Nini followed closely behind the wolf.

Finally, it was Gotrik who was carrying the dwarf. The barbarian strode forward and was surprisingly not much slower than the long-legged elf.

(*) For Marika, the dice roll is 1 when detecting traps. Just get used to it.

Chapter 301 Running wildly

The group was running for their lives when suddenly Marika in front of them stopped and said, “Wait a minute! There’s a trap on the ground!”

Xiaobai braked suddenly, but the floor was too slippery, and the soles of her feet had no nails after she turned into a wolf, so her ability to resist slipping on this stone floor was very poor.

This is just like raising a cat after you have tiled the floor of your house. The cat will be fine at most times, but when it runs, it will slip madly on the ground, and the fatter the cat is, the more severe the slipping will be.

Finally, Marika pushed Xiaobai’s nose and stopped her.

Nini stopped the car very easily. Gotrik, who was carrying the dwarf, braked too suddenly and almost fell forward. However, Nini pulled him back by the belt hanging the axe.

As expected, the elves all have impressive muscular arm strength in order to draw the longbow with amazing pulling force.

Franka was the easiest one to stop. It just turned its head, blew some air forward, and then stopped.

After confirming that the entire team had stopped, Marika knelt down to check the trap on the ground: “This kind of trap can control whether to enter the alert state. It is usually harmless and can be passed normally. Once the alarm is triggered, it will kill any creature that accidentally touches it.”

Wang: “We hid the log and triggered the alarm, and then the trap was activated, is that right?”

Marika: “No, I think it’s more like there’s a central control mechanism, and when the alarm goes off, that mechanism is turned on. The most troublesome thing is that this mechanism also has an alarm. Once it’s triggered, the people in the control room will know that the mechanism has been triggered.”

Wang: “And they knew our location?”

“That’s it.”

Wang: “Can it be dismantled?”

Marika pulled out her tool box, “Of course, but it’s complicated and will take time.”

At this time, Nini, who was on guard at the back, turned her head and looked behind her, her pointed ears flattened: “There is a sound! The enemy is approaching us quickly.”

Wang: “Is it a patrolling enemy of a small team size?”

Nini shook her head: “No, there were quite a lot of them. I didn’t hear any sound from the armor.”

Dwarf: “Then it’s not a duergar. Dwarves don’t have unarmored units.”

Nini: “The footsteps sound strange, too. They sound a bit like duck steps.”

King: “It means the enemy approaching us has webbed feet, they are kuo-toa fishmen. A group of kuo-toa fishmen are coming towards our position. Marika, how long will it take you to disarm the trap?”

Marika replied: “I’m afraid an encounter is inevitable, Captain!”

The king immediately gave the order: “Prepare for a battle. The enemy is the Kou-Toa murlocs. Barbarian, you are the first line. Take your dwarven weapons.”

Flint: “Wait a minute! What does this mean? Don’t let the barbarian swing me as a normal thing! And Kailin might find it interesting the first time, but the second and third times will be boring. Look, he didn’t upgrade my ring!”

At this moment, the holy emblem of Karin on Flint’s chest emitted a holy light.

Wang: “Uh… Could it be that…”

The dwarf cursed, “Kaelin’s horn! What the hell do you mean by giving me a ring at this time? Are you trying to show your appreciation for my becoming the handle of a weapon?”

Elizabeth: “Look at it in a positive way. He may just be strengthening our strength because a war is imminent.”

The dwarf snorted, “Your Highness, you are a spontaneous spellcaster. You can use magic without preparation. Sometimes you can comprehend it in one second and cast a spell in the next.

“We priests are different. We need to meditate to prepare spells before casting. Now that Kailin is upgrading my spells, I have to meditate tomorrow before I can use them. In other words, the current upgrade can hardly enhance our combat effectiveness.”

Elizabeth was shocked: “Is that so?”

“Is that so! This Kailin definitely wants to see me being wielded like a weapon.”

The barbarian looked at the dwarf seriously and said, “I will be gentle.”

Flint: “nooooo!”

At this time, the Kuo Tao fishman rushed around the corner.

Nini’s bowstring spoke first. For enemies without arrow protection magic, Nini’s arrows were an invitation to death. Even for enemies wearing armor, Nini could accurately shoot arrows into the enemy’s body through the gaps in the armor.

Elizabeth held the dung ball and asked nervously, “Should I throw it away?”

The king looked at the number of fishmen that appeared and patted her shoulder: “Throw it!”

A fireball flew towards the Kou Tao murloc.

At this time, the fishmen were stunned by the sudden attack of the rescue team and are still in a state of shock.

The fireball exploded in the pile of fishmen.

This narrow space is most suitable for the use of area spells.

A large number of murlocs were blown to pieces and swept around the rescue team by the wind generated by the explosion.

The little white wolf opened his mouth to catch a flying fishman’s leg, chewed it a few times, and spit it on the ground with a “pah”.

It seems that the Kuo Tao murlocs taste very bad.

After the explosion, most of the fishmen were wiped out. The dwarf breathed a sigh of relief: “Okay, I don’t have to be beaten by the barbarians anymore.”

Ninijue shouted loudly: “No, there is another wave of enemies coming!”

Wang: “I remember there is a Kou Tao fishman nest nearby. Damn it, we can’t stop fighting! The Kou Tao fishmen are very sensitive to sound, and they will come here continuously when they hear the sound!”

The second wave of kuo-toa rushed around the corner!

Elizabeth hurriedly took the dung ball from the bag of spell materials, but she got so nervous that she crushed the dung ball into pieces just as she held it firmly.

“Wow, what should I do!” she exclaimed.

Seeing this, the barbarian grabbed the dwarf’s ankle!

Flint rolled his eyes and looked up at the sky, “Ah, again.”

The barbarian began to swing the dwarf and smash him with the five-headed flail that the dwarf was holding!

The first Kuo Tao murloc that rushed up ran into the five-headed flail, and the following scene was extremely bloody – each head of the five-headed flail had a unique magic damage enchantment, and it would hit the murloc in all kinds of colors.

Of course, colorful is indeed an exaggeration, because there are not six colors, at most there are only five.

While the Kou Tao fishman was smashed into pieces by the five-headed flail, Marika tried hard to break the trap on the ground.

Although Gotrik and the Five-Headed Flail worked together to eliminate a large number of Kuo-Toa murlocs, the number of these ugly creatures was simply too large, and they continued to pour out like a tide.

Wang Chao looked at Marika’s work status and said in astonishment: “It seems we have to delay for a while longer.”

Marika: “It will be fine soon! Just keep trying!”

Gotrik: “Murloc, Slide!”

As soon as she finished speaking, Nini shot through the heads of several Kou Tao fishmen who slipped in from the four corners where Gao Chuik could not reach.

Elizabeth: “Perhaps I could back up with a few Scorch Rays?”

Wang: “No! Look, even Xiaobai hasn’t joined the battle yet. Let’s save our spell slots first. Now it seems that the fireball spell just now was a bit of a waste.”

The murlocs continued to attack, and almost everyone joined in the battle against the murloc army. Even Franka took out the rud and played the lute to cheer everyone on!

After the Savior Team managed to fend off the third wave of Kotoa attacks, Marika announced loudly: “We’ve done it! Let’s go!”

The king took out a scroll of fire wall, tore it up and threw it towards the murloc, and a wall of fire blocked the passage.

King: “Murlocs are very afraid of bright flames. This wall of fire can temporarily stop them from chasing us. Let’s go!”

So the rescue team quickly crossed the removed trap and continued to run along the old gray dwarf and the passage.

Chapter 302 Induction

The Mind Flayer Stryker entered his study, looked at the empty desk and the opened secret compartment on the bookshelf next to it, and the tentacles on his mouth began to spasm.

Normally, mind flayers would not show their emotions, but Stryker could not, because when he escaped from the destroyed world, he was affected by the power of Ragnora and became partially distorted.

Most of the Defiled Types were like this, and they regarded these deformations as gifts from Ragnora. Almost all of the Defiled Types were people who had a natural resistance to Ragnora’s power, and they would be ecstatic even if they only found a deformation on a fingernail.

The distortion weakened Stryker’s mind control ability, but gave him stronger physical attack means – in fact, most of the distortions improved physical attacks, and a small amount gave him the ability to spread spores.

Stryker’s tentacles twitched, and he was restless as if he was about to attack something.

“Damn adventurer! He actually used a feint to the east and attacked in the west!” he said gritting his teeth.

Yes, Stryker didn’t know that it was the Savior Squad that invaded his fortress. The intelligence he had showed that the Savior Squad was still advancing towards Isonzo, preparing to uproot the Ragnola Cult there.

In the Underdark, it is normal for intelligence from the surface to lag behind.

Because of this, Stryker is not worried at all that the adventurer who stole the log will be able to decipher his log: the log is written in the language of the mind flayer, and in theory only another mind flayer can decipher it in this plane.

Since becoming a Blasphemer, Stryker has never “connected” with his own kind again, because he knows that the powerful Mind Flayer Mastermind will deprive him of his loyalty to the Blasphemer and incorporate him back into the Mind Flayer’s hive structure.

The worst-case scenario is that the journal falls into the hands of another mind flayer, who then draws the attention of the Elder Brain.

In Stryker’s opinion, even if such a situation happened, it would be after a period of time, and he just needed to retrieve the log before that.

What really made him feel distressed was the staff in the secret compartment.

That was the only souvenir he brought out from the destroyed world, recording the one hundred years he spent in that world.

The anger caused by the staff being taken away was even greater than the burning of the beacon, which was so vital to the Blasphemer.

No matter what, the staff must be taken back!

Stryker issued a general mobilization order to all slaves. Except for the slaves who were fighting the fire in the cultivation room, all slaves, whether warriors or craftsmen, came out in full force!

It was a pity that Stryker’s psychic ability was weakened. If he had recovered to the state before he was gifted by Ragnora, he could directly locate the intruder in his lair without taking any anti-reconnaissance measures.

But now, he couldn’t even receive the intelligence transmitted by the slaves in real time, and had to establish a ridiculously primitive intelligence feedback mechanism. His mental ability could only give orders to the slaves one-way!

Suddenly, Stryker received a notice from the fortress’s central security room that a mechanism had “malfunctioned”.

Stryker: “The enemy is out there! Lure them, force them! Drive them to the throne room of the gray dwarves! Face me!”

**

The rescue team was running wildly when suddenly the door on the passage ahead opened and several gray dwarves with hammers and wrenches rushed out.

Marika, who was walking in the front, slid right under the enemy’s noses and slashed the necks of the first few enemies before they could react.

The drow elf threw a can of fire glue into the door.