Arcane Journey

Chapter 50 The Mixed Team

Day five to the Sunless Woodlands.

Goblin Copper Nugget led them from a passage washed by an underground river to a cave hidden in a waterfall.

When they reached Gloomy Falls, the crowd stared in amazement at the miraculous sight before them.

It was a vaulted cavern of incomparable size, with walls of scarlet and ochre-colored rock.

Thousands of stalactites and silvery ores adorn the entire vaulted cave like diamonds.

Brian discovered that this ancient cave was about 60 meters wide and so deep inside that even the waterfall flowing into the dark well had no echo of the water flow.

This made him wonder if there were some terrible monsters hidden inside.

However, this suspicion was quickly denied by him.

Because the goblin copper block is leading the way.

Since he and Hesaiah joined together with the goblins.

These five days of non-stop traveling time have proved how wise his decision to hire the other party in Fansi Trail was.

During this time.

Whether it was the crystal clusters affected by the radiation of the leylines, or the fissures full of lava that were torn apart by tremors, or even the mud pits hiding countless ooze monsters and the migrating dark curtain monsters, they all avoided them safely. open.

And he also took advantage of the group's rest time to kill a group of 13 Gnoll hunters, wipe out a Dreadclaw lair, and explore a mire temple inhabited by ooze monsters and puddings.

With the assistance of the sword mage Hesaiah, he captured two purple worms he had encountered.

In five days, he gained nearly 20000 experience points again, which is another big step towards upgrading his level.

"Okay, let's rest here for the night, let's go tomorrow." The goblin copper block found a stone and sat on it, and began to rummage through his small backpack.

"Big Brother, I feel that the Sunless Forest is calling me." The mushroom man Teemo sprayed a cloud of spores at Brian, establishing a spiritual connection with him.

"Then how far is it from the lightless forest?" Brian asked, touching the mushroom head in his arms.

"Yeah." Timo closed his small eyes under the mushroom cover, thought for a moment, and said, "I don't know, but I know that if you walk at the current speed, it will take about half a day to get there."

"Then rest here for a good night." Brian nodded slightly, and put Teemo on the ground, letting him go to the fungus thicket to absorb nutrients alone.

"Let's go."

He greeted the sword mage beside him, and together with her, he searched for a place to rest in the cave.

"Hey! Goblin."

At this time, the dwarf Dilo saw that the copper block was about to collect the dried fungi on the ground, and he spat, "Are you in a hurry to find death? Or are you walking without reason? Lighting a fire will burn the surrounding All the monsters are attracted, and I still want to finish this journey alive."

"Then what do you plan to do?" Copper Nugget kept collecting fungi that could be burned on the ground and stone walls while talking.

"I have a good proposal." The marsh bear who had already been combing his hair on a big rock took up the conversation.

"Shut up!" the Dillo dwarf and the goblin scolded in unison.

"Damn it, you big bear, you have no right to speak." Copper Nugget complained again: "I want to drink mushroom soup today, no one should stop me."

"You are not afraid of eating poisonous mushrooms, so be careful when eating planks."

Little Timo ran to the side of the copper block with two white and tender mushroom legs, spewed out a spore cloud, and sang happily: "Red umbrella, white pole, after eating, you will lie down, lie down!" , buried mountains and mountains, and will be covered with red umbrellas in the coming year"

"." The goblin looked at Brian with depressed eyes.

Brian looked embarrassed and quickly avoided his sight.

Although Teemo communicated with Copper Nugget through a mind link, from the goblin's expression, he could see that this little Teemo was singing a nursery rhyme he taught the other party when he had a whim.

Who would have thought that this little mushroom man would love to sing so much, especially when he was around goblins.

Brian didn't bother to pay attention to these people's bickering, or he was used to it.

He sat down on a relatively flat stone, just in time to see Jeep the Dillo dwarf standing opposite him and knocking on the stone wall.

The fluorescent fungus on the wall glowed with a cold blue light, making his image appear unreal, like a walking dead that just crawled out of the grave.

Kip had thick, pale eyebrows, and below them were two milky white eyes, and the central pupil was just a small black spot, like a small hole in milky white rock.

His skin was white and dirty, like the color of the caps on a toadstool, his face was thin and weak, his hair was long and sickly the color of sulfur, and his deeply sunken chin was covered with a shaggy beard.

Dilro dwarves are corrupt, evil creatures of the Underdark.

Created by some unknown dark mad deity combining human and dwarven features.

They are brutal, insane, and keen to make surface creatures their slaves and torture them to death (especially humans).

But the Dillo dwarf priest in front of him gave Brian the feeling that he was unusually talkative and enthusiastic, which made it difficult for him to associate with the evil Dilo dwarf.

The most important thing is that the opponent is still a level 10 priest.

This is why he is willing to let it follow.

In fact, besides the Dilro dwarves and the Zedi bearmen, there were also drow warriors and the pacifist Kou Tao fishmen monks in their group.

The drow warrior's name is Kezi, and he is a martial art master and servant from a small family in the ancient city of Orens.

Until an unfortunate encounter with Black Pudding, the strong acid of the ooze monster left terrible scars that could not be repaired.

After his once handsome face melted and scarred, his beloved mistress of the family immediately pulled up her trousers and refused to recognize anyone. She dismissed him from the positions of martial arts chief and servant, and found a new love.

So this guy felt resentful, not only killed his replacement, but also released all the slaves who were imprisoned, and escaped together while taking advantage of the chaos.

As a result, as soon as the group of slaves who ran out walked to the Fansi trail, they encountered another drow army that was detaining Hesaiah and others head-on, and attracted another group of abyssal demons by beating them.

And then it morphed into what Brian was just starting to see.

Kou Tao fishman monk, looks like a calm hermit, but also a thorough pacifist.

This little guy refuses to hurt or fight anyone, even to protect others or defend himself.

However, when he learned that Brian was going to go through the dark lake to the gray dwarf city, this guy finally opened his mouth, saying that he was very familiar with the winding paths around the dark lake and could act as a guide for the dark lake.

Brian thought about it, and felt that it wouldn't matter if the little murloc, who had no sense of existence at all, joined, so he agreed.

Originally, he thought that Hesaiah, a sword mage from the Kingdom of Cormyr, was the biggest fish he had encountered among this group of people.

Who would have thought that after he had a detailed understanding of the crowd, he discovered that the real big fish was the swamp bear who was pressed and rubbed on the ground by another female bear and was rescued by him.

After the two met again, the swamp bear told him with a rather skilled elven city accent that he was actually not a swamp bear, but a golden elf prince who used a secret method to change into this appearance.

His name is Severil, and he is an elf sword mage 'Crown King's Guard' whose strength has reached the exemplary level (around level 15-19).

Several was born in the "City of Peace" Ilranthor in the "Supreme Forest" in the Northland.

But when he was 50 years old, he left his hometown and lived in the holy land of elves 'Yongju Island' for nearly 50 years.

Now, Severil, as the vanguard of the elf expedition, arrived at his hometown first, trying to have a return of the king, regain the elf territory of the highest forest, and become the ruler of the "City of Peace" Irranser.

As a result, the car overturned before reaching the edge of the forest.

He encountered the twilight merchant who captured slaves, and after a battle, he was trafficked to the Underdark.

In order to save his life, Severil used a secret method to forcibly switch identities with another swamp bear, thus avoiding the blood sacrifice of the drow elves.

This guy's experience is somewhat similar to his.

Because both of them were captured by the Twilight Merchant to the secret market in the Underdark.

Moreover, Brian also knew that the caravan of the Twilight Merchant was called 'Dragon Treasure', and his true identity was an ancient black dragon.

This old Yin dragon likes to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger. He pretends to be a human old man, captures valuable slaves everywhere, sells them to the dark area, and collects wealth for himself.

From the moment Bryan was caught, he had recorded this account for the other party. Sooner or later, he would take over his old den and expand his treasure house.

The reason why Severil went with them was mainly to ask the Fungus King in the Dull Forest if he would make a potion that would dispel the secret of transformation.

Remembering that the Supreme Forest was close to Silvermoon City, Brian agreed by the way that he would try his best to help him obtain this recovery potion when he arrived in the Sunless Forest.

After Severil regained his strength, he had to agree to one of his conditions.

Eventually, their motley crew set out on a journey to the Sunless Woodlands.

(End of this chapter)