"Search this room thoroughly."
Following the order of Master Wenlai, everyone took action.
"Master, I always feel unsteady. You know this feeling, like a specimen on a test bench, that deep sense of powerlessness. The danger here is likely to be beyond the control..."
While Reilo was noncommittal, Wenlai stroked his beard.
"The fortress received intelligence three days ago. Temple of the Goddess of Wisdom noticed that a priest here died suddenly. In addition, there was no news about a group of mercenaries who were on duty nearby. That's why the military sent me to investigate. Moreover, the reward for this investigation mission is very high."
At the end of his speech, the old scholar's voice became inaudible.
suddenly.
The horses tied at the entrance of the village suddenly neighed in terror, and everyone who was looking for clues exclaimed in shock, "Horses!"
He hurriedly ran out of the room and bypassed several dilapidated houses. When everyone ran to the entrance of the village, they only saw the broken reins on the stone pillars.
The soldier named Seth picked up the blood-stained reins with an ugly expression.
"It was bitten off by some large creature with sharp teeth."
Everyone looked horribly pale. Only Master Wenlai still maintained his concentration. Seven horses were tied here just now, but they were gone in such a short time?
"There's blood here!"
Soldier Olshaman shouted loudly.
Everyone hurriedly ran, and after walking along the blood trail for a while, they saw a tall cave with a height of one person on the red hard stone wall. It seemed that no one had been there for a long time. There were some spider webs left on it, and it was pitch black inside.
"Bring the torch."
Ivan took the torch and threw it into the cave, but he couldn't see the end.
Everyone gritted their teeth and looked at each other. It was obvious that the culprit was in the cave.
However, there is no doubt that it must be extremely dangerous inside. Should we admit that the investigation mission failed and go back in despair, or should we continue the investigation?
Boom boom boom...
At the same time, there was rolling thunder from the thick clouds in the sky, and rain fell in a drizzle. Everyone went into the cave to take shelter from the rain to prevent the torches from getting wet.
Looking at the rain falling more and more, everyone's expressions were extremely ugly. Furnace Fortress The winter rain was mixed with some ice slag. It was really a nightmare to drive in such icy rain. Thinking back to the steep cliffs on the road when we arrived, and walking in the dark night in the heavy rain of ice slag, it would be great if only half of the people could return to the fortress.
However, turning around again, the endless deep cave seems to swallow everyone up, which is also a frightening choice.
Master Wenlai took a deep breath.
"Let's go, we have no way out. It's impossible to go back in this weather."
As a battle-hardened magician consultant Furnace Fortress, Wenlai has experienced far more dangers than the scholars of the academy. When faced with danger, he clearly knows what the most desperate situation is, which is to run away like a deer that has lost its mind, leaving his back to the enemy.
On the contrary, in the past two desperate and dangerous situations, he only ushered in a glimmer of hope by taking the initiative!
Master Wenlai actually raised his wand high. The Illumination Technique on the top of the wand instantly overshadowed all the torches and took the initiative to walk at the front of the team. Several soldiers looked at each other in disbelief, and finally gritted their teeth and followed closely behind Master Wenlai.
The generous rewards of this mission are too hard to part with!
The cave was rugged, and after walking a few dozen meters, a fork in the road appeared in front of everyone.
"There seems to be traces of artificial excavation?"
Reilo stared at the stone wall of the cave and murmured in a low voice, but received no response from others.
Knowing that they cannot be separated, Master Brunei raised his Illumination Technique high and frowned. "Go to the left."
This time, everyone walked for a while. Not only did they not reach the end, the passage became wider and wider. As the stone path suddenly turned around, an amazing underground space appeared. It was very dry and was comparable in size to the student square.
With this as the center, tunnels spread in all directions.
Everyone seemed to be in a huge underground maze!
"Yes! This place is definitely not naturally formed!"
Odriell finally responded to Reilo's words. The light of the torch shone brightly and dimly in the underground space, trembling and murmuring what everyone was thinking.
"Look!"
Still the archer discovered something.
Everyone walked away one after another, but they found themselves in a smaller underground cave. Inside the dense white silk mesh, there were human skeletons wrapped one after another. It was hard to count. There were also countless livestock skeletons scattered on the ground.
"No, no, no..."
Such a doomsday and horrific scene immediately made a soldier keep retreating, on the verge of mental collapse.
Whoops, whoops, whoops.
Breathing continuously, Reilo took a deep breath, came to the screen, fiddled with it gently, and then slowly turned his head with an ugly expression.
"It's a spider web."
As if to answer Reilo's words, dense "rustling" sounds came from the passages in all directions in the underground space.
"Ah..."
The soldier finally could no longer bear the psychological pressure and ran away screaming towards the passage from which he came.
"Come back! Damn it!"
Ivan roared loudly.
At this time, even the two so-called magician consultants Reilo and Wenlai could no longer maintain their composure. Wenlai hurriedly said, "You go collect a corpse to prove it, and I'll collect the mission investigation specimens!"
Waving his wand, Wenlai suddenly spotted a flying monster with bull-headed bat wings above his head, with a faint black smoke lingering around his body. Wenlai jumped onto the back of the summoned creature and flew towards a cave that made a rustling sound.
Without saying a word, Reilo ran into the stone cave covered with cobwebs. Flame Ring flashed and a fireball flew out, burning the nearby silk net. He was about to put a skeleton into Space Box, but a large number of patterned spiders the size of silver coins crawled out of the eye sockets of the skull. Reilo was so frightened that he kept shaking his arms.
Phew!
Because Fireball Technique burned a large amount of spider webs, deep in the skeleton cave, a Black Shadow jumped on top of a soldier at an alarming speed. It turned out to be a terrifying black-haired spider the size of a washbasin.
The black-haired spider has a twisted grimace, its claws spread wide, revealing a pair of eyes without any emotion.
Covered with dense barbs, the Grimace Spider opened its sharp fangs and bit out two holes in the soldier's metal helmet. Fortunately, the soldier's metal armor was incredibly strong and could not be bitten through. Light black venom dripped along the helmet.
"Ah! What the hell! Ah..."
Soldier Dresserding struggled to get rid of the terrible thing on his head.
Captain Ivan saw this and swung his sword at high speed. The ferocious spider was instantly cut in half, splashing out a large amount of green pus. The black-haired spider that was cut in half struggled painfully on the ground for two times before becoming completely motionless.
"Huh..."
Ivan was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the soldier who was splashed by the black-haired spider's pus, screaming in pain.
This green pus was surprisingly corrosive. Not only did it corrode the metal armor, but the soldier's face was corroded into a bloody mess in a short time. The severe pain caused the soldier to scratch his face continuously, but he scratched it off with both blood and flesh. The scene was truly bloody and cruel.
"Bubble Technique!"
The bubbles ejected at high speed knocked away a black-haired spider that was attacking Ivan.
However, this man-eating spider as big as a basin has amazing defense. It didn't even stagger when it landed on the ground, and actually ran towards Reilo.
As the second compressed Bubble Technique was ejected, the man-eating spider that had been Harmless Suggestion ed by Reilo was blown into pieces with a "pop". Reilo hurriedly took out some water and poured it on the soldier's face, hoping to make him feel better.
"The investigation mission specimens have been collected, get out of here quickly!"
Master Wenlai, who was riding a strange Horned Bat Wings summon, flew out of a cave. It was this Natural Scholar. His voice sounded a little frightened at this moment.
"Give up. This is the corrosive digestive juice in the spider's body. They will melt the body tissue of the prey into liquid and then suck it up. The reason why it caused such serious injuries to him is because the corrosive digestive juice of these mutant man-eating spiders is too strong."
The breath of the soldier in his arms became weaker and weaker. Listening to Reilo's explanation, Ivan nodded in pain.
Reilo and a few soldiers were about to return along the way they came, but they saw an astonishing number of man-eating spiders emerging from the cave.
Among these man-eating spiders, there was an adult man-eating spider as tall as a person, and there were countless man-eating spiders the size of a washbasin.
The soldier who had just fled in panic was now tied into a ball by a large amount of spider silk, and his face was covered with dense and strange pustules. It seemed that due to the anesthesia effect of the venom, he was still conscious but unable to struggle.
Hiss!
The adult giant spider spit out a piece of silk. The white silk was light and fluttering. After flying thirty meters away, it became quite slow.
In the panic, Ivan dodged the spider silk, but the soldiers behind him screamed in terror.
The spider silk seemed to be extremely corrosive to metal armor, easily melting through and severing the soldier's armor, and a large stream of blood flowed from his arm.
"Go this way!"
Master Wenlai did not dare to stop for a step, so he changed to another cave and flew in.
Reilo and the others gritted their teeth and ignored the screaming soldier who was tangled in spider silk. After running for tens of meters, they looked back. The countless spiders had completely drowned the soldier, and the screams gradually disappeared among the black spiders.
"Seth..."
Ivan Clenched his teeth.
Everyone followed Master Wenlai, who had just broken into another passage, and finally understood what the master was afraid of. In the passage where he had just escaped from collecting mission specimens, three adult man-eating spiders as tall as one person suddenly appeared. They had black and red hairs, and each hair had countless barbs. They were chasing towards the cave at an alarming speed.
"Ah!"
There was another desperate scream from behind, but Reilo did not dare to look back and ran as fast as he could.
Master Wenlai also unleashed an astonishing combat power at this moment. He released several powerful skills at the front, killing the oncoming man-eating spiders in a large area, and a burning smell filled the cave.