Shadow Covenant

Chapter 132 "Development"

In the early morning of the next day, before the fog rising from the sea was blown away by the sun, Woody walked out of the hotel gate where he stayed overnight in the hazy weather against the cold breeze.

Yesterday he explained to Angelina what he could explain, and he was not idle. Not only did he read the gray dwarf's diary carefully, but he also drew a crude map that was relatively clumsy but vivid according to the description, which made him Gained a deeper understanding of the terrain near duergar cities.

On the whole, it looks like a retort-shaped hole. The widest body of the bottle is where the gray dwarves live, and the mouth of the retort is a deep pool. tribal city.

It was exactly what he thought.

And for today's fight.

Woody is still wearing the close-fitting and hard shark-lizard leather armor. The boots and breeches look very neat. With the black cloak and the ponytail tied up behind him, he is playing with his hands from time to time to increase his weapon proficiency. With a long and slender machete, the overall appearance is a bit like a mercenary from the East.

Many fishermen who got up early saw him and got out of the way far away, while Woody came to the agreed position amidst the cries of seagulls.

The entrance of the "Scimitar Tavern".

This is the location he made an appointment with Angelina yesterday. Originally, he wanted to meet in front of the black market, but in order to prepare early, he gave a passage for the two to communicate.

He soon came to the door of the tavern where he entered the black market last time. After the turn of day and night, the only sound in the tavern that was still awake was the crackling flames from the stove and the ravings of some drunken passengers.

And looking up from this position, you can just see the magic lighthouse on the mountainside in the distance that lights up the way for the lost ships. when it rang.

However, half an hour after the magic lighthouse went out, Woody saw the familiar voice at the end of the road, and the slightly hurried footsteps, but in this gradually recovering city, it seemed so inconspicuous.

Soon, Angelina came to Woody's side. She seemed to have just bathed. Her hair and exposed skin were stained with water, and her whole body exuded a sea salt air mixed with light sea breeze. .

"Sorry, I was still late. I ran into a group of fishermen. I wanted to go ashore from there, but I had to find another location."

Angelina explained the reason, and Woody nodded after listening, and pulled out a slender seaweed mixed in her long wine-red hair with his hands without any trace.

"It's okay, I haven't been here for long, so it's important to be careful, especially if you have to bring your younger siblings to live in this city in the future, you should pay more attention to protecting your identity."

"Well, let's go then."

Angelina nodded silently. It seemed that Woody's words brought back the past in her heart. She thought about leaving before, but now Lin and the others are like this...

Thinking of this, she is even more determined to win today's trip to the Underdark Region.

Before she left the orphanage, she swore in front of her seriously ill grandma that she would bring them up, not one of them.

"Okay, let's talk as we walk."

So, Woody and Angelina walked into the hall, whispered a few words to the bartender who had just woken up, and the bartender nodded tacitly, and led them to the underground black market in the dock area.

It was still a narrow alley, and came to the back of the tavern.

However, before opening the passage, the bartender actually whispered to the two of them, saying that the Palermo Consulate had taken some medicine and had been staying in the underground black market for the past few days, causing a mess.

Obviously, the inside and outside of the words are to let the two of them think clearly before going to the black market, and put aside their own responsibilities first, and he must have said such things to other people.

After all, the purpose of going to the black market is to buy some contraband on the market. When the government gets involved, it will definitely affect the original market. After making it clear, it will be beneficial to both parties.

But this was nothing to Woody and Angelina, and the slow pace didn't play a half role. He just nodded politely to express his gratitude to the bartender for his reminder, then turned around and met the bartender who was standing beside him. Angelina walked down the dark and deep stairs together. It was not until the light behind her disappeared that Woody fixed her eyes on the monk girl beside her.

"How is the Deep Pool Passage doing?"

Woody began to ask about the progress of the process, and at the same time handed something to Angelina.

"It's blocked, uh, this is..."

Angelina answered quickly. It took her a lot of effort yesterday to block the so-called deep pool underground passage.

Now the storage of water must be very good. There is no need to worry about the siphon effect caused by the excessive flow of water, so that the water that should have overflowed will return to the sea. But after seeing the things Woody handed over, the monk girl was a little puzzled, but took It was only when I got it in my hand that I realized that it was a bottle of milky white liquid with holy light and peace, and there were a few scrolls.

——"Primary Healing Holy Water."

- "Cure moderate wounds."

Because of Lin and the others, she bought this thing in the Dawn Temple yesterday, but it was more than what she bought last time, and from the perspective of concentration, it was higher.

"Use this when you are injured. You can use holy water and scrolls according to your needs. Don't save them, otherwise your sanity will rapidly decay when you are injured. This is an effective way to prevent you from losing control of your body. Although it is a bit extravagant, it is really important .”

Woody patiently explained that he had considered a lot of things yesterday,
Although this underground trip is going with the general trend, what should we do if the general trend does not work?
Therefore, the lethality of the drow needs to be taken into account, and Angelina, who has turned into a megalodon, must be an important target of fire.

Therefore, in order for the plan to be implemented smoothly, after parting with Angelina, Woody took advantage of the night to go to the trade zone and used up all the gold coins on his body. In addition to buying holy water, he also bought two The purpose of the spell scroll for treating moderate injuries is to keep her in good shape in today's battle.

Both bloodthirsty and pain will aggravate the overlapping of curses. Although he successfully suppressed the animal nature in Angelina's body a few days ago, for the sake of stability, it is naturally impossible for him to save this little money.

In technical terms, if he wanted to clear this dungeon, then the front row had to be hard enough, otherwise he couldn't steal the output.

"ok, I get it."

Woody's explanation made Angelina understand the meaning of this, so she didn't give in too much, but accepted it directly.

The two chatted for a while, and then heard the thunderous sound of the waterfall again.

The black market has arrived.

Neither Woody nor Angelina entered there, but directly picked a remote corner, and they all went into the water. Woody began to communicate with them telepathically.

"I'll go down first, you wait for me here."

Before Woody used the Thor Stone Ring, he made a brief explanation and left Angelina alone in this black market lake.

It is not that simple to ride the tide. Although there are at least hundreds of millions of tons of river water accumulated here, if the water in the deep pool overflows the flood that can overturn the town, it is estimated that it will not work in the last month.

First of all, the first step is to expand the water flow channel, otherwise, even if he blocks the bottom, it will be futile.

Only when it is thick enough and the water flow is strong enough can it have an effect similar to breaking a dike.

If it were someone else, the best way to do this would be to dig directly along the cracks.

But if you want to dig through and explode the path leading to the deep underground pool, I am afraid that only legendary spells can do it.

But then why would he go far and wide, and use legendary spells to deal with the drow directly?

Therefore, Woody, who has the stone-shaping gloves and the Thor stone ring, has the necessary elements to successfully execute this plan.

Feel the movement around.

Woody first blended into the soil. Although the five senses were blocked, he quickly found the section of the water flow channel by virtue of the tremor perception. When he found it, the task of Thor's stone ring was completed. Woody directly canceled Sol's The effect brought by the stone ring, the whole person appeared on the side of the water flow channel, and then began to face the downward water flow, and began to expand the distance of the channel with both hands.

With the help of plastic stone gloves, no matter how hard the rock is, he can easily dig it up like digging sand. The soil is washed away by him directly with the current. Soon, a cross section ten meters wide and one meter long appears in the In this gap created by the intersection of rocks, the turbulent icy water flow from top to bottom quickly covered and filled it.

At this rate, he will be able to use that thing soon!

Woody's eyes turned to the dimensional ring in his hand, as if he could see the fireball scroll well placed in the ring through the barriers of the planes.

……

In the dark region on the other side, in a magnificent palace in the abandoned gray dwarf city.

Just like every day, Kurea still used spider therapy to heal his poor lover who lost the gift of Korsust.

The current Elise is not as unconscious as before, she can barely speak a few words, and maintains a clear mind.

However, perhaps because she noticed her own physical defects, or because she realized that the divine power had been far away from her, she was not very interested in speaking, but was just fiddled with an emblem that Kurea had never seen before. A black spider hanging from a spider web, with a female dark elf as its head, Curea asked about it, but she only said that it was a beautiful brooch she bought, so he just skipped it.

Most of the rest of the time is Kurrea, the drow mage exuding elegance and seductive charm, speaking softly, and most of the words contain the future of the two people.

"Elise, when the time comes, we will leave the main city and live in a place where no one will disturb us, just the two of us."

"I have always heard that the scenery of Shimmer Sea is very beautiful. I heard that the stones there are like stars on the surface, shining on the top of the cave thousands of meters high. Didn't you say before that you want to see the sea? I heard that in Then the boat will have the illusion of sailing under a clear night sky."

"If you think the sound of the waterfall there is too loud, we can change to the Silent Grove, it's very quiet."

……

"Curea." The words of imagining the future were interrupted, and Cureia was pleasantly surprised to find that Elise, who had been silent all this time, spoke.

"Do you love me?" she said, with her lips cracked by the lightning.

"Idiot, why did you come up with such an idea?" Cureya didn't know whether to laugh or cry, as if he heard the innocent words from a child, he touched her dry scalp and comforted her.

"No matter what you become, under the witness of the Spider Queen, my love for you will never change until death."

"Then are you willing to die for me?"

"certainly?"

"But what if I recite...do something that I'm sorry for you?"

"Then I'm happy too."

Cureya opened his hands, and he embraced Elise in his arms. Perhaps it was the over-rationality of studying spells all the year round that made her emotional emotions grow at the same time. The drow rarely express themselves so clearly and fieryly. Emotions.

But the intention of embracing was stopped by a slight push. He looked down and saw the girl in his arms looking at him with extremely resentful eyes, her trembling arms were resisting his embrace.

This action seemed to have cost her a lot of strength, and after a while, Elise, who was panting heavily, roared with all her strength.

"No! Kureya! You don't love me! All you love is yourself, you live in your own world, you don't know what I want at all!"

Hearing this, Cureya did not show a sad look, but explained with a straight face.

"I love you, Elise! I'm so sorry that your dreams were shattered, but I didn't know it would turn out like this! I fantasized about your failure, but I never acted on it, you have to believe Me! My love for you never changes!"

He clearly understood that the current Elise must have become unreasonable because of the disappearance of divine grace. After all, for her who was once a noble priest, this was an unbearable and severe blow.

And what he has to do, of course, is tolerance.

"Then why haven't you acted yet, and just watched me fail like this?"

Elise's voice was a little hysterical, obviously, she was a little crazy.

"No, Elise, I'm already preparing. The ritual of the Soul-eating Spider will take some time. Don't worry, none of those who hurt or indirectly hurt you will be able to escape!"

Kurea's voice was as cold as water pouring down from the cave roof thousands of feet high, containing rage and coldness.

"But I want to kill the human noblewoman who destroyed my plan now! I remember her name, Susan Edith!"

When it came to names, she gritted her teeth, wishing she could eat their flesh raw.

"There is also that noble boy. I thought he was dead, but he came back to life. He also lived in that manor. It was them...it was them who caused me to become like this. I could have succeeded in the first place."

In this regard, Currea showed a calm and patient side to appease.

"It's all counted. When you recover from your injuries and the ceremony is completed, I'll catch them and come here, and then you can do whatever you want."

Listening to Currea's comfort, the emotional Elise gradually calmed down, and seemed to be immersed in the bright future described by Currea.

So she also uttered a dream-like statement.

"At that time, I will let them endure all the means in the drow dungeon before they die! ... Hurry up, I can't wait!"

Obviously, in fantasy, Elise has begun to look forward to that day.

But in the next moment, it spread throughout the entire underground, so that the surface could hear the roar and shock of movement, somewhere above their heads.

There was a bang.

(End of this chapter)