From Witcher to Lord of the Empire

Everyone looked in the direction Geralt was pointing at, seeing darkness in front of them. They didn't have Geralt's night vision.

The druid was distressed: "Press the stone? So far, so high? How about Geralt, put a few more fire-breathing signs to point me in the direction, and I will try to control the wall grass to press the stone?"

Lan patted Druid on the shoulder: "Don't bother."

He turned his attention to Geralt: "We just need a good enough crossbowman."

Geralt had already observed the distance between several stones in the dark, silently calculating the angle in his heart.

After a breath, the demon hunter took off the hand crossbow on his back and pulled the trigger, and a crossbow bolt went into the darkness with a "swish".

With the sound of the crossbow bolt hitting a hard object and breaking, followed by the sound of "bang bang bang bang" from the machine spring and the friction of moving stones, it was obvious that some mechanism was triggered in the darkness.

"There really is a mechanism stone that can be moved." Lan heard a soldier sigh in disbelief.

"He actually found the protruding stones on the rock wall in such a dark place."

"Can still shoot!"

The soldiers marveled at the witcher's astonishing abilities, while Geralt reloaded his arrow with a deadpan face.

After the last organ returned to its place, the brick-like door in front of it began to vibrate slowly, and was slowly lifted with a dull "rumbling" sound, revealing the passage behind.

"Ha, it worked." A soldier quietly gave Geralt a thumbs up.

The road ahead is very uneven, with scattered stones and fragments of some sculptures everywhere on the road, which seems to have experienced a small landslide. There are no stairs, and many uphills that need to be climbed require several people to work together to move forward.

After walking forward for nearly a hundred meters, the eyes suddenly opened up, and a hall appeared in front of everyone.

Druid looked around and nodded: "This place is interesting. It seems that the people who designed it put a lot of thought into it. You should look around."

This is a hall with a round vault, divided into two floors, and can accommodate about forty or fifty people at the same time. It seems too simple to say that this is a palace, but I am sorry to say that it is a hall that is full of magic and artistic atmosphere.

In the middle of the hall, there is a three-person tall statue with rounded lines, but the face cannot be seen clearly. The abutment under the feet is also full of potholes and rock chips.

There was a small palm-sized box on the abutment. When I opened it, I found a gold necklace inside. Beside it lay a skeleton with pieces of oren and krona found.

There is also a small altar in front of the statue, the altar is oddly shaped.

The top of the statue's head is the top of the dome, and there are simple striped carvings from the top down. After reaching the ground, the striped carvings overlap each other and sink inward, forming small compartments for placing stone statues.

And in each cubicle, there is a devil-like stone statue with a big belly.

The stone statue is about the height of a person, with two horns on its head, protruding canine teeth and a ferocious face, with only two palm-sized wings growing on its back, with bloated upper limbs and stubby lower limbs.

Looking at the two decorative wings, Sward commented: "They must not be able to fly."

The druid stepped forward to observe carefully, and his expression gradually became strange: "These seem to be gargoyles. A kind of monster created by a warlock injecting magic power into a stone statue."

Hearing that it was a monster, everyone turned serious and looked around. There were ten stone statues in the room.

"Are they strong?"

Geralt is familiar with this kind of monsters, even better than druids. He replied: "They are hard to hurt with swords. Gargoyles are mostly made of granite and marble. They have amazing defense and incredible strength. They are heavy armored." They are also hard to beat. They can also throw large rocks to kill enemies.

In addition, they can also achieve short-distance teleportation, and may suddenly appear behind or directly above the enemy, which is hard to guard against. "

Every time Geralt said something, everyone's expressions became dignified. Only Lan seemed to have expected it, and was not so close to the enemy.

"But they must have weaknesses too, right?"

Geralt nodded. "They're stupid, and the Axii Sign doesn't work on them. Silver can hurt them, and demon gold can disrupt their magical energy."

Lane said: "You use swords to fight. Since they are all made of marble and granite, things that can destroy marble and granite can also destroy them, right?"

Geralt hesitated, then nodded.

Lan turned around and greeted the soldiers: "Change weapons, use a hammer, go up. Hit them one by one, don't give them a chance to wake up!"

This is the purpose of Lane asking the soldiers to carry hammers—to face the gargoyles, golems, and other hard guys that are not made of flesh and blood that they may encounter!

The soldiers dispersed, and the sound of "boom boom" immediately echoed in the hall. One stone statue after another was smashed on the head, and then several hammers hit the body and completely shattered into stones.

Lane was worried that the gargoyle was not at the top of his head, so he insisted that it be safe only if it was formed into a block.

"Ahhh, intruder, uninvited guest!"

After cleaning up a large number of immobile stone statues, a gargoyle suddenly let out a rumbling roar from its abdomen, the voice was low and deafening.

It opened its eyes, and suddenly saw five or six hammer heads calling towards it at the same time.

For gargoyles, magic theorists are still debating how to classify gargoyles. For example, some claim that they are a kind of golem, since gargoyles are nothing more than eccentric statues driven by magic to perform simple errands, and they can only perform the most basic tasks.

To put it simply, they are too stupid, and their reactions are too slow. Even if they have certain magical abilities, they are very rigid in use, and they don't even have a chance to display them.

The magical creation that had just roared was quickly smashed off its head by a hammer cast by humans. All it outputs after waking up is a growl.

The soldiers who cooperated tacitly and had already begun to get familiar with it regularly "bang bang" a few hammers, completely smashing the whole body of the gargoyle.

They had just been taken aback by the sudden growl.

"Sure enough, there are still moving ones." Lann asked, "Is this the last one?"

Everyone looked around, and all the stone statues had been broken into pieces, which made the already simple hall a bit more "battle-damaged" than "dilapidated".

Geralt went up to touch the corpse as usual. The materials that can be produced by this kind of magic creation are generally more advanced, and can collect elemental essence and gargoyle dust, which can be used to enchant equipment.

The druid also stepped forward, wanting to take away the heart of the gargoyle. The gargoyle is quite valuable in the magic circle. When Lan and the others smashed it just now, the corners of the druid's eyes twitched in distress.