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Xiaobai: “Puff.”

Marika glanced at the werewolf, but continued without paying any attention: "King..."

Xiaobai: “Puff.”

Wang: "Her funny point is that when you call my last name it sounds like a dog barking. You should just call me Dacongming."

The count's son, who was standing nearby, heard the conversation and looked over with a curious look.

Marika: "Great wisdom... How strange. Forget it, Great wisdom, shouldn't you show the effectiveness of the artifact in your hand? Although the current light doesn't matter to me, human soldiers shouldn't have dark vision, right?"

"Oh, right." Wang patted his head and quickly took out the dragon head artifact glow stick from the dimension bag. The dazzling light instantly illuminated the entire underground as if it were daytime.

Flint commented: "You are such a fool. I thought the light-emitting function was a useless function given away for free, but it is actually quite useful."

Marika nodded in agreement: "Yes, in Watergate Town, and during the night raid last night, this thing only glowed and helped us gain an advantage."

Elizabeth looked confused. "Last night? Sorry, I slept so soundly yesterday."

Wang: "Just cheer up tonight. We'll need your scorching rays."

Elizabeth's mouth corners raised obviously, but she still complained: "I'm just a ray turret!"

"No," Wang shook his head, "The data in our tower contains a magical weapon called a melta cannon. A golem equipped with that thing is a true ray turret. You are still far from it."

Elizabeth pouted: "Then get one now."

"I'm sorry I can't do that, so you are indeed our only ray turret at the moment."

At this time, Sir Ralph, who had been watching from the sidelines, finally couldn't help but interrupt: "Excuse me, what is the relationship between the two of you? Why is a duke's sister willing to be a hotline turret in your team?"

Wang: "My guess is that she wants to..."

Elizabeth understood immediately and interrupted loudly: "I don't want to!"

Xiaobai: "Obviously I thought about it."

"In no mood!"

Ralph looked back and forth between the two men suspiciously: "What are you thinking? It's not what I guessed, is it?"

Elizabeth: “No!”

Ralph looked as if he understood. "Oh, I see. So the wizard refused?"

Wang: "I didn't. Actually, I wouldn't mind experiencing this before finding love, but she refused."

Ralph's expression instantly changed from being in control to being confused. "What do you mean? You guys are confusing me."

Marika explained: "Our wizard has a unique and rigid set of criteria for judging love, which is too troublesome to explain. By the way, now is not the time to talk about this."

Flint: "Because a 'guest' has arrived!"

Dwarves and drow have darkvision, allowing them to see beyond the range of a glow stick's light.

As soon as the dwarf finished speaking, a strange long howl came from the cave, causing Elizabeth to shiver. She subconsciously took a step closer to the king, and her shoulder touched the wizard's arm.

Wang: "Don't do that. It will affect my ability to get the spellcasting materials."

"Oh, sorry."

Marika looked at the ceiling of the cave helplessly.

The next moment, the caveman appeared.

Elizabeth exclaimed, "They are not afraid of the light of your scepter?"

Wang: "Nonsense, they have no eyesight!"

The next moment, the stones fired from the sling were heading towards the king and Elizabeth, apparently targeting them based on the sound.

The king hid directly behind Elizabeth, moving very quickly.

The stone bullet hit Elizabeth's chest and was directly bounced away by the force field. It looked like it was bounced away by the bulletproof structure.

At this time, the big gong placed in the center of the position was struck.

All the sounds on the battlefield: the mechanical sound of the crossbowmen stringing the strings, the loud shouts of the infantry captain maintaining the formation, and Ralph's shouts of orders, were all covered up, and everyone could only hear the noise of the gong.

The stone bullets flew densely towards the gong, resulting in even more noise.

The crossbowmen shot desperately, and the cavemen fell down in rows.

Finally, the caveman got close enough to throw out the foul-smelling pieces of meat.

Ralph turned and gestured to his men, and a bugler blew the horn under the cover of the shield bearers.

Upon receiving the order, the Ximu Town troops threw out a large pile of meat, which landed in front of the army formation.

The next moment, a bunch of terrible creatures moved forward quickly, close to the ground. They looked like a bunch of centipedes with shortened bodies and four legs chopped off. They rushed towards the infantrymen of Ximu Town, but were stopped by the meat.

These guys immediately started to devour the food, not caring at all that the bumpy skin around their mouths was starting to turn black.

Soon the poison spread throughout the body, and the monster without intelligence finally came to its senses, began to roll on the ground and twitch, and let out inhuman screams.

The shriek made many soldiers' teeth chatter, and even Elizabeth, who was at the rear of the army, shrank her neck.

The slower monster didn't get to grab the meat, so it jumped over its struggling counterparts and rushed towards the stinking human soldiers.

At this time, the human soldiers picked up a lot of the meat that had just been thrown in and threw it out again, some of which were sprinkled with poison. However, they were already stained with the smell of meat, and the monsters rushed into the army.

At this time, only a few mages in the formation began to cast spells.

"It's the acceleration spell." Wang recognized the spell and quickly retreated to distance himself. The team members around him who had not yet joined the battle looked at him in surprise.

Marika: "Come to think of it, you never prepare the Haste spell. This spell is very beneficial to all martial professions. Archers can shoot faster, warriors can dodge more skillfully, and attack more quickly."

Wang nodded: "Yes, the acceleration technique is very good. But after being accelerated, I can't coordinate my hands and feet well. I often fall when I move, and I also feel dizzy.

“My junior uncle said that he had seen this symptom in a certain dimension. It was caused by the brain’s inability to adapt to the body’s greatly enhanced functions, which led to a chain reaction.

"But the strange thing is that although they also strengthen the body, spells like Tansen Transfiguration, Bull's Strength, and Cat's Lightness will not cause this symptom."

Flint: "You can serve us."

Wang: "Then I have to move far enough away from you to avoid being affected by the area of ​​effect."

Acceleration is a range spell, and all friendly forces within the range will gain an acceleration effect.

Wang shrugged and added, "I think it's better not to be so far away from your teammates during a team battle. Unless I cast advanced invisibility on myself."

The drow and the dwarf looked at each other, both looking helpless.

As they were talking, the infantrymen of Ximu Town, with the help of the acceleration spell, used poisoned daggers to kill the monsters that rushed into the formation. Many of the soldiers who were responsible for stabbing the monsters with daggers were also injured. They were dragged to the back of the formation by their comrades and treated by the priest.

After the threat of the monster was resolved, the caveman brigade took advantage of this opportunity to rush to the front of the Creek Wood soldiers.

Because in the cave, there is basically no way to shoot crossbows, and the charging monsters just now blocked the trajectory of most crossbows. Maybe because these monsters are not very afraid of crossbows, when their shooting range is blocked, most crossbows stop shooting to save ammunition.

Suddenly the whole scene was in chaos.

However, the big gong continued to interfere with the cave dwellers' hearing, and most of the attacking cave dwellers were very thin and small. They did not have enough strength to break through the armor of the human soldiers, nor did they have enough cleverness to launch attacks through the gaps in the armor.

The king held up his glow stick and observed carefully, and found that most of the injured were soldiers wearing leather armor. The soldiers who had the money to prepare themselves chain mail or even plate armor stood firm like iron towers.

He turned his head and asked Ralph in a hoarse voice, "Isn't there any way for the cavemen to break the armor?"

"Yes, my grandfather's generation discovered that the cave dwellers lacked effective means of breaking armor. When they went underground to encircle and suppress them, their main losses came from sneak attacks that took advantage of the terrain. Back then, my grandfather was able to scrape together the money to organize an elite force of fully armored soldiers. They would have basically crushed them head-on, but the cave dwellers were too familiar with the underground.

"Now, as you can see, most of our troops only have leather armor, which can only protect the body. The legs even have only animal skin skirts that can provide a certain degree of protection."

Ralph looked helpless.

The soldiers of Ximu Town were indeed a bit shabby, and were even inferior to the city guards of Langdon City. The city guards at least had armor, no matter how much area they covered, it was still armor after all.

At this time, the cavemen's attack finally ended.

Instead of retreating, all the cavemen fell in front of the human line.

The king nodded and continued to observe the cavemen's attack. He suddenly asked, "Where are the cavemen spellcasters? I don't see any divine or arcane spellcasters."

Ralph: "Not today. Yesterday I encountered three shamans using spirit magic and three priests using Lamashtu magic."

Wang was shocked. "That's good. But I thought the cavemen would retreat, so Xiaobai could capture them alive during the retreat. How can we capture them alive now? All the cavemen who participated in the attack have fallen."

Ralph said, "I've already ordered the soldiers to capture them alive. It's actually quite simple. Just remember to heal the injured cavemen when cleaning up the battlefield. At most, you'll just waste some healing spells."

Elizabeth: "Aren't healing spells very valuable?"

"If we want to completely solve the caveman problem, it's okay to waste a little." Ralph paused and said, "We are running out of poison. I don't know how to deal with these monsters when the time comes."

Wang: "How much poison is left?"

"We can hold out for another four nights," Ralph answered solemnly. "Because the Wanderer poison we bought from White City has run out, we've collected all the rat poison in Riverwood. The poisoned meat we're throwing this time has rat poison in it. There's a piece of cloth attached to the back of the meat, so if a monster eats this and gets poisoned to death, there's bound to be a piece of cloth in its throat."

Wang: "It seems that we need to solve the problem of caveman monsters as soon as possible. However, after the battle just now, I discovered one thing. The cavemen did not regard the monsters as weapons or trump cards, but more like consumables."

Elizabeth asked in surprise, "How did you know that?"

Ralph agreed, "Yeah, how did you know that?"

Wang: "This isn't the first time you've dealt with these monsters like this, right? The cave dwellers should have known you would do this, right? They didn't change at all and just let most of the monsters be consumed."

Ralph stroked his chin. "Indeed, if you think about it, this is not the first time we have used this tactic. But every time we use the same trick, the steps are the same, and the cavemen have not changed at all. This... is indeed not like using our own trump card. But I thought it was because the cavemen were not very smart."

Wang: "It's true that their IQ is not high, but they are intelligent creatures after all. Monkeys can draw lessons from their experiences."

Xiaobai: "Wolves can do that, too."

At this moment, a soldier in iron armor came forward and saluted Ralph: "Sir, we have captured the prisoners alive as ordered, five skinny ones and five Yuanrun ones."

Wang clapped his hands: "Okay, we will interrogate them."

Elizabeth muttered in surprise: "I thought you wanted to do an autopsy..."

"Of course we need to autopsy it, but we have to interrogate it first."

The dwarf was surprised in a different direction: "You can actually speak the language of cavemen?"

Wang took out a ceramic stepped pyramid model from his dimensional bag: "I specially prepared a trick of tongues this morning."

Flint exclaimed, "Tongue? That's not a fourth-level spell... No, a mage should know it at the third level. You used a precious third-level spell slot to prepare a Tongue spell? But you're not willing to prepare a Haste spell?"

Wang spread his hands and said, "As I said, I will faint if I use the speed spell. I can't guarantee that I can cast other spells smoothly in that state. Anyway, let's interrogate the caveman."

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