Witch Forest Friends Club

"The disciples of the Great Master of the North in the past lost the protection of Dayuan, and they are nothing but ditch rats in the gutter."

The black shadow shook his head pityingly and left.

"Fate is ultimately on the side of the stronger."

He waved his hand and ordered his men on standby in the dark: "Take this pile of rubbish away, I'm going to see the mayor, and hold the site for me."

Kenny was dragged like garbage into a room that echoed with desperate wailing, and what engulfed his body like snakes and insects was dull darkness and putrid smell.

In the empty shell that was tormented by magic addiction, the hunger and thirst hysteria that tore his soul was slightly relieved.

The spellcaster who had been reduced to a disabled person lay blankly among a group of people with twisted limbs and demented.

Self-awareness can only be eked out by recalling the experiences that made his soul unique.

The glory of gold and iron horses, the nightmare of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and the ambition of dedicating the power of a mage to the country and the people when he was young.

But now, including the most important dignity and strength - he has nothing left, and his hometown has been burned in the flames of war.

In the past 12 years, he has been reduced to a walking corpse with no aim, as long as he can survive under the paralysis of alcohol and potions.

Dayuan abandoned him, but fate still did not take his life away,

This must be a revelation.

It indicates that he will be able to take back everything from the unreasonable and filthy world!

Since he is still alive, why not sell his soul in order to gain salvation?

Red light flickered in the man's eyes.

While half asleep and half awake, the icy phantom pain and the burning pain of boiling blood—like being trapped in the mud and sand by the lake, engulfed by the ever-ebbing waves of ice and fire, tortured his body and mind back and forth.

The gentle murmur in the dream came back again.

"Children of Lenghu, don't be impatient, plunge into the quiet waves—"

In the depths of the darkness, an undercurrent seems to sing a familiar song.

He fell into a strange place at the bottom of the lake, and in the water pressure that suffocated his soul, he saw huge pale eyes.

……

"Go back to Tristy's arms."

Chapter 97 The Dark City Shelter and Miss Ann's Sewer Drift

Let's hope Arvil doesn't mess it up, or I'll be so mad and turn her into a sewer mermaid.

The mushrooms grown from the mermaid's blood are probably also delicious. ——"Ankaye's Chat Notes"

"Xiao An, I'm here to support you!"

Avril's cheerful and jumping voice came through the door, almost like a solo violin in the hands of a master music master.

However, the alarm bell in Anjaye's heart was instantly triggered, like a frightened screaming mushroom in his head, which sprayed out a large number of spores to issue a warning.

After all, the approach of this voice means that a natural and man-made disaster may break out at any time - in her eyes, Arvil is a plague-god-level existence linked to the soul-sucking banshee.

With the closed door of the tavern opened by an unlocking spell, a large group of colorful and changeable slimes pushed the door alive and squeezed in. The scene was like a mountain of ocean balls, pouring into the tavern spectacularly, sitting on the tables and chairs. Jumping around on the floor, almost frightened the mercenaries under Fire Briar who drew their knives out of their sheaths.

"Put away your slime." Anjaye sternly reprimanded the mermaid who had leisurely entered the door after the giant wave of slimes.

"Eh? What's the matter?" Arvil's excited expression suddenly turned into full of grievances, "I finally summoned this slime army, Xiao An, don't you need my help? I thought you finally realized, There's nothing the great Arvil can't do."

"Are you bringing a large group of slimes, do you want to go to the sewer to hold a huge swimming competition?"

Anjaye pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed helplessly—it seemed that Jana had said a lot of good things to lure this stupid mermaid to come here and work for her life.

When Avril used a special dehydration spell to condense a large group of strange-shaped slimes into granular cores the size of colorful jelly beans, and stored them in the spell bag she carried with her.

"Fire Bramble" also leaned in front of An Jiaye, communicating with her in a whisper with a strange expression.

"The new witch station manager? Have you invited this powerful character?"

"The proprietress also recognizes her?" Judging from the proprietress's expression, An Jiaye was already aware of Miss Mermaid's bad reputation, which was known to everyone from Kaboer Jinghai to Lenghu.

"Of course, who doesn't know that the academy sent a troublesome mermaid to replace the old witch who had returned to the countryside to retire? When she first came to Shuangcheng Port, she transported a ship of slimes to land, and ended up sending the transport ship to It sank, and a large group of slimes were washed up on the pier by her "Using the Tidal Curse", messing up the entire cargo area-caused the port to be shut down for a long time that day, and did not apologize to the dock workers' guild afterwards- If it wasn't for the fear of the reputation of the school, and the fact that she gave too much money, no one in the city would want to make a deal with the post station."

With the proprietress' verbal description, Anjaye could imagine the chaos caused by Aviel's landing that day.

She had heard about it in the Academy, and it is also an important town in the kingdom. Compared with Dusk Shadow City and Black Marsh Territory, the witch institution stationed in Cold Lake Territory really has no sense of existence——Avril will be dispatched here, probably too The "Xunlianyuan", which is in charge of personnel assignments, wanted to bring such a disaster, and disgusted the Lenghu leader who had not cooperated well with the academy in recent years.

An Jiaye shook her head, and focused her scattered thoughts back on the team in front of her - she had no time to pay attention to Aweier's great achievements.

The main force for eradicating underground pests has arrived.

"Apprentice Brave" Ryan, Gloria the Dragonborn, Melsa and Avell are two out-of-spec witch teammates.

With the help of a group of reliable former mercenaries like "Fire Brambles" as guides, she has a strong army in her tent—enough to turn the world upside down in Shuangcheng Port—just to ensure that Krapussy She must first use the opportunity to quickly figure out the movements of "Apocalypse" and the magician mage Kenny.

"Follow me." "Fire Bramble" led the way to the back kitchen.

After "Fire Bramble" unlocked an invisible shutter on the wall used to place oil lamps, Anjaye discovered that this is really "the important place of the kitchen".

Cotero and the chef worked together to push away the heavy food shelves where sundries and ingredients were stored, exposing the dark passage behind the stone wall. They walked along the narrow passage and entered a small room with a huge iron door. darkroom.

In the dark room, weapons such as swords, axes and halberds are neatly piled up, and the shelves are also full of dangerous goods such as armor and crossbows.

"Does your tavern have a direct entrance to the dungeon?" Gloria knocked on the hard iron door curiously, as if there was a structure of a witchcraft mechanism.

"I bought this tavern at a high price four years ago—" Firethorn Shia inserted two black strange-shaped swords into the two keyholes next to the iron gate, and twisted them left and right, causing a heavy The sound of the mechanism running, "It's because of its location."

"It turns out that these ordnance were transported up through secret passages." Gloria continued to look back.

"These are all the belongings I saved when I was a mercenary." Firethorne finally unlocked it, leaning his shoulders on the door panel, and forced a gap between the two iron doors.

Gloria also stepped forward to help push the closed iron door completely open.

"It's not bad, as long as you wait for the opportunity, these weapons are enough to pull up a team."

Behind the door was a dark slope. The moment the door was pushed open, there was a large stench of yin tide, like the breath of a monster sleeping underground, rushing towards the faces of the girls.

"Which area of ​​the dungeon is connected to here?" An Jiaye stretched out his hand to comfort the struggling kitten who was spoiled by the stench.

"The adjudicator of the underground order - the territory of the elders of the sanctuary." Firethorn raised his right hand, and a bright magic light like a flame flower bloomed from his hand, illuminating the long and slippery steps on the slope, "below The taste may not be pleasant, ladies get used to it."

Anjaye had already put on the gas mask in preparation—and Melsa’s shadow servant also stretched out two small hands, secretly putting on a strange mask with a purifier installed on the kitten—unexpectedly, her In the shadow space, a gas mask specially prepared for a cat face was prepared.

An Jiaye supported the cave wall fixed with rough stone bricks, followed behind the proprietress, and walked down the stairs carefully. Although she was limping, her speed was not behind her cousin and others.

They walked down the winding stairs and detoured for about a hundred steps, and came to the underground world where the dark river gurgled.

The stone pillars and arched space that Anjaye saw when he looked up were not so much a sewer, but more like a complex tunnel for a wide artificial waterway to pass through, and he didn't know how huge and complicated the deep realm was connected.

The girl could feel the traces of many earth resonances and alchemy spells left behind.

Every angle and every line of the connection and construction of the tunnel surfaces is full of carefully planned and designed geometric beauty.The exquisite craftsmanship and huge resources consumed in building tunnels are enough to build a city of the same scale on the ground—but now there is a group of residents who regard the sewers as their homes, inhabiting them, following another set of ancient rules, seeking gray Making a living between the cracks.

Every stone brick that builds this huge underground space has been systematically arranged and combined, and it fits perfectly. It has survived hundreds of years in darkness and humidity, but it is still as hard as ever. The mighty strength of the dynasty, and the underground residents who live in it, are the result of painstaking efforts to maintain it.

Rusty mottled bollards were installed beside the river, and two long boats were being tied to the waves. Firebrier and her men jumped on it first, moved the boats closer to the walkway, and untied the thick ropes of the mooring boats. .

"In less than two days, Xiao An, you have made a lot of friends." As soon as Arviel got on the boat, she pulled An Jiaye and chatted with the appearance of a close sister, "Obviously in the school, you can only talk to mushrooms." I'm very pleased to deal with you, Avril."

The mermaid also waved to Ryan, who was leaning against the stern of the boat with his sword in his hand: "This little brother is also very handsome. If it weren't for Aweier's sweetheart, you would really be the type that a mermaid likes."

"Thank you ma'am." Ryan moved away from Avril without showing any signs, his eyes never resting on the mermaid.

"Don't be too frivolous." An Jiaye hit Aweier's fish head hard with the steel balloon mushroom that grew from the Heart Bud Staff.

"It hurts!" Avril touched her head with both hands, almost crying, "You're so stupid! But no one will make communication spells for you."

"Avril, listen well, we are going to do an important thing that cannot fail, and everything is under my orders." Anjiaye's black pearl-like dark magic eyes exude a tinge that makes every fish scale of Miss Mermaid tremble. Imposing, "If things go wrong because of your mischief or unauthorized actions, I will plant mushrooms on you and throw them into the sewer."

"Understood." Aweier looked down at the rotten and dirty water in the river, couldn't help hugging her feet, shivering in fear, "Xiao An will bully me."

"Now, follow the guidance of the proprietress and the others, and use the water calling spell to assist the boat to move forward." Anjaye unceremoniously summoned the mermaid.

After controlling the troublemaker Avril, Anjaye asked the fire thorn sitting on the bow of the boat to illuminate the direction of travel.

"Boss, how do you plan to find Kenny? The people from 'Apocalypse' probably got rid of him. If so, we have to sneak into the enemy's territory directly to confirm the whereabouts of the 'Sacrifice'."

Firethorne and Kotelo were discussing in a low voice, and she turned around and said, "I have some acquaintances in 'Slippery Worm Point', who can help search for Kenny. They are in a bad situation now. If the opportunity to solve the trouble is given to them , I think they would be happy to join in."

"Then please." An Jiaye nodded and understood the meaning of the fire thorn.

With the help of Avril's incantation, two long boats full of people passed through this curved straight road smoothly and quickly, and accelerated into the wider main river.

Anjaye leaned on the side of the boat and looked around, and found that as the waterway widened, the scenery along the way became deeper and wider, and it also had a sense of three-dimensional layering.

In the light of the fire, she could even vaguely see a lot of houses transformed from abandoned sewer holes piled up on both sides of the bank, and many figures shuttled among them, and the lively level was not inferior to some residential areas in the old city.

"Even if I imagined it, there is such a large-scale underground city system under An Rand's underground, which is beyond my expectations."

"It's also the first time for Avril to come here." The stupid mermaid also raised her hand to express her excitement.

"Fire Thorn" looked around vigilantly and calmly.

"The 'Shuangcheng' in Shuangcheng Port, on the surface, refers to the new city and the old city on both sides of Anland Mountain, but for the people living in this underground city, it is the difference between the city of light and the city of darkness. .”

"As the last bastion that has sheltered the citizens of Ain Rand for countless generations, the major gangs entrenched in the dark city have exhausted conspiracy and violence since their ancestors to fight for every piece of land, but there are exceptions."

"'Slippery Corner' is a public area where fighting is prohibited, but in recent years this almost iron-clad rule has also been broken."

"Is it 'Apocalypse'?" Gloria grinned while biting her nails, "That Mountbatten is also a thug of this gang."

"Yes." Since entering the Dark City, Firethorne's hand has not been released from the hilt, and he has completely returned to the state of wandering between life and death. "Taking his existence as an opportunity, 'Apocalypse' began to break the previous major The balance that gangs maintain."

Firebriar also seemed unwilling to talk too much about those bloody things, emphasizing the urgent need.

"Kenny usually lives here on 'Mud Street'. He is quite famous because he often brags about his past experience under the countertops.

"What kind of person is the Kenny you are looking for?" Ryan interrupted and asked, looking down at the ditch rats poking around on both sides of the waterway.

An Jiaye glanced back at him, the pale light lingering on the "apprentice brave man" could not be covered even by the deep sewer.

Anjaye suddenly had some mischievous thoughts, wondering what would happen to that pale and clean curly hair being forced to soak in the sewer.

But on the surface, the girl replied calmly: "A spellcaster suffering from magic addiction, who claims to have served as a battle mage in the army of 'Wang Yan Lion'."

"Really?" Ryan lowered his head calmly and rubbed the sword scabbard.

"If it's true, the period of time he served should be the big border war between Oga and the 'Thunder Holder'." "Fire Thorn" glanced over Goliath inadvertently, and added, "The last battle of 'Thunderfall' It is widely circulated in the territory of Oga, it is said that both sides fought to annihilate the entire army, and only the 'Wang Yan Lion' survived."

"It's really scary, do human beings just need war to satisfy their desires?" Arviel picked up a fluffy star rock slime and said, "Look how peaceful the slimes are, humans should pay more attention to them." Learn."

"But thanks to the needs of the big shots, we can have enough to eat." "Firethorn" was amused by Arvil's childish words and deeds, "But after a long time as a warmonger, I will get tired of it."

"Mr. Ryan, if you had to go to the battlefield, why would you fight?" Anjaye suddenly tested the white-haired boy, assuming he was from an Oga noble family. This question is likely to judge the attitude of the "trainee brave man".

At least Ryan will not be a hypocritical person when faced with questions about value orientation.

"Compared to battles between warriors - war is also a means to carry out the will of the ruler. As for glory and wealth, they are just incidentals to encouragement." Ryan replied flatly and without muddling, just like the light of his sword. Pure will.

"Is it fighting for the belief in governance?" Seeing that Ryan did not deny it, Anjaye continued to press the question.

"Mr. Kelian, you are completely different from the brave man I remember fighting for justice and axiom. You don't have a moral cleanliness, nor do you have the desire to fight for glory and wealth. What is your belief?"

"Before answering this question, Miss Witch, what is war in your eyes?" Ryan turned to force her with pale, burning pupils.

Under the cover of the gas mask, Anjaye lowered his head and thought for a while, then seriously responded: "For ordinary people and races, war is a means to compete with each other for survival territory, food wealth, and to ensure the prosperity of tribes, but when they have more In the eyes of powerful extraordinary rulers - war may be just a tool for them to implement the rules of the chessboard. Chess players don't care about winning or losing for a while, because no matter whether they win or lose, it's just chess pieces that sacrifice for them. As long as this rule is there, they have Yu Yu, don't have to pay unbearable bets, but continue the chess game."

"That's a good statement, but since the rules of this chess game have become a source of pain for the chess pieces, it's always a good thing to eliminate them." Ryan stared at Anjaye's eyes, and the pale flames became more and more vigorous, so that Let the girl have the illusion of a sun halo rising from the dark underground.

"As pawns, we can only obey." An Jiaye resisted the other party's heavy torture, "Mr. Ryan, do you think you can calm the source?"

"To completely calm the source, is there a way other than destroying the real enemy?" Ryan finally moved away from the sight that could vaporize the soul.

Just when this sharp question made the two fall into silence.

"It's coming." "Firethorn" turned around and reminded.

Accompanied by a dull and rough whistle, it cut through the dark and quiet space on the river.

A row of dazzling torches suddenly lit up on the outline of the pier in front of Anjaye.

The armed men with torches on guard, maintaining a cautious attitude of devotion to their duties, waited for the two boats of guests to approach—they were not snakes and rats hiding in dark caves, but rather like a group of guards guarding their homeland with faith.

"Welcome to the Dark City Sanctuary."

PS: I've been a bit ruthless in coding lately recently, so I have to find a way to adjust my schedule.

Chapter 98 Miss An's Diplomatic Privileges and the Fire Guardians of the Dark City