Fierce Battle

A heavy bronze book blocked Roy's path. The hammer handle struck the bronze book, but instead of knocking the young Half-Elf to the ground as the Gray Dwarf Chieftain had predicted, it did not.

Roy felt a sharp pain in both arms, but he held the ' Hammer of Judgment Book ' steadily in his hands.

His arms radiated a layer of white holy light, making them stand out in the dark mine.

The Gray Dwarf Chieftain stared wide-eyed at Roy in surprise, then suddenly raised his leg to kick Roy in the stomach. However, Roy had the same idea, and the two kicked each other in the abdomen at the same time. But Roy's leg was much longer than the Gray Dwarf Chieftain's, so the Gray Dwarf Chieftain took a solid kick from Roy.

Although the Gray Dwarf Chieftain kicked Roy, it was as if he had kicked a cold rock, and he was sent flying by Roy's kick.

The strong body collided with the Gray Dwarf Bandit behind him, and the Gray Dwarf Bandit took three steps back before regaining his footing.

The Gray Dwarf Bandit were already locked in combat with the Dark Moon Elf Warrior. The Dark Moon Elf Warrior wore fine armor and wielded standard-issue daggers of excellent quality. Although the Gray Dwarf Bandit used pickaxes, such weapons offered no advantage in combat within the mines.

Using the dim light, the Dark Moon Elf Warrior easily ambushed the Gray Dwarf Bandit.

In an instant, the Gray Dwarf Bandit who rushed in from the Mine Road all drew blood.

The Dark Moon Elf Warrior pressed their advantage, taking down several Gray Dwarf Bandit in succession.

When the Gray Dwarf Bandit saw that their Chieftain had been driven back, they quickly backed down. A group of Gray Dwarf Bandit crowded at the Mine Road. The Gray Dwarf behind them heard the heart-wrenching screams of their companions inside and were too frightened to rush in.

Immediately afterwards, Gray Dwarf Bandit rushed out of the vertical shaft mine.

The Gray Dwarf Chieftain was left at the very back, with only a hammer handle in his hand, surrounded almost entirely by Dark Moon Elf Warrior.

The Dark Moon Elf Warrior slashed the Gray Dwarf Chieftain repeatedly, splattering blood. Without his two-handed axe, the Gray Dwarf Chieftain could no longer hold the line alone and could only wildly swing his hammer handle as he retreated along with the Gray Dwarf Bandit.

The Elf Warrior have recaptured the entrance to the vertical shaft mine...

If it weren't for the moonstone dust still remaining in the Mine Road, the Dark Moon Elf Warrior would have already seized the opportunity to break out.

Roy finally understood why these Gray Dwarf Bandit had occupied the mine exit. With their formidable fighting power, defeating the Half-Elf and Dark Moon Elf inside the mine wouldn't be too difficult for them...

While the Dark Moon Elf Warrior recaptured the mine entrance, Roy took the opportunity to bandage the wounds of four severely injured Half-Elf.

Nowadays, he runs a business selling Elementary Magic Herbs in Castleton City, so he has no shortage of basic Healing Potion. When he saw that the Half-Elf Warrior were injured, he quickly took out some basic Healing Potion from his Magic Pouch and told them to drink them first.

Then bandage the wound with Hemostatic Bandage bandage...

Roy poured himself a bottle of Mana Potion, then, carrying the copper book and the entrance to the mine where the Dark Moon Elf Warrior were, joined the Elf Warrior in holding off the Gray Dwarf Bandit ' counterattack.

The raid failed.

According to Roy's plan, the Dark Moon Elf Warrior' first move was to seize the Mine Road in front of the vertical shaft mine. Only by taking control of this Mine Road could they sneak into the mine...

At that time, the Dark Moon Elf Warrior will take the opportunity to enter the mine, thus quickly gaining control of the entire mine.

Unfortunately, although the Dark Moon Elf Warrior slaughtered several Gray Dwarf Bandit in the Mine Road, they failed to seize control of the Mine Road...

Instead, the Gray Dwarf Chieftain led his men in a counterattack against the Elf Warrior, and they almost recaptured the well.

Captain Timothy was struck in the chest with Stone Hammer by the Gray Dwarf Bandit, breaking two of his ribs on the spot...

The person currently at the entrance of the mine is Vice Captain Tennyson, who is clearly an excellent assassin. He can always find the weakness of his opponent in every battle, and can easily take down his opponent even in the midst of a melee.

The ten young hybrid warriors Roy brought down the well were almost all injured at this moment...

After throwing out another ' Hammer of Judgment ', Roy's Holy Light Power was also exhausted.

Just then, a gray Dwarf Warrior rushed up from the Mine Road. He watched as a Silver Hammer flew out of the Mine Road and struck him squarely in the chest. The Gray Dwarf Bandit Gray Dwarf Bandit's chest caved in rapidly, and he coughed up blood before falling backward.

The Dark Moon Elf Warrior guarding the mine entrance were immediately filled with renewed vigor.

Roy wiped the greasy sweat from his face and instructed the Dark Moon Elf beside him, "Let's hold on a little longer..."

The caisson sank back into the mine shaft...

The half-elf warrior Vitas, accompanied by four other half-elf warriors, rode in the lowest gondola.

Twenty Half-Elf Warrior were crammed into two hanging boxes above their heads...

In the pod where Vitas was located, besides the five Half-Elf Warrior, there was also a ballista and a bundle of two-meter-long crossbow bolts, all of which had spearheads attached...

The ballista was originally found by Roy outside the Armaments Depot on the fourth floor of the Third Mine.

Before entering the mine, he instructed Vitas to organize the second batch of Half-Elf Warrior to enter the mine, and also to move the small ballista in front of him into the mine.

Vitas believes that in the complex environment of a mine, such a small crossbow would obviously be somewhat ineffective in the face of winding Mine Road.

With these questions in mind, Vitas followed the Half-Elf Warrior into the mine.

The gondola slowly descended, and after traveling halfway down, a series of fighting sounds came from below the shaft, along with the wails of some Gray Dwarf Bandit.

All the Half-Elf entered a tense state of preparation. When the hoisting box was lowered to the bottom of the mine, a thick smell of blood hit Vitas throughout the Mine Road, almost suffocating him.

The sounds of fighting in the mine hadn't stopped, but they were noticeably quieter...

When Vitas jumped out of the gondola and saw the shaft mine filled with corpses, he was slightly stunned and almost tripped over the corpse of a Gray Dwarf Bandit.

However, he quickly snapped out of his daze, clearing his mind of all distractions, and ordered the Half-Elf Warrior behind him, "Quickly bring out the ballista..."

Because space on the City Wall of the Third Mine was not very plentiful, even the ballistae mounted on the City Wall were small.

This ballista fits easily into the glove box...

Therefore, Roy had a sudden inspiration to have Vitas transport the ballista down into the mine.

Several Half-Elf hurriedly carried the ballista into the mine, and then ten fully armed Half-Elf Warrior jumped down from the overhead crane. By the faint Divine Light, they saw several Dark Moon Elf Warrior fighting with the Gray Dwarf Bandit Roy the entrance of the shaft mine, and they quickly stepped over the corpses on the ground and rushed towards the mine entrance...

Vitas, accompanied by four Half-Elf Warrior, nocked the bowstring of the small ballista and loaded two bolts into the quiver...

Roy breathed a slight sigh of relief when the Half-Elf Warrior finally arrived as reinforcements.

He gave way to the group of Half-Elf Warrior who had just entered the mine, and turned to give the order:

"Put the Gray Dwarf Bandit corpses in the crates, and we'll transport them to the mine later. Vitas, is your ballista ready?"

At this moment, Vitas was crouching in the dimly lit mine, having just nocked his bowstring, when two other Half-Elf Warrior began to install the winch and elevation mechanism on the ballista...

"Alright, Boss!" Vitas replied quickly.

Roy strode over and saw that the ballista's string was pulled back, with two bolts hanging in the ballista's groove.

Roy commanded two Half-Elf Warrior to aim their ballistae at the mine entrance...

The Gray Dwarf Chieftain retreated from the mine shaft back into the Mine Road, immediately discarding the useless hammer handle in his hand. He then took a Stone Hammer Stone Hammer from a Gray Dwarf beside him, weighed it in his hand a couple of times, and found it quite comfortable. He then snatched a wooden shield from a Gray Dwarf Bandit beside him.

After catching his breath, he raised his wooden shield and charged back into the Mine Road.

Charging all the way to the front, the Gray Dwarf, holding a wooden shield, was about to force his way into the mine...

The Half-Elf Warrior guarding the mine entrance were no match for the Gray Dwarf Chieftain, and two of them were knocked back by the Stone Hammer in his hand.

A group of Gray Dwarf Bandit immediately followed behind their Gray Dwarf Chieftain, charging out of the Mine Road.

A shout rang out, Half-Elf Warrior quickly dodged to the left and right...

Then the Gray Dwarf Chieftain heard the sound of a bowstring being plucked.

A few meters away, the crossbow bolt arrived in an instant, just grazing the Gray Dwarf Chieftain's shoulder, leaving a wound on his cheek with a sharp gust of wind.

Another crossbow bolt grazed his right arm, leaving a bloody gash on the Gray Dwarf Chieftain's arm.

Then came a series of screams...

The Gray Dwarf Chieftain was slightly slowed down, and a Dark Moon Elf Warrior appeared from behind him and slashed his thigh.

At this moment, the Gray Dwarf Chieftain's gaze was no longer on the Dark Moon Elf Warrior. He focused his attention on the ballista inside the mine, and was so frightened by the fully drawn bowstring that he screamed and smashed his wooden shield into the Dark Moon Elf without hesitation. He then turned and fled down the Mine Road.

When Vitas fired the first bolt, he was still a bit unsure of its trajectory, so it went slightly astray...

When Vitas fired the second crossbow bolt, he was still very accurate; both bolts flew almost directly behind the Gray Dwarf Chieftain's back.

The Gray Dwarf Chieftain let out a deep roar and then disappeared into the dark mine.

Roy knew that the Gray Dwarf Chieftain must have been injured by the bolts from the ballista...

With their wounded Chieftain fleeing the battlefield, the demoralized Gray Dwarf Gray Dwarf Bandit immediately retreated into the dark mines.

The twenty Dark Moon Elf Warrior seized the opportunity to chase after them into the Mine Road.

At this moment, Roy led more than twenty Half-Elf reinforcements into the Mine Road and took the opportunity to storm into the mine where the Gray Dwarf lived. The mine was decorated like a dormitory, with the Gray Dwarf having carved out bunk beds in the rock walls, covered with linen sheets.

On one rock face, there were more than forty beds, and on the other side of the rock face, there were also beds carved into the rock...

The mine shaft was so smooth that even the overhead rock walls had been carved out, and a group of Gray Dwarf Bandit were scurrying about inside.

Roy sat down on a stone chair in the mine, placing his hands on the stone table. Looking at the row of Gray Dwarf captured by the Half-Elf Warrior, Roy thought for a moment before asking the Gray Dwarf Bandit on the far left:

"Tell me, how are those Half-Elf in the mine doing now?"

The Gray Dwarf, covered in blood, chattered when he saw Roy. His hands were bound behind his back with a rope. He hesitated for a moment, then looked toward the middle of the group.

Roy didn't urge him, but just silently stared at the Gray Dwarf.

The Gray Dwarf hesitated for a moment before answering tremblingly, "We drove them into a mine..."

Before the Gray Dwarf Bandit could finish speaking, one of the Gray Dwarf in the very middle of the row shouted, "Don't tell them! Even if you do... we'll still die!"

The Gray Dwarf on the far left immediately shut his mouth and refused to say another word.

Roy ignored the Gray Dwarf in the middle and instead asked all the Gray Dwarf prisoners in front of him, "Who among you is willing to speak?"

"Let me tell you, those Half-Elf were driven into the southernmost mine shaft by us," a Gray Dwarf Bandit shouted impatiently.

Roy nodded, then said to the Gray Dwarf, "I'll have to trouble you to take us there and have a look..."

The remaining Gray Dwarf Bandit Gray Dwarf Bandit were gathered together by the Half-Elf, and to prevent them from escaping, their wrists were bound with chains and they were hung from the stone wall...

The Gray Dwarf Bandit led Roy and his group south of the mine for a while, but when they found that they hadn't encountered any other Gray Dwarf Bandit along the way, he became a little flustered and cautiously said to Roy, "We'll be there soon if we keep going a little further ahead."

Roy nodded noncommittally.

It wasn't until Roy reached the mine where the Half-Elf miners lived that he discovered the mine was actually sloping upwards, with a group of thin, poorly clothed Half-Elf miners crammed into the Mine Road.

This Mine Road has clearly deviated from the ore vein, and no Gemstone Mine can be mined here at all.

Seeing the Gray Dwarf Bandit leading the way, a weak and starving Half-Elf leaned against the rock wall and pleaded with the Gray Dwarf Bandit:

"Give us some more food, please. We've only eaten moss for a while now, and we don't have the strength to dig through the rocks..."

The Gray Dwarf Bandit, his hands bound with ropes, looked at the Half-Elf was pouring out his troubles and said in a panic:

"I don't have any food for you either. At this point, who can take care of whom..."

Before he could finish speaking, the Half-Elf Warrior following Roy rushed forward and handed him the Elf Biscuit and water pouches they carried.