Chapter 8 Mines (1)
After two more days of rest, on the morning of the 24th, Danica and Phyllis got up early. They checked their luggage and set off.
Philis found the detailed location of the ruins in that ancient book, but the world has changed. Thousands of years have passed, and the surrounding landforms have changed several times. In the past few days, Philis spent a lot of money to buy a local map from the adventurers here. Through comparison, it has been studied as a route that seems feasible. But even so, there is only a road to walk in the first half. In the second half, they still need to wade through the mountains and waters and pass through the dense grass in the primitive pine needle forest.
From the map, the ruins are not very far from the straight line of Haka Town, but the mountain road is bumpy and almost almost. The two girls walked for half a day, and from 7 o'clock in the morning to 3 o'clock in the afternoon, they finally arrived at the place - an abandoned mine cave. What's bad is that the mine cave was occupied by someone.
"What is this?" Danica poked her head out of a bush and watched the guys entering and leaving the mine. Although the guys were walking upright, they had a jackal's head covered with bald, yellowish-brown hair, which looked dirty.
Phyllis covered her nose and said in disgust: "This is a werewolf, a very low-level creature." Although it was more than a hundred meters away, the strong smell of rancid still filled her nose. This disgusting smell was really not beautiful.
Danica observed for a while and asked, "Does these gnolls belong to orcs?" According to the book, the so-called orcs are humanoid creatures with some of the physiological characteristics of wild beasts. It seems that these gnolls are quite in line with each other.
"Of course not." Phyllis replied immediately, but soon she laughed again and said, "But if you quarrel with an orc, you can ask him this question, and he will definitely be angry to death." Although there are many subspecies of orcs, no matter what, the gnolls should not be classified as orcs. The most basic thing is that the gnolls are not considered to be a completely intelligent creature, and at most it is called a sub-intelligent creature. Compared with orcs who have established a powerful orc empire, it can certainly piss off those irritable orcs to death.
After thinking about the orcs' irritable look when they heard this question, Phyllis added: "It was just a joke just now. It would be quite impolite to ask this question in front of an orc. And according to the orc's reckless nature, the scolding may escalate into a fight. Don't use this trick unless you have to."
"Oh, that's it." Danica said, "What should we do now?" According to Philis, the remains they were going to explore were in this abandoned mine, and Danica probably wouldn't welcome them through their homes.
"What else can I do? Get rid of these guys!" Phyllis took out a magic wand in his hand.
This wand is pretty, and is emerald green overall, with hazy moonlight-like magic patterns on it. Moreover, this wand is larger and looks more similar to a scepter.
Seeing Danica staring at her wand, Phyllis smiled and said, "How is it, isn't it? This is given to me by my aunt."
"It's pretty." Danica nodded and exclaimed.
Although this wand is restrained and implicit, it does not emit any particularly powerful magic fluctuations, but it is not as simple as being beautiful. However, Danica was also tactful and did not ask questions. It was a bit rude to stare at someone's wand just now. If you look deeper, it would be very outspoken. She asked differently: "Can we both solve so many gnolls?" Phyllis is just a second-level thunder magician. Although Danica herself is a wind magician, she is only a primary level, and she only knows a light wind technique that does not have much lethality. Can they solve so many enemies?
Phyllis said: "No problem. These are the gnolls who can use tools and are smart enough to deal with ordinary beasts without brains, but they have no power to fight back in front of us. Besides, we just need to drive them away without killing them all."
There is a reason why Philis dared to say this. This is just a small group of zombies. There are only seven or eight of them, including women, children, and young and old. The most important thing is that there are no awakened people in this small group.
Awakened people are also divided into ninth levels, which corresponds to professions one by one. The two are similar in strength, but professions are mostly used to describe extraordinary abilities obtained through systematic learning. Awakened people talk about monsters that rely on the awakening of talented bloodlines to gain powerful power, including the sub-wisdom race, which has no systematic inheritance. There are no awakened people, and there are only six or seven zombies. They are definitely not opponents of Phyllis, a second-level thunder magician. And because they have certain wisdom, they will not fight to the death when they feel wrong, but will choose to escape.
Phyllis stood up and smiled at Danica and said, "So we need a stunning and gorgeous appearance." After that, Phyllis walked towards the group of zombies, holding a magic wand, and the wand was full of lightning, like a thunder god.
Feeling the powerful pressure brought by lightning, the zombie hid in the entrance of the cave, looking at the woman walking towards her in horror. She didn't know what she was going to do. This was just an abandoned mine cave and could only be used as a shelter. Could it be that there was no place for such a small place to be given to them?
Facing Philis, the werewolf did not dare to go out, so they could only crouch at the entrance of the cave to observe the situation, but Philis thought that these guys were blocked at the entrance of the mine, otherwise she would go in. It seemed that it was necessary to teach these guys a lesson.
Phyllis waved his wand, and a lightning flashed from the top of the wand, hitting the zombie who looked more powerful at the front at an extremely fast speed, knocking it away and falling into the mine.
Seeing that this guy who came to find trouble was so powerful, the wereggars immediately ran away, and no one wanted to pull his leader. The leader lay on the ground and hummed a few times. Seeing that no one came to save him, he immediately got up and ran away.
To be honest, Phyllis was a little surprised. She saw the descriptions of the werewolves in the book before, all of which were dirty, weak, and a little vulgar. However, she didn't expect that her momentum attack had caused no substantial damage to the werewolves leader just now. It seems that the races that can survive in nature still rely on them.
But no matter what, the result is still acceptable. Phyllis turned his head and waved, saying, "Let's go in."
The girl lit the torch prepared in advance and walked into this dark mine.
After standing outside for so long, Danica thought she had adapted to this strong odor, but when she walked into the mine, she knew what the real odor was like. This odor is not only irritating. As a pharmacist, Danica would also encounter some potions that emit a strong irritating smell during the experiment. She is not unfamiliar with this, but now in addition to irritating, there is also a very disgusting feeling in her nose.
Danica covered her mouth and suppressed the nausea in her stomach. As an adventurer, it would be too embarrassing to vomit at this time.
Danica turned her head and looked at Phyllis. Her face was not very good-looking, but she was calm. She just accelerated her pace and wanted to walk through this area full of rotten meat, feces and all kinds of strange smells as soon as possible.
The two girls went deep into the mine for hundreds of meters before the smell gradually dissipated. At this time, Danica felt that her sense of smell had failed. She rubbed her slightly numb nose and sighed: "Fortunately, these werewolfs would not occupy the entire mine, but only occupied a small section at the entrance."
Phyllis smiled reluctantly and said, "Of course I won't take them all. This mine is dozens of meters deep and thousands of meters long, so how could I take them all!"
With the light brought by the torch, the two girls began to grop in the mine.
"The route to this mine is quite simple." Danica said while walking. There is only one main channel in this mine. Even if there are branches, they will be stopped after digging for a while. This is rare. Because of the distribution of the ore veins and the differences in local terrain and geology, almost all mines are chaotic and complex like a maze. Danica has never heard of this mine with only one clear main channel.
Phyllis's face was a little weird, and she said, "It's hard to say. Although the book I found said that the adventure team found that this mine could lead to a ruin by chance, it seems that it is probably just a trick. This mine was organized by the adventure team to dig, which means that this is not a mine at all, but a thief, so such a strange pattern appears."
Danica asked, "Isn't this a small copper mine?" She could indeed see many dark green copper mines exposed on the four walls of the mine.
Philis explained: "But this small vein has no value for mining at all. Don't forget that the Principality of Xilin, just next to the town of Haka, is a famous copper ore production place. What benefits can it be made for mining such small and inequality veins next to her?"
Danica digested what Philis said and asked, "So how did that adventure team know that there was a ruin here?"
Phyllis shook his head and said, "I don't know. Maybe they saw it from some notes. What I wonder even more is why they set up such a trick. Digging ruins is not a rare thing, not to mention that this is just a small ruin left by a mid-level magician. Just dig it directly, why does it cost such a big deal?"
Danica guessed, "Is it because the magician who left this ruins studied the Necromancer system?"
Phyllis said: "It shouldn't be that there is a conflict between the doctrine of the Holy See. Under the suppression of the Holy See, the Necrotic Magic has now become a taboo. However, at that time, during the period of the Magic Empire, the Holy See was just a small force. Although the Necrotic Magic is niche, it is not a shameful thing."
The layout of this mine is simple, and there are no other powerful beasts besides the disgusting werenas. Danica and Philes walked for more than an hour before they arrived at the deepest part of the mine.
Looking at the rough iron door embedded in the mine wall, Danica looked at Phyllis and asked, "How should we get in?" It was said to be an iron door, but in fact it was just an iron plate, without a handle, no keyhole, and no magic fluctuations. Could it be that they both moved the door away?
Phyllis looked down at the ground and said, "According to the notes, there should be a switch nearby. Look for it. It's just such a big place, it should be easy to find."
The two girls searched on the ground with the faint light of torches. After a while, Danica touched a bulge in the corner of the wall. She didn't think much and pressed it down. After more than ten seconds, a sound of sour teeth came from the iron door. The extremely thick and heavy iron door was hung up.
Phyllis raised his eyebrows and muttered, "Dwarf's mechanism?"
Phyllis originally thought that the so-called switch mentioned in the notes should be a magic switch. After all, this is a ruin of a magician, but he did not expect it to be a mechanism.
This exquisite and powerful mechanism is often made by dwarves. Magicians, especially those in the Magic Empire period, 8,000 years ago, would not install dwarves' mechanisms in their own laboratory, which means that this bulky mechanism is likely to be installed here later.
This is very strange.
Phyllis has seen it in that note that there was indeed a dwarf in the adventure team that excavated this ruins. However, such a bulky but reliable mechanism cannot be completed in a short time. What background does the adventure team have? It is possible to build such a large mechanism here. This requires considerable manpower and material resources!
Chapter completed!