PFC Chapter 1364: In-depth and Surprise
Chapter 1364: In-depth and Surprise
"Is this the entrance to the ancient dark elf mines?"
The moonlight was clear. Lei Xiao stood in front of an empty round pit and couldn't help but exclaimed in amazement.
This place is located at the foot of a continuous mountain range, which is the Yingying Peak. Not far away there is a turbulent river flowing, making the sound of flowing water endless in the ears.
Around the circular pit, there are several large dwarf magic machines deployed, as well as a large amount of soil piled up like mountains, which looks quite spectacular.
"That's right, Your Majesty, everything is ready."
Broy stood beside Lei Xiao and reported: "The dwarf elves' vanguard has arrived at the edge of the ancient dark elf mine ruins and is waiting for our arrival."
"Thank you, well done."
Lei Xiao nodded with satisfaction and looked at the team of strong men behind him.
The first to bear the brunt were naturally the three sixth-level strongmen, Bing Lao, Hui Lao, and Joniel, other main subordinates such as Louise and Jiang Xi, and the stone elves such as Xiao Jie.
Further back, there is a team of powerful flower fairies and wood fairies, led by Fanny and Chris respectively, with a total of 20 sixth-level powerhouses.
As for the powerful tree men such as Shult and other powerful men on our side, Lei Xiao arranged them to be on standby at the location where they would fight against the trolls and tauren together with the dragon army, ready to fall into the trap at any time.
Keeping a certain distance from our powerful team is a powerful team composed of light half-elves and dragonborn.
In addition to old acquaintances Ruth and Myron, there are another 8 powerful light half-elves participating, including a total of 5 sixth-level powerhouses including Ruth and Myron, and 5 peak fifth-level and half-step sixth-level powerhouses.
According to the information obtained by Lei Xiao, these should be all the light half-elves that came here.
The Dragonborn sent a total of five sixth-level warriors, among whom was not Prince Davis of the Wings, but only Nar and several other Dragonborn warriors.
This is not surprising. After all, Davis, who are the main force, and Shult and others are on another battlefield preparing to deal with trolls and minotaurs.
"Sir Ruth, let's get started now."
Lei Xiao's gaze finally fell on the powerful half-elf of light and he nodded slightly.
"I understand, Your Majesty. We have been preparing for this."
Ruth changed into a light golden combat robe, and the metal staff in her hand sparkled brightly.
Under Ruth's command, 10 powerful light half-elves quickly formed the first echelon of the team, followed closely by the dragonborn warriors. Further behind them, Lei Xiao and other powerful warriors on our side began to move towards the circular pit together.
Since the dwarf engineers had built a complete spiral staircase and lighting system around the circular pit, leading all the way to the depths of the ground, the surroundings soon began to grow quieter as the group's steady footsteps sounded.
As far as the eye can see, there are only thick stairs extending downwards and light crystals inlaid around them, and the smell of fresh soil hits the face.
It has to be said that the dwarf was able to arrange everything in an orderly manner in such a short period of time, which really satisfied Lei Xiao.
After walking down the spiral staircase for about ten minutes, the group arrived at the end of the deep pit.
This is a relatively spacious circular space, equipped with some dwarven magical mechanical equipment. There is nothing special about it.
Just in a corner of the space, an ancient stone passage is extremely conspicuous. It seems a bit out of place both in appearance and from the dilapidated degree of the cave wall.
At the entrance of the passage, several teams of dwarf soldiers and alchemical puppets were guarding it. They were obviously the advance team that Broy had just mentioned.
Seeing the figures of Lei Xiao and Broy, the dwarf elf soldiers guarding the passage immediately saluted with their chests, and then made way for the group to go forward to investigate.
"This evil wall carving that reveals violence and disorder, as well as the eerie and chaotic atmosphere emanating from the passage, are all characteristics of the dark elves!"
An old half-elf who looked much older than Myron checked it out and reported to Ruth excitedly, "Miss, there is no doubt about it. This should be one of the passages that the miners used to enter the mine!"
While listening to the old half-elf's words, Lei Xiao looked at the wall carving at the entrance of the passage.
Depicted above are extremely tragic war scenes. Judging from the soldiers' pointed ears, they are indeed from the elves.
However, behind Lei Xiao, two slender figures hidden in hoods snorted when they heard the voice, obviously extremely dissatisfied with the words of the old light half-elf.
These two people were none other than Erza and Therese, who were specially brought by Lei Xiao. To them, as true members of the dark elves, the other party's description of the dark elves was undoubtedly a bit too harsh.
Noticing the dissatisfaction of the dark elf sisters, Lei Xiao smiled helplessly.
After all, the light elves and the dark elves have never gotten along, and are currently in a state of tension. They look down on each other, and the light half-elves who depend on the light elves are naturally the same. It is not surprising that this situation has occurred.
However, both Erza and Therese have extremely stable personalities, and Lei Xiao is not worried that the two will have an argument with the light half-elves, which would affect their subsequent actions.
After hearing the old half-elf's confirmation, Ruth's starry eyes lit up. She first ordered the powerful light half-elves to prepare to cast spells, and then nodded heavily at Lei Xiao, obviously asking for permission. After all, Lei Xiao was the supreme commander here.
"Then please get started."
Lei Xiao shrugged and took a step back.
After getting Lei Xiao's consent, Ruth calmed her mind and returned to the team of the powerful half-elf light.
Soon after, the gentle and melodious team chanting sounded, and Ruth and other light half-elves were soon covered by a layer of light golden halo, which made them look more sacred and noble under the cold moonlight.
Coupled with the fact that half-elves are known for their beauty, the whole scene seemed like a dream, with an epic feel.
"Just the light half-elf is like this. It's hard to imagine what a real light elf would look like."
Just as Lei Xiao thought of this in his mind, a wave of energy suddenly surged out from the bodies of Ruth and other light half-elves, and flew straight towards the entrance of the dark passage.
Wherever the energy fluctuations reached, the originally extremely dark and ancient passage was immediately covered by a golden halo, and instantly sparkled everywhere.
Under the illumination of the golden halo, deep magic circles surrounded by black mist began to emerge on the inside of the passage. They were obviously the magic traps of the ancient dark elves.
"It turns out to be a detection spell, and the effect is indeed very good."
Looking at the series of ancient magic circles that appeared passively, Lei Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly.
Judging from the increasingly thin black gas on the surface of these magic circles, this detection spell may also have the effect of suppressing magic traps.
After that, Ruth and the others immediately began to work on the demolition. It didn't take long before the black gas arrays distributed throughout the passage disappeared one after another, as if they had never existed.
Seeing this scene, Lei Xiao looked at Fanny, Chris and Broy respectively.
As expected of its existence that restrains the Dark Elves in terms of attributes, the opponent's speed in erasing the magic circle is indeed extremely fast. If we were to do it alone, it would probably take at least three times more time.
Only Erza and Therese still looked angry, but they had confirmed with Lei Xiao that those black magic circles were indeed filled with the aura of the dark elves, and the other party was indeed working on breaking them, and there was no other trick.
"Your Majesty, you can pass through this passage now."
Not long after, Ruth returned to Lei Xiao's side. Judging from her slightly heaving chest, she was obviously not as relaxed as she saw.
"Then I'll have to trouble you to lead the way."
Lei Xiao nodded slightly, and then, under the guidance of the other party, walked into the ancient passage.
After entering the ancient passage, a long and damp breath immediately hits you in the face.
Feeling the mottled traces of time on the surrounding cave walls, Lei Xiao looked around.
The inside of the passage is much wider than it appears from the outside, enough for five people to walk side by side without feeling crowded.
In addition, despite the passage of three thousand years, there is not a single crack on either the stone cave walls or the ground, which is enough to illustrate how powerful the dark elves were back then.
Among the marching team, especially Erza and Theresa, they looked awe-inspiring and carefully observed everything around them.
You should know that the number of ancient Dark Elf ruins discovered in Outland is relatively limited, and those that are actually in the hands of the current Dark Elf Kingdom are even fewer, and they are all strictly protected.
In other words, even they had never seen the real ruins of the ancient dark elves, so they were naturally extremely curious and solemn in their hearts. After all, this was the world that their ancestors had opened up.
As everyone moved forward, after walking about a hundred meters, the view in front of them suddenly became clear.
It's just that because the light was too dim, everything was covered in a thick shadow.
Lei Xiao noticed further through the automatically activated night vision effect.
This place is extremely vast, so vast that even night vision effects cannot fully cover it. Everything in the distance is still hazy, making it difficult to see the entire picture.
But what is certain is that the area of this ancient mine is obviously much larger than we expected, even reaching an incredible scale.
"Your Majesty, this is the real location of the dark elf mine."
Ruth nodded to Lei Xiao, and then asked, "Your Majesty, I plan to fully illuminate this place first, which will also help with the subsequent detection. Please be prepared."
"Understood, you can make your own arrangements."
Lei Xiao slowly let the energy in his abdomen rise up, preparing to observe the overall picture of the mine.
A clear chanting sound came from Ruth's body, and in the blink of an eye, a fist-sized ball of light began to emerge from the top of her staff, then slowly rose and floated towards the front of the mine.
As it floated, the small ball of light began to expand, and soon it was like a rising sun, illuminating the entire area as bright as day.
"My goodness, is this the full picture of the ancient dark elf mine?"
As the light became brighter, Lei Xiao's vision gradually became clearer, and he couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.
This is not an ancient mine at all, it is simply an enormous underground city.
I saw that the central area of the entire mine had been completely hollowed out and extended deep into the ground, like a bottomless man-made abyss.
And around the abyss are layers of mining areas, so densely packed that it is dizzying.
These mining areas located in different strata are clearly layered and interconnected, and each layer has no end in sight. There are dense tracks, piles of boulders and mottled mine carts everywhere, and a large number of mining tools are scattered everywhere. They all look rusted, and there are even a lot of ores piled in the corners.
Judging from the degree of chaos, the dark elves had obviously left in a hurry and did not even have time to collect their final achievements.
The group is currently on the top floor of the mine, where they can have a panoramic view of the entire mine. Compared with the entire mine, the group of dozens of people are just like a few sesame seeds scattered on the ground, appearing insignificant.
"I didn't expect it to be so large. Is this enough to accommodate a million dark elves mining at the same time?"
Beside Lei Xiao, Chris flapped her wings and swallowed involuntarily.
Even if the entire capital of the wood elves were put together, it would probably not be half the size of this mine.
"That's right. Even the largest mine of the dwarves today is probably not as large as this, right?"
Fanny had the same expression and nodded.
As for the rest of our party, the light half-elves, the powerful dragonborn, including Ruth herself, they all looked extremely surprised. It was obvious that they had not expected the scale of this place to be so astonishing.
"Mr. Ruth, what do you think we should do next?"
Lei Xiao calmed his mind and asked the light half-elf beside him.
"Your Majesty, although the mine is vast, it is impossible for it to be filled with traps everywhere."
Ruth first took a deep breath to calm herself down, then nodded to Lei Xiao and said, "According to our understanding, the traps should be distributed in the corridors of the mines, the miners' living areas, and the tool storage areas. As for the self-destruct array, it should be deployed in the management area at the core of the mine."
"So please rest assured, Your Majesty. As long as we figure out the structure of the mine, everything will be solved. These magic traps have been in disrepair for a long time. With our power, we will be able to wipe them all out soon."
However, before Ruth could finish her words, something strange happened. (End of this chapter)