Chapter 546 My hands are itchy
Before coming, he had expected that someone would hinder his actions. Aldai knew that there were many people on the other side, so he only brought two teammates with him. The purpose was to sneak into the village quietly and avoid shooting.
As a result, when they arrived at the place, they discovered that this was not a problem of a large number of people. An unidentified god was also involved. Travelers from other planes seemed to be connected, plus the drow...
What happened in the Age of Mythology does involve a wide range of things, but I didn't expect it to be so wide-ranging. It is no longer just a matter of one plane in the Demon Realm.
Aldai had a strong urge to go back and beat up the three parties fighting and make them vomit out everything they knew.
Fortunately, it was just an impulse.
Aldai is indeed a high-level mage, but a high-level mage is far from invincible. Besides, this is not a question of combat effectiveness. If someone doesn't speak, it will be useless no matter how hard you beat him.
In short, although I was curious about what happened here, I still followed the original plan, took the Demon King's Ring and ran away. The other details will be investigated slowly later.
The three of them rested for a while while healing their injuries, and then continued moving forward.
The cave that Aldai and the others entered should be a karst cave. It was closer to a mine tunnel than the previous one. Stalagmites and stalactites can be seen everywhere.
The good news is that there are no forks in the road and no monsters were found. The bad news is that after walking for more than an hour, I still haven't seen the end. It's hard to say how big this ghost place is. At the very least, I'm sure it's much bigger than the last ruins. times.
After walking for almost two hours, the three of them heard a roar coming down the passage at the same time, accompanied by a strong wind blowing against their faces.
Zora and Alde immediately looked solemn, trying to identify what the roar was, but Nemea, who had always been the most timid, was very calm this time.
"That was the sound of the wind, not a monster."
"The rumor? How did you know?"
"When I was a child, some orphans and I used to live in a cave in the wild. In spring and autumn, we would hear roars similar to those of monsters coming from the cave. I was used to it."
She seemed to say something quite tragic without caring.
Zola and Alde were a little doubtful about this, but Nemea was confident that he would not admit his mistake. The three of them continued to move forward. This time they walked for about ten minutes. The deeper they went, the more artificial things they could see around them. Signs of repairs, large slabs of stone and stone bricks appear from time to time.
Going a little further, a square doorway decorated with stone slabs appeared in front of the three of them.
The hole is probably less than three meters high, and two slender cracks can be seen on the left and right sides, which have been reinforced with building materials.
Aldai held up the dancing light to check and found that the roaring wind was blowing out of the cracks on the left and right sides. When the wind speed was strong enough, it would turn into the roar they heard before.
Nemea proudly put her hands on her hips:
“I’m right, that’s the wind.”
"You're right, it seems I still have little experience in going out on adventures."
Aldai took two steps back and looked up at the pattern above the doorway.
This doorway shows the characteristics of the dwarves in both craftsmanship and decorative style, giving it a rough and solid feel.
On the doorframe above the doorway, it is written in Dwarven language, 'Moradin's Roar'.
Moradin is the racial god of the dwarves and the main god of the dwarf pantheon. Legend has it that all dwarves originated from Moradin's furnace. He forged the first batch of dwarves from precious metals and gems.
In general, Moradin is to the dwarves what the Demon King is to the demons. It belongs to the relationship between the creator and the creation.
The so-called Roar of Moradin refers to this tunnel that roars from time to time.
The dwarves have a habit of naming places after Moradin.
For example, the place where metal is forged will be called Moradin's Hammer by the dwarves, the sentry tower responsible for reconnaissance will be called Moradin's Eye, and the warehouse where food (especially wine) is stored will be called Moradin's Wine Glass. . Therefore, Moradin's Roar is a typical dwarf naming style.
but……
Isn't this where the Demon King's Ring is stored?
Aldai felt something was not right when she saw a dwarf's tombstone before. When she saw this very dwarf-style doorway, this feeling of something wrong reached its peak.
All signs indicate that this is the ruins of the dwarves. Why should the Demon King's Ring be placed here?
Just because there is a ready-made maze?
But the maze that I walked through before was obviously not built in the dwarf style...
If you can’t figure it out, take another look.
After entering the doorway, the magical light illuminates the nearby stone slabs. A deep passage leads to nowhere, but it is surrounded by dust. The dwarf-style walls clearly tell you that this is the territory of the dwarves and it has been abandoned. It’s been a long time.
Compared with caves, this kind of artificially repaired passage is certainly easier to walk, at least it won't be a step deep and a shallow step in a dark cave.
But the problem is that in such a place with obvious human traces, there is likely to be an agency trap.
Anyway, the way here has been blocked, and Nemea, who is the eye of the team, is not in a hurry. She bends down and lowers her head to see if there are any traps on the ground, while leading the way, and from time to time she squats down and takes out the tools in her pocket to work. Ichiban.
Aldee and Zola did not rush Nemea, but looked around to see what else was noteworthy in this place.
Judging from the style of the decorative relief, it does not look like the type favored by modern dwarves. It is probably from the mythological era. As for the more specific details, Aldé cannot judge.
After all, she is not good at archeology, Ivan is better at this aspect.
After walking around for a while, Aldai saw a recessed closet beside the wall, with a bottle that looked like ceramic material placed in it. She recognized it immediately as a sentry bottle.
This is also a habit of the dwarves. The ashes of some sentinels who are willing to continue performing their duties after death will be put into such small bottles and placed at important entrances and exits, indicating that the loyal guards are still performing their duties.
Alder was interested in it because this kind of sentinel bottle was a funeral custom, and dwarves would put precious metals in the coffin of the deceased.
Dwarves are currently the race that has mastered the most alloy formulas. Their mines often produce metals that they feel are useful but have no idea of their use. Most of them leave samples and formulas behind and are carefully kept, and some of them are also placed in coffins as burials. Taste.
No one may have known the use of these special alloys at the time, but now they are likely to be used in many aspects.
After all, anyone who studies materials knows that studying materials is like drawing cards with krypton gold. No one knows when SSR will be drawn.
As for materials science, this is the field that Aldai is good at.
So when she saw the sentry bottle, she immediately reached out to get it, wanting to see if there was any precious metal alloy buried with it.
At this time, Neemia breathed a long sigh of relief, touched the fine sweat on her forehead, and was about to turn back and say to continue walking, when she saw that Aldai's finger had touched the bottle, and she had no time to stop it.
"Don't touch it! It's a trap!"
"It doesn't matter. After all, it has to be thousands of years old. Traps should have been out of date..."
Before they finished speaking, the three of them saw the bottle that Aldai had touched suddenly fall inward, as if it was contained within the wall, and then there was a sound of gears turning.
"..."
Suddenly I had a bad feeling.
(End of chapter)