A few hours later, everyone was assembled and ready to go. Then, under the orders of the commanders of each team, our team of less than 500 people left the stronghold city in order.

Before leaving, I made a special trip to the top of the stone tower to look at the underground city in the distance. Although it was covered by Desmo's golden light shield, I could vaguely see some of the scenery inside with a telescope. Through the light shield, I could barely see a large number of moving shadows. Judging from the number, they should be the monsters in the city. As for what they are doing, you are not sure. I looked around and couldn't find Daisy. No matter where Mo and the others were, I could clearly see that the huge body remains of Tartini were still standing there. It seemed that Desmo and the others had no intention of cleaning up.

I'm sure this matter is not over at all. I even have a premonition that Tattinni is not dead at all, because based on some of Hex's previous reactions, Tattini should know something that he shouldn't know. Things, and it was precisely this that led to Hex's sudden action. It seemed that these things should be thorny issues involving the gods, otherwise Hex would not be so anxious.

But then again, Hex's blow was really earth-shattering. It's a pity that I didn't have any video equipment around me to record the battle, and because we were too far away at the time, I didn't watch it. Knowing the specific battle process, the only thing I could see clearly was the spectacular sight of Hex's final blow directly smashing Tartini's monster body into pieces. If I were to be involved, there wouldn't be dozens of them measured in tons. As for aerial bombs, I think it would be a problem even to get close to Tardin. And according to my estimation at the time, if we wanted to defeat Tardin at that time with conventional forces, we would need at least two combat brigades. , after all, that thing is really beyond the scope of the norm.

But if I really had so many troops, I probably wouldn’t choose to join the battle, because it is really not a battle that mortals can touch, whether it is the enemy or the reason for the battle. And I think if If I had to participate in the war, both Hex and Desmo would agree to this ridiculous request, but then I would be irreversibly involved in some kind of complex and troublesome chain of events from which I would be unable to escape, although I guess These things will definitely be very cool, but I am also sure that my life will become more and more deviated from the direction in the future. After all, what I seek most is a comfortable life route, and if nothing happens, I will be able to live a comfortable life in the next few decades. I won't actively want to change.

"Erica, everyone is here, it's time to go." Just when I was about to take another look at the dungeon, Aurora's voice came from the lift behind me.

I looked back at Aurora who had changed back into light clothing, and then replied calmly: "No rush, we will just leave at the end. Anyway, we only go back to the advanced camp on the upper level to rest first, so there is no need to retreat in such a hurry, and there is still plenty of time." …”

"You can't bear to let go of your new girlfriend, right?" Aurora pushed me inexplicably, which almost caused me to lose balance and fall out of the tower while I was standing on the edge of the wall.

I finally managed to grab a piece of the wall and regain my balance. However, when I regained my balance, I had no intention of venting my anger or retaliating for Aurora's evil deeds, because I realized not long ago that these guys really seemed to have a misunderstanding.

The relationship between me and Kalia has been affected, so this delicate situation arises.

"I think you all know very well that Kalia and I are friends and have no other relationship." I took out a crumpled cigarette case from my pocket, then pulled out a relatively complete cigarette and held it in my mouth.

He put it in his mouth, then sat directly on the wall, took out his lighter and continued: "This is the first time in my life that I have made friends with a monster... Although it feels weird, but... I'm afraid even I can't believe it.

This is sincere..."

"That's a monster!" Aurora suddenly excitedly pulled me by the shoulders and said, "A heterogeneous monster that has an affair with Hertogos! The evil, ugly, dirty, despicable and crazy Hertogos."

Thorgos monster! Not to mention that there is another legendary monster leader in her body..."

"It's just a body, a pile of flesh and blood without any soul or consciousness." I took a puff of the cigarette and then turned my head and spit it out to the outside of the tower, but to be honest, the rich nicotine in this puff really didn't make me feel anything.

It's so comfortable, but it makes me feel a little pungent and itchy. But because of my mood, I really want to put something in my mouth. Since I have already taken a puff, I just plan to finish it. Anyway, this pack

I had no intention of taking the crushed cigarettes back, because as long as I got to the forward base, I could buy cigars from the merchants to satisfy my craving.

After blowing out the smoke, I turned my head and looked at Aurora in front of me. Although she still looked dissatisfied with my answer, I didn't think she would really be so hostile to Kalia, because she only hated Hercules.

Just the flesh and blood of Togos.

"Kalia's soul is pure, this is what Hex said himself." I know this sounds like a quibble, but this reason that was born later seems to have been deeply ingrained in my heart.

"...Okay, then at least tell me why you plan to be friends with a monster? Don't tell me it's just a whim. Only a ghost can believe such stupid things!" Aurora quickly calmed down, and she took the initiative.

He sat next to me and took the cigarette from my coat pocket and got one for himself.

Avrola glared at me with the crooked cigarette in her mouth, and then used the fire magic squeezed out from her fingertips to light the crooked cigarette. But after she took a sharp puff, she didn't do anything.

I coughed unexpectedly and blew out the smoke in my throat, and by the way, she also sprayed saliva all over my face.

She has smoked cigars, but that doesn't mean she can accept this kind of dried tobacco from the earth. After all, cigarettes don't have the unique mellow aroma of cigars, so I expected her extreme novice reaction.

In, but out of this drool on my face.

"Um...Eve, have you not brushed your teeth in the past two days?" I wiped the saliva on my face with my sleeve and asked.

"Nonsense! Where can I brush my teeth in a place like this? Have you brushed your teeth yet?!" Aurora blushed and wiped my saliva with her sleeve, then suddenly said: "You know what? There are other people in the team.

Even drinking water must be supplied in limited quantities..."

I knew she felt embarrassed so she wanted to change the topic, but I really liked watching her squirm, and I felt physically and mentally happy without knowing it. But I didn't want to continue teasing her because I was afraid that if I continued to stimulate her, it would lead to

She became so angry that she beat me away with magic. You must know that the two of us are sitting on the top edge of the stone tower at the moment. If we are not careful, we will fall. Although the height of about 10 meters is not very high, the stone below is

Brick floors never make me feel better.

"By the way, you might as well just live in our house after you go back. It seems like you don't plan to go back to your team anyway, and we will go to the north together in a while..." I also tried to change the topic.

Trying to lighten the mood.

"You've told me this before, and I will continue to stay at your house without you saying it..." Aprila imitated my movements and continued to hold the cigarette out of boredom, but soon she was choked.

The smoke made her feel very uncomfortable. After sneezing twice more, she froze the cigarette butt into a lump of ice and threw it under the tower.

"Eve, do you think our underground exploration mission is a success?" I looked down at the neat team below and couldn't help but ask.

"Of course, although everyone has not achieved the set goal, for Algasburg and Merylgil, the praise we received is far more important than the set goal. As for the Principality..." Aurora suddenly sneered.

He pointed at the team of knights below and said, "Don't look at them looking disgraced and looking like they got nothing, but in fact their final benefits are more generous than ours."

"What did they get?" I asked curiously.

"All of this." Aphra pointed to the top of her head, and then said: "Hex said that people are only not allowed to come in here, but they are not not allowed to enter other underground passages and the entire Envar area. You know this

How many mineral deposits are there in the area? And do you know what the businessmen who have been staying at the upper advance base have been doing during this time?"

"I heard Puffy say that this area seems to have relatively rich reserves of copper and iron ore..." I thought about the information I knew about the group of businessmen. It seemed that apart from the recent attack on the businessmen, I

I haven't heard any other news, because we were busy planning to attack the target stronghold and deal with the traitors, but I still thought of the businessman with whom I had some issues and asked with a little worry: "Those businessmen are there?"

What are you doing? Aren’t you trafficking in supplies?”

"Trafficking supplies is just superficial. After all, apart from the low-level free traders and town vendors, the rest of the people who come here are all rich and powerful members of the chamber of commerce. They come here with a large number of caravan guards and they are not here just to sell supplies.

Simple." Aurora paused, then she looked at the mushroom forest not far from here and said, "Chris paid some price for inviting them here, such as the treasures and some mineral deposits here...

…”

"Oh... yes, I remembered it, it seems that there is such a thing." I imagined the big businessmen above leading a lot of greedy and ferocious thugs to plunder the monster community wantonly and couldn't help laughing.

He said in a loud voice: "Does that mean the merchants above are busy hunting for treasure?"

"It's almost there, but their actual situation doesn't look optimistic at all like we did before. And according to the latest detective reports, the attacks on merchants during the whole period were actually caused by them digging a certain tunnel without authorization and attracting people.

They were just monsters nearby, and the group of merchants who retreated were actually just vying for loot and were squeezed out. It seemed that they cared more about the minerals nearby than the treasures here, so they just left here to investigate the mineral veins.

"

"Ha, they are really greedy and desperate. Although there are not as many monsters outside as here, they are still very difficult to deal with. I'm afraid their losses will be further increased." I suddenly thought of that shrewd and slightly cunning man.

Chris, for some reason I always feel that these things should have something to do with her.

"Not only that group of merchants, but actually the group of merchants who stayed here also suffered a lot... because the caravan guards that provided them with protection were almost all external guards under the Shirley Chamber of Commerce and other principality nobles... that is to say

…”

"Everything is under the control of Chris? This is really amazing..." I took a long puff of the cigarette, then threw the remaining cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out with my feet.

"It's normal for her to do this... It's better to say that she has to do this, otherwise there will be huge loopholes in the principality's management of merchants. Don't forget, the Principality of Michael is in the north and the Kingdom of Solis

The war started, and the main economic lifeline of the principality is concentrated in the south..." Aurora's words suddenly gave me a hint of confusion.

"Are you saying that Chris is worried that the merchants will collude with the kingdom?" After asking, I quickly built a map of the Welsk City area in my mind, and also analyzed what would happen to my family if there was unrest in Welsk City.

To what extent will the Selida Forest where it is located be affected?

"I think you know this question better than me, right? Most of the chambers of commerce in the principality are not local chambers of commerce, and the merchants are just a group of capitalists..." When I heard this familiar word, I suddenly remembered what Aurora was referring to.

What means.

"Sorry, I haven't read "Das Kapital", but I have indeed heard that famous quotation." I rethought the various information about the known principality and compared it in my mind as quickly as possible.

I predicted the worst, but unfortunately, I found that I seemed to have been tied to the principality unknowingly, so if the principality was in chaos, my family would not be much better, so let Chris

A stable territory under full control is the most suitable hometown for me. Then my conclusion can only be to help Chris deal with these trivial matters, but only if she really needs me... or us

s help.

"Forget it... let's not talk about it." I jumped off the wall and picked up the telescope again to look at the situation in the underground city, but unfortunately I still didn't find any useful information, so I looked down disappointedly.

I took a look at the surrounding scenery to change my mood. But I accidentally discovered the long stick held by Ms. Celine in the queue below. It immediately caught my attention, because Ms. Celine wrapped it up when she came back.

It was tightly guarded and never let it out of sight, which aroused my curiosity and casually asked Aurora: "What is the function of that long staff? Why do I feel that Celine protected it?"

More important than your own life?"

"Those are the branches of the Tree of Life..." Aurora's tone also changed slightly. She sounded very solemn but also said with a hint of jealousy: "For the elves, it can indeed be described as better than myself.

Life is even more valuable because all the original elves in this world were born from the Tree of Life."

"Tree of life... Kabbalah?" I suddenly asked casually.

"What's stuck? I've never heard of this word... on Earth?" Aurora became inexplicably interested and pulled my shoulder to ask.

"Forget it...it's nothing. Kabbalah is indeed something on earth, but although it is also called the tree of life, it is just a religious philosophy...it is not a big tree, and it has never given birth to any life."

I replied calmly.

"Oh...philosophy, this is indeed not my field of expertise." Aurora changed her tone again and said jokingly: "Forget it, let me tell you about our 'Tree of Life' first.

"

"Hey, thank you very much." I said casually.

Aurora sat up straight, cleared her throat, and began to speak to me in a teaching tone: "The Tree of Life is said to be the projection of all life in this world, and it does look like a towering tree.

Appeared in the records of the past, but that was also the past when Severna's temple was still on the earth. Legend has it that tens of thousands of years ago, the creation goddess Severna placed the first batch of life forms after she built the entire world.

They are the original elves born from the flowers of the Tree of Life, and are the ancestors of all the elves today..."

"Wait?" I suddenly reached out and interrupted Teacher Aurora's history class, and then asked regardless of the displeased expression on her face: "Is the history of this world so long? Doesn't it mean..."

"You want to say unreal, right?" Aurora didn't seem surprised by my question. Then she thought about it for a while and then said to me: "Indeed, from the birth of this world, it has only been just a few years until now.

Two to three thousand years, and most of this time was spent in a state of 'illusion'. But illusion is not false. Things that happened in the past exist in this world as if they were set content.

In the 'history' of the world, all beings born in this world will learn about this 'history' that has happened through different channels and methods. In fact, our archaeological department has found evidence that dates back tens of thousands of years.

The cultural relics and relics from the past, and everything recorded in them is also the 'real' history that happened... Does it sound weird?"

"Ah... it feels like some kind of word game." I smiled bitterly, shook my head and said, "But I generally understand it. Anyway, this world does have a long history, right?"

"Yes, and..."

"Farewell, let's talk about something important. We don't have much time, so let's talk while walking." I pointed to the empty city below and then pulled Aurora to the lifting platform, but

Before leaving, I took another look at the location of the dungeon.
Chapter completed!