In addition, the Barbarian chose blind fight. In fact, when you see this position in the book, readers familiar with DND can also see that the Barbarian’s level is almost the same as Marika’s.

As for the Barbarian’s background story… I haven’t thought about it yet, let’s talk about it later!

Chapter 292: Preparing the Planeswalker’s Talk

The gray dwarf with patterns on his armor was awakened by a bucket of water. When he opened his eyes and saw the king, he was about to shout, but Gotrik covered his mouth with one hand.

Wang looked up at Franka: “Can you read it?”

“No, that powerful being is still controlling him. I can only see his emotions but I can’t read them.” Franka replied.

The gagged gray dwarf also seemed to “hear” Franka. He did not seem to realize that this was telepathy, so his eyes looked around in panic – if the person receiving telepathy could not recognize the person sending the telepathy, it would become like a sound without a source. You can clearly hear it, but you don’t know where it comes from.

Xiao Bai muttered, “It seems like this guy really can’t see Frankaye.”

Franka: “He is quite nervous now, trying to identify the threats around him, so he can’t notice me. Usually, they are likely to see me when they are in a trance.”

Wang: “That is, I can only see you when my subjective cognition is weak.”

Franka: “What the hell? What is ‘subjective cognition’?”

“It’s just a foreign word.” The king waved his hand, and then said to the gray dwarf, “Don’t say anything, or we will kill you. Do you understand?”

The gray dwarf stared at the king for a few seconds, then nodded slightly.

Wang emphasized again: “Don’t play tricks! Otherwise, we guarantee that you will die an unhappy death.”

The gray dwarf nodded again, a little more vigorously than before.

The king signaled to Gotrik, and the barbarian gently loosened the gray dwarf’s mouth, but remained ready to seal it again at any time.

Wang: “Who is your master? Is the master you just talked about the same person?”

The gray dwarf opened his mouth and spit towards the king’s face, but Nini stopped him in mid-air with her open palm.

While Nini was wiping her hands with a rag, Gaotrick swung his arm and gave the gray dwarf a big slap.

Franca: “Is it my illusion? You are good people, right?”

Wang: “Of course we are good people, just ruthless good people. When you are a bad guy, you have to be ruthless, and when you are a good guy, you have to be twice as ruthless. Otherwise, how can you fight against the bad guys?”

The jellyfish’s body becomes completely transparent, which is the color it appears when it is in deep thought. The gas it emits at this time is colorless.

Franka: “What you said seems to make sense… but I always feel that you are making excuses. Why do these two feelings exist at the same time?”

Wang: “Because I just make sense with my specious arguments.”

He stopped looking at the jellyfish and turned his gaze to the gray dwarf: “Why are you pretending to be loyal? If you are willing to die for your master, the master you call him, you should have shouted the moment the barbarian let go of your hand. This is your territory, and someone might come over if you just shout a few times.

“Then we will have to become enemies with the gray dwarves and kuo-toa of the entire fortress, and we may even become your master’s new slaves.

“It’s just that you were already dead by then, and you couldn’t be resurrected using a resurrection scroll.

“No, you cherish your life, you just use spitting to deceive yourself, ‘Ah, I am such a brave and fearless hero’, shit! A real hero would shout! Gotrek, don’t stop him, let him shout, and then smash his dog head with the back of the axe!”

Gotrek: “Then I’ll have to take off his helmet first.”

Wang waved his hand: “Then take it!”

Gao Trick pulled off the gray dwarf’s helmet and threw it aside, then raised his battle axe, spun it and switched to the back of the axe. This battle axe is different from a double-edged axe. The back is originally used as a blunt weapon, which is quite suitable for smashing walnuts or heads.

During this process, the gray dwarf did not shout, but just stared at the king with his eyes.

Wang Ye responded to him with a sharp look without any hesitation.

Finally, the gray dwarf lost his temper: “You are right.”

Franka turned orange in surprise: “Why? You can read minds, too? That’s not right, they are basically immune to mind reading because of the existence of their master!”

Wang: “This is psychology. It’s another imported word.”

Xiao Bai: “You are so good at psychology, but you can’t use enchantment spells well?”

Wang was temporarily hit in a vital part and lost the ability to speak.

At this time, the gray dwarf spoke up: “I am not one of those slaves. I am an ally cooperating with that person! I am the chief of the Blackrock Tribe! This fortress was the headquarters of our tribe during its heyday!”

Flint frowned. “The Blackrock Tribe, this gray dwarf tribe has been extinct for a long time, right? I remember that you were already extinct when the Mountain Kingdom still had its capital at Eight Peaks.”

“Humph,” the gray dwarf looked at the dwarf with contempt, “You surface races living on the shallow surface will never understand the tenacity of us underground races!”

The dwarf immediately blew up his beard: “What? Cailin’s horns? I am a dwarf! I am not a delicate surface race! We are as tough as rock!”

Nini: “And stubborn.”

The dwarf glanced at the elf, “Yes, and stubborn! We are tough and stubborn. Don’t confuse us with the surface races!”

The gray dwarf snorted, looked away with an expression that said “I don’t want to bother with you”.

Flint seemed to be stimulated and took out five flails. “Kellyn, no, Kellyn’s belly button! Get out of the way of Gotrick and let me beat this bastard to death.”

Wang: “No, you can’t kill him, Gotrek hold him down.”

Gotrek put his hand on Flint’s helmet, literally “holding down” the dwarf.

Flint: “You’re looking for trouble, aren’t you?”

Wang: “Be quiet! I want to talk to the prisoners. And your voice is too loud, it might attract the enemy!”

Flint then shut up.

The king squatted down so that his eyes were level with the captive: “What is the tribe leader’s name?”

“Beretta.” The gray dwarf only said his last name.

Wang: “Beretta, you think you are that person’s ally, but in fact he has already controlled you.”

Beretta: “Nonsense! We gray dwarves are very resistant to mind control!”

Wang: “So they didn’t use direct methods to control you. Beings like the Mind Flayer are very good at using hints and inducements to control their targets, while making the target – that is, you – completely unaware.”

“Hmph,” the gray dwarf leader snorted, “I just say that anyone can do it, where is the evidence?”

Wang: “Do you know Furu?”

“I know, but it’s a monster that only exists in legends and no one has ever actually seen it,” Beretta replied.

Wang: “They exist. You can’t see them because their abilities make you ignore their existence. Furu can’t be affected by the evil thoughts in you because your master’s control protects you!”

Beretta snorted again: “What nonsense! You are trying to convince me that I am being controlled by a non-existent monster. How can you have such a naive idea?”

Wang: “Then you try to name that person?”

“You want to trick me? No way!”

King: “No, I just listened to the conversation between you and your subordinates. You all referred to him as ‘that great man’. You said you were allies, but you didn’t dare to call him by his name, and you maintained an inexplicable respect. Don’t you think it’s a bit strange?”

“What’s so strange about this? That lord is very capable, so it’s normal to respect him, right? Moreover, he has given the Blackrock Tribe hope for revival, and we are all willing to serve him!”

Wang immediately pointed out the flaw in the gray dwarf’s logic: “You just said that you were just cooperative allies, but now you are willing to serve him? Is this the attitude of an ally?”

The duergar hesitated.

The king continued, “Alliances usually involve common interests. What are your common interests? A bright future for the tribe? How do you achieve it? By turning into a monster covered in tumors?”

“How to achieve it? Isn’t it obvious? Just…” Beretta stopped completely and looked down at the ground blankly.

Franka exclaimed: “There’s a crack. That powerful being’s control over him has a crack. Oh my god! So much!”

Xiao Bai looked up at the jellyfish and asked, “Why is it making that sound?”

Franca: “Don’t you all make noise when you eat? I don’t want to seem like an exception.”

Elizabeth: “I eat without making any noise.”

Wang: “You are well-educated. We rough people make noises when we eat.”

Xiaobai: “Yes, it doesn’t taste good without the sound.”

Wang was about to speak when he suddenly realized that he had gone off topic. “Damn, without Rosalie, there’s no one to pull us back to the topic. So, Franca, did you get any key information? For example, the identity of the mastermind!”

Franka: “No, there is only a vague impression in this person’s consciousness. This control method is too sophisticated. This guy serves that existence wholeheartedly and thinks he is an ally.”

Wang: “We can still use our subjective initiative. Forget it, we will always confront the mastermind. Have you got the structural diagram of this fortress?”

The jellyfish turned around and said, “I ate it! There are many specimens imprisoned in this fortress. They are… they are growing? What does growing mean?”

Chapter 293 “Growth”

Wang stroked his chin and said, “Probably something was implanted in the captured intelligent creatures. This is very interesting. Did this mysterious master teach the technology to the cult, or did the cult develop the technology and then the master stole it?”

Flint: “Is it a big difference?”

Wang: “Very big. We now suspect that the bishop of the cult was inspired by someone to become a follower of Ragnora. Finding out the source of the spread of the cult’s technology will help us identify the real mastermind behind it.”

Xiaobai: “You said before that this might be the real mastermind.”

“Did I say that? I just said it casually. In fact, we need further information to identify the owner of this place…” The king suddenly noticed that the gray dwarf Beretta was listening.

Wang grabbed the guy by the collar and choked him: “You know the common language!”

Beretta was still acting, shaking his head, trying hard to pretend that he didn’t understand what Wang was saying.

Elizabeth: “If he knows the common language, shouldn’t he have understood all our conversations during the interrogation just now?”

Flint was shocked: “If Marika was here, he wouldn’t have lived long.”

“What do you want to talk to me about?” Marika’s voice suddenly appeared. Seeing that everyone was surprised, the drow elf explained, “I vaguely heard the noise over here, so I rushed back. You should be thankful that this is the Underdark, where there are often gray dwarves or kuo-toa fishmen who eat too much moon and make strange noises. Otherwise, with the noise you just made, the enemies in the entire fortress would come out to surround us.”

Wang: “So, did you find out anything?”

Marika: “If you go in the direction I just explored, you will pass by a tavern. There are many gray dwarves drinking inside, and the bartender is a Kuo-Toa fishman. I admit that it opened my eyes. This is the first time I have seen a Kuo-Toa fishman who can be a bartender and mix cocktails.

“Further ahead of the pub is a series of growing areas where a large number of mushrooms are grown.”

Flint: “That should be the food supply area of ​​this fortress. Unless that awesome man can fill the stomachs of the slaves with nothing, he will always have to grow mushrooms.”

Xiaobai: “Do Kou Tao fishmen also eat mushrooms?”

Wang: “They are omnivores like humans. They can eat a little bit of everything, including mushrooms. They also like dwarven steak or drow steak.”

“This is the Underdark,” the drow spread his hands, “It is not uncommon for one intelligent creature to eat another intelligent creature here.”

At this time, Nini pointed at Beretta and said, “He has been listening to our conversation. It will have a huge impact on us if he runs away.”