Chapter 129 Brown bear, leopard, saber-toothed tiger
Continuing to move forward, Perrenli soon found the storage room that Fondar mentioned, which was filled with crude weapons made by bugbears and some potatoes, tubers, and goblin food such as dead mice.
But he did not find Azuhan and Elysee.
There were indeed signs that someone had been in the storage room, but there was no trace of the person.
Perrenli didn't have much time to waste. Hags were not as easy to deal with as bugbears, nor were they easy to fool.
It is hard to say how long the silent illusion left behind when taking away the key can last. The hag may run to the study where Eve and Vondar are temporarily hiding at any time. It is only a matter of time before she is found to have escaped.
At this time, Pei Renli heard a noise, which seemed to be very close.
He quietly pushed open the door of the storage room and pulled at Ravna, who was watching the wind. The latter pointed to the front of the passage, indicating that the sound was coming from the front.
Going forward is a dead end, and you have already reached the end, but if you continue to follow the sound a few steps further, you will see a door hidden in the recess of the stone wall. Due to the angle, Pei Renli didn't notice it at all just now.
From behind the crack in the door, you can see the light coming through, and there are also the roars of bugbears coming from inside, and there are quite a lot of them.
Perrenli asked Ravna to return to the shadow, and he planned to sneak in to see what was going on.
Just when he was about to open the door, the simple door panel opened by itself first, and a bugbear came out. Perrenli hurriedly hid aside.
Invisibility only means being invisible. If a bugbear bumps into Perrenli, it will still be discovered.
The bugbear cursed and walked away. Before the door was closed, Pei Renli, who was leaning against the wall, ducked in.
The lighting behind the door is much better than in the corridor. Although there are still large shadows, it is not difficult to see clearly.
This is a larger place than any room Pei Renli has ever seen before. The height of the ceiling from the floor is also larger than that of other rooms. Several wooden pillars support the ceiling.
Those pillars seemed to be randomly found from a few trees of similar height, and then pulled over after being processed casually. Some of them were difficult for a person to hide, and some were so thick that even three people could not hold them in their arms.
In the center of the room, there was an irregular circular hollow, with four bugbears and seven or eight goblins surrounding it, waving their arms and making random noises.
Peri Renli remained invisible, carefully avoiding routes where he might encounter goblins and bugbears, and quietly approached to take a glance.
The circular hollow is about four to five meters high. A suspended wooden staircase is placed beside the cave, and three animals can be seen spinning in circles at the bottom.
A brown bear, a leopard and a saber-toothed tiger.
The saber-toothed tigers in the multiverse world are not extinct yet. It is not surprising to see mammoths in cold places. Dinosaurs can even be found in some tropical rainforests...
Putting aside this, the room feels very much like a simple colosseum. The beasts below should be used to watch them fight each other for fun.
The hag's cave has a canteen, dormitories, and entertainment areas. It is so complete. It is obviously not built recently. It must have been here for a long time.
Pei Renli looked around and saw no sign of Azuhan and Elise.
This is the last room that I haven't seen yet. Could it be that these two people have been eaten by bugbears?
As soon as this idea popped into my mind, I heard the Bugbear not far away shouting angrily:
"Bite! Why is the light spinning there!"
"The new beast seems to be some kind of druid, so that's why they stopped fighting."
Druid?
Pei Renli suddenly remembered that a druid could transform himself into the form of a beast.
Like the priest, the druid will lose most of his spellcasting abilities if he loses his holy symbol, but the druid can still use some spell-like abilities even without his holy symbol.
Such as wild transformation.
Azuhan is a dragonborn and looks a lot like a reptile, but he is a druid after all and can turn himself into a beast. And generally, beasts will not attack druids.
Thinking about it this way...
Pei Renli looked down again. Brown bears, saber-toothed tigers and leopards were still circling below. At first glance, they looked like they were confronting each other, but in fact they looked more like workers.
But Pei Renli was not very familiar with Azuhan. Although he felt that it was more reliable to transform into a bear with Azuhan's body shape, it was not impossible for a druid with the size of a sturdy man to transform into a squirrel, so he was not sure about the following.
Which of the three beasts is Azuhan?
But this is not too important, you will know once you put it all out.
Pei Renli maintained his invisibility and slowly took two steps back, shrank behind a huge tree trunk, and weaved runes one by one with his fingers.
Once an attack is launched, the invisibility will be disabled, but Perrenli is hiding in the shadow behind the tree trunk, and both the goblins and bugbears are staring down, so no one notices that there is someone suddenly in the room.
After a while, the runes were completed and the spell was ready to go. Pei Renli quietly stretched out his fingers, and a spinning stance flew out from between him.
The target of the sharp fang spin is not the goblin or bugbear, but the stairs hanging above with a hemp rope.
With a stabbing sound, the sharp teeth rotating at high speed like a circular saw ripped the hemp rope apart and smashed it on the ceiling. Countless dust and debris fell down.
Hearing the sound, the goblins and bugbears looked up one after another. The broken hemp rope caused the stairs to hit the floor with a bang, and the other end extended right under the cave.
This staircase should be prepared by bugbears to facilitate the disposal of the corpses left by dead beasts, but only if they die.
Pei Renli heard the leopard roar, and then the brown bear took the lead in charging, followed closely by the saber-toothed tiger, and ran up the stairs.
Neither bugbears nor goblins were carrying weapons, so they panicked when they saw this situation.
The brown bear roared and slapped the goblin who was trying to escape. The saber-toothed tiger behind him bit the bugbear's thigh. The red liquid and strong bloody smell immediately filled the air.
The last leopard used the brown bear and saber-toothed tiger as a springboard, jumped up nimbly, and let out a dull growl from its throat.
If they had weapons, the bugbears could still resist, but they probably just came to watch the beasts fight each other, so they came empty-handed and were no match for them.
The goblins were weak, but they ran fast and swarmed towards the door.
But at this time, a human jumped out from behind the tree trunk, blocking the way.
"Burning Hands!"
Raging flames erupted from Pei Renli's palm, as if he was holding a flamethrower.
Since the goblins were running together in a hurry, this burning hand captured almost all the targets.
Goblins are the weakest monsters. Even if Pei Renli does not have a staff now and the power of magic is much lower than usual, it is definitely not something that goblins can resist.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the goblin's screams disappeared without a trace, and the place was filled with a strong smell of barbecue and burnt stench.
This room happened to be the furthest away from the hag. I guess this was done to prevent the bugbears from making fun of themselves, but it also meant that any movement made here would not be noticed by the hag.
When the flames dissipated, a brown bear as tall as a person trampled the charred corpse of the goblin. It looked like its round eyes were staring at Pei Renli as he approached step by step. The feeling...
It doesn't seem good.
The bugbear looks like a bear, but compared to the real brown bear, it is a younger brother. Perrenli used his burning hand to level the goblin, and the bugbear was almost leveled by the beast below.
With the minds of wild beasts, they would not consider whether Peri Renli was an ally or not.
"Wait, he is my friend."
The leopard, which cooperated with the saber-toothed tiger and threw the last bugbear into the hole, uttered human words, and soon its body twisted and expanded. After a series of green magical auras, Azuhan's blue scales and tall body were revealed.
Druids are children of nature and can not only talk to plants, but also to beasts.
When the brown bear heard Azuhan's words, he immediately retracted his exposed teeth and sat down on the ground, feeling a little silly and cute.
——It is indeed a Siberian hamster.
The saber-toothed tiger rubbed Azuhan's leg like a cat. The relationship between them seemed to be pretty good.
"Thank you for coming, otherwise I really don't know how to get out."
Without the Holy Emblem and the weapon at his disposal, Azuhan could not jump up the four to five-meter-high hole in either the beast form or the dragon-born form.
Noticing Azuhan covering his stomach with his hands, Pei Renli asked:
"You are hurt?"
"Being bitten by a saber-toothed tiger is not a big problem."
The brown bears and saber-toothed tigers must have been used as entertainment tools by bugbears here for some time, and they have become a little manic. Even the druids cannot communicate smoothly once they meet.
After hearing what Azuhan said, the saber-toothed tiger at his feet was still lying on the ground and holding his head with his paws, as if he had made a mistake.
This is not a saber-toothed tiger. It feels more like an obedient cat.
"It doesn't matter what happened to me, what about the others?"
"Everyone has been found except Elyse. Do you know where she is?"
Pei Renli walked all the way and looked in every room, but he still couldn't find Alice.
"I'm not sure. When I was brought here, Elysee was still in the storage room."
But Pei Renli just took a look and found that there was no one in the storage room.
"By the way, what's going on? As soon as I woke up, I found that I was caught by bugbears. These guys shouldn't be able to make us unconscious together, right?"
Pei Renli had no choice but to repeat what happened to the ghost woman again. It felt like he had repeated it several times.
After hearing this, Azuhan said hesitantly:
"If possible, I hope to destroy the hag."
Evil creatures like hags will have a considerable impact on the local environment no matter where they go, which is absolutely not allowed in the eyes of druids.
However, Azuhan also knew that being allowed and being able to do it were two different things. After all, hags were difficult to deal with, and teammates could not be allowed to take risks just because of Druid beliefs.
"Let's meet up with the others first. We still need to find Elysee."
Azuhan's words are correct. Let's not talk about whether we are going to fight with the hag. The most important thing is to find everyone.
Pei Renli nodded in agreement, but before leaving the house, he said:
"Can I touch that brown bear?"
Chapter completed!