Transcendent Noble

Dwarves are generally fond of spirits and tobacco, and they also like to swing peng pengs with a hammer. Mining and digging is an innate ability of every dwarf. This can be seen from their short and strong body characteristics.

Silver Eagle Scout only has 5 dwarves, but they are stronger fighters than ordinary dwarves, and they naturally know where the catacombs are and where to start. The five dwarves swung their sharp and heavy iron pickaxes in turn, and soon dug a dozen or so ventilation holes connecting the catacombs. Immediately afterwards, the dragon hunter Udrich chose a location, and he digs a few times against the rubbish, sparks flying in all directions, the stone shattered and rolled, revealing a black hole, a smell of corruption and unpleasant smell from inside Diffuse out.

Aiglo Greybeard had previously stated that there was a tomb under the ruins. When the entrance to the tomb appeared, the warriors of Victor and Elf Race frowned while they were amazed.

The elves instinctively hate the cramped and narrow cave environment, especially those who have mastered the Wind Travel innate talent. They prefer the open areas where Wind Element is active. Victor is no exception. Rocks will obstruct the flow of Wind Element. He hadn't sensed that there was a space under the ruins before.

Those dwarves with thick lines don’t care about the complex emotions of their elf companions. Aiglo Greybeard stopped several dwarf brothers who were picking up withered vines, and shouted to Victor and the others: "Hey, who do you send There is a burst of fresh air in, so we don’t have to burn the fire."

Olawei Yuege whispered: "Of course it’s okay to send the air to change the air, but I don’t want to get into the tomb."

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Victor went straight forward and called Wind Element to let the cold fresh air poured into the cave continuously, squeezing out the dirty air in the cave from the vent hole just dug by the dwarf, and used Wind Element to perceive the tomb. environment of.

The underground space is much larger than expected, almost ten times the area of ​​the ruins. Victor controlled the Wind Element to blow for a while before changing the air inside. Even the dwarves looked at him All of the expressions are full of admiration and surprise.

These dwarves thought to themselves, if they were replaced by Olavie and injected air into it, that guy would have been lying on the ground pretending to be a dead dog.

Victor stopped the surge of Wind Element and turned back to Elus Yuege and said: "There is no sign of monster activity inside. It seems to be a normal grave."

Sensitively grasping the subtle information in Nightingale’s words, he first glanced at the bizarre halfling, then turned to Victor, and asked suspiciously, "I didn’t feel there was any danger in it... You said, "There is no sign of monster activity." Yes. What do you mean?"

"Qiqi didn't feel any danger inside either." The halfling adventurer raised his round face and said interface.

Iluth Moonsong belongs to the Golden Peak Powerhouse. Her dangerous intuition does not apply to other silver eagle scouts, but the halfling says that there is no danger, so everyone will be relatively safe.

Victor nodded, said in a flat tone: "The wild intuition of ferocious creatures is not effective on dormant undying creatures. I saw with my own eyes the ferocious warrior and ferocious war beast of the human expedition being attacked by undying creatures... below There is no sign of monster activity, it does not mean that there is no sudden dangerous situation."

"Thank you for your reminder, Lord Nightingale." Elusy thanked Victor sincerely, and then selected three dwarves, one wind Dance war, two war dancers, and the halfling Qiqi go down with her. Angelis Wind Song led other scouts to guard around the ruins.

Of course Victor will not stay on it, he just hates the cave environment, even if there are very few enemies in the cave that can threaten him. What's more, the Wind Elements inside and outside the tomb have blended with each other, providing a way for the void to walk. Even if the cave collapses suddenly, don't try to trap him underground.

Actually, he doesn’t need to worry about the danger of crypt collapse, just like a fierce warrior can foresee danger. The dwarves are naturally keen on the structure of rock formations, knowing where, when, and how to solve the problem. . Therefore, the innate talent of dwarf masons is unparalleled in the world, able to build wonders on sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces, or transform a mountain into a dwarf fortress.

The dragon hunter Udrit entered the grave first, then his dwarf brother and the prophet Aigle. The elf warrior and the halfling Kiki followed the dwarf guard, and Victor fell to the back of the team.

The tomb was dark, with only a little light leaking from the ventilation holes. With low-light vision innate talent, Victor can roughly see the topography of the tomb, and details such as colors are difficult to distinguish. On the contrary, the dwarves with dark vision are not affected by the non-light environment, but they take out some kind of stone-like item from their waist strength and rub them repeatedly with rough palms. The stone gradually blooms golden rays of light, expelling the darkness like a torch. Illuminate some areas.

The dwarf prophet held the luminous stone and explained to Victor: "This is not a low-level product like fluorescent stone... Oh, look at how dazzling and brilliant their rays of light are, like Sunlight. So, we dwarves call it the Sun Diamond. Don’t look at it usually unremarkable. Put it under the Sun Tree to absorb sunlight. The longer you leave it, the more powerful the Sun Diamond. If you leave it for half a year, it can continue to illuminate for one day. …Silver Eagle City is not much for a Sun Diamond of such a high level."

"Qiqi stole it from the treasure house of Silver Eagle City." The halfling adventurer hidden behind Victor He said with joy and triumph.

Aiglow ignored the little thief who took advantage of the opportunity to sell his work, and said babblingly: "It's not a good idea to light in a dark cave. Dwarves don't need light, but elves with long ears need..."

"Shut up!" Yiluth whispered and talked about the tuberculosis dwarf, pushing him to the front with a palm, ordered: "The dwarf guard is walking in front, and the elf warrior pays attention to the surrounding movement. Let's explore first. Tomb, make sure there is no monster, and then investigate the clues carefully...Be careful, let's start."

The dwarf guard in heavy armor set the Sun Diamond in the groove of the helmet, holding the shield iron The stick opened the way in front. They have the task of attracting monsters. The sound of heavy breathing and the clang of armor collision are particularly harsh in a dead grave. The elf warrior holding a bow and arrow and the halfling adventurer quietly followed the dwarf, like a silent ghost. They rely on blind innate talent to determine the location and distance of their teammates. Once the heavy dwarf guards that open the way to guide the monsters are attacked, they will immediately use bows and arrows to support them, and there will be no chaos.

Four Great Races of the Spirit Emperor country are mixed together. According to the innate talents of different races, they form efficient and complementary tactical coordination methods that can cope with different environments. In the current situation, the heavy armor dwarf guard acts as a meat shield decoy, and the light armor elf warrior provides cover in the dark.

However, the three dwarves with light on their heads are eye-catching enough. They look a bit funny, like walking candles.

Thanks to the lighting of the "big candle", the details of the tomb are clearly displayed. This tomb is well-preserved. It is about 2.5 meters high from the top to the ground. A low wall is built with stones to form a corridor, like a maze. It may be because it was built on the mountain, the tomb is still dry, and there is no water or silt on the ground. But the strange thing is that the iconic sculptures, frescoes, decorations and funerary objects cannot be seen in the closed and dry tomb.

It's not like a tomb pit, it's more like a basement.

The team walked along the low wall corridor and found no valuable items. To be precise, except for the stone low wall, there were no traces of artificial activities. Victor was even more puzzled. The scale of this tomb was not small, and the low-wall corridors alone required a lot of manpower. Logically speaking, Azorta artisans always have to eat, drink, shit and piss when building tombs. It is inevitable that they will leave traces of life on the tomb, such as food and water containers, damaged tool parts... …Even if the Assyrian craftsmen tidy up the items very cleanly, but the tomb is so well sealed, there will always be some grain particles or metabolites such as hairy feces.

However, Victor did not see these small things. Therefore, the clean tomb reveals an unusual weirdness.

The lively halfling Qiqi and the stubborn dwarves will not speak anymore, and the depressive atmosphere gradually spread in the team. Until the dwarf led everyone into the core area of ​​the tomb, the cramped space suddenly opened up, and an empty hall appeared in front of everyone.

There are still no statues, slabs or burial objects in the hall, but in the center of the hall there is a square pool built with stones, about 8 meters in length. In the center of the pool is a high stone platform on which lies a faint A dated humanoid object.

The silver eagle scout carefully explored every corner of the hall. After confirming that there were no abnormalities, Udrit, the dwarf dragon hunter, came forward to check the pool alone. He turned around and exhaled and said: "Aiya , I can’t speak just now. I’m really suffocating me... Come and see, there’s a dead man here... Uh, dead monster, whoever it is, anyway, it’s not an elf, a dwarf, or a halfling... It’s definitely not a four. A centaur with a hoof."

Aigelo rushed forward, glanced at the pond, laughed, and exclaimed excitedly: "Black mud...there is black mud in the pond, my divination The interpretation is accurate!"

The gray-bearded dwarf was excited. He divination in the forest to find pits, black mud, ants and other predictive elements. Now the black mud in the tomb greatly encouraged his self-confidence, and at the same time Also gave the silver eagle scout confidence.

Victor used his old enemy innate talent to spy on the whole process of the dwarf prophet's divination. He didn't bother to pretend to be ignorant and only focused on the stone platform.

This is a stone platform made of black glazed rock. It is 1.6 meters high, 2.2 meters wide, and 2.9 meters long. Under the shining of the sun auger, it reflects the deep gloomy light and appears strong and heavy. Victor visually observed that this black-glazed stone platform weighs 14 tons, but it is by no means a product of the nearby mountains, but was carried in from outside. It has strange characters on its side seals, which are related to the general characters of elves and humans, but Victor does not recognize them. The bottom and base of the stone platform are smooth and flat, in sharp contrast with the rough appearance of the upper part. This smooth bottom is obviously to facilitate the movement of the stone platform.

On the stone platform lies a dry corpse, as if sleeping in a tomb for hundreds of years. Its shape and size are similar to that of a human, but there are thin, withered scales on its neck and palms, and two sharp teeth stick out from its shriveled lips, exactly the same as the Assyrian described in Trigoval's ancestors' notes-exactly like Humans have vertical pupils and hollow teeth in their mouths. A few people have small scales on their necks and limbs.

Whether it is the warrior of the Spirit Emperor or the civilians of the human kingdom will not fear the dead, in this monster world, although the Assyrians are a kind of wisdom that everyone has never seen before, neither are the people present. As for make a fuss about nothing. What is strange is that this corpse is dressed in brightly colored fabrics and a crown of colorful feathers on his head. The style of clothing reveals mysterious, natural and primordial worship. Compared with the mummy that seems to have been dead for hundreds of years, they are too well preserved, just like the product of several decades ago.

If the corpse goes through the process of decay to dryness, the clothes on its body will always be contaminated with corpse fluid, but they are very clean and clean to the contrary. It's as if someone changed clothes for hundreds of dead corpses.

So, how did the people who came to change clothes get out in this sealed tomb?

"I think there is a ghost hiding in a corner of the hall to spy on us. It is the slave of the master of the tomb. When we move this corpse, the slave of the ghost will show up." Halfling Qi began to weave his adventure story again, and chatted with the dwarf companion chirp chirp twitter twitter.

"Aiglo, what do you say now?" Elus asked the dwarf prophet.

The gray-bearded dwarf was studying the text on the side of the stone platform, and said without looking back: "Don’t touch the things here for now, wait for me to take a look... These texts are like some of the ancient empire texts. Variations, it takes a long time for me to translate them... Also, the clothing on its body is a bit weird, it looks like something from twenty years ago, but this tomb has been excavated for more than 1,000 years."

Victor moved in his heart and asked: "How do you know this is a tomb more than 1,000 years ago?"

"I just know... Dwarf masons know. I'm the magical Aeglow prophet. "The gray-bearded dwarf replied triumphantly.

When it comes to the bloodline innate talent, the son of the dwarf, Victor doesn’t need to ask the truth anymore. Nodded said: “This corpse should be the nobleman of the Azores. His blood has been He was lighted up and ate a certain medicine to make his body dry and not rot. His clothes, especially the feathered crown, were not more than 30 years old. That is to say, this Azores nobleman entered this place for more than 1,000 years in 30 years. The tomb, lying on the stone platform, shed his blood... He committed suicide. To be precise, he was like a sacrificial sacrifice."

The dwarf prophet asked dumbfounded: "How do you know Of?"

"I just know." Victor slightly smiled, Wind Element perceives to investigate secrets more nuancedly than dissection corpses, not only allows him to "see" the bleeding wounds of the Azores nobles , Also analyzed the age of the corpse, clothing, and feather crown.

Iluth Yuege couldn’t help but ask: “20 years ago, an Azorta nobleman ran into a tomb opened more than 1,000 years ago and sacrificed himself... But, The entrance to this tomb is well sealed, who opened the door for it?"

"Good question." Victor nodded admiringly, and the interface said: "If you ask, how did the sacrifice come in? I can answer right now...There is a hole under this stone platform, and I can feel the Wind Element inside."

The dragon hunter, Udrit, was afraid of traps on the stone platform, so he took action on Greybeard. Before, I jumped over the black mud pool and landed on the base of the stone platform. I stomped my feet and felt it. Loudly said: "There is really a rock hole below... This hole is more than ten meters vertically down before it crosses. There is a long one below. A huge stone tunnel."

"Black mud... tunnel?"

The other dwarf guard remembered something, and slapped Aeglo's shoulder armor vigorously, and exclaimed: "Moon God is up and the hills are down. Aigelo, brother, you were accurate last time!"

Iruth’s eyes flickered, said solemnly: "Push away the stone platform and take a look."

"Okay, look at me!" Dragon hunter Udrit found a place suitable for exerting strength, holding on to the stone platform, taking a deep breath, the muscles on his arms swelled and raised, struggling to reach more than ten tons The heavy black-glazed stone platform pushed aside, revealing a deep black hole below, and an astringent airflow gushing out from it.

Victor, Elus and the dwarf prophet all jumped onto the pedestal to observe the situation of the deep hole with the aid of the rays of light of the Sun Diamond.

"This tunnel in the belly of the mountain used the gaps in the mountain wall to build a set of ventilation system...tsk tsk, the Azortars' craftsmanship in digging tunnels must catch up with our dwarves." Udrit smacked his lips. Said.

"That's not right... Look at the stone wall of the pothole. There are no traces of iron pick tools on it... Is it a claw mark?"

At the entrance of the cave, pointing to the obvious claw marks on the stone wall of the tunnel, he said in disbelief: "The Azores dig the tunnel with their hands, and the stones are as soft as mud in their hands... How is this possible? Azores How could she be better at digging stones than dwarves?!"

Ignoring the two dwarf masons who are in pain, Illusth thought for a moment, shook her head and said, "It's not a masterpiece of the Azores, at least this one. The tunnel in the belly of the mountain was not dug by the Azortas, it was the Ant-Man monster."

She lifts the head and explained to Victor: "The Ant-Man monster is the ancient enemy of the Yalta people. After the demise of the Zolta Empire, they attacked the forest centaur territory in the far east. Silver Eagle City once cooperated with the forest centaur to deal with the threat of Ant-Man for more than 1,000 years. It is said that the Ant-man monster is better at digging holes than the dwarves. They can secrete a kind of mucus to soften the hard rock."

She paused, adding: "However, these all are records of Silver Eagle City...I and my men did not participate. After the war against Ant-Man, I heard from the veterans of the Silver Eagle City Guard that they had never seen Ant-Man digging a hole. The Silver Eagle City Guard generally suspected the rumor that Ant-Man would dig a hole... Now it seems that the rumor is true. "

The last war between the forest centaur and the Ant-Man invaders should have occurred more than 30 years ago. The young General Moonsong and most of her men have not been born yet.

Victor nodded, tried to say: "Maybe there are two different ant-man monsters, like soldier ants and worker ants."

According to the account of the alchemist of the Secret Society, the alchemy ant There is only one template for people, but they are divided into flammable old ant-man and non-flammable ant-man. The reason why Ant-Man didn't dig holes was because the Ant-Man fighting against the forest centaur was all old Ant-Man who was about to die, and the Queen of Ant-Man deliberately consumed them.

Erus, who is not understanding the complete truth, shakes her ears to mean it doesn’t matter. Aiglo Greybeard became happy. He and Udrit jumped back to the open space, arm in arm with the other dwarf, danced the dwarf kick dance, and shouted: "Black mud, tunnels, ants... Greybeard’s divination is not wrong; black mud, tunnels, ants... Greybeard’s divination is very accurate."

The halfling Qiqi occupied the previous position of the dwarf, and his voice said crisply: "Thirty years Earlier, an Azorta nobleman entered the Azorta tomb more than 1,000 years ago through a tunnel dug by his rival, Ant-Man, and then lay on the stone platform and killed himself... This story is very bizarre. Okay, I think What's more bizarre is that this vertical tunnel is not easy to use. How can the suicidal Azortar push such a heavy stone platform from below."

Olavy Moonsong Jump Coming over, the interface said: "Qiqi, do you want to say that there are ghosts in this tomb. From it, help the nobles of the Azores push away the stone platform?" Sweeping back and forth all around, trying to find the ghost hidden in the tomb.

In fact, ghosts are very weak and have no power to change reality. They can only affect the minds of creatures. Ghosts that exist for a short time can't do this kind of thing, and Silver Eagle scouts are not afraid of ghosts. The moonlight leaf charm they carry has the blessing effect of driving away Nether Soul.

Without the element of ghosts, the Azorta nobles climbed into the tomb from the tunnel in the belly of the mountain and formed an unsolved mystery. Olavie stared at the decayed black mud in the pool, and said: "I guess it should be related to the black mud."

"Fools will think about the black mud." Aeglow stopped singing and dancing. Confidently said: "Don't guess, let the magical Prophet Aeglo come to the divination, and you can figure out any problems."

Houzhi divination?

Victor used his eyes to express his doubts, Olavie Moonsong explained in a low voice: "The divination of the dwarves is a compulsory course for the dwarf prophets. You can learn the divination before you can learn the divination, just like a dwarf. Blacksmiths want to hone their iron craftsmanship, but they are still natural miners...Aiglow’s foreseeing divination has not been approved by his instructor, and his hindsight divination is still very accurate."

Preparing ceremony equipment Greybeard raised his head and shouted: "Hey, long ears that speak bad words, I have heard... The magical Prophet Aeglo accurately fortunes the black mud, tunnels, and ants. My mentor will definitely award me the Prophet's robe."

Olavie bowed and apologized to the angry dwarf prophet. Victor interjected with interest and asked: "What is the principle of divination?"

Aiglo's expression became serious and solemn, and he said with a little pride: "You are here, the hill sees You are gone, the hill is still there; He silently records, the hill passed away, the stone is still; the stone passed away, the dirt is still; the dirt is passed away, the dust is still, the hill explained his to the dwarf prophet Record."

After speaking, the dwarf prophet immersed himself in preparing ceremony supplies. Victor was silent for a while, and asked in a low voice: "What's the price?"

"...Gray beard turned into white beard." Yiluth Yuege responded softly, staring at the busy dwarf with a complex expression. Muttered: "But the dwarf prophets are proud of their white beards."