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Wang: "Where are the guards?"
Marika added: "There are no guards either. I don't know what's deeper."
The king nodded and looked towards the cave entrance surrounded by the roots of the big tree: "Let's go."
**
When you go down two hundred meters underground, you can no longer feel the dampness from the surface. The material of the cave has also changed from a mixture of sand and gravel supported by tree roots to pure rock.
Flint kept feeling his way along the rock wall on the left, notifying whenever the rock structure changed.
When they advanced three hundred meters underground, a "hush" suddenly came from the front, and everyone hurriedly stopped.
Marika emerged from the shadows of the light in front and came to the king silently: "Caveman."
Wang: "Old acquaintance. How many are there?"
Marika: "More than a dozen. It doesn't look like there's a large settlement nearby. It looks more like the black dragon captured them to guard its lair."
Wang: "Tell me the terrain, we are going to surprise them."
Marika: "There's a bend ahead, and there's a cliff on the other side of the bend. I think there's a large cave there, but I can't sneak through it because of the cave dwellers. If you guys charge later, be careful not to fall off the cliff."
The king patted Gao Trick's shoulder and said, "Did you remember that?"
Gotrek: “No.”
The king frowned at him.
Gotrek: "Oh, remember!"
It turned out that he just answered the last word of Wang's question.
The king turned to the dwarf and said, "And you, take it easy and don't rush down."
Flint showed a touched expression: "You are actually worried about a dwarf charging too far. This is the most heartwarming concern I have ever seen."
Nini: "He has short legs, it's okay."
The dwarf looked at the elf and said, "This is the most cruel and ruthless thing I have ever heard. Long ears, don't be complacent. You do have a pair of long legs, but you can't use them underground."
Wang: "Stop talking nonsense and let's go."
Elizabeth: "I'm going to throw a fireball! (firmly)"
Wang raised his eyebrows, looked at the dung ball in her hand that had claw marks on it, and nodded: "Okay, you can throw it. Throw it accurately. Even if you can't throw it accurately, you have to make sure it is thrown out and doesn't explode on us."
Elizabeth pouted, "I know!"
**
The battle with the cavemen was unremarkable. The moment Elizabeth threw the fireball, the battle was over.
The only drawback is that two cavemen were blown off the cliff, which might have alerted the other guards.
The king came to the edge of the cliff, raised the dragon head stick in his hand high, and let the strong light of the dragon head shine down the cliff.
The golden reflection from below the cliff almost blinded his eyes.
A whole mountain of gold. Literally a mountain of gold!
Elizabeth stood beside the king and frowned, "With so many gold coins, that old liar in Minsk didn't take any?"
Wang: "The old trickster is alone, and I always feel that he may not be very good at dealing with enemies other than magicians. Maybe he dare not rashly enter the dragon's cave. He caught a black dragon outside as a mount."
Nini: "Now we don't have to worry about our gold coin expenses for the time being?"
Wang: "Yes, hold your dimensional bags and start sucking! I am the only one who sucks slowly."
Chapter 279: Say Hello to the Underdark
Just when most of the gold mountain disappeared, Flint suddenly stopped, put down the dimensional bag, and bent down to check the ground.
Xiao Bai noticed the dwarf's movements and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
The dwarf was shocked and said, "I originally thought that the material of the ground was relatively hard granite, but it is actually relatively loose shale with many holes. I don't know how much of this shale is on the ground of this cave. If there is a lot... this rock layer is very brittle, and a relatively large vibration may cause the ground of the cave to collapse."
Xiaobai turned around and shouted to Wang: "The dwarf said that this cave will collapse at any time!"
The dwarf said angrily, "I didn't! I meant if there were more of this kind of ground! Don't take my words out of context!"
Nini suddenly hushed and looked warily at the cave entrance on the cliff where everyone had first entered.
Xiaobai also turned his head to look at the cave entrance, and his ears twitched: "The air is blocked, something big is blocking the cave."
Flint lay down, put his ear to the ground and listened for a second, then shouted: "The black dragon is back!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a dragon roar came from the cave.
The cave formed a perfect sound amplification chamber, and the dragon's roar became literally "deafening".
Elizabeth asked the king nervously, "What should we do?"
Wang: "Don't be afraid, wait for it to come in and I will kill it with a Phantom Killer. There is no point in using the Phantom Killer on the two long-necked beasts just now!"
Just as Elizabeth was about to feel relieved, a strong acid gushed out from the cave they had just walked through. The acid blew onto the stalactites directly opposite the cave entrance, dissolving the roots of the stalactites in an instant, and thick inverted cone-shaped rocks fell down on them.
Flint rolled over and barely avoided a huge rock, but before he could catch his breath, three or four smaller rocks were inserted beside him, surrounding him.
The dwarf opened his mouth and was about to breathe a sigh of relief when the largest stalactite that was inserted first fell towards him.
The dwarf, whose hiding space was limited by the small stalactites, could only use his hands and feet to support the falling boulder.
"Help! Kailin's belly button, I'm trapped!"
Gao Trick rushed forward, grabbed the base of the stalactite with both hands, roared, and threw the entire stalactite aside.
"I owe you!" Flint crawled out of the cage made of stalactites in shock.
At this moment, the mastermind behind this small stalactite landslide appeared at the entrance of the cave where everyone came in.
As soon as it crawled into the cave, this guy spread his wings and roared.
The king stretched out one hand, pointed at the dragon, and recited the last incantation of the Phantom Killer spell - before that he had completed all the casting gestures.
As soon as the dragon's roar came out, it suddenly changed its tone, revealing obvious fear.
Elizabeth held the dung ball in one hand and pressed her other fist against her chest. Her knuckles turned white from nervousness.
Elizabeth: "Is it done? Should I throw the fireball?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the black dragon's huge body lost its support and slowly slid down from the cliff.
The rescue team watched its body speed up little by little at the bottom of the cave. Flint: "Kaelin's belly button, I don't like this unfolding!"
Marika's voice suddenly came: "The cave can go deeper, run this way!"
When everyone turned around, they saw the drow standing on a small slope made of the remaining gold coins, waving desperately at everyone.
Wang: "No! I can turn into a dragon and hold it!"
Then he turned into a dragon.
As he began to change, the dragon head staff that had been the source of light became part of his transformation and could no longer emit light.
Then darkness fell in an instant, leaving only the faint light from the fluorescent fungi on the wall.
Elizabeth was startled by the sudden darkness and screamed.
Wang: "Don't be afraid! It's okay!"
As he shouted, he used his outstretched wings to catch the falling black dragon's body.
The huge weight of the black dragon still caused the earth to tremble.
The few gold coins left on the ground made a rustling sound due to the vibration.
Flint: "I... don't like this development, I really don't like this development!"
As he spoke, he took out the slow fall scroll from his dimensional bag and tore it open. A soft light enveloped all the members of the rescue team, and you could vaguely see feathers that appeared from nowhere and slowly rotated around them.
King (dragon form): "Don't worry, this cave has been a dragon's lair for so many years, it must be sturdy..."
Before he could finish his words, the ground between his two spread dragon legs cracked with a crack.
Wang: “Ah, this…”
Flint: "Hurry up and put the remaining treasure into the dimensional bag. It will reduce the weight!"
Seeing this, Nini immediately took the dimensional bag and sucked it madly.
Marika: “Come here quickly!”
Before she could finish, the only stalactite that had just been sprayed with acid on the ceiling fell from the air and hit the ground with a loud bang.
The next moment the collapse began.
First, a crack appeared in the ground that ran across the entire cave. Then the entire structure of the cave collapsed and the ceiling collapsed.
Because everyone had the skill of slow-falling, the falling rocks from the ceiling quickly caught up with them and were about to crush everyone down.
Wang flapped his wings desperately, holding the black dragon's body in his mouth and swung it in the air, using the black dragon's body as a hammer and hitting it hard on the largest fallen rock.
The rockfall broke into pieces, and the scattered debris shattered several pieces of debris around it. The dust released by the continuous shattering destroyed everyone's throat.
The crushed rocks passed around the people who were using the slow-fall technique and fell toward the bottomless abyss.
The king raised his head and looked upwards, only to find that more boulders were collapsing from above.
It looked like the entire ground had collapsed, and a huge rock that was big enough to fill the entire field of vision was falling down like a mountain!
Soon the collapsing boulders caught up. Even with the dragon's power, it was unable to cope with boulders of this weight. It could only watch as everyone was pushed by the boulders and accelerated!
Elizabeth was pressed against the surface of the boulder, and was almost flattened by the wind from below. She shouted loudly, "Hurry up and find a way!"
Flint: "Don't be afraid! A straight up and down skylight like this can't be the same thickness from top to bottom, it will definitely get stuck somewhere--"
As soon as the words fell, the impetus behind everyone disappeared.
The boulder was indeed stuck.
Xiaobai gave a thumbs up: "As expected of a dwarf, you are amazing! You are familiar with the underground conditions!"
King (Dragon Form): "Hurry up and cast another Feather Fall. We are falling too fast now!"
"Tear it up right now!"