Chapter 30 Malik's Shadow (6)
"Amy woke up, it was the eyeliner I put next to Sherman." Hawke paused for a few seconds, and looked at Link's expression as subtle, "She said that the attack on her was a night elf."
A slash that stabbed her heart would take her life if it was a little deeper. The other party deliberately let her survive.
"How did they join in?" Didn't they just kill a patrol team by the necromancer? Link's attention was attracted by the night elf, and he didn't pay attention to Hawk's strange expression.
"Although the undead and demons' alliance is in name only, Aiden's geographical location is special." Hawke pointed to the ground with his finger, "Just below the surface, there is the largest night elf city in the southwest, Elysian."
"What does this have to do with Sherman? Even if he is a lord, he is only a lord of human beings. The night elves who claim to be immortality don't eat this set." Recently, Link has devoted all his energy to the illusion to professional study and practice of secondary talent, and his understanding of Edgar's setting is still in the knowledge he saw in River Valley Town.
Hawke turned his eyes to Jafar behind Link.
"Let me explain it." Druid briefly explained why the League of Nature attached so much importance to Sherman. At the end of the empire, the royal family was incompetent, and the twelve lords with strong strength were independent. Because they did not intervene in the struggle between species, Berfast, the guardian of the Pillar of the Land, fell, and the League of Nature was temporarily appointed as an agent and signed an agreement with Nyala, one of the twelve lords. The lord at that time promised not to bring the war to the guardian land. Druid continued to hold blessings from all over Nyala.
Hundreds of years have passed, and the situation has changed over the passage of time. Due to the pollution of the undead and the influence of the mages, more and more cities have given up the blessing of the spirits and adopted the choice of more cursed spirits. The druids retreated to the guardian land and gradually cut off contact with humans. By the generation of Sherman's grandfather, in order to support the fierce southern war and recruit more mercenaries and merchants, the lords at that time drove away the Druids and invited Hornheim's mage to control the spirits. This action angered the Alliance of Nature, and Sherman's grandfather was deprived of the lord's power by the noble council, which had long coveted his territory. It was from then on that, Aiden began to decline, and his economic and political status was not as good as before.
"Although the lord's power was taken away, the contract was passed down from generation to generation." Hawk inserted it in time, "Niara is protected by the Pillar of the Earth, and even without the druid station, it is impossible for the undead to appear."
"The reason Hull is so sure that the lord colluded with the undead is because there is something wrong with the contract?" Link roughly understood what they meant.
"That's right, only by obtaining the permission of the landowner can the undead enter the boundary of the guardian land without any obstacles." Jafar nodded. A part of the southernmost part of the Jingyao Forest extended into Nyala. In the Silver Age, people here get along with the elves in a friendly manner, and there is no exact boundary distinction. It has been the time when the undead takes advantage of this invasion.
"What happened to the night elves? Isn't their territory underground?" After resolving the doubts about the lord and the contract, Link still didn't understand why the night elves were involved in this matter. Even the territorial battle was still with the dwarves and dwarfs. They had not had a head-on war with humans for many years.
"Although it is in name only, the alliance has not completely broken down. As long as Shuanghan provides assistance, the night elves cannot refuse." This is exactly what Hawke's most troublesome. The spider web mainly collects intelligence. Most of the members are rangers and thieves who are good at concealing, and only a small number of mercenaries. They cannot fight against the night elves who are best at lurking and fighting underground. What's more, the faith that both sides share - the Shadow God Malik. If the balance of the gods is slightly tilted, the blow to the spider web is fatal. They are not able to help in pursuing Sherman.
"That is to say you are going to quit?" Link was very surprised to hear that the spider web believed in Malik like the night elves.
Even the son of nature who punishes the faction is just acting like chaos. The actual camp is still order. How can you choose a god from the chaotic camp as your faith if you leave the spider web of the Natural Alliance?
"Sorry, since the Cobweb left the Alliance of Nature, he has regarded Malik as the main god. After all, he has taken charge of all the secrets in shadows and privately. The god's decision is not something that mortals can guess, we cannot take risks." Hawk spread his hands, not that he was timid and retreated. Compared with the Night Elf, humans are destined to suffer losses. Who made Malik a god born from the Night Elf?
Well, even if the spider web exits, I can tell Sherman's whereabouts until dawn. Link nodded, and Hawkken directly told him instead of making small moves behind his back.
"There is another important thing..." Hawke took out a scroll with soundproofing written on it, and waited for Link to lean forward and tear it apart: "The Night Elf asked Amy to pass the message, saying that he was looking forward to working with you again."
Yatis? Is it him?
Link thought of the only night elf he had ever come into contact with.
Since the night elves followed the alliance agreement with the undead, why did they kill the Necromancer in River Valley Town? Isn’t this a contradiction? He knew that the son of nature and the undead were old enemies, but he also had to tell this sentence through the spider web eyeliner?
Looking forward to working with me next time, what does it mean? Is it a warning? Or a trap?
Link returned to the guest room with a serious look on his face, and Paine and Yuan Ye were excitedly discussing where Sherman might be hiding.
"Why, is there the whereabouts of the lord?"
Link shook his head and informed the two of the spider web exiting and searching for the lord's whereabouts.
"There is such an inside story. No wonder the guild asked me to stop..." Paine was not a fool. He thought of the Assassin's Guild for the same reason that he ordered him to terminate the mission. If this inference was true, then he could not follow Link to find Sherman.
"You two can't go. Sherman is an expert summoner. The night elves around him are at least expert assassins, and they are very dangerous enemies. I am still in the protection period of novices. Even if I am not their opponent, I will not be in danger of death. Moreover... the Morning Sect is an extreme religious organization, and even the Son of Nature in the Order Clan are hostile to them. Don't talk about occupations like assassins and bards that wander around the edge of evil." Even if Paine doesn't take the initiative to propose, Link will not allow him to follow.
When he heard that the enemy was an expert, Yuan Ye stopped talking. Killing monsters above the level is a technical job, and he believed that he did not have that ability.
"You alone may be difficult to deal with." Paine was worried that Link would not be able to face two expert levels at the same time.
"Of course I'm not alone, and there are druids accompanying you." Jafar came back this time and brought elite troops who had just withdrawn from the northern front line. He just waited for Link's spell position to reset and entered the underground channel to capture Sherman.
"With that being said, you'd better be careful." Panne's advice made Link's face heat up.
The boots on his feet are the lost holy objects of the Assassin's Guild and the lucky gold coins. Regardless of the reward after completion, it is just a holy object for an assassin, and the improvement of Panne is a qualitative leap. But he cannot hand over this holy object to Panne now, nor is it because of Link's greed. The holy object has no effect on non-believers. What he cares about is the destiny demon entangled in the boots, which is related to his mission main line, and may also be related to Su Wen. Su Wen, whose pseudonym Rhodes before disappearing, was the president of the Shadow Thorn Guild. This holy object, perhaps Su Wen had used it. It is related to friends, and Link couldn't ignore it. After careful consideration, he decided to wait for the investigation to find a way to absorb the demons before giving the holy objects to Panne.
When the first ray of sunlight appeared on the horizon, the time for the magic resetting of the Order camp was also up. Link pushed open the back door of the tavern, Jafar had been waiting there for a long time, and there were only pedestrians in groups of three or three on the street.
"They were found." There was a hidden well near the tavern that led to the sewer. Jafar lifted the manhole cover, revealing the black passage.
Sherman can't be found, but it's not difficult to find the night elves. The Morning Sect has always been keen on the chaotic camp. As long as you follow them, you won't have to worry about not being able to find Sherman.
Link reminded Jafar not to be trapped by the night elves' plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. The believers of the morning light can sense the opposing camp, and the chaotic people they regard as their enemies also know that as long as this is used, they can lure and disperse the opponents to defeat each other. Fight against creatures with dark vision in the dark underground, humans relying on vision are inferior.
After looking at the shaking ladder that was spinning down, Link raised the newly lit torch, "I'll open the way in front."
"Sir..." Jafar was stopped by Link when he raised his hand.
"I have no dark vision and have to rely on light to see things. Instead of letting you walk in front and expose it, it is better to pretend that I am the only one."
"But the night elves can see..."
"Heat source, I know, they can see the heat emitted by creatures. As druids, you have some way to hide yourself. Even if you waste a spell position, it is worth it. Our opponents are experts who are proficient in lurking, but this does not mean that they will not be calculated."
"I understand." Jafar nodded to the other five druids who had never spoken from beginning to end, and their bodies quickly turned into a faint gas.
This move is Gasos's Qi transformation technique. If it becomes air, it will naturally be without temperature. Even night elves with dark vision are difficult to detect.
Link did not deliberately conceal his movements, and used the tree skin technique to prevent himself, so he held up a torch and swaggered down to the hidden well. This was to cover the other six druids, and no matter who they encountered, the other party's attention would be focused on him first.
Chapter completed!