After all, the zombies were just side dishes attracted by the corpses, and the real culprits who killed the soldiers had not yet appeared.
Three minutes later, when the magic power in the electric blade was recharged, Wayne gripped the dagger tightly and walked towards the depths of the mine.
This mine is very old and has a huge space inside. It is unknown when it was built, but because there is a roof inside to cover it, it is probably used as a warehouse.
Looking around, inside this cave, there are many stone building materials cut into various shapes, and in various places in the cave, there are burning braziers left as lighting.
After taking a quick look, Wayne did not run around, but slowly explored inside in the direction of the smell coming from the corpse.
Following the smell of the corpse for dozens of meters, he came to a tunnel that seemed to have been excavated recently.
Wayne discovered that a dozen corpses dressed as soldiers were scattered inside and outside the corridor. They had long been silent. Most of them died in a miserable way, with their bodies slashed by sharp weapons in many places. They were basically no longer in human form. This was consistent with the characteristics of monsters like spirits.
The demons were born from extremely strong negative emotions and felt endless, indescribable pain. They were filled with anger, hatred, and jealousy, so they hated and envied the living and wanted to kill all humans.
Like other evil spirits, they are invisible and therefore unharmed by fire, poison, or bleeding weapons. Because of this, only spellcasters who can use magic and monster experts, demon hunters, can deal with them.
Seeing this, Wayne became more alert. He immediately added another layer of reinforced Quinn shield to himself before continuing forward along the corridor.
The corridor was not very long. After walking about fifty meters, we reached the end of the corridor.
Looking at the scene at the end of the corridor, Wayne immediately discovered the cause of the whole incident.
It turned out that at the end of this corridor was a stone wall made of bricks. However, at this time, perhaps due to the actions of the miners, the stone wall had been broken into a huge gap that allowed people to pass through.
Although Wayne did not venture deeper, just by exploring the gap, he discovered that behind the stone wall should be an underground tomb of unknown age.
Many coffins with exquisite carvings are neatly arranged inside the tomb. It is a large tomb for the burial of multiple people.
Wayne's skin could even feel the air flow in the tomb, and he guessed that there were other exits in this tomb.
Obviously, if my guess is correct, the cause of this incident should be an excavation accident.
The miners accidentally dug up the outer wall of an unknown underground tomb. Without considering the consequences, or perhaps under the instigation of someone, they directly destroyed the tomb, attracting an attack from the evil spirits inside the tomb.
It's just a pity for the group of soldiers who came to investigate. If someone had reported the whole cause of the incident in advance, they would probably have directly commissioned a professional sorcerer to solve the problem instead of sending those soldiers who posed no threat to the monsters to die.
After obtaining this information, Wayne did not continue to investigate further, but slowly retreated from the corridor.
Although the matter has not been fully investigated, it will not be his job alone from now on.
More than ten minutes later, Wayne returned to the ground and told Keira and Triss, who had been waiting there, all the information he had obtained. After hearing the information, the sorceresses were surprised at first, and then expressed their contempt for Baron Cober.
Obviously, this matter was something the baron deliberately concealed. He did not want to take any responsibility for his own mistakes, so he concealed the cause of the incident and wanted to treat it as an accident.
However, the two sorceresses would not blame anything. This was not their job. After completing the commission, they would naturally report the truth of the matter to the king as royal advisers.
The specific follow-up procedures will be decided by King Foltest himself.
After listening to Wayne's report, Keira looked at the demon hunter with admiration and praised him, "You are indeed an excellent demon hunter, Wayne. If this task were handed over to those soldiers, they would definitely not be so efficient, and there would be casualties."
"Okay, now that we know that the enemy is mainly a monster composed of demon spirits, please give us a little more time. Once we are ready, we will go and clean up the underground tomb."
In fact, no matter what combat profession you are in, it is the same as the demon hunter. If you obtain the corresponding intelligence before the battle and find a targeted strategy, then the battle will be more effective.
For example, when dealing with spirits now, if you confirm in advance that the enemy is a spirit, you can prepare more magic props that can restrain the spirits, and it will be much easier when you clean up the tomb later.
Similarly, as a demon hunter, Wayne also needed to prepare for combat. To deal with these spirits without entities, he chose the restorative swallow potion, the wolf potion that increased agility, and the tawny owl potion that increased magic recovery.
Originally, he was considering whether to use the cat's eye potion for dark vision, but when he remembered that he was traveling with two sorceresses who could use illumination magic, he decisively abandoned this idea.
Although it is not impossible to withstand the toxicity of the Cat's Eye Potion, drinking too much potion is not a relaxing experience.
After he finished meditating and added the evil spirit oil that could kill ghosts to his master-level silver sword, Keira and Triss also completed their preparations.
"Wow, Wayne, you look so horrible, as if you are seriously ill. You are so pale and there are bloodshot." Kayla was very surprised.
"Yes, I have also read such records in the book. Demon hunters can use their deformed organs and special potions to imitate the abilities of some monsters to enhance their own strength."
"These are the research results of the warlocks of the Demon Hunter Cult during its time."
"Unfortunately, when the Demon Hunter Cult was breached, much of the knowledge in this area was taken away or burned by some people with ulterior motives."
After seeing Wayne's ugly look after drinking the witcher potion, the two sorceresses were a little surprised, and then began to discuss in a low voice their knowledge about the witcher.
In this era, warlocks are elite talents that combine multiple professions such as mages, scientists, researchers, and even doctors.
If a demon hunter has to undergo more than ten or twenty years of training before he can become an apprentice.
So before warlocks graduate, they may have to go through thirty or forty years of learning knowledge and experimenting with various magics.
It can be said that every famous sorcerer is a scholar with extremely profound knowledge.
Hearing the discussion between the two sorceresses, Wayne had an idea and thought of Aretuza College on Thaned Island in Temeria.
It is true that most of the knowledge accumulated by the demon hunters was lost in a turmoil several hundred years ago, resulting in most of the demon hunters now having to rely on the legacy left over from the cult period to barely survive.
Not only were they split into many schools, they were also forced to leave their hometowns and disperse around the world.
Perhaps, in the historic Aretuza Academy, a lot of knowledge that can be helpful to demon hunters can be found.
However, Wayne was only thinking about this idea now. Right now, the Warlock Brotherhood is at its strongest. There are countless powerful people in the major academies. They are already very wary of the demon hunter profession. If he messes around and attracts their attention, it may lead to further suppression from the warlocks.
The three of them chatted as they moved forward, and soon arrived at the stone wall at the end of the corridor following the route Wayne took.
As a man and also a warrior guard in this team, Wayne took the lead and walked in front of the team.
He stretched out his hand and made an Alder Seal, which directly shattered the other loose bricks on the stone wall, and turned the gap that originally only allowed ordinary people to get through into a door that was large enough to accommodate two people.
Such a loud noise seemed to have alerted the spirits in the catacombs, and some faint wailing sounds began to spread in the catacombs.
Seeing this, Kayla reached into her waist bag and took out a magic prop that looked like an oil lamp.
As she continued to chant spells and input a large amount of magic power, the oil lamp that had been extinguished quickly ignited a faint blue flame.
As the flames burned, a semicircular blue magic shield visible to the naked eye was erected with Keira as the center.
Seeing this semicircular blue shield with a diameter of nearly five meters, Triss exclaimed, "Wow! A spirit-repelling shield. Is this a magical protective item you made, Keira?"
"With this shield, any monster inside the ghost won't be able to get close to us until it is broken."
Hearing this, Keira raised her chin with a hint of pride and hummed, then said, "Triss, have you forgotten? I received the highest evaluation in the academy in terms of protection. Even Dean Margarita cannot compare to me in this respect."
Triss nodded appreciatively. Every sorceress who could be sent to the kings was the best graduate of the academy. This was one of the reasons why the Warlock Brotherhood was so powerful.
With this layer of protection, she can cast spells peacefully inside the shield.
Triss took out a fiery red round gem that looked like a ruby, placed it in her palm, and said to Wayne, who was standing in front of the team, with a smile: "Hurry up and go in, Mr. Demon Hunter."
"Clean up here early so we can take a hot bath when we go home. I'm really looking forward to your dinner tonight."
Wayne nodded and took a look at the magic props in the hands of the two sorceresses. Even as a layman, he could sense the powerful power of these two items.
The following battle also confirmed his guess. He originally thought that it would be a difficult battle for the three of them to face a dozen or even dozens of demons.
But what Wayne didn't expect was that Kayla supported the spirit-repelling shield the whole time, and no spirit could break through the protection of the shield and attack the three people inside.
The fiery red orb in Triss's hand, driven by her magic power, can continuously release various kinds of fire magic. Even if facing the siege of five or six spirits at the same time, these large-scale fire magic can kill those invisible spirits in a very short time.
The two sorceresses, one for protection and the other for attack, made Wayne, who was standing in the shield, a decoration. He just held the master-level silver sword in his hand and stayed by the two sorceresses attentively to prevent any possible accidents.
The three of them cleaned each tomb one by one in a carpet-style manner. It only took them half an hour to clean up the entire underground tomb, and no accidents occurred in the process.
Such a result made Wayne a little embarrassed. He had made all the preparations, including drinking magic potions and applying sword oil. However, he hardly made a single move of the sword during the entire mission and was easily defeated by the two beauties.
At the same time, he also gained a deeper understanding of the warlock profession as a spellcaster.
If not challenging a demon hunter to a fight and not letting them prepare for the fight is the secret to defeating a demon hunter, then...
Similarly, when dealing with spellcasters, it is best to cut off their hands or pull out their tongues before they cast magic.
Otherwise, once their spell is completed, the one who dies will most likely be you.
Of course, there is one exception, and that is the spellcaster's natural nemesis, the magic-blocking metal.
If you have a large amount of demon-blocking metal on you and have the opportunity to get close to those spellcasters, then even if you are an ordinary soldier, you have the opportunity to defeat these once high and mighty wizards.
From the discussion between Triss and Keira, Wayne learned that this was probably an elven tomb from thousands of years ago. Judging from its structure and style, it should belong to the elven city where Vizima was originally located, and it was a civilian tomb.
However, due to its long history, the local indigenous elves have no inheritance, so no one has discovered it for so long.
Although it was definitely not as full of wealth as the elven royal tomb, after discussion, Keira and Triss decided to divide the spoils equally among the three of them, so that the trip was not in vain.
Of course, as a man who basically did not contribute anything in the battle, the task of searching all the coffins, searching for burial objects, and collecting the demon dust fell on Wayne.
However, Wayne was quite happy to do this kind of work. These elves had been dead for thousands of years, and their bones had turned into dust. He had no psychological burden, and instead opened them one by one to draw prizes, just like opening a treasure chest.
Unfortunately, this is just a civilian tomb, and due to ventilation problems, all the burial objects have weathered and are not well preserved.
He searched through the spoils for over an hour and only found gold and silver jewelry worth less than a thousand orens and some gems that had lost their collectible value.
Instead, the demon dust left behind by those dozens of demons was more valuable and was divided equally between the two female sorcerers and was not counted as part of the spoils.
At dusk, before the sun set, the three completed their mission and returned to Kayla's mansion.
While the two sorceresses went to the city hall to collect their rewards, Wayne also completed the expert-level commission from Keira, gaining forty experience points and an expert-level treasure chest.
He did not rush to open the treasure chest, but took his maid Macy to a nearby high-end food material store to buy all the ingredients needed for dinner.
By the way, I also took the time to go home and find Lala. In exchange for some gifts, I asked her to tell her brother Fitz that the appointment at the Fisherman King tonight would be cancelled and hoped to postpone it for one day.
(End of this chapter)