Chapter 245 I'm Smart
Dark, dreary, dangerous, these words are used to describe the Underdark, but they are not accurate enough.
This is a space that is much larger than the surface of the earth, with a unique ecology and rules. One of the most important rules is that when you see corpses and black roses, you must crawl on the ground. If you are as humble as an ant, you may survive.
Don't even think about running away, the Black Rose will catch up with you and turn you into one of the undead.
But recently, someone has been challenging the majesty of the corpse and the rose.
It is rare to see large flat natural spaces in the Underdark. Many tribes live in maze-like passages, moving like mice.
Only those large forces with large populations can transform underground spaces through various means, construct huge buildings, and allow large populations to reproduce.
Outside of these forces, there is a terrifying world where the strong prey on the weak.
A team wearing the emblems of the dead and the black rose are moving forward in the winding underground corridors. They are the team transporting ore. After digging it out from various veins, they carry out simple processing on site and then transport it to the city of mercury to be cast into metal ingots.
Minerals have always been the specialty of the Underdark, but the owner of the City of Mercury is turning the ores into her own specialty.
Dozens of rotten zombies were dragging a huge truck slowly. The iron chains penetrated directly into the bodies of these zombies and buckled on their spines, making them look like livestock.
Judging from their attire and faces that have not completely decayed, these zombies seem to be transformed drow elves.
There are not only ores on the mine cart, but also two zombies wearing leather armor and holding long whips, who look like underground gnomes. The underground gnomes were once slaves of the drow elves, but who would have thought that the situation would be reversed after death.
Just as the zombies pulled their carts to a fork in the road, two huge black shadows suddenly fell from above the corridor.
The long hairy legs fell down and pierced the bodies of several drow zombies pulling the cart.
They were two spiders about the size of mine carts, but where the head should have been was the upper body of a drow elf.
Spider Drow is a monster created when a Drow elf undergoes an extremely vicious ritual and merges with a spider.
This monster not only inherited the agility of the elves, but also had many characteristics of the giant spider. Just now, these two monsters were lying on the top of this passage to ambush, and they jumped down when the truck passed by.
The purpose of these two spider-like drow was very clear. After trampling a few drow zombies to death, they swung their scimitars at the dwarf zombies.
This spider-like drow has the upper body of an elf and is extremely skilled in wielding a scimitar. It can cut the dwarf zombies on the mine cart into pieces in the blink of an eye.
After killing all the zombies escorting the ore, the spider-like drow waved its weapon to destroy the wheels of the truck.
In this way, even if the undead from Mercury City arrived, it would take them several hours to move the truck away and reopen the passage.
Attacks like this have been going on for several days.
The production of metal ingots in Mercury City has been severely affected, with daily output reduced by at least 15 percent.
This was the drow's counterattack. Although no one knew why these dark-skinned people suddenly had the courage to resist, no one knew where they got so many spider-like drow.
Anyway, this group of drow elves have been elusive and have caused a lot of trouble to Mercury City.
But this time, things are a little different.
At the moment the truck was destroyed, it seemed that some kind of trap magic was triggered. A blue light flashed, and a death knight wrapped in black heavy armor appeared in front of these spider-like drow.
"Death Knight?!"
The two spider drow were not panicked. If there were a group of death knights, they would have turned around and ran, but just one was nothing.
In previous harassments, they had encountered Death Knights from Mercury City before, but their combat effectiveness was no more than this.
Malice and cruelty are the nature of drow. After transforming into spider drow, this character will be infinitely magnified. After confirming that there is only one death knight for support, the two spider drow pounced on the death knight.
Venom and spider webs shot from both sides, covering almost any space where there was room for hiding.
The venom of the spider-like drow is extremely corrosive and can corrode the armor of the death knight completely. The spider web has strong viscosity and can completely bind the body of the death knight.
Then, just chop off the Death Knight's head to completely kill this high-level undead.
They had used this ability to kill several Death Knights before, and they worked together very skillfully.
But this time their tricks completely failed.
The venom fell on the black heavy armor without making a sizzling sound, but slid directly to the ground, and the armor did not suffer any damage.
The flying white sticky threads were blocked by a spear, which turned and churned the spider silk into a ball.
Before the two spider elves could recover from the accident, the spear wrapped in spider silk had already hit one of the spider elves on the head.
Although there was thick spider silk acting as a cushion, the blow still broke the spider elf's neck directly, causing his huge body to roll sideways and then slam heavily into the wall of the corridor.
The spider-like drow with a broken neck twitched wildly, and its eight spider legs drew sparks on the ground, illuminating the dim underground passage.
The black rose on the Death Knight's chest appeared in the firelight, as well as his bright, heterochromatic eyes.
The Death Knight's left eye was the common light blue of the undead, which was the light of the soul fire, but his right eye was a blazing orange-yellow, as if it was constantly burning.
The remaining spider-like drow knew that he was in big trouble. This Death Knight was no ordinary creature. He decisively abandoned his half-dead companion and quickly moved his spider legs to retreat.
The flexibility of this spider's legs far exceeds that of humans. The spider-like drow retreated as fast as if it was running at full speed. In the blink of an eye, it had opened up a distance of more than ten meters and was completely immersed in the shadows.
When it entered a completely dark place, the spider drow disappeared into the shadows as if it had melted, and then quickly ran away.
The Death Knight looked into the depths of darkness with her orange eyes. The spider-like drow that escaped into the darkness became a shadow that kept moving outwards in her eyes.
"Mother is right. I can see everything with this eye."
Melina, who was born just a few days ago, was entrusted with an important task by the Rose Queen, asking her to capture the mastermind behind these spider-like drow and completely resolve the recent troubles in Mercury City.
Although Melina has little combat experience, her body and soul have been carefully tuned and created.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Her right eye can see through anything hidden, she wears the finest magical armor, and she has a special mount that grew from the Whispering Tree.
These three things combined alone are enough to crush these spider-like drow.
Not to mention that Melina's body was made from the remains of three legendary orcs, and her strength and agility far exceeded the standards of a Death Knight.
Give her some time, and she might be able to have a fair fight with the Headless Horseman Gareth.
Melina is still young now, and this manipulator behind the scenes is a test for her.
Melina was very grateful to her mother for giving her life and decided to complete this task beautifully.
After the spider-like drow ran a long distance, Melina summoned her mount and chased after it.
Melina deliberately let the monster run away. If she just follows the monster, she should be able to find the mastermind, right? "I'm so smart!" Melina said happily.
However, after chasing for dozens of kilometers in the maze-like underground passage, Melina came to an empty cave. Just as she entered the cave, dozens of spider-like drow fell from the sky and completely surrounded her.
The spider-like drow who had just fled in panic said proudly: "Hahaha, do you think I don't know you are following me?!"
Melina widened her eyes in shock. Her perfect plan was discovered?
Melina asked loudly, "How did you find out? I was so far away!"
The spider drow taunted, "Idiot, don't you know how far the sound of your horse's hooves can be heard? This is underground, the sound can be heard for more than ten kilometers!"
Melina said excitedly: "I'm not stupid! I'm smart!"
The spider-like drow thought he had won the game and continued to taunt, "Hahaha, this idiot is as stupid as a newborn baby."
The other spider drow also laughed viciously. This was how they loved to trample on the dignity of others.
However, as they laughed wildly, a black hurricane suddenly appeared and crashed into these spider-like drow.
That was Melina urging her mount to charge towards the group of spider-like drow.
The fat lower bodies of these spider-like drow were like leather bags filled with water. They were pierced one by one by Melina's spear, and then exploded with a loud bang. Broken limbs and arms flew everywhere. Just one charge killed more than a dozen of these spider-like drow.
The other spider-like drow wanted to spit spider silk to trap Melina, but they were shocked to find that the spider silk only flew a short distance before falling to the ground powerlessly.
A spider-like drow exclaimed loudly: "The spider web spell is ineffective, what happened!"
Half of the spider silk spitting of the spider drow is physiological instinct, and the other half is assisted by spells to ensure that the spider silk can accurately hit the target it wants to bind.
But these spider-like drow suddenly found that the magic power in their bodies was trapped, and they were completely unable to cast spells. The spewing of spider silk was like some unspeakable diseases that middle-aged men have, close yet weak.
It wasn't just the web spell, these spider-like drow found that they couldn't even escape. Their spell to escape into the shadows was also imprisoned and could no longer be cast.
It was not until the last spider drow was pierced by Melina's spear that he recognized Melina's mount before he died. Wasn't that blue light the unique light of the Whispering Tree? How could this Death Knight use the Whispering Tree as a mount?
Melina would not give him any answer. She shook her spear and smashed the spider-like drow into dozens of bloody pieces.
Looking at the corpses scattered all over the ground, Melina wanted to smile with satisfaction, but suddenly she realized, "Oh no, none of the corpses are intact. I can't even talk to the dead. How can I find the mastermind behind this?"
For the first time, Melina began to doubt her own intelligence. Was she really a fool? (End of this chapter)