Chapter 542: Show your trump card
Due to the influence of the Spider Goddess, most drow have a soft spot for spiders. Not only do they use spider-shaped accessories, but in some places, they also use hurting spiders as a legitimate excuse to attack enemies. They even use Silk builds cities above the abyss, like spiders spinning their webs.
So when you see a large group of eight legs running out of the hole, followed by dark elves, you have basically stopped running. They must be followers of the Spider Goddess.
The scene was already in chaos. The wild bear mercenaries and the Glow Ion Yin Order were fighting fiercely, and this group of drow with spiders rushed out of the cave, and it was hard to tell which side they wanted to help.
Because they beat both sides.
This is like the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony turned into the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with everyone participating in the grand event together.
Under the protection of the invisible sphere, Aldai quickly grabbed Neemia and Zola and motioned them not to move.
The orb of invisibility only makes you invisible to others, but smells, sounds, and even your sixth sense may reveal their location.
This is not unfounded. The five-headed snake whip in the hands of the female drow who seems to be the leader twists like a real snake, giving people the feeling that it is spitting out messages.
This is a standard weapon used by Spider Queen's priests. In addition to being pious enough, priests must also have their perception ability gradually increase as the time they serve the gods increases.
To be fair, even if Zola were to stand in the position of the drow, Aldai would be discovered by Zora if she walked over using invisibility, let alone the drow who had been a priest for a longer time.
In addition to spiders of all sizes, there were also a group of drow warriors wielding exquisite swords. There were also mages, but there were very few.
The female drow dressed as a priest basically watched the show from above and did not leave immediately.
This is because of differences in social status.
The spider goddess Rose only accepts female drow as her priests, so women have a very high status in drow society.
Their social status is priests, women, mages and warriors. For male drow, they can reach the highest status, that is, as the chief mage or chief warrior leader of a family, while other non-drow races have the highest status among them. They all seemed to be inferior slaves.
This social status also made priests feel that it was natural for them to drive slaves and men to fight and gain victory when the opportunity came.
Of course, given the current situation, it may also be because the priests do not want to expose the fact that they cannot use divine magic.
A high social status does not mean peace of mind. Drow are a very 'motivated' race. As long as those in high positions show some flaws, they will be stabbed in the back by their subordinates. Very few drow can live to the end of their lives.
Speaking of which, the drow priest was too close to the cave the three wanted to enter, almost right next to it, so before finding a chance to run away, Aldai decided that we should watch the show invisibly here, since it was not her who was being beaten anyway. .
So the three of them found a rock above to use as a bunker to avoid stray bullets such as flying arrows, so they could watch the show in peace.
Speaking of which, there are actually no drow in the Demon Realm. These black elves can only live underground. They will become blind or even die when exposed to sunlight. Only a few drow who have escaped the evil control of the Spider Queen have the ability to move on the surface. ability.
For example, the drow who believe in Eilistraee, the Moonlight Maiden.
Originally, elves were not a local product of the Demonic Domain, let alone a species with strong regional restrictions. Aldai knew that everything about drow came from descriptions in books.
From here we can also see what a dog-eating race the drow are. Even the planes where there are no drow activities have heard of their fucked up deeds.
The addition of Drow was also beyond the expectations of the Wild Bear Mercenaries and the Glow Ion Yin Order, and both sides suffered a slight loss.
However, it is almost impossible for a group of giant spiders to pose any serious threat.
The lifespan of elves is about five hundred years, and their extremely long lifespan means that their fertility rate is really not very high. When it comes to fighting, there are not enough people. The male Drow, who could clearly see the end, hid behind the big spider and stabbed it, and did not dare to go up to fight head-on. After all, there was no advantage in numbers at all, and if you charged too hard, you might suffer disaster.
It was unclear what the Wild Bear Mercenary's plan was, but the Glow Ion Yin cultivator probably didn't want to continue the entanglement, so they immediately turned their cards.
From the surrounding purple-black cracks, a large group of mechanical creations that looked like beasts or monsters emerged, like beast-shaped golems.
Their strength is not as strong as the golems, but their movements are more flexible. The giant spiders cannot stop them at all, and their numbers are quite large. As soon as they appear, they start to press the drow and the wild wolf mercenaries to beat them.
However, the defense of these guys is far inferior to that of the Golem. It feels like it is made of iron. Any heavy weapon can smash a hole in the shell, let alone the fine swords of Drow, which can only be pressed down in large numbers. Two sides fight.
Aldai, who was watching the play, recognized it as a magical machine shell at a glance. It was an alchemical creature, yes, but it was really a shell in the literal sense.
Their interior, the power core, is the heart of the monster.
Many monsters are born with spell-like abilities, and unlike mortals who store magic power in their souls, monsters store magic power in their hearts.
A typical example is the dragon.
Since the heart has the function of storing magic power, then if the heart is cut out and installed on a machine, wouldn't it create a battery?
So something like a magic casing was created.
The more powerful the monster, the stronger the magic power its heart can produce, and vice versa. The heart of a powerful monster is put into a saltwater tank to be used as a battery, which is a waste in itself.
However, the heart of a low-level monster does not have enough magic power to carry a mechanical body that is too heavy.
Due to the existence of this objective fact, the magic casing has become a cheap substitute for golems and golems. The advantage is that it is really cheap. As long as the master can make the core, the casing and mechanical structure can be easily made by a blacksmith. mass production.
The disadvantage is that they are cheap but not good, and their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of golems, so they can only rely on quantity.
However, in such a chaotic situation, a huge number of magic casings coming out is still quite useful. Even if you can kill one of them, if I pull out ten of them, you will still be blinded.
After all, being cheap means it can be mass-produced.
The emergence of the magic casing has significantly reduced the pressure on the Glow Ion Yin Order. There are also many wild bear mercenaries, and they are still running out of the dark caves below. In terms of numbers, they are still strong. live.
But the drow who suddenly joined the battlefield were a bit unbearable. Their number was already small, and the big spiders they drove over couldn't stand up to the magic casing. The situation didn't look good.
But Aldai and the others were not the only ones standing above to watch the show, several female drow priests did not leave immediately. They watched their people being beaten and retreating steadily. The beauty of the elves could not hide their gnashing teeth until they were twisted. face.
"Trash! Kill these inferior races!"
The five snake whips in her hand raised their heads and made a slight sound, as if in response to the owner's anger.
The other drow priests around them looked at each other and raised their holy symbols downwards.
Circles of purple-black light waves spread out, as if they could identify themselves and the enemy, bypassing themselves and the big spider, and all of them were shouted at the enemy's face.
Damn it? They can actually use magic?
(End of chapter)