Arcane splendor begins with the throne

Chapter 149 Killing

The silence here is like a giant beast lurking in the shadows, hiding incomparable pressure, the continuous dripping sound is like the heartbeat of a beast, hitting the silent rock, splashing trembling whispers.

Brian sprinted down a passage.

Although the dark tunnels are twisted and gloomy, connecting large and small caves, and stringing together high and low caves, the sharp stone pillars are like the fangs of a sleeping dragon, silently blocking the way of intruders.

But he, who is good at using shadows to hide himself, maintains a calm and calm face as always.

Compared with the phantoms of the Underdark, and the inescapable doomsday scene he had witnessed, the fear in front of him seemed insignificant.

Because of the need for extreme silence, Brian walked lightly, constantly escaping from one shadow of the stone pillar to another.

Ahead, a deep hole blocked his way.

Standing against the wall in front of the hole, Brian heard the gnoll's howl clearly.

He glanced back, and slipped into the hole without making a sound.

There are at least seven gnolls here, all crowded together in the center of the cave, surrounded by many natural stone pillars in the shape of teeth.

Bryan wasn't sure if there were other prey in the shadow of the pillar.

He lowered his speed again, moved to the side of the stone pillar closest to him, crawled to the next stone pillar, and then turned over and rolled behind the third stone pillar.

His skillful movements like flowing clouds and flowing water made him approach the target silently like a ghost.

At this time, he had already discovered the ninth Jackal, and pairs of bright red dots flickered in and out of the cave.

The sizzling grease torch reflected a terrifying and hideous figure on the blackened rock wall.

He saw this group of scantily clad and poorly dressed jackals gathered together, making dull roars from time to time.

From the roaring Gnoll language, Brian heard that they were discussing the best plundering plan for human villages.

This group of gnolls did not send anyone to stand guard, nor did they sense any danger approaching.

Soon, they seemed to be aware of the problem. A gnoll with a scar on his face growled in a low voice to the smallest gnoll.

The jackal obediently held a wooden-handled mace, muttering in his mouth why he was asked to stand guard alone again.

He turned and walked to a stone pillar, and sat down against it, about 5 meters away from his companion.

at this time.

"Pfft!"

A sharp sword pierced through his heart from behind without any warning, and the blood-stained tip of the sword protruded from his chest, just slashing a drop of bright red blood.

"Well……"

The Gnoll's pupils widened in fear, and just about to scream, a hand stretched out from behind had already tightly covered his mouth, causing him to whimper inaudibly.

His legs struggled frantically, kicking frantically on the gravel on the ground, scraping against the cold rocky ground, but he could no longer make a sound.

There are eight left.

Brian thought, as he gently dragged the body behind him, hiding by the stone pillar.

Immediately afterwards, a wolf man seemed to have noticed something strange. He shrugged his nose, and while calling for the wolf man standing guard, he got up and walked over.

He seemed to take the hunter hiding in the shadows for the dead gnoll.

Brian responded vaguely, and a bandaged paw stretched out and patted his shoulder, making him almost laugh in the tense atmosphere.

The Gnoll patted him once, then more slowly, and only then did he begin to feel the comfort of Brian's thick, soft cloak and the strong smell of blood in the air.

A confused look appeared on the Jackal's ugly face. He stretched out his paws and scratched his head. He subconsciously stretched his neck and tilted his head, trying his best to look behind the stone pillar, like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

The flickering sword light satisfied his request.

"Pfft!"

The sharp blade tore the Gnoll's throat, and bright blood spurted out.

The jackal fell to the ground in surprise, his hands pressed tightly to the wound on his throat, and warm blood flowed from between his fingers, making him gradually walk into the darkness of death.

Before the seven living gnolls in the cave could react, Brian had a thought, and the torch inserted on the wall trembled, and suddenly went out strangely, and the whole cave was suddenly plunged into darkness.

Only pupils with red dots of fear still looming in the darkness, followed by a panicked growl.

Brian immediately raised the blood-dripping sword, like a predator that had been dormant for a long time, and his vigorous figure, like a feline, suddenly jumped into the middle of the jackals.

The sharp blade cut across afterimages of steel, killing two bewildered gnolls in the blink of an eye.

"Ow!"

The remaining five gnolls roared in terror and ran away in all directions.

"boom!"

A jackal crashed into the stone pillar in the dark like a headless fly, smashed his forehead, and fell to the ground on his back.

"Bang! Bang!"

The two gnolls bumped into each other, and there was a roar of curses.

"thump!"

The other wolf man was tripped by his fallen companion and seemed to have hit something. The two wolf men let out screams like killing pigs at the same time.

The last Gnoll ran straight in Brian's direction.

Seeing the blurred shadows, he continued to let out some disorganized growls, and his hands waved up and down in the darkness, as if making a gesture of friendship.

When he was very close to Brian, he finally realized that the figure covered in a black cloak in front of him was not his companion, so he screamed and prepared to flee backwards.

"Pfft!"

Before he could turn around, the sharp sword in Brian's hand slashed out obliquely, and blood gushed out from a deep wound on the wolf man's chest like a horse.

He wailed aloud, staggered forward and fell to the ground, scratching his feet, clutching a stone tightly, as if grasping the passing of life.

At the moment when the gnolls fell to the ground, the two gnolls who collided finally recovered from the sudden fear of darkness, fumbled to pick up their weapons from the ground, and rushed towards Brian.

One of them wielded a rusty iron sword above his head, but before he could get close to Brian, the iron sword flew somewhere.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

The same sharp blade of the Knocking Iron Sword flickered twice, leaving two deadly cross wounds on the terrified wolf man, and then fell limply to the ground without making a sound until it died.

At the same time, Brian withdrew his sharp sword, turned around quickly, and easily blocked another wild wolf man's attack.

"Clang clang!"

The sharp sword in his hand moved forward and back, one sword after another to block the onslaught of spears.

As the spear was chopped off by the sword, the Gnoll looked at Brian in despair, threw his weapon at him, and ran to the shadow of the nearest stone pillar with all his might.

Brian ignored the fleeing Gnoll, but suddenly rushed in another direction.

"boom!"

Immediately, he knocked a wolf man who had just hit the stone pillar and got up from the ground again, causing his body to lose balance, and then swayed like a drunk.

"Pfft!"

Brian took the opportunity to raise his sword, and the cold light quickly cut the gnoll's throat.

His nimble figure doesn't need to slow down even in the dark to keep going.

In the blink of an eye, he managed to get close to the last Gnoll.

He swung the sharp sword, turned and spun, and once again swung away the wolf man's instinctive counterattack with the blade. When he completed the roundabout, the long sword in his hand pierced the wolf man's heart precisely and powerfully.

Brian walked over the corpse of the wolf man, and looked at the wolf man who slipped through the net in a calm manner.

The Gnoll was quickly skirting the stone pillars in the cave, intending to escape through the farthest corridor.

Although Brian was faster and more agile, he did not catch up, but waited intently.

"Crack!"

Just when the wolf man was about to escape and ascend to heaven, there was the sound of bone cracking in the darkness of the corridor, and the escaped wolf man wailed and fell on the stone steps of the corridor, his head like a smashed watermelon.

The little devil flapping his dark red bat wings held his little hammer, poked his head out from the corridor, blinked his cunning eyes, shrugged his shoulders at Brian, and then quietly disappeared into the darkness, only the ground had The corpse of the gnoll who had stopped convulsing lay there lifelessly.

At this moment, the cave was illuminated by magical light without warning.

Brian took two steps back secretly, holding the hilt of the sword tightly with his right hand, trying his best to adjust the visual spectrum.

"Ow! Oooo! Oooo!"

This flash of light was like a sign, and the howls of the wolf man sounded one after another from all directions in the cave.

In an instant, hideous and frightening wolf man figures filed out from the surrounding caves, completely surrounding Brian.

Brian swept the gnolls calmly.

He found that this new group of gnolls were bigger and stronger than the ones he had just killed, and there were even a few gnolls whose reddish-brown manes were mixed with dark colors.

This made him realize that this group of gnolls is likely to be a wolves transformed from hyenas by the gnolls. people.

Gnolls love to host demonic ceremonies to celebrate victories, and sacrifice blood to the demon lord Yeenoghu, King of the Gnolls.

Demon lords also sometimes reward these worshipers by having one of them possessed by a demonic spirit.

This gnoll who was marked as Yeenoghu's favorite will be lucky to be selected as Yeenoghu's fang.

When the enemies killed by Yeenoghu's fangs are fed to common hyenas, the person being fed will grow into an adult wolf man after undergoing a terrible transformation just like the first batch of gnolls created by Yeenoghu. .

Moreover, the stronger the enemy killed by Yeenoghu's fangs, the more ferocious and cruel the transformed Gnoll man would be after being fed to the hyena.

From the strength displayed by these newly emerged Gnolls, Brian can judge that it is very likely that all of them were transformed by adventurers with good strength.

A tribe of gnolls with Yeenoghu's fangs will increase the number of their fellow gnolls dramatically according to the number of hyenas and the amount of food.Finding and killing these fangs is the only way to control the gnoll population.

Obviously, with the recovery of the magic net, after the gods could contact their believers, these evil demon lords also began to respond to the prayers of the believers.

"Stupid but brave adventurer."

As a group of powerful gnolls surrounded him, in the dark corridor, a gnoll covered in all kinds of scary objects appeared last in Brian's sight.

He holds a flail-carved bone artifact, and wears a black-brown animal hair robe covered with disgusting yellow filth.

"The great king of gnolls opposes the constraints of law and civilization, and is eager to see plague-like deaths, so his most devout followers must constantly provoke conflicts and bloodshed."

The ferocious and fanatical leader of the gnolls and Yeenogu's fangs looked around at all the slain gnoll corpses on the ground, and then at Brian, showing a cruel smile.

"A powerful adventurer, what delicious flesh and blood, I hope this feast of killing can please my lord. Kill him!"

As soon as the words fell, the leader of the wolf man waved his hand violently.

"Ow! Oooo! Oooo!"

Roaring one after another filled the entire cave, the group of wolves who couldn't help but stared at pairs of scarlet pupils eager to kill, all locked on Brian's body.

Brian was unmoved and just looked coldly at Yeenoghu Fang standing by the corridor.

In fact, this Yeenoghu fang is very cunning, and has been hiding in the depths of the cave full of traps, refusing to come out.

Then send a small group of Gnolls to harass the human villages in the Goblin Wasteland, attracting those stupid and brave adventurers to come here.

Just like in front of him, he used the jackals who had ambushed in advance to kill the intruding adventurers, and then transformed them into powerful jackals. In the cave ruins left by this dwarf race, he continued to grow his power .

If the strength displayed by the enemy is too strong and makes him feel that he cannot deal with it, he will hide in the depths of the cave and use complex tunnels and traps to deal with intruders.

It simply took advantage of the wretched development to the extreme.

The purpose of Brian's coming here is to lure out the leader of the wolf man and Yeenoghu's fangs hiding in the depths of the cave, and kill him.

After all, there are so many traps deep in the cave, even he himself can't guarantee that he can come and go freely.

Therefore, he can only deliberately suppress his own strength, so that the jackal leader feels that it is difficult and has to take action himself, but also feels that he can deal with it with his own strength.

With blood-chilling howls echoing in the cave, all the gnolls rushed towards Brian.

A strong stench of wind hit his nostrils, and Brian immediately released the spells prepared in advance in "Arcane Preparation".

——"Second Ring Spell: Explosive Flame!"

Just when this group of strong gnolls was about to approach Bryan, a gust of scorching wind blew past him, and dazzling flames spewed out from his body in an instant. Infinite energy sprayed flames and swept across the area furiously. All Gnolls within.

In the cave that was illuminated red by the flames, the flames were crackling and jumping on the mane and clothes of the gnolls, and the wolves rolling all over the ground also wailed in pain.

"You...you...you are a wizard?"

There were tumbling human-shaped flames jumping in the widened pupils of the leader of the jackals, and he looked at Brian, who was dressed as an adventurer, in disbelief.

There is no doubt that the fear of the Faye has been infiltrated into their blood for thousands of years.

Numerous painful lessons have taught these evil humanoids that they should never easily provoke those who can cast spells.

The leader of the gnolls tried his best, turned and ran into the depths of the corridor.

——"One-ring spell: Fear!"

The moment he turned around, a dark red figure flapping bat wings silently blocked his way, raised his head and took a deep breath, opened his mouth wide, and let out an ear-piercing scream that went straight to the soul.

The moment the leader of the wolf man who was caught off guard heard the sound, pain like an explosion burst in his mind, and the bone magic weapon in his hand fell to the ground involuntarily.

He covered his head with his hands as if he saw the most frightening thing, his face was twisted into a ball with fear, and cold sweat soaked the thick mane on his body.

——"One-ring spell: Lesser Flame Ball!"

Seeing that the little devil's control spell was successfully cast, Brian didn't dare to waste time, and murmured a few incantations. A fireball quickly formed in his palm, and he threw it away without hesitation.

In an instant, the fireball roared away with a slender tail flame.

The whole body of the leader of the wolf man was suddenly ignited by countless bursting sparks. In the frantic howl, the clothes and flesh on his body were scorched and disappeared in the flames.

Work in a while.

As the hot smoke dissipated, shapeless charred corpses in the cave fell stiffly on the ground, emitting wisps of blue smoke.

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(End of this chapter)