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Just now, because of the breeze blowing from the shaft, the smoke from the burning bodies did not drift this way. Now that the stone door is closed, the smoke is accumulating at the top of the tunnel.
Wang: "The fire is almost out! Xiaobai! Pick up some bricks and throw them over there!"
Xiaobai used his hands and feet to run to the newly piled brick and stone roadblock and picked up a stone.
The sound of casting a spell came from the other side.
Wang: "It's Wind Wall! They have a priest! Or maybe a shaman!"
The boulder shot straight through the wind wall and smashed into the cave dwellers in their distinctive armor. Of course, the leather armor could not withstand this power, and the internal organs of the people hit were crushed. Suddenly, a gap appeared in the entire army formation.
Elizabeth shouted, "I can't see that divine spellcaster! Do you see it, King?"
Xiaobai was about to throw the second brick, but when he heard Elizabeth's "Woof", he burst out laughing, and the brick slipped out of his hand and hit her foot.
The huge groundhog was jumping on one leg, holding its foot, which was very funny.
Nini was not affected by this little episode at all and drew her bow directly.
The arrow flew through the wind wall, but its trajectory was disrupted, turning the straight line into a curved line. However, the arrow hit something accurately.
The wail came across the trogg army.
The next moment, the sound of prayer was heard from the rear of the army. It was obvious that the opponent's spellcaster would continue to cast spells to summon divine grace.
Wang: "Humanoid Immobilization Technique! Interrupt it!"
Nini's bow and arrow had already been fired, but this time there was only a "clang" sound, which sounded like it hit the shield. However, just a feather arrow could make such a loud sound, as if a javelin had pierced the shield. The king subconsciously looked at the biceps of the elf's arm.
He just happened to see the elf drawing his bow, and a huge "little mouse" emerged from his seemingly thin arms.
The bowstring made a "twanging" sound, and the arrow disappeared from sight with a sharp sound of breaking through the air. This time the prayer turned into a wailing.
The dwarf held up his shield, standing at the front of the team at this time, and shouted loudly: "The fire is almost out! These cave dwellers are not like the previous rabble!"
After saying that, the dwarf hung the hammer on his waist, touched the holy emblem and chanted Cailin's name loudly, and then the soft light of blessing descended upon all the team members.
Then the dwarf chanted a long prayer, and more holy light fell, but this time even the enemies were affected - but the light that fell on them looked gray, gray light.
The dwarf was still praying, and this time he was praying for the favor of luck - Cailin's authority also involved luck, and his priest naturally also possessed spells in the field of luck.
While the dwarf was praying, Nini fired her bow continuously, using the enemy's wind wall to shoot indirect shots, constantly interrupting the prayers of the Lamashtu priest hiding behind the army.
Finally, the fire gradually became smaller, and a thick layer of smoke gathered over the entire passage.
The caveman warriors have never been blessed by divine magic, but instead have been coated with a layer of soft gray light by the dwarfs' magic.
But that didn't stop the cavemen from blowing their horns.
Nini was originally drawing her bow, but when she heard the horn, she immediately changed her target. As soon as the arrow was shot out, the horn broke.
However, the cavemen still rushed forward, howling.
Their shouts and cries were all sharp and terrifying roars, as if they could make all the crying children in the world shut up at the same time.
The dwarf roared as well, and rushed forward with his shield on his head, with the barbarian following closely behind him.
Marika also switched the dagger to her left hand, drew out the dagger with her right hand, and followed Gaotrick to kill him.
There was also the giant groundhog Xiaobai, and the few of them blocked the entire passage. In addition, the dwarf's prayer just now added a lot of buffs to everyone, and they could be seen pushing forward along the passage.
The king and Elizabeth stood in the back and couldn't make any move. The main reason was that Xiaobai blocked their sight. Mages and warlocks needed to see the target to cast spells.
Nini pulled the bow and shot continuously, but there was no way to observe the effect of the shooting. The sound of fighting and screams covered up the sound of the arrows being hit.
There were also sounds of prayer, obviously from the enemy side. In this situation, even Nini couldn't interfere with the enemy priest's prayers with a lob shot.
However, the prayers stopped abruptly again, as it was obvious that the melee group that had broken through the line had already reached the priest.
Wang: "That's good. We still have a lot of spells left to deal with unexpected situations."
Elizabeth: "No matter what, you can't use your death to change the situation later!"
Wang: "I won't really die. And I promise you, when I master the method of reversing time in the future, I will come to you. By then, I will definitely be a legendary magician with nine rings. I can solve any world-destroying crisis by myself and show you."
"I don't want it! I want you as you are now! You don't understand what your teacher said at all! Even if you can come back, you will no longer be the you we are familiar with! You can only leave! That would be too sad!"
Wang: "Then I will understand what the teacher said. I really don't understand it now!"
"Charming humans!"
Wang: "I'm pretty sure you failed this time. Haha, I told you I'm extremely resistant to enchantment spells!"
Elizabeth stamped her feet in anger.
Nini: "We are still fighting, be serious."
As he was speaking, Xiaobai carried a half-dead, pot-bellied caveman to the king and threw him to the ground with a bang.
The king saw the holy emblem of Lamashtu on it at first sight.
"The priest of the Mother of Monsters?" Wang muttered, carefully examining the arrow wound on the caveman's body. "The wound healed without even pulling out the arrow, and the arrow grew inside."
At this moment, the half-dead guy suddenly came to life, sat up with a somersault, and started howling at the king!
The next moment, Nini took the arrow in her hand and stabbed it into the guy's eyeball like a dagger, and the howl turned into a miserable scream.
Nini pulled out the arrow, bringing out a lot of black blood.
The wizard reached out and touched the caveman's bleeding eye sockets.
Elizabeth was so frightened that she cried out, "Why are you touching everything with your hands?"
Wang: "I want to see this blood in person. As far as I remember, caveman blood shouldn't be this color."
After saying this, he rubbed the sticky blood on his hands and even put it close to his nose to smell it.
Nini was watching all this and sighed, "It turns out that he really didn't mean to touch my thigh before."
Wang: "Of course, I'm studying the sweat of elves. Elves rarely sweat, so there isn't much information in the Mage Tower. I know what this blood looks like."
Flint smashed the last caveman's head and turned back to ask, "Like what?"
Wang: "Like the monster I dissected before."
Nini: "Dissection! What an evil act!"
Everyone looked at the elf together.
Nini also looked at the others in surprise: "You...don't you think that dissection is a blasphemy?"
"He's just doing research," Elizabeth said.
Xiao Bai turned back into a human and said, "I often dissect prey to find the tastiest parts and save them for last."
"Eh?" Nini looked at everyone hesitantly, "Am I wrong?"
Wang: "This blood is undoubtedly the same as the monster's. This may explain why this thing heals so quickly.
“Everyone, look at the fatal wound that Nini just made. Although this guy is dead, there are still white edges growing around the wound. This is new skin tissue.
"That is to say, after the main body died, the regeneration function continued to function for a short while. This is amazing. When we enter the Fetal Movement Hall later, all these mysteries will be revealed. Xiaobai, smell this guy and take us to the Fetal Movement Hall!"
At this point Flint said, "I don't want to spoil the fun at a time like this, but... I'm almost out of spells. Next up I'm a high-ranking dwarven infantryman."
Marika: "That's quite new. Can you also be a dwarven cavalryman? Of course you are a dwarven infantryman."
The dwarf blew his beard. "Evil thing! When the elf comes to seek revenge on you, I will definitely stand on her side!"
Nini: “Thank you.”
Wang: "They are quarreling, you don't need to get involved."
Marika: "Now that we're done arguing, shall we continue on our way?"
King: "Did you find anything worth looting? Do I need to use a detect magic item?"
"No," the drow and the forest elves answered together.
They looked at each other, and Zhuoer made a gesture of invitation.
The forest elf replied: "There is no magical aura on these people, so there should be no magical items worth looting."
Wang: "Then can you still feel the flow of air?"
Nini nodded: "Yes. It's very weak, but it is definitely flowing."
"Okay, let's go."
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"Wait a minute!" Senior dwarf infantryman Flint suddenly gave a signal for the entire team to stop advancing, then strode up from the rear of the team and carefully observed the murals on the wall.
Wang: "I didn't know that dwarves would also use murals to record things. I thought that was something that our ancestors from Catalonia would do."
The dwarf infantry snorted, "You don't understand? Words may be lost, but murals will not. As long as you pay attention to the rules when painting, you can ensure that people in the next civilization cycle can understand it.
"Look at this part. It uses the method of north at the top, south at the bottom, west at the left, and east at the right to indicate the reading direction of the mural. As long as the people in the next cycle know east, west, south, and north, they can figure out how to read it!"
Wang: "I see. Then let me see what kind of story this is. Wait a minute, is this thing a lich?"
He pointed to a skeleton in the mural.
"There are so many decorations on this skeleton, as well as a bag of spellcasting materials. It looks like a lich who has armed himself to the teeth with magical equipment. Especially on his hands, the rings are obviously worn with care to avoid interference between the magic rings."
Elizabeth exclaimed, "Are these all magic rings? We have only gained one counter ring in all our adventures so far."
Nini: "Why is there a lich in the dwarven murals? And it doesn't look like they are fighting the lich."
Xiaobai: "This place is also very strange. The lich was resurrecting people from the coffin, but the dwarf that came out was not a skeleton!"
King: "There is also the holy emblem of Lamashtu here, and there is light in the hand of the lich over here, and the light is shining on the holy emblem of Lamashtu?"
Suddenly the king clapped his hands: "No, this is the lich drawing power from Lamashtu."
The dwarf asked in confusion: "Why do you want to extract this power? And the rest is too weird. Why do dwarves keep coming out of the coffin?"
King: "I understand! This lich has drained Lamashtu's power and wants to mass-produce dwarves!"
Marika: "Why produce dwarves? What's the matter with these dwarves dressed in fancy clothes?"
Wang: "Because the dwarves and the lich cooperated, they helped the lich to make the device, and the lich extracted the power. They used this device to mass-produce dwarves and increase the dwarf population. Isn't this the same as what happened to the cavemen? The device was left behind, and the cavemen began to mass-produce it."
Flint took out his pipe and filled it with tobacco while speaking grimly, "To be honest, as a dwarf, I don't think our think tank's speculation is wrong. Dwarves, like elves, are deeply troubled by fertility rates. And our problem is more serious than that of the elves.
"The elves sing about love, but we dwarves are all about digging, mining, forging, and brewing beer from dwarven barley. We have tried many ways to increase our fertility, but with little success. If it weren't for the long life span of dwarves, we would have been extinct long ago.
"But once a war breaks out, the flaw of low fertility rate will inevitably be exposed. The Mountain Kingdom has shrunk to its current state because of the war."