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Atoli assessed the dwarf's injuries with her naked eyes, took out the holy emblem, and began to heal the minor injuries.
She turned her head and leveled her long ears, perpendicular to the direction of the wind. "The wind speed has dropped. The floating island may have stopped moving."
Xiaobai: "Is it my illusion? You seem a bit too smart now."
Nini: "Because of the headwind. Now it's halfway through autumn and the wind direction has changed."
**
At the edge of the floating island, several piers leading to the deep outside have been built. The bottom of the pier is fixed to the rock layer at the base with huge spikes as thick as wrists. From the surface of the soil layer (that is, the "ground"), you have to take stairs down to the height of the pier.
Atoli put her hands on the pergola and looked over there: "At this height, I might have to use up my first resurrection spell today. I hope it doesn't break too much."
"Wait a minute," Rosalie interrupted. "If I'm not mistaken, you're planning to add new dangerous items to the island, right? Aren't there enough explosions on the island every day?"
Gaines bowed again.
Rosalie: "Yes, we need the army, but you have been struggling for so long, where is the army?"
The king looked down at the dwarf's electric spear that had shocked him once and said, "Still trying. But believe me, gunpowder weapons are not what they seem. With gunpowder weapons, those untrained vigilantes on the island can fight against the fully armored knights."
Wang: "But we need troops to fight..."
He took the note back and turned to give it to Gaines: "I see you have more connections, please help me."
Just then Nini looked up: "The wind has changed."
Wang: "Forget it. Since you have managed to make nitroglycerin by accident... in your words, it is called liquid smoke powder, which means you have gathered all the elements to make nitroglycerin. Then you just need to use these materials to make other gunpowders."
A dwarf craftsman behind Poppy retorted, "Dwarf, you're talking as if the Iron Golems of the Thorn Islands are unreliable! In the Thorn Islands, as long as there are Iron Golems, no one dares to act rashly!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiaobai turned into a peregrine falcon and rushed out. When he got near the dwarf, he turned into a white-headed sea eagle, picked up the falling dwarf, flapped his wings and flew back, and threw the dwarf to the ground.
Xiaobai looked at Elizabeth and said, "Why, are you so impatient to use the fireball technique to blow something up?"
After writing, he tore off the note and handed it to Bobby: "Go ahead. Wait a minute!"
Just as he finished speaking, there was another explosion from the "power tower", and something was thrown into the sky. That thing could still scream: "Ah ...
At this moment, Wang thought of the "dwarf war machine" he encountered on the Pelican Gang's territory before Shallow Water City was destroyed by the undead army, and he couldn't help but hold his forehead.
Flint said, "Don't pretend, Gaines. I don't believe you don't have a way to communicate with the outside world. Send a letter? You really think we are fools."
Since the floating island set out to move towards Isonzo, the only airship that the salvation team seized from the cult was still "flying" around.
Xiaobai turned back into human form: "I got it back."
Standing on the pier, you can overlook the scenery below, which is clearer and has a wider field of view than what you can see in the central control room using the Cyclops Empire's camera equipment.
Wang: "Let's go to the lookout on the edge of the floating island and take a look."
Of course, many people are now rushing to the redeveloped Shallow Water City to look for new opportunities, so from time to time, airships will pass by the Floating Island - it is said to be passing by, but in fact the location of the Floating Island is quite far away from the route, but now there is lightning on the Floating Island that will never go out, just like a candle at night will attract moths, constantly attracting airships to its side.
Wang: "Nini, do you see any lizardmen or other races that might be used as slaves by the black dragon?"
Nini looked for a few seconds and pointed down: "There are kobolds over there! Although it's hard to see clearly because of the trees, judging by the number, it should be a settlement!"
The king took out his dragon head stick and said, "Well, let's see if the artifacts in our hands can still control the kobolds."
Chapter 276 "You look down on me, don't you?"
The rescue team quickly completed preparations to enter the dungeon.
Atoli asked from the side: "Are you sure you don't want me to go with you? I am an eight-ring priest, and High Knight Theresa is also a powerful paladin."
Wang: "But do you and High Knight Theresa have experience in underground exploration?"
Atoli and Theresa looked at each other and shook their heads honestly: "I don't know what's going on with Ms. Theresa. I really don't have any experience in underground exploration. Since I entered the monastery of the church, I have been meditating in the monastery."
Theresa added: "I have gone deep into the crypts to fight evil creatures."
Wang: "Very well, Ms. Theresa can go. But... can you resist the urge to chop down our rogues?"
The only designated wanderer of the salvation team is naturally the drow elf Marika.
Theresa pursed her lips and said, "Bishop Pietro asked me to treat this as a test for me, but unfortunately I didn't change my mind. Now the Bishop is staying in Shallow Water City as the diocesan bishop, and he can't control me. If the parish priest here doesn't stop me, I will follow my inner impulse."
The king looked at Atoli, "Ma'am?"
Atoli: "I have no reason to stop a paladin from following her heart. Besides, as a half-elf, I have a blood feud with the drow. I don't understand why Miss Nini, as an elf, can tolerate a drow.
"The drow are an evil race that regards hunting elves on the ground as their rite of passage. I wonder how many elves have died at the hands of the drow."
Nini was unprepared for the topic to turn to herself. She was just checking her spare bow. Facing Ms. Atoli's gaze, Nini tilted her head and thought for a few seconds before answering, "I know that the drow are an evil race, but I only know about it as written knowledge. I was born in the Forest Kingdom, which is too far away from the drow's living area. Many people have never seen a drow."
Flint interrupted, "The drow generally live around their main city, Moss Brighton, with each family controlling a group of underground lairs. It does take a lot of effort to get to the forest where our team's long-ears live.
"Either you cross the mountains and rivers on the surface, or you cross the dark and dangerous Underdark. It is an interconnected underground area, deeper than the dwarven tunnels, where even the troggs are only considered "upper creatures."
King: "Are the dwarven tunnels not as deep as the Underdark?"
Flint: "Of course. Remember the Fetal Movement Hall we went to? That place is deep enough, but the Underdark is even deeper. You still have to find a passage to go down. You may encounter all kinds of creatures you have never seen at any time down there."
Wang: "I thought that was part of the Underdark. In the book of Gralia written by my teacher, there are many records about the Underdark, but the most prominent one is the bizarreness."
Elizabeth interrupted the conversation between Wang and Flint: "I'm ready! Look, I brought so many dung balls. You won't have to share the materials for my fireball spell when I go down!"
As she spoke, she opened the mouth of her spellcasting material bag - the material bag, to show the dung ball inside.
Elizabeth proudly announced, "I made all of this by hand! Even if I were to adventure down there for a few days and cast fireballs every day, I wouldn't run out of materials!"
Wang: "Very good, you did a great job. Then let's go, to the hanging basket!"
**
The members who went out this time were Wang, Elizabeth, Flint, Xiaobai, Gaotrick, Nini and Marika who was hiding somewhere unknown.
After getting off the ground in the basket, Elizabeth suddenly laughed and said, "This crew composition seems to have returned to the beginning of our adventure."
Wang: "Except the cat-man has been replaced by an elf."
Xiaobai: "There's also me."
Wang touched Xiaobai's head and said, "Yes, you are one more. Nini, see where the Kobolds' settlement is located above, lead the way."
Nini immediately pointed in a direction: "This way."
The team advanced for about five minutes before Nini raised her right hand and said, "Stop!"
The next moment a group of dog-headed men jumped out: "Fresh meat!"
The king raised the dragon head scepter that he had already held in his hand and shouted in dragon language: "Back off!"
All the kobolds froze, staring at the glowing dragon head in the king's hand with wide eyes.
Finally, the dog-headed man with the most decorations on his head took a step back, put down the inferior short bow in his hand, bowed his head respectfully and said, "Great Dragon God Messenger, what can I do for you?"
The other kobolds also followed suit and retreated.
Flint was shocked: "Knowing Dragon Language really can control the Kobolds. Then don't mages all belong to the Kobolds?"
Wang: "That's not the case. The artifact in my hand should have played a role. And not every wizard can really speak Dragon Language. Many wizards only know some common words, such as 'Froda' or something like that."
After that, the king asked the kobold leader in dragon language: "We are looking for a black dragon's lair nearby. Do you know where the entrance is?"
The kobold looked confused.
Wang (Dragon Language): "You don't understand?"
The Kobold leader responded: "I... Great Dragon God Messenger, we really didn't quite understand your will just now. Because we are humble and don't have the ability to master such profound words."
The king switched to Kobold language: "Then I will condescend to speak in your language. I am looking for the lair of a black dragon. It should be nearby."
Kobold: "We are the servants of Lord Black Dragon, but a powerful wizard came to take him away, so he is not at home now."
The black dragon ridden away by the old liar in Minsk did not return home.
Wang: “Take us there.”
The dog-headed man shrank his neck and said, "You are not coveting Lord Black Dragon's treasure, are you? You must not do that, he will be very angry!"
Wang: "How dare a mere dog-headed man meddle in other people's business! Stop talking nonsense and take us there, or I will turn you all into minced meat today!"
Although Gao Cuik didn't understand what the king said, he still made a judgment based on the tone and roared in cooperation.
The barbarian's war cry has a deterrent effect, let alone a weak creature like a kobold.
Half of the kobolds turned and ran.
The leader didn't run away, but it was obvious that half of his soul was scared away.
It said tremblingly, "Please, please come this way."
Wang: "It would have been better if we had done this earlier. Lead the way."
**
The Kobold led the rescue team to the edge of a swamp and pointed to the big tree in the middle of the swamp: "The nest is at the root of the tree, there is a cave."
Wang: "Is there no way into the swamp?"
Kobold: "Lord Black Dragon can fly in directly, but as for us, we can't get in."
Wang frowned and looked at the swamp: "Xiaobai, are you prepared to walk on water today?"
Xiaobai: "Of course, but why don't you let me turn into a giant turtle or a giant crocodile and carry everyone across?"
Wang looked at Xiaobai and blinked: "Can you change?"
Xiaobai: "You look down on me, don't you?"
The next moment, she turned into a big crocodile, slid into the swamp, and skillfully bared her teeth at all the members of the Savior Team.
Chapter 277 Swamp Ambush
As soon as Wang Gang stepped onto Xiao Bai's back, he heard Elizabeth's scream. He subconsciously turned around and pulled the girl onto the crocodile's back.
After standing firm, Elizabeth suddenly laughed: "I suddenly remembered that during our first adventure, you stepped on my back just like you are stepping on the crocodile now."
Wang raised his eyebrows: "Oh, I remember now, the enemy spellcaster cast a Grease spell in front of us, right?"
Elizabeth was about to reply with a smile, but Wang said, "There was no Xiaobai at that time. If there was Xiaobai, she could have turned into a wolf and jumped over."
Elizabeth rolled her eyes and sighed.