Lord Highlander

   Chapter 463 462. Ancient Ruins

   Worried that the light of the holy light torch would reveal the whereabouts of the team, Suldak extinguished the holy light torch, and the surrounding area was immediately plunged into a gloomy darkness.

The ground in the cave is not flat, there are protruding stone edges everywhere on the stone wall, and some broken stones under the feet are as sharp as knives. The stalactite pillars lined up on both sides are like spears in the hands of knights. If you accidentally hit these rocks, the team of four could not move forward.

   Andrew bumped his head against the raised rock, making a dull sound.

  Suldak quickly grabbed Andrew and said, "Wait a minute, this won't work! Before we find the hellhounds, they may have already run away. After all, we still can't adapt to the world without light."

  Andrew rubbed his forehead with a big bump, and said depressingly: "You can light the torch, and we will become targets in the dark."

Suldak squatted down and placed four pottery bowls on the rocky ground, lit the faint blue flames inside, a cool light came out from the cave, and the flames reflected everyone's faces in blue, especially the ogre Gullit. Mu's face looked the most terrifying. This was the first time Suldak started the sacrificial ceremony in front of the team members.

  Although several sacrificial ceremonies have been launched before, the altars are all hidden in tents, and the team members have not seen the complete ceremonies.

  ‘You are the holy essence of light and sound, most beautiful and harmonious, dazzlingly dazzling, pure and innocent...’

  After Suldak recited this prayer, the face of the two-faced four-armed demon **** turned to Suldak, and the hollow and deep eye sockets under the mask looked straight into the distance.

Suldak took out the heads of two hellhounds and placed them on the altar. The heads of the two hellhounds slowly disappeared in the air, and four beams of light fell on the team members one after another. Suldak prayed this time is the 'eye of truth'.

The 'Eye of Reality' can not only see the mana fluctuations of the magic patterns in the body of the monster, but also has the function of detecting invisibility and night vision. Body' so durable.

   The ogre rubbed his eyes vigorously, and said with surprise on his face: "Hey, Andrew, I can see..."

There was still darkness in front of everyone's eyes, but in the darkness, the rock walls and the gravel under their feet suddenly had light-colored outlines, like some kind of perspective, Sami stretched out his hand to touch the rock wall, and touched the cold and hard rock wall, Obviously, the outlines made of simple lines in the eyes are real.

The half-elf archer suddenly understood why Suldak asked the guards who were treating injuries to hand over the corpses of the **** dogs in the treatment room on the edge of the city wall, and was very lucky to find the magic-weave spirit bones from the bodies of these **** dogs , I didn't see him dissecting all the hellhound corpses, but he was able to accurately find the precious spiritual bones.

  Samira asked with some surprise: "Captain, did you use this to discover the magic-weave spirit bone in the hellhound's body?"

   Knowing that this matter cannot be concealed, Suldak admitted frankly: "It's almost like this!"

After Andrew had the 'Eye of Reality', he also knew what this ability meant. He thought of the **** dogs killed on the battlefield outside Wojmara, and sighed: "Most **** dogs After the dog's body died, it was carried directly to the pile of corpses and burned without even looking at it, and I don't know how many precious magic-weave spirit bones were burnt."

  Samira said flatteringly to Suldak: "Captain, otherwise, after this mission is over, we will go outside the city to help clean up the battlefield after returning to the city, and we will definitely gain something by then."

Suldak knew that the half-elf archer would not let go of any good opportunity to make money, especially after possessing the 'Eye of Reality', the corpses of those hellhounds on the battlefield are like untapped treasures, as long as one finds one The 'Magic Pattern Spirit Bone' made a lot of money. If he blocked Samira's money, the half-elf archer would probably hate him for the rest of his life.

  However, the issue of principle must be mentioned first. Suldak said to Samira: "The premise is that the dispatch mission of the Hailansa Guard Battalion cannot be affected."

   "Of course!" Samira readily agreed.

Holding the torch of holy light in his hand, Suldak stood beside the stone wall and said to Samira and Andrew: "At that time, I will help you bless the effect of the 'Eye of Reality'. As for who can pick up the spirit bone, it all depends Personal luck, you handle these magic-weave spirit bones yourself, so that you can subsidize your family."

  Samila and Andrew didn't expect Suldak to be so generous, and directly gave them the exact amount they got from searching for the spiritual bones. Both of them were overjoyed.

  The half-elf girl held her right arm with one hand, stood beside Suldak, and said excitedly to Suldak: "Captain, I want to hear your story about Hailansa City!"

  Perhaps in her heart, Hailansa City was determined to be a rich city, otherwise how could there be such a generous person.

Suldak didn't know how to speak for a while, so he had to organize his words before saying: "Well, it is still cold in the winter of Hailansa City. There have been three heavy snowfalls this winter. It is a very beautiful city. In the mountain city, the people in the city are very enthusiastic, just like Captain Karl..."

He recalled the scene when he came to Hailansa city alone on horseback. Before he could finish describing Hailansa city, Samira, who was walking beside Suldak, stopped, and she put her finger on her lips. Side, lowered his voice to everyone in the team and said:

   "Shh! There's a hellhound ahead..."

  Everyone in the team no longer chatted in low voices, but followed Samira's footsteps and moved forward.

  In fact, Hellhounds are also very unsuitable for the extremely dark environment. They rarely attack the city at night unless there are enough lights on the top of the city.

The hellhound is at the fork in front of the cave, and the lava flow burning on it can be seen from a distance. This hellhound is like a moving flame in the dark. However, since it is the only light source in the cave, it cannot see the space outside the surrounding light. It lowers its head and keeps sniffing around with its sensitive nose, and listens with its ears. movement around.

Maybe it has already heard the conversation of Suldak's team, but in this echoing cave, he still needs to carefully identify the source of the sound. It was precisely at this fork in the road that the target suddenly became silent, and the hellhound couldn't help it. Know which way to go.

  Suddenly it smelled a strange smell, it rushed towards the darkness,

   Before he could howl, he was hit on the forehead by a big ax that appeared from the darkness. Before the hellhound whimpered, he fell to the rocky ground.

   There was a **** cut out by a sharp ax on its forehead, its brain burst, and it died almost instantly.

  Even though its head bone is the hardest part of the whole body, it is a bit fragile compared to a big ax mixed with magic black iron.

It's a pity that this hellhound didn't have the precious magic-weave spirit bone on it. Andrew swiftly chopped off the hellhound's head. The ogre squatting aside hesitated a bit. He had been eating marching rations for the past two days. Seeing such a big **** dog, even though I know that eating too much meat on the **** dog will make my stomach hurt, I still feel reluctant to part with it.

Suldak walked up to the ogre, stretched out his hand and patted the ogre's broad shoulder, and said to him: "This food is not delicious. When we complete the task this time, I promise you, it will be in Vojmara The city will buy you a whole cow and roast it. You may have never eaten that kind of whole cow. There will be a sheep wrapped in its belly, and a fat chicken will be wrapped in the sheep’s belly. The meat will be Marinated with spices and salt for a day and night in advance, there is nothing more delicious than that."

   "Well, Suldak, I know you will definitely take me to eat that delicious food, right!" the ogre asked expectantly, swallowing his saliva.

   "Of course, what I promised will be done." Suldak said to the ogre, patting his chest.

   "I really can't wait! How long are we going to stay in this ghostly place?" The ogre complained with a depressing look on his face.

  Samila walked in the front, she walked along the path of the hellhound, and groped into the cave.

   "When we find out the secret here, we will find a way to get out of here!" Suldak said to the ogre Gretem.

Walking along the route of the hellhounds for nearly a kilometer, there was a faint howl in the distance, and it was unknown how many hellhounds were in front, but the team did not stop because of this. The combat team walked to a stone gate nearly ten meters high. Through the "eye of reality" Suldak saw that the stone gate was carved with simple patterns, but he couldn't understand the specific meaning of the patterns on it. It looked like a book from a distance. Huge spellbook.

  The door was half open, and the voice of the hellhound came from inside the door.

  Suldak could vaguely see the precise gear mechanism hidden in the shaft of the Shimen door. He knew that the Grimm Empire did not have such exquisite mechanical craftsmanship.

  The combat team passed through this huge stone gate, only feeling a gust of cool wind blowing through the stone gate, and at the same time, a faint light came from inside the stone gate.

Suldak stood at the entrance of the stone gate, and under his feet was a huge cave that could accommodate nearly an entire city. On the top of the cave, there were some dim moonstones like stars in the sky. This was the source of all the light in this underground ruins. , there is an ancient city ruins hidden in the cave, although most of the buildings are dilapidated to a pile of gravel and gravel, but among these gravel and gravel, there are still some standing stone buildings, It's just that most of the buildings lack full roofs.

  At this time, he carefully and carefully looked at the position of the team.

He found that the team and his team came to a long stone platform, where they could almost look down on the vast arched space in front of them, and the stone platform where the team was on looked like a huge window sill, perhaps only Only giants can build such a tall building, and this ten-meter-high stone gate does not look like a stone gate at all. This stone gate is opened in mid-air, and there are no steps leading to the bottom on both sides. It looks more like a huge space. ventilation windows.

Apparently, Samira and Andrew didn't know that there was such a large ancient ruin hidden here. A group of hellhounds with dark red lava flowed through the ruins under their feet, and a group of ghost monkeys were scattered in front of them. Running away, under the faint light, these huge **** dogs rampage in this building complex, and there will always be some ghost monkeys that run slowly and fall under the sharp claws of the **** dogs.

  The hellhounds will leave the hunting team after biting a lively ghost monkey, and walk along a wide road to the depths of the ruins with the prey in their mouths.

This ruins is much larger than the small town of Meijin, almost catching up with the city of Wojmara in scale, and although the city is so dilapidated that there are only ruins left, the well-ordered streets and the buildings that have turned into gravel say The structure it has is incomparable to the city of Wojmara today.

   "A group of underground giants once lived on the Maca plane?" Suldak lowered his voice and asked the half-elf archer.

  Although the half-elf archer Samira was once the guide of the city of Wojmara, she didn't know much about the history of the Maca plane, so she couldn't answer Suldak's question for a while.

  She set her eyes on Andrew, and Andrew explained in the lowest voice: "I am just an aboriginal of the Nanai tribe, and the civilization of our tribe is not as long as you think..."

  Suldak squatted on the stone platform, observing the underground ruins below.

This stone platform is tens of meters high. God knows how that hellhound climbed up, but if the team members want to go down here, they need a strong rope. Suldak has a rope in his magic pocket , but when he bought this rope, he only considered the weight of an ordinary knight. Whether this rope can withstand the weight of an ogre is still unknown.

Suldak said to Andrew and Samira: "Those hellhounds have occupied this underground ruins. Maybe the demon gate or **** passage that the command is looking for is here. We have to find a way to sneak in." The head said to the ogre again: "Greetum stays here and guards our last retreat. Don't worry, I will leave enough food for you to ensure that you will not go hungry."

   The ogres heard that there was something to eat, so naturally they had no objection.

  Andrew said with emotion at this time: "It would be great if there was a secondary invisibility potion like the one in Meijin Town."

Suldak thought of himself and Karl in the pile of scrolls in the magic grocery store in Bena City. At that time, he thought of the battle in Ice Lake Manor. Suldak spent a lot of money, and he really only bought a few scrolls. The secondary invisibility scroll, he said to Andrew: "Wait, it seems that I really brought a few bottles, this secondary invisibility potion is not uncommon in the Grimm Empire..."

   As he spoke, he rummaged through the magic pocket for a long time before he found five bottles of lesser invisibility potions from a pile of scrolls.

   "Shall we drink it now?" Andrew asked.

Samira quickly stopped Andrew's proposal at this time, she said: "Actually, you can drink it when you are in danger. There is nothing more interesting than disappearing under the noses of those **** dogs... And no one knows this." How big is the ruins, how long are we going to walk around here!"

  (end of this chapter)