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Marika ignored all this and said hurriedly in a low voice: "I found new traces of goblin activity. I had already wiped out the goblin tribe before!"
Wang: “A lot?”
"I think it's a fairly large goblin hunting team. The tribe that can organize such a hunting team is not ordinary. It may be about the same size as the tribe we wiped out last week."
The king immediately turned serious. "That means there will be Hobgoblin War Wizards and even Bugbears. Marika, how many Goblin War Wizards can you handle?"
Marika: "I don't know, it won't be less. But I'm still against going forward. I'm a wanderer and I'm not good at protecting people. You are dangerous."
Wang was about to speak, but suddenly stopped, frowning.
"I have a bad feeling," he muttered.
The drow said solemnly, "A prophecy mage has a bad premonition. This is one of the most terrifying things I have encountered in all my years of adventuring."
Then she watched the wizard take out an exquisite tin staff that was only the length of his upper arm from his dimensional bag.
Elizabeth: "Staff? What kind of staff?"
This kind of staff appears in the hands of a wizard, which generally means that it contains a spell that can be activated with a short activation word. These staffs generally have a limited number of uses. After all the times are used up, you need to find a wizard who is proficient in making magic items to recharge it.
"The staff contains a spell to detect evil, which can be used fifteen times. This is my parting gift from you, Senior Brother." After Wang finished speaking, he recited a short spell, and the head of the staff immediately released a bright light -
At that moment, he formed a sense of empathy with the staff, and a huge amount of information was fed back into his brain.
The amount of information was so huge that it was like a heavy hammer hitting the mage's soft cerebral cortex.
He stumbled, and Elizabeth immediately stepped forward and held him, using herself as a support point for the mage.
The staff fell to the ground with a clang, and then rolled into the underground river running nearby - a river that collected all the filth in the city.
The light of the staff was instantly swallowed up by filth.
The king yelled, "Evil! Massive evil! We are surrounded! Neutral evil, lawful evil, two kinds of evil creatures mixed together to surround us! Massive, massive evil! Huge evil!!"
Because he looked at Elizabeth's secondary sexual characteristics supporting herself when he said this, it seemed as if he was joking.
But the girl had no time to pay attention to this. She shouted loudly: "Be careful! There are evil creatures nearby! There are so many..."
She glanced at the king who had just regained his composure and added, "The number is enormous!"
The next moment, the priest's chanting came from the front.
Then, Kailin's holy light fell, illuminating the surroundings.
The dwarf priest held up the holy emblem and cursed, "Damn evil creature!"
The creatures in the front howled. It was obvious that Kailin's light was not friendly to their eyesight which was accustomed to the dark environment underground!
The holy light also allowed everyone to see the situation clearly.
In front of the team, outside the dwarf's sixty-foot dark vision range, the goblins were ready to fight, waiting for this team to step in and surround them.
Elizabeth was so frightened that she hugged the king tightly, even though the more reliable drow elf was right next to her.
However, the wizard who was hugged was wondering: "That's not right, goblins are neutral evil, where are the lawful evil ones?"
"In the back." The cat man's voice came from behind.
The king turned around and saw that on the stairs behind him that should have led to the shallow level, the dog-headed people had formed a complete military formation and even formed a shield wall with tattered wooden shields.
The cat-man's arrow shot through the gap in the shield and into the back, causing a series of screams.
Then the ranger fired arrows at the same time, turning his head and shouting, "Hurry up, Commander! Think of a solution!"
Mark stood nervously beside the archer.
In front of the team, there were the roars of barbarians and the sound of axes splitting the heads of goblins.
Marika's loyal guard stayed by the princess' side. Perhaps she had thought it through and believed that only by shrinking the defense could she protect the princess. As for the others, Zhuoer might have chosen to give up.
With the enemy pressing in, Wang frowned and shouted, "This is unreasonable!"
He glanced down at Elizabeth, who had managed to pull herself together and steady herself.
"Why do you need to use such a big fuss to kill Ping?"
Anger instantly appeared on Elizabeth's face, and the shock of the enemy's appearance was also offset by this anger: "What did you say?"
The king continued to mutter, not seeming to be answering the princess' question: "If one side can mobilize the goblins and kobolds underground, it will be a huge advantage. In the future, when the battle for the throne begins, the evil creatures that suddenly appear from underground can disrupt all the opponent's deployments! There is no reason to expose it now?"
Suddenly, Wang took a breath.
"I figured it out!" He turned his head to look at Elizabeth, then grabbed the girl's shoulders and shook her excitedly as he spoke, "After eliminating all possible options, the remaining option is the truth no matter how ridiculous it is!"
The girl was a little confused: "What? What are you talking about?"
The king stopped shaking and stabbed the girl's chest with one hand, but was blocked by the barrier formed by the wrist guard: "The people who attacked us are not on the side of the succession. The people who attacked us want to stop us from investigating other things! And killing us now can also muddy the waters and facilitate the plan of the mastermind behind the scenes!"
Elizabeth opened her mouth into an O shape: "What are you talking about... We are just investigating the disappearance of stray cats and dogs?"
The king snapped his fingers, "You've hit the jackpot, Princess! Although I don't know what the mastermind is up to, it's clear that your investigation has made him determined to wipe us out with his invincible army of evil creatures!"
Dwarf: "Congratulations, you guessed the answer! My holy emblem is about to be destroyed, find a solution quickly!"
Chapter 19 Prey and Hunter in the Tunnels
Zhuo Er: "Don't indulge in your thoughts, we need command, you are the commander!"
The king immediately gave the first order to the drow wanderer: "Go kill the spellcaster!"
The drow nodded and jumped back into the darkness outside the range of the light spell.
Wang continued to shout: "We discovered the enemy in advance. This is probably not the enemy's planned attack location! The evidence is that we are in the passage and they cannot deploy their forces!"
As he spoke, as if to prove his words, the barbarian roared, grabbed a goblin and used it as a shield, and rushed towards the oncoming goblins. The short goblins fell like dominoes into the underground river full of filth beside them, and were washed away screaming.
The dwarf smashed the goblin that slipped past the barbarian against the wall and exclaimed: "The hammer you gave me, Princess, is quite useful."
More goblins rushed over, but their crude weapons were no match for the dwarf's hand-made fine armor.
Dwarf: "Humph, goblin! I wore this armor and participated in the Battle of Eight Peaks! Unless you have mithril weapons, you can't even leave a scratch on it!"
As for the spellcaster, the king patted the princess on the shoulder and said, "Don't let the dwarf distract your attention. My teacher said that it is the custom of the dwarves to talk a lot during battles. This shows that he is a veteran with rich combat experience and does not take the enemy in front of him seriously at all. He will talk about all the glorious battles he has participated in, and then start from the beginning."
"Oh...oh..." the princess responded intermittently.
"A spellcaster must observe the situation calmly and think about how to improve the team's situation..." Suddenly the mage was discouraged, "Damn, you don't have any spells that can change the situation."
Elizabeth is a warlock and she knows only a few spells. She only knows four spells: shield, magic missile, charm person and scorching ray.
Elizabeth: "Well... I'll do whatever you tell me to do. Command me now!"
As Wang took out lard from the bag of spell materials, he said, "Listen carefully to where the spell is being chanted, and then shoot him with your burning ray!"
Elizabeth looked around helplessly: there were sounds of weapons clashing everywhere, as well as the shouting and cursing of the dwarf veterans. It was not easy to hear the sound of chanting in this situation.
Mark's voice came from behind: "Wang! Maybe there's no problem in the front, but what about the back?"
The king turned around and saw that Mark had put the sword back into the scabbard and was holding a flail in his hand, obviously preparing to use the flail to destroy the kobolds' shield formation.
But he clearly lacked confidence.
The kobolds formed a tight array, looking like the shields at the bottom of a broken barrel, forming a crude, miniature shield wall that did not look like something a light flail could break through.
The simple shield wall of the kobolds was slowly advancing. Although the catmen's arrows kept shooting into the gaps between the shields, it did not slow down the shield wall's advance.
The king began to cast a spell.
After a series of precise gestures and spells, the lard in Wang's hand evaporated in an instant.
The next moment after evaporation, a piece of the middle of the kobold's shield wall suddenly collapsed. The slipping kobold immediately triggered a chain reaction, and the entire shield wall disappeared in an instant.
Because the gnolls were struggling, one of them was kicked out and slid all the way to the warrior.
Mark raised his hand and the flail smashed the upper body of the tiny dog-headed man.
"That's easy enough," Mark shouted, pulling up the flail that had fallen on the ground and swinging it at the second unfortunate fellow who slid over.
As for the king, after completing the spell, he no longer cared about the warriors, but instead squinted his eyes and observed the battlefield.
The barbarians and dwarves in front were doing a good job. Although the barbarian was injured, he was in a violent state. The pain instead stimulated his fighting spirit. His giant axe was chopping melons and vegetables in the group of goblins.
The dwarf must have a healing spell, but he obviously assessed the barbarian's condition accurately, so he didn't rush to use it. Instead, he focused on using hammer and shield to deal with the goblins - and recounted his past glory by the way.
The dwarf was apparently not only a priest, but also a skilled warrior.
The barbarian now behaved like a seagull charging into the wave of goblins, while the dwarf was like a reef blocking the goblin wave, standing firm despite the waves.
The reef continued chattering: "One of our favorite dishes is goblin sashimi! During the battle of Mount Oran, I ate a large plate of it every day!"
Wang suddenly remembered what his teacher said: "Sometimes I really want to interrupt the battle, go to the dwarf, give him a glass of wine, and pry out all the stories - or bullshit - in his stomach."
The situation at the back was also stable. The grease magic spread in the narrow passage blocked the way of the kobold army. These evil little creatures were obviously not trained enough to support each other through the greasy surface.
Some clever kobolds thought of using their shields as skateboards, but the moment they put down their shields, they were shot through the head by the cat rangers.
Occasionally, a few fish slipped through the net and were happily killed by the warriors.
It can be said that the situation has now stabilized.
As Wang Gang was thinking this, he suddenly heard a spell. Because he was so familiar with all the spells, even in such a noisy environment, he could catch the syllables of the spell in an instant.
The next moment he loudly announced the spell he had identified: "The enemy is preparing to cast a dispel magic! Probably to dispel the greasy surface!"
Elizabeth: "Where? I'll give him a searing ray!"
Wang gave the next instruction: "Mark, burn that greasy surface!"
“How can I burn…” Mark had just started to speak when the cat-man snatched the torch from his hand and threw it towards the ground where the dog-headed men had fallen.
The next moment the oil was ignited. Although it was oil created by spells, it had properties similar to lard. In an instant, the entire ground, along with the kobold lying on the ground, was ignited.
The little monsters' miserable cries came one after another.
At this moment, the enemy's "Dispel Magic" was completed, and dense spots of light fell like heavy snow. The oil created by the spell disappeared instantly, and the flame suddenly became smaller, making it look like the snow had extinguished the flame.
But the fire did not go out.
Because at this time the flames had already ignited the wooden shields and wooden armor of the ogres on the ground.
And the kobolds themselves.
A sea of fire once again blocked the cat rangers and human warriors, stopping the kobold group.
More importantly, the flames shooting up into the sky illuminated the passage.