Chapter 81 The gargoyle outputs MVP for the enemy (fourth update in the morning, second update in the afternoon)
Everyone looked in the direction Geralt pointed, and saw darkness in front of them. They don't have Geralt's night vision.
The druid asked distressedly: "Pressing the stone? So far, so high? How about Geralt, please put a few more fire-breathing sigils to point me in the direction, and I try to control the wall grass to press the stone?"
Lan En patted the Druid on the shoulder: "Don't bother."
He turned his attention to Geralt: "We only need a good enough crossbowman."
Geralt was already observing the appearance of a few stones in the dark. Distance, silently calculating the angle in my mind.
After taking a breath, the demon hunter took off the hand crossbow on his back, pulled the trigger, and a crossbow arrow went into the darkness with a whoosh.
As the crossbow arrow hit a hard object and broke, there was a sound, and then there was a "clang, clink, clink," the friction sound of the machine spring and the moving stone. It was obvious that some mechanism was triggered in the darkness.
"There is actually a mechanism stone that can be moved." Lann heard a soldier sigh in disbelief.
"He actually found the protruding rocks on the rock wall in such a dark place."
"It can still hit!"
The soldiers sighed at the witcher's amazing ability, while Geralt reloaded the arrows expressionlessly.
After the last mechanism was returned to its position, the same door as the brick wall in front of it began to vibrate slowly, and slowly lifted up with a dull "rumbling" sound, revealing the passage behind it.
"Ha, it worked." A soldier quietly gave Geralt a thumbs up.
The road ahead is very uneven. There are scattered stones and fragments of some sculptures everywhere on the road. It seems that it has experienced a small landslide. There are no stairs, and many of the uphill climbs require the combined efforts of several people to move forward.
After walking forward for nearly a hundred meters, the vision suddenly opened up, and a hall appeared in front of everyone.
The druid looked around and nodded: "This place is interesting. It seems that the person who designed it put a lot of thought into it. You should look around."
This is a hall with a round vault, divided into two floors, which can probably accommodate at the same time Forty or fifty people. It seems too simple to say this is a palace, but it is too simple to say it is a hall, but it is sorry for the magical and artistic furnishings inside.
In the middle of the hall, there is a three-person tall statue with rounded lines, but its face cannot be seen clearly. The base platform under your feet is also full of pits and rugged stone chips.
There was a small, palm-sized box on the abutment. When I opened it, I saw a gold necklace inside. Beside it lay a skeleton, from which several pieces of Orens and Crowns were found.
There is also a small altar in front of the statue with an odd shape.
The top of the statue's head is the top of the dome, and there are simple striped carvings from the top down. After reaching the ground, the striped carvings overlapped each other and sunk inward to form small compartments for placing stone statues.
In each cubicle, there is a pot-bellied demon-like stone statue.
The stone statue is about one person tall, with two horns on its head, protruding canine teeth and a ferocious face. There are only two palm-sized wings on its back, its upper limbs are bloated, and its lower limbs are stubby.
Looking at the two decorative wings, Swade commented: "They must not be able to fly."
The druid stepped forward to observe carefully, and his face gradually became uncomfortable: "These seem... all gargoyles. A kind of gargoyles created by warlocks. A monster created by injecting magic power into the stone statue."
When they heard that it was a monster, everyone's expressions became serious. Looking around, there were ten stone statues in the room.
"Are they strong?"
Geralt also knew this kind of monster very well, even better than the druid. He replied: "They are hard to hurt with swords. The materials of gargoyles are mostly granite and marble. Their defense is amazing and their strength is also very strong." They are so huge that even heavy armor cannot beat them with a punch. They can also throw large rocks to kill enemies.
In addition, they can also achieve short-distance teleportation and may suddenly appear behind or directly above the enemy, making them difficult to guard against. ."
Every time Geralt said something, everyone's expressions became more solemn. Only Lan seemed to have expected it and was not so overwhelmed by the enemy.
"But they must have weaknesses, right?"
Geralt nodded: "They are stupid, and the Axi Sigil is ineffective against them. Silver can hurt them, and magic-blocking gold can also disrupt their magic energy."
Lann Then he said: "Your fighting method is to use swords. Since they are made of marble and granite, then anything that can destroy marble and granite can also destroy them, right?" Geralt hesitated and nodded
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Lann turned around and called to the soldiers: "Change weapons, use a hammer, go up. Smash them one by one, don't give them a chance to wake up!" This
is the purpose of Lann letting the soldiers carry hammers - to face the gargoyles and monsters they may encounter. Golems, these hard guys that are not made of flesh and blood!
The soldiers dispersed, and the sound of "boom" echoed in the hall. One after another, the stone statues were smashed on the head, and then hit with several hammers on the body, completely shattering into stones.
Lan was worried that the vital points of things like gargoyles were not on the head, so he insisted that it be safe in pieces.
"Ah ah ah, intruder, uninvited guest!"
After cleaning up a large number of immobile stone statues, a gargoyle suddenly let out a rumbling roar from its belly, the sound was low and ear-splitting.
It opened its eyes and suddenly saw five or six hammer heads calling towards it at the same time.
Magical theorists still debate how to classify gargoyles. For example, some claim that they are a type of golem, as gargoyles are just weird statues driven by magic to perform simple errands, and they can only perform the most basic of tasks.
To put it simply, they are too stupid and their reactions are too slow. Even if they have certain magical abilities, their use is very rigid and they don't even have a chance to use them.
The magical creature that just roared was quickly smashed off its head by a hammer made by humans. All its output after waking up is a roar.
The soldiers, who cooperated tacitly and became familiar with each other, hit the gargoyle with regular "bang bang" blows several times, completely smashing the gargoyle's body into pieces.
They had just been startled by the sudden roar.
"Sure enough, there will be some that can move." Lann asked, "Is this the last one?"
Everyone looked around and saw that all the stone statues had been broken into pieces, making the already simple hall look much more "shabby". It smells a bit like "battle damage".
Geralt stepped forward to touch the corpse as usual. The materials produced by this kind of magical creation are generally more advanced. Elemental essence and gargoyle dust can be collected, which can be used to enchant equipment.
The druid also stepped forward to take away the heart of the gargoyle. Gargoyles are quite valuable within the magic circle. When Lan and the others were smashing them just now, the druid's eyes were twitching in distress.
(End of chapter)