Chapter 44 The Silver Shadow of the Mountain Fort
The corridor chosen by Kelly is not as huge as the passage outside the castle, and its width and height are only more than three meters, which makes everyone feel depressed at the beginning and is a little uncomfortable.
The distance between the passage is not very long, but there are several corners along the way, separated by several thick stone walls. I really don’t know how Kelly’s ears grow. If it were someone else, I couldn’t hear the sound at the other end of the passage.
The top of this corridor inside the castle is also inlaid with luminescent stones. At every distance, there are some regular depressions in some parts of the stone wall. In ancient times, these should have been braziers for lighting.
As he approached the exit of the corridor, the sound that Kelly heard before also came into everyone's ears. It was a faint whistle that was intermittent, with some harshness, as if it was accompanied by a strange chewing sound, which made everyone look at each other.
"When you reach the exit, let the people behind hide first, and the thief comes forward to investigate!" Kelly looked at the exit ahead, her face rarely being solemn. She vaguely felt a strong threat to life. Most of the intuitions of martial arts are very sharp, and there are not many creatures that can make her feel that life threatens, so she should naturally be more cautious.
"What kind of creature is this?" The thieves in the two teams were shocked as soon as they walked out of the passage, and felt a trembling all over.
A strange color flashed in Qin Lun's eyes, and "Ganits' left eye" allowed him to see the scene in the hall ahead without having to walk out of the passage.
At the end of this corridor is a wide hall. Behind the hall is a raised stone platform. It may have been the throne of the Dwarf King or some kind of altar for sacrificial sacrifices, but now there is nothing on it, so it is impossible to distinguish the specific details.
In addition to this step-shaped stone platform, dozens of huge stone pillars that require three people to embrace each other on the left and right sides of the hall.
After thousands of years, these stone pillars remain intact and are integrated with the ground and dome. Perhaps they themselves are part of the mountain-bellied rock layer. When the dwarves were digging, they deliberately left these stone pillars to support the dome of the hall.
Of course, as the stone pillars support the dome, there are also some huge stone beams in the upper section of the stone pillar. The two ends of the stone beams are facing the left and right of the hall, and the middle is connected with many stone pillars, forming a three-dimensional and solid tic toe network structure above the hall.
The ground of this hall is covered with countless items, piled up into small hills, making the huge palace look a little narrow. Although in Qin Lun's vision, all the items are only black and white sketch lines, these items can be easily identified from the shape.
Gold coins, jewelry, silverware... Unlike the abandoned Dwarf Square, this palace inside the castle is filled with various gold, silver, treasures and luxury goods, almost comparable to the royal vaults of some human kingdoms.
However, these gold, silver and treasures were not Qin Lun's focus. His attention was focused on a giant beast wrapped around a tic-tac-tac-stone beam above the hall.
The dragon's head, snake body, deer antlers, chicken feet, fish scales, and beards on the cheeks, are like a legendary divine beast in the Earth Federation - the Chinese Dragon!
Of course, compared with the real Chinese dragon, some parts of the giant beast are slightly different. Its tail is not a fish tail, but is covered with thorny spikes, which is a bit like a huge mace. The slender eyes on the head are also covered with a thick white mucosa, and the pupils are invisible. It seems to be a blind dragon.
This giant beast, which resembles a Chinese dragon, is covered with fine silver scales, and looks beautiful and elegant. It is about one hundred meters away from them, and there are many stone pillars in the hall, so you should not notice the people hiding at the entrance of the passage for a while.
"This is a celestialis with sub-dragon bloodline, but... how could it be so big, almost dozens of times that of an ordinary celestialis!" Millaras, who had walked to the entrance of the passage, had a look of shock on his face and almost glared out his eyes.
"What are you doing here? Retreat!" Kelly, who had been paying attention to the body of the dick, came back to her senses and saw Milleras beside her. She immediately raised her eyebrows and pulled him away from the entrance of the passage.
"Are those dwarves?" Before Milleras could retreat to the rear of the team, there was another curious voice behind Kelly. Ilisten pointed to some figures standing under the stone beam and asked softly.
"Well, you'll know it just by looking at it. I just don't know that these dwarves have been living here, or just like us, they just entered the Iron Star Castle from the outside mountains." Another head came over, this time Robin was slightly teasing.
Kelly looked at the group of people surrounding her and finally rolled her eyes, too lazy to stop these curious babies.
"So many gold coins, so many treasures!" Looking at the golden mountains piled up on the ground, Ilistin, who was used to being poor in the Jondal Forest, his eyes began to turn into stars.
While a group of people were watching, the scene in the hall changed again. The thorns coiled on the stone beam suddenly rose up, raised their dragon's head, and spit out a snake letter. Seeing this scene, the dwarfs on the ground immediately became nervous and held their weapons and dared not move.
"What's going on?" Kelly asked softly to Millas, who recognized the celestialis.
"The eyesight of the terrestrials is very poor and can hardly see things. Only precious metals that reflect the most powerful light will cause their reactions. However, their hearing and taste are very sensitive, and they can feel any abnormal smell in the territory by relying on the snake's letter." Milleras wiped his cold sweat, then lowered his voice and said.
"All creatures with dragon blood have a strong sense of territory and are unimaginable greed for the shiny precious metals. This place is probably the habitat of the celestialis. These dwarves are in trouble and just broke into the 'bedroom' and treasure house that the celestialis sees as life." Ilistin added softly from the side.
"Your Highness, how powerful is the creature like the Earthling?" Robin asked cautiously.
"The Earthlings are not monsters, they do not have elemental talents. They just have a faster speed, and nothing else!" Milleras recalled carefully and said slowly, "However, I have never heard of this type of Earthlings, so it is difficult to judge the specific situation."
"If you don't know magic, you don't know magic. Your body size should not affect your elemental talent! And if you become so big, it will slow down your speed." Everyone was relieved when they heard Milleras's answer.
"Would we save these dwarves? Maybe..." Nicole asked with a smile on her face.
Robin and Stark looked at each other, and the leaders of both teams saw a look of eagerness in each other's eyes. Although Nicole didn't finish speaking, they already understood it.
Since these dwarves entered the nest of the Grim Rehman in a daze, they should be outsiders like them. They might also bear related historical plots. If they kill the Grim Rehman to save them, they may get this plot line.
"Look, let's talk about it!" Kelly frowned, feeling a vague feeling in her heart that something was wrong. The creatures that could make her feel threatened by life should not be too poor. However, Milleras's statement was not flawed, so she had to patiently signal everyone to observe quietly first.
Everyone stopped talking softly, and waited for the onset of battle with breath. Although the giant beast in front of them was a little shocking, everyone was not afraid.
Both the elves and the apostles have dealt with many large beasts. These wild beasts with empty physiques, no wisdom, and no elemental talent. Not to mention high-level apostles like Kelly, even the first-level apostles in the team may not be afraid of them.
At this time, the dinosaur, who had made an attacking posture, finally took action. The dragon head leaned forward and his coiled body shot down from the stone beam like a spring.
Everyone felt a silver light flash in front of their eyes, and the retina was filled with a series of silver afterimages, extending from the stone beam to the ground. Qin Lun and others felt that they were watching a silent movie, and gold coins piled up into hills below were raised all over the sky and fell down floatingly.
Even though they were hundreds of meters away, everyone still felt a strong wind blowing in their faces, and their hair was flying, making people squint their eyes.
"Woo~~" In a moment, a sharp and harsh sound boom came from the ears, and the clattering sound of the gold coin hills sliding down seemed so insignificant.
When everyone came to their senses, they looked back and saw that there was one dwarf on the ground. The ground ridge was still on the stone beam, and it had not come down at all. Its tail was always wrapped around the stone beam, but it was just using its elastic long snake body to hunt, making the dwarfs seem powerless to even fight back.
With a creaking sound of chewing, a pair of thighs that were still twitching were vaguely seen between the two rows of steel knife-like sharp teeth on the upper and lower sides of the beast. A gurgling of blood hung along the corner of the mouth of the dinosaur, and its silver body was painted with a layer of blood. The silver light and blood intertwined a strange charm.
Everyone who saw this scene, including Kelly, the violent woman, felt their whole body hard and froze in place, with dense beads of sweat emerging from their foreheads.
"Just faster..." Qin Lun's face twitched slightly. Now the murderer understood where the sound Kelly heard came from, and where did the viscous white liquid come from the tunnel they had fallen down before.
"We can't deal with this thing, let's go!" Kelly took a deep breath, looked at everyone, with a hint of reluctance in her eyes.
The female martial artist felt a boiling heart. If she were the only one here, she could fight. However, the others could not keep up with the speed of the Earthlings, which would instead be a drag on her. They had to suppress the fighting spirit and seek to escape unstoppably.
The dwarf who had another companion could not suppress his grief and anger in his heart, and cursed at the ground-fighting freshwater who was eating leisurely on the stone beam.
"Guru!" The dick raised her head, wriggled her throat, swallowed the food, spit out a long snake letter and licked it around her mouth, as if she was still a little unfulfilled.
Everyone hiding at the entrance of the passage retreated carefully. Nicole, who had originally proposed to rescue the dwarf, had long been silent, and only the kind Ilisten still couldn't bear it.
"Wait, Milleras, did you say that the terrestrial can feel any abnormal smell in the territory?" Qin Lun, who had been silent, suddenly frowned and turned his head to ask cautiously, "How big is this range generally?"
"I don't know very well. The celestialis I know is probably not as big as its claw, but this distance..." Milleras seemed to think of something, swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and a smile that was even worse than crying appeared on his face.
At this moment, after eating a dwarf, the celestialis suddenly twisted the dragon's head, and the eyes covered with white mucous membranes pointed at the passage where everyone was. The corners of his mouth slightly grinned, and a trace of extremely humane mockery appeared on the ugly dragon's face.
Chapter completed!