Chapter 675: The City of Moxobli(1/2)
There is no exit or light source on the rock wall of the cave. Except for the teleportation array engraved on the ground, there is nothing else in the cave with a diameter of about ten meters, and it seems to be completely closed.
The teammates judged from the faint air flow that there must be a hidden outlet.
Before they could find it, Resling's mirror image pointed to the wall in front of him. Everyone looked carefully and found in the dark that there was a half-meter-long crack, which was very narrow and could not even insert fingers into it. The air was blown out of the crack, which obviously led to the outside.
"The exit is behind the wall?" asked Barack.
"There is no exit." Reslin replied: "This cave was dug out by Kvi Sassen, and you can only use spells to pass through this stone wall more than five meters thick."
While speaking, he opened an arbitrary door.
Everyone walked past the door and found that they were located in a very ordinary cave, with a stone wall behind them, and the teleportation array was arranged inside the stone wall.
Such a hidden location cannot be found even by anyone with a sharp perception.
This made the teammates sigh at the caster's superb methods again.
Izt explored the road ahead, after repeated detours, he found the exit of the cave and entered another larger cave. Looking at the large underground forest in front of him, the dark elves looked happy, "I have been here before, just east of the city of Mosorblad, not far away."
The teammates were all excited.
Mosoft is probably the most dangerous place in the dark area and cannot be taken lightly.
"Come with me."
Izt continued to lead the way to the forest, and whispered: "This road is one of the trade routes east of Mosoft, and you will likely encounter underground caravans and the Dower cavalry who came out of the city to patrol. They are very hostile to outsiders on the surface and will capture and enslave once they are discovered. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, we should avoid it in advance."
Everyone nodded to show that they understood.
With their strength, they naturally would not be afraid of fighting with Zoer, but they just didn't want to alarm the ruler of Mosorblai, so that they could act in the future.
The team quickly entered the forest, with a pioneered road in the middle, which was more than ten meters wide, with a flat ground, and luminous moss was planted on the roadside, which was obviously often maintained by people.
"This is the Dark Forest, which belongs to the territory of the City of Mosobrai."
Izt said as he identified the direction and then headed west.
After passing through the Dark Forest, enter other caves from a very spacious tunnel.
The area of several consecutive caves is very large, and the environment and resources are much better than the upper layer of the dark area. They are either covered with forests or rich water flows, large fertile and flat land, which can be planted with mushrooms and other food. The dangerous underground creatures have also been cleared out, with almost no danger.
If it weren't for the dim light around and the "sky" above the head, this area would have looked no different from the surface.
Reslin and others were all suddenly aware of it.
It is precisely because of the richness of this area that the dark elves occupy the territory and build the largest city in the dark area, no doubt about it.
Izt once said that he had wandered and survived in the dark area for hundreds of years and had never seen a better place than the surrounding area of Mosoft. There are more than a dozen cities of dark elves, about ten gray dwarf cities, as well as secret spirit-sucking monsters, benthic monster fish or other races. Whether it is population, resources, or buried environment, they are not as good as Mosoft.
The cities of the dark elves are in power, which is a typical city-state system. If a huge kingdom of drow can be formed, Mosoft will definitely be the capital of the kingdom!
But this is almost impossible.
The various Zoer cities often fight for resources, wealth, and slaves. The hatred between them is stronger than the hatred of foreign races, just like the enemy of life and death.
After passing through multiple caves, the group gradually saw figures.
Resling opened the invisible force field in time and let his teammates approach.
After getting closer, people saw many slaves working on the land on the roadside, planting mushrooms, weeding, and irrigating. Some slaves were also digging mines and digging caves. The slaves had all kinds of races, including night goblins, gray dwarves, stone blinds, cavemen, Kou Tao fishman and gray dwarves.
Resling also saw humans, orcs, Netiph demons, and even surface elves.
There were dark elves around each group of slaves, most of whom were Drow warriors. They shouted loudly at the slaves, waved the black snake's whip hard, leaving bloody whip marks on the slaves. The slave's screams made the supervisors laugh happily, as if they were very happy with this painful wail.
But it didn't sound that pleasant to the ears of Resling and the five.
Dawnssus looked sharp and lifted the mace.
"Don't worry about them."
Izt stopped the conflict between the savage priests and whispered: "Most Drows are believers of the Spider Queen. They please the Spider Goddess in this way, but they will not be fatal to slaves. In Morthorley, slaves are the most precious wealth. If the slaves are killed by mistake, they will also be severely punished."
Asina moved her gaze away, "No wonder you left Mosoft."
"I didn't leave, I escaped." Izt's mood was depressed. "The dark elves' society is very hierarchical, and the faith of the spider queen is like an invisible big net, which binds every drow, and sinks into the darkness bit by bit. Only a very few lucky people can escape from the clutches."
Barack sighed, and stepped up two steps and patted his shoulder to show his comfort to his friend.
The dark elf returned with gratitude.
Suddenly, Resling looked ahead of the road, and Izt was only half a second later, looking in the direction of Mosorblad City.
"There are cavalry coming," said Resling.
"It's the Grey Lizard Cavalry." Izt listened carefully for a few seconds and confirmed: "About twenty people, they are the patrol of Mosorblai."
Resling retreated to the roadside to focus on maintaining the invisible force field, covering his teammates.
Soon, the ground vibrated slightly, and a group of cavalry quickly ran along the road to approach. They were twenty huge lizards with a length of about five meters. Their skin and scales were like gray rocks, their limbs were flexible, and they dragged a thick tail, running close to the ground, at a very fast speed.
These gray lizards are unique creatures in the dark area. When they were in the upper layer, Reslin and others encountered several litters and easily destroyed them.
The Eye of Soul saw that the group of gray lizards were all mid-level monsters and were completely tamed.
Each gray lizard carries a dark elf on its back, wearing tight leather armor, long swords or scimitars hanging around its waist, carrying bows and arrows, and is the most common dress of a drow warrior.
More than half of the twenty gray lizard cavalry were female, which was not common on the surface.
Dark elves are matriarchal society, and female drows have absolute dominance. They occupy professions such as mages, priests and patriarchs. The higher they go to the upper class, the higher the proportion of women. Male drows are just female servants or playthings. Unless they are extremely talented, men are not allowed to be learned spells. Even if they master strong strength, they can only be a female, with a slightly higher status than a lowly slave.
Half a minute later, the Gray Lizard Cavalry had arrived.
The leader is a high-level female Zhale warrior. She has dark skin and a convex figure, but she cannot hide the cruel aura revealed on her body. Her eyes are like poisonous snakes, which makes the male Zhale around her subconsciously stay away and dare not contact her gaze.
The slaves working in the distance didn't even dare to look at them, and the supervisors also restrained their arrogance.
Resling saw the fire of faith in her soul, burning like a torch, full of blood, darkness and evil, and that negative aura was comparable to the demon of the abyss.
She is the priest of the spider goddess Rose.
In the history of Alan Ershi, more than 10,000 years ago, as one of the elves gods, and even the wife of the elves' master "Asurilon", Rose, who was expelled from Oroan because of the conspiracy to betray Assurilon, became cruel, evil, and capricious. She even defected directly to the evil gods of the abyss at the end of the Third Age to help destroy the elves' kingdom on the new continent, so as to avenge the elves' gods and become one of the most notorious evil gods in the world.
The dark elves are so hostile to the surface race, so the spider queen Rose's infamy is a large part of the reason.
In the eyes of many people, dark elves are similar to demons.
If she could climb to the position of a high-level priest in the church of Rose, this female Drower would naturally not be a kind person, but she had not reached the legend and could not find the enemy hidden by the roadside.
Even legends are difficult to detect Resling's invisible force field.
The gray lizard cavalry left in the dust.
Everyone returned to the road and continued to move forward, getting closer and closer to Mosorblai, and encountered dark elves more and more times, and saw two underground caravans.
Through the sound of all things, Resling noticed them at a very long distance and easily avoided them.
Finally, half a day later, they passed through a tunnel nearly tens of meters wide and walked out of the cave entrance. They suddenly opened up and entered a huge cave that had never been seen before. Resling and others stood at the edge of the cave. With his eyesight, they had to look very hard, so that their eyes could penetrate the dim light and see opposite the cave, at least five kilometers away, and the highest point was nearly one kilometer from the ground.
This huge cave has a bustling underground city.
The city of Mosobrey has arrived!
There are many rock pillars in the cave that support the dome, connecting the ground and the sky. The most conspicuous one is the stone pillar in the center of the cave. Countless runes are carved on the surface, forming magic circles, emitting red flame light to the outside, illuminating the entire city.
Izt has introduced it before, this is the Nabondel hour pillar.
The underground world is always dark, with no seasons or day and night changes, so the great wizard of Mosobrey set up a rune magic array on the central stone pillar for lighting, indicating the passage of time of day through changes in flame temperature.
When the flames are completely extinguished, it means entering the night.
Until it burns again, it means dawn, and when the flame is at its highest and brightest, it is noon of the day.
At this moment, the flames of the hour pillar are slowly weakening and the brightness is also decreasing, indicating that the city of Mosoft is in the afternoon.
Under the light of the hour column, you can see the entire city clearly.
Most of the caves are flat, and most of the buildings are made of rocks, mainly in black tones. The overall atmosphere is dark and cold. Most of the statues dotted everywhere in the city are spider-spider-shaped, and the flames of the hour pillars dye them a layer of blood.
The highest point in the city is located in the north, where there is a huge rock a hundred meters high, shaped like a hill. Stone steps are cut from the foot of the mountain and reaching step by step to the open top of the mountain.
Atop the top of the mountain, a temple in the shape of a spider is built.
Leslin didn't look at it much. This temple is the most important place for Spider Queen Rose in the mortal world and the most important holy place in the Rose Church. Try not to get close to it, and it is not even possible to take a few more glances.
On the left side of the Spider Temple is the Mage Academy, and on the right is a black stone tower less than 100 meters high.
That is the fighting tower, where Dow men learn fighting skills.
Izt said that his childhood was spent in the Fighting Tower, where he left painful memories that he would never forget in his lifetime.
There are tall city walls built outside the Mosoft, with hundreds of meters wide open spaces between the city walls and the cave walls. There are hundreds of tunnels around the cave, leading to different areas. Almost every moment, patrols or caravans enter and exit the tunnel, walk around the city gates under the city walls, and enter the city.
Resling and others are located in the east, and there is a large lake not far from the city.
"I'll go in first."
According to the plan previously set, Izt went to the city alone to find a suitable place to settle down, and then Leslin opened the portal through the teleportation coordinates and arrived directly in the city.
Otherwise, these alien races will definitely attract attention if they enter Mosoft.
Mosobrey is different from the weak Koutao fishman. According to Izt, there are at least four holy-level powerful men in the city, including two great wizards. In addition, the Spider Temple is even more unfathomable. The Spider Queen Rose often responds to the priest's summons and descends to incarnation.
Although the whole team is a legendary high-level and a holy-level demon hunter, if the identity is exposed and the holy-level powerful men in Mosobrai City will be chased and killed, even if they do not die, they will be skinned.
To be continued...