Chapter 116 41. What the hell?
Akadan took the monitor lizards and skink lizards to a branch of the road, while Franais and Chupacoco continued to lead Druchi and the lizard people along the passage.
"Why do I feel like there's something wrong with this room!"
Darkus suddenly stopped after entering a large cave. He grabbed Genevieve's cold hand and stopped her from going any further.
Genevieve looked back at Darkus with some embarrassment. She suddenly opened her mouth to say something.
Darkus was not sure at first. He looked at Genevieve's silent talk and suddenly realized that the sound seemed to be blocked in the large cave. The sound was simply swallowed up, as if they were standing on the edge of an endless abyss.
Genevieve suddenly stopped talking as she spoke, and then she came back to her senses.
A Drukhi dignitary and a midnight dignitary began to slowly exit the large cave room.
"What's going on? Is there any silencing magic?"
Darkus shook his head. Although he could occasionally feel the strong wind of magic, he was not a warlock. How could he know?
"Let's go in and have a look again, be safe!"
Darkus began to carefully study the walls made of huge and smooth stones. For some reason, there were many dense and neat holes on the walls, as if he could poke them with his fingers. The hole can be teleported to distant places. He always had this feeling that he couldn't shake, no matter how solid the stones looked to him.
"It's a bit strange. Could this large cavern be used for defense?"
Darkus and Genevieve passed through the large cavern, but nothing happened. There was no scene where the gates on both sides of the passage fell and closed tightly, cutting rays appeared in the holes, and the two of them started to dodge with various gymnastics and acrobatics.
"Was the room just now used for defense? Could it be something from the underground sea? I always feel that there are undead in this city, but I can't sense the specific location." Genevieve looked at Darkus curiously She had to ask, and she vaguely guessed something.
"We have to be careful next. By the way, do you know how to use a halberd?" Darkus held the halberd in the starting position with his right hand and held up the luminous crystal in his left hand, saying with a wary look.
"No, but I can use a stick!" Genevieve said while playing with the halberd in a decent manner.
"...Yes, there is a plan." Darkus looked at this nondescript stick juggling act, and the seduction aroused his past memories, so he spoke perfunctorily.
Strange to say, Darkus has been walking in the passage, occasionally passing through some caves, as if the passage was a flat surface, with no ups and downs, or up and down stairs.
Darkus walked around a corner holding the luminous spar. Since the luminous spar was the only light in the passage, the shadow on the opposite side happened to be in the blind spot of his vision.
"What the hell!"
A humanoid creature nearly two and a half meters tall, similar to a fish-headed monster, stood quietly at the corner and looked at Darkus. Under the light of the luminous crystal, its eyes squinted slightly, as if they were not used to the light. Its face was covered with scars and open sores, and Darkus could even see the haggard expression on its face. It was stunned for a moment after seeing Darkus, and the next second it was about to open its mouth and make a sound.
Darkus was very sure that there was no such weird species among the lizardmen, and he couldn't communicate with this thing. This thing should not be a mutant or degenerate species of the lizardmen. He waved the halberd without thinking, and the fish-headed monster's scarred lips opened in surprise.
With a whistling sound that cut through the air, Quiteli's halberd followed the fish-headed monster's mouth and penetrated its spine and part of its skull. The fish-headed monster fell silently. A voice came from behind the dead fish-headed monster, and Darkus caught a glimpse of another frog-headed monster through the light?
The froghead raised its trembling webbed hands to caress and lick the blood and brains splattered on its face. Darkus held the luminous crystal in his left hand, and without hesitation he pulled out the repeating hand crossbow hanging on the left side of his belt, knocked off the safety, and took aim.
Genevieve was faster than Darkus. With the light of the luminous spar, Darkus saw Genevieve taking two steps from his side with his peripheral vision, then jumping up and jumping around. He turned around in mid-air, picked up the halberd, and used a move similar to the Overlord's three swings. The halberd blade directly cut off the head of the frog head monster. The frog head monster's body had no support, and it fell to its knees with a plop, and then He fell straight onto the floor tiles.
"What is this? Leonis' Lakers?" Genevieve used the light of the luminous crystal to observe the corpse on the ground. While observing, she stretched out her halberd and turned over the frog-headed monster's corpse.
Like the creature Darkus encountered in the Twilight Tide Forest Farm, the Laker is also a beastman. They are mainly found in the Arden Forest and the Lyonis section of Bretonnia, but they also frequently swim into the swamps and lakes of southern Lyonis. They have a roughly amphibian appearance, often with frog-like faces, pincers on their forelimbs, and gills that allow them to breathe underwater. However, they possess many more mutations than regular Beastmen.
These two strange species are nearly two and a half meters tall and seem to live underwater all year round. It has webbed hands and webbed feet, and its leather is rough and leather-like, with some scales growing on important parts. There are some ferns and moss growing on the lower limbs, and their eyes fluoresce even after death.
"No, I have seen Leonis' Lakers. They are not the same species at all." Genevieve observed with interest for a while and came to a conclusion that Darkus expected.
"Let's go."
Darkus and Genevieve came to a small cave. There were messy fish-shaped skulls on the ground, and complex faces were engraved on the ground next to them. The blood on his face seemed to ooze from the floor tiles themselves. It was a dark red light, like accumulated embers, passing from the corners of his eyes. The blood seemed to follow the sound of the tide echoing in his ears. Ebb and flow.
The faces are so weird and abstract that Darkus has never seen this form of art before, as if these faces are not from this world. Some faces snarled, others squinted, and still others expressed a soulless calm. The face's eyes were made of small black holes, but he seemed to feel the weight of the face's gaze pressing on his skin.
"Are there any drow elves who believe in Rose under the ground? I won't meet Drizzt, right?" Darkus pondered and suddenly laughed, and the weird chill on his spine also weakened.
Darkus and Genevieve continued walking, and he found uncomfortably that his sense of direction seemed to disorient him, though he kept following the passage, a sense he had never had before.
On the other side, Akadan was holding a torch to crack the stone mechanism at the end of the fork in the road.
The giant lizard Kami looked at Akadan's fierce manipulation from behind in bewilderment. He could feel that strange summons coming from behind this door. Under the guidance of Lord Mazdamudi, Akadan finally opened the mechanism, and the mechanism began to rotate slowly. After Akadan saw what was exposed behind the mechanism, his eyes suddenly glowed blue.
"Is this an incubation pool?"
Yakadan used the special vision of a skink to look at the huge and wide incubation pool. The incubation pool was divided into several staggered blocks. Each hatchery tank is formed into an irregular shape, with passages left in the middle for the passage of hatchery tank cleaners and newborn lizards.
The monitor lizard Kami walked in blankly. The strange call seemed to guide him. He came to the edge of the pool and took a lick of water. The monitor lizards behind him also followed suit and drank.
"Hey! Hey! What are you doing! Don't drink! Don't drink!" After reacting, Akadan began to jump over to stop the monitor lizards. As he spoke, he stopped talking and started to look at his head uncontrollably. In the hatching pond, he also picked up the water with his hands.
"The water in the pool is actually clean!"
After Kami the monitor lizard drank the water in the hatching pool, there seemed to be no change?
The next second, Lord Mazdamudi teleported over.
"Go find Umak!"
Lord Mazdamudi issued an order to the skinks and monitor lizards, and then released a light spell. A ball of light condensed on his head, and after condensation, it floated straight to the hatching pool. over the sky.
Several lens devices were hung above the hatching tank. The lenses reflected the light emitted by the light ball, which looked so wonderful and dreamy in the eyes of Lord Mazdamudi. He could clearly see the whole of the hatching tank through the light of the light ball. , the size of this incubation pool is comparable to that of the first city, Itaza.
"Praise the Ancient Saint! Praise Umak!"
On the other side, a Drukhi dignitary and a midnight dignitary continued to walk in the passage.
"There are things in front of us. They seem to be undead? And there are many of them?" Genevieve suddenly stopped while walking. She stood there and started to say uncertainly.
"After you get out, you have to return it to me. You will make other Druchi feel unsafe with this thing." Darkus handed the repeating crossbow to Genevieve, and he took it out himself The Blade of the Ancestors. Since there are a lot of them, there's no need not to make a noise.
Darkus and Genevieve leaned against the inner wall of the passage and moved slowly into the large cave. His pointed ears were raised to listen for movement. He could feel that there was still a trace of warmth left in the stone behind him, like a living body, and he could feel that this warmth seemed to seep into the back of his manticore cloak and plate armor.
"Hiss!" Darkus could see a little more clearly through the light of the luminous crystal.
There were corpses piled up on the ground in the large cave. The corpses inside were layered on top of each other. It seemed that magic or other things had prevented them from decaying, even though they looked very dry in this special environment. The corpses were all the same humanoid creatures that they seemed to have just encountered. Each corpse was intertwined with incredible complexity and power, providing energy for other corpses, as if there was a central program controlling them.
Darkus seemed to be standing at the door of a morgue now. He felt that the scene inside effectively stopped his heartbeat, as if he could stand here for a thousand years and remain immortal.
The air in the large cave seemed to be shimmering with light, and an eerie atmosphere began to form. At first they were just flickering points of light, but then these tiny, twinkling particles came together. Darkus was now sure that it was not his hallucination. They hovered in the air above the corpse, and then began to flow into the corpse, disappearing without a trace, like poisonous gas being inhaled into the victim's lungs.
As the ancient and tough skin creaked, one of the corpses suddenly straightened its body, sat up from the ground, turned its head and stared at Darkus with yellow and pus eyes, and Gena behind him Viv pulled his arm, seeming to signal him to run away.
The corpses suddenly trembled, as if the ground on which they lay was gripped by an earthquake. One by one, the corpses straightened their bodies and sat up from the ground. They suddenly began to move like puppets on strings, and there were more and more of them.
At this moment, dozens of corpses in the large cave room have all revived. There is a strange dryness on their skin, and they emit a fishy smell. The words dryness and fishy are so strange when combined.
These living humanoid corpses began to stand up, moving slowly in the direction of Darkus in strange postures. He suddenly felt his scalp numb.
As the bodies moved, they made a strange gasping sound, as if the air squeezed from their remaining gills was whistling through cracks in their skin. There was also a smell of herbs and embalming fluids in the air, along with a fishy smell and a sickly sweet tinge of putrefaction.
"Run! Run quickly." Genevieve couldn't stand it anymore and started to yank Darkos' arm.
"Try it first, if it doesn't work, keep running." Darkus also came back to his senses, holding the luminous crystal in his left hand, and activated the Blade of the Ancestors in his right hand and started shooting.
The scorching light emitted by the laser gun illuminated the large cavern, instantly penetrating and melting the chests of several corpses. After firing four rounds, Darkus reloaded the Blade of the Ancestors into the holster and put the luminous crystal The stone was wrapped around the belt, and he held Quiteli's halberd in both hands and struck at the corpse that had rushed over.
Two of the corpses brandished coral rods, while the rest reached toward Darkus with rough, wrinkled webbed hands. Their dry mouths were still swaying up and down, as if they were trying to tell Darkus something, but only a weak air leaked from their broken gills. They staggered toward Darkus, their monstrous faces contorted with a mixture of rage, fear, and greed.
The first corpse to reach Darkus frantically swung the coral stick at Darkus' helmet, but unfortunately, the corpse's movements were not unusually slow in Darkus' eyes.
Darkus didn't even dodge, but swung Quiteli's halberd to slash the corpse's club arm. The limbs were torn into a puff of dust. Darkus twisted Quiteli's halberd and lowered it. The upper body of the corpse shattered into pieces. Only the lower body was still walking for no apparent reason.
"What?"
(End of chapter)