After running around for days, Xu Lai was also covered in dust.
After a simple wash, I finally had my first hot meal in so many days.
After eating and drinking enough, and setting up the tent, Xu Lai couldn't wait to rest.
After Xu Lai fell asleep, Elvi secretly got up and flew into the sky to patrol the area.
Those dungeon people seem to be really honest this time. Even the red dragons who escaped have never come back.
This is not surprising. Although the people in the dungeon wanted to come back to investigate the situation, they smelled a strong aroma of dragon meat as soon as they got closer.
This is so extravagant that dragon meat is used as marching rations. What happened in the middle is still worth mentioning.
Therefore, all the dungeon species who smelled this fragrance ran away as if running for their lives.
Especially those red dragons, the ones they recruit are like fools who don’t understand anything. If you can’t tell the difference between wild red dragons, what does that taste like?
With their keen sense of smell, they can even smell whether the roasted dragon meat comes from their ancestors.
Even the ancestors have become people's food. If they, the junior red dragons, dare to get close, they will have to escape further than the lowest level caveman.
Elwe gritted her teeth and decided to fly out of the warning range set by Xu Lai and approach a nearby underground city.
Although Xu Lai stepped on two traps these days, the seraphs flying in the sky never triggered them.
There is no support in the sky, so it is generally impossible to lay traps, but the sky in the dungeon has an upper limit. If it is really used by those magicians, it is indeed possible to fall into the trap.
Therefore, Elvi is extra cautious.
She is confident in her own strength, but she is afraid of causing any trouble to Xu Lai and does not want to cause any trouble to Xu Lai.
Different from the usual dark underground cities, today's underground city is very lively, and it is rare that all the lighting equipment is lit up, and the sky above is brightly lit.
Elvie did not dare to get too close, but she was now the leader of Seraph and could wear equipment freely.
Xu Lai had a lot of idle space rings in his hand, and he had cracked several of them, so he picked one with a larger space and gave it to Elvi.
When fighting, Elvi is reluctant to change the attribute ring in her hand. She will wear it when there is no need to fight.
Elvi's space ring contains night vision goggles for night vision, telescopes for reconnaissance, magic lamps for signaling, as well as some food and drink items, healing potions, etc., all of which are useful.
Through the telescope, Elvi can clearly see that this underground city looks extremely busy.
There are cavemen constantly leaving with large and small bags, and some are digging caves directly in the city.
Dwellings in underground cities are generally built in the real underground. After all, most of them are cavemen who like to live in underground caves.
But underground nobles generally refuse to live underground.
Now, with the threat of Doomsday Judgment, these underground nobles must also learn the way of survival of cavemen and dig holes in the ground to live.
Elwee shook her head and quietly placed a reconnaissance guard on a high platform near the city.
Although the Detection Guard is not permanent like the Detection Eye, the advantage is that it can be released at any time and does not require a mage.
On this trip, Xu Lai brought a lot of reconnaissance guards and true vision guards. In order to have a good rest, true vision guards who can detect invisibility were also placed in the camp.
Xu Lai woke up naturally after sleeping for more than 5 hours.
He originally scheduled it for 4 hours, divided into two shifts, but no one asked him to get up at all, so Xu Lai simply kept in mind that he could wake up at about the same time.
After waking up, Xu Lai didn't blame Jilong and the others, he just drove them to rest. After all, they were doing it for his own good.
Seraphs and Holy Light Knights rest in shifts.
Compared with middle and low-level soldiers, another characteristic of these high-level warriors is that they have better endurance.
Low-level soldiers such as farmers must rest for at least 8 hours a day, while high-level soldiers, with the support of high-level tents, can recover a lot by resting for one or two hours a day.
Today was a rare day for them to have a good rest.
It is possible to persist by resting for just one or two hours a day, but what will be affected will definitely be the length of time you can persist in frontal combat.
Xu Lai had already verified his conjecture, so he simply let everyone return to their best condition, and then went straight to the burial place of the Hand of the God of War.
He was already underground and had been delayed for a long time.
After a sufficient rest, Xu Lai and his knights embarked on their journey full of energy again.
This time it was particularly smooth. Not only did they not encounter any traps on the road, but even the underground cities that originally refused to let Xu Lai open their gates early before Xu Lai could get close.
The dungeon people are so hospitable that Xu Lai really has the urge to go in and have a good look around.
Although Darkhall was more prosperous before, he went to create chaos and destruction that time, and he really didn't have time to observe and study it carefully.
However, it was a city of hostile forces, and neither Elvy nor Roland, the personal guard chief, allowed him to enter.
In fact, if you look carefully, you will find that the entire city is almost empty except for some low-level cavemen.
The filthy lair that originally belonged to the cavemen is now occupied by high-level dungeon nobles.
If Xu Lai launches the Doomsday Judgment at this time, except for killing these fragile cavemen, there will be almost no additional gains.
Although the city gate was opened for Xu Lai, he still did not enter after all.
With the insistence of Roland and others, Xu Laiduo spent half an hour bypassing the city and continuing to his destination.
Without the interference of the dungeon, Xu Lai and the others immediately moved at a much faster speed.
About half a day later, following the map, they arrived at the location where the cross mark was drawn on the obelisk map.
"Elwee, take the Fire Elemental and the Detection Guards, and the True Vision Guards, and monitor all nearby cities and passageways.
Just let the Fire Elemental be on guard on the spot, you Don't stay outside."
Elwe bowed to the order and brought two hundred fire elements with her to decorate all the nearby entrances and exits as well as all roads.
After Elvi left, Xu Lai said to Jilong and Roland:
"The two of you, take the Holy Light Knight and the remaining Fire Elementals, and patrol nearby.
If you find anyone, whether it is a dungeon creature or not, even a human, kill or drive it away on the spot.
I don’t want anyone to get admitted here.”
Xu Lai didn’t tell anyone about the golden statue of the God of War. Jian Yuan and the others might have guessed it, but Roland and Jilong actually both knew it. I don’t know what Xu Lai is doing.
Xu Lai can be regarded as trusting these two people, especially Roland, who is completely loyal to them.
However, to be on the safe side, Xu Lai still sent them out.
Fire elements are summoned creatures after all. Unless Xu Lai makes it clear that they actively attack any target, they will at most attack the evil camp and prevent the neutral camp. If a human follows him secretly, it will be easy to get past these fire elements.
Although Xu Lai didn't believe it, after a week of being chased by the army in the underground city, any human being could pursue him with such great powers.
"Your safety..."
"Elvie will be back soon. With her here, why are you worried?"
Roland opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything and led a group of Holy Light Knights to Xu Lai's house. Go far to the left.
As for Jilong, he took the remaining more than a hundred fire elements and set off towards Xu Lai's right hand side.
Roland finally left two Holy Light Knights for Xu Lai. Xu Lai didn't say anything about this. Roland and the others still had twelve people, which was enough to deal with most situations.
In the end, among everyone present, only Xu Lai and Jian Yuan were able to act independently.
Xu Lai silently took out two shovels from his space backpack, handed each to Jian Yuan and said:
"Let's dig and see who can find the artifact first."
Jian Yuan has been engaged in map comparison work, and of course he knows what Xu Lai wants to dig out.
The reason why Xu Lai kept Jian Yuan behind was precisely because of the background of the other scout and his ability to find the middle position on the map.
Digging down from the center of the circle, a deep pit of seven or eight meters was dug out, but still nothing was found.
Elvi had already rushed back by this time, but Xu Lai did not allow her to come to help and still asked her to conduct investigations above her head.
With no results after seven or eight meters, Xu Lai was not discouraged at all.
The soil in the underground city is much harder than the soil on the surface. Even cavemen who are professional diggers can dig down to a depth of more than ten meters at most.
Xu Lai has high strength and physique. As long as the shovel's durability is still there, he can insert it to the bottom every time and hold a shovel full of soil or rocks.
The high endurance brought by his high physique made him not feel tired at all, and he even felt a quite pleasant sense of venting.
Xu Lai and the others were quick in their movements, but they still dug a large pit with a diameter of more than fifteen meters and a depth of more than ten meters before they heard a crisp sound.
The two people quickly added another force, and sure enough, a few minutes later, they used the fifteenth shovel to dig out the shiny golden artifact box.
The artifact box was dug out, but Xu Lai did not open it immediately. This thing was exactly the same as the box he dug out for the first time. There was no mistake at first glance.
Xu Lai sat paralyzed on the side and said: "Damn, I dug for several hours, I don't know how much strength I used, but it turned out that this thing was buried so deep."
The ground is already hard. , and it gets harder as you go down, and it happens to be buried deep enough.
Even with Xu Lai's current physique and strength, he still had to hold on to save face in front of Elvie.
Jian Yuan could no longer dig anymore. It was not that he was exhausted, but that with his strength, even a new shovel could only shovel down a centimeter or two.
This artifact is buried so deep that if you come over at a lower level, it will have no effect at all.
After resting for a while, Xu Lai stood up and opened the box.
Although the box is only half the size of a person, there is obviously more space inside.
The pair of God of War hands stored inside are even taller than Xu Lai.
[Hand of the God of War] (only): One of the components of the Golden Statue of the God of War, a town (settlement) with the Hand of the God of War, an elite unit of level 5-6, with a growth rate increased by 50%.
Towns with the Hand of the God of War will receive the blessing of the God of War and receive gold coins*500 every day.
All troops belonging to the Hand of the God of War town will have a morale +3 (does not stack with other God of War components), and when fighting within the town's sphere of influence, all friendly warriors will have a morale +5.
The attributes are basically the same as what Xu Lai guessed.
Xu Lai no longer valued the 500 gold coins per day brought by the Hand of the God of War, and the effect of morale +3 could not be continuously superimposed.
The growth rate of level 5-6 troops does have some effect. Xu Lai just built the Hall of Champions not long ago, and the building that directly recruits level 6 knights can enjoy the bonus.
However, Xu Lai personally rushed underground and dug out the arms with great pains, not just to recruit a few more knights every month.
Even if this thing allows each person to recruit 10 more knights, in half a year and 6 months, there will only be a total of 60 knights. What use can it be.
What Xu Lai is really looking forward to is what kind of effect it will have after obtaining the complete golden statue of the God of War.
Xu Lai has been holding back this kind of expectation for a full year, and he is really eager to know the answer.
However, he is not physically strong enough at this time and cannot directly teleport back using the Gate of Time and Space.
Moreover, even if he has enough physical strength now, after he thinks clearly, he has no intention of going back.
“Tell me, do you want me to talk to the dungeon people?”
Xu Lai called over the patrolling Roland, Jilong, Jian Yuan Elvi and others. Hold an impromptu small meeting.
"The dungeon race is cunning, selfish and greedy. What do you have to talk about with such people?
At this time, they may be thinking of some conspiracy against us."
Roland, who was a Paladin, immediately expressed his opposition.
Xu Lai smiled, but he was not surprised. Instead, he smiled and said:
"You are right. If those guys don't think about conspiracy, I will feel uncomfortable. Normal.”
Roland opened his mouth and wanted to say, since you know this, why would you put yourself in danger?
But when he said these words, Roland felt that he was timid, so he suppressed them.
“I agree with Knight Roland. The dungeon races are insidious and cunning, and there is absolutely no need for you to negotiate with them.
Even if they are willing to agree to your conditions, once they feel that they can resist you, they will definitely I will stab you in the back without hesitation."
Elwee also said quickly.
Xu Lai narrowed his eyes and said: "In that case, do you think those dungeon people will agree to my conditions?"
Elwee frowned and said: "Those guys have one advantage, that is, they are special He knows the current affairs, but he is definitely not trustworthy."
Xu Lai laughed and said: "You think too much about Elvi. The prerequisite for stabbing her in the back is from behind.
I never trust these guys, so I will never give them a chance to get behind my back."
Elvi bit her lip and said: "What conditions do you want them to agree to, what do you want. , let’s just go and grab it. Is it necessary to negotiate with them?”
Xu Lai took a deep breath and said slowly:
"I want them to admit that I am the king of the underground, but I don't need them to be loyal to me like they are loyal to the Dragon Queen. I only need them to give me money every month. I handed over enough money and resources" (End of Chapter)