of this Rezim Royal City.

This is also why those lower-ranked families always try their best to weave countless conspiracies in the dark to please God Rose and gain a symbol of power.

Even though House Rezim is at the bottom of the rankings, that doesn't mean they can sit back and relax, as there is no shortage of commoners in drow society who try to overthrow the nobles.

The appearance of the Black Dragon disaster directly caused the Wan Ruide family to suffer greatly, and indirectly gave those civilians a chance to turn over.

"The fourth natural disaster? May the sun always shine on your heads." When he heard the family name formed by the drow civilians, the patrol captain cursed them with a mocking tone.

Although he didn't know what this odd family name meant.

But he is very confident that with their little ability, it is a bit too much to want to annihilate the remaining forces of the Wan Ruide family.

The patrol leader took the four people behind him to check the surroundings carefully for a long time. When they found that there was no danger, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

Because as long as they move forward another 100 meters, they will reach the limits of the Royal Rezim City. As for the depths, that's not what they need to worry about.

Afterwards, the patrol leader used Drow sign language to signal everyone to continue patrolling forward.

However, the accident did come.

As the group marched forward on the pale blue-green flora, a sound like a thousand sharp knives unsheathed suddenly sounded on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, all the flora under their feet grew sharp thorns, and at the same time changed into thorns, swaying wildly around the whole body of all the drow elves.

"Druid?" The patrol captain's expression suddenly changed.

He is an elite drow warrior with a lifespan of more than 200 years, and he has followed the priest of Rose many times to the surface to ambush humans and elves, plundering prisoners and bringing them back to the ground.

Therefore, he is naturally very familiar with the attack methods of surface creatures, and Druid is the surface spellcaster he has come into contact with.

But unfortunately, the druid he met on the surface, the fragile plants he summoned couldn't even stop his running speed, and he easily broke free.

The thorns in front of him were obviously different from those fragile plants, because he had already felt the pain of the sharp thorns piercing the flesh after being entangled in the legs by the thorns.

His reaction was very quick, and the two scimitars hanging on his waist were unsheathed in an instant. With two cold lights flashing, all the thorns and thorns wrapped around his legs were cut off, and he regained his freedom again. .

The patrol leader who got rid of the entanglement was about to leave the attack range of the thorns. Suddenly, his keen hearing made him detect a slight echo of the bowstring, followed by the whistling of tearing the air.

Just as he was stunned, the crazy thorns on the soles of his feet spread again, entangling his legs tightly, and at the same time, the sharp thorns pierced deeply into his flesh and blood again.

"Pfft!"

The patrol captain, who was blocked from moving, couldn't dodge, and the arrow shot directly from the stalactite gap penetrated the drow chain armor from the back center, and the sharp arrow was exposed from the front chest.

The pale orange firelight on the arrow and the jumping dark purple arc also quickly spread to his body, as if he were doing the final farewell for the drow patrol leader.

When the patrol leader fell down, the other four patrol members broke free from the thorns.

After all, they are all drow warriors who have successfully graduated from the Warrior Academy in the Royal City of Rezim. It is not difficult for them to deal with a group of thorns without self-consciousness. It is nothing more than a few more cuts.

The remaining patrol members glanced at each other who had died in the future, and immediately dispersed and fled in the direction of Rezim King City.

"Pfft!"

Suddenly, one of the patrol members who escaped the fastest was the first to be killed by the secret arrow of death. The other three members saw this, secretly rejoicing in their hearts, and continued to flee without looking back.

"Roar!"

At this moment, an adult-sized figure appeared in the shadow of the stalactites, followed by a low growl, slapped the two leather wings on the back that were extremely disproportionate to the body, and jumped, instantly sending a fleeing patrolman away. The players fell to the ground.

When its sharp fangs were about to taste the blood of the drow elf's neck, it suddenly paused, and its powerful jaw changed direction and bit on the drow elf's shoulder.

A burst of neurotoxin also took advantage of the situation to inject into the drow's body from the teeth, causing the terrified drow's body to be instantly stiff and unable to move.

The shadow left the undead drow behind, flapping its disproportionately small wings and rushing towards another fleeing drow.

At the same time, another galloping shadow suddenly appeared on the interlaced stalactite column. His balance was kept so well that he couldn't fall to the ground with so many jumps.

When the drow fled in panic and found the hunter chasing overhead, a sharp blade shining with pale orange fire had fallen from the sky.

The drow elf who was caught off guard looked flustered, and immediately crossed the two sharp scimitars, trying to resist this condescending fatal blow.

"clang!"

The moment the sharp machete touched the sharp blade that fell from the sky, in the deep darkness, a flash of dazzling light flashed.

The turbulent force instantly hit the body from both arms, and the drow who resisted stubbornly held up the scorching blade that was already approaching the door.

He struggled to hold the long sword with two machetes, and his entire body fell to his knees with a thud, trying to fight back effectively by rolling.

However, when his knees were about to touch the ground, he suddenly felt the pressure in his body recede like a tide.

Immediately afterwards, his face changed suddenly, and when he was about to roll to the side, the familiar blade brought a hot breath to strike again, accurately piercing his heart from the gap between the scimitars.

The two scimitars in the hands of the drow elf kneeling on the ground let go, and the entire body fell on its back at the moment when the sharp blade was pulled out.

Thorne took the spoils of the corpse, passed over the dead corpse, and came to another drow paralyzed by the poison. A warm blood splashed, and the wailing drow immediately stopped struggling in vain.

"Roar!"

Immediately afterwards, a ferocious black shadow floated in the air, accompanied by a low roar, a drow elf descended from the sky, and in a terrified scream, just met the long sword raised by Thorn Kankan.

A battle was over, Thorne did not dare to delay, and immediately began to scavenge for the spoils.

Just halfway through the loot, there was a faint knocking and scratching sound from the gap of the stalactite column, which was instantly captured by Thorne.

"The underground world is indeed full of crises." Thorne, who heard the voice, made a slight movement in his hand, and immediately threw away the half-cut drow chain armor, preparing to stay away from this place of right and wrong.

After all, this is his first time wandering in the real Underdark to fight, so he must always be on guard against those enemies who act as oriole.

However, his movements were a little slower, and just as he was about to turn around and leave, a terrifying figure waving two giant claws and rushed towards him condescendingly.

"boom!"

Thorne, who couldn't avoid it, turned around abruptly, and the long sword in his hand slashed out with a light orange fire with the strength of the turn.

The strong force collided, causing his body to step back five or six steps in a row, until it hit a stalactite pillar and stabilized his body.

Thorne ignored the pain in his back and immediately turned his attention to the attacking enemy.

Dreadclaws!

A creature mutated due to the intense radiation and weird ecology underground.

They use two feet to walk, have a pair of sharp claws and a strange creature with a vulture-like head, a pair of compound eyes are extremely sensitive to movement, and their hearing is also very developed, and a layer of gray hard exoskeleton is attached to the body. A creature that evolved entirely to hunt in underground caves.

They hunted with the sharpest hearing in the Underdark, and the Direclaw monster that appeared in front of them was probably attracted by the fight just now.

This dreadclaws stood up to a height of 3 meters. The moment it collided with Thorne, the sharp Demon Slayer Sword directly left a gap and burning marks on its sharp claws.

I saw that its vulture-like head first glanced at several dead drow corpses on the ground.

Then, screaming at Thorne not far away, he swung his two front claws against the hard exoskeleton on his chest, making a harsh noise echoing in the darkness.

"It seems that there are other similar species hidden nearby, and we must fight quickly." Thorne immediately understood that the Dreadclaw was staring at him, but he had no intention of launching an attack.

Although it seemingly unconsciously taps the hard exoskeleton on its body, like making a noise, it is actually a complex language that only Direclaws can understand, and this tapping rhythm can even be transmitted for kilometers. .

"Roar!"

At this time, the Fulong Beast, who had already sneaked behind the Dreadclaw, let out a low roar, jumped down from the stalactite pillar, and threw itself on the Dreadclaw's back, with its two front claws firmly grasping the Dreadclaw's strong body. A gap.

The Direclaws desperately wanted to fight back, but its cumbersome body in armor and armor made it impossible to turn its body at all, and the powerful upper and lower jaws of the Fulong beasts took advantage of the situation to bite at the necks of the Direclaws, which were covered with strong armor.

At the same time, Thorne had already put away the long sword, and a sharp armor-piercing arrow came out of the composite longbow.

"Pfft!"

The sharp arrow pierced through Dreadclaw's strong armor and sank into its throat, making its hissing sound stop abruptly. With the flickering of flames and electric arcs, Dreadclaw wailed and lay dead on the ground.

Just as the Dreadclaws died, a fist-sized dark blue flame flashed from another direction, smashing directly towards Thorne's body.

Thorne immediately realized that there were other enemies hidden in the darkness, and instinctively rolled on the spot, avoiding the whistling ghostly light.

However, to his surprise, this firelight actually followed directly like a maggot attached to the bone.

And lightly smashed on him, and then turned into a little light to dissipate, but the outline of his body was clearly outlined in the darkness by this shimmer of light.

At this time, he was like a lit candle in the deep darkness, so conspicuous.

"It's the drow's spell-like ability "Fair Fire". "Feeling that the whole body was enveloped by firelight, but did not suffer any damage, Thorne immediately judged the spell being cast.

The main function of this spell is to make the target more conspicuous in the dark. Even if the eyes enter the invisible state, it cannot completely dispel the flames that cover the whole body.

Immediately afterwards, a dark cloud that did not surprise Thorne instantly engulfed his shimmering body, causing him to fall into darkness, and even with "dark vision", he still couldn't see anything clearly.

This is another innate talent spell "Darkness" of the drow elves, and it is also the best attack method they are best at hunting in the Underdark.

- "Mage Armor!"

So, Thorne, who guessed the opponent's next attack, immediately activated the protective barrier on the protective ring.

Arrows shot out from the crossbow roared.

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

However, when these bolts were about to hit Thorne's body, they were all blocked by the force field and fell to the ground.

"It seems to be another patrol team, there should be six people, five people are attacking from a distance, and there must be one person waiting on the periphery of the dark enchantment." Through the density of the crossbow bolts, Thorne judged the approximate number and number of enemies. Purpose.

So he put away the longbow at a very fast speed, and drew out the long sword again, just as he was about to break out with the Fulong beast hidden in the dark.

On the rock wall behind him, two Dreadclaw monsters appeared to climb up, supporting their dead comrades.

One of the Direclaw monsters that approached Thorne first, with its keen hearing, it easily locked onto the figure hiding in the dark enchantment.

I saw its legs slammed against the rock wall, and the successful Direclaw screamed, waving two heavy giant claws towards Thorne.

"Damn it! It's really time to come!" Thorne cursed inwardly. At this time, he was surrounded by two dreadclaw monsters and at least six drow elves.

Noticing the increasingly dim protection field, he did not dare to take the Deinonychus' attack hard, and immediately used his telepathy ability to drive the Fulong Beast to attack the drow who loaded the crossbow and shot, helping him disrupt the formation.

The Fulong beast hidden in the dark leaped and directly knocked down a drow elf who had not noticed it. Its powerful jaw also found its target. Its teeth were deeply embedded in the enemy's neck, and the drow elf swallowed the last There was no chance to take a breath, so he weakly threw away the crossbow in his hand and lost his life.

While Thorne chose to roll on the spot, while avoiding the sneak attack of the Dreadclaw, he also opened the distance from it, and also took advantage of the situation to get out of the shroud of the dark enchantment, and there was no longer darkness in front of him.

However, the drow won't make him feel so well.

When Thorne left the dark enchantment, the drow elf who had been wandering nearby immediately found this conspicuous figure shrouded in demonic fire, and a sharp long sword ready to go attacked.

"clang!"

Thorne, who was lying on the ground too late to get up, clenched the hilt of the sword with both hands and swung a sword with all his strength.

The powerful blow directly flew the drow elf and stabbed the long sword at his vital point, which also caused the owner of the long sword to stumble back.

At the moment when the drow elf's figure had not stabilized, Thorne took the opportunity to get up and prepare to counterattack.

"Pfft!"

However, another dreadclaws that he didn't expect happened to climb behind him along the rock wall. While smashing his protective force field, the powerful giant claws also slashed his shoulders. , hooked through his cloak, and blood gushed out.

Thorne ignored the pain of the wound, and immediately forcibly twisted his body, dodging the pursuit of another giant claw of the Dreadclaw.

Then, before the drow elf entangled him, he stomped on the rock next to him, jumped a dozen meters away, and evacuated the melee battlefield, leaving the drow elf and the Dreadclaw monster facing each other. .

- "Deflection force field!"

When Thorne landed, another protective barrier of the protective force field was activated immediately.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

Helplessly, the speed of the protective barrier was still a little slower. Two galloping crossbow bolts that had already predicted where he would land, hit his thighs and abdomen respectively, causing his body to sway and almost fell to the ground. .

The drow elf, who was closer to Thorne, sneered, and immediately dropped the crossbow, pulled out the rapier at his waist, and went up to meet him.

"Roar!"

The figure of the Fulong beast emerged from the air, throwing the drow elf who was about to attack Thorne to the ground.

"Pfft!"

Thorne, who resisted the pain, charged forward, and the long sword stabbed out instantly, directly harvesting the drow who was thrown to the ground.

- "Spell-like ability: Fireball!"

Then he didn't care about the crossbow arrow shot from a distance, and another drow rushing over, a fireball the size of a basin smashed directly into the drow elf entangled with the two Dreadclaw monsters.

"Boom!"

With the roar of the fireball explosion, the stalactite pillars crisscrossed with teeth collapsed directly, raising a large amount of dust and burying the three enemies ravaged by the flames.

At the same time, another charged figure jumped up, and two sharp machetes slashed at Thorne's shoulders at the same time.

"clang!"

When the scimitar approached, it was immediately tilted by the deflection force field, and Thorne took advantage of the situation to stab with his sword, a splash of blood, and the drow fell directly into the pool of blood.

Seeing the death of their companions, the remaining two drow elves holding crossbows looked at each other and immediately turned back, preparing to disappear into the complicated tunnel.

Seeing this, Thorne stopped the Fulong beast who was about to pursue it.

However, something unexpected happened to him again. A sharp sword floating in the air suddenly appeared on the retreat route of the two drow elves who were about to disappear from his sight.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

Two cold lights flashed, and bloodstains appeared on the necks of the two drow elves, and immediately fell to the ground while covering their necks.