The underground merchant was dragged out of the collapsed sewer by the Deepforge warriors.
Dain's face was filled with relief at having survived, and he loudly thanked the Deepforge Tribe for rescuing him. But when Madra came forward to question him personally, the cunning merchant's last hopes of getting away with it were shattered.
Renato had already told Little Deepforge the approximate location of Mushroom Putty Cave, as well as the source of the information. He trusted that Madra's methods would make the shrewd duergar merchant tell them everything he knew.
They could no longer stay in New Rolling Stone City. They had no choice but to move on to the next layer.
Not far away, the troll Big Tooth was poking a charred mind flayer corpse with a stick. Thick drool dripped from his mouth, as though he wanted to taste the aberration.
Flori reprimanded him loudly from nearby. The troll had to put down the mind flayer's tentacles, but continued poking the corpse, unable to let it go.
"Let me say this again, everyone." Klauthsura's voice rang out, carrying a rare hint of bewilderment. "In fact, cooperating with me is your only option. Do you still not understand? With your current level of intelligence, you have no hope of fighting the Elder Brain..."
"Get lost, mind flayer." Balin rested the Runes Warhammer on his shoulder and waved impatiently. "Get out of here before we decide to kill you. Nobody here wants to work with a brain-eating monster."
"Fools!" Klauthsura's voice was slightly distorted by psionic amplification. "What primitive prejudice! You eat the bodily tissues of other animals yourselves. Does that make you worry that the person beside you will eat you?"
"I once doubted the necessity of selective breeding. Now I see that primitive species truly do require