Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 157 The Dwarf's Diary

In this way, with all kinds of doubts about the mysterious Inspector organization in their hearts, the two prepared to walk to the second floor of the tower, trying to explore this tower that was becoming more and more unpredictable in their eyes.

Stepping on the dusty marble floor, Thorne walked and looked at the footprints left when he chased the clay golem just now.

Suddenly, his expression changed, as if he thought of something that confused him.

He stopped directly, turned around and walked to Anderina, and asked her, "Under normal circumstances, do the towers built by wizards build some underground chambers at the bottom?"

This is not his random guess. In this foreign world, from the royal family to the ordinary civilians, when they build houses, most people choose to build basements for the convenience of storing supplies or hiding some ulterior secrets.

That's why he guessed whether these wizards living in the tower had such hobbies. If so, he might be able to find some valuable things from the secret room. Since he was here to explore the tower, he had to search carefully. One time to avoid omissions.

And this is something left by wizards, it is not surprising to find something of great value.

"Underground room?"

Andelina glanced at Thorne, and immediately understood what he meant, so she stood there and meditated for a moment, then said softly:

"The tall towers where wizards live are distributed layer by layer, and there is no shortage of available rooms, and in order to resist enemy invasion, they also like to arrange various dangerous trigger protection spells inside.

As long as they wish, each room can be converted into a secret room to protect valuables. The so-called underground secret room is dispensable for wizards, unless..."

"Unless what?" Thorn saw the other party hesitate to speak, so after thinking for a while, he subconsciously guessed: "Unless it is to build an elemental pool?"

"That's right, but after testing the constant detection spell device in the tower just now, I found that its strength is not as terrible as I imagined, otherwise it would not be destroyed by me.

So I don't think this tower has the ability to build an elemental pool at all, and even the most commonly used guard constructs are only two clay golems. "

Andelina looked at Thorn in surprise, obviously surprised that he could guess this question.

Then she nodded slightly to show that Thorne's guess was correct, but she did not agree with his point of view, and analyzed to him:

"The element pool is a magic power supply device invented by the wizards to facilitate the normal operation of the wizard tower. It uses the element channel mechanism to generate magic power through the surge of elements, and gather it into the built element pool to store it.

Finally, it is transported to the inside of the entire wizard tower through the energy transmission line, which can be said to be the source of energy supply for the entire wizard tower. "

"It's like a generator." Thorne understood Anderina's explanation, and came up with a metaphor that he thought was good.

"That's right, but the first floor of this tower looks very empty. Except for two clay golems and a device for detecting spells that are still functioning normally, all other magic lights have been turned off due to exhaustion of energy. It shows that they don't have the energy supply of the element pool at all."

Out of the corner of Andelina's eyes, she noticed Thorn's serious listening expression, recalled the materials she had read before, and continued to explain to him in detail:
"You have to know that for a normal element pool, as long as the operation efficiency is not high, there is no need to worry about the energy in the pool being exhausted, and if the element pool is not damaged, it is also a normal phenomenon to run for more than a thousand years.

However, this high tower cannot even supply the energy of the simplest magic lighting, so there must be no element pool. "

"Hearing your analysis, it does make sense, but don't forget that people's hearts are unpredictable. Maybe the wizards living here have this hobby of liking the basement. Only practice is the only criterion for testing the truth."

After thinking for a moment, Thorne slipped a wooden holy emblem engraved with five-star paw prints from the sleeve of his left arm and said to his palm, "So I still want to confirm whether your deduction is right or wrong. "

"Then why are you asking so many questions, it's boring."

Andelina glared at him angrily, then stood there, looking at the so-called practice that Thorne said with great interest.

——"One-ring divine art: detection of earth veins!"

Accompanied by Thorne's whispers in the tower, the wooden holy emblem pressed close to the center of his brow gradually revealed faint light green light, flickering in the darkness.

Then, under Thorne's guidance, the light green light spread from his side to the surroundings at an extremely fast speed.

It went on like this for a while.

Thorne slowly opened his eyes, and at the same time began to recall the exploration images that appeared in his mind.

"How is it? Did you find the underground chamber?" Noticing that Thorne had put away the wooden holy emblem, Andrina asked.

"There really is an underground secret room below." Thorne said with a little surprise.

"Is it the elemental pool?" Andrina asked after hearing that, her expression changed, and she looked at Thorn.

"This magical technique can only survey the locations of the surrounding towns, villages, mountains, rivers, and various ruins. As for their detailed information, we need to go and explore." Thorne shook his head slightly.

After Thorne finished speaking, he immediately began to search for the mechanism to open the passage of the underground chamber in the empty tower.

Apart from some simple stone tables and benches, there are no redundant buildings in the tower. The most striking thing is the mysterious runes on the walls that are very similar to those of the Seeker organization.

So Thorne and Anderina split up to find the mechanism hidden somewhere.

When Thorne observed the mysterious runes on the three walls in the tower, and walked to the fourth wall, he finally discovered the strangeness on the wall.

In the lower right corner of the wall, Thorne noticed a raised button with a square hole inside and a round outside, resembling a copper coin.

This raised stone button is about 10cm in diameter, and it can be found from the gap marks around the button. As long as you press it lightly, it should be activated easily.

Then Thorne immediately greeted Andrina who was not far away. After checking the other party's detection spell and confirming that there was no problem, Thorne directly pressed it down.

"Long! Long! Long!"

The moment the button was activated, there was a muffled sound from a corner inside the tower, and a smooth marble floor trembled and was slowly opened, revealing a deep passage for people to pass through.

In just a moment, Thorne could smell a smell like a decaying corpse spreading in the tower. As time passed, the smell overflowing from the passage became stronger and stronger.

Anderina, who couldn't stand the smell of corruption, frowned directly, and covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves to relieve it.

"Let's go." After a while, noticing that the overflowing smell had almost dissipated, Thorn greeted Andelina beside him.

When the two walked to the deep underground passage, Thorn stopped and didn't go in immediately, but began to observe cautiously.

This underground passage is not as winding as imagined, it is a stone step with an inclination of about 60 degrees, and the straight passage leads to the deep underground.

"Be careful, I feel a strong death breath lingering inside, I'm afraid it's not as simple as a secret room." Anderina resisted the smell of decay, walked up to Thorn and reminded.

Thorne nodded when he heard the words, then looked in the direction of the passage and thought for a moment.

Immediately after a thought, with a light wave of his hand, the light of the summoning circle appeared in front of his eyes, and a small fire elemental creature from the elemental plane was summoned in front of his eyes.

The moment the fire element appeared, it immediately made a sound like a fireball burst to refresh the sense of existence, and then its own lighting characteristics instantly illuminated the surroundings like daytime.

Under the control of Thorne's mind, this small fire elemental walked into the deep passage first.

As the fire element moved forward step by step, the surrounding terrain was clearly displayed in front of Thorn's eyes.

So Thorn beckoned to Anderina beside him to signal her to follow, and followed the footsteps of the fire element into the passage.

Although the fire element moved forward unimpeded, Thorn, who was following behind, still did not dare to relax his vigilance.

I saw him holding a dagger, stepping carefully on every step, and when he saw some steps were seriously deformed due to the erosion of the years, he would let Andrina, who was following behind, cast a detection spell to detect them.

After all, this is a high tower left by a group of wizards. Although it has been abandoned by them, Thorne still dare not be careless, especially this kind of hidden underground passage.

In this way, under Thorne's beating all the way and Anderina's frequent flashes of spells, the two of them walked through this not-so-long stone-step passage without any risk.

The moment the two of them walked through the stone steps and came to the end.

"This……"

Under the light of the fire element, Andelina suddenly noticed the horrifying and tragic scene not far away, and couldn't help but exclaimed, her hands involuntarily grabbed Thorne's arm.

Feeling the strength coming from the arm, even without turning around to observe, Thorne could guess the inner tension of the sorceress, so he patted her arm lightly with the other hand to comfort her.

"It's just a pile of bones, so there's no need to be so afraid."

Thorne looked at the scene in front of him and noticed that the other party had let go of his arm, so he comforted Anderina in a relaxed tone.

"Is this a pile?" Anderina calmed down her ups and downs, and trembled with some fear: "I'm afraid there are at least 100 people's bones piled up here. What happened here?"

"Are you scared?" Seeing the other party's expression, Thorne suddenly wanted to laugh, so he asked subconsciously.

"No." The sorceress Anderina looked at the skeletal bones and said stubbornly.

"Then be careful when you go." Thorne reminded her, and then stepped on the rotten bones and made a clicking sound, walking forward.

"Wait a minute." Andrina looked at the bones trampled by Thorn, she hesitated for a while, and finally stopped Thorn's footsteps and said, "Can you clean up these things that block the way first?" .”

"Didn't you go through the sewers of Winter City? And in the ruins of Taran Village, the gnoll priest also summoned many skeletons. I haven't seen you scared before." Thorn finished speaking and began to look around. environment.

At this time, the space of the underground secret room they were in was almost the same as that above the high tower, and the walls of the secret room were all inlaid with thick marble.

But what makes Thorne strange is that this place is also empty, except for a large pile of decayed bones in front of him, there is nothing.

"Didn't you notice?" At this time, Andelina, who was still afraid to approach, stood in the distance and whispered to Thorne who was in deep thought: "These skeletons look like those of some children."

"A child's?" Thorn was taken aback, picked up a skull and examined it carefully, then shook his head and said, "It's not left by a child, but a kind of subterranean dwarf."

"Aren't you surprised that there are so many skeletons of subterranean gnomes here?" Anderina's expression relaxed a little when she heard that, but there was still a trace of fear in her eyes.

"It's really strange." Thorne squatted on the ground, muttering to himself with a confused look on his face, "Could someone be performing some evil sacrificial ceremony here?"

"Before you came in just now, didn't you say that you felt the strong dark energy, you continue to check with the detection spell." Thorn, who couldn't figure it out, said to Anderina who was not far away.

"There's no need to check, the exuberant dark energy emanates from this pile of bones." Anderina said directly.

Hearing the other party's certain words, Thorne took out his long sword and began to rummage through the pile of bones on the ground to see if he could find any new clues.

"Huh?" Suddenly, after Thorne pulled all the bones away, he actually found a fairly well-preserved metal sheet, which seemed to have recorded something.

So he picked it up with curious eyes, and then wiped off the dust on the metal sheet with his sleeve. Rows of tiny continental lingua franca were clearly displayed on the metal sheet:
Windclaw Moon (April) 15th: I hate living like a mole hiding in a moldy cave, but I can't help it, our underground guards are dead, we really have nowhere to go.

Humans are at it again and they killed the old digger with a blast of fire as he tried to protect us with the pickaxe in his hand, the evil humans just waved their hands and took all the uncles and aunts away.

Father said we must try to pray to our Patronus, Gal, and I did, but it didn't work.Humans keep coming back to take our people away. Gal must be very angry with me, so he didn't respond to me, but my father comforted me and said no, is that so?Bastard Gal!

Moon of Windclaw 20th: We've been running in underground tunnels for days, sorry I cursed Gal, but I really don't know what else to do, I'm going to be an adult next year, but maybe that A day never comes back.

25th of Windclaw: Today, I am finally reunited here with my captured uncles and aunts, but they don't look like me anymore.

Their skin became warty and yellow-gray, their hair red, and their arms long and thin.

When the uncles and aunts saw me, they laughed loudly and began to grow bigger and bigger, even bigger than that human being. They said that the underground crawler had been given a new life by human beings.

I can't escape, I hate you!Gal!
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(End of this chapter)