Mercenaries and Adventurers

Within the range illuminated by the self-illuminating light of various elven gems, bloated and tall fat-headed mushrooms were crowded next to each other at the bottom of the entire hall.

In the long flower beds that Keel remembers, the tallest fat-headed mushrooms occupied the soil in those cherished flower beds. They stretched out their white and fat mushroom arms to each other, and continued to push away other fat-headed mushrooms that wanted to squeeze in and eat dirt.

Skipping the large mushrooms everywhere, Kil saw a tall stone statue standing against the wall on one side of the hall. In the hand of the stone statue, he was holding a stone sword several meters long.

The stone sword looked exactly like a sculpture. In fact, he had been fooled by this disguise when he was exploring the ruins before. Without Ms. Apolifina's explanation, he had no idea that this thing could actually be used. An elven magic weapon that controls combat.

Now, the weapon is seen, but how should he get past it?

Those fat-headed mushrooms seemed to be afraid of the elf gem in Kil's hand, and it seemed like they could squeeze through with this thing. But the entire bottom of the hall was already crowded with these fat-headed mushrooms, and the mushrooms that were right next to each other seemed to have no place to move.

Kil grimaced and had to give it a try. After all, the werewolf was chasing behind him and there was no time for him to waste.

"Go away! Go away!" Kil yelled, regardless of whether these inexplicably appeared mushrooms could understand human lingua franca, he raised the wooden box in his hand high and pointed it towards the fat-headed mushroom. Walk among the piles.

Mushrooms really don't like elf gems. As soon as Kil approaches them, these chubby big men make a squeaking sound from nowhere on their bodies. They swing their arm mushrooms in panic, trying to stay away from Kil.

But there was no place for them to escape. After the mushrooms surrounding Kil moved a little further away, they were bounced back.

"Hey, hey, don't squeeze me! Don't squeeze me!" Kil yelled, and the mushrooms' panicked mushroom arms slapped on his armor, making a popping sound. It was not very powerful, but it was very Affects Kiel movement.

The floor of the hall was cleaner than if it had been licked by a dog. The accumulated water, some scattered dust, and bat droppings had all disappeared. It seemed that they had been licked clean by the hyphae growing on the feet of the fat-headed mushrooms.

Kil was pushed by the fat-headed mushrooms on his front, back, and left, and he had to use all his strength to push the mushrooms left and right to make way for him to move forward.

He frequently kicked his legs behind him, trying to kick the mushroom behind him onto the stairs he came down from before.

But the mushrooms didn't seem to like being near the stairs, and seemed to be particularly afraid of the sealed stone door. I don’t know if I’m afraid of the magic seal or the monster behind the stone door?

Kil turned sideways and squeezed past the fat-headed mushrooms one after another. For those fat-headed mushrooms that were very panicked as they approached him, Kil had to free his hand and use his left and right bows and punches to create a path.

"Sorry, go away! Taste my fist. Get out of the way! I'm so sorry! Don't block the way!"

He was talking nonsense, and after pushing and squeezing, he finally reached the side of the hall, at the foot of the stone statue.

Behind him, many fat-headed mushrooms were punched by him, but these timid guys didn't seem to know how to fight back. They just used their stature that was one meter taller than Kil's to take advantage of Kil's approach. When you are doing this, stretch the mushroom cap on your head to the top of Keel's head, and then take the opportunity to shake the umbrella cap.

They would be satisfied, even if Keir gave them a few punches to fight them off.

Keir felt strange. He wiped it on his head and found that there were some small white dots visible to the naked eye in the hard leather palm. He knew immediately that these must be mushroom spores.

These guys actually took the opportunity to drop spores on him, and seemed to want Keir to take the spores out of this elf ruins.

Although he felt it was inappropriate, Kil had no time to worry about this. Before he reached the foot of the stone statue, there was still a problem about how to put the elf gem into the loading groove of the stone sword hilt.

He had to climb up.

There was no other way, so Kil had no choice but to pour the elf gems out of the wooden box and stuff them one by one into the pockets on his body.

Especially in the hood of the wolf fur cloak, Kil poured more than half of the gems into it. In this way, he could carry the gems with him and take them out quickly, and it could also provide him with the only thing in the matte black ruins hall. Lighting source.

Kil held the blade of the stone sword with one hand and the leg of the stone statue of Ms. Apolifina's father with the other hand. He supported his body from left to right and climbed up bit by bit.

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The werewolf Wolf found a crack in the inner wall of the petrified tree stump that Kiel could climb down. He carefully climbed down bit by bit with the soles of his hands and feet. At the same time, he swung his tail while climbing. Keep your body balanced in the air.

When it was four or five meters above the ground, it judged that the ground should be solid, so it released its hands and feet and jumped directly from mid-air.

Boom.

As expected, the ground was indeed solid, and seemed a bit too solid. The shock force from the soles of the feet is not weak. Fortunately, it has thick fleshy pads on the soles of the feet to cushion the impact.

But when it used its nose to sniff it out of habit, its expression suddenly changed.

It bent down and swept away the snow on the ground with a wave of its hand, and then picked up a bit from the gray-white ground that looked like hardened soil.

After a little sniffing, it figured out what the thing under its feet was.

The interior cavity of this petrified tree stump, which is as big as a palace hall, was originally filled with the dry and hard feces of some kind of animal.

It couldn't guess what kind of animal excrement it was, but it obviously wanted to fill the entire inside like this, and it would probably take a long, long time to do so.

And it stamped its feet. It was strange that the ground was so hard.

It has also been to some wolf dens. Those beasts defecate everywhere. Even the wolf dens that have been around for a long time and are filled with feces on the ground have a different feel when stepped on.

The ground is more powdery, formed by the wolves trampling the ground to pieces.

But the feeling under its feet was not right. It was more like the foundations that were compacted by villagers with large wooden piles when building houses.

strangeness?

But soon, Wolfman shook his head, stopped thinking about these things, and ran quickly to the bottom of the cave in mid-air on the opposite side. After it accelerated and ran over, it stretched out its sharp claws on the soles of its legs, and then ran towards the wall without slowing down.

When it gets close to the wall, it changes direction and runs upward against the wall.

The sharp claws on the soles of the feet made a scraping sound with the inner wall of the petrified tree stump, but at the same time, the force brought caused it to step directly on the wall and climb up quickly.

Finally, it stretched out its arms to grasp the edge of the suspended cave, and then used this to lift itself up.

After patting the snow and ground dust on his hair, the werewolf Wolf looked at the obviously man-made passage in front of him. It was dark and gradually sloped downwards, with an extraordinarily cautious look on the wolf's face.

"Could it be a trap?" It stretched out its tongue and licked its teeth, thinking to itself.

But at this point, there's no reason to back down, right?

Regardless of whether it was Kil or it, both of them had reasons for wanting the other to die.

Qiang, its hands shook, and ten strong claws of different lengths stretched out from the palms. The sharp claws on the soles of his feet were not retracted when he climbed up. Just like this, Wolf, the werewolf who was ready for battle, slowly and cautiously walked towards the dark passage.

There is a solid stone ground under the feet, and the wall next to it is also stone, but it is full of holes, as if it has been damaged. As it gradually walked in, the pupils of a pair of animal eyes opened, hoping to see more clearly.

The light scattered from the cave door behind it could barely make it see what was around it.

There is nothing around, just a straight passage.

Except for a pedestal with lighting placed at regular intervals on the walls on both sides, this place is clean and there is nothing.

It came to the side of the pedestal where the lighting object was placed, and slightly picked up the oil lamp placed on it. There is still a small amount of residual oil inside, which is obviously the lighting that Kiel once left here.

It's a pity that it is all smooth and clean at this time, and it doesn't have anything to light a fire.

So I can only leave this thing at my feet.

Continuing forward, after advancing another ten meters, the passage reached the end.

A tall stone door blocked the way.

The light here was already very weak at this time, and Wolf could barely see some patterns and patterns on the stone door. But there was no lighting at hand, and it couldn't see clearly what was carved.

Touching the pattern on the stone door slightly with the palm of his hand, it could only barely judge that this thing was obviously from a long time ago.

I pushed the door slightly, but didn't push it. Then he moved diagonally to the side passage, but it opened easily.

As it pushed forward, the ground made a smooth moving friction sound.

But before all the doors were opened, Wolf the Wolf spotted something about the same size behind the stone door.

"What!" Although it couldn't be seen clearly, no matter what it was, it kicked it over first.

puff.

A kick came out, and there was a springy touch on the sole of the foot, but the werewolf did not pay attention. He rushed in through the gap of the half-open stone door, and directly extended his palms to stab into the opponent who fell to the ground.

Then the left and right arms pull in opposite directions, and the sharp claws and powerful arms directly disembowel the 'opponent'.

But something was strange. Although the other party did shout "chirp!", the feeling of his hands was not right.

Not caring much, it opened its big mouth full of sharp teeth and bit directly towards the place where the opponent made the sound. But as soon as he opened his mouth, something felt wrong.

"Bah, bah, bah! What is that?" The 'opponent' below him stopped shouting after taking a bite, but the flapping of a pair of thick arms did not stop. The werewolf Wolf easily tore off the opponent's 'arm' with one claw at a time.

At this point, no matter how careless it is, it still feels something is wrong.

It stood up and stepped aside slightly, and with the slightest light coming from behind, it could see clearly what its opponent was.

With a round, fat figure, an elastic and soft body, and two white arms that can move but are not very strong, this is actually a big fat mushroom with humanoid appearance!

"What are you doing? Why have I encountered all these things recently!" It looked puzzled, and then shouted loudly: "Kiel! Get out of here! If this is your back-up, then you are dead today. .”

"No matter how resurrected you are, you have to die for me. Do you hear me? Come out and fight!"

However, as soon as it finished speaking, it attracted the attention of some bats that were not hibernating. Those bats flew towards it, quickly circled around it, and chirped softly.

The werewolf swung its claws irritably, tearing the small bats flying around it into several pieces, and then continued walking towards the inside of the passage.

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"——Come out and fight!"

Gill was sitting on the arm of the statue, tapping the hilt of the stone sword, looking for the entrance to the mechanism above. Then the werewolf's cry was heard coming from the upper passage in the hall.

He snorted disdainfully and did not respond. He just focused on turning the end of the huge sword hilt.

As he pulled harder, the part gradually began to loosen.

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The werewolf Wolf hadn't walked a few steps when he smelled the scent of the mushroom man he had just killed. It was already very dark here. Even though its eyes could see things in the dark with the faint light, the light was too weak. It was impossible to see anything.

Fortunately, its sense of smell is as sensitive as its physical senses. As soon as it smelled the delicious smell of mushrooms, it immediately swung its claws. With a popping sound, the thing in the darkness in front of him was scratched out with a large wound.

Kicking out the mushroom man in front, the werewolf grabbed one end of the wound with one hand, then grabbed it with the other hand, and then pulled it back, directly tearing the entire mushroom man's waist.

Shaking away the mucus on his hands, the werewolf pounced again on another guy who was getting closer to it.

Throwing it to the ground, it opened its mouth and bit randomly, tearing the upper body of the mushroom man blocking the way into pieces.

It stood up and shouted around as if it was a demonstration: "Huh? These weak things, even worse than a dog, want to stop me? Kil, are you confused? Hahaha, I don't care what you have. What’s your plan, but I can tell you, it’s useless! It’s useless!”

Then it killed several fat-headed mushrooms one after another and strode inward along the passage. When we got here, it was dark all around, except for the slight colored light that appeared in front of us.

It had just killed a lot of mushroom people. It was uncertain whether those guys were Kiel's men, but if they dared to stand in its way, they would be torn apart by it.

The sound of its footsteps echoed in the stone passage, but when it suddenly heard the echo of the footsteps suddenly change, it immediately stopped cautiously.

"Well."

It was about to speak, but was startled by the echo of "Uh." that came out of its mouth.

The surroundings suddenly became empty.

There was a colored light shining from the lower part in front. When it lowered its head to look, it was startled.

One of its feet was already halfway in the air. Right in front of it is a huge empty space that stretches tens of meters. And there was no blocking measure in front of him.

It almost died just now.

The werewolf Wolf shuddered and slowly retracted his paws. Feeling unsafe, it squatted down and looked around using the light from below.

A huge underground artificial space. Although I don’t know what it is used for, it is obvious that Kiel knows about it and wants to use it to make a comeback.

Overhead, it intuitively knew there were probably thousands of wintering bats hanging. If this were a natural cave, it might be thought that it was a specialized bat cave, but it was obviously artificially constructed.

So it doesn't know what it is doing here.

Keir may know, he just needs to catch him and question him later.

The werewolf looked left and right, and through the light below, he saw that the left side was also empty, and on the right side, there seemed to be a downward staircase.

In order to prevent falling, the werewolf climbed up the stairs on hands and feet. It moved quickly, and while climbing over the stairs covered with slimy mycelium, it turned to look at the only place where light shone in the cave.

Sure enough, it was Kiel.

Different colors of light radiated from everywhere on Keir's body. It saw that Kil seemed to be doing something on a huge stone statue, but it couldn't figure it out.

"What are you doing, Keir? Don't struggle pointlessly, why don't you die obediently?"

The werewolf crawled on the downward spiral staircase. He noticed that there were open stone doors leading to other rooms on this staircase, but he had no time to pay attention to those now.

Go down, stop Kil's actions, and then kill him is what it needs to do at this time. Wolf understands this very well. Although I can't understand what Kil is doing, it's obviously not for its own good, so stop Kil and kill him again.

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Kil glanced at the werewolf running down the stairs, ignoring him at all, and instead moved his hands faster.

He had spent a lot of effort to unscrew the end of the hilt of the huge stone sword. To Kil's expectation, it was filled with dry seeds. These seeds filled the space inside the hilt. Kil had to scoop out these obviously useless dry and flat seeds with his hands.

Then, he put the luminous elf gems on his body into the hilt space one by one.

The more he let it go, the dimmer the light around him became.

The werewolf who was crawling down the stairs seemed to be feeling uneasy, uttering wild words to make him stop, and also uttering words of assurance that no one would believe.

Hearing this, Kil shook his head without saying a word, and directly put the remaining elf gems in the hood of the cloak behind his head into the hilt of the stone sword.

The last light in the surroundings was only the faint glow of the sword's hilt.

Amid the werewolf's warning roar, Keir closed the stone cap on the end of the sword's hilt.

Darkness once again filled the elven ruins deep underground.

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"No! What are you going to do? Stop!"

Wolf the werewolf roared.

But with Kil's firm movements, the last trace of light disappeared.

It had a little bit of caution and hesitation in its heart. Was it the best move to return along the original path at this time?

But its body climbed faster than its consciousness, crawling all the way down the spiral staircase, gradually accelerating all the way. When it rushed to the end of the stairs, it happened to be when the last light here disappeared.

But its body did not stop and rushed directly towards Keir.

Unfortunately, it didn't expect that the bottom here would be filled with the mushroom people it had killed before. Those guys were tall and bloated, completely blocking its route.

As soon as it jumped out, it directly hit a mushroom man in the dark. "It's in the way!" It tore the mushroom man blocking the way into pieces with several blows, but then more mushroom men made squeaking sounds from their mouths, Rush towards it.

"It's useless! It's useless! It's useless! They all die!"

It roared wildly, tearing apart and clawing at every mushroom man in its way.

Because high up on the stone statue in front of it, Keir's voice gradually sounded in the darkness.

That was not the sound of the lingua franca commonly used by the people of the human empire, it was an unknown language.

This makes it feel like a disaster is imminent and something bad is about to happen.

"￥#@￥@#@￥ @!" Keir's voice sounded.

Although nothing was happening around it, it felt very uneasy.

"￥#@￥@#@￥ @!"

Once again, Keir shouted out the unknown language.

And when the words fell this time, the dark ruins hall gradually became brighter.

The light source comes from a luminous stone sword several meters high. The huge sword body is covered with unknown characters that emit colorful light.

And Kil also felt the difference. As he shouted the Elvish language taught to him by Ms. Apolifina for the second time, the huge stone sword in front of him not only emitted magical light, but also the hilt of the sword touched the palm of the stone statue. There was a slight friction sound.

"￥#@￥@#@￥ @!"

Kil shouted this Elvish sentence for the third time. Although he didn't know what it meant, as the words fell for the third time, something suddenly connected in his mind.

What a strange, special feeling.

It's like someone has opened a window on your head, and it doesn't hurt to have your brain in direct contact with the outside world.

And his consciousness was like an extra pair of hands, stretching out from his head and directly grasping the huge hilt of the stone sword.

A magical scene happened. The stone statue Kil was sitting on opened his hands to the left and right, no longer holding the huge stone sword in his hand, and the huge stone sword, which was several meters long and weighed unknown, actually flew upward slightly. More than ten centimeters away, the entire sword left the base where it had stood for tens of thousands of years. Under the unknown driving ability inside and under the control of Keir's "imaginative mind", it floated directly into the air.

The werewolf Wolf squinted his eyes and watched all this, and subconsciously whispered: "How is it possible? No, it can't be."

Because the intuition from it is calling the police, its subconscious has already foreboding its impending failure and death.

Its instinct told it to escape from here, and before Kil had mastered this seemingly impossible weapon, it used the light emitted by the other party to return directly to the original route.

But its body told it to rush forward! dash forward! Take advantage of this opportunity and rush forward! As long as Kil is killed, everything can be saved, and he can be saved.

At this moment, it hesitated for a moment.

Then there was no chance. Because with Kil's excited gasp, he pointed at the werewolf, and the magic stone sword, which was several meters long and weighed at least in tons, floated in the air, rotated and stopped in the air, and then was lifted up like an invisible giant. A sword struck down.

"No!!!!!"

The werewolf tried to escape, but it was surrounded by mushroom men that were in the way. It had no choice but to raise its arms at that moment and use the werewolf body that it had always trusted to resist this fatal sword.