Author: Half-wounded but not broken

Chapter 838 There are others

"Hurry up, are you done?"

"Don't rush it, it'll be done soon!"

Holding an ax, Fondar's vigilant eyes scanned every corner of the darkness where sounds were coming from, as if a group of rats were lurking around them little by little, surrounding them.

But what surrounds them is not only unknown movements in the darkness, but also traps.

When they walked through this passage, the delayed activation trap was activated behind them. Alton also discovered that there was a pressure plate trap in front of them, and they were effectively blocked in the passage.

But this is not a big problem. The delayed activation trap was indeed not discovered before it was activated, but it was not difficult for Alton to remove it.

Of course, the premise is that things hiding in the dark and making strange noises don't pounce.

"Are we really not going to go back and find Pei Renli again?"

Gary still held up his shield. He stood behind Alton. This position could help Alton block long-range attacks from all directions, especially miss traps, flying knife traps, poison needle traps, etc. This damn place

There are unexpectedly many traps.

"I don't think this looks like the dwarf ruins in the Five Kings Mountains, but more like an underground palace left by some mage."

"There's nothing we can do. Don't forget the group of people we saw when we came here. When we slowly go to the Magic University and look for Pei Renli, I'm afraid there will be nothing left when we come back."

The three people's understanding of magic is limited to paper.

After all, they are not mages. Apart from some common sense taught in school, they basically don’t understand much.

All signs indicate that this place was more likely built by Master Fei, but there is not even a mage in the team. It is extremely dangerous and difficult to explore here.

But as Von Dahl said, when they came, there was already a group of people blocking the gate, most likely competitors. If they didn't hurry up and wait until they came back, it was hard to say what would be left.

Therefore, the three of them decided to take a desperate risk. After all, the priest was also a spell caster, so he was not completely helpless with magic.

"It's done, get out now!"

Alton's skills were even more refined than when he was in school, and he easily dismantled the trap in just a few seconds while speaking.

The three of them walked quickly back through the passage they came from. This place was very large and had many forks. It was like a maze.

And something making strange rustling noises in the darkness ahead seemed to be chasing them, and the darkness was slowly approaching like a thick mist.

The three of them looked at the darkness with vigilance, watching for possible attacks while keeping their posture facing it and moving back.

——Crack.

At this moment, a crisp sound broke into the ears of the three people.

"Don't look at me, it's not me, I didn't step into a trap!"

"The sound doesn't come from our side, it comes from the front!"

I don't know what kind of thing is in the darkness in front of me. I can't dispel it with the light spell. Moreover, after the crisp sound, I heard a dull sound, like the friction of rocks.

——Rumble, rumble…

The sound is getting louder and clearer.

Fondar immediately realized something and said immediately:

"Run! It's a rolling stone!"

The three people immediately turned around and ran away. Almost as they ran away, a large rolling stone that could almost block the entire passage burst out of the darkness with a rumbling noise and chased after them...

Pei Renli saw this scene clearly, but it was like a fixed camera. When the rolling stone ran all the way along the passage, the perspective did not move with it.

It was quite a surprise to meet Fondar and the others here. No wonder it was so cold outside. I bet this was really deep in the snowy area.

Pei Renli's first reaction was to find Feng Daer and the others to join them.

If the arch in front of him, like the previous arch, is just for teleportation, as long as Pei Renli steps in, he will be teleported to the tunnel where Fondal and the others are.

However, when Pei Renli was about to let Dire Wolf go in to try, he immediately gave up the idea.

The reason is that it's such a coincidence.

Although the setting of the underground palace is unlikely to know that Pei Renli and Feng Dahl knew each other, it may just randomly show another group of people in the underground palace, and they happened to randomly arrive at Feng Dahl, but why is such a thing set up in the underground palace?

It's like trying to deliberately arouse people's curiosity to walk in, and anything that does this is probably a trap.

There is absolutely no guarantee as to where the portal will connect to. It may be related to technology. Pei Renli could not get any information even by analyzing the portal.

If you rush into a portal that may be a trap, the effect may be tantamount to seeking death.

Pei Renli had no impression of where Feng Daer and the others were. It was not the area he had just passed through, so it would be difficult to join them.

However, Pei Renli is not worried at all. With Feng Daer's ability, rolling stones is really not a big problem. They are not novices. Every time they write to Pei Renli, they will tell Pei Renli how many trophies they have found in such and such ruins.

He has far more experience than Pei Renli.

So Pei Renli stopped and took two steps back, farther away from the arch in front of him.

Since Fondar and the others were here, when Perrenli first came in, he saw the secret passage on the wall that had been broken open by someone. It was probably the trace left by them when they entered the ruins. This disguise would not trouble Alton.

But Pei Renli also immediately remembered that there were footprints left in front of the first arch.

Fondar and the others didn't understand magic, so they would definitely handle this kind of portal-like mechanism with caution and not just walk in stupidly, so they chose to take the secret passage instead of the arch.

So, who left the footprints in front of the arch?

Pei Renli turned around, not looking at the arch, and walked deeper along the passage.

There is probably another group of people here, or even several groups of people.

After all, Teacher Grace's letter mentioned that the things she sent to Pei Renli and the fragments were one of the ways to find the treasure. Others might have obtained the location of the treasure through other methods, such as the so-called hidden treasure found by Fondal and others.

The picture may also be a bait deliberately thrown out by the former principal of the Magic University.

——This is really bad.

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Give up and meet up with Fondar and the others. Anyway, if the goal is the deepest treasure, we might encounter them halfway.

Pei Renli continued to move forward along the passage, but unlike Feng Daer and the others who might encounter traps after just a few steps, there were very few traps on the path Pei Renli took, and all of them were violently broken by Pei Renli. He would directly use the fireball technique to clear the way for you.

What a clever design, Pei Renli's fireball scroll can handle it just right.

After walking forward for less than ten minutes, Pei Renli saw a small piece of wall peeling off on one side of the passage.

It may have been in disrepair for a long time, or it may have been shaken down by the fireball spell. The traces are still very new, and the peeling off of this piece of wall skin just revealed a hidden door frame on the wall.

He looked up and down, reached into the air, opened the magic pocket, and pulled out the red governor wrapped in a curse belt.

Pei Renli really underestimated the danger of this ghost place at the beginning. After all, the threats he encountered so far were so small that they could be ignored.

But the biggest threat is the other guys besides him who are also looking for the treasure.

This group of people is probably from the Magic University, and Perrenli, who has stayed at the Magic University for more than two years, knows very well that there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers there, and the old student who usually has trouble walking may be the uncle who destroyed the world.

Everyone is here to grab the treasure. Conflicts are normal. It is better to take precautions in advance.

Pull it casually and loosen the curse belt:

"Bigby's attack punch!"

There might be a trap on the hidden door, but Pei Renli still chose to blow up the trap as well.

After the red governor's exaggerated increase, the stance fist hit like a battering ram and knocked away the hidden door under the wall. Several arrows flew out and were knocked in along with the door panel as soon as they were shot.

The only two remaining dire wolves got in when the door panel was knocked open. Pei Renli waited outside for a few seconds. Seeing that there was no problem, he carried the red governor through the door.

Behind the door is still a room of the same size as before, and like the previous gargoyle room, there is also a statue in the center of this room that is almost identical in detail and shape.

However, this is no gargoyle.

After a set of detection triplets, Pei Renli approached the statue. It was just a dead object, but it had the aura of the conjuration school on it, like some kind of magic mechanism.

If you observe carefully, you will find that this gargoyle statue is different from the previous four-armed gargoyle. It only has three arms. The lower left arm has been broken, and the cross section can be clearly seen.

At this time, the Purgatory Dire Wolf rubbed Pei Renli's trouser leg. He looked down and saw that the Dire Wolf had a piece of stone arm in its mouth. He didn't know where he found it, but it seemed to be the broken section.

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So, put the arms back on the gargoyle statue?

After all, according to the routine of the decryption game, it is almost like this mechanism. Pei Renli used detection magic on the amputated arm, and he could also see the aura of the conjuration school similar to the statue.

But it seems a bit too dangerous to try to piece together this magical mechanism with your own hands.

With a snap of his fingers, the ball of light from the Dancing Light technique flew above the statue of the Broken Arm Gargoyle, allowing Pei Renli to see it more clearly.

This time he noticed that there was an obvious indentation on each of the remaining three palms of the gargoyle statue, as if they were used to put something in.

The shape of the dent is irregular, about the size of a coin. Judging from the depth, it looks more like a gem or something has been inserted into it.

But along the way, Pei Renli obviously didn't see any gems that could be inserted. Or did he remove the gem necklace from the neck of the previous gargoyle and then insert the gems?

The sizes are different, and the gem necklace has 10 gems, so the number doesn't match.

"Emmmm...let's try it and talk about it later."
To be continued...