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The king stopped and looked at the princess with a frown.

Elizabeth: “Uh… isn’t that right?”

Wang: "I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. We can't make a judgment with the current information. We have to fight our way to the Fetal Movement Hall and see what the holy object is."

The dwarf exclaimed, "You mean to ask us to fight our way into a crypt that's already filled with troggs?"

Wang: "Of course not just us. I think Lord Ralph will organize elite infantry to go down with us."

Ralph immediately shouted: "No, no, no! You have seen our infantry! Although we have always dreamed of restoring our former glory, dreams and reality are two different things. I also felt at the beginning that our soldiers were well prepared and could fight underground as long as they were ready.

"But I realized in the recent battles that we were struggling to fight in the cave entrances with pre-set positions and sufficient light. Once we go underground, we will just become bait for the cave dwellers! No amount of troops can fill this hole!"

Wang: "If you have enough armor, you should be able to do it."

Ralph: "But we don't. Most of our soldiers only have leather armor and animal skin skirts."

Elizabeth suddenly said, "Wait a minute, there are a lot of mercenaries with nothing to do in Watergate. We can hire them with the money Langdon got."

Wang: "I do have a large amount of operational funds given by your second brother in my dimensional bag. Do you really want to use this money to hire these mercenaries? I don't think it will be cheap."

Elizabeth said firmly, "Our goal is to deal with the crisis that causes the positive energy to mutate! There are people in the underground who are suspected to be members of the cult, so of course we have to hire them."

Marika reminded, "Your Highness, we can actually hire sailors and mercenaries to cooperate with the wizard's dragon to conquer the castle. After repelling the assassins sent by Stoke last night, I felt that the strength of sailors and mercenaries alone would be enough."

Elizabeth half opened her mouth: “This…but now we have found a clue that may be a clue!”

Xiaobai: “It’s a bit hard to pronounce.”

Marika: "Okay, I get it. But does the wizard agree to do this? Isn't this a waste of time?"

Wang: "That's Lamashtu's holy temple! And there's also the Fetal Movement Hall! Don't you want to go and see it after hearing the name? There's also a holy object!"

Marika stared at the excited mage with her mouth open.

Flint looked at the drow's shocked expression and laughed, slapping his thigh.

(*) The content about cavemen here is all made up by me according to my needs, and is not in the Monster Manual.

Chapter 88 Unplanned Visitors

On the night the decision was made, Marika and the soldiers from Riverwood Town escorted a carriage carrying a box of gold to Watergate Town.

This is a deposit for mercenaries who are interested in taking this job.

When Marika left, Elizabeth was still worried: "Why don't we go together? Marika may not be able to protect so many gold coins alone."

Ralph: "Don't you trust my soldiers? I picked the most loyal ones. Since the mining industry failed, many people have left the Valley Territory. They are the men who truly regard this place as their hometown and hope to regain its glory one day."

Elizabeth: "That's a chest of gold."

Ralph: "Even now, as a lord, I can still collect a box of gold. My father is an earl after all, not a baron or viscount!"

Elizabeth was silent for a few seconds, then apologized solemnly: "I'm sorry."

Wang clapped his hands vigorously. "Malika has gone far away. Let's go to bed. It's late now. If we hurry, we can still sleep for four hours."

Elizabeth nodded.

Xiaobai had fallen asleep while standing, drooling as he slept.

**

The next morning, the spellcasters met in the fortress's lobby after preparing their spells for the day.

Elizabeth looked obviously sleep-deprived. She yawned loudly as soon as they met, then smacked her lips and asked the king, "Malika should be able to arrive in Watergate Town tonight, right? So we have to wait until tomorrow to gather the troops needed to attack the underground?"

Wang nodded: "That's about right. So today we have time to do the experiment we talked about before."

"experiment?"

"Yes, it's an experiment to study the smells released by cavemen when they are in different emotions. Xiaobai, eat more, we will need you today!"

Xiao Bai was holding a large piece of pickled meat. He nodded when he heard the mage's words: "Okay! I would eat more even if you didn't say it. This way I can last longer when I'm hungry in the future."

The mage turned his head and looked at the druid: "Have you ever been hungry?"

"I didn't. But the elders of the tribe said that there was a large-scale drought. Animals died in large numbers. The werewolves couldn't catch prey and were so hungry that they could only eat starch. Bah, bah, I don't want to eat starch."

Elizabeth looked at Wang: "So today we are... going to do that experiment?"

"Yes, this is a pioneering study of cave dweller ecology. When the experiment is finished, I will write the report on the paper my teacher gave me."

Elizabeth: “Paper?”

"Yes, it is synchronized with another piece of paper in the Mage Tower. Whatever is written will appear on the paper in the Mage Tower and then be printed on other papers. Apprentices from our Mage Tower who go out to study will bring this prop with them and report their discoveries back to the Mage Tower at any time."

Elizabeth's mouth opened wide. "This... can only be used to communicate with the Mage Tower? Can't it be used for other things?"

"No."

Princess: "You have so many good things in the Mage Tower. You can bring about revolution in any plane you go to, right? Why have you been hiding in the Mage Tower all this time?"

Wang looked at her in confusion: "Why do you want to bring about a revolution?"

"Huh?" Elizabeth was stunned by the question.

Wang: "We believe that we should try to keep each plane in its original state. Although the people in the tower going to study will more or less affect each plane, we do not want to raise the civilization of each plane to the same level. My teacher thinks that will destroy the diversity of the planes."

Elizabeth: "Uh...but this will allow us...to make life better for the people in the plane."

Wang: "Technological progress may solve old problems, but it will inevitably bring new problems. Your material life may indeed improve, but the problems you face will also be bigger. At least that's what my teacher thinks."

"Of course there are people who disagree with the teacher's views, and they have already left the Mage Tower. I may also leave the Mage Tower in the future, but right now I don't have any opinions that contradict the teacher's views."

Elizabeth subconsciously took a step back: "Is that so? So in your eyes, we are just research materials, right?"

Wang: "You are still my friend. We should analyze each case individually. We cannot generalize each individual."

Elizabeth looked at the wizard with a complicated expression.

At this time, the dwarf said: "Your Highness, there is no need to think so clearly about some issues. You are traveling together now, so it is enough to know this."

Elizabeth: "That's right. Well, that's enough for you to know."

Xiaobai: "Give me another bone!"

**

That evening, the king put down his quill and put away the magical paper.

"Okay, let's stop here for the study of cave dwellers' emotions!" He stretched his body and glanced at Xiao Bai who was eating so much that his belly was bulging. "Do you remember the table I gave you? You can tell the emotions of cave dwellers by looking at the table!"

Xiaobai: "I don't remember. I don't want to smell cavemen anymore. They are either smelly or spicy. I am almost choking! You are bullying me!"

Wang: "I'm compensating you, look at all this meat!"

Xiaobai: "This is from Dabo!"

Wang: “I asked her to give it to me!”

While the two were arguing, "Da Bo" spoke up: "You really bullied Xiao Bai too much. In order to prevent her from turning into a chicken and escaping, you even threw rice in front of her."

The druid who turned into a chicken would peck at rice as a reflex, but Xiaobai hated rice, and after eating it she would turn back into a "Pfft, Pfft, Pfft." So she had to smell the scent of a caveman for a whole day.

Wang: "This is a great discovery! Maybe it will be published in the academic annual of Tari this year!"

Elizabeth looked skeptical. "Just by smelling the cavemen?"

Wang: "Uh...hiss, when I think about it, it doesn't seem to be such an important academic research."

Xiaobai purred threateningly: "I'm going to bite you!"

Wang: "It's still quite important, but I don't think it will be published in the annual journal. Well, it definitely won't be published, after all, it's just the discovery of a new habit of a common species."

At this time there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." the wizard responded.

Ralph opened the door and before he took his hand off the handle he said, "Hey! Go up to the fort gate. We've got a rare visitor!"

Wang looked at the colorful members of his team and asked, "Are they rarer than us?"

Ralph: "A level of rarity."

Everyone looked at each other. The dwarf tapped his pipe on the table, put it away and stood up: "Let's go."

**

When we reached the top of the city wall, the last ray of sunset glow had disappeared and the sky had become completely dark.

The torches on the city wall could not reach the people below, and the people below did not light torches at all.

Wang looked down from the tower and could only see someone riding a horse. The only person in the team with dark vision was too short and was currently moving boxes, so he had no time to look down.

The wizard took out his old friend, the scepter, and in an instant, the radiant light dispelled the darkness.

The guards on the city wall had already had experience and had already looked away. The people below the city wall were dazzled as expected and could only raise their hands to cover their eyes.

The man below was riding a white horse and wearing brown leather armor with cross straps on the leather armor, on which were hung a number of props. Judging from this attire, he was either a ranger or a wanderer.

The mage stared at the leather armor and muttered, "Is leather armor now also starting to have a bulletproof appearance like plate armor?"

Elizabeth: "That's my secondary sexual characteristic!"

Wang: “Really?”

At this time, the rider on the white horse who had been blocking her view with her hands finally removed her hands, and everyone could see her face.

It was a delicate face that matched her long light blonde hair.

At this time, the dwarf finally got his box. He climbed up the box, lay down in the gap between the battlements, looked down, and immediately cursed: "Carlis Newman's belly button! I absolutely do not agree to her joining the team! It's uncomfortable enough to have a drow elf in the team! Another elf would be terrible! Besides, the drow and ordinary forest elves will definitely beat their brains out!"

The elves below frowned. "Drow? I only knew there were cave dwellers here, but I didn't know there were drow! So it's the drow elves who are instigating the cave dwellers to do evil, right?"

Wang Fu'e: "This... No, it's not like that. The drow are our teammates."

The elf girl immediately drew her bow at super speed: "So it's you who are doing evil? You have killed the lord's son, right?"

Ralph: "Uh, no, I'm still alive. And they're here to solve the caveman problem, too."

Wang: "We have also proposed a solution. If it is convenient, could you put away your bow and arrows and come in first to listen to our explanation of the situation?"

The elf girl thought about it, put away her bow and arrow and nodded: "Okay."

Ralph: "Open the door! Can you bring her into the room where you just had dinner?"