"Goddess, please let your believers listen to your teachings again." The Great Elder knelt on the ground with his knees, his face full of piety.
Behind the stone gate is a claustrophobic cave, with a hint of cool breeze passing through the cave from time to time.
Just like the stone bridge outside, when you enter the gate, you have to pass through a stone bridge to reach the altar where the Great Elder is kneeling.
This stone bridge is much spacious than the one outside, about one and a half meters wide and about ten meters long.
At first glance, it looks like a long slate with a slightly upward arch.
The Great Elder kneeled in the middle of the altar, facing the darkness in the distance.
With a little light, a huge black shadow seemed to be dormant in the darkness, but with the naked eye, it was impossible to see clearly what it was.
The elder repeated the words just now over and over again until his voice was hoarse and he did not stop.
"Goddess, please let your believers listen to your teachings again!" the elder gasped.
From just now, he has been praying like this for at least ten hours, but like in the past few hundred years, he still has not received a response from the Goddess of Nature.
"Has the goddess abandoned us?"
As soon as this thought penetrated the Great Elder's mind, the Great Elder felt cold all over his body, and his chest felt as if he had been hit hard by a heavy hammer, and his body kept trembling.
"No, no, it's impossible, it's impossible for the goddess to abandon her believers like this!" The elder seemed a little panicked, and his hands kept pulling on the ground, "It must be that I prayed for.
Not religious enough.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the elder's body suddenly stiffened and the muscles on his face twitched slightly.
"This is--" The elder's eyes flashed with an expression of ecstasy, and he stood up suddenly, as quick as a young and middle-aged dwarf.
Although it was just a slight moment, the Great Elder dared to swear with his head, and he sensed the goddess's reply.
More than five hundred years! Finally, I heard the voice of the goddess again!
The elder burst into tears, and tears rush out like a dam: "You must have sensed the approaching of evil, so you wake up from your sleep. Do you want to protect your believers? The evil power that can awaken you
, how terrifying and powerful it would be!”
At this time, in the middle part of the dwarf city, the dwarf king smashed the wine bottle in his hand, held the collar of his subordinate in front of him and said, "What did you say? Three of our people were captured?"
This subordinate had never seen the dwarf king get so angry. He was so scared that his teeth trembled and hesitated for a long time but couldn't say a word.
"Bad!" The dwarf king threw him to the ground all at once. Seeing the fear in his subordinates' eyes, he became more and more angry as he thought about it. He walked down his hand a few steps, raised his hand and slapped his mouth.
His subordinates were stunned by being beaten.
Bang!
The Dwarf King had another mouth with his backhand.
A tooth flew out of his mouth, and blood also stretched out from the corners of his mouth and nose.
But looking at the eyes, it seemed like I was awake.
"Awaken?" the dwarf king asked, looking at his subordinates.
"I am incompetent!" The dwarf swallowed the blood from his mouth into his stomach and hurriedly fell to the ground.
"Just wake up, I'll tell you what just happened." The Dwarf King walked back to his animal skin chair, opened a bottle of fine wine and poured it into a big mouthful.
"Report to the king, we just received information from the outskirts of Sunset Worm. We sent three dwarves guarding the outskirts of the sworn. They were all missing during the change of duty. The exact time they disappeared was still under investigation.
Another thing is that the human army stationed on the periphery of the swamp yesterday evening had already begun to march towards the depths of the swamp. At their speed, it would pass by us in less than two or three days."
"You mean, our guards outside were captured by this human army?" The dwarf king looked at his subordinates and asked with a squinted eye, "We dwarfs are in the swamp, but we have natural advantages, and
Can we compete with us dwarves with human strength?”
The dwarf wiped the blood that continued to seep down his nose and said, "Report to the king, according to the news from the other spies, this human army is a little different. They found many soldiers similar to water creatures in this army."
"Hey?" The dwarf king showed a puzzled look in his eyes, "Aquatic creature?"
"Yes." The subordinate said with respectfully bowed his head.
The dwarf king's brow suddenly frowned. After a long time, he waved his hand and said, "Send the order and send more spies to him. I will send you messages every half an hour. I want to see what these humans are like.
What do you want to do when you come to the Sunset Everglades.”
"Yes!" his subordinate responded, got up and was about to leave, and the Dwarf King stopped him again.
"Where is the Great Elder, why does it seem like he hasn't seen him all night?"
His subordinates immediately replied: "The Great Elder went to the altar to pray last night, but he has not come out yet."
"This old thing--" Dwarf King cursed softly. For some reason, he suddenly felt a little uneasy.
"I hope these humans are just passing by." The Dwarf King said in his heart.
Waving his hand to signal his men to go out, the Dwarf King added another sentence: "It's not half an hour, every twenty minutes, let the spies report the movements of the human army."
"Twenty minutes?" His subordinate was stunned. Since it was the Dwarf King's order, he would naturally only follow it.
But what he didn't understand was that twenty minutes were too frequent.
Four hours later, not only this subordinate, but also the Dwarf King could not sit still.
During these four hours, a total of twelve groups of dwarf spies, each of which were four people, were sent to follow, or to peek at the direction and speed of the human army from the side. However, four full hours have passed, these twelve spies have been there.
No group has been back yet.
The group I just sent out still did not come back after twenty minutes of suffering.
Forty-eight dwarves, plus the two dwarves before, a total of fifty dwarves are now like they have evaporated from this world, and there is no news at all.
Dwarves are not affected by swamps due to their size and talent, so they cannot be swallowed up by swamps.
The only possibility now is that these dwarves were discovered by that human army and then captured.
The Dwarf King couldn't believe that someone could catch the dwarf in the sunset swamp.
You should know that dwarves are the most talented stalkers, and they will be discovered unless they have a real eye.
Besides, this is the sunset swamp. Once the enemy discovers, the dwarfs can quickly get into the swamp and then escape with peace of mind.
This bottomless swamp is the best escape weapon.
The Dwarf King couldn't even understand how that human army, or an army mixed with water creatures, could discover and capture the dwarf spy.