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The man who was soaking the meat next to the poison barrel was stunned when he saw her: "What? Pointy pointy ears!"
Cosania was far away from all elven territories. Except for the city of Langdon, a famous trade center and transit point where elves were often seen, other places might regard elves as part of the bards' stories.
Especially in a rural place like Ximu Town.
After all, Lakeside City was once prosperous, with ships constantly passing by, and the people inside might have seen the pointy-eared elves from afar.
Nini frowned slightly: "My ears are normal among elves. We need to use these ears to feel the wind, which is very important whether we are flying in the forest or locating by sound."
As she spoke, she dipped the tip of her feather arrow directly into the poison. After making sure that the arrow was covered with a thin layer of liquid, she drew the bow and aimed.
The bowstring made a slight sound, and the arrow flew straight towards a monster and accurately pierced into the monster's eye socket.
The monster screamed, struggled for a while and fell down. The fallen monster was not dead, and continued to wriggle and struggle, but it could not move forward and could not reach the human soldiers.
Wang touched his chin and said, "Shoot the eye socket? Indeed, although the eyes are very underdeveloped, they do have optic nerves. Once the venom comes into contact with the nerve network, it will quickly spread and quickly make the monster lose its coordination ability."
The elf kept repeating the steps of sticking venom and then opening fire. The targets she chose were all monsters that did not find their own poisonous raw meat and so rushed towards the smelly raw meat in the human soldiers' array.
Soon all the monsters fell.
At this time, the main force of the cavemen had not yet come into contact with the human line.
The elf continued to shoot.
The king shouted from the side: "Shoot the plump cave dwellers. They are all warrior leaders or Lamashtu priests."
Nini immediately deflected the longbow and switched target selection.
The position where the elves shot arrows was at the very back of the entire human army formation, having passed a large number of miscellaneous obstacles - after all, this was underground, and they could not use high-altitude trajectories, so all their shots were direct, and the targets were all the eyes.
The eyes of monsters, the round eyes of cavemen, the arrows of elves seemed to hunt eyeballs specifically.
The members of the rescue team were stunned.
The wizard was the most fascinated.
Elizabeth waved her hand in front of the wizard: "What are you looking at?"
The king looked at Elizabeth excitedly. "I suddenly understand why her leather armor has such a thick piece of leather in the front. I thought it was to protect her heart and lungs, but now I realize that it is to prevent the bowstring from hitting her secondary sexual characteristics when shooting arrows."
Elizabeth: "Isn't it inappropriate for you to stare at someone's secondary sexual characteristics at this time?"
"I am studying a problem!" Wang said uprightly. "There is no shame in the pursuit of knowledge."
As the two were talking, the cavemen's formation finally collided with the human soldiers' formation. This time, probably because most of the monsters did not rush into the army formation, the human spear formation was still quite neat.
Although the spears were shortened to adapt to the underground terrain and the thickness of the spear formation was not as thick as a standard square formation, the forest at the tip of the spear still gave the cavemen a heavy blow.
A large number of cavemen were stabbed to death by the tips of their spears, and the few who managed to encounter the shield formation were also hacked to death by the shield bearers' swords.
The short and fierce fight lasted for about five minutes, and then the entire underground fell silent. Just like last night, the cave dwellers had no intention of retreating, and all those who attacked died in front of the human army.
Nini asked Wang in confusion: "The cavemen are attacking like this? It seems that they are just depleting humans through numbers."
Sir Ralph nodded. "That's it. The cavemen—I don't know if they count as soldiers—are basically no match for a human soldier who has undergone basic training, after being deprived of their acute hearing.
"Basically, their fighting power is the same as what my grandfather recorded, or even a little weaker. With their excellent armor, my grandfather and his men could basically fight five or six cave dwellers alone. Unfortunately, once they went underground, the cave dwellers had too much of an advantage in the dark caves, and they often launched sneak attacks from unexpected directions.
"As for now, we can't afford fine armor, so we can only equip captains. The cavemen's crude spears and sharp claws can easily break through the defense of leather armor. Leather armor only serves to turn fatal injuries into serious injuries."
The elf girl said with a serious expression: "It has indeed reached a point where it must be resolved."
At this time, a messenger ran over and saluted Ralph: "Sir, the loss today is less than before, but the healer still consumed three-quarters of the magic."
Ralph: "See, even in such a crushing situation, there are still casualties. This is caused by the poor leather armor."
The elf nodded, and then said to the king: "I will go and retrieve my arrows. Human arrows are not made with the right materials, and are not as accurate and durable as elf arrows."
The king made a gesture of invitation.
The elf passed through the human line with ease.
This time the wizard stared with wide eyes, wanting to see how she could pass through the dense array of infantry without touching anyone. However, the elf was too fast and passed by in an instant.
The king exclaimed: "It's amazing. If it were Elizabeth, she would definitely try to get close to the soldiers of Riverwood Town."
Elizabeth said unhappily, "Because I'm bigger."
"No, the lower body is obviously bigger. And the legs are really nice to look at."
Elizabeth said in surprise: "So you want to overthrow her?"
"No, I'm beginning to understand what my teacher said, that women are a kind of art. You, and Miss Elf, both have looks that are at the level of art."
It took all of Elizabeth's manners not to grin.
The dwarf was worried about something else. He stood on a platform made of three boxes, filling his pipes while saying, "Don't be happy so soon. When the drow come back, the elf girl might have to leave the team. Forest elves and drow elves are like sodium and water. When they come into contact, there will be a bang!"
Wang frowned. "There's no point worrying about this now. We'll work it out when the time comes. But you see, I mentioned at the beginning that we have the Drow. She even pointed an arrow at me, but now she's still on the team. It shouldn't be a problem."
The dwarf held his pipe in his mouth. "Is there a possibility that she forgot?"
The Savage agreed, "High!"
The wizard was shocked: "It's possible. I'll mention it when she comes back after picking it up."
The elves spent a quarter of an hour collecting all the usable elven arrows on the battlefield, and then passed through the human army like water again and returned to the team members.
Wang cleared his throat and said, "Well, maybe you forgot that we actually have a drow in our team."
The forest elf froze.
Dwarf: "Well, she just forgot."
The elf girl turned and glared at the king, "Why are you hanging out with evil creatures? You have a priest of Kaelin here too!"
It seems that the elf girl had already recognized the holy emblem of Cailin on the dwarf.
Flint shrugged. "Kaelin is quite happy that his priest is traveling with evil drow."
King: "Race cannot represent honor and character. I have seen the noblest orcs and the most despicable humans. Marika has been following Elizabeth to repay her kindness. She is an excellent wanderer."
Nini: "You actually believe in Zhuoer's loyalty!"
"See, I told you they were going to blow your brains out," Flint said in a playful tone, which was quite consistent with his holy emblem.
Elizabeth: "If you met Marika, you'd know she's actually a nice person."
Flint: "Just a little cruel sometimes."
The elf immediately said, "I cannot travel with a cruel drow. It seems that the plan of traveling together must be cancelled."
Elizabeth was about to ask the king to stay, but the king held her back and said, "Don't worry about her. Let her go. I will remember in the future that elves are an arrogant and prejudiced race. It makes people doubt whether they have brains or intelligence."
Nini: “What did you say?”
"I am stating the facts. I always speak the truth. You just subjectively conclude that Marika is a bad person and will betray you because she is a drow. You don't know that everyone has their own personality. Even drow can be loyal and loving."
The dwarf was shocked: "Is it possible?"
After all, Kailin's pastor, Kailin really likes to watch the fun.
The king ignored the amusing dwarf and continued, "If I were you, I would stay and see if the drow is trustworthy. If I find that she is not trustworthy, I will do everything I can to bring her to justice. This is what a person with the most basic common sense should do!"
Nini lowered her head and fell into thought.
"What you said makes sense."
Elizabeth looked at the wizard and said, "You have succeeded in convincing me again. I don't know whether you are good at speaking or not."
Wang: "All I have done is to persuade people with reason. When it is time to appeal to their emotions, that is your turn."
Xiao Bai: "You are a male and female liar."
Nini seemed to have made up her mind: "I should at least meet the drow. Where is she now?"
Wang: "She took a box of gold and went to Shuimen Town to hire mercenaries. When we go underground, we need them to lead the way."
Elizabeth suddenly said, "If Marika had no loyalty, she would have run away with the box of gold. If she successfully returns with the hired mercenaries, it means that she is trustworthy, right?"
Wang: "You don't think this statement is reasonable, do you?"
"Eh? Isn't it?"
Nini replied thoughtfully: "Since you trust this Zhuo Er so much, let's wait until she comes back. Anyway, it seems that you have no intention of restricting my freedom of movement now."
The king spread his hands and said, "Of course not. Everyone in our team can come and go freely. Before, a cat ranger just slapped his head and left."
"Well, I'll wait and see."
**
When Marika came back, it was already noon on the third day.
It took her a day and a half to reach Watergate Town, then a day to recruit mercenaries, and finally two days to return to Creekwood Town with the mercenaries.
During this time, the elf had almost become familiar with the rest of the team.
At noon on the third day, a large number of mercenaries entered the air force camp of the stone fortress. Not only were they fully armed, but each team was also equipped with spellcasters.
It would be easy for such an army to wipe out all the militia in Ximu Town.
All members of the team met Marika in the room that had been used as a meeting room.
"Wow, I was only away for a few days and there's an annoying forest elf joining the team." Marika said with a smile.
The forest elf tensed up and stared at the drow. She muttered, "I can't be wrong. This smell is the smell of the evil drow."
Marika: "So forest elves also like to use their noses to smell others like werewolves?"
Elizabeth stepped in between the two of them: "Okay, Marika, stop irritating Nini. She's only a hundred years old. She's just a little girl."
Marika: "It turns out to be a fledgling. I advise you not to have any ideas about me."
Nini tensed up: "I know you are a powerful wanderer. I have no chance of winning at this distance. But the legendary evil creature is right in front of us! You are a follower of the Spider Lady, you..."
Marika: "I'm not anymore. In fact, I killed the Spider Lady's priest out of revenge. She must hate me."
Nini was stunned for a moment: "What?"
Elizabeth: "I testified. Or I helped her get her revenge."
"From then on I vowed to spend the rest of my life serving Elizabeth, my new master."
Elf: "You are..."
"Don't tell me that I am a drow and therefore my oath is unreliable. I have been by Elizabeth's side for many years, and I will continue to protect Her Royal Highness until she reaches the end of her life and dies of old age. Even if this loyalty lasts for sixty or seventy years, I am prepared to carry it out to the end."