Chapter 16 Escape
The weird soft light produced by the radiation from the earth's veins filled the entire cave, twisting into a vortex shape and extending towards the cave wall.
The shadows cast by the rugged stone pillars are constantly dancing, and the stone walls are decorated with weird decorations.
Silver spider webs woven with thick spider silk are hung everywhere. Blown by the strange breeze, countless spider silks vibrate like strings, making eerie and sharp whistling.
“The Song Spider’s Web.”
A Lolth priest wearing a dark red robe whispered, with strong awe in his scarlet eyes, "Listen to the voice of the Spider Queen."
The priestess knelt on the ground, holding one hand He raised his snake-head whip, and five red and black venomous snakes swayed their heads, revealing their terrifying fangs.
Just when she was about to devoutly chant a hymn in praise of Rose, she suddenly jerked up, the sharp sword pierced her slender body, and the bloody sword tip emerged from her chest.
Before she died, the priestess turned around with difficulty and stared at the deadly hunter with an unbelievable look in her eyes.
"Target is dead!"
"Soul energy is being extracted."
"Experience points gained: 700 points!"
......
——"Lightning pulling!" [Strong effect]
Brian drew out his sword, and a whip with blue electric light instantly appeared in his left hand, and it accurately wrapped around the throat of another priestess who reacted and was about to perform a divine spell.
The crackling electric sparks on the lightning whip flickered on and off, leaving shocking scorch marks on the thin skin and tender flesh of the neck.
Wave after wave of lightning surged out along Brian's palm.
The priestess's harsh lips trembled, her hair stood on end, twisting like the snake on Medusa's head, and her slender body trembled convulsively.
This is a zero-ring trick, and it is also Brian's favorite spell in battle.
In addition to the relatively touching damage, the consumption and release speed are almost non-existent.
However, the damage is low. As a battle mage, Brian's own professional characteristics "Spell Sharpening" and "Sharpening Strengthening" can completely make up for it.
The former increases the extra damage of spells based on the intelligence attribute, while the latter increases the overall damage by 20%.
With the blessing of the metamagic specialty "Spell Power", the damage is almost comparable to the damage of a second-level spell.
After controlling the priestess, Brian's right hand holding the sword hilt threw out a series of brilliant sword lights like lightning, forcing the oncoming drow soldiers to retreat step by step.
As a battle mage who has practiced swordsmanship for nearly twenty years, his swordsmanship skills are not inferior to most of the drow warriors in ancient Orens City.
If he wasn't worried about other opponents around him, he could kill this drow warrior with a challenge level of up to level 5 in the blink of an eye.
"Clang!"
At this time, the last soldier to react drew out his scimitar and tried to flank the enemy with his companions.
——"Mind Stab!"
Brian's highly concentrated spirit allowed him to transmit the surging psychic energy to the depths of the soldiers' minds without hesitation.
"Ah!!!"
The shrill scream echoed in the empty cave. The drow soldier dropped the scimitar in his hand with a clang, and collapsed on the ground, holding his head in his hands, cold sweat pouring down like rain, rustling. trembling.
Brian's left hand holding the whip suddenly shook, and together with the whip made of magical energy, he threw the dead priestess in front of the entangled drow soldiers.
The drow soldier looked shocked, and his sharp sword, which he had no time to take away, instantly pierced the body of the priestess.
Brian took advantage of the opportunity for the opponent to draw his sword, handed the long sword to his left hand, and made a quick and precise backhand slash that ripped open the air and cut open his exposed throat.
"Pfft!"
Blood spurted out like a bolt of blood, and the drow soldier fell to the ground on his back, lifeless.
With the death of the drow soldiers, the last soldier just recovered from the mental shock and immediately instinctively fumbled for his lost scimitar.
But it was too late.
By the time he touched the weapon, Brian had already attacked and swung his sword at the same time.
The soldier's eyes widened, he held his neck with his hands and fell at his feet.
“The target is dead!”
“Soul energy is being extracted.”
“Gain experience points: 500 points!”…
After finishing four opponents cleanly, Brian did not dare to waste time and immediately walked along the curved wall.
This is the cave used to raise spiders in the ancient city of Orens. If he fails to leave in time and is surrounded by a swarm of spiders, his fate can be imagined.
At this moment.
A huge spider sprang out from a cave full of spider symbols where he was hiding.
Having been prepared, he suddenly bent over to avoid the spider's venom spit, and smoothly got into the spider's abdomen. Then he raised his foot and gave its soft abdomen a heavy kick, and took advantage of the situation. The sword penetrated deeply into its spherical body.
Then, Brian rolled, drew his sword and retreated, just in time to avoid the gush of disgusting mucus.
“The target is dead!”
“Soul energy is being extracted.”
“Gain experience points: 300 points!”
……
The spider trembled a few times and lay lifeless on the ground.
With the death of the first spider, countless creepy rustling sounds came from all directions.
Brian looked shocked and immediately ran away along a dense tunnel filled with cobwebs.
In fact, he has a teleportation scroll prepared for him by Santila. Just tear it open and he can teleport to the streets of ancient Orens city instantly.
But he did not intend to use it, because the drow elves are some treacherous guys. If they are not careful, they will lose their lives or fall into the trap of others.
Maybe Santila meant him no harm, but she didn't make the scroll herself.
So, it would be better for him not to use this kind of teleportation scroll whose whereabouts are unknown.
Wouldn’t it be terrible to finally escape and then fall into another trap?
Besides, he has a faster way to escape.
If successful, he can even return directly to the surface.
However, he does not intend to do so for the time being, because there are ruins of a floating city that fell here during the Netheril Empire in the Underdark.
In addition to a lost scroll of Nese, there is also a piece of equipment of legendary quality.
Thinking of this, Brian had to be grateful that he had made an unintentional move and asked the halfling servants to help him spread a message, which played a major role.
If he really escapes this time and obtains a valuable treasure, if he has the chance, he will definitely complete the commission of Elton, the halfling from Green Town.
After all, he still has a bit of the character of repaying kindness.
Brian scurried along the path he came in from.
The tunnel is full of nearly vertical hidden pits and rolling loose gravel. He will face a severe test every step he takes.
Most of the deep pits spread out into tunnels as dense as spider webs, twisting and turning deep into the darkness underground.
There was a putrid smell emanating from the depths of the dark pit, as well as a vague crackling sound like insects scratching at him, which made him really unwilling to guess what was under his feet. There are so many terrible things lurking there.
Fortunately, as a half-elf, he has a very high agility attribute, and the magic elf boots allow him to easily step or jump in the tunnel.
As a spell caster, if the intelligence attribute represents a person's spell learning speed and power, then his agility attribute determines the spell release speed and reaction ability.
Otherwise, what is the difference between it and a heavy fort.
So practicing swordsmanship all year round has made his own reaction speed and hand speed comparable to that of a rogue or ranger with similar strength to himself.
Half an hour later.
Brian finally got out of the hole as big as the ogre's arm.
Despite the annoying clicking sounds that continued to come from inside, he knew that these captive spiders would never leave the cave easily.
In other words, he is safe for the time being.
“It feels so good to be free!”
After taking a break, Brian sighed with emotion and immediately emerged from the hidden stone pillar, put on his hood and tightened his cloak, according to According to the instructions on the map, enter a dark underground tunnel and continue moving forward.
(End of this chapter)