Shadow Covenant

Chapter 127 "Killing Intent"

The underground black market in the dock area, this time Woody did not choose to enter through the passage, but asked the driver to place himself near the tavern where he and Angelina entered the black market last time, and randomly found an inconspicuous alley.

Then he directly used the Thor stone ring on his hand, relying on the Thor stone on it to perform the spell, melted into the stone, and directly immersed in the land that had just been sprinkled with a little bit of broken sunlight.

The feeling of entering the soil is still so dull, and the five senses are closed. Only the sixth sense, through the feedback of tremor perception, gives Woody, who is stuck in the mud and stones, a little adjustment.

However, this dull feeling didn't last long. He quickly found the passage to the black market based on his memory and the composition of the soil. Of course, there was nothing to say. Walking through the dirt, and then arrived at the black market he had been to several times before.

The dripping sound of stalactites and waterfalls is still so deafening. When Woody's face emerges from the stone limestone, he can just see the boundless area, the size of dozens of football fields, occupying two-thirds of the cave hall. It is a natural lake, and above it is a waterfall from an inland river.

The black market in the distance is much quieter than before. Woody, who is quite sharp-eyed, discovered that in this area where people from the Palermo Consulate rarely appear, now there are noble guards guarding the entrances and exits of several caves, and even The trace of the caster appeared.

Obviously, the consequences of the news that the two brothers Marko and Logan of the Lutov Manor appeared here, although Earl Rees asked Susan to make things trivial for the sake of the overall situation, it does not mean that after knowing the location of the murderer, he still Will let it go.

Heavily armed noble guards, plus a team of white crow elite swordsmen with an average level of 7, and a lineup headed by level 10 spellcasters are his sincerity and bargaining chips to appease the Edith family.

Woody didn't get close, and his goal of coming this time was not for the two brothers Marco and Logan. He mainly wanted to find out whether there was a path leading to the underground lake in the dwarf city under the huge lake next to the black market. , or in other words, he came to the black market for on-the-spot investigation in order to find the water outlet.

He is nearly [-]% sure of whether it can be connected.

After all, he was in that underground lake last time, but he clearly saw the white tip shark he got here last time, swimming freely and preying there.

The fish and shrimp washed down by the river waterfall are enough to feed a sea predator with a small appetite.

The face on the gray rock wall gradually disappeared. Woody controlled his body in the mud and headed towards the rock formation below the lake. The feeling of wetness was very clear. When Woody was in the ground at the bottom of the lake, his naked body was completely soaked. , the water content in the soil here is extremely rich.

In order to find it as soon as possible, Woody got out of the mud directly. Relying on his longing for the sea, he was able to do it with ease in this soda area where the river and the sea meet.

Sure enough, with the restoration of the five senses, coupled with the clear change of the water flow from the vision of the sea, it took him little effort to find the direction of the water flow, which was the deepest point in the center of the lake.

Obviously, this is a typical flow of water silting, and the waterfall brings dissolution, thus forming a lake of groundwater.

There was only one undercurrent, and Woody breathed a sigh of relief. What he was most worried about was that the lake would form a shower-like shape. If there were more than a dozen whirlpools at the bottom of the lake, he would really have to spend a lot of effort to find a way leading to that underground vortex. The road to the lake, and for that plan, he might have to block other exits.

That's right, he wanted to use the water accumulated in the lake to wipe out the resting drow in the lower reaches of the underground lake.

The plan lingering in Woody's mind is bold, but it has certain operational possibilities.

If it wasn't for his aunt's reminder this morning, he might have ignored these environmental factors.

After all, if he really wanted to deal with the group of lingering drow at once, it would be absolutely impossible if only based on his personal strength. His current upper limit of strength simply couldn't wipe out a group of exiles in the Underdark. drow tribe.

But the various information he received earlier gave him a possibility, that is, to solve them, sometimes he does not need to use the knife himself, and he is responsible for pressing the event switch.

Anyway, before the individual is too strong to change the laws of nature, he is still quite weak in the face of favorable location and timing.

It's like you are only quite good at fighting, you can beat more than a dozen strong men, but your opponent can directly summon meteorites or earthquakes to fight against you by virtue of the right time or location.

This, who is strong and who is weak, can be seen at a glance.

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The water flow at the entrance of the undercurrent is not urgent, because this is not a deep spiral hole, but a crack about 20 meters long and less than [-] centimeters wide. This crack is particularly conspicuous in the silted sand on both sides.

Before Woody got close, he could feel the suction, but it wasn't too strong. He directly chose to open the Thor Stone Ring again in the water, and the number of times he used it was within his control. This time, he directly explored the crack width, and the passage route leading to the duergar city can perfectly complete the task.

Diving into the ground again, the five senses are still closed, the complex underground environment brought about by tremor perception, and the layers of the mantle folded by layers of tortuous synclines or anticlines lie safely in the underwater mud. In order to know the mystery.

He used the stone walking technique before and sometimes he didn't understand why he was fast at one time and slow at another, but he understood after gradually mastering it.

This is the effect of different geological layers.

Just like the water in a swimming pool, some water restricts the body, just like the swells in the sea that keep hitting you, it is difficult to move forward, but some are like a calm lake, you can swim easily with only a little effort.

And Woody is in the field where various swimming environments overlap. The raw metal ore is a reef in the sea, which is insurmountable, while layers of overlapping mudstone, sand and limestone layers are various environments for swimming, and sometimes the waves are rough. Move forward with great effort, sometimes easily and recklessly, effortlessly.

All in all, the deeper the ground, the more difficult it is to walk through. Sometimes Woody can't wait to install a propeller under his feet.

But Woody knows that these are actually the consequences of the closure of the five senses by the Sol stone technique, which makes people lose the concept of time and space, so he is not as impatient as he imagined.

Instead, like a skilled technician, he is slowly groping for the direction of this water flow channel leading to the lower part. During this time, he must always pay attention to whether there is a fork in the road. If there is, then the plan must be implemented. blocked.

However, this drop is shorter than Woody imagined. The direction of this crack leads to the upper reaches of the underground lake waterfall, and the total length is less than [-] meters. It didn't take him much time to explore.

Because he discovered that the second half of this passage... was built by gray dwarves.

Sticking his head out of the rock wall, looking at the stone statue of the gray dwarf who was spitting out the torrential water continuously, Woody was silent for a long time.

He looked at the straight-forward canal at the foot of the stone statue. The water in the canal rushed all the way to the end, and the sound of the waterfall bloomed there.

He knew that the on-site survey was probably over, and the only thing to do was to confirm the location.

He touched the ring to release the stonewalking spell, and broke free from the rock wall.

It is almost at the top of the cave, and the stalactites on the rock wall are almost vertical, and you can touch them.

When Woody walked, he kept his head down, so as not to be hit on the head by the stalactites. At a distance of about twenty meters, Woody walked to the end of the canal, next to the rushing water splashing wantonly at the mouth of the cliff.

He stood on the walkway built by the gray dwarves, looking down.

The height difference formed by the layered topography of the underground karst caves presents a magnificent underground landscape in front of his eyes, the strange and dangerous underground rocks, the moist lichen that glows in the dark, and the huge mosaic embedded on the mantle. The deep giant pool.

Woody is sure that this is the Underdark region he saw last time through the passageway of the Shark-Lizard Beast's lair, and compared to the last time, he stood higher, and his mentality at this time was already different from the last time.

This time, he came with... killing intent.

(End of this chapter)