Artificer Adventure Guide

As a collaborator who had initially reached a consensus, the Drow Mother shared much of her knowledge about the Underdark with Carl and others.

Sure enough, they also have other ways to leave the Underdark, but this road also hides great risks.

According to the drow who explored that road, that road might pass by a sleeping black dragon beast.

It was a dragon beast that was already comparable in size to an adult giant dragon. The biggest difference between the other party and the giant dragon was probably that it didn't have a very high IQ.

But if we talk about combat effectiveness alone, the opponent's physical strength may not be inferior to that of a real black dragon of the same size.

The other party will go out to eat once a month. If you can pass quickly while the other party is away, you can go to the surface relatively safely.

However, if Carl's army of constructs moves in groups, the movement may be relatively loud.

"Which one do you think is safer, the black dragon beast or the fallen drow?"

Looking at the drow mother floating in the air, Karl asked his doubts.

The in-depth mastery of psionic powers allows many psionic users to gain certain precognitive abilities. Carl thought that he could use this to ask the drow matron to help eliminate wrong options.

Of course, whether he will listen to the other party's proposal depends on Karl's mood, because he can't be sure whether this guy will deceive him.

But what left Karl speechless was that the results given by this psychic master were very similar to those of those magicians. She said:

"Destiny is elusive. The only thing I can tell you is that no matter which path you choose, you will definitely reach the surface in the end."

Although this is indeed saying that Karl will succeed in the end, judging from the current situation, it is like when someone asked her, "Is the number of the dice big or small?", she replied, "Not big, not small." "Same.

"Tsk! I really can't get along with the magic stick!"

Giving up on asking the other party, Carl decided to reconsider Shadow and Scorpion's plan to leave.

"Our tribe originally went to the surface because of an accident. The small underground cave we were in collapsed. During our emergency transfer, we mistakenly entered an unknown tunnel. As a result, the tunnel went all the way up and finally reached the surface.

I'm not sure whether I can find the tunnel by then, but I can take you to the cave where our tribe originally lived. "

It was very rare that Ying gave a speech that was quite lengthy for her.

On the surface, Scorpion's plan looks more reliable than Ying's.

"I told you before, I joined a drow organization that neither wanted to completely degenerate nor continue to practice asceticism. I was originally sent to the surface by members of the organization.

At that time, I didn’t know their true purpose and thoughts. I just thought they wanted to obtain materials from the humans on the surface and give back to the tribe.

I think we can try to contact them. "

After saying that, Xie looked at Karl, the leader of the team.

"Can!"

Nodding, Karl finalized the matter.

Mother Drow didn't express any opinion on this and acted like an ordinary passenger planning to take a ride to her destination.

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Amidst the sound of "rumbling", a mechanical army composed of constructs began to march forward.

Although those steel spider-like structures have reduced the noise as much as possible, when the footsteps are multiplied by 600, things still become a little difficult to cover up.

"What's going on outside?"

In the underground labyrinth located on the path of this steel army, a drow matron of a small tribe called her children and asked about the situation outside.

These drow, who still retain their belief in the spirit totem, master the inheritance of the three ranger sub-occupations of hunter, ghost tracker, and swarm herder, as well as the training methods of rogues.

However, because of the advantages of rangers in hunting and other aspects, most drow in the tribe chose the path of rangers to help the tribe hunt more food.

After receiving the order from the mistress, a Netherland tracker immediately led a group of pastors to go out to find out the news.

But not long after leaving, the two people returned to the underground maze from the outside in a panic.

"No! Mistress, a strange huge metal box carrying a swarm of steel spiders is passing through this area. They are now above our heads. These noises are caused by them!"

Compared with those drow tribes that truly have ancient heritage, the civilization of this tribe has obviously deteriorated seriously.

Apart from speaking Elvish, they are almost the same as the savages.

Therefore, they naturally do not know such high-tech things as constructs.

In fact, this situation of drow is the norm in the Underdark. Some of them have even moved to the surface, fighting each other for food with the giants who have fallen into a state of ignorance.

After a brief moment of panic, the drow matron immediately ran out of this natural underground maze with a few of her cronies and came to the "surface area" for them.

Looking at those steel spiders, she knelt down without any psychological burden and murmured a prayer to her soul.

Located in the middle of the construct army, Karl quickly discovered the anomaly here through the secret eye mechanism.

He used his psychic powers to give orders to stop the marching constructs. He asked Thorin to park the truck in front of these people, then opened the door and walked out.

"Are you the occupiers of this area?"

He said this in Elvish with some hesitation. Carl looked at the drow and straightened his body secretly.

His already tall body had exceeded 2.4 meters with the help of the power armor. His majestic body made the female drow who had only seen male drow feel a little restless for no reason.

"Yes."

The drow, whose age could not be seen from his appearance, knelt on the ground respectfully and docilely and answered tremblingly.

After confirming that the drow in front of him were not the group of fallen ones, Carl's eyes turned and he felt that he could find some benefits from this.

'These drow obviously have no psychic power. I don't have that much energy to deal with those fallen psychic drow. Can I support a drow guard specifically to deal with them? '

Thinking that most of the Obsidian City drow who had surrendered to him before seemed to have no formal careers at present, Carl removed part of the power armor and took out a dimensional bag of food that he carried with him.

Untying the laces, Carl took out more than a dozen bags of food.

"Do you have enough food in your tribe? Follow me! You won't have to worry about food in the future!"

With a bewitching tone, Karl said this to the drow matron who was obviously in the tribal civilization stage.

After being tutored by Iris Twi, the Dreamless Drow, Karl already had a general understanding of the quality of life of ordinary drow in the Underdark.

The problem of eating in the Underdark is completely opposite to that in Storm Bay. The food here is even more valuable than gold.

Because of this, Karl took out bread, bacon and other food to tempt the drow matron who ran over to kneel down because of the passing of the construct army.

The other party's behavior is a way for the drow to express submission and obedience to the strong. Some more barbaric and primitive drow tribes will even perform similar acts of submission to powerful beasts.

Karl felt that this was probably part of the influence of the drow's belief in spirits. After all, many spirits exist in the main plane as animals or other images.

At the same time, people who believe in spirits are also supporters of "animism".

Seeing the food in front of her, the drow mistress hesitated and took a bite.

The slightly crispy crust of the bread, the soft white bread with wheat aroma, gave off a slightly sweet taste when chewed.

This taste is completely different from meat, and it is suppressed by the taste of additives.

"As long as we follow you, can we always eat this kind of food in the future?"

Without hesitating for too long, the drow mistress asked again as if to confirm.

Hearing this, Carl nodded.

Passing some of the food in her hand to her children, the drow mistress chanted a prayer with unknown specific meaning in a variant elven language with many slangs, and then humbly bowed to Carl again and again.

After a while, several drows next to her ran back to the natural maze below and brought out sixteen drows who were still relatively young.

Asking Jialian to assign these drows to sit in the constructs, Carl nodded secretly and then returned to the truck.

"Do you want to train a group of hunters to hunt the fallen drow?"

As soon as she got back to the car, Iris asked Carl's intention in an uncertain tone.

But the fact that she could ask this question meant that she actually knew Carl's thoughts very well.

'It's really easy and difficult to communicate with a guy with strong psychic power...'

Muttering to himself, Carl nodded and admitted it directly.

"After the drow reaches adulthood, it will take about 60 to 70 years for each birth to get pregnant again.

This leads to the total population of the drow not being too exaggerated, but with the situation shown by the group of fallen drow, it seems possible that a group of half-drow will appear.

But psychic power is not a power that can be popularized. There will definitely be a large number of ordinary drow enslaved by those drow who master psychic power. I can also be regarded as providing them with some help in resistance."

Just like it is impossible for all human attributes to reach the standard of 10 points in all attributes when they reach adulthood, it is certainly impossible for all drow, as a long-lived species, to have psychic talents.

The reason why those fallen drow established a sect that believed in Rose, in addition to the influence of the corresponding nightmare spirits through dreams, was probably to use religion to control those ordinary drow who had no talent.

Nodding gently, Iris covered her chest with her palm and asked hesitantly:

"Can I try to spread the belief in the Way of Light? Although ordinary believers cannot provide sufficient help like my bloodline, this can help them resist the temptation from Rose."