When the bonfire returned to silence in the endless darkness of the Underdark, the group of people who had traveled all day fell into a deep sleep.

Even Brian himself was meditating and fell asleep unconsciously.

The Underdark is a desolate world filled with cities and kingdoms of various evil races such as derro dwarves, dark elves, gray dwarves, and mind flayers.

It is also home to some of the rarer races, such as aboleths, beholders, and kuo-toas, as well as almost any intelligent humanoid slave species from the surface.

There are two overriding principles here: survive and destroy your enemies.

Therefore, adventure in the underground world is a bit overwhelming even for a reborn person like Brian, who has been on the run for so many days.

At this time, he could only secretly rejoice that he had undergone many high-intensity trainings since his childhood. As a spellcaster, he also had an extraordinary physique.

Otherwise, given his current condition, he might have collapsed from exhaustion long ago.

I do not know how long it has been......

Due to the wizard's keen intuition about magic, Brian vaguely heard a voice that made him feel dazed.

He slowly opened his eyes and looked around subconsciously.

The glow rocks, luminous crystals, and luminous mosses, lichens, and fungi in the cave exuded uncomfortable brilliant colors, filling him with an extremely unreal feeling.

Since he had set up a warning and shielding circle at the entrance of the cave, they didn't need anyone to keep vigil.

Everyone was still sleeping, and they were not awakened by some disembodied sound like him.

Brian looked at the darkness in the depths of the cave, frowned and pondered for a moment, then looked at the spell slots, spiritual energy values ​​and arcane energy he had recovered, and decided to go and find out.

"Wake up..." He gently shook Hesiah, who was nestled tightly in his arms.

I have to admit, this girl is quite smart.

Obviously, she also knew that it would be difficult to return to the surface safely alone.

In this situation where he was surrounded by strangers, Hesiah naturally regarded him as his only support and hope of returning to the surface, and followed him almost inseparably.

Even when they were resting, they would cuddle up in his arms on the pretext of keeping each other warm.

To put it in Hesiah's words: I have already seen all of my body, do I still care about this?

But after these few days of contact, Brian clearly felt that the other person was a girl who was impeccably strong on the outside but as fragile as paper on the inside.

If her weakness is touched once, she will definitely be like a dam that opens and she will be out of control.

To put it simply, it means that I have lacked the care and warmth from family since I was a child.

This made him somewhat believe that she might actually be the illegitimate daughter of the Raul family.

Hesiah didn't sleep so deeply. She opened her silver-grey eyes, looked up at Brian, and whispered, "Do you still want to go out?"

"not going."

Brian shook his head slightly, looked into the depths of the cave, and said, "I just feel like something is staring at us. It's very uncomfortable. I want you to accompany me to take a look."

In any case, the strength of the girl in front of me has reached the level of a hero (around level 11-15).

With her by his side, as long as he doesn't encounter a legendary strongman, he can almost retreat safely.

Therefore, every time Brian goes out to kill monsters, he will bring the sword mage with him as a free bodyguard and part-time thug.

Sword mages are a very unique profession. Their magic does not rely on spell slots at all, and is similar to a supernatural ability and a spell-like ability.

Just by guiding the rune sword in your hand, you can unleash powerful ice, fire, lightning and other elemental damage, which is somewhat similar to the Nine Swords practitioners of the Eastern Karatu Continent.

"Okay." Hesiah glanced at him, stood up and straightened her long, disheveled hair.

After getting ready, the two of them walked towards the depths of the tunnel together.

"Did you hear that sound too?" When Brian and Hesiah passed by the Glade Bear Man, the other party suddenly opened his eyes and whispered.

Brian was startled by his actions, then looked at him angrily and said, "That's right, so I want to go over and check. Why can you feel it too?"

"Because I am a royal guard who is about to enter the legendary realm." The Zedi Bear Man grinned and said: "Although I have become what I am now, my mental power has not weakened. Do you need my help?"

"forget it."

Brian looked at his narcissistic and unbeatable look, and suddenly had the urge to kick him in the head.

After thinking about it, he smiled and joked: "The future legendary strongman can't even handle a female bear, and he is pressed to the ground and rubbed back and forth. How can he be of any help?"

Hesiah on the side then showed a faint smile.

"...Can we not mention this?"

When the future legendary strongman heard these words, his old face suddenly fell down, and he scratched the thick white hair that he had neatly combed in embarrassment. He looked like he wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.

"Get some rest early. Maybe you can recover when we get to the Lightless Woodland tomorrow."

Brian comforted him with a smile and led Hesiah further into the tunnel.

"You really believe what he said." Not long after leaving, Hesiah couldn't help but ask, and then continued:

"I heard that some wizards who are proficient in the school of enchantment and control can use their mental suggestion ability to forcibly change a person's memories and personality, making them instinctively deny their true identity."

"If I had never seen his elf face, I would agree with your point of view." Brian recalled seeing a surface elf imprisoned in a cage at the trade fair and said to her.

Then, following the voice calling in his trance, he carefully led Hesiah through the maze of tangled tunnels, caves and natural passages.

Finally, we came to a smooth white boulder.

"You have indeed found this place." In the darkness, many eyes suddenly flashed out, and a low and harsh laughter came.

"Don't be impulsive."

Brian held Hesiah's hand that was about to draw the sword and said to her: "I can feel that the other party has no ill intentions."

Heseiah heard this and loosened the hilt of his sword.

A glimmer of light flashed in the darkness, and after a moment's pause, a meat ball with tentacles appeared from among the rocks on the roof of the cave, floating lazily in front of the two of them.

In the darkness, many eyes flickered, watching them intently.

These eyes are connected to a sphere by snake-like tentacles that are constantly dancing. A large mouth full of fangs opens below the sphere. In the center of the floating sphere is a huge one-eye, which is burning with excitement.

"Very good, I really saw the right person." A low groan of satisfaction echoed deep in the cave.

"Watcher Beholder!"
Chapter completed!