Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 284 Avoiding Detection
Thorne led the crowd to a small house in the center of the underground secret passage. What they saw before their eyes was a pile of bonfires that had been extinguished in the center of the house and ten animal skin hammocks beside them.

Roughly processed animal skins were thrown randomly on the bed, as well as some simple cooking utensils and worn-out weapons and armor that were discarded in a pile on the floor.

"The foul smell, the litter everywhere, the rotting meat, and the half-eaten animal carcasses all show that the habitual hygiene of the room owner is really unsatisfactory."

The goblin wizard Malvisa covered her mouth and nose with her wide sleeves, looked around and found nothing unusual, so she looked at Thorn and frowned and said, "Thon, did you bring us here just to see these things?"

"How do you expect the Ratman's residence to be clean?" Thorne didn't care about the smell in the room, carefully observed the surrounding situation, and said calmly:
"The location of this house belongs to the very center of this underground secret passage, so I suspect that there is a secret door hidden in this room."

"Just because of the location, you suspect that there is a hidden secret door, which is too hasty." Paladin Peo smashed piles of garbage in the house with the long sword in his hand, answered a sentence, and continued said:

"I thought the kobolds and goblin dens were disgusting enough, but I didn't expect the ratmen to be so disgusting, tsk tsk tsk."

"That's because you haven't seen a dragonborn wandering naked on the street. The smell is worse than a lizardman who just crawled out of a mud pit mixed with rotting vegetation and foul-smelling sewage." The goblin wizard heard The paladin's words were sarcasm in a cold voice.

"...I'm really sorry, I was quick to speak, and I said the wrong thing. I forgot that we still have a little... and a beautiful goblin lady."

The fine scales on the face of the paladin who noticed the gaffe twisted, and quickly apologized to the goblin wizard, then immediately looked at Thorn and changed the subject abruptly: "Thon, you haven't explained to us the question I just had? .”

Seeing that the goblin wizard snorted coldly and ignored the paladin, Thorne explained to everyone: "The main reason is that when I entered this room for the first time, the long sword in my hand trembled involuntarily. .”

"So you suspect that this underground ruin has something to do with demons." Malvisa frowned and thought for a moment, then said slowly.

She still knew a little about the ability of the weapon in Thorn's hand to sense the breath of demons, so she immediately guessed what the other party meant by bringing them here.

"That's right." Thorn looked at the goblin wizard and nodded, and asked, "I want to ask, do you have the spell "Detect Secret Door"? If so, please point it at the surrounding walls. Check it out carefully. "

"It's simple." Malvisa smiled slightly, patted the warg on the head, walked to the wall, and then a faint magical aura flashed on her little hand.

It lasted like this for a while, Malvisa walked to the wall he had already determined, looked at the paladin Pao, and said, "Little lizard, come and clean up all the wall dust on this wall."

The paladin Peo responded readily, walked over immediately, took out his long sword and began to scrape back and forth on the wall.

While the paladin Peo was cleaning the walls, the careful Andrina noticed that Thorn next to him suddenly seemed to be hypersensitive, looking back and forth, so she couldn't help asking: "Thon, what are you doing?" What's wrong?"

Although Andelina's words were very soft, they easily attracted everyone's attention. In the group, except for the paladin who was scraping the wall, all of them cast doubtful eyes on Thorne.

"Do you have a feeling of being secretly spied on?" Thorn looked at the surrounding environment suspiciously, expressing the confusion in his heart:
"Ever since we entered this underground secret room, I always felt that someone was watching me secretly, especially at the moment just now, it was the strongest, as if my whole body had been seen, and it made people feel hairy."

"You mean that someone is watching us in secret?" Malvisa looked at Thorne suspiciously, and turned her gaze to the indifferent Master Qingchen.

This is a Druid who has clairvoyant vision. He can detect even the etheric plane, and he can naturally detect some peeps in the dark. Moreover, the other party's bird's perception seems to be more sensitive than his master's.

"I don't feel this way, and my animal companions have never given me any abnormal feedback." Master Qingchen's calm eyes flashed, he looked around, and said truthfully.

"Did someone use a prophecy spell?" Thorne subconsciously guessed, and then turned his attention to the three spellcasters: "Do any of you know how to "evade detection" spells? "

"Evasion of detection" is a wizard's third-ring spell. After use, it can make the subject difficult to be detected by divination spells.

If someone really used prophecy spells to spy on him in the dark, then he could use another "detection avoidance" spell on his side, as long as the difference in strength was not that great, he could successfully avoid them.

"I definitely won't." Malvisa directly confessed that her wizard level was only level four, so naturally she couldn't master three-ring spells.

Master Qingchen also shook his head slightly, because druids do not have this magic spell, but ranger does have it in the list of magic spells, but it is a four-ring magic spell.

When Thorn cast his hopeless eyes on Anderina beside him, he found that the other party glared at him angrily, and then flashed a smile.

Then Anderina took out the casting material of the "avoid detection" spell, a piece of diamond that she had just crushed into dust, and Thorne immediately understood that the sorceress in front of him had actually mastered this spell.

With the slight fluctuation of the aura of the spell, Thorne instantly felt that the feeling of being secretly watched disappeared without a trace, which made him feel relieved a lot.

Because this at least indirectly proves that the enemy hidden in the dark and Anderina's strength should not be much different, otherwise the other party would not choose to hide in the dark and peep.

Everyone stood there and waited for about 10 minutes, and the paladin Peo finally completed his task.

When the wall was cleaned by him, a delicate relief pattern was clearly displayed in front of several people's eyes.

The picture in relief is a white dragon swooping down from the snowy mountain, ready to hunt a group of winter wolves.

"Little lizard, turn Bailong's eyeball." At this moment, Malvisa stretched out her little finger and pointed at Bailong's ping-pong ball-sized eyeball that could be rotated at will.

"Watch out for traps!"

When the paladin Peo rushed over, Thorne reminded him directly out of instinct.

However, it was still a step too late, as soon as his words fell, the paladin's dragon claws directly twisted the white dragon's big eyeballs.

——"Second Ring Divine Art: Wind Wall Art!"

The moment Thorne heard the loud bang, he immediately cast the ranger's magic.

As a wind wall full of roaring air emerged, the wall in front of the paladin Peo also immediately appeared dense and creepy arrow holes.

Accompanied by the 'click' sound of pulling the trigger, the burly figure of paladin Peo was instantly submerged by the crossbow arrows...

However, the only good thing is that those crossbow arrows that were not blocked by the figure of the paladin were all blown away by the wind wall and scattered on the ground when they were about to approach Thorne and the others.

"Hey, Brother Peo, are you alright?" The orc sword master Kutaig looked at the motionless paladin and asked hastily as the galloping crossbow stopped.

"It's okay. I don't know how long these crossbow bolts have existed. They are like rotten wood. They can't even break through my dragon scales." The paladin Peo patted the rust on his face and body without any hesitation. He said with a smile of concern.

Sword Master Kutaig glanced enviously at the dragonborn paladin's thick skin that could not be pierced by a crossbow arrow, and remained silent again.

Then, Thorne summoned a Dire Rat with a part of the ranger's magic spell, and drove it to this secret room full of decay and death.

After about half an hour...

"You can go in, no problem."

Thorn, who was half-squatting on the ground, glanced at the well-behaved Dire Rat, and subconsciously wanted to reach out to stroke its little furry head, but suddenly paused, and finally retracted it forcefully.

Andrina, who had been keeping her eyes on Thorne, noticed his subtle movements, and the corners of her mouth involuntarily raised a slight arc.

After confirming that there was no danger, the group walked directly into this relatively narrow secret passage.

Not long after walking, the paladin Pao was the first to discover a decaying corpse, and immediately greeted everyone: "Here is the corpse of a dragonborn."

Just as he was about to lean over to check, the nearly decayed dragon-born corpse seemed to sense something, and stood up strangely.

"Don't do it!" Noticing that the dragon-born paladin was about to slap the dragon-born skeleton to death, Thorne immediately stepped forward to stop it: "The mouth of this corpse should have been given the second-level spell "Magic Mouth". Listen to what clues he left behind. "

After speaking, he immediately gave instructions to Anderina who was beside him, and asked her to take out a parchment scroll and a quill.

Immediately afterwards, the dragon-born skeleton seemed to move its body, opening and closing its big mouth, telling the past history with the desolate voice of ancient times.

Afterwards, it was all recorded by Anderina who had already prepared it. When the magic effect of "Magic Mouth" disappeared, the dragon-born skeletons turned into a pile of decayed corpses again, scattered on the ground.

Thorn took the parchment from Anderina and began to carefully consider the meaning on it:
Adventurers from afar
I hope you have a recordable quill and parchment on hand, so that you can record the last words of Herta Delmilef, the chief wizard of Kimbatur City and the father of three children.

I swear by the name of the Platinum Dragon God Bahamut, the following words are my final will and testament.

Here I lie helpless today, trapped beneath the glorious wreckage of a race of dragonborn, while maddened dragons I've never heard of ravage the city without mercy.

In the sky above my head, demons and dragons howled and roared in unison, spraying terrible acid, lightning, flame and frost, destroying everything here.

My family, my relatives and friends, they are all dead, and my worldly wealth has been reduced to ashes and buried in ruins. Only by embracing the web of the goddess of magic can I leave their memories to posterity.

In the face of my dead son, I left behind a broken bloodline of the family—it has now been cut off forever by the dragon madness.

To my dead daughter I leave her mother's eternal beauty--destroyed by the dragonfollowers who lead to our land.

To my dead young son, I leave behind his parents' hopes and dreams—though they have all been killed by that sinister voice that sizzles from the hell of Baator.

When I was a young man, I was an avid explorer of the ruins of the Lost Lands, seeking riches of gold and jewels, and of course lost magical mysteries.

And one day in the distant future, young and energetic adventurers will also step on the bones of our dragonborn race, and pick the lost treasures in the ashes of this Kimbatur city.

Is it necessary to use the tragic death of so many innocent people to create all kinds of ruins for future generations to explore?maybe i should
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(End of this chapter)