Chapter 177 Magic Bat
Blingden Stone City is not an entire independent cave. It is composed of a series of interconnected cave networks. It was transformed by the underground gnomes and expanded into homes, studios, stalls, workshops, Warehouse and other land.
Except for Svirnet's own family room, the other caves have been expanded into areas suitable for medium-sized creatures to walk without hindrance, and the public areas will even be expanded larger.
The caves are illuminated by phosphorescent fungi, caged fire beetles, and magic.
The short tunnel connecting the cave itself lacks its own lighting. It is only lit by the cave light flowing into it and the dim light extending from it.
Longer tunnels are equipped with specialized lighting equipment, and are usually implemented using magic.
Brian took Helister to a huge no-man's land in the northeast of the city. Because the Oremok disaster often appeared here, it was called: Rock Plague.
Because once the earth element approaches this area, it will go crazy and attack its master.
Unlike the recovered areas of Blingden Stone, Rockblight is a barren, cold, and hostile place.
Some shallow pools and creeks flow through this area, causing the air here to be damp and cold.
However, this has no effect at all on the two casters.
Walking on this land, Brian can clearly feel that the huge caves around it are the same as the residential areas in the center of Bullingdon Stone City. As long as they are tidied up a little, they can move in with their bags.
However, it is a pity that with the raging disaster of Oremok, there is no laughter and warmth here, only traces of darkness and massacre.
While walking, he did not use his psychic powers to prevent the splash of water like Helist did, letting his feet leave the ground and floating behind him like a ghost.
The echoes of his every step rippled off the walls, far away from the leyline radiation that illuminated his surroundings.
Because he has the "Tremor Sense" specialty, every time he steps on the ground, he will feel comfortable and safe.
Although having the legendary powerhouse Heliste following him meant that he didn’t have to worry about anything at all, it didn’t mean that he would relax.
In a daze, Brian also heard the sound of waterfalls in the darkness and the echoes of battle.
The closer the sound gets, the farther it becomes. The source is elusive.
He was not surprised by this, because he had encountered a similar situation in the vortex stone tunnel of Aldus King City.
From this we can see how profound the influence of the evil magic circle arranged by the spider wizard living in the ancient city of Orens was.
“They are coming!”
“They are coming!”
“Hide!”
“Everyone hide! ”
At this moment, a shrill scream that was enough to pierce the eardrums echoed in the tunnel where the two were walking. The screams were filled with the purest fear and panic.
At the same time, a hazy luminous body appeared, and inside was an underground dwarf with a ferocious face. It screamed and fled frantically towards another exit of the tunnel.
“Don’t worry about it, it’s just a poor ghost passing by and it poses no threat to us.” Brian stopped Heliste from trying to kill the ghost.
In fact, if you follow the escaped ghost, you can also come to an ancient cave.
In the cave, the ghost's bones were lying next to a stone bed. There were no signs of death from violence on the bones.
Some professional players speculated based on the bones of the dwarf that when the drow attacked Bullingdon Stone City, the ghost had a heart attack and died beside the bed while escaping.
"Why do I feel like you always look at me from time to time." As they walked, Brian couldn't help but express his doubts to Helister.
He turned around and subconsciously met her tranquil gaze. Unexpectedly, he found that there was an unnatural look on her delicate face.
Helist regained her composure, looked at him intently, thought carefully for a moment, and sighed softly in a nostalgic tone:
"I saw you issued an order to the underground dwarfs today. The look of the order reminded me of the scene in the Wizarding City two years ago, when we entered the city ruled by the 'Pale Scepter' Council with just two people. All the evil forces entrenched there were eliminated. You must have started preparing for today’s meeting when you encountered the dwarf ghost in Aldus King City.”
"That's right, although in the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is just a cloud." Brian looked at her thoughtfully and said with a smile:
"But in my opinion, it can be done without any effort. Why use brute force to deal with the enemy? Therefore, before doing anything, I like to be fully prepared in advance.”
There is a saying among their player groups: One. A well-prepared wizard will definitely be invincible.
As a wizard, he has been working hard in this direction. After all, he has long passed the time when blood rushed to his mind.
"Brian, do you still remember that chilling prophecy?" Heliste was silent for a long time, sighed softly, and murmured to herself in an inaudible voice:< br>
"You all should wail, for the destroyer of nations is coming, your land will be trampled by the dead, your cities will be corrupted by evil, your life, pain, suffering... will all be lost in perfect eternity. "Silence in Immortality."
How could Brian not remember this prophecy? Not only did he remember it, he also witnessed the scene after the prophecy came true.
During his gaming career as a wizard, he clearly remembered that during an accidental plane trip, he luckily discovered a broken world called 'Asno'.
This inconspicuous little world has not only been corrupted by ancient evil things, but is also filled with extreme cold and heat that will never dissipate. It has long become a place shrouded in eternal shadow.
"I'm very sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned these unpleasant things to you." Helist looked at Brian apologetically and said softly:
"It's just that seeing these high-spirited underground gnomes today and seeing their dilapidated city ruins always reminds me of this incident involuntarily."
"They are like a speck of ashes from the times. It becomes a heavy mountain when it falls on an individual's head," she said empathetically, "because they believe that no matter how dark the night is, there will be bright stars, so the more special the night, the more it can be reflected. The glory of humanity, and the creators of this glory are these ordinary racial heroes."
"Brian, I hope that when we return to the world of Asno, I can still see it like today. Until you show your wisdom and confidence, and issue instructions to save the world."
Her quiet and beautiful eyes seemed to contain infinite tenderness when she looked at Brian, "Because I can. I really felt that the way you looked at that time fascinated me deeply."
"There will be a day." Brian met her expectant eyes, shook her hand, and said to her. ensure.
In fact, if he hadn't seen the serious look on her face, he would have thought that the beautiful and charming woman in front of him was confiding her feelings for him to him.
This made him feel a little empty inside.
"I believe you." Helist smiled. Even in this dim tunnel, Brian felt that her smile was so bright and moving, making him feel like a spring breeze.
"That's right, you must smile more in the future." He said with a smile, "Don't show a sad look with a frowning face and sighing all day long. This will make you grow old easily."
After saying this slightly ridiculing sentence, he carefully observed Helister's expression.
However, to his disappointment, her expression remained as calm as ever, as if what had just happened was just his hallucination.
As soon as the two walked out of a long and narrow tunnel, Brian suddenly felt a slight vibration from the ground. He was about to speak a warning, but found that it was too late.
A rust-colored behemoth broke out of the hard rock surface like a fish in the water. The shattered ground appeared with the monster's entire body, and then returned to its original shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The body of this monster looks extremely heavy, with a powerful mouth on the top of its head, three long arms with sharp claws, and the ability to look in all directions at the same time three big stone-lidded eyes.
Thor Stone Monster!
Brian recognized the identity of the monster at a glance.
The strange Thor stone monster is a native creature of the earth element plane. It has the power of the earth element and can swim between earth and rocks like a fish in the water.
When they pass through soil and rock layers, the rock and soil will flow past it and then merge again, thus leaving no tunnels, caves or any visible traces where it passes.
These stone monsters like to sniff out gems and precious metals from soil and rock formations, and tunnel through them to obtain these treasures as their own food.
However, when in the main material plane, due to the extreme shortage of these rare materials, the Thor Stone Monster must travel deeper and further through the Underdark to find food, and often conflicts with miners and treasure hunters.
Looking at the stone monster in front of him, Brian was surprised that the stone monster was not affected by the Oremok disaster and fell into a state of madness.
Since she did not receive any instructions, Herister stood beside Brian, watching the monster in front of her quietly and vigilantly.
“When you have gems in your pocket, the hungry Sol Stone Monster is the most useful Sol Stone Monster.” The monster’s mouth full of fangs on top of its head opened and closed, and its voice was stiff like a mechanical voice:
“Give Sol Stone Monster the gem, Sol Stone Monster will tell Sol Stone Monster what he saw, quickly give Sol Stone Monster the gem, if you don’t give Sol Stone Monster the gem, Sol Stone Monster will I won’t let you pass..."
"I can give you gems, but you must tell me everything you see." Brian said calmly, looking at the Thor stone monster who was chattering like a repeater.
“Give the Thor Stone Monster the gem first, and the Thor Stone Monster will tell the Thor Stone Monster what he saw. Only when the Thor Stone Monster is full can the Thor Stone Monster find its way home... "The monster bared its teeth and waved its three arms, "If you don't give the Thor Stone Monster gems, the Thor Stone Monster will not let you pass..."
Brian took out a dozen gems worth dozens of gold coins. Throw it into the big mouth of the Thor Stone Monster that opens and closes, "You can tell me now."
"The Thor Stone Monster won't let you go until the Thor Stone Monster has eaten enough..."
Brian cursed secretly, and threw a dozen more gems into the Thor stone monster's mouth like throwing peanuts.
"Hiccup..."
Thor Stone Monster finally burped and said to Brian: "Thor Stone Monster saw two large groups of monsters, one group was magic bats, and the other group was also magic bats. There were so many monsters. The magic bats, so many magic bats, scared away the Sol Stone Monster."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Sol Stone Monster got into the hard rock formation and ran away in the opposite direction of the two of them.
Brian moved his eyes to Helist, who sensed his gaze and nodded slightly to him, "This Thor stone monster did not lie."
"Let's go. "Okay." Brian didn't flinch at the news of the magic bat.
Although the appearance of the magic bat surprised him, he realized that for him, this was a massive amount of experience points automatically delivered to his door.
Just as the Thor Stone Monster said, as soon as the two people walked out of the cave, there were very dense sounds of flapping wings.
Immediately afterwards, the overwhelming number of magic bats, chirping and screaming like mice, all rushed over.
From the outside, this group of magic bats looks like a bat shape made of sticky mud. However, even in this shape, it has the ability to fly and cast spells.
Obviously, it must be the trickster Sol Stone Monster who woke up all the sleeping magic bats in advance.
Faced with this situation, Brian seemed very calm. He didn't even plan to let Herister take action. Instead, he calmly retreated into the tunnel and tried to use the favorable terrain to clear the magic bats.
The appearance of a mephit is similar to that of a little devil. It is a variety of elemental creatures that inhabit all major elemental planes.
This is the most common summoned creature and familiar for wizards. It can serve as a guard in the tower, become an experimental subject, and even extract spellcasting materials.
The challenge level of a magic bat is only level 1. If it is alone, it is not that difficult to deal with, but this thing lives in groups, and ordinary groups are based on hundreds of them.
Furthermore, the characteristics of elemental creatures not only allow them to cast spells and have supernatural breath, but they will also self-destruct after being killed, making them one of the most disgusting creatures.
Brian just glanced at it and discovered that the number of this group of magic bats was conservatively around a thousand, and they were all mud magic bats from the earth elemental plane.
It can be seen from this that how serious the elemental disorder here is, that it can actually breed such a large group of elemental creatures.
After all, as long as there is enough energy, they can reproduce thousands of mephits through division.
Seriously, if he encountered such a group of magic bats in an open area, he would not hesitate to pull Helist and escape.
But it was different now. At the reminder of the Thor Stone Monster, he deliberately walked out of a relatively narrow tunnel.
In this case, it would be impossible for this group of magic bats to exert their numerical advantage.
Brian immediately took out his staff and waved it gently. With the blessing of "Arcane Twins", two curtains of purple flames summoned by the fourth-level spell "Fire Wall" jumped out. out, sealing the entrance to the tunnel tightly.
Suddenly, this group of ferocious and terrifying mud bats with mouths full of fangs melted directly the moment they touched the wall of fire, exploding into a ball of sticky mud.
"The target is dead!"
"Soul energy is being extracted..."
"Gain experience points: 100 points!"
......
The experience points jumped like crazy codes, allowing Brian to experience the fun of gaining experience again.
This continued for about half an hour, and he learned from the experience points gained that at least 1,500 magic bats were burned to death under the wall of fire.
In other words, he gained 150,000 experience points in just half an hour, which is equivalent to killing three ordinary legendary powerhouses.
"Magic bats are also intelligent creatures after all." Heliste said her guess, "But they are like moths flying to a flame, flying to their death without hesitation. It seems that they are also affected by elemental disorder."
"That's right."
Brian threw a fireball and blasted a passage through the mountains of sticky soil. "After all, what we are going to face next is an evil earth element prophet. .”
(End of this chapter)