Knight with Wand

Lohak left in a hurry with his attendants.

With no trivial matters to delay his urgent journey, Leon estimated that he could walk on the forest road and rush back to Avalon before dark.

If it was fast, reinforcements would arrive tomorrow. After all, they had walked along the veins and stopped along the way to get here, so this place was actually not far from Avalon.

However, Leon was not idle and waiting. Although he had no intention of continuing to look for mines, he still took Olivia, Corvis and Treya to search for traces of wild goblins around.

Since wild goblins can travel in and out of the mine, there must be another real entrance and exit nearby besides the collapsed pit that Olivia accidentally smashed.

And this mine tunnel is so close to the surface, judging from the trend, it must not be far away.

Following the direction of the tunnel, the four people searched in the woodlands at both ends, and soon found the entrance of the mine tunnel supported by a thick wooden beam frame under a gentle slope south of the sinkhole.

But there is no construction of the external mining area around here. Not only the track is not extended, but it is also surrounded by wasteland and forests. It is obviously not the real entrance and exit of the mine. Maybe it is just a branch road that has been dug too far?

Not knowing whether this place leads to the collapsed tunnel just now, Leon decided to go in a little bit to take a look.

He turned on the earth vein spirit lamp, Corvis activated the sword blade, Olivia and Treya lit the torch, and the four of them walked in.

The light source held by each of them illuminated the dark mine tunnel.

After walking a few steps, seeing a large number of spirit vein ore crystals exposed on both sides of the tunnel, Leon was satisfied. In any case, it was worth the trip.

And after clearing the wild goblins here, sending people to use this ancient mine tunnel also saved the workers from opening up the mine in the early stage.

"Leon, look, there is not only spirit vein ore here! There are also many iron ores around." Olivia looked around the tunnel rock wall with the help of the firelight. As the daughter of a blacksmith, she naturally recognized the characteristics of these raw ores.

Leon then noticed that the large area of ​​dark rock occupied more positions on the rock wall covered with new spiritual veins.

Corvis approached the rock wall of the tunnel, reached out and touched the obvious traces of excavation on it in the past, turned his head and smiled at Leon: "It's still 'black crystal iron', my lord, this is extremely high-quality iron ore."

Leon was a little surprised when he heard this.

Although he couldn't tell what kind of black ore rock there was in the world around the tunnel, Olivia and Corvis would definitely not bluff.

This is really an unexpected harvest.

Spiritual veins cannot be converted into cash in this era, but an iron mine, or a high-quality iron mine, is of great value to humans in any era.

I just don't know how much high-quality iron ore reserves are left here after the mining by ancient miners.

Continuing forward, not long after walking, the light source held by everyone illuminated the end of the mine track in front, on which there was a severely rusted mine car.

Leon went up and looked at the edge, and there were some black crystal iron ores chiseled from the rock wall piled inside.

After exploring along the mine track for a while, they did not encounter any forks along the way. Suddenly, they saw the sunlight from the surface in front of them, and they realized that they had arrived at the cave entrance that was collapsed by Olivia before.

"Let's stop here, Corvis, you set up a warning spell here to guard against wild goblins, and we will go back to the ground." Leon stopped and looked up.

The height is okay, so there is no need to turn back.

Corvis took a few steps forward and arranged the spell horizontally, cutting off the tunnel in the middle.

Leon waved to Olivia: "Come and see, is this the distance that I throw you up, or you throw me up?"

The girl looked up to measure the height, then extinguished the torch, moved her shoulders and smiled calmly: "Let me do it, I'm strong, but be careful not to fall."

After Olivia finished speaking, she half-crouched, crossed her hands in iron gloves, and built a "platform" for her lover to step on.

Leon was not afraid of hurting the other party. They threw each other directly into the air like this. They did it a lot during their daily training.

This is also an extremely important part of the Olivia School when it comes to advanced training of somersaults, leaps and other body skills. The "sword techniques" created by the girl to cross the enemy's head and vertically hit the vital points of the head cannot be used without jumping to a high enough height.

Leon took a few steps back, took a short run, and stepped on the hand stand set up by Olivia with his iron boots. In an instant, he was thrown high by the girl after a light shout.

Although he was not as cool as the girl before, Leon still lay half of his body firmly at the entrance of the cave and pushed himself up.

He threw down the rope and pulled his companions up one by one. After that, Leon stopped running around and camped near this bare rock to wait for reinforcements.

That night, when Leon was on guard, he heard the screaming sound of the warning technique in the cave.

This means that there are living creatures that have crossed the "cordon line" that Corvis had set up in the cave during the day.

He ran to the cave entrance and looked around. He saw the wild goblins who were frightened by the loud noise and hurriedly retreated to the depths of the tunnel after knowing that their whereabouts were exposed.

These little monsters were indeed hiding inside

In the second half of the night, there was no movement in the tunnel.

The next day, the brothers came back faster than Leon thought.

Before the sun rose to the middle of the sky, Lohak led the army back to the bare rock land in the forest. Almost all the soldiers under his command went out. Nearly a hundred soldiers immediately made the lonely forest more popular.

But since they were trekking in the forest and could not ride horses, Leon also told Lohak not to bring Uncle Brian, who had inconvenient legs and feet, at the beginning.

It's okay to walk on the ground, but walking through the forest is really a torture for the lame old knight, so there's really no need for him to come.

The hundreds of elite soldiers at present, plus Leon and others, are already killing chickens with butcher knives and using cannons to kill mosquitoes for the task of exterminating a nest of wild goblins.

"Respond to the call and serve you, sir." Larian, who came with the army, greeted Leon.

The expression of the Ranger Knight seemed a little excited. This was his first serious mission to defeat monsters after being hired by Leon.

He and Magerina lived very comfortably in Avalon Castle. In the lord's fortress with various wonderful facilities, life was better than in his hometown in the south.

But the more comfortable every day, the more Larian felt ashamed for himself for having a high monthly salary but doing nothing for a while.

He also wanted to chop off a few monsters' heads as soon as possible, perform well, and prove that he was not just eating free meals in the employer's castle.

Leon nodded and asked the other party to help. Naturally, he was also impressed by the professionalism and martial arts of the Ranger Knight who was like a "demon hunter".

He left some soldiers to set up a temporary camp near the cave entrance, and then led the assembled elite and heavy armored guards to the entrance discovered yesterday.

Halfway through, Lohak came to Leon and whispered the news he had asked from the Mage Tower.

".Ms. Lola said that this area is under the rule of 'Gervin', the commander of the Sun Guard who was once demoted by her. She said that she didn't pay much attention to this place in the past. Before the formation of the spirit-like field, she was far away in the Court of the King of Laws and naturally didn't know about such trivial matters as who mined and dug wells here."

Lokhak reluctantly repeated the words of the white-haired lady, and then asked with great confusion: "By the way, what is the identity of Ms. Lola? What is the Sun Guard? What is the Court of the King of Laws? Who is Gervin? Gervin? Why do I feel like I have heard this name somewhere?"

Looking at the incarnation of 100,000 Whys Brother of Qi Baobao, Leon patted his shoulder: "Don't worry, I will explain to you after I go back, let's get the business done first."

After saying that, he looked at the Ranger Knight beside him: "Do you know anything about wild goblins?"

Larian nodded and replied: "I know very well, sir, those little monsters are not difficult to deal with in most cases. Although it is said in ancient books that some of their subspecies will domesticate a dangerous giant poisonous spider in the crypt, but according to my experience of going deep into caves and crypts over the years, I have never encountered it. Maybe it has already been extinct."

Listening to the Ranger Knight's experience in hunting demons, Leon led the army to the destination.

The soldiers immediately reorganized their formation in front of the tunnel entrance.

The crossbowman guards with weapons on their waists and hips helped the crossbowmen carry large shields and walked in the front row, and the archers holding the Silver Mountain crossbows were behind them.

On the left and right were the heavy armored guards and knight attendants, Leon and others walked in the center of the team, and finally followed the chain armored spearmen at the back.

With a slight gap between the front and rear teams, the armored warriors entered in a solemn and orderly manner, advancing along the mine tunnel.

Pairs of boots stepped over the top hole area, and torches illuminated the dark depths that had not been explored before.

The tunnel was parallel for only a while, and everyone felt that the angle was constantly decreasing, as if it was leading underground.     In the tunnel with no other reference except the sound of footsteps, even the sense of time gradually blurred. Fortunately, the hourglass on Leon's waist could remind him that everyone had only explored for more than ten minutes.

Following the ramp with several turns, I don't know how many meters I walked underground, but the torches were still burning as usual, and the slight cold air current coming from the front seemed to show no signs of lack of air circulation.

Leon looked around the passage that looked unchanged.

The mine tunnel with thick beams was not narrow, and several people could walk side by side. The blue and black silver ore bodies on the rock wall were interlaced and embedded in the rock wall. The more he looked at it, the more he was pleased with the rich mineral reserves here.

OK, this time he was really going to be rich. Even if he couldn't estimate it now, he knew that this ancient underground iron mine was absolutely priceless.

Suddenly, the front team gradually stopped.

Leon looked up and found that the front was suddenly open, as if he had arrived at a tunnel entrance.

But the light of the torches in the hands of the soldiers, which was swaying due to the whistling wind outside the cave, could only barely illuminate the extremely deep darkness around.

Outside the cave entrance, except for the mine tracks extending from the feet, which were built on the wide rock road that could accommodate more than ten people walking side by side, there was no rock wall on the left and right.

Leon walked up to the cave entrance, tentatively stepped on the rock path carrying the railroad tracks, and turned back to call his young wizard: "Corvis, light up the surroundings."

The young wizard immediately lit up the blade, controlled the long sword to rise into the air, and quickly flew to the surroundings of the rock bridge in front.

As the dazzling magic light spread, a surprisingly large underground cave was suddenly displayed in front of everyone.

The reason why the torches could not illuminate the rock walls on the left and right of the rock bridge in front was because there was nothing in the underground space.

The soldiers were shocked by the shocking scene in front of them and gasped.

Larian, who was well-informed, was also surprised. He had never heard of any country that could dig out such a huge underground space.

And the soldiers who had just tried to step onto the rock bridge platform saw the bottomless darkness at the edge, and they all shrank back in fear of heights.

There was not only a rock suspension bridge in front of them that led straight to the distance, but also rock bridge platforms crisscrossed with mining tracks everywhere the flying sword's light shone on.

". Prophet! Can this be dug out from the ground?"

Lokhak opened his eyes wide and looked at the huge hole that he could hardly believe was made by humans along Corvis' flying sword.

But nature will not produce standard rock suspension bridges that connect the mines for each track.

Leon came to one side and used the earth vein spirit lamp to illuminate the endless darkness below. He, who was not afraid of heights, felt a little scared.

He kicked down a large stone and then listened attentively.

It took several seconds before he heard the slight vibration of the landing echo spreading upward.

But this also made Leon relieved.

After all, it was not a terrifying bottomless abyss. There was still a bottom, probably about one or two hundred meters.

Olivia pulled Leon's arm and pointed forward: "There are footsteps ahead, those wild goblins."

As if confirming her reminder.

"~Crack!"

An inhuman scream drew everyone's attention back to the front of the mine track rock bridge.

Larian, who was skilled and courageous, drew his long sword and rushed over with a torch.

Corvis also turned his flying sword to look forward, illuminating the huge rock platform at the end of the rock bridge and the wild goblins on it.

Leon followed closely with his sword. He could see that there were not only wild goblins on the platform, but also a long-abandoned mining truck, and even a huge iron structure deeply embedded in the edge of the rock platform, which seemed to be some kind of elevator.

There is no doubt that these advanced ancient mining facilities could not be the creation of the human civilization of the current Western Continent.

He now roughly understood how those wild goblins came.

When the spirit-like field still covered this area, this large underground mine naturally became a cursed land. The spirit-like field spreading with the wizard tower as the center would not only affect the surface.

But now, with the dissipation of the spirit-like field, the mine cave, which was also a forbidden place for life, has once again become a passage for mortal life to travel freely.

This underground tunnel is so interconnected that no one knows where each mine cave connected by a rock bridge leads to, just like the mine tunnel they came from.

This group of wild goblins may have accidentally discovered the surface of the Nightmare Forest from the vicinity of Kosos County, or Mamor County, or Glade County, or somewhere else.

Seeing that their lord was leading the way, the soldiers had to put away their fear of the dark abyss on both sides and followed in batches.

Fortunately, the huge and solid rock suspension bridge under their feet can bear a weight beyond imagination. The weight of just dozens of people cannot be compared with the tons of fully loaded mine carts that once traveled on it.

In the darkness in the distance, a large group of wild goblins roared and screamed at the "intruders".

But then, seeing the neatly dressed teams of armored warriors and plate knights with swords and spears, the fear that was almost engraved in the blood made these bullying monsters turn around and "charge" back without hesitation, and scattered along the surrounding rock bridges in fear.

The crossbowmen saw the ugly monsters clearly and immediately fired at the captain's order.

A burst of string sounded, and the rain of arrows instantly pierced more than a dozen wild goblins to the ground.

Larian, who was at the front, walked like a cheetah, and in just a few seconds, he crossed a distance of dozens of meters and rushed into the fleeing evil creatures.

The moonlight passed by, and several wild goblins who had just turned around were cut in half by his demon hunting blade.

With a puff, scarlet blood spread all over the ground, and the brown body parts of the body fell to the ground and rolled.

Larian was about to continue the pursuit, but Leon hurriedly stopped him from behind.

"Wait a minute, no need to chase. This place is a little bigger than expected. We will slowly investigate the passage and clean it up one by one when we have time."

Leon walked to his side, and the soldiers behind him stepped onto the rock platform in the center of this underground cave.

There were only a few sporadic screams of wild goblins around. The crossbowmen were still trying to shoot a few more monsters that had not yet run into the darkness with the help of the firelight.

Of course, for these wild goblins who had just recently explored this underground cave, the army from Avalon Territory was more like a terrible monster that suddenly appeared.

On the platform with torches, Leon led everyone through the area where the mine car tracks intersected, and walked to the huge black shadow in front that could not be illuminated completely, but the outline was particularly eye-catching, and it was suspected to be a sculpture.

Stopped in front of the towering steps, he raised the lantern.

The emerald green light slowly rose up, illuminating this huge "man-made object" inch by inch.

Under the skill that can be called a master craftsmanship, it was an ancient stone sculpture carved from the underground rock.

The giant statue of more than ten meters is actually a dwarf wearing armor, holding a double-edged battle axe, with a thick beard down to his waist, but with a particularly short and stocky figure?

"Statue of the Heraen people." Corvis murmured with his head raised.

Underground, mines, advanced technology.

Leon sighed with relief.

I should have thought of it earlier.

If the people who can build such a giant mine are not the ancient Lorelits with advanced technology, then they can only be those short "Heraen" uncles who have disappeared from the continent for hundreds of years.