The Era of Gods

The fourth layer of the Underdark is the world of all kinds of powerful monsters. In fact, there are also a large number of monsters on the third layer. The drows fought cruelly with these powerful monsters on the third layer for thousands of years in order to survive. Even if there is a Lord of Darkness Blessing is now the overlord of the third layer of the Underdark, but outside the traditional territory of the drow in the third layer of the Underdark, it is still the world of Warcraft.

And the strength of the monsters on the fourth floor is even more terrifying than that on the third floor, even the drows dare not go down.

It is said that there are terrifying mind flayers living on the fourth floor. These mind flayers who are good at controlling the minds of creatures have established a kingdom of mind flayers on the fourth floor, enslaving all kinds of creatures.

Legend has it that the fifth level of the Underdark is the kingdom of the Lord of Darkness. It is said that because the Lord of Darkness has made too many enemies, his kingdom of God is not in the astral world, but in the fifth level of the Underground World, but the fifth level of the Underdark is too It's too dangerous, even if a legendary adventurer enters, it's almost impossible to come back. Naturally, no one knows if it's true.

As for the sixth floor of the Underdark Region, it is said that there are a large number of exiled gods and terrifying evil things wandering around. The level of danger even a true god would not dare to go down there.

No one knows about the seventh floor of the Underdark, because no one has dared to enter it yet, and no one knows what's inside. layer, but did not enter the seventh layer.

The passages and revolving stone stairs connecting different places in the dark area are constantly changing with the movement of the terrain, so they saw that the road ahead was cut off by falling rocks soon after they entered the underground passage.

The guards of several caravans stepped forward and took a look with torches, and they could still see the opposite side that was not blocked. After discussing it, they decided to camp temporarily and sent someone to dig the passage.

It’s different from detours if you encounter such a situation on the surface, but this underground world is too complicated, and it’s easy to get lost if you take a detour, so you generally don’t detour unless you have to. If you can dig, you must dig first.

The caravan set up camp, and the smoke rose. The halfling chef accompanying the caravan was grilling meat by the fire. The mercenaries sat in a pile, drinking ale, and many mercenaries sang loudly. Have fun by yourself and maintain a good attitude, otherwise you will be prone to depression in the future, and thus easily affected by some unknown forces underground.

Marin picked up a piece of barbecue from the shelf and put it on a silver plate and handed it to his nephew beside him, saying:

"Send it to Your Excellency Mystery!"

Noel, who was wearing a half-length armor, responded, took a plate and stopped in front of Lin Xiao's carriage, knocked on the door slightly nervously, and said:

"Master Mystery, please taste the craftsmanship of the halfling masters in the team."

Lin Xiao opened the curtain of the car and saw the barbecue on the plate in front of him, and snapped his fingers. Noel felt a lightness in his hand, and the silver plate of barbecue in his hand automatically flew up and landed in the car. There was a hint of envy and awe in his eyes .

Pick up the silver table knife provided in the silver plate, cut the barbecue into small pieces and stuff them into the mouth. The barbecue is not burnt or tender, and the salt taste is moderate.

"good!"

Lin Xiao commented very pertinently, halflings are famous gourmets in the foreign world, and their reputation is indeed well-deserved.

As time got late, the guards continued to chisel stones, and the clanging sound was so loud that even if the carriage had sound insulation, it could not be completely isolated. He added a layer of sound insulation enchantment to the carriage and fell asleep.

In fact, the incarnation of the god can never eat, drink or sleep, but that seems too high-profile, just do as the Romans do.

It took the caravan two days to carve out a gap that could accommodate the caravan. The huge caravan passed slowly and continued on its way.

Next, Lin Xiao saw how complicated the terrain of the Underdark was. It was a more complicated underground terrain than he had seen in other worlds before. There were jagged and strange rocks everywhere. In the dark underground world, there were only fluorescent lights on the stone walls. The moss exudes a faint brilliance, and the torches lit by the caravan, walking on the revolving stone ladder are like a fire dragon entangled on the stone ladder.

Lin Xiao snapped his fingers, and balls of light emitting soft white light flew out and hovered around him, illuminating the surroundings.

The surrounding mercenaries envied this scene, not only because it was convenient, but also because in the dangerous dark area, a senior mage's ability to survive was much better than them.

After walking in this complicated environment for almost a week, the angle of the revolving stone staircase began to become gentler, which meant that the first layer of the dark region was about to arrive.

The flame flower caravan carries a large amount of salt and ale, as well as various materials that are not available in the underground world, and can be traded from any race on the ground floor to obtain a large amount of ore and gemstones unique to the underground, or unique beasts and animal skins unique to the underground world. Wait.

According to the total amount of materials carried by the flame flower caravan, this trip can earn at least hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

Passing between the ground and the ground, the topography of the first layer of the continent has relatively little change. Although the ground is still very rough, it is relatively smoother.

Marin led the caravan around a certain area for a while, and found a thick stone pillar. He found the mark left last time last time. With this mark as the center, he distinguished the direction, and the caravan headed towards it. Walking in one direction, the direction they are going to is a castle of gray dwarves.

The flame flower caravan likes to do business with the gray dwarves most. These close relatives of the dwarves also have superb forging skills. The caravan trades with them with the salt that is urgently needed in the ground and the favorite ale of the gray dwarves, and transports these high-quality weapons and equipment to the surface. Can sell for big money.

Lin Xiao is going to follow the caravan to the gray dwarf city, stay there for a few days to understand the underground situation, and then decide where to go.

While he already had a suitable goal in mind, it wouldn't be bad to know a little more before then.

There were almost no monster attacks along the way, and no dreadful drow raiders. The mercenaries and guards who had been very vigilant began to relax, and some even joked.

But when the caravan passed through a narrow underground valley, suddenly a huge black shadow fell into the caravan from the top of a stone pillar, and there was a scream, and then the black shadow took advantage of the other mercenaries before they could respond. Before coming over, he quickly jumped up, climbed onto another stone pillar with a few moves, and quickly circled to a high platform behind the stone pillar.

At this time, the mercenaries who reacted took bows and shot arrows or crossbows one after another, and some threw javelins and torches, but the black shadow jumped back and forth among the stone pillars extremely nimbly, and there were occasional chewing and screaming sounds, being caught The captured mercenary was not dead yet.

Lin Xiao frowned slightly. The avatar of God had its own dark vision, and he could clearly see that the swiftly jumping black figure was a three-meter-high Dreadclaw with sharp claws. One of the predators.

This kind of monster eats everything, ranging from ordinary beasts to drow elves. It is very cruel and cunning.

The mercenaries couldn't help this flexible monster at all, and with the noisy sound, he vaguely heard the same crawling sound coming from a distance, and it was estimated that other Dreadclaws were rushing over.

He shook his head, stretched out his hand and pointed, a ball of white light flew into the air and exploded violently. In an instant, it was like a light bulb of hundreds of watts lighting up. The bright light illuminated the surroundings for a moment. The mercenaries below did not respond to the sudden light. A while later, people turned their backs on their backs, and several Dreadclaws on the stone pillar fell down directly.

"Crack!"

A thick chain of lightning blasted out, blasting several Dreadclaws into balls of fire in mid-air, and turned into coke when they landed.

The mercenaries who reacted were dumbfounded, and immediately looked away in awe.

Even tenth-level fighters are difficult to deal with these horror claw monsters. It is estimated that at least ten people will die if they want to kill these horror claw monsters in this dark environment. The eyes of the mercenaries have changed from envy to awe now.

Two days later, the caravan crossed a long underground canyon to a plain, and saw a huge stone castle in the middle of the plain from a distance.

On the way, I saw a patrol of gray dwarves. They rode low subterranean lizards like walking on the rough surface, and soon came to them.

The leader of the caravan, Marin, was very familiar with the gray dwarves. He walked up to them and chatted for a while, then took out a heavy bag and handed it over, and they were let go smoothly.

Soon came to the gate of this castle named Stonehammer, the gate made of fine brass was covered with huge copper nails, the gate was a huge trading square and four radioactive streets, the streets were lined with small Stone houses, along the street, you can see weapon shops with hammer signs from time to time, and various races come in and out from time to time.

You can also see all kinds of orcs, humans, halflings, gray dwarves, tauren, goblins and so on on the street from time to time.

Most of these human orcs are explorers, adventurers, or criminals who can't get along on the surface, etc. No one here cares about their past, and they are allowed to enter the city as long as they don't make trouble.

After paying the entry fee of ten gold coins, the caravan entered the castle smoothly. Marin spent twenty gold coins to rent a piece of land in the trade square as a booth fee. After unloading all the goods and letting the guards arrange them, he began to yell:

"The finest table salt and finest ale in the ground!"

While yelling, he opened the lid of the beer, scooped out a scoop of beer and sprinkled it on the ground, and the smell of beer immediately attracted the surrounding gray dwarves, including some orcs and other races.

Although the gray dwarves are far more treacherous and cunning than their surface counterparts, they also have the biggest weakness of their distant relatives, absolutely unable to resist the attraction of ale.

In the dark area, the wheat necessary for making ale cannot be planted. Marin knows this well, so the most cargo brought by the caravan this time is ale.

Soon there was a bidding sound in the square:

"I'll give you ten sets of steel busts for two barrels of ale!"

"I'll exchange twenty refined long arrows for a barrel of ale!"

"I'll exchange fifty sets of exquisite plate armor for ten barrels of ale!"

With the reduction of beer, the gray dwarves who hadn't changed to beer were almost jealous, and the asking price continued to increase, which made Lin Xiao dumbfounded and heartbroken.